captjohn67
Pretty much a regular
9-11 (+6.00) nice 0-3 effort from me last weekend
if you are thinking a longshot will come home for you in this race, history will beg to differ. Since the year 2000, only three races have been one by someone outside the big 3 (Andretti, Ganassi, Penske) Buddy Rice won from the pole in 2004, Wheldon came home as a +2200 (from memory) in 2011, and Kanaan last year as a +1000ish. I had Munoz at +4000 last year and the man was sitting in a rocket and almost brought it home....almost being the operative word (2nd place).
when you begin discussing the indy 500, you have to speak of the Andretti curse and the green car angle. Gaston Chevrolet won the race in a green car in 1920, and died later that year in the same car. Drivers, being the superstitious creatures that they are, typically avoided the color until Jim Clark won in 1965 sporting green. Believe what you wish, it still needs to be mentioned. I know, I know.
yesterdays practice session -- obviously the Andretti camp is leading the charge, Montoya is representing for Penske, and Dixon is the current flag-bearer for Ganassi
let's talk about Kurt Busch for a moment. He is the first man to try and run both the indy 500 and the race at Charlotte since Robby Gordon in 2004. He has been quite impressive in the three sessions, improving from 12th, to 9th, to a head turning 2nd yesterday. My comments on this would be whatthehellever. let's get him in race conditions with Saavedra running side by side with him and see what transpires. I will make my first prediction, and is that he will find the turn 4 wall. I will look to fade him against whoever they care to post against him. Well maybe not just anyone, but damn near it.
Kanaan - 6 top 5's in 12 attempts and no Mouse on his back anymore ( one could argue he had his own curse here) He hasn't really meshed with his new team that well and is not currently blistering the track, but i'll hope for a favorable matchup and we'll see
i'll post some more specific driver info later and feel free to add anything you can think of...
if you are thinking a longshot will come home for you in this race, history will beg to differ. Since the year 2000, only three races have been one by someone outside the big 3 (Andretti, Ganassi, Penske) Buddy Rice won from the pole in 2004, Wheldon came home as a +2200 (from memory) in 2011, and Kanaan last year as a +1000ish. I had Munoz at +4000 last year and the man was sitting in a rocket and almost brought it home....almost being the operative word (2nd place).
when you begin discussing the indy 500, you have to speak of the Andretti curse and the green car angle. Gaston Chevrolet won the race in a green car in 1920, and died later that year in the same car. Drivers, being the superstitious creatures that they are, typically avoided the color until Jim Clark won in 1965 sporting green. Believe what you wish, it still needs to be mentioned. I know, I know.
yesterdays practice session -- obviously the Andretti camp is leading the charge, Montoya is representing for Penske, and Dixon is the current flag-bearer for Ganassi
let's talk about Kurt Busch for a moment. He is the first man to try and run both the indy 500 and the race at Charlotte since Robby Gordon in 2004. He has been quite impressive in the three sessions, improving from 12th, to 9th, to a head turning 2nd yesterday. My comments on this would be whatthehellever. let's get him in race conditions with Saavedra running side by side with him and see what transpires. I will make my first prediction, and is that he will find the turn 4 wall. I will look to fade him against whoever they care to post against him. Well maybe not just anyone, but damn near it.
Kanaan - 6 top 5's in 12 attempts and no Mouse on his back anymore ( one could argue he had his own curse here) He hasn't really meshed with his new team that well and is not currently blistering the track, but i'll hope for a favorable matchup and we'll see
i'll post some more specific driver info later and feel free to add anything you can think of...
