Comments on: Random Thoughts On Sonoma http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/random-thoughts-on-sonoma-3/ Speed is Life Mon, 20 May 2013 18:22:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Christopher Logan (@1984Topher) http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/random-thoughts-on-sonoma-3/#comment-8490 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:54:01 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/random-thoughts-on-sonoma-3/#comment-8490 I think our best hope is to wait for the engine competition next year. Everyone running the same de-tuned Hondas on a decade old chasis is the greatest contributing factor to these three hour parades through the hills. Real competition should return next year.

]]> By: Vic http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/random-thoughts-on-sonoma-3/#comment-8488 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:40:57 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/random-thoughts-on-sonoma-3/#comment-8488 Thank you DVR technology!!!!! It allows me to watch Sonoma and Mid-Ohio in 15 minutes or less. Certainly helps make these torturous events a little less painful!!!

]]> By: Leigh O'Gorman http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/random-thoughts-on-sonoma-3/#comment-8484 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 05:54:15 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/random-thoughts-on-sonoma-3/#comment-8484 No Ron, I’m referring to Cotman. A crew cheif, yes, but not a racer.

]]> By: Ron Ford http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/random-thoughts-on-sonoma-3/#comment-8482 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:47:40 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/random-thoughts-on-sonoma-3/#comment-8482 Leigh, I assume you are referring to Brian Barnhart. He did not write that rule.

]]> By: The Speedgeek http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/random-thoughts-on-sonoma-3/#comment-8481 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:17:55 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/random-thoughts-on-sonoma-3/#comment-8481 “fellow IndyCar blogger”? How charitable of you, George. Don’t I have to post more than once per year to qualify as an “Official IndyCar Blogger”?

Anyway, I figured of all the races all year, if I had to miss one, this would be it. Sounds like I was right. My time was much better spent looking for a tool shed somewhere that I can move my family into while I busy myself during the day taking Dario’s dry cleaning into town and looking for the correct heirloom carnauba waxes for his F40 and Carrera GT. I’ll take the YouTube highlights, thanks.

Oh, and many thanks for the beverages. FYI, those Dos Perros Ales that are now in your fridge are tasty. Help youself, but I’ll definitely be back to reclaim one of those later in the season, for sure.

]]> By: billytheskink http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/random-thoughts-on-sonoma-3/#comment-8478 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:42:28 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/random-thoughts-on-sonoma-3/#comment-8478 That’s one way to get ABC to care about IndyCar again.

]]> By: billytheskink http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/random-thoughts-on-sonoma-3/#comment-8477 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:39:19 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/random-thoughts-on-sonoma-3/#comment-8477 - Tremendous(ly unexciting) race
- Pantano got hosed
- Pantano and Rahal made on-track passes, alert the media
- The caution for Ho-Pin Tung’s off-track excursion was amazingly long
- It is nice to have a championship fight again
- RC Cola has gone and sponsored an Andretti, and now I’m going to have to root for one
- …and some would say Brian Barnhart is an abashed Penske fan.

]]> By: Leigh O'Gorman http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/random-thoughts-on-sonoma-3/#comment-8476 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 22:09:57 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/random-thoughts-on-sonoma-3/#comment-8476 I disagree.
Pantano got screwed by a rule that should never have been written in the first place – a rule that goes against the very fabric of racing and written by a guy who’s never raced a car in any division in his entire life.

]]> By: Chris Lukens http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/random-thoughts-on-sonoma-3/#comment-8475 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:23:51 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/random-thoughts-on-sonoma-3/#comment-8475 The road race guys must be wearing me down, I actually watched the whole thing and didn’t fall asleep. I, too, think Pantano got screwed. He should have been penalized for that move, but to go to the end of the order was a bit severe, maybe he should have just given the spot back. As far as Simona, I don’t understand why she didn’t fly into TiJuana and simply walk over the border. After all, she is merely doing a job that no American will do (as evidenced by who took her place) .

]]> By: Tom G. http://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/random-thoughts-on-sonoma-3/#comment-8474 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:51:17 +0000 https://oilpressure.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/random-thoughts-on-sonoma-3/#comment-8474 Here’s a link to the Sonoma highlights… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGEnKh0ocb0

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