I agree 100% with both you and Rich. they should have to drive different vehicles on surfaces for which they were designed. I'd love to see them all in a Silver Crown car, in a dirt Sprint or on the strip. It's not a true Champion if all the events favor one series.

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on the radio this afternoon (here in england) , the news was that montoya`s contract has been terminated 8 races early , so he has raced his last F1 race

Naz... Here's a driver I'd like to see in NASCAR... Drizzt Do' Urden
Ain't he a driver from up north somewhere?

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Jerrod: while we're at this new board/fresh start stuff...

Here's something that always wound me up about the old Mater and something you might like to think about! You being the BOSS posted this thread which has nothing to do with the NHRA in the NHRA section of the board, mainly because you as much as anyone know that it well get read if you put it there.

Now what gets me is not that you would do that, but the fact that on many previous occasions threads more related to NHRA racing have been moved to the "general" section where nobody reads them. Obviously of concern to me would be threads about European racing which have been moved even though NHRA is sanctioned by and is affiliated to the FIA the world governing body that runs the European Championship. These threads often bear far more relation to the NHRA section of the board than anywhere else, and definitely more relation to the NHRA section than some of the off topic threads such as this one, which the moderators have left alone.

If the mods are going to move threads around, we should at least have some consistency and I would suggest a section that would lump together the sactioning bodies that are not already covered including the international ones (ie: FIA NDRS SHRA SPRC ANDRA etc etc), this may also help bridge the gap left by the defunct Dragster World board.

I will also post this somewhere more appropriate.

Thx for listening...Rant over

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Jacques Villenueve will be next. He said a couple of weeks ago that he did not consider NASCAR to be a step down from F1 and he would explore those options should Sauber-BMW (or any other F1 team) not take him up for next season.


*my first post on the "new" 'Mater is about F1 ... BRILLIANT!

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I wonder if this is a stepping stone for Montoya, eventually making his way over to a NHRA Top Fuel Dragster?

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The last I remember, Oakley was one of Montoya's marketing partners.

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Yep, here it is right here - a surprising turn of events, (to me atleast) I was looking forward to seeing him in the last few rounds of the 2006 F1 campaign. Obviously they won't say so, but I think McLaren is a little upset that JPM didn't inform then of his plans first. The write-up mentions a contract breach. Ever since this turn of events in his career, I've thought that he still isn't fully getting away from Mercedes and they mention a little about that at the end of the article.

Juan is (errr was) the Whit Bazemore of F1, he speaks his mind and they don't like that. I don't know if that's why I like him so much or not -- but I've always followed and enjoyed him, he seems to have a huge fanbase in the U.S. so I think this will be a good move for him if he can make the transition... he'll be embraced a lot more here.

Hey Karl, that guy's from way up North.

I hope they're still partners.

People go were the irons hot and right now it's NASCAR.
I hope Drag Racing gets to that status some day!

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No ya don't. With all the problems getting through the pits now , just think how many problems you would have with 50-60 thousand trying to get around.