Grand Prix Rejects

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I'm standing here with John Andretti, Paul. John, you've made your way into the first group for pole day tomorrow. Would you say it's mission accomplished? Well the first aim was obviously to make into the first group so yeah you could say it is mission accomplished. It's much tighter than we wante...

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Andale Announce Indy One-Off For Mike Groff Andale Racing have announced the signing of American Racing Series star Mike Groff for a one-off outing at Indianapolis. The signing was announced right after the first week of practice at the famous Brickyard, where drivers John Andretti and Robby Unser ...

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And if you need a proper theme for introducing the grid, use this: m Now that brings back goddamn memories. Well the first three practice sessions really showed what we already knew; that the Buick and Lola are a superb superspeedway combo. Obviously we weren't really where we would have liked to b...

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Paul I'm standing here with John Andretti. John, 2 races, 2 accidents. Can't be a very motivating start huh? Well it's annoying because we've been doing nothing wrong. In Phoenix it was Cheever, and now... I mean I was minding my own business just keeping the car on the road, it was hard to see any...

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I think we have a very good handling car here. Very little if any understeer or oversteer going into corners, and I think the only problem is the fact we still can't get the Buick gear ratios right, so we're not making the most of the engine's power, of course meaning not enough top speed. We'll tr...

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Yes Paul, I'm standing here with John Andretti. John, you were running a real good race out there, what happened? Well yea I was running a good race! Ye know we made a few changes to the setup before the race, and that really improved the car and all. And... Yea it's just really disappointing. So w...

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Aww man yeah that hurt, my knee's sore but I'll be better by Indy. I just lost the back coming out of turn 4 and well you know the rest. We've been struggling for pace all weekend, we tried working out our own setups, we tried copying John's setup, but nothing seemed to work. I'm confident of a res...

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Well it's not eye candy seeing me struggling to finish in the top 20 with Robby all the way trying to get a time good enough for the valuable 28th spot. I think both Andale and Ganassi have the same problem. I mean, the Buick engine is powerful and suited to the superspeedways, but I mean this is a...

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ANDALE BEHIND DICK SIMON, INTENDS MONZA BOYCOTT Only yesterday, controversy struck the CART IndyCar series after officials from Dick Simon Racing protested the inclusion of a race in Monza, Italy, arguing the need to solidify the American base. Today, Andale Racing have come out in full support of ...

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Could you add another entry for Andale please? Robby Unser and the #91 for ovals only.

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I'll give Andale some love with John Andretti at the wheel please! Also requesting a change to Buick engines.

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I don't think our old friend Jeroen would be very happy with all the good attention Newcastle are getting in this thread!

Might as well say I'm a Swansea fan

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As a Sauber fan, I can only smile in delight with the recent results, but quite frankly, how long can they keep it up? James Key left prior to the season if my memory serves me right, and the team still don't have a big sponsor. They need Key back, and they need to get more Mexican involvement and/...

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As a Sauber fan, I can only smile in delight with the recent results, but quite frankly, how long can they keep it up? James Key left prior to the season if my memory serves me right, and the team still don't have a big sponsor. They need Key back, and they need to get more Mexican involvement and/o...

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Wizzie wrote:BREAKING NEWS: It's official. Bellof would have won the 1984 Monaco Grand Prix had the race kept going according to Martin

Jeroen would be happy to know that

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Narain in tenth! You don't know how bad I'm chuckling! XD

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That Toro Rosso looks gorgeous if you ask me...

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nome66 wrote:as with all brazilian journalism, Autosport or it didn't happen

Then again, they did say Senna had the Williams seat.

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According to Joe Saward, HRT's second driver will be.... m Karthikeyan I'd say this is definitely legit. HRT's Facebook page has confirmed it, as has F1 Fanatic, so Captain Hammer should now be satisfied! That gives HRT the oldest line up, with PDLR in his 40s, and Karthikeyan pushing 35. Young and...

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It was really disappointing cuz' both Scott and Robby were really quick all weekend. Robby was slowed down by traffic in qualifying, but he was really making progress in the race until the engine just exploded. Scott's gearbox broke after only 3 laps, so overall it was a really disappointing weeken...

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Team Menard

Lola-Buick

Scott Menard - 4, 5, 1 (C, A, R)
Robert Finley - 5, 4, 1 (C, A, R)

Malinth

Well, for once we decided to go for a good qualifying setup, because we know how hard passing is here. Unfortunately I made a couple of mistakes, and I really don't think we managed to extract the most out of the car, so that's left us in a rather disappointing 4th. But err, really gotta congratula...

