Roger Penske offers Tony Stewart chance to run the Indianapolis 500 next season

I can see Tony taking Roger up on this offer - as long as the schedule is altered to allow the 1,100 mile double-dip.
 
I'd love to see this taken on again by someone and who better than Tony Stewart? I always thought that this was good publicity for both forms of motorsports but primarily the Indy car side. I know I'd be tuning into the Indianapolis 500 to see one of our NASCAR drivers in the field. As it is now I only tune in to see the beginning and end of the event.
 
Not interested . To see a driver finish in the bottom half of each field after all of the press build up is very sad.Why not just try to lift a car or something.
 
ted@economy said:
Not interested . To see a driver finish in the bottom half of each field after all of the press build up is very sad.Why not just try to lift a car or something.
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I guess you weren't watching when Tony did this last then. 6th @ Indy after leading 13 laps that day followed by a 3rd in the Coca-Cola 600. Quite a good accomplishment IMO.
 
ted@economy said:
Not interested . To see a driver finish in the bottom half of each field after all of the press build up is very sad.Why not just try to lift a car or something.
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dpkimmel2001 said:
I guess you weren't watching when Tony did this last then. 6th @ Indy after leading 13 laps that day followed by a 3rd in the Coca-Cola 600. Quite a good accomplishment IMO.
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On the one hand, it's been a while since he's been in an Indycar. But on the other hand, it is Tony Stewart, and that car would be a Penske.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
I guess you weren't watching when Tony did this last then. 6th @ Indy after leading 13 laps that day followed by a 3rd in the Coca-Cola 600. Quite a good accomplishment IMO.
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i was at the race in charlotte. at the time tony's introduction usually brought the same crowd reaction as kyle gets now. but when his helicopter landed at charlotte there was a huge cheer. only louder crowd reaction of the day was when jeff gordon ran into someone on pitroad while leading.
 
IMO it's insulting to Indy drivers for us to think that one of our drivers could go over there and be competative in a one race deal. We would be equally insulted if they sent one of their drivers over to Nascar to compete at Bristol . I'd rather see Tony lift a racecar or do a motorcycle jump over sixteen trucks. Now that would be exciting.
 
ted@economy said:
IMO it's insulting to Indy drivers for us to think that one of our drivers could go over there and be competative in a one race deal. We would be equally insulted if they sent one of their drivers over to Nascar to compete at Bristol . I'd rather see Tony lift a racecar or do a motorcycle jump over sixteen trucks. Now that would be exciting.
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Tony's average finish @ Indy is 6.67 when he hasn't had engine/mechanical issues. Personally I think that is very competitive. If that is also insulting to them then so be it. What does it matter where someone comes from? If an Indy car driver decided to do the double by running at the 600 or even running @ Bristol I'd see no problem with it. I sure as heck wouldn't think of it as an insult. Maybe that's just me though?
 
ted@economy said:
IMO it's insulting to Indy drivers for us to think that one of our drivers could go over there and be competative in a one race deal. We would be equally insulted if they sent one of their drivers over to Nascar to compete at Bristol . I'd rather see Tony lift a racecar or do a motorcycle jump over sixteen trucks. Now that would be exciting.
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Uh, speak for yourself? Frankly, I would like to see stuff like this. I damn sure wouldn't be insulted, instead I thikn it would be good for the sport as whole, rather than keep the "us vs them" attitude when it comes to the different series.
 
VaDirt said:
Uh, speak for yourself? Frankly, I would like to see stuff like this. I damn sure wouldn't be insulted, instead I thikn it would be good for the sport as whole, rather than keep the "us vs them" attitude when it comes to the different series.
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Well said and to the point.
 
I haven't been to the 500 since the last race Tony ran. If he is there this year, I will be there as well.
 
ted@economy said:
Not interested . To see a driver finish in the bottom half of each field after all of the press build up is very sad.Why not just try to lift a car or something.
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Both times Tony tried it, he finished Top 10 in each race. And since he missed the drivers' meeting for Charlotte both times, he started from the back.
ted@economy said:
IMO it's insulting to Indy drivers for us to think that one of our drivers could go over there and be competative in a one race deal. We would be equally insulted if they sent one of their drivers over to Nascar to compete at Bristol . I'd rather see Tony lift a racecar or do a motorcycle jump over sixteen trucks. Now that would be exciting.
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Every driver that's done it came FROM 'over there'. Stewart, Robby Gordon, John Andretti. Besides, there's nothing that says an Indy car driver can't try it. There was talk for a while that 'Dinger might land an Indy ride; he's capable of it. Or Hornish, if he could put a deal together. Even What's Her Name mentioned it briefly, although I don't think her stock car skills are good enough for her to be competitive when she's only running a single race per day. I also question her conditioning, but since it isn't going to happen...

Frankly, I think Tony's just beyond the point of being able to get into condition to try it again. Last time was 2001 or so; there have been a lot of milk shakes under his bridge since then.
 
Here is a little History

On May 24 1970 Donnie Allison won the World 600 in a Banjo Matthews Ford. He even led the most laps.
On May 30 1070 Donnie finished 4th in the Indianapolis 500, in a AJ Foyt car.
I was thinking he did it all in one weekend, but these are the dates according to racing reference.

Not a single day accomplishment but I think it was still an incredible performance. The equipment was crude in the then Grand National cars, no power steering and not even window safety nets.
And the Indy cars were a beast, just google some images from the era.
I am not sure any driver now or back then in 1970 would have the stamnia to do the double in a single day from that era.

Sorry to veer off topic but while I was researching this I learned Indy' sanctioning body USAC ran 5 of 18 events on dirt.
Nascar ran 3 of their 48 on dirt.

Back to Tony I would love to see it, but I am expecting to much red tape for it to happen.
 
^ the year was 1970 , not 1070
 
ted@economy said:
IMO it's insulting to Indy drivers for us to think that one of our drivers could go over there and be competative in a one race deal. We would be equally insulted if they sent one of their drivers over to Nascar to compete at Bristol . I'd rather see Tony lift a racecar or do a motorcycle jump over sixteen trucks. Now that would be exciting.
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It's not like Tony has never been in an indy car before, hell he was the Indy Racing League Champion in 1997.
 
VaDirt said:
Uh, speak for yourself? Frankly, I would like to see stuff like this. I damn sure wouldn't be insulted, instead I thikn it would be good for the sport as whole, rather than keep the "us vs them" attitude when it comes to the different series.
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Seems to me he was.
 
It's a long freakin time to Daytona.:(
 
ODOYLE RULES is what I keep hearing in my head. Soon our wagon will slip on a nanner peal and we will go off a cliff.
 
Apologizes if someone already posted but I just saw this today. Kinda funny IMO that this is actually on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway website. They're already getting publicity out of this.

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