Re: Welcome to the Big Time, Bourdais

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> "Mike P" <privacy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> <another big snip
>>
>>
>> >> I suspect you will counter that by saying that Seabass never beat
> anyone
>> >> good in Champcar... which is just the same as AGR in the IRL
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Mike P
>> >
>> > Trying to compare CARTs all time winningest driver, Ayrton
>> > Senna's teammate, plus the IRL's winningest team owner,
>> > two time Indy 500 and 3 time season champions and all in
>> > just five short years with arguably one of the most famous
>> > names in the world, to a nobody competing against nameless
>> > competition, virtually no accomplishments or respect driving
>> > for a winless perennial bottom dwelling team?!?!?! I think
>> > Paul (Marlon Brando) in "Ultimo Tango a Parigi" ("Last
>> > Tango in Paris") might have said it best when he uttered
>> > the infamous words: "What a steaming pile of horse****!".
>>
>>
>> Get your facts straight, Michael NEVER won the Indy 500 as a driver.
>
> More canard, of course I neither said nor implied that he
> had won it as a driver, as I've in fact stated before:
>
> "Michael Andretti has now won the Indy 500 twice, in
> the same manner that Roger Penske is said to have
> won it more than a dozern times, despite the fact that
> the latter never once led a single lap or even so much
> as participated in it as a driver ..."
> http://groups.google.com/group/rec.autos.s****t.cart/msg/b56ac8bfb714e3ad
>
>> I quote.....  "to a nobody competing against nameless competition"...
you
>> yourself, Mr Dot, admitted the IRL was a pile of ****e before 2003. So
in
>> fact competing against nobodies is exactly what AGR have been doing
>>
>> You're funny, it's ace
>>
>> Mike P
>
> But there were years in which the CART/CCWS/OWRS/
> ChumpCar drivers did in fact compete in the IRL Indy 500.
> But of course doofus AGR never competed, or existed, in
> the IRL prior to 2003. What a complete and utter moron.
>

Of course Micheal Andretti was a 3rd rate driver who fundamentally failed
in 
the elite F1 series, but to call him an utter moron is a bit much.

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