Any Indycar/Champcar/Nascar fans here?

mCowboy · Post by **mCowboy** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:40 pm

or am I the only one...

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Mattlill2000 · Post by **Mattlill2000** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:02 pm

Me too! TVU player used to have Fox and I was watching Nascar every sunday but not no more. The Champ Car champion, Bourdais is probably going into F1 next year

mCowboy · Post by **mCowboy** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:05 pm

well if you get cable...

Viasat Sport 3 shows Indycar (which I'm watching now)
Viasat Sport 1 & 3 shows Nascar
NASN shows some Nascar
Eurosport or Eurosport shows some Champcar...

I'm just curious, since I missed the beginning of the season, that Andretti, Patrick and many others were in Champcar last season and now suddenly they are in Indycar, so what happened?

Mattlill2000 · Post by **Mattlill2000** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:13 pm

I don't think Andretti and Patrick have been in Champcar for years now. Rumours have it that they might be one series again in a year or two which would be the best thing.

mCowboy · Post by **mCowboy** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:44 pm

Mattlill2000 wrote:I don't think Andretti and Patrick have been in Champcar for years now. Rumours have it that they might be one series again in a year or two which would be the best thing.

Could've been that series on Discovery about Racing team that was a bit older that thru me off.

I don't know much about Champcar or Indycar, since it has not been available here until lately, I've followed F1 for years thou...

Mattlill2000 · Post by **Mattlill2000** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:17 pm

Check this site out to recap the latest F1 race.

http://www.visionf1.com/
visionf1 - Animated F1 Race Replays - Bahrain

mCowboy · Post by **mCowboy** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:26 pm

Mattlill2000 wrote:Check this site out to recap the latest F1 race.

http://www.visionf1.com/
visionf1 - Animated F1 Race Replays - Bahrain

watched it live and the recap yesterday...

Champcar is on at Eurosport 2 tonite at 9.30 LIVE...

(according to the EPG anyways)

so anyone into motor racing... some Sundays are packed with action if you have the right channels...

Welho cable

MTV3 Max/RTL F1 @ 15.00
Viasat Sport 1 IndyCar @ 20.30
Eurosport 2 Champcar @ 23.30
Viasat Sport 3 Nascar @ 01.00

stewy · Post by **stewy** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:18 pm

wouldn't call myself a big fan, but i used to keep reasonably up to date with champcars. my dad and i went to the champcar race on the gold coast in queensland back in 2004. it was one of the best weekends of my life. haven't read anything related to it recently though. i imagine bourdais is leading this year again.

raamv · Post by **raamv** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 1:07 am

Once in a while F1, Indy and Nascar race...
The reason for Viasat was American football.but then its served well for Indya n Nascar etc too

littlefrank · Post by **littlefrank** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:27 am

My daughters watching Herbie at the moment.

antarctica_moon · Post by **antarctica_moon** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:48 pm

NASCAR fans:

The woman in the red is incredible:

Mattlill2000 · Post by **Mattlill2000** » Mon Jul 30, 2007 3:54 pm

I think Antarctica_moon has hit the nail on the head in what Nascar is all about. Its a show, entertainment where real racing takes a back seat. Did you know that lapped cars are allowed to unlap themselves during a yellow flag-----------?
But what a show! Its fun!

mCowboy · Post by **mCowboy** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 12:20 am

what you guys think of Danica Patrick? First I thought it was great to have a woman driving an Indycar, but now after watching her perform, I'm not so sure...

I've seen her throwing temper tantrums, making amateur mistakes and generally not learning as fast as her male counterparts.

I saw her in American Chopper and she came across as arrogant, condescending and lacking sense of humor...

Now there's Motorola 300 on and her made a mistake on her second pitstop and on her third she stalled the engine... dunno it it's her temper that makes her do the mistakes... that might explain why Finns are so good in motorsports with their lack of emotion... Kimi "Iceman" Räikkönen, that nick name didn't come from nowhere...

karen · Post by **karen** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 12:42 am

I enjoyed the movie "Cars."

500 laps is just too many for a race. I know that's an exaggeration, but it's just not right that a car can break down and be repaired in enough time to rejoin a race. I don't understand the objective.

mCowboy · Post by **mCowboy** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 3:42 am

karen wrote:I enjoyed the movie "Cars."

500 laps is just too many for a race. I know that's an exaggeration, but it's just not right that a car can break down and be repaired in enough time to rejoin a race. I don't understand the objective.

well Motorola 300 was a race course with 80 laps...

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