Unhappy podium again?
Nothing new there. But dang...I had to leave my place midway
through the race and boy do I rue that.
And I rue more that I also missed the WTCC opening race at
Monza.
Did I say that Yvan Muller was the guy to watch this year
again?
The fella smashed Tarquini's previous record by a monster 1.5
seconds in qualifying yesterday in the 2012 Cruze chassis that was
undeveloped this year. He also won BOTH races (from 10th in race
2).
Though obvious from the past where the Cruze had dominated
touring car championships worldwide, I think it was also very
telling when Tom Chilton (a sorely underrated driver in my opinion)
followed team-mate Muller to the checkered flag. And the Cruzes
from other teams also hogged the top spots.
But Marc Basseng also showed he wasn't GT1 2012 champion for
nothing. He finished in very good positions despite his first WTCC
race. Not bad!
Wow, I wasn't watching that. But I stayed up for the IndyCar
opener in St Petersburg, FL. Quite a thriller with a few mishaps,
and this year's Firestone tyres are very easy to overcook. Every
safety car period they'd sweep up the marbles on the track but they
build up very quickly again.
Franchitti came a-cropper with the wall 3 turns after his first
pitstop, and Hinchcliff made the most of a mistake by Castroneves
to win. So nearly had a woman on a podium with them but de
Silvestro's tyres were over the cliff and she dropped to 6th in a
3-wide dash to the line.
