Race of Champions 2005!!!

I’m looking at the tournament tree, and noticing that Loeb did NOT lose a single match, it was Alesi that lost twice for France in the Nation’s Cup. (We thought that Loeb was the primary driver for France, when it wasn’t the case)

Also interesting that Bourdais won all of his matches but the final one in the Nation’s Cup, while his partner Peterhansel lost every one of his matches, and by large margins in all cases.

If you teamed up Bourdais and Loeb together for France, look out…

Gordon I’ve seen drive road courses and he really fucking does a great job, in any car.

I forgot some video i had of him and dale jr. ripping it up, they are both great drivers in general, dale was whipping around in an F1 car in it. I forget where it is :frowning:

cannot be… remember? NASCAR drivers are not real drivers. They cannot turn both ways. They are totally unskilled beer drinking rednecks.

Whud about Team KLEVO?

Team RAMROD?!?!?

Rick, you better be TiVoing for me to watch!!

can anyone put this on a DVD

Really, Pastrana was the letdown for the American team. His lack of experience was pretty apparent compared to most of the other guys out there. OTOH, if you look at the times Gordon was putting down, he was actually one of the fastest. Alot of people forget that many of the NASCAR guys start out driving on dirt tracks and know how to handle a car at the limit.

That’s the funny thing. This is the second time Pastrana was at the RoC, so it wasn’t lack of experience. He just didn’t execute. Too many mistakes at the wrong time. He wasn’t even close in any of his races. First round, Gordon bailed Team USA out with solid runs. Second round Gordon was beat by a tenth of a second, very close race. Pastrana had a +5 penalty in the rally car and practically threw away the race. Team USA was toast because of it.

Klemann, it’s still on the DVR box. So swing by this weekend or something.

Gordon does well on road corses in nascar.
I cant’ remember which driver it was… I wanna say stewart… was an IRC, or Cart champ and quit because he found driving the cars borring… I can’t remember which driver it specifically was.
I’m loving watching it in HDnet…
Im suprised that Gordon didnt get a 5second penalty on his 1st lap in his 1st run… as he knocked the foam around quite a bid sliding the ass of the porche around.

Stewart was bored with IRL oval racing only. So he switched to NASCAR where there was more money, and at least two road course races a year, not to mention a chance to super-sub in the Rolex series for the 24 Hr, etc. etc. Good move on his part :tup:

I think if they paired Gordon or Stewart with Robbie Gordon, that would be a good USA team. Or maybe Stewart and Scott Pruett from the Rolex, or even throw Boris (Who?) Said into the mix somewhere.

Gordon didn’t hit the foam. It was really close though.

:lol: at the people who are still voting after its over… and still noone has picked the winner…

:word: :lol: x100000000000

Some people definitely took the small bus to school :lol:

Now I’m definitely not closing the poll, I want to see who else is dumb :slight_smile:

I think it’d have been better with stweart… I guess you can put said in.
I voted for the team I think is the winner. I didn’t think it was fair to vote because I had it tivo’d and the even twas over… but I have to redeem the tardos.