Comments on: I Just Know You’re Going to Find a Ride…

By: Oblio

Oblio — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:13:43 +0000

SeaBass will be back, I think… but not before next season. Although I was not his biggest fan during his Champ Car seasons, my wife and I were hugely supportive of him in Toro Rosso livery. The more I learned about his classic Gallic temperment, the more I came to admire him and now have a much better appreciation of his talents.

As for AGR in general, I think Mr. Andretti has a bad case of ADD… their whole program seems to be is a constant non-linear brodie… smoke and noise, but no real direction except circular. If he lets Lady D slip away to the tin-top gang, AGR will have lost their only real press release fodder. We’ll see.

By: Dex

Dex — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:31:57 +0000

AGR know what they are getting with Montagny, he has won races for them in the ALMS in 2008. He tested at Kentucky for them last Sepetember. He was fastetst on both days he was there when the CCWS went to Sebring in early 2008, going faster than all of the other drivers people seem to want in the car.

Filipe is right, he is a big talent and deserves a chance in the series.

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:49:28 +0000

They should let TK have the Automatic Fire Sprinklers sponsorship. Hell, maybe they could throw in some equipment to help him out while they’re at it. Where was this sponsorship when Quattro needed it a couple of years ago at Vision?

By: The Speedgeek

The Speedgeek — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:50:03 +0000

Hey, there, Montagny. Didn’t you know that this here series is the private hangout of the Satan’s Helpers?

By: Filipe

Filipe — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:35:16 +0000

Franck is a first rate talent. His half a dozen F1 starts were in 5 year old chassis, no one would anything with that.

World Series is kinda of european Atlantic, a ladder series to nowhere that keep a lot of kids busy and whose cars aren’t really much worse than the official F1 feeder series (current F1 drivers that won a title there: Alonso, Kovalainen and Kubica; Vettel was leading the 2007 season when he got his F1 ride). Montagny actually won it twice 2001 and 2003. Curiously his runner-up in 2001 was Tomas Scheckter.

AGR ALMS team clearly improved after they dropped Herta/Fittipaldi for him and who else was available to run as the other driver (even with De Ferran making the grid more competitive) and I believe Michael decide at the time that if either Danica or Formula Dream left and he find a sponsor to replace them, Montagny would be his first option.

TK (who won the ALMS Laguna race with Montagny) must be really happy the team finally found someone else who knows how to set up a car.

I’d argue if this becomes a full-time ride next season that he is the best european driver to arrive in AOW since Justin Wilson.

By: Roy Hobbson

Roy Hobbson — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:49:57 +0000

It’s too bad Simone was married to an enraged lumberjack who looked like the bearded villain from Superman II. You reap what you sow, Simone.

Wait … what were we talking about?

By: Leigh O'Gorman

Leigh O'Gorman — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:39:01 +0000

5 cars???
Are AGR trying to redefine the tern “stretching ourselves a bit thin..”?