Mid June Racing

IRL Congrats to the winner of the Bombardier 500 Tony Kanaan. As predicted here last week! Kanaan held off team mate Dario Franchitti for the win, his second of the season, AGR’s third of the season and Honda’s fourth in a row. Alex Baron finished third in a fine drive with the Chevrolet engine. Toyota grabbed fourth with Sam. A couple of disturbing things did take place in the race. Once again, Scotty D failed to finish. This time he was a victim of being hit by Adrian Fernandez who was exiting his pit box. Also, Indy 500 winner Buddy Rice was driving all over the place. In fact, Kanaan was disturbed by Rice’s driving and actually passed him to keep himself out of harms way. With 20 laps remaining, Rice tangled with Darren Manning. Rice claims he never knew he was there. Also disturbing was Mark Taylor hitting the wall again and AJIV once again finishing dead last. AJ Foyt Jr. said that IV was getting to aggressive when the car was loose. Hey AJ, how about giving him a car that isn’t loose. Overall the racing was as good as usual. There were some concerns because of the smaller engine capacity, but those fears were laid to rest early. Now it is on to Richmond in a couple of weeks. A good track for these guys. This week a lot of the teams are going to Milwaukee for testing. Other than that this really hasn’t been much of a season for rumors. Maybe things will pick up in the summer! F1 Another race another…well you know the drill. Schummi wins his 7th race of the season at Canada. It is also his 7th in the Canadian Grand Prix. Schumacher who started 6th used a 2 pit stop race strategy to beat his competition who were mainly on 3 stop strategies. One of the biggest surprises had to be the fact that Williams, followed by Toyota were both disqualified from the final results due to improper brakes. Williams was first DQ’ed then complained that Toyota was running the same setup. When the officials checked, they too were DQ’ed. BAR managed to get Buttons home in third behind the Sandwich, but Takuma Sato once again had engine failure. This had a lot of the pundits talking that Sato is not given the same opportunity that Buttons has. A lot of fans seem to think this team is just incapable of running a tow car team. Personally I would like to see Sato get a chance. There was quite a bit of slamming on Ferrari as well. Along about the middle of the race, Rubens seemed to have a car that was quicker than Schummi’s. Yet the Sandwich stayed tucked in behind the 1 car. Now I don’t know if there are still team orders, contract stipulations or just unwritten laws, but if F1 is to thrive in the new markets it seeks, especially here in the US, this type of thing has to end now. We get enough manufactured racing in NASCAR. This week is Indy and the USGP. I hope to see all of you out there Friday, Saturday and Sunday. At least this year, if it rains, it won’t be cold! NASCAR Allegedly the taxicabs went a racing this weekend at Pocono and Jimmie Johnson won. I mean does anyone really care about this crap anymore?