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The Wiz

Original Poster:

5,875 posts

268 months

Sunday 29th May 2005
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On Sky now people!!!!!

Eric Mc

122,699 posts

271 months

Monday 30th May 2005
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And a British winner for the first time in 39 years.

Did anybody notice?

FourWheelDrift

89,414 posts

290 months

Monday 30th May 2005
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Eric Mc said:

Did anybody notice?


Yes.

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Eric Mc

122,699 posts

271 months

Tuesday 31st May 2005
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I was thinking beyond the narrow world opf Pistonheads.

When Clark won in 1965, it was national news and made FRONT page newspaper headlines.

williamp

19,490 posts

279 months

Tuesday 31st May 2005
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Did anyone notice? Well the times mentioned it on Mondyay- 2 small columns, no photos, below an article about cross-country running.

Still, there's always football...

superfox2000

62 posts

233 months

Tuesday 31st May 2005
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I was there in the South West stand! I met loads of Brits who were cheering for DW. However Danica drove a great race. Her best race since finishing 2nd in the FF festival at Brands.

Trackside

1,777 posts

239 months

Tuesday 31st May 2005
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williamp said:
Did anyone notice? Well the times mentioned it on Mondyay- 2 small columns, no photos, below an article about cross-country running.

Still, there's always football...


Full page in the sports section of the Daily Mail today and there will no doubt be plenty of coverage in our local rag (he comes from Emberton which is about 10-15 minutes from where I live). Congrats to Dan!

foreignfrank

45 posts

232 months

Saturday 4th June 2005
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It is on ESPN Classic and is billed as an instant classic! Great race! Only wish I went this year.

LongQ

13,864 posts

239 months

Saturday 4th June 2005
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Saw the highlights program on TV in the small hours a couple of days ago.

Dreadful coverage.

Very poor picture quality was bad enough but they kept cutting huge chunks out of the race with no explanation.

Danica Patrick had a couple of incidents during the race? You wouldn't know from the coverage until the commentators mentioned it as the race finished under a yellow.

The commentary was pretty awful as well. Made James Allen sound like a genius.

Still, it looked like a cracking race.

robsinfield

144 posts

248 months

Sunday 5th June 2005
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I didn't like the sour grapes coming from some of the male racers, who, unable to find it in themselves to say anything positive about Danica Patrick’s run to fourth in the 500, could only bitch. Miserable pair Tony Kanaan and Robby Gordon could only moan about the weight advantage of the petite Miss Patrick. Kanaan whinged that her weight advantage was equal to about 10 gallons of fuel, while Robby Gordon said that he would not race against her until the IRL ‘do something about this advantage’. Well, may I politely suggest that Mr Kanaan perhaps sheds a few pounds and that Gordon should maybe just stick around with his redkneck NASCAR buddies, They won't have no God damn woman racer there boy..

Rob

PS: Anyway - good racer or not, weight advantage or not, she's a damn sight easier on the eye than Jacques Villeneuve.....

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