Comments on: Random Thoughts On New Hampshire http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/random-thoughts-on-new-hampshire/ Speed is Life Tue, 21 May 2013 15:09:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bruce http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/random-thoughts-on-new-hampshire/#comment-8321 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 01:12:10 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/random-thoughts-on-new-hampshire/#comment-8321 For those of you who have not read the recent article on speedtv’s web site, their article, based on their thorough review of the INDYCAR rulebook, is indeed enlightening with regards to the how the ruile book applies to the conclusion of the Loudon race.

Take a read of their three pages article at

http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/article/indycar-loudon-rewind

]]> By: im4irl http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/random-thoughts-on-new-hampshire/#comment-8320 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:22:16 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/random-thoughts-on-new-hampshire/#comment-8320 I think the poll kind of asks the wrong question (or at least only half of it) — Should Will be fined for the gesture? Probably not. Should Will be fined for the two minute rant on live television about how stupid Race Control is in general and Barnhardt specifically by name? Absolutely. You can’t let any competitor publicly question the integrity and/or quality of the officiating like that (no matter how correct Will was). Unfortunately, if I’m Randy, I think I have to keep Brian for at least another race as you can’t let one of the drivers chase off your Chief Steward.

Just a bad situation all around. As I said on twitter, last time officiating was this bad, AJ hit somebody and we changed a sanctioning body.

]]> By: Ron Ford http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/random-thoughts-on-new-hampshire/#comment-8318 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:15:08 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/random-thoughts-on-new-hampshire/#comment-8318 I think if Will is to be fined it should be for the facial expression more so than the twin birds. Scary!

]]> By: Leigh O'Gorman http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/random-thoughts-on-new-hampshire/#comment-8316 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:55:13 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/random-thoughts-on-new-hampshire/#comment-8316 In the words of Pressdog “Cats and dogs (etc…)”

]]> By: The Speedgeek http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/random-thoughts-on-new-hampshire/#comment-8315 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:46:30 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/random-thoughts-on-new-hampshire/#comment-8315 OK, sorry for the delay on the comment, everybody. Just got back into town. What’d I miss this weekend?

]]> By: Ben Twickerbill http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/random-thoughts-on-new-hampshire/#comment-8311 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:49:15 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/random-thoughts-on-new-hampshire/#comment-8311 Circling the toilet….

]]> By: Leigh O'Gorman http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/random-thoughts-on-new-hampshire/#comment-8310 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:02:54 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/random-thoughts-on-new-hampshire/#comment-8310 I would love to know why that toilet happened to be sitting there…

]]> By: redcar http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/random-thoughts-on-new-hampshire/#comment-8308 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:10:37 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/random-thoughts-on-new-hampshire/#comment-8308 I don’t think Weldon would take the ride and they couldn’t afford what he would ask to drive.

]]> By: Tom G. http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/random-thoughts-on-new-hampshire/#comment-8307 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:17:31 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/random-thoughts-on-new-hampshire/#comment-8307 OK, I just watched the highlights of the Cup race at Watkins Glen, and I don’t feel so bad about the carnage in New Hampshire. Jayzus, them boys in the bumper cars are going to kill someone. That Reutiman & Ragan wreck at the end was frightening. Brought back bad memories of the J.D. McDuffie crash in 91.

]]> By: Rick http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/random-thoughts-on-new-hampshire/#comment-8306 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:11:57 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/random-thoughts-on-new-hampshire/#comment-8306 BB probably thought he was doing the right thing and making everyone happy when he went on TV and got asked the hard questions, but I think he shot himself in the foot. First, NO ONE told him it wasn’t safe to start??? Michael Andretti (who admittedly had a vested interest in keeping it yellow) was storming up and down pit road begging every one he saw to keep the green from coming out. Then BB threw his own team under the bus, saying that they all told him it was a raceable surface. First, did they really say that? The way the car sspun, it was obviously wet; the roostertails off of the tires were another clue-surely there were clues visible to live-on-the-scene observers we didn’t see on TV… And it’s their fault they still chose to go green? Not the kind of guy I’d want to work for…

And I would have loved to have seen Dario make a go at lapping the field. How is it that he is so much faster than everyone else (including his teammates)? That’s the kind of performance I’d have liked to have seen live.

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