KahneFan Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 I for one would love to see Sarah Fisher move up to Busch or cup, or see Danica move over to Cup. Does anyone else think we'll see either of these happen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legacy47 Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 i think Rahal has a pretty hefty contract with Danica, I'm not sure about Sarah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tps22 Posted August 9, 2005 Report Share Posted August 9, 2005 i believe sarah is under some sort of contract with richard childress racing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tqj3 Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 Rahal does have a two- or three-year contract with Danica, and Sarah Fisher should be here on October 1 as she is running an (underfunded) car for Bill McAnally Racing in the NASCAR Grand National Division West Series. Figure Sarah to stay with NASCAR if she does well enough (and if former sports car racer Allison Duncan, also in the Richard Childress program, right now at the Stockton 99 Speedway late model level, doesn't do better than Sarah). Sarah would love to have had a car under her in the IRL that Danica has, but was always in second-rate equipment at best. The smart money is still on Erin Crocker to be the first breakout woman driver in NASCAR, but the factories have decided to fight to be the first to put a woman driver in Nextel Cup victory lane, so the next few years should be interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tqj3 Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 Check this site for a recent (before last weekend's Brickyard race) on women drivers, including Childress' plans for Fisher and Duncan. You may have to register, but it's free. www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/sports/12267473.ht Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Extreme12 Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 Sorry, Sarah is not with an "underfunded" team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tqj3 Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 Extreme12- Sorry, but she is. BMR is underfunded, by their own admission, for this season with Sarah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsrsfan Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 99% of racers say they are underfunded. In reality, it is 100%, because you never have everything that you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rookie49 Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 From what I've seen in articles and news stories Sarah just hasn't been doing well adapting to stock cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 That Bill Mcnally team may be underfunded in his words but compared to the other teams they are not. Take a look at what that team has done in the West Series over the last several years... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UMSCHEIDRaceServices Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 Hey TQ, not usre if you know this or not but Extreme12 is a former employee with that team he still flys out to Cali and works with them from time to time. I too have been out there and seen the equipment between the 3 teams BMR is putting on the track, she is in better equipment than most out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tqj3 Posted August 10, 2005 Report Share Posted August 10, 2005 I'm not disputing Sarah has better equipment than most teams out there, but even within the team, all the cars (and effort) aren't necessarily equal. She's carrying NAPA sponsorship, and NAPA is a big deal in West Series racing, but the money is usually arranged in some way through Bill McAnally. What that says is that they didn't get full sponsorship for Sarah for the West Series. Why she can't get fully funded, and couldn't get funded well in the IRL even though she was the most popular IRL driver for some three years in a row, is kind of a mystery. Maybe sponsors are worried about having a female driver get hurt in their car. Maybe the boys who make the major sponsor decisions are still acting like boys. The only really well-funded female in racing is Danica Patrick, and she's not running a stock car. As I've said, Sarah would love to have had the equipment Danica has. As for her adapting to stock cars, she's never run a car that weighed over a thousand pounds or so, and she's having to learn how to handle a, what, 3,500-pound stock car? She may not be as talented as Patrick, or as Erin Crocker, but she's been running better nearly every race. Giving her a season to get used to the kind of car the rest of the field has been running for years seems only fair. Danica may not be alone for long, either. Katherine Legge, who won at Long Beach in the Toyota Atlantic series, notched another win at Edmonton. And remember, Katherine had to beg for the ride; and Danica never won in two years in Toyota Atlantic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Extreme12 Posted August 11, 2005 Report Share Posted August 11, 2005 Yea I guess having 2004 RCR busch cars just arent good enough huh? Underfunded HAHA!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tqj3 Posted August 11, 2005 Report Share Posted August 11, 2005 Slick, BMR may be one of the best, if not the best, funded teams in the West Series, but if you think that means all the drivers are equally funded and supplied with equal equipment and support, you are in for some sad surprises in life. As JFK said, "Life is unfair." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REBELRACER Posted August 11, 2005 Report Share Posted August 11, 2005 all the drivers are equally funded and supplied with equal equipment and support yeah look at terry labonte when he was with hendrick..........i am pretty sure he wasnt getting the same quality equipment that johnson and gordon were getting............same with dale jr and mikey...........and with the swap of everything at dei, it is really obvious now............mikey was getting junk, and now jr is getting junk..............i think roush is the best example of a team with one common goal.........well it was until this whole mcmurray and kurt busch deal............ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tqj3 Posted August 11, 2005 Report Share Posted August 11, 2005 RebelRacer- I think Roush Racing is a team with a common goal, but the driver is seen simply as an interchangeable part; unplug one, plug in another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Budman Posted August 11, 2005 Report Share Posted August 11, 2005 TQ, That concept certainly isn't unique to racing. That's now the "way of the world", for better or for worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge Posted August 12, 2005 Report Share Posted August 12, 2005 tqj3, Katherine Legge, who won at Long Beach in the Toyota Atlantic series, notched another win at Edmonton. Give her another one, she won in San Jose. I have watched all the Atlantic series races for the last couple of years. Legge is pretty good. Only she seems to have a Paul Tracy-esk style. Some of her passes this year were, using British slang, argy bargy. I just don't know how well the American public would take to her though. She isn't a classic beauty, and she has a funny accent. I also don't think she would ever be a canidate for NASCAR. But I would expect her to move up to CART before too long. That group needs all the publicity it can get. And putting a good female driver in good equipment should create plenty of buzz in the open wheel world. Bill "Sarge" Masom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProTree Posted August 12, 2005 Report Share Posted August 12, 2005 hey sarge-speaking of paul tracy-thought i read the other day that he was going to run some busch races-something about he had done about all he could do in the series he's in and wanted to get a ride in cup- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REBELRACER Posted August 12, 2005 Report Share Posted August 12, 2005 he was testing at michigan with rcr and they are talking about running him in the 33 car for the michigan race..........he is a good driver and has a personality, so he will be a good team mate to kevin harvick.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tqj3 Posted August 12, 2005 Report Share Posted August 12, 2005 Bill- That's the way racers race worldwide, and it's one reason we aren't competitive in that venue. One driver told me a number of the passes made in F3 are on the last lap, in the grass, and between the last turn and the start-finish line. (Danica Patrick got aced out of a win at the Brands Hatch Formula Ford Festival by a last lap banzai pass.) If we raced that way, the sanctioning bodies, particularly the SCCA, would either have a hissy fit or go into cardiac arrest (which wouldn't be such a bad thing). RebelRacer- I agree that Tracy would make a good teammate for Harvick. They're both idiots, and would probably take each other out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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