Comments on: Was Saavedra The Best Pick For Conquest? http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/was-saavedra-the-best-pick-for-conquest/ Speed is Life Thu, 23 May 2013 17:18:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: gnome http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/was-saavedra-the-best-pick-for-conquest/#comment-6829 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 23:10:24 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/was-saavedra-the-best-pick-for-conquest/#comment-6829 I agree. I’m very surprised/upset that he didn’t retain Bags. Conquest finally had a driver, young and clearly talented, with sponsorship (from the Belgium Auto whatever-Society)

]]> By: What Up Dick? http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/was-saavedra-the-best-pick-for-conquest/#comment-6808 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 05:32:01 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/was-saavedra-the-best-pick-for-conquest/#comment-6808 Ray Charles has a better chance of ever getting into a F1 car then Sebastien Saavedra.

Pippa isn’t any good either. Just another rich kid ride buyer with little talent.

]]> By: MrAnalog http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/was-saavedra-the-best-pick-for-conquest/#comment-6804 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 08:41:43 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/was-saavedra-the-best-pick-for-conquest/#comment-6804 Bryan Herta is a class guy, who didn’t love his” Two Men and a truck “analogy at Indy to describe his team at Indy? Saavedra’s move to throw his team under the bus no matter who told him to do it was a punk move. I thought it was career suicide but this is where we are in Indycar. Class guys like Kanaan and Wheldon sit while jerks like Saavedra ride buy their way into the series. I thought Conquest was changing this year by talking to Tracy and Pippa but no such luck. I don’t expect either PT or Pip to run this year at least not with Conquest. I’ve read many interviews with Saavedra and he is not even interesting in staying in the series and is using it to try to be a stepping stone to an F1 career. I’m sick of these has been or never will F1 washouts taking seats away from people who came up though our system like Pippa. F1 has a feeder system, use it. Oh that’s right your handlers can’t write a big enough check to get into F1.

]]> By: Br!an McKay http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/was-saavedra-the-best-pick-for-conquest/#comment-6803 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:19:50 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/was-saavedra-the-best-pick-for-conquest/#comment-6803 I agree with you. I thought last year that SS was a petulant young a-hole who’s NOT likely to have an illustrious, Castroneves-like racing career.

]]> By: Br!an McKay - Herta fan http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/was-saavedra-the-best-pick-for-conquest/#comment-6802 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:17:11 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/was-saavedra-the-best-pick-for-conquest/#comment-6802 true, true, true

]]> By: Stan The Caddy http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/was-saavedra-the-best-pick-for-conquest/#comment-6801 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:05:39 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/was-saavedra-the-best-pick-for-conquest/#comment-6801 Bachelart needs to go away and sell his team to a owner who will at least pretend to try. His driver “choices” have been laughable.

His team is a joke and hopefully will miss the Indy 500 this year with BOTH cars (with the other car probably driven by no-talent Pippa Mann).

]]> By: Mike Rice http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/was-saavedra-the-best-pick-for-conquest/#comment-6800 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:44:33 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/was-saavedra-the-best-pick-for-conquest/#comment-6800 As usual, redd sums it up succinctly. It’s money that made it happen (obviously), and I still lament the sad reality/fact all these years later that the sport has devolved to this. That’s why PT isn’t in the car. That’s why Servia sat out last year, along with Paul. That’s why Buddy Rice is gone. That’s why we have Saavedra and Milka and any other number of who-shot-Jake(s) driving these things.

]]> By: noname http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/was-saavedra-the-best-pick-for-conquest/#comment-6799 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:00:17 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/was-saavedra-the-best-pick-for-conquest/#comment-6799 Maybe Bachelart thought Saavedra being Colombian, he would somehow be the next Roberto Guerrero or Juan Pablo Montoya.

]]> By: Savage Henry http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/was-saavedra-the-best-pick-for-conquest/#comment-6798 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:19:31 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/was-saavedra-the-best-pick-for-conquest/#comment-6798 Baggy had some impressive drives in that Conquest car last year. I thought that he showed potential. So to be fair to Saavedra let’s say that Baggy set the bar for Saavedra. If Saavedra is a backmarker all year then this problem solves itself – he’s heading home after his money runs out. If he matches Baggy or betters him, then maybe he is for real.

Seems to me that Conquest’s decision isn’t hard at all – find a driver how brings enough money or don’t race. They’ve been through Tracy, Mann, Baggy and whomever else and they don’t bring enough money to race. Presumably Saavedra did. It probably took .01 seconds to pull the trigger on this deal.

]]> By: Jenna http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/was-saavedra-the-best-pick-for-conquest/#comment-6797 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:58:06 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/was-saavedra-the-best-pick-for-conquest/#comment-6797 Saavedra being in a Conquest seat is completely driven by money. The reason Pippa and PT aren’t in a seat there? The money to run. Last year when Romancini left is was because his money ran out. Baguette isn’t there right now because he doesn’t have the financial backing. Dracone would have never been in the car those couple races if he wouldn’t have had a big check. And to whoever said that Conquest should talk to Wheldon- really?! Wheldon isn’t going to pay for a ride, he wants paid to be in the car.

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