► Tony Kanaan goes on PTI tonight to discuss the old timey, down-home fun of exploding into a ball of fire.
► Danica Patrick Tweets like a Rodgers & Hammerstein number: “I love love love cooking!” All it’s missing is her high-stepping in a slightly crouched over pose while snapping her fingers in rhythm.
► The Willy T. Ribbs Report is forthcoming. As soon as I go home. And drink a jar of Weed-B-Gone. And write it.
► I will be out of the blogging business this weekend. It’s not important why this is (and certainly not related to a bogus arson charge stemming from the Santa Barbara forest fires last summer). The point being, if anyone wants to fill in with a recap while I’m gone, send me an email and make your case. You TOO can experience the joys of everyone hating you!!! NOW WITH 25% MORE VENOM!!! HOORAY!!!
By Carrie, July 28, 2009 @ 4:07 pm
I had to unfollow Danica. Her cute tweets were messing with my irrational dislike of her.
By pressdog, July 28, 2009 @ 5:03 pm
Let’s not overlook the fact that she’s cooking with her “bff” in Illinois … with wine. Guessing she’s not talking about Sarah Fisher or Milka Duno.
By pressdog, July 28, 2009 @ 5:05 pm
Wait a second … Arute is going to be out of action for this weekend’s race as well … cage match or intimate getaway?
By Coz, July 28, 2009 @ 5:24 pm
Back Home Again this weekend for the 400. Time for a new home base, the Motel 6 has run it’s course. Also, we didn’t see last year’s Miss Inglehoffer at the 6. But I had a great Gyros in West Lafayette on the way back to Chicago.
By Roy Hobbson, July 28, 2009 @ 7:14 pm
If someone could kindly explain what push-to-pass is, I can tell you that I won’t not appreciate it.
By P Daddy, July 28, 2009 @ 7:32 pm
it’s what you do on the basketball court
By Boo Boo, July 28, 2009 @ 10:31 pm
It’s a button-controlled, time-limited horsepower boost that’s supposed to spice up the action on track. It was used in Champ Car, Formula Palmer Audi, and now (in a very limited way) in Indy Car.
The article on indycar.com said that Champ Car had 100 HP boost, but I’m pretty sure I read somewhere else that it was 50. Formula Palmer Audi is 50. The boost for Indy Car is 5 HP. They try to spin it as 5 – 20, but it’s really just 5 HP over peak HP. That might be enough to mean something on a big oval, but it means diddly-squat on a road or street course.
Basically, there’s already a button (brace yourselves knob haters) on the steering wheel that lets you go “full rich” with a simply button press, instead of fiddling with The Knob. You do that when you need full power to make a pass, but don’t want to change your fuel setting. All Honda has done is sort of enhanced the functionality of that button by tweaking the tuning (spark advance, whatever) whenever the button is pressed. They also have added parameters that control how many times it can be pressed, how long the boost lasts, and how much time must elapse before it can be pressed again.
By pressdog, July 29, 2009 @ 5:32 pm
Pretty sure Champ Car was 50 hp, although I think the hp or the number of seconds of boost they got varried from race to race. Also, Champ Car drivers only got a certain amount of Push to Pass time, say 60 seconds used in 6-second intervals, for the entire race, so their was strategy for using or conserving it. 5 hp is indeed paltry, but at this point we’ll take anything we can get. And I think they should rip the fuel knobs OUT and force drivers to save fuel the old fashioned way (with their right foot). Don’t worry, though, at this race the new car speck will be a reality in 2014, 2015 at the latest, at which time the league will have the same number of viewers as the Pagoda.
By pressdog, July 29, 2009 @ 5:32 pm
“at this pace” I meant.
By Roy Hobbson, July 29, 2009 @ 11:10 pm
The recapping intern position has been filled. Cease with your heartfelt pleas that you’ve thought about drafting and haven’t been sending in, for they are now moot.