Thursday, June 23, 2011
Mario Andretti has clearly had one of the greatest careers of any race car driver. He raced in Indycar, Nascar, and F1, he's won the Indy 500, the Daytona 500, and the F1 world championship. Andretti might have won only won Indy 500 and his Nascar career was brief but he did have an outstanding career.
When Jamie Mcmurray started his cup career back in the fall of 2002, he was a unknown driver from the Nationwide series but he's come a long way since then wining two of the top events in Nascar the Daytona 500 and the Brickyard 400 and both with the start where started Earnhardt Ganassi. Not bad for someone who won in only his second start.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Jeff Gordon will without a doubt go down as one of the greatest Nascar drivers of all time. With 84 wins, Gordon has tied legends with Cale Yarborough, Bobby Allison, and Darrell Waltrip on the all time wins list. Sure he hasn't won a championship in over to years but Jeff Gordon has been showing that isn't ready for retirement.
If Penske dominated the Indy 500 during the 80s, the 1988 Indy 500 clearly defined, Penske cars swept the front row at Indy and Rick Mears went on to win his 3rd victory in the 500. Mears Penske had the dominant team for most of the 80s with four wins but Mears win in 1988 put that dominance at its height.
Sebastian Vettel has won all but won race this year showing that he is going to defend his championship this year. Vettel has been breaking records since he came into F1 at the age of 1999 and he's ready to defend it and with him being the pole master Vettel isn't ready to give up with without a fight.
Bobby Allison drove for numerous team during his racing career that included Junior Johnson, Bud Moore, DieGard, Penske and the Stavola Brothers. Allison won his first Daytona 500 with Bud Moore and his only championship with DieGuard, driving for 14 different teams must have made Allison one of the greatest Nascar drivers of all time.
Sure Dario Franchitti and Will Power are fighting for the championship but Alex Taglani has clearly been the surprise of the season. Taglani took the pole for the centenial of the Indy 500 and followed it with a pole at Texas. If Taglani wants to show himself as a contender he nows he going to have to get past Penske and Ganassi.
Even if Angelina Jolie is really insane Brad Pitt would defiantly file for divorce if the two do get married. Look with six children, the reason that Angie has been extending her relationship with Brad is because she doesn't want a custudy battle if they do break up meaning that Angie doesn't want to lose her children.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
The Wood Brothers saw many great drivers such as Tiny Lund who won the race in 1963 and AJ Foyt but David Pearson was perhaps the greatest ever to drive for the Wood Brothers. The Silver Fox first joined the Wood Brothers in 1972 and won one of the most memorable Daytona 500s when slamed into Richard Petty on the last lap and then drove to the win. Now Trevor Bayne has picked up where Pearson left off by becoming the youngest winner of the 500.
The Unser family is perhaps the greatest dynasty ever to race at Indy, Bobby won there three times including the controversial 1981 race when he won the race and Mario Andretti was declared the winner. Al Sr. has four wins including back to back wins in 1970 and 1971 and Al Jr has two including the close finish in 1992 with Scott Goodyear and another in 1994.
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