https://canadianracingonline.com/community/usar-hooters-procup/ CanadianRacingOnline.com Discussion Board en-US Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:02:38 +0000 wpForo 60 https://canadianracingonline.com/community/usar-hooters-procup/usa-international-to-be-shut-down-this-weekend/ Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:02:57 +0000 USAR Hooters ProCup duken https://canadianracingonline.com/community/usar-hooters-procup/usa-international-to-be-shut-down-this-weekend/ https://canadianracingonline.com/community/usar-hooters-procup/more-crying-from-danica/ Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:38:18 +0000 By NATE RYAN,USA Today
Posted: 2008-03-25 12:16:37
An Indy Racing League rule change has Danica Patrick feeling as if she'll be penalized for being petite - which the popular driver said wouldn't happen in other sports.

Starting this season, the minimum weight for IRL cars will include the driver, and Patrick is the series' lightest at 100 pounds according to the 2007 media guide (which lists other female drivers Milka Duno and Sarah Fisher at 120 pounds apiece; Ed Carpenter is the heaviest at 165).

"If someone's going to take the hit it's going to be me," Patrick said Thursday. "It's disappointing the league decided to do that. In so many other sports, athletes don't get penalized for being too strong, or too tall or too fast.

"(It's) just your God-given stature is being penalized. What am I going to do, though? It's not my decision. That's the people higher up (who) made their bed, and they've got to lay in it."

Patrick said she asked IRL officials about the reason for the change but said "they didn't really have one.

"I just follow the rules," she said. "Maybe I'll get more specific reasons somewhere down the line --"

IRL spokesman John Griffin said the rule was intended to reduce the difference between the lightest and heaviest drivers, which is a gap that can range from 75 to 100 pounds.

"We want to make absolutely clear this is not a Danica rule," Griffin said. "You look at guys like Dan Wheldon and Marco Andretti, and they're light guys."

Griffin wouldn't disclose the cars' minimum weight but said drivers are broken into three weight classifications. The heaviest would have weight reduced from its car while the lightest would have a maximum 35 pounds of ballast added.

"It's something that had been looked at and was in the back of our minds every year," Griffin said.



    Every professional racing series has had a car weight + driver formula except the IRL and its high time they leveled the playing field . To put it in perspective her weight advantage would be equal to over 160 lbs in NASCAR
Somehow Danica sees this as a rule against her which it is not . Last year when the IRL let her put power steering on the car because those little chicken wings she calls arms were getting tired during the race she thought that was just fine . Hey Danica just shut up and drive .

 

  Girls shouldn't even be allowed to race with the men IMO they should still be in the Powder Puff division .

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Doug is an IHRA and NHRA top fuel winner

CORNELIUS, N.C. - Top Fuel drag racer Doug Herbert's two sons were killed Saturday in a traffic accident near their home.

A statement from Herbert's team said sons Jon, 17, and James, 12, died instantly when the car they were riding in collided with another vehicle in the town of Cornelius, which is 30 kilometres north of Charlotte.

Cornelius police said the Mazda that Herbert's children were in attempted to pass a third car when it went out of control and collided with a Hummer.

Police said the unidentified driver of the Hummer was airlifted to Carolinas Medical Center, while a passenger in the car was transported to the hospital by ambulance. The extent of their injuries wasn't available Saturday evening.

Herbert team spokeswoman Lisa Powers said Herbert was in Phoenix for pre-season testing and was returning home to be with his family, which includes nine-year-old daughter Jessica.

Funeral arrangements are pending, but the family asks that in lieu of flowers, people make donations to the Speedway Children's Charities in Jon and James Herbert's name.


My heart and prayers go out to family and friends. Having come so close to losing my own son this past year has changed my life forever.
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