So I scored a third at Indy, despite a car that was pushing too much for my liking. I was a bit disappointed since I thought that one was mine if it went green to the finish, but I'll take the third.
Congrats to Kurt and the Power Steering bunch. They had this one coming for a long time, and good on them. Same goes to Joseph Howard. The McCallister cars are dogs this year, and I think Chris Johaanes is a contractual #1 driver, if what Howard tells me is true.
Speaking of contractual #1 drivers, it was funny to watch Tony Durbin go off on Stuart Sandoval. Now if Durbin's not a contractual #1 driver then I don't know what they are.
There's not many drivers like that in the garage anymore. Roderick never was, I'm not, I think Enzo Medina is (and that wouldn't surprise anyone), Chris Johaanes I think is, Tony Durbin, well no duh. I'd say Danny Savin might be but the thing with Danny is that he's on the same pace he has been on for the past two years and still beating Milano Rossini hand over fist...
James Dalton doesn't really give driver preference, if he was I don't think it would be to Marcos Leonard, who seems to tear his stuff up a lot...
I find myself not being able to say much more, so...
Bye for now!
- A.R.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
New York and Salem Recap + Interesting Question a Fan Asked Me
DATE: July 27th, 2009
New York is not really a good track. Yes, we had two surprise winners but it doesn't make it a good track. To be honest, Parker is not as much of a surprise as West. JP Junior (as people call him) everyone in the garage figured would win or get a bunch of big results once he got a hang of the Nemoto and the way it handles. He is really good, just hasn't had too much in the way of luck.
But why does the New York Autoring suck? For one, the track is not much fun to drive on, and while you can run four wide in the turns easy, that hole closes up coming out of the corners and you get a wreck, and usually a really nasty one at that.
That makes it two years in a row that a FLASH Racing driver was injured at the New York Autoring. Matt Taylor last year, and Palmer Stiles this year. I'll get into Palmer in a few minutes.
Then we have Salem. It's a short track in the middle of Indiana. Woo, short tracks! The problem I have is that this track has no high lane of any sort anymore. All marbles. So that was disappointing.
I tore up the car here pretty bad. Actually, Cyril Volpi came on the radio and told me to run it till it dies, and that was what I was planning to do anyway. I gave Zach Duff a big hug after the race, I think he needed it seeing all the flak he's been getting this season, and for all the wrong reasons.
The officials then called me to the hauler because I was apparently a moving chicane out there. What it means in their language is that I spun enough times to warrant a penalty, or rather, did something questionable. I'm used to it by now, and I don't care. I still won the championship last year despite 75 points in penalties which would have made the title a no-contest if they didn't give it to me.
On a related note, Julia is a bit stressed about her lack of success so far this season, and me hitting her (oops!) didn't help. After the race I got her and her boyfriend dinner. Speaking of Julia's boyfriend, he's pretty cute. :3
I got an interesting question from a fan during autograph signings here at Indinapolis. It's perhaps a random personal question, but they wanted to know how religious the drivers are. I think anyone but me would have been a bit offended by the question.
I can say this much. As far as the TM Master Cup series drivers are concerned, almost all of them fall into one of two categories. Either devoutly religious or nonreligious/athiest (same thing really, if you ask me), and I fall into the latter category. I'm pretty sure all the female drivers fall into the latter category (except Rachel), I don't know any self-respecting woman that is devoutly religious.
But I know Tony Durbin, Todd Wodarczyk, Garth McCallister and Stuart Sandoval are pretty religious, and I get the feeling that Tyrone Stanley and Scott Bates are too. Damien Snyder (Does anyone honestly think he's religious?!) and Leonid Roderick (I think he's too obsessed with racing to be religious) aren't really either. I don't think Alan Hodges is too big on religion.
David Krikorian and Louis Kingston were both raised Jewish, but Kingston isn't really religious. DK hasn't been around me long enough for me to know if he is still religious or not.
Bye for now!
- A.R.
New York is not really a good track. Yes, we had two surprise winners but it doesn't make it a good track. To be honest, Parker is not as much of a surprise as West. JP Junior (as people call him) everyone in the garage figured would win or get a bunch of big results once he got a hang of the Nemoto and the way it handles. He is really good, just hasn't had too much in the way of luck.
But why does the New York Autoring suck? For one, the track is not much fun to drive on, and while you can run four wide in the turns easy, that hole closes up coming out of the corners and you get a wreck, and usually a really nasty one at that.
That makes it two years in a row that a FLASH Racing driver was injured at the New York Autoring. Matt Taylor last year, and Palmer Stiles this year. I'll get into Palmer in a few minutes.
Then we have Salem. It's a short track in the middle of Indiana. Woo, short tracks! The problem I have is that this track has no high lane of any sort anymore. All marbles. So that was disappointing.
I tore up the car here pretty bad. Actually, Cyril Volpi came on the radio and told me to run it till it dies, and that was what I was planning to do anyway. I gave Zach Duff a big hug after the race, I think he needed it seeing all the flak he's been getting this season, and for all the wrong reasons.
The officials then called me to the hauler because I was apparently a moving chicane out there. What it means in their language is that I spun enough times to warrant a penalty, or rather, did something questionable. I'm used to it by now, and I don't care. I still won the championship last year despite 75 points in penalties which would have made the title a no-contest if they didn't give it to me.
On a related note, Julia is a bit stressed about her lack of success so far this season, and me hitting her (oops!) didn't help. After the race I got her and her boyfriend dinner. Speaking of Julia's boyfriend, he's pretty cute. :3
I got an interesting question from a fan during autograph signings here at Indinapolis. It's perhaps a random personal question, but they wanted to know how religious the drivers are. I think anyone but me would have been a bit offended by the question.
I can say this much. As far as the TM Master Cup series drivers are concerned, almost all of them fall into one of two categories. Either devoutly religious or nonreligious/athiest (same thing really, if you ask me), and I fall into the latter category. I'm pretty sure all the female drivers fall into the latter category (except Rachel), I don't know any self-respecting woman that is devoutly religious.
But I know Tony Durbin, Todd Wodarczyk, Garth McCallister and Stuart Sandoval are pretty religious, and I get the feeling that Tyrone Stanley and Scott Bates are too. Damien Snyder (Does anyone honestly think he's religious?!) and Leonid Roderick (I think he's too obsessed with racing to be religious) aren't really either. I don't think Alan Hodges is too big on religion.
David Krikorian and Louis Kingston were both raised Jewish, but Kingston isn't really religious. DK hasn't been around me long enough for me to know if he is still religious or not.
Bye for now!
- A.R.
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