A rather weak provided the IRL race from California that Versus further mutilated.
The IRL-purist fans breathe. Finally, the Circuit classes are over and the Oval until the end of the season on the program. If you look at the race in Sonoma has seen, can only be haters on the racetrack right. There was little overtaking, forward to doing long time and nothing ever surprises were nil. The only one who was probably the right was Will Power, who could almost safely reap another victory. But even with Ganassi was not unhappy because they could not keep up with the runners-up the damage is relatively low. Annoyed, but not just the boring race, but also the Versus channel.
Of course, because once the "Cinderella" story of Will Power. The Americans love so something like that, accordingly, hardly an hour passed, no mention of, was that power exactly where and exactly one year ago had a severe accident in which two vertebrae broke. And somehow we are also glad that there are such stories in racing. That a team's third driver is faithful, even when experts are skeptical and sponsors. The victory earned by him in Sonoma is so solely on the ground already.
He was, however, can not beat this weekend as well. Except for a tiny wobbles in qualifying, when he reached the pole until the last second group, power was unbeatable. Neither the restart, still in the race, he made himself an uncertainty. He even had time to spare at the beginning of his stint tires. First he held the competition at 1.5 second intervals, which then received as the tires, he laid low and increased its lead to as desired. Neither his teammates nor the Ganassi drivers were able to compromise power.
Surprisingly, however, how hard did the Penske drivers on the weekend. Helio Castroneves, but makes for some weeks a slightly lackluster impression, Ryan Briscoe fought, tried it with an "out-of-sequence" strategy, but Cautions fell so badly that he ended up, like everyone else, but then the same window was on the road.
So the race was so not even the power that it ends up at a petrol could be with just what the matter was not better. Here, the start was very spectacular because Bertrand Baguette and Dan Wheldon in the park died. Wheldon paid the touch of a rollover that occurred dangerously close to the pit wall. The matter "open cockpit" and "narrow pit wall" you do not want to see really. Wheldon was able to get out but unharmed. In the course of the race Simona Tues Silvestro and Marco Andretti took care of the single Scandals from a sporting point of view. The Swiss put on with the KV team. First, she steered Mario Moraes at the chicane right off into the rough, a couple of laps later it was EJ Viso, the di Silvestro admitted with an almost identical maneuver in Turn 2 of the way. Viso still managed to jostle the feat, Mutoh and baguettes, which pretty Paul Tracy to the sentence: "The team has hit kv everything but the helicopter today" inspired .
Andretti had, as the whole team, once again a Maues weekend. Danica Patrick and racing circuits are indeed more like fire and water and beat Marco Andretti had the quality. In between times also tried it with a slightly different strategy, but Marco did a better result even destroyed, because he just rammed JR Hildebrand, later had a contact with EJ Viso. At the end he was only 12 Ryan Hunter-Reay was in the meantime between the "death star" teams, but could make nothing. Tony Kanaan drove unremarkable, but before RHR was in 7th place after all the best Andretti-pilot. Best "non-Penske, Ganassi not" pilot was Justin Wilson who crossed the finish in 6th place.
Because the race director Milka Duno had not even taken out of the race, caused the same then, in gratitude for a final safety car a few laps to go. So there was a nice shootout, which went off at turn 7. Power could not be solved by Scott Dixon, the Penske-man repeatedly hung in the centimeter gap in the neck. Finally, the race was so genuine top fight on had to give it that long. It would have been a nice compensation, but decided Versus the middle of the battle, and four laps to go again take a commercial break. A clearer "Fuck you" in the direction of the fans can not make me think.
In fact, one just before the "white flag" back from the interruption. Nothing was happening, but if you do not even three minutes sees a split screen, the voltage is way off course. Thank you, Versus.
In the championship, it looks more closely out for power. Judging by his previous results on the ovals, it is very, very difficult for him to get the title.
First Will Power 514
Second Dario Franchitti 455 -59
Third Scott Dixon 419 -95
4th Ryan Briscoe 384 -130
5th Helio Castroneves 370 -144
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Don, I think we just have not seen a split screen, the commentary said the spokesman Versus namely, that you will not miss anything, because it sends Side by Side. TSN has unfortunately not made, although it had the opportunity and have even done it before this season. Of course does not excuse the idea just before closing again to turn in the advertising, split screen or not.