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Duno showed some flashes of skill in Daytona Prototypes, but in IndyCars she's been nothing more than a rolling chicane. In fact, "rolling chicane" is an overly generous description. At most events her qualifying times are slower than half of the Indy Lights field. I believe she was only a second faster than the Indy Lights polesitter at last week's event in Alabama.
It's lack of talent. She didn't start racing until she was in her 20s and has very little raw talent - what abilities she has are mostly learned skill, which is usually not enough on it's own. Her only victories were a single win in the Ferrari Challenge and a Panoz GT Series championship. Those cars are all significantly slower than IndyCars, and even Daytona Prototypes. DPs are pretty much the ceiling of Duno's capabilities, and even then her outright skill is questionable. All of her DP victories came with Andy Wallace(regarded as one of the best sportscar drivers in the world) as her co-driver, and she always short-stinted the race. Her most indicative DP result was a 2nd place at the 2007 24 Hours of Daytona, where there's telemtry that shows a nighttime stint where she outran Juan Pablo Montoya in terms of lap times.
Oh - she does have a few wins in ALMS competition from the LMP675 days. So open-cockpits aren't the problem. They weren't with Andy Wallace co-driving, but she was still with drivers of far higher experience and talent, and at a time when the lesser of the two LMP class cars had more than a few issues with reliability.
All he did was complain in Formula 1 even though he was in two top tier teams. Not to mention he would pressure teammates into making huge mistakes and ultimately crashed himself and teammate Kimi Räikkönen out in the 2006 US Grand Prix, effectively ending his F1 career. As good as he was, he was a big time problem, so I'm not at all surprised he's unlucky.
He's lost out on a chance for victory in virtually every race this year due to equipment failure or getting caught up in someone else's wrecks.
But when it comes to his complaints during his F1 days, as far as I'm concerned McLaren was screwing him over so the complaints about them I find rather valid. And Frank Williams doesn't exactly have a reputation as the nicest team owner in the F1 paddock, either.
In any case, I prefer IRL to F1 due primarily to close(well, closER) racing, and being the only top-tier series to make ovals CONSISTENTLY exciting(biggest problem with ovals: You either get one of the best races ever, or one of the worst. No middle ground). Hopefully they can open up the specs a bit come 2012.
But when it comes to his complaints during his F1 days, as far as I'm concerned McLaren was screwing him over so the complaints about them I find rather valid. And Frank Williams doesn't exactly have a reputation as the nicest team owner in the F1 paddock, either.
In any case, I prefer IRL to F1 due primarily to close(well, closER) racing, and being the only top-tier series to make ovals CONSISTENTLY exciting(biggest problem with ovals: You either get one of the best races ever, or one of the worst. No middle ground). Hopefully they can open up the specs a bit come 2012.
Williams is a bit of a grumpy guy, but McLaren has a good history of treating teammates as equally as possible. This goes as far back as the '88 and '89 seasons when Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna were teammates, both the top drivers of their era. In 2005 JPM had problems adapting to the dog of a car McLaren had come up with and in 2006 he was as good as if not better than Räikkönen at times but a few mechanical failures occurred and then there was that little crash he instigated at the 2006 US Grand Prix and that was that for him. Although don't get me wrong, he was one of the better drivers of the decade in Formula 1 and I remember him in his CART days when he was a beast!
McLaren has had more accusations of favoritism made against them by seemingly poor-performing drivers than any other team in modern F1 history, and it seems to have begun AFTER the Senna/Prost days. And since the only people countering those claims are the team and the driver that did well...
"Things that make you go hmm...."
"Things that make you go hmm...."
Forgot to say: Ovals are OK. Fun to watch on TV, but having been to a few NASCAR races at California Speedway it's incredibly drab to see in person. I never got to see CART when they were pushing 240mph, that must've been quite a sight. I think it would do F1 some good to maybe try testing on an oval one day and see how they do, it'd be interesting to say the least.
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