On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Joe Curry wrote:
> Maybe it is someone who cries a lot when he loses! ;)
Ummm, no.
I believe Paul R. was referring to streams of water running onto the track
from below - e.g. water weepers.
This would be a danger to running a CART IndyCar at more than 200 MPH.
:-)
> Joe (C)
regards,
rml
> Bill Babcock wrote:
> >
> > What's a weeper?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: P Richardson [mailto:paul-richardson@cyberware.co.uk]
> > Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 10:12 PM
> > To: fot@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Rockingham 500
> >
> > Hi Gang
> >
> > Despite problems with weepers on the new Rockingham oval which led to
> > Thursday
> > and Friday practice sessions being cancelled the first 'indy' race in
> > England
> > was awesome. It was a race long duel between Gil de Ferran and Kenny
> > Brack.
> > Brack took the lead at the end of the penultimate lap then de Ferran went
> > by
> > on the outside of the last turn to win the race by .63 sec. What a great
> > bunch
> > of drivers they all are -fun loving and engaging. The press interview at
> > the
> > end of the race was a delight to witness as all three podium finishers
> > were
> > obviously real buddies (Helio Castroneves was relegated to 4th place later
> > -
> > having overtaken on a yellow flag putting Cristiano de Matta in 3rd). I
> > managed to speak to Alex Tagliani who was unwittingly involved in that
> > terrible accident with his close friend Alex Zanardi at the Berlin oval.
> > Tagliani was obviously still very concerned at Rockingham but was relieved
> > when he heard the news on Saturday that Zanardi had been brought out of an
> > induced coma and was making a strong recovery and getting better by the
> > hour -
> > wonderful news indeed.
> >
> > By the way, Julia and I had Jim Hill stay over with us for a couple of
> > days
> > prior to his visit to the Goodwood festival - great fun but it took us
> > three
> > days to clean the house up!!
> >
> > Best wishes
> >
> > Paul
>
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