Posted in Indy Racing League, Open Wheel on Jun 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Forget hard hitting Presidential primaries, did you see the hard hitting IRL cars at the Iowa 7/8ths mile? Wow, the track was gobbling up the IRL stars like they were pieces of popcorn!
The visuals were great and the director had the good fortune of being on Jeff Simmons in-car when Kanaan lost it and took […]
Posted in NASCAR, Indy Racing League on Jun 19th, 2007 No Comments »
Flyover kudos - OK, I’m primarily a airplane nut, but I’m a card carrying patriot at heart and endure the pre-race pageantry to see the flyboys get their brief minute in the sun at the end of the anthem. Good to get those units some exposure. I was really pleased to see a flyby this […]
Posted in Indy Racing League on May 28th, 2007 No Comments »
Danica Patrick and Tony Kanaan ‘kiss’ in the pits at the Kansas Speedway IRL race.
Posted in Indy Racing League on Apr 12th, 2007 No Comments »
Along with the nearing of the deadline for Indy 500 entries, the Tony George haters were out in mass, gleefully predicting a historic short field of less than 33 cars. Anyone familiar with Indy history knows that the track has orchestrated the event into five dramatic competitions: Who is going to file the first entry?; […]
Posted in Indy Racing League, Champ Car World Series on Apr 8th, 2007 1 Comment »
Last year there was a lot of talk about Champ Car and IRL merging. Tony George and Kevin Kalkhoven agreed to share the management of open-wheel racing in the United States. Now a year has passed and they appear no closer to unification than before. Both series are adding new races to their calendars and […]
Posted in NASCAR, Indy Racing League on Mar 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Geez Louise, if you ever want to see both ends of the spectrum for race braodcasts you needed to watch the IRL [http://www.indycar.com/] race Saturday (3/24) and the NASCAR [http://www.nascar.com] race from Bristol (3/25). While the IRL has come a long way in building a respectable series with close racing (even though Dan Wheldon […]
Posted in Indy Racing League on Mar 25th, 2007 No Comments »
It was thrilling to see the start of the Indy Racing League season at Homestead, FL, but excitement is lacking. Competition variety has been diminishing for over a dozen years, and now all cars are Dallaras running on the same Goodyear tires and using the same Honda engines. At least they haven’t sunk to the […]