2013 IZOD IndyCar Series news | Montoya's back!

Vassago · PostPosted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 10:24 am

Gaara wrote:

Some good news however, Simona de Silvestro is testing for KV Racing on Monday.

Simona will be TK's teammate next year :thumbsup:

Sucks for HVM though as Nuclear Energy goes with her too.

Ian-S · PostPosted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 12:09 pm

Shane wrote:

Zak Brown is the owner of United Autosport (Races in Europe) and has extremely strong ties to F1s very own Bernie.

Ah thanks, that figures, I like this from Miller:

Robin Miller wrote:

Nobody in their right mind would take this thankless job with all the whiny car owners, family politics, back stabbers and second-guessing experts.

IndyCar truly doesn’t deserve somebody with Bernard’s pedigree and I almost hope the board offers to make things right with him and voice their 100 percent support.

Then I hope he tells them to $&%@ off and quits.

Gabriel · PostPosted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 6:07 pm

Vassago wrote:

Gaara wrote:

Some good news however, Simona de Silvestro is testing for KV Racing on Monday.

Simona will be TK's teammate next year :thumbsup:

Sucks for HVM though as Nuclear Energy goes with her too.

I'm thinking more of a merge between the KV and HVM programs.

Alonsomania · PostPosted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 7:16 pm

Racefan4ever wrote:

Bob Jenkins's wife Pam passed away this evening after her battle with Cancer

Sad thing is, Bobs brother died two weeks earlier. :cry:

Juihi · PostPosted: Sat Oct 27, 2012 10:56 pm

So speaking to my Italian friend, he said Indycar is pretty popular in Italy which I found quite surprising, Sky Sports cover it and promote it pretty well over there.

iks · PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 2:36 am

Well if Zanardi races in the Indy 500 next year I don't see why he couldn't race at Monza. That'd be awesome.

Juihi · PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 5:53 am

Apparently Coloni mght be joining the series as well, which reinforces the Italian connection

Vassago · PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 9:47 am

Gabriel wrote:

I'm thinking more of a merge between the KV and HVM programs.

Not really per Vasser himself:

http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/article/ ... r-program/

Quote:

Vasser told SPEED.com on Friday, KV is close to announcing a second program that has all of the elements it was looking for, but without the involvement of another team.

"There's no KV, HVM merger whatsoever,” he said. “I can tell you that two cars is what’s likely to happen. I can’t say who it is, but you’ll see on Monday when we run two cars on the track at Barber.”

Chris D · PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 11:17 pm

Randy Bernard has been officially fired.

http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/article/ ... d-meeting/

Quote:

An emergency meeting by the members of the Hulman & Co. board was convened on Sunday to weigh the fate of IndyCar Series CEO Randy Bernard, who was ultimately fired from the position, but is being kept on in a token advisory role.

Gaara · PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 11:18 pm

Randy's stood down as CEO, will stay on as an advisor.

Tommy Vercetti · PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 11:19 pm

Cheeveer · PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 11:22 pm

Are they planning on replacing him with someone better?

It's like they are holding their breath just to see what happens if it's a way to kill themselves.

Gaara · PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 11:22 pm

Quote:

Belskus about fan reaction to this: "It's an amicable parting. Randy believes it's in his best interest, and we agree with him."

Considering the amount of shit flung at him, I can understand why he'd say it's in his best interest.

RtN · PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 11:24 pm

What the bollocks?

How do you justify that?

Juihi · PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 11:43 pm

Dammit, Indycar really looked like it was having some stability there for a while

kals · PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 11:46 pm

Gaara wrote:

Quote:

Belskus about fan reaction to this: "It's an amicable parting. Randy believes it's in his best interest, and we agree with him."

Considering the amount of shit flung at him, I can understand why he'd say it's in his best interest.

Yes. Now he can go work for a company and in a position where he's actually appreciated for the things he does.

RtN · PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 11:49 pm

kals wrote:

Gaara wrote:

Quote:

Belskus about fan reaction to this: "It's an amicable parting. Randy believes it's in his best interest, and we agree with him."

Considering the amount of shit flung at him, I can understand why he'd say it's in his best interest.

Yes. Now he can go work for a company and in a position where he's actually appreciated for the things he does.

There was a report in the Times on Friday that CVC are now actively scouting for Bernie's replacement...

westracing01 · PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 11:58 pm

Glad I didn't buy Pocono tickets yet. Fuck this series. In 3 years he's pulled Indycar from craptastic to possibly the best racing week in and week out in North America and the short sighted nitwits in Indianapolis decide to fire him because he's laying down law that hasn't been seen in open wheel racing since, well... Ever.

I can't wait for Tony George to be named CEO of Indycar. He'll be the puppet run by the teams that they've always wanted. Can't believe a word coming from the Board, so it would be of no surprise to me that the "ultimatum" they gave him was just smoke to give him the position to resign only to be named the new CEO, free and clear of any conflict of interest.

codename_47 · PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 12:32 am

Tony "likes to come in and ruin the hard work of others" George

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kals · PostPosted: Mon Oct 29, 2012 12:49 am

codename_47 wrote:

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