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Title: Finally, some good news---Sarah Fisher gets IRL deal to drive at Kentucky
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URL Source: http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/news/story?seriesId=1&id=2538622
Published: Aug 7, 2006
Author: Associated Press
Post Date: 2006-08-08 20:29:13 by Rube Goldberg
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Views: 219
Comments: 7
Sarah Fisher gets IRL deal to drive at Kentucky Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS -- Sarah Fisher, the first woman to win the pole in a major auto racing series, will make her first IndyCar start since 2004 at the Kentucky Speedway. Dreyer & Reinbold Racing hired Fisher on Thursday in a one-race deal for the Indy 300 on Aug. 13 that she hopes will lead to a full-time ride in the Indy Racing League. "It has been some time and there is a lot of catching up to do," she said. "Hopefully it will be like riding a bike, but I am sure that there will be challenges we will have to figure out how to hurdle. "I want to be there at the end and racing as hard as I did before, and that in itself will achieve results," she said. The 25-year-old Fisher won the pole at Kentucky in 2002 and still holds the track record in qualifying at 221.390 mph. Rahal Letterman's Danica Patrick became the second woman to win a pole, with three last season, but Fisher's second place at Homestead-Miami in 2001 is still the best finish by a woman in Indy racing. Patrick is the only other woman currently driving in the IRL's top series. Katherine Legge is a rookie this season in the rival Champ Car series. "I'm here to race against everyone," said Fisher, who was voted three times by fans as the most popular driver in the IRL. "I'm here to do the best that I can and ultimately get back to the level of IndyCars that put me up front. "Danica and I are two individuals out there competing in a man's world, whether it is in stock cars or IndyCars," she said. "I don't look at her any differently then all the other drivers. We are different people who want to achieve the same result." Fisher's only IRL race in 2004 was in the Indianapolis 500, where her 21st-place finish was her best in five starts at the Speedway. She lost her ride with Walker Racing after that; drove in the NASCAR Grand National West series last year, with four top-10 finishes; and had no luck finding a job this season until the deal with Dreyer & Reinbold developed. "We believe that it is a very good track for her and with the momentum our team has been building, a good result is what we are looking forward to," said team co-owner Dennis Reinbold. Fisher also drove for the Indianapolis-based team in 2002 and 2003. She will be the fourth driver for Dreyer & Reinbold this season, following former winners Buddy Lazier and Al Unser Jr. as well as Ryan Briscoe, who is scheduled to drive the final road course of the season at Sonoma, Calif., on Aug. 27, leaving the season's final race at Chicago next month still open for a possible ride for Fisher. "I am looking at all opportunities," she said. "A 2007 option would be awesome in IndyCars. I still have opportunities in the stock car world. I want to drive a good race car and there is still interest from teams that I have driven for in the past." Fisher has 48 IndyCar career starts and won $2.3 million.
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#1. To: Rube Goldberg (#0)
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My son talked me into seeing Talladega Nights over the weekend. That's enough car racing for me for another 20 years.
"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers "Freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in ...into an unbearable hell and a choking life." That movie is a spoof of NASCAR. I'm talking about serious motorsports.
Where did you get them pics? Sarah cleaned up real good. I hope she kicks some Danica ass.
No! Say it isn't so!
"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers NASCAR as opposed to SERIOUS motorsports. NASCAR is the WWF of motorsports.
But Jean Girard, the homosexual french driver (played by Sacha Baron Cohen) was a Formula One driver! His pronunciation of Formula One was especially funny. You can't say Formula One is not a SERIOUS motorsport! In fact a Formula One sportsfan, who travels long distances to watch, also saw this stupid NASCAR racing movie last weekend. So, I know I'm in SERIOUS motorsport company. Just look at his jacket it says Perrier!
"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers
#2. To: jethro tull, loner, BABE ALERT, 4UM MEN, SAM HOUSTON, EOGHAN, LODWICK (#0)
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
-OBL
"Prohibition...goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes at the very principles upon which our govt was founded."
- Lincoln
All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.
--William Kingdon Clifford
#3. To: robin (#1)
#4. To: All (#3)
#5. To: Rube Goldberg (#3)
That movie is a spoof of NASCAR.
#6. To: robin (#5)
#7. To: Rube Goldberg (#6)
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