As it’s another Belated round of Zany No Fenders
End ‘O year frivolities once again, Far far Behind. As Run Run Rudolf indeedy!
Yeah Folks, I’m somewhat “Mailing this In!”
As I’m Not making too many excuses, but!
Due to the myriad ‘O Confuzer issues I had during the year 2020 due to Covid 19
precluding Mwah from getting anybody to Help me in-person wrangle my litany of
computing issues. Mainly my Zoomtext
2020 Screen Reader not interfacing with my new Bitchin’ winDOUGHS 10 Puter’. Not
to mention needing to learn two new “Operating” systems! Along with resorting
to plugging back into my trusty ‘Ol Windows 7 Machine for a further eight Gory
months before my new Wider Aint’ Better 24-inch monitor and SoundBar arrived on
Back Order and were installed, it was simply A Nightmare Blah blah blah!
Thus, I’d only managed to form my initial
thoughts for category #9, (below) No. 9, Numeral Nein, Oh Never Mind! And just chosen
the respective winners for categories 6-8, 10 but hadn’t put any thoughts to
why? So here goes Nothing!
Although if you’re Blind like your Humble No
Fenders Scribe Tomaso is, then this short 2020 IndyCar season review video really
Doesn’t Help you too much! But Y’all may injoy it…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCiDEmdSIVE
Categories 6-10
6. Most Improved Driver of the Year
Winner: Patricio O’Ward
Otay, this is completely Biased, since if you’ve
read No Fenders the last few years, than Yuhs already know that Pato O’Ward is
my current Numero Uno IndyCar Driver!
Initially I pondered choosing between Felix rosenqvist
and The Great santini’, aka Santino Ferrucci. But in order to be “Improved,”
one Arse-sumedly would need to improve upon his previous years standings, which
neither did. With Rosenqvist dropping from sixth Overall to 11th, even though
scoring his maiden IndyCar W’ at Road America, ironically ahead of O’Ward. With
Ferrucci going P13 two years in-a-row. While I certainly didn’t See Felix
becoming Pato’s future teammate…
http://www.nofenders.net/2020/07/indycar-oward-just-6-miles-short-of.html
Could have Begrudgingly given it to Colton
Herta who finished third Overall. But driving for the Satellite Andretti Squad,
you’d expect him to finish more than five points ahead of Pato. (421-416)
Hence, O’Ward made more of an “Improvement” with
the “Upstart” Arrow McLaren SP Team, formerly known as SPAM! Although it’s not
really a fair comment, since O’Ward’s always had the talent, which is now
totally Obvious following his 2021 IndyCar campaign. But Pato had to overcome
being Droped by Harding Steinbrenner Racing in the 11th Hour of the
2019 IndyCar Pre-season. Then flushed out a partial season ride with Carlin after
missing the St Pete season opener before “His” Funding Dried Up!
Then tried going to a Hopeful Formula 1 future
with Red Bull via racing in Japan’s Super formula series and Formula 2, before
it became apparent He wouldn’t be able to get the necessary FIA Superlicense
due to there only being eight Fulltime Indy Lights competitorsduring his 2018 season,
when he won the Lights title Ahead of IndyCar Media Darling Colton Herta…
Thus Zack Brown schrewdly signed the talented
Mexican Open Wheel Racing Driver and the rest as they say, is History!
7. Most Disappointing Driver of the Year
Winner: Alexander Rossi
Initially thought of giving this “Award” to
Zach Veach, but that, like picking on A.J. Foyt Racing or Carlin’s just plain
too Easy! And it’s Not entirely Zach’s vault that He never managed to win an
IndyCar race! Since arguably you’d have to say He was always gonna be P5 of the
Andretti Armada’s Pecking Order.
https://racer.com/2020/09/28/miller-saluting-an-indycar-feel-good-story/
Thus, instead I gave it to Alexander Rossi, who
even though eventually salvaged his season by pulling himself back up to finish
Ninth Overall on the strength of four late, consecutive Podium finishes. Rossi’s
season was punctuated by his uncharacteristically Spinning into the Barriers
while leading the Season Finale St Pete race! And it’s just after his previous
two Brilliant seasons, including a strong third Overall in 2019, you’d just expect
more from that ever “Scowling” American Indianapolis 500 winner, Hya!
8. Comeback Driver of The Year
Winner: James Hinchliffe
Feel like this one’s sort of self explanatory,
although you’d need to know the “Back Story.” As The Mayor of Hinchtown, aka James
Hinchcliffe was very poorly Fired from Schmidt Peterson Motorsports with a year
remaining on his contract when Sam Schmidt and Rick Peterson decided to glom
onto McLaren’s Dowry and switch to Chevrolet engines for 2020. And with Hinch’
being a longtime Honda Driver, with his strong ties to Honda of Canada,
Hinchcliffe got the Shiv’ in his Backside!
Alas, after doing some TV Broadcasting work for
NBC’s IndyCar coverage, James also wrangled up enough Sponsorship Dinero from Genesys
to originally run three IndyCar races, most notably the Indy 500 before
replacing the departing Veach at Andretti for the final three races, seeing the
likeable Kuhnuck’ race six times when originally he was set to just sit on the “couch”
since Schmidt Peterson Motorsports wouldn’t release him from his contract!
9. "Big Boyz Pants" Award
Winner: Rinus VeeKay
Guess this one should be Obvious? But for Mwah,
hearing (Townsend) T-Bell' proclaim his nickname being Mozart! For his Scintillating
Overtaking maneuvers, not to mention he's actually a Bloody “Count,” Hya! The
award goes to Dutch phenom Rinus Van Kalmthout, who's politely taken the Alex
Zanardi approach of shortening his name to make it easy for us Yanks' to pronounce.
10. Rookie of The Year
Winner: Rinus VeeKay
Yeah, I know that Felix rosenqvist, who I was
rootin’ for over Colton “NBC LUV’ Fest” Herta actually won the IndyCar Rookie
Of the year (ROY) Championship. And I used to be a Fan of the Swede’s, but may
be it’s his Ice Cool Demeanor that’s faded upon Mwah?
Since I just found Rinus VeeKay to be the most exciting Rookie this year with his brazenly Bold passes! Punctuated by claiming his first IndyCar career Pole position and first IndyCar Podium at Mother Speedway’s October Harvest Grands Prix Race-1, finishing third behind Josef Newgarden and Alexander Rossi, definitely some “Heavy” company…