As Taylor Swift says, You Need to Calm down!
Being Blind, I Don’t do any of the Social Media
stuff, i.e.; Face Book, “Musk-A-Vision,” err TWIT-ER’, Instagram, Snap Chat et
al. And having said some pretty Stupid things over the years, and presumably
having also written many Here upon No Fenders the past 16 years. Increasingly,
I find it a Good thing I Don’t have a TWIT-ER’ account, since who knows what I
would have regretted Tweeting, Eh?
Originally I was going to include the link to
Racer’s Marshall Pruett article about one of my current, favourite IndyCar
Drivers inexcusably receiving Death Threats following His Ontrack “Actions” at
Long Beach, which are simply Not warranted, and totally despicable For which I
only learned about the day after when
reading said article.!
Listening to the IndyCar Radio Broadcast Sunday,
I recall Davey Hamilton wondering out loud repeatedly why Juncos Hollinger
Racing (JHR)wasn’t pitting Augustin Canapino during the Caution period, since
He’d need to Pit in mere laps! For which I mused to myself that JHR was just
leaving Canapino out so He could lead His very first IndyCar laps and garner
some Sponsors Attenzione…
Now I have No idea if that’s really what was
going on? Or if JHR was simply Hoping to get “lucky” with another immediate Full
course Caution, which we All know didn’t happen…
Listened to Callum Ilott on Marshall Pruett’s April
17th (MP1386) The Racing Family Show Podcast, which is definitely worth a
listen! Where the very Frank, Honest and Forthright 24yr Old Englishman noted
how He’d just barely Brushed the Wall at Long Beach which caused His Tyre to “Delaminate!”
Making Him need to Pit Off-sequence.
While Ilott further noted How currently one of
JHR’s “weaknesses” are their Pitstops Not being Satisfactory! For which I can
only surmise that a Slow Pitstop at Long Beach caused Callum to come out
directly in front of His JHR teammate Canapino who was the leader at that point,
before the Argentine went Wheel-to-Wheel with Helio Castroneves…
Being a former Ferrari Academy Driver, Alfa
Romeo Test Driver and Formula 2 race winner. I’d Arse-sume that Ilott, who’s
ambitions obviously were to go into formula 1, knows the “golden rule”, i.e.;
Do Not Take Out your Teammate! Although Ilott also Had the right to “fight” to
stay on the lead lap.
All of which is to say that You Need to Calm
down! And Not send such Malicious Threats to a Racing Driver whose just Doing
His Job!
As Sing It Taylor!
You Need to Calm Down!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkk9gvTmCXY
Now I know that I still somewhat subscribe to
Ye late Curmudgeon ‘O IndyCar, ‘Ol R’s, aka Robin Miller’s mantra “Hate’s good!”
And everybody Has Good Guys and villains in their lives…
And if you’re still reading No Fenders, then Y’all
know I’ve got my share of Drivers I definitely Despise in both Formula 1 and
IndyCar!
But there’s absolutely NO reason to Act so
Irrationally on Social Media or in Public towards our fellow Humans, be it Male
or Female. And Don’t forget Animals too…
Because when you Boil it all Down. As one of my
favourite Melody Sheik’s Symphony of Science songs denotes…
“We Are All Connected!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGK84Poeynk
So C’mon everyone, let’s just enjoy this weekend’s IndyCar race at Ye Barbers’, thee “Augusta of Indy Cars” event and show Callum Ilott and the other 26 Amazing IndyCar Drivers some Love!