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Patrick, can you tell us what happened? Well, aar, from the telemetry we've been able to pinpoint the issue as a problem with the electronics of the car, aar, erm, it's a real shame because Scott was making massive strides from his lowly starting position, and err, obviously he's not very happy abo...

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Scott Menard, first win since the Italian Grand Prix last year, and your first win for the Williams team. How does it feel? Well, any win is great! Um! I guess this ain't as grand as my win at Monza last year, but the team did their job, I did my job, and here we are at the top again. Does the seas...

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Well, we're not really disappointed with 6th. Considering the fact that all our times came from a not so dry track, we have reason to be pleased with ourselves. Arr, we were really just focusing on the race setup, experimenting with different things, even though the changing conditions made that a ...

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Well it's not a bad effort. Not really what we wanted, but still not disastrous. The car feels pretty good here, but the McLaren's were just crazy fast, and Doug did an awesome job to put it on pole. Barii and I both got held up by traffic on numerous occasions, but I personally don't mind that. Th...

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I'll reveal the answers tomorrow, maybe, but for now, here's another question: * At the 1994 Marlboro 500, Derek Daly and Paul Page interviewed an ex F1 driver who said that 'a year out of racing hurts' and that he wanted to get back in full time racing, this time in IndyCar. Who was this driver? Z...

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I'll reveal the answers tomorrow, maybe, but for now, here's another question: * At the 1994 Marlboro 500, Derek Daly and Paul Page interviewed an ex F1 driver who said that 'a year out of racing hurts' and that he wanted to get back in full time racing, this time in IndyCar. Who was this driver? Z...

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Scott Menard, you're looking in amazement at your teammate Barii Mori's behavior right now, your thoughts on the incident? Well, yeah I'm looking at Barii right now, I mean, who isn't? *chuckles* If I may just say so, it's shameful behavior, but it keeps us all entertained I guess! *smiles* Indeed,...

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3. In 1992, ABC interviewed a few Formula 1 drivers. All of them with the exception of one thought that IndyCar was interesting and challenging and that they would definitely consider it as a future career option. Who was the exception? Schumacher? I wouldn't imagine him caring about anything other...

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Well, we were struggling with the car setup a bit. The advantage of having a 3 car team is that you get to, err, share info a bit more, but nothing seemed to work for us. We tried our own setup, then went to Barii's, then to Doug's, but I just couldn't really find the pace to match Dan and Doug. Ma...

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Well, I was playing around with the wet setup today, and when the track got dry, I decided to take a break. The car is certainly very quick in the wet, but quite frankly we're gonna need to do a lot of work if we're gonna get close to Jeroen in the Prost. Well Dr. Sid Watkins says I sprained my ank...

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1. Why was the Williams launch of 2000, 'different', so to speak? As far as I recall, it was that the second seat was still undecided, and that the team would announce their decision AT the launch, with both Button and Junqueira in attendance. The idea was that after one final test, either Jenson o...

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Well, I've pointed out many times that I love the rain, and I'm pretty disappointed with today's results. I only did something like 12 laps before I spun and wrote the chassis off. I'm still not entirely sure whether I'll be able to run tomorrow. From what I heard, conditions may be a bit better. W...

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Well, I wouldn't say the Prosts are out of reach, but they've certainly made some good progress since Barcelona. I'm still confident, though, as we aren't bringing anything major to these 4 days of testing. We're just here to work on our reliability, and just to get in the swing of things. Most of ...

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Heh, well if anything, Barii was quite simply faster than me today, and well, kudos to him. I think the team have proven to be one of the front-runners thus far, and there's no reason as to why we shouldn't carry this speed over to the season proper. Doug had some mechanical issues with his car, an...

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Well, I'm glad that those high idiots have come to their senses. It's good to know that I'll be driving in F1 for 1999, but obviously it's not confirmed, erm, where I'll be. I've gotta thank Williams a lot. They had the confidence to put me in the car, and hopefully this is the start of something b...

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Silverstone pitlane, Williams private test Scott? If it has anything to do with that chicken-s**t bastard Toad, just pi** off will ye? But Scott, what do you take of the recen... Well, it shows that Toad and the whole god damn Ferrari team are a piece of overused junk just waiting to be collected b...

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