10-03-2013, 02:53 PM
I had to reply man.
The places where quality racecars are made are magic places to me. The creative process and skills of the humans working on them make objects take on personalities, even when the new idea doesn't work or forces more development.
The tracks are only the stage of display.
The meld of the crew folks/driver/owner/machine can on some days be magic to behold, if one knows what is being seen. Or in ignorance get a ho-hum response to a rainbow.
Man I needed the 74 Indy 500 to be fast and clean and SAFE, after '73 I swore I would never ever go to Indy again. So I needed that day in the Sunshine away from Uncle Sammy's Misguided Children and with my Pop. And well baked. A great race that day. I watched the girls too but I go to races to watch the action on the track mostly. From great seats it is a golden day in trying times treasured in memory. A respite. I returned to being an Indycar fan as well as NHRA/AHRA 1320 stuff.
Ah the street Hemis of 69-70. Here kitty kitty (a Jag with a phony ego).
427 Cobra. Ah back in the day.
Absolutely agree that Dan Weldon caught a bad break. Cockpit to cheese grate debris fence incursions are something Indycar had been getting lucky with, particularly and spectacularly at Indy given the IMS camera coverage and media cooperation.
Motorsports real fans know no driver or crewperson just takes the risk knowingly, they push safety before the track owners racking the Big Money. As Jackie Stewart always did after Jimmy Clark died racing, the motivation comes from the endangered ones.
So it is 3 time INDY winner Scot Dario Franchetti speaking, he lost a very close friend and he and Tony Kanaan paid a loss we can't know.
We all need to find a better way to make the fans and drivers and track workers and crew people safER.
I could go on.
I do know that motorsports are next to nothing in Deep Political view.
But it is Spring (almost), and I've been patient but Daytona doesn't fix my jones no more.:zzzz:
And I love it so.
Best Regards Always LR
The places where quality racecars are made are magic places to me. The creative process and skills of the humans working on them make objects take on personalities, even when the new idea doesn't work or forces more development.
The tracks are only the stage of display.
The meld of the crew folks/driver/owner/machine can on some days be magic to behold, if one knows what is being seen. Or in ignorance get a ho-hum response to a rainbow.
Man I needed the 74 Indy 500 to be fast and clean and SAFE, after '73 I swore I would never ever go to Indy again. So I needed that day in the Sunshine away from Uncle Sammy's Misguided Children and with my Pop. And well baked. A great race that day. I watched the girls too but I go to races to watch the action on the track mostly. From great seats it is a golden day in trying times treasured in memory. A respite. I returned to being an Indycar fan as well as NHRA/AHRA 1320 stuff.
Ah the street Hemis of 69-70. Here kitty kitty (a Jag with a phony ego).
427 Cobra. Ah back in the day.
Absolutely agree that Dan Weldon caught a bad break. Cockpit to cheese grate debris fence incursions are something Indycar had been getting lucky with, particularly and spectacularly at Indy given the IMS camera coverage and media cooperation.
Motorsports real fans know no driver or crewperson just takes the risk knowingly, they push safety before the track owners racking the Big Money. As Jackie Stewart always did after Jimmy Clark died racing, the motivation comes from the endangered ones.
So it is 3 time INDY winner Scot Dario Franchetti speaking, he lost a very close friend and he and Tony Kanaan paid a loss we can't know.
We all need to find a better way to make the fans and drivers and track workers and crew people safER.
I could go on.
I do know that motorsports are next to nothing in Deep Political view.
But it is Spring (almost), and I've been patient but Daytona doesn't fix my jones no more.:zzzz:
And I love it so.
Best Regards Always LR
Read not to contradict and confute;
nor to believe and take for granted;
nor to find talk and discourse;
but to weigh and consider.
FRANCIS BACON
nor to believe and take for granted;
nor to find talk and discourse;
but to weigh and consider.
FRANCIS BACON