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Originally Posted by pan6467
Mid-Ohio gets Indycars back this year (after a few years absence) and I can guarantee I'll be wearing my Team Rahal and talking racing with some old, long lost friends.
Speaking of Rahal, what is it with his team? I can't believe he can't produce a winning driver or car.
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If you think the Indycars which are returning to Mid Ohio are the same thing they used to have up until 2003, you're gonna be disappointed. They are getting the Indy "Racing" League, a far cry from the Champcars that ran there since the early '80s. Yeah, many of the teams are the same (those teams quit racing in CART (Champcar) when Honda and Toyota dangled huge $$$ in front of them to join the all-oval (at the time) IRL series).
As far as Rahal is concerned, he's not getting the preferential treatment teams like Andretti (Honda's favorite) or Penske (Toyota's favorite until they left for NASCAR) have been getting. He pimped that worthless chick Danica for all she was worth but still couldn't get her to win a race despite her beauty (and despite the IRL looking the other way at rule infractions - see: Indy, 2005). Now that she's with Andretti-powered-by-Honda$$$ I do expect to see her up front at the no-talent-needed, foot-to-the-floor, engine-power-is-everything oval tracks the IRL loves to run, but won't see a top 5 on the evil road courses. Rahal will be an also-ran this year... which suits me fine. After committing to race the Champcar schedule in 2004 and then pulling his cars right before the season started to follow the Japanese manufacturers money in the IRL, he deserves nothing but the fleas from the dogs he's been bedding with over the past 3 years.
Damn. And I was hoping I wasn't gonna bring IRL-hate to this forum.
