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PostPosted: Thu May 07, 2009 8:50 pm 
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Marco is almost 2 mph faster than Franchitti. Cheating, faulty transponder, perfect use of the draft or superior car...?


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PostPosted: Thu May 07, 2009 9:04 pm 
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Cheeveer wrote:
Marco is almost 2 mph faster than Franchitti. Cheating, faulty transponder, perfect use of the draft or superior car...?


I dont know, but he made a crazy 3 wide move earlier inbetween Kanaan and Carpenter.


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PostPosted: Thu May 07, 2009 9:05 pm 
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Cheeveer wrote:
Marco is almost 2 mph faster than Franchitti. Cheating, faulty transponder, perfect use of the draft or superior car...?



Maybe a good wind gap?


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PostPosted: Thu May 07, 2009 9:16 pm 
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Marco is almost 2 mph faster than Franchitti. Cheating, faulty transponder, perfect use of the draft or superior car...?
Marco's fastest time was done when he was at the back of a pack of cars, he got a great draft down the back straght & an equally great draft down the front straght. His laps after he passed all the cars dropped off quite a lot, the last lap I saw him do was in the 223Mph range.


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PostPosted: Thu May 07, 2009 9:31 pm 
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Seems there's a possibility of rain tomorrow & Saturday :(


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PostPosted: Thu May 07, 2009 9:41 pm 
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Joey wrote:
So who said "There is no fundamental flaw with the Dallara"?


What were they thinking when they designed it?

My best bet is that a primary flaw lies with the fact that it's a flat bottomed car. Wouldn't ground effects help the car remain on the ground? After all, why else is it called ground effects?

(Remember, this is only a college student ranting, only pretending to know what he's talking about).


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PostPosted: Thu May 07, 2009 9:49 pm 
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Joey wrote:
So who said "There is no fundamental flaw with the Dallara"?


IRL fans when CART and ChampCar where around.


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Just read elsewhere that Kannan is not happy with Marco. Earlier when Marco was weaving inbetween cars down the straght he apparently came within an inch of taking out TK & TK thinks it was ridiculous for Marco to take that sort of a risk in practice especially with a team mate.


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Kanaan can't be happy with anyone in that team anymore. He must be missing Dario, Wheldon and Herta like hell.


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Wouldn't be the first time he's been mad at Marco, guess it won't be the last either.


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PostPosted: Thu May 07, 2009 10:18 pm 
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StefMeister wrote:
Just read elsewhere that Kannan is not happy with Marco. Earlier when Marco was weaving inbetween cars down the straght he apparently came within an inch of taking out TK & TK thinks it was ridiculous for Marco to take that sort of a risk in practice especially with a team mate.


They showed the move on camera. It was an incredibly stupid move by Marco. It was within inches of being a massive crash.


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PostPosted: Thu May 07, 2009 10:21 pm 
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Tommy Vercetti wrote:
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That god damn car is the worst thing ever made.


Seriously.


Seeing the clip wreck makes it look even more ridiculous.


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PostPosted: Thu May 07, 2009 10:26 pm 
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Kanaan can\'t be happy with anyone in that team anymore. He must be missing Dario, Wheldon and Herta like hell.
the only problem with agr that kannan has is marco. i hear that kannan doesnt espcially like him.

tony gets on well with danica, the 2 of them share data and always try to help the other out if there having setup problems. despite the theory that danica doesnt know how to setup a car tony actually ran danicas setup several occasions last year including when he won at richmond.

tony doesnt talk much with hideki, im not sure why thats just what i\'ve been told last year.


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rgordon wrote:
They showed the move on camera. It was an incredibly stupid move by Marco. It was within inches of being a massive crash.
I've had the stream on my PC monitor which is next to my TV all evening & thats the only thing I've missed, was downstairs cooking myself dinner when it happened :(


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Servia's car is freakin' awesome.

Hope Junky can get the second Dale Coyne ride for Indy.


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Practice is over for today, here are the times:

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PostPosted: Fri May 08, 2009 12:16 am 
Kanaan is ranked third in importance on AGR behind Danica and Marco for obvious reasons but he's the only driver with talent on that team. It's not surprising he can't stand it there.


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Marco Andretti: All the wildness of Kyle Busch without any of the talent.


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codename_47 wrote:
Marco Andretti: All the wildness of Kyle Busch without any of the talent.


And a bigger parts bill.

How many crashes did he have last year?

I can think of Motegi, Milwaukee, Texas, Nashville, and Mid Ohio where he got in tangles. Anybody got anything else?


oops, just remembered Edmonton.


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I rather like Marco, runnin' it like the car owes him money.

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Kanaan is ranked third in importance on AGR behind Danica and Marco for obvious reasons but he's the only driver with talent on that team. It's not surprising he can't stand it there.


Still signed up after his contract expired though.


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