I love fast women
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H2Andy:4th place is not just respectable, it is fragging incredible for a rookie
bebo:Oh, I would loooooooove to see the face of someone with a last name Gordon if she gave a try at NASCAR. I bet he would throw himself to the ground and start making tantrums... "I will not run with her, she's mean"
Boogie711:A) I won't watch any race that belongs to the egomaniacal cokehead idiot grandson who has RUINED open wheel racing across North America, Tony George. He's a jackass of the first degree and deserves a special place in racing hell for what he's done to the Indy, and OW racing in general.
Boogie711:There's no way Newman-Hass will go - have you heard Paul Newman talk? Now, HAAS may go sometime, but Newman won't.
Boogie711:And the IRL is in big, BIG trouble. They lose Toyota and Chevy next year, and Honda has delivered the ultimatum - unify or we're out. Meanwhile, Champcar not only owns their engine supplier, but they just purchased the rights to their marquee event, the Long Beach Grand Prix, as well.
I think any talk of unification is BS coming from the IRL. The moron was the one who caused the split in the first place.
Vie:Its a great result, but not incredible. After all, rookies have WON at Indy on 8 previous occasions.
bebo:All the talk about the weight and all the beakering hides only one thing: fear. I haven't heard one word about how good she is. Every criticism has centered about the weight. The truth is that the kid is quite good, be it a woman or not, weight controversy or not. And even worse, the real truth does not come out trying to be "politically correct", and that truth is that many of this male pilots do not want to compete with women. As they see it is damn if you do and damn if you don't: if the girl beats you-you were beaten by a girl; if you beat the girl- oh! , you just beaten a girl.
This is not boxing or wresting, where sex plays an obvious role if we have mixed gender match. Being a racing pilot ia basically about endurance, hand-eye coordination, good instinct and courage, and as I see it, she's got plenty of all that... again, be it a woman or not.