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IndyCar
MILLER: Hate Is Great!
Robin Miller's "Hate is good" tagline was kicked up a notch last weekend at Toronto.
Danica Patrick was steaming mad during and after the race... (LAT)
INDYCAR CEO Randy Bernard wanted to put the Chrome Horn to Paul Tracy after PT supposedly tweeted that Bernard had called off the penalty on Dario Franchitti because the Target CEO was standing next to him. Neither of those things happened and according to the Canadian, who told me his account got hacked.
Will Power threw down hard on Dario Franchitti and Alex Tagliani.
Scott Dixon cursed his luck and Graham Rahal.
Oriol Servia and Justin Wilson were mad about Marco.
Tony Kanaan was furious with Ryan Briscoe.
James Hinchcliffe and Paul Tracy rubbed each other the wrong way.
Danica Patrick had some choice words of advice for Takuma Sato after he drop kicked the GO DADDY girl and she wasn’t very happy with her team after it took forever to replace the nose but she did not slap owner Michael Andretti, as had been rumored.
Tag probably won’t be sending Helio Castroneves a Xmas card and Rahal was miffed with Ryan Hunter-Reay.
INDYCAR was upset with VERSUS for reporting there was a penalty on Franchitti that had been rescinded.
Hate was in the air when the curtain came down on Sunday’s Honda Indy Toronto and about the only smiling faces belonged to Franchitti and Dallara. The former increased his point lead with a fourth win and the latter increased its bottom line with all the carnage.
Bernard had hoped the rivalry between Franchitti and Power would get a little more verbal and a lot more heated so he also got his wish.
“Hey, it was typical Toronto,” correctly surmised Hunter-Reay after his front-to-back-to-front odyssey netted him third place in a race that sported 36 laps of caution but was never dull.
As long as there’s been Indy cars going around Exhibition Place there’s been angry drivers and torn up equipment. It’s the by-product of 225 mph cars being squeezed into a shoebox, along with today’s parity in the paddock and some drivers who don’t have much respect for each other.
“Everybody has the same car, engine and tires and it’s brought the bottom of the field up to the top,” reckons Al Unser Jr., who was a master of street races during his career. “The competition is fierce and it’s plenty emotional, like it always has been.
“We had 23 cars qualify within a second of each other and everybody is fighting for every inch of space. Because the cars and engines are so reliable, along with the brakes and gearboxes, we’ve got people driving 10/10ths the whole race.
“But let’s be honest, this has always been a crash fest.”
True, but seldom as entertaining at the latest version. Instead of a follow-the-leader parade like we’ve seen many times at Toronto, Long Beach, fill-in-the-blank, there was plenty of passing, thanks in part to double-file restarts and mistakes, as well as drama.
Now before anybody yaps about the two abreast restarts being the troublemaker, the first six were flawless with people running side-by-side through Turn 1 before the last one when Andretti bowled over four cars.
Will Power threw down hard on Dario Franchitti and Alex Tagliani.
Scott Dixon cursed his luck and Graham Rahal.
Oriol Servia and Justin Wilson were mad about Marco.
Tony Kanaan was furious with Ryan Briscoe.
James Hinchcliffe and Paul Tracy rubbed each other the wrong way.
Danica Patrick had some choice words of advice for Takuma Sato after he drop kicked the GO DADDY girl and she wasn’t very happy with her team after it took forever to replace the nose but she did not slap owner Michael Andretti, as had been rumored.
Tag probably won’t be sending Helio Castroneves a Xmas card and Rahal was miffed with Ryan Hunter-Reay.
INDYCAR was upset with VERSUS for reporting there was a penalty on Franchitti that had been rescinded.
Hate was in the air when the curtain came down on Sunday’s Honda Indy Toronto and about the only smiling faces belonged to Franchitti and Dallara. The former increased his point lead with a fourth win and the latter increased its bottom line with all the carnage.
Bernard had hoped the rivalry between Franchitti and Power would get a little more verbal and a lot more heated so he also got his wish.
“Hey, it was typical Toronto,” correctly surmised Hunter-Reay after his front-to-back-to-front odyssey netted him third place in a race that sported 36 laps of caution but was never dull.
As long as there’s been Indy cars going around Exhibition Place there’s been angry drivers and torn up equipment. It’s the by-product of 225 mph cars being squeezed into a shoebox, along with today’s parity in the paddock and some drivers who don’t have much respect for each other.
“Everybody has the same car, engine and tires and it’s brought the bottom of the field up to the top,” reckons Al Unser Jr., who was a master of street races during his career. “The competition is fierce and it’s plenty emotional, like it always has been.
“We had 23 cars qualify within a second of each other and everybody is fighting for every inch of space. Because the cars and engines are so reliable, along with the brakes and gearboxes, we’ve got people driving 10/10ths the whole race.
“But let’s be honest, this has always been a crash fest.”
True, but seldom as entertaining at the latest version. Instead of a follow-the-leader parade like we’ve seen many times at Toronto, Long Beach, fill-in-the-blank, there was plenty of passing, thanks in part to double-file restarts and mistakes, as well as drama.
Now before anybody yaps about the two abreast restarts being the troublemaker, the first six were flawless with people running side-by-side through Turn 1 before the last one when Andretti bowled over four cars.
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