Wednesday, May 18, 2005

Kenny Back at Indy

2004 Indianapolis 500 winner Buddy Rice has been medically ruled out of the 2005 race after suffering injuries to his back last week in practice for the 89th running. After 16 or so hours of speculation, Rahal-Letterman Racing has named 1999 winner Kenny Brack as Rice's replacement.Rice will continue to be evaluated as to his participation in the IRL for the rest of the season.Brack who was hurt in a horrendous crash at Texas at the end of the 2003 season replaces Rice who ironically replaced Brack. I have my doubts about Kenny. He hasn't run an Indy Car in a year. He did a practice last year at Richmond and was nowhere near ready. Everything I had heard from him made me think he would not be racing at this level again. I like Kenny. He won for AJ, but I am really skeptical about this one.Honestly I think Kenny will run today and find out he still isn't ready. What then? There are other good drivers out there, but are any of them up to RLR standards? Today will be interesting. I wish I was out at the track to see what he is able to do.

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