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IndyCar
MILLER: Outrage For Sarah
Fisher has a car but can’t get an engine--it's unacceptable and it’s friggin’ embarrassing.
A tale of two all-American teams. Ed Carpenter, right, earned the right to pay $1M for an engine lease, while Sarah Fisher, middle, had been denied the opportunity. (Photo: LAT)
Sarah Fisher has a good partner in Wink Hartman, a new shop in Speedway, a new Dallara and promising rookie driver for the 2012 IZOD IndyCar season.
But she doesn’t have an engine for Josef Newgarden and, barring a last-minute save from Bobby Rahal, she’s not going to get one until May.
Now I want you to try and comprehend what you just read.
After months of trying, the only female owner in the series who was once its most popular driver was turned down by General Motors and given the Indy-first option by Honda.
The little squad that beat Chip Ganassi and won last year’s season finale at Kentucky is going to be on the sidelines the first two months instead of on the grid.
The Mazda Road to Indy for the 2011 Firestone Indy Lights champion turned out to be a dead end.
An all-American team housed on Main Street in Speedway might as well be based in Bahrain for all the respect it’s received.
In a nutshell, this blows. It sucks. It’s wrong on every level.
And before we go any further, this isn’t going to be a balanced story. Nobody is going to be quoted because there’s nothing anybody can say that makes any sense to me. This is a rant that hopefully makes somebody do the right thing before next month’s opener at St. Pete.
First off all, we know that the number of teams/cars for 2012 has turned out to be more than expected.
Based on the original estimates, Honda and GM fulfilled their obligations and 10-car lineups.
Lotus can’t and is struggling to field half as many cars.
With her all-American plan, Fisher didn’t want Lotus and her first choice was the Bow Tie Brigade, a natural for the mom from Ohio with the rookie from Tennessee in the shop located in the shadows of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
But Chevrolet told her they were full and Honda (which has upped its commitment to 12 cars) is willing to power Fisher-Hartman Racing from Indy on but says all its blown engines in testing has made anything earlier impossible.
Now I’ve heard a lot of horror stories the past few months about these engine manufacturers not returning calls from owners and playing hard to get, etc. I’ll grant you that Honda and GM have made big investments and they certainly deserve to pick some of their dance partners.
The flaw in this process is that obviously they can also refuse to lease an engine to anyone and evidently INDYCAR is powerless to do anything about it.
Can you imagine Chevy or Ford telling NASCAR that they appreciate the fact Ricky Stenhouse was the Nationwide champion but they won’t be able to give him a Cup engine until Bristol?
But she doesn’t have an engine for Josef Newgarden and, barring a last-minute save from Bobby Rahal, she’s not going to get one until May.
Now I want you to try and comprehend what you just read.
After months of trying, the only female owner in the series who was once its most popular driver was turned down by General Motors and given the Indy-first option by Honda.
The little squad that beat Chip Ganassi and won last year’s season finale at Kentucky is going to be on the sidelines the first two months instead of on the grid.
The Mazda Road to Indy for the 2011 Firestone Indy Lights champion turned out to be a dead end.
An all-American team housed on Main Street in Speedway might as well be based in Bahrain for all the respect it’s received.
In a nutshell, this blows. It sucks. It’s wrong on every level.
And before we go any further, this isn’t going to be a balanced story. Nobody is going to be quoted because there’s nothing anybody can say that makes any sense to me. This is a rant that hopefully makes somebody do the right thing before next month’s opener at St. Pete.
First off all, we know that the number of teams/cars for 2012 has turned out to be more than expected.
Based on the original estimates, Honda and GM fulfilled their obligations and 10-car lineups.
Lotus can’t and is struggling to field half as many cars.
With her all-American plan, Fisher didn’t want Lotus and her first choice was the Bow Tie Brigade, a natural for the mom from Ohio with the rookie from Tennessee in the shop located in the shadows of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
But Chevrolet told her they were full and Honda (which has upped its commitment to 12 cars) is willing to power Fisher-Hartman Racing from Indy on but says all its blown engines in testing has made anything earlier impossible.
Now I’ve heard a lot of horror stories the past few months about these engine manufacturers not returning calls from owners and playing hard to get, etc. I’ll grant you that Honda and GM have made big investments and they certainly deserve to pick some of their dance partners.
The flaw in this process is that obviously they can also refuse to lease an engine to anyone and evidently INDYCAR is powerless to do anything about it.
Can you imagine Chevy or Ford telling NASCAR that they appreciate the fact Ricky Stenhouse was the Nationwide champion but they won’t be able to give him a Cup engine until Bristol?
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