Rain Or Shine... It's Open Wheel Time

Well, I am back. I moved into a new house so that I have more room to store useless racing memorabilia. Now things are back to normal, and I was able to catch up on the open wheel happenings this weekend. And what a weekend it was. Oh, but wait, road courses are boring parades.

- British Grand Prix

I am noticing that Void is getting spoiled. I gave him a call to congratulate him on another BMW podium finish. To my surprise he greeted me with anger in his voice. It seems that he now expects 1 - 2 finishes and nothing less. This is probably why Bernie limits the number of non Ferrari wins every season. Common Void.. even BMW is surprised at the success.

What a fun race to watch. It reminded me of last February here in Milwaukee when we were blessed with 743 feet of snow during the running of our "Drive Like an Idiot" festival.

Again the broadcast on FOX was squeezed down, so I didn't see the final remarks. I heard that there was a friendly exchange between Lewis and Nico. It's nice to see (or hear of) a pulse during those interviews once in a while.

-IndyCar Watkins Glen

They really need to start organizing these parades better. They keep getting out of order, and it really irritates me. Now I actually have to watch the race to see who is going to win.

Congrats to Ryan Hunter-Reay on his first IndyCar win. Can you imagine the the look on Rahal Sr's face when someone walked down to the N/H/L pits and notified him that his car had won? He must have been really excited.

To some it may appear that Dixon made an error in judgment during the caution on lap 49. It is very simple folks. Let us examine the bizarre relationship between this and another occurrence during the race.

- Briscoe took out Danica at the Indy 500.
- Dixon bad mouthed Danica last week.

My sources have never failed me. They have tried to rob my house.. but they have never failed me in a journalistic sense. They claim that during the pre-race activities, both drivers were handed a note written on GoDaddy letterhead that simply stated "Down on the 40th lap". I find it strange that Danica asked the Target crew for a front wing inspection around that time. Motivation perhaps????


- Other news

This is probably old news as I am not able to keep up with Drag Racing as much as I wish I could, but the NHRA has decided to cut the Top Fuel race distance from 1,320 feet to 1,000 feet. The decision was made in response to the death of Scott Kalitta several weeks ago. The change is temporary until they can determine a way to reduce some of the risk.

Good old Dario is out of a ride after a period of injury and a failure to qualify for Texas and Sonoma. Chip Ganassi was on WindTunnel yesterday and made it clear that Dario can still race on one of his teams.. just not a Sprint Cup team. I am not quite sure how to interpret that, but he made it sound like it was up to Dario. So is he giving him a choice between IndyCar and Rolex? And if it is IndyCar, could there be a third car?

Lastly.. I would like to say thank you to a Mr Juan Pablo Montoya. As much as I dislike the guy.. he had me cheering like a maniac when he derailed Kyle "I Am The Greatest" Busch. Of course afterward he was called to the the Nascar "Hauler" and was threatened by shotgun and broken beer bottle. Off topic... what in DW's name is the Nascar "Hauler"? Do they server bacon in there? Why is it not sponsored? What does it haul? Further investigation produced a recent image of the "Nascar Hauler":





Ah yes... when the Hauler is Rockin...