Pook on IRL: retirement opportunity

[dream69]

From ESPN Chat:

Andy (Boston): Hi Chris. I am glad to see you at the helm of CART and hope you the best of luck. I have a two part question. It's very disappointed to see a lot of quality drivers and teams switching from CART to IRL. What do you plan to do to prevent this from happening and can CART survive given the dwindling of the talent pool? Thanks. -Andy

Chris Pook: (1:15 PM ET ) Well, I'm not sure how much talent is going over to the IRL. I think the guys that consistently qualify on the front part of our grid our with us. The more senior ones who qualify in the back part of the grid -- I think the IRL provides a good retirement opportunity for them.

[ August 26, 2002: Message edited by: dream69 ]

[MicroRacer]

Team Penske

[MichaelP]

Originally posted by dream69:
<STRONG>F Well, I'm not sure how much talent is going over to the IRL. </STRONG>

Now if RM had a vendetta against CART and got ahold of that, the headline would read: Pook admits that CART drivers have no talent!

[zoneranger]

Here is the question I sent. Strangely enough, it didn't get answered.

Instead of making condescending smart aleck remarks about the IRL and people who race there (ie. retirement series remark), have you and a few of your outspoken drivers considered talking about the positives of your series instead of denigrating the IRL? It's your kind of arrogance that has turned me away from CART.

[AlJRFAN]

and hes on forums!!!!!!

[dream69]

my question about the number of "firm commitments" for next year didn't get answered either.

[Sammich]

I think he was just shooting back at Andretti for his recent comments.

[Professor Joe]

Originally posted by Sammich:
<STRONG>I think he was just shooting back at Andretti for his recent comments.</STRONG>

Oh, yeah. Nice stategy. P*** off the only recognizable name you have left in the series....

[Guest]

Originally posted by Professor Joe:
<STRONG>

Oh, yeah. Nice stategy. P*** off the only recognizable name you have left in the series....

</STRONG>

Wrong, the most recogizable name is going to be on the payroll of the company as a director in short order. Yeah, the F1 and Indy 500 champion his son is not.

[Truth Detector]

Pookzler is pathetic.

I'm disappointed that I gave him credit where it obviously isn't due.

[joe]

Pook seems to be another bad joke in a long line of bad jokes that run CART (into the ground).

[Guest]

Originally posted by MicroRacer:
<STRONG>Team Penske</STRONG>

Alboretto
Boesel
Brayton
Buhl
Cheever
Dismore
Goodyear
Greco
Groff
Guerrero
Hattori
Hearn
Jones
Lazier
Luyendyke
Paul Jr.
Ribbs
Salazar
Sharp
Unser Jr.
Vitolo
Zampedri

[ZenMan]

I just saw this quote from Pook in a story from Yahoo!

"We want to be a feeder series for Formula One and prove that we have guys with the talent and will to win."

First I'd seen this as a stated policy.

[ August 26, 2002: Message edited by: ZenMan ]

[Tex]

Mistawiener,

Guess that is why CART has only 9 cars committed for next year.

[Weasel Boy]

Originally posted by dream69:
<STRONG>my question about the number of "firm commitments" for next year didn't get answered either.</STRONG>

That's funny. Mine didn't get answered either. I wanted to know what they would
do if all the cars dropped out at the
Fontana 500-miler. Would they checker
the last man standing or would they wait
for cars to be repaired and returned to
the track.