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Top Ten Drivers of 2006
Anyone care to draw up a list of who they think has been the top 10 performers this year?
1. Sam Hornish - champion, indy 500 winner 2. Dan Wheldon - strong challenge in a new team 3. Scott Dixon - had a couple of good wins, fairly consistent year 4. Helio Castro-Neves - same as Dixon 5. Marco Andretti - made a strong impact as a rookie 6. Vitor Meira - some good, consistent results with struggling panther team 7. Danica Patrick - improved from 2005, & convincingly beat her team mate 8. Ryan Briscoe - was impressive in the races he contested 9. Tomas Scheckter - did a good job in bringing Vision forward as a team 10. Tony Kanaan - race win at Milwaukee the highlight of an otherwise fairly average year |
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I would drop danica a few spots (to tenth), drop briscoe off the list, swap vitor and marco, and tack on ed carpenter in 9th as "most improved"
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I'd say that the top 10 in the championship (in that order) ...everyone was basically panned out that way in terms of how their year was like.
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Vitor Meira was my man of the year.
I'd probably put Wheldon and Hornish equal second. After that, anything goes. |
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i wouldnt put danica in that list, i didnt really see anything of her all year. vitor meira should be way up there, he did awesome in a team who are low on budget.
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most improved driver - Ed Carpenter
anyone agree?? |
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he did a good job last season and deserves some credit he certainly suprised me |
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yep Carpenter did improve alot
But for it was Vitor Meira all the way , he was great and just needs that little leg up into a stronger team and he will fly ![]() |
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I'd probaly put Vitor top, followed by Sam, Dan and Marco. The top few drivers in the series were really impressive - let's hope we can get a full grid for 2007.
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Probably the performer of the year was Meira, in what is effectively, an underfunded team, compared to Penske, AGR & TCGR |
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