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Post by indycals on Mar 15, 2010 16:24:15 GMT -5
Will Power, Felipe Massa and Vitor Meira all made their first starts yesterday after season ending injuries...
and they finished 1st, 2nd and 3rd in their respective races!
Massa and Vitor were particularly heartening - I thought Massa's injuries were career ending, and I didn't expect Foyt to wait for Vitor to come back.
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Post by Calvin on Mar 15, 2010 16:50:50 GMT -5
Yeah, your right.....didn't realize that one.
I wonder if its psychological? Come back drivers seem to always go fast on there debut return.
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Post by indy on Mar 15, 2010 17:04:44 GMT -5
I think it is that they are truly motivated in ways other drivers may not be at that point in the season. Sure they got some breaks but they all drove hard and fast which capped off strong weekends!
Jordan
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Post by Patrick on Mar 15, 2010 17:59:04 GMT -5
Felipe's case in point is the greatest come back driver there ever was...Niki Lauda. He was at the last rites point and came back to be World F1 Champion again!
Jordan is right they have something that other drivers don't. And it's not to prove themselves because they already have!
My admiration and congrats to them all!
Patrick
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2010 19:42:34 GMT -5
Other good moments to remember were Kenny Brack coming back to replace Buddy Rice at Indy in '05 to be the fastest in the field (although w/o good results) & when Alex Zanardi came back to finish his 13 laps or so in Germany. I also always liked how Rick Mears could get his feet destroyed & come back to win.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2010 20:17:11 GMT -5
Was nice to see Massa on podium and all.Also nice to see Power and Vitor. At the Indy 500 last year, I was in the infield at the corner right were Vitor had his accident. :x
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Post by Calvin on Mar 15, 2010 20:33:40 GMT -5
I also always liked how Rick Mears could get his feet destroyed & come back to win. Last laps of the Pocono 500... |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2010 20:41:01 GMT -5
Niki Lauda was amazing! So was Rick Mears and Kenny Brack, how about Buddy Lazier?.....
But, what about Super Tex, A.J. Foyt who broke his back in a stock car race at Riverside in February to comeback and sit on the pole at Indianapolis in May of 65? Or basically having his feet torn off at Elkhart Lake of one year, to put his car in the middle of the front row at Indy he very next year....25 years later!
Race car drives have always been tough breed. It goes back to Tazio Nuvolari driving with a white towel in his mouth, soak first in water then as the race went on, to be soaked in his own blood he was vomiting from allergic reaction to the exhaust fumes he was breathing in from the Alfa Romero he was driving. Wilbur Shaw baking his foot by holding it against the hot transmission casing of his own built "Pay Car" to win his first Indy 500...Shaw had second degree burns and the track doctor, who had to cut the shoe off Shaw's foot, taking some of the skin whit it, upon examining Shaw's foot while smoking his cigar, drop hot ash onto the open wounds on his feet.
In the classic racing films "Le Mans," (Most feel "Le Mans" is one of the best films on racing) Steve Queen's character Michael Delaney states, "This isn't a 1000 to 1 shot. It is a professional blood sport. It (A crash) can happen to you, then it can happen to you again....Alot of people go through life doing things badly...Racing is important to men who do it well, racing is life. Everything that happens before; or after, is just waiting."
Many of the men, (Drivers) I have interviewed over the years have pointed to this one movie and scene to describe how they feel about driving a race car. Most think they, (the drivers) are out of their minds, I find them very heroic.
Best to you!
Russ
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