Indy 500 - 2015

I enjoyed the race & Montoya coming from dead last to win was amazing.

 

After watching him flounder around in NASCAR I was happy to see Juan Pablo win the 500.

 

For the first time in many years I watched the race instead of picking up a book. Go Indy Car, that was a good one.

Can we have more of that please.

 

Coolest race I saw last year--nationwide at Road America. Tagliani had it won, but runs out of gas at the end of the race, and roll into the pits. Gets lucky, there's a crash and a restart on the last lap. Last lap restart, he's sitting in 23rd, and makes it all the way to second. Another turn or two, and he wins. He just carved up the track, that's pretty crazy to pass that many cars on a road course in one lap.

 

That too was a great race, in fact better than Indy. A road race is always better than an oval in my book. Tag was really peddling that car.

 

Agreed, that was a great race for so many reasons! As for Danica, I think it's only due time before she washes outa NASCAR. And what the hell was she doing in last weekend's All-Star race? I mean, REALLY!?

 

There was the recent Danica to F1 rumor floating around a couple of weeks ago again. If you think she's done poorly in NASCAR (and she has), if that happens, you ain't seen nothing yet...

 

Danica has done a wonderful job of self promotion. She is not a terrible race car driver, but not a great one either. Without her sponsorship she'd be racing at a much lower rung of the sport if at all. There are some very good women race car drivers that sadly have not had the opportunities Danica has had. I'm not a Danica hater, but when she moved to NASCARP that said to me she was done.

 

I'm not a Danica hater, I'm ambivalent, she's improved significantly this year although the results don't necessarily show it.

I'm so sick of people talking about how great she was going to be after Daytona a couple of years ago. That's like winning a game of Yahtzee and being labeled a math prodigy. You're absolutely right--her talent level isn't in the big series, more like ARCA (where she should have spent more time rather than dabbling in it) or MAYBE Nationwide. If racing was her first priority, she wouldn't be in NASCAR right now.

She's in real danger of being eclipsed by the next group coming up--Dillon, Larson, Elliot, and others. She has one more year of mediocrity before it catches her. If she doesn't show significant improvement by the end of the 2016 season, I'm guessing she's done in the series.

 

Absolutely agreed. Although, isn't her father filthy rich?? Money can work strange wonders.

 

Yeah, but I'm ok with that, she's not the only one who's family has helped. Danica's dad has nothing on Paul Menards dad, now THAT'S rich.

She grew up not too far from here, and she was 100% legit coming up. She absolutely destroyed everyone in Karts, and then in midgets, including adults. But she's the Freddie Adu of racing--a ton of natural talent and attitude moved up way, way too fast throughout her career, mainly because of marketability.