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All-purpose open-wheel (F1, IRL) racing thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by crimsonace, Feb 19, 2007.

  1. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    As opposed to, I think, Hiro Matsushita who was known as the "Moving Chicane"
     
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  2. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    Also "King Hiro," because Emerson Fittipaldi's radio keyed a little late when he yelled "Fucking Hiro!"
     
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  3. maumann

    maumann Well-Known Member

    Let us not forget the Racing Dentist, Jack Miller, who took out half the IRL field at Atlanta Motor Speedway one evening.
     
  4. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Milka Duno was good for a couple of those a year, too.
     
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  5. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    As I recall, Dennis Vitolo rarely got close enough to the field to cause any argy bargy
     
  6. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    Greg Ray might have been the worst driver ever to be considered the best in his series. I watched a lot of the IRL, relatively speaking, around 2001 and 2002. It was not a good time.
     
  7. murphyc

    murphyc Well-Known Member

    Wasn't his name Japanese for seven laps down? LOL
     
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  8. murphyc

    murphyc Well-Known Member

    Not a good sign for F1's new partnership with ESPN as the season opens in Australia this weekend. Practice got moved to ESPNEWS in favor of college baseball. And the Sky coverage was miserable, at least to me.
     
  9. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    Yeah some programming person in Bristol took one look at those cockpit thong things drivers are looking through now and shoved practice session into a dark corner.
     
  10. murphyc

    murphyc Well-Known Member

    F1 pre-race was supposed to start 10 minutes ago. There were a few scenes from around the track, but mostly commercials for 10 minutes. No commentary at all. Then ESPN2 switched to another show. I make me wonder if they'll actually show the race tonight, or if they're having major feed issues.
     
  11. murphyc

    murphyc Well-Known Member

    So it turns out there was a technical glitch during prerace coverage on ESPN2 last night. They finally got the audio working about 10 minutes before the start of the race. But then they had commercials about every 5-10 laps (mostly with the side-by-side coverage IndyCar has had for a few years). When they came back, the Sky broadcasting crew had usually already moved on to the next topic (like when both Haas cars dropped out). Plus no in-race interviews like NBCSN had in the past with a reporter on the ground, the grid walk at the start was terrible, and as soon as the podium interviews were done, the broadcast was over. ESPN got what it deserved for doing things on the cheap, but the real losers are the U.S. F1 fans.
     
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  12. Huggy

    Huggy Well-Known Member

    TSN continues the Sky coverage well after the podium interviews (for at least an hour), you see the top three guys interviewed in the press conference and then they will go to the media area where a lot of the other guys meet the media. There is still more analysis and it ends with Ted Kravitz's recap of each team's day. I have always enjoyed the grid walk especially when Brundle finds a guy like Ozzy or Nick Mason from Pink Floyd but yesterday's was meh, seemed kind of rushed.
     
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