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I'll quote myself from the previous page.

God damn it, i'm sad that Takuma couldn't pull it off. Fuck, fuck, fuck!

No, no, no, Dario pinched him off. I don't know if his spotter told him "CAR INSIDE! CAR INSIDE!" or not, none of us do. It's what every one of us would have done, and what Taku did was what every one of us would have done too. If we have that extra strip of pavement, Taku goes a little low, his car keeps control, and we have a photo finish.

It is what it is, and we don't know what was going through either Dario's or Taku's minds.

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I realize that you're Scottish, and that you have to support the Scottish driver, but it looked to me like he pinched him down to an excessive degree. In my mind, he wrecked him, and I find that cowardly. I've calmed down now, so I'm not ranting and raving, and I'm trying to present this in a decent manner.

I'm not happy with how he won, and I'm also not happy with the Hitler comment, but there's nothing I can do about it.

All we know is that Sato took Senna's famous quote to heart.

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Reasons I don't like Dario? He's not a racer. He complains like hell when someone puts a strong racing move on him but then doesn't think twice about putting a marginal one on someone else. See Toronto last year.

He's a talented driver and in terms of talent deserves his victories. I just don't like the way he goes about it sometimes.

I think the most important thing is that we had a mega race in the new DW12 and everyone made it safely. A really positive advertisement for IndyCar racing after the awful circumstances of last October.

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I would have prefered Sato to win over Dario, and Hinch, and TK, and Rubens, and a few others. The only difference is I'm not looking for excuses to blame Dario like half this forum is. In your mind he wrecked him and I respect that, but in reality there was a cars width and contact wasn't made.

I apologise (directly to you) for the Hitler comment. I didn't mean it quite as harsh as it came across. If you want to report it then I'll stay out of that report and let the other mods decide what to do there.

I'm not touching it. You apologized. Matter's closed.

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It was more of a rhetorical question, but you're right. I like Power, and I also like Dario, so I'm ok with the fact that he won. I would have loved to see Sato or especially TK win it. But people need to start enjoying a good race when they have it and just deal with the winner. There are a lot more undeserving and moaning winner out there there than Dario or Power. At least Dario is a good driver who deserves everything he's accomplished. IMO.

dario didnt deserve this pushing sato almost of track is not winning thats cheating ,,ooh and fuck you jud she is anoying as shit

Yes, now that the series has completed a full oval race safely, we can properly move on from Vegas now. Gotta admit, I was a bit shakey the whole race. Glad it's over with.

It's alright, an honest apology works perfectly fine. We'll just agree to disagree and call it good.

Nice try ellis, but I'll go ahead and chime in with a valid answer.

I can't speak for anyone else's opinion of Dario, so I'll speak for my own (that's how this stuff works, I promise).

For a long time (back in his CART days) I really liked Dario. Seemed like a good guy and a hard racer who came out of nowhere (at least from my perspective as an American with no knowledge of anything he'd done in Europe before). But down the road (all his wins and titles aside) I just got tired of his incessant moaning (which you did mention and I agree). And he does have the odd cheap move in him as well, and to avoid arguing over today's move, him sending Newgarden into the wall in T1 at Long Beach is another example. And of course there was Toronto last year as well. And concerning the Will Power stuff, I can basically tell the same story again. He came in, grabbed my interest, started winning, starting whining, got annoying. I don't like him either.

Other people may have different opinions, and I may disagree with them. But I won't attempt to speak for them.

I thought i heard boo's in the end.

The media won't let us for a good while though, with the constant references to Dan and his legacy today it felt like they were milking a tragic story to try and get some emotion out of the drivers, I thought they were pushing it a bit too far today tbh.

The first questions to Dario about his win were about Dan and I'm not sure that's right, especially after that finish, but they just wanted to ramp up the emotions because they think that makes for better TV

They need to quit it and honour Dan in a more respectful way.

One thing I noticed from this race, especially after the first few full speed spins was that the speed and the racing was breathtaking, and not necessarily frightening like it had been before.

Though I do wonder if the boos would've been louder if a Japanese driver had managed to win America's greatest race.

Maybe Sato's gutsy driving in Indycar over the years has won most people over, but there'd still be a few old fashioned guys out there who wouldn't take to that too well...

All 3 of Dario's wins have come under yellow. Must be some sort of record.

Chris D texted me at the finish and told me that Dario indeed got booed by the crowd.

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