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[Risil]

Pat Patrick hasn’t given an engine to Alfa Romeo yet, has he?

No -- Alfa's first race in CART is next week.

[Risil]

This is a great battle!

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[Risil]

"Rick Mears does know how to win races"

 

Amen!

[PayasYouRace]

Yeah, that lower left rear wishbone was always going to be a problem.

[PayasYouRace]

Mears has checked out again.

[FLB]

Pat Patrick hasn’t given an engine to Alfa Romeo yet, has he?

Not as far as I remember. That apparently happened as the transition from Patrick-Ganassi (the 1989 team) was made into Patrick Racing and Target Chip Ganassi Racing. So something like October?

 

https://mrdemmendaal...re-37f4bf2a6e06
 

Edited by FLB, 21 February 2021 - 19:28.

[PayasYouRace]

Bobby backs capitalism when it comes to engine deals.

[Risil]

Provimi Veal flag stand!

[rghojai]

Some of the speed differentials are berserk.

[Risil]

Mears wins! Chris has great hair and eyebrows.

[PayasYouRace]

Mears wins. He was very much the driver of the day today. Would have been untouchable without the yellow timings.

[Risil]

Chris Mears can run faster than ABC's camera man.

[PayasYouRace]

I feel like I’d have been a Mears fan back in those times. He was well retired by the time I was following the series.

[GlenWatkins]

Great Race everyone!!  thanks Risil for an entertaining race 

[Risil]

Mrs Risil thinks 1989 Rick Mears looks 10 years older than he is. Tough crowd!

[Risil]

Great Race everyone!!  thanks Risil for an entertaining race 

Don't forget to thank Bernard Jourdain!

[FLB]

No -- Alfa's first race in CART is next week.

With Alex Morales. Patrick took over at the end of the season.

[FLB]

I feel like I’d have been a Mears fan back in those times. He was well retired by the time I was following the series.

I was. What you see today in Dixon is what Mears had in spades.

Edited by FLB, 21 February 2021 - 19:29.

[rghojai]

No fresh tires for Michael?1

[rghojai]

Don't forget the Coogan article

[paulb]

That was an entertaining race.

I like the dynamics of the short ovals.

[Lotus72b]

I'm loving watching these races from 1989. That was my first season watching IndyCar racing. It's bringing back great memories watching theses' races when I was 10 years old. Then years down the line meeting some of the drivers in my youth. I feel in awe!!!! I be there for the next watch party. 

[PayasYouRace]

Don't forget the Coogan article

 

It was a decent little read. Though I'd say the 1991 accident had a lot more to do with things than the 1982 incident.

[Risil]

Don't forget the Coogan article

Glad to hear that in the years after the 1982 debacle Mario's relationship with Cogan warmed a great deal. It sounds like reaction he got from the Indy 500 crowd every year since really got to him.

[rghojai]

I'd love to see a dark-side-of-Penske article, don't entirely buy into the Saint Roger narrative.

[PayasYouRace]

Can't say I've come across any "Saint Roger" narrative, apart from maybe the odd fanboy. I'd say he'd usually portrayed as most successful businessmen and racers like him, with a ruthless and hard streak.

[red stick]

Can't say I've come across any "Saint Roger" narrative, apart from maybe the odd fanboy. I'd say he'd usually portrayed as most successful businessmen and racers like him, with a ruthless and hard streak.

This.
Unless you think "The Unfair Advantage" is meant to suggest solely positive connotations. Saint Roger? Whoever said that?

[Jim Thurman]

More often, especially in certain quarters, Penske is demonized and blamed for "everything bad that happens in Oxnard." Quite unfairly so in most cases, I must add. He gets blamed for things he literally had little to no part in.

 

I'm pleased rghojai linked the Cogan article, as I was going to do the same 

 

I do think it speaks well of Penske that of his dismissed drivers, Cogan is the only one that seems to have any issue with him. Sneva, Tracy and Bettenhausen all openly took responsibility for their parts in their firings and bore no ill will.

[BiggestBuddyLazierFan]

Jack Aruuuuuuut!

Jackaroo!!!

[rghojai]

I used to work in Oxnard, near a place that made a superb chile relleno burrito.

[Dmitriy_Guller]

Bobby Unser suggests that Emmo lost control while gesticulating at Jourdain!

Emmo won't make that mistake again.