Surprises Over the Years

[racer2c]

Just thinking back to some of the surprising happenings throughout the years.


Reynard win out of the box
CART locked out of Indy
Zanardi
JPM
TMS
Penske jumps ship
CART going public
CART going banckrupt
The three amigos picking up the torch


Care to add?

[Brickman]

Mansell
Swift win out of box
Ganassi @ IMS

[JoeBob]

The transformation of Ganassi Racing from backmarker outfit to contenders. (Although replacing Cheever and Luyendyk with Andretti, Vasser and Zanardi would do that for most organizations.)

Christian Fittipaldi's longevity

The fall of Team Penske

Mansell comes to America

[jonovision_man]

TG's sudden bid to buy CART after showing no previous interest
Jacques :)

[JLMannin]

Villeneuve winning the 1995 "Indy 505"
Ford stepping forward in 1996 and supplying engines to the IRL
Ford putting the $100 buy back clause into the 2003 - 2004 engine supply agreement with CART (that was a stroke of genious)
CART sweeping the top six at rhe irl 497.5 in 2001

[Ankf00]

mansell

drunkie's engine blowing up last lap of last turn of RA in '96

ilmor pushrod

penske failing to qualify for '95 indy 505

drunkie in that crappy galles vs. goodyear after mikey blew up his ride :laugh:

emmo passing drunkie in the final 2 turns of the last lap of '89 500

dario and jpm tying for the championship

the unfortunate death that day :( the unfortunate death at 'seca, and the one at toronto '96 :(

[cart7]

Penske fails to grid a car for the '95 I500.

[Brickman]

"drunkie" winning his 2nd Indy 500 after emmo stupefyingly drove into the wall.


;)

[Brickman]

Surprise... shock... the loss of Greg Moore. :(


RIP

[Ankf00]

"drunkie" winning his 2nd Indy 500 after emmo stupefyingly drove into the wall.


;)

no need for the smily, I was a drunkie fan back then, mikey's blown engines were always my gain :laugh: until RA :saywhat:

man, emmo.... damn.

[scanman]

I'm surprised at the "Owners" "Drivers" and "Crew" who cashed in
their chips and made a shietload of money and then turned around
and bad mouthed the series that MADE THEM
I'm surprised that so many "FANS and MEDIA" have forgoten this...

[Ziggy]

The easy access of the Internet where you can talk racing everyday.

The Split
Mansell coming to America to race in CART
The quality of "off the shelf" cars
Leased Motors (yes, their a GOOD thing)
How many teams Hiro kept from going under
IRL stalwarts berating "ride buyers" when in truth they where the biggest car whores at Indy, EVER (Simon, Foyt, Hemelgarn)
Donald Davidson bad mouthing "forigners"
IRL fans bad mouthing forigners, then accepting them when its all they have left.
An outright attempt to kill open wheel road racing in America, buy the same guy who brought you the split.
The continued popularity of NASCAR
The gift of Alex Zanardi

Ziggy

[Chaos]

I'm surprised at the "Owners" "Drivers" and "Crew" who cashed in
their chips and made a shietload of money and then turned around
and bad mouthed the series that MADE THEM
I'm surprised that so many "FANS and MEDIA" have forgoten this...

I haven't...but everyone looks out for their own self interests.

[RTKar]

CART going public
Penske selling his tracks

[Wally]

Of recent,

Barry Greene walks away.........wtf?
Dixons continued yen induced career spiral.... :shakehead

[turn1]

Alessandro!

[Hot Rod Otis]

Mansell coming over and kicking butt, not on road courses like you would expect, but on ovals.

Honda's turn-around in 95 after their miserable showing in 94.

PacWest's 1997 season.

Team Penske's slide into mediocrity.

The whole Zanardi phenomenon.

Just how good Montoya was.

[racer2c]

Alessandro!

Zampedri had some promise but not exactly a surprise! ;) :gomer:

[JT265]

Zampedri had some promise but not exactly a surprise! ;) :gomer:


That's cold.

:D

[jonovision_man]

A new point system when nothing was wrong with the old one