And just like that two promising drivers’ seasons go down the tubes. I was so excited about both of them. Bourdais was finally going to have a full season under his belt so we could see what he could actually do. And I’ve been excited about Katherine coming to the series for over a year, and now it’s not even June and she’s out of a full-time ride. Both will now run partial schedules with the same team, though they will each run their own numbers and sponsors.

Not to mention, I thought with the team moving over to Chevy, it was even more promising after seeing all the issues Lotus was having. So almost immediately after the best news the team has had this season, it turns to the worst news.

Very disappointing.

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I was telling him as he was tailing Dario down the frontstretch to not make that move until the backstretch, it was too early going into turn one, Dario would have had him for sure heading to the checkered. But in classic Sato fashion, he gets impatient and dives the car in where it doesn’t belong.

If it wasn’t going to be TK, I wanted it to be Taku, but he just doesn’t have the maturity yet. If he matures he will be a Indy 500 and a IndyCar Champion some day, he’s just not there yet, today was proof.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy with Dario winning, it’s really cool seeing one of Dan Wheldon’s best friends win it, and you gotta love seeing a new name being added to an elite list, but Taku was just so close.

Time for the Grand Prix of Monaco. I finally get (have) to watch an F1 grand prix live.

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He’s turning 70 this weekend (he looks damn good for 70 in my opinion) and wants to spend his time attending more races as well as continue writing for Speedway Illustrated.

I think I speak for everyone who has ever watched NASCAR on Fox coverage, as well as his days with ESPN, CBS, TBS, and TNN when I say he will be greatly missed. Time for Dick to sit back and enjoy time off, he deserves it.

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I just have to say, I really enjoyed this year’s All-Star Race, despite me coming up with my own format last week, I think this one might be a winner. The fact that the winner of each segment essentially starts up front in the last segment was a brilliant idea. It encouraged a lot of wacky strategy that made it so you had a lot more contending cars than usual. Not to mention, with this format, you’re all but guaranteed to have a different segment winner every time since once you win one segment, you cruise in the back. If your driver has, at best, a top 5 or even a top 10 car, you can see them battling for the lead by the 4th segment, they might not win the whole thing, but at least you have a segment where they were contending, better than not at all. And then, the last segment, you really do get to see the best of the best battling it out, because not only are the four segment winners up front, but they’ve also had time to work on their cars and get them dialed in for that last segment. I think it gives fans a really good show. I’m a fan.

There was some worry in the weeks leading up to this month, but there will be 33 starters for the Greatest Spectacle in Racing!