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Old 21 Dec 2006, 16:25 (Ref:1796934)   #1
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Fernandez to return

http://www.speedtv.com/articles/auto/indycar/34521/

well, they never really left, but it looked like they was gonna

good to see Chesson back aswell

hopefully
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Old 21 Dec 2006, 17:53 (Ref:1796973)   #2
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I'm glad that they will be back....and PJ Chesson is a colorful personality...

But it'll be interesting to see how well they will do with PJ as the pilot...especially on the road courses
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Old 21 Dec 2006, 19:28 (Ref:1797031)   #3
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yep

because he has very little road course experience

i expect him to be well at the back with fellow non road course drivers Scott Sharp and Ed Carpenter (although he drove well at the Glen)

they could switch driver though for the road courses

similar to what DRR did last year
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Old 21 Dec 2006, 19:35 (Ref:1797035)   #4
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Scott sharp has a lot of road course experience, although not recent.
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Old 21 Dec 2006, 19:56 (Ref:1797047)   #5
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Scott sharp has a lot of road course experience, although not recent.
and it shows

his has been slow on the road courses so far
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Old 21 Dec 2006, 21:01 (Ref:1797109)   #6
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yep

because he has very little road course experience

i expect him to be well at the back with fellow non road course drivers Scott Sharp and Ed Carpenter (although he drove well at the Glen)

they could switch driver though for the road courses

similar to what DRR did last year
Sharp has plentu of rr experience, more than most of the Indycar divers have....
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Old 21 Dec 2006, 21:05 (Ref:1797114)   #7
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Sharp has plentu of rr experience, more than most of the Indycar divers have....
which explains why he is one of the slowest on the road courses in IndyCar then! lol!
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Old 21 Dec 2006, 21:15 (Ref:1797126)   #8
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Fernandez to return

To be honest I never considered him to particularly good at any time. He has had his moments but he is getting on.
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Old 21 Dec 2006, 21:43 (Ref:1797148)   #9
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To be honest I never considered him to particularly good at any time. He has had his moments but he is getting on.
yeah, he's had his moments but not great

although, i have to say, he was mighty impressive in 05 in his first season with Fernandez

many podiums and a win at Kentucky

but 06, pretty average year
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Old 21 Dec 2006, 21:45 (Ref:1797150)   #10
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this new deal he has with Rahal has him moving into a team management kind of role after he gives up his driving

that could be a good move because despite not being the best driver in the series, Sharp has always managed to attract good sponsors

A bit of a businessman!
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Back on topic, It'd bve really great news to have Fernandez back, or, better said, not lost for 2007.
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Old 22 Dec 2006, 15:57 (Ref:1797777)   #12
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Back on topic, It'd bve really great news to have Fernandez back, or, better said, not lost for 2007.
yeah, sure is

i expect them to be fairly competitive and hopefully Chesson will show everyone that he can drive
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Old 23 Dec 2006, 00:04 (Ref:1798030)   #13
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Hmm, maybe Adrian annames a 2nd car with a good allrounder as driver?
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Old 23 Dec 2006, 00:07 (Ref:1798031)   #14
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Hmm, maybe Adrian annames a 2nd car with a good allrounder as driver?

i do believe that Fernandez still has all their equipment so they could possible run a second car but lets not get ahead of ourselves!

lets hope the deal for PJ goes thourgh ok first
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Old 23 Dec 2006, 12:06 (Ref:1798262)   #15
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Is there a possibility that Adrian could be the designated road course pilot?
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Old 23 Dec 2006, 23:12 (Ref:1798517)   #16
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Maybe, if the funding would still be there for it?

Good news anyway - I really didn't expect the team to survive as a full-time entry for next year. I didn't like PJ's attitude when Hemelgarn closed, but it's still good to have a short-track guy out there among the former road racers.
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