Saturday, June 12, 2004

Texas I

The IRL's night race at Texas each year is always a must see... 2-3 wide racing all night long... thanks go out to a few drivers for ruining the race this year.

Scott Dixon... on an oval, you turn left, not right as you did into Tomas knocking him out of the race early. Your weaving also got into Barron who had to get off the throttle leading to the chain reaction that sent AJIV into the wall and damaged Ed Carpenter's suspension which gave out on the next restart sending Ed into the wall. You got away with one late with Hornish as he was able to go wide and still keep it off the wall. At least Karma caught up with you when Fernandez turned right into you duringthe last pit stop sequence ending your night.

Darren Manning... on an oval, you need to maintain your line, not weave all over the place. Lets see early in the race you run into the back of Barron damaging your front wing. Amazingly you and Dario run into each other, but no damage occurs. Then late you go from the outside of Rice on the backstretch to the inside and stick your nose in where it didn't belong ending Rice's night and sending Hornish into the wall bending his suspension.

Dario Judd... see notes above... how many donuts were on your sidepods tonight. Contact with Manning early, Kosuke in the middle of the race and then late in the race you sent Helio down below the white line in 3 causing him to back off and lose 6 spots.

Dan Wheldon... nice rolling chicane... way to take one for the team. Lets see your team leaves you out during the last pit stop without enought fuel to finish the race just so you can restart in first ahead of Tony and Dario... you proceed to let them both by, then you drop the boat anchor and hold up everyone else letting TK and DJ pull away from the pack. Nice!

Brian Barnhardt... it is time to start showing the black flag during the race and imposing some serious fines. The same drivers keep doing the exact same things... right now they are just knocking other drivers out of races... soon, a big wreck is going to happen. Put a stop to this now!

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