I'd like to see a ratings graph of the race, and how much it fell off (worldwide) when Alsonsos engine blew...
I don't see what one thing has to do with another. Having pride for your home country doesn't disrespect ours.
Nicky waved the American in an international series. Is it common to wave the flag of another country in a national series? Or is Indy an international series (I gave up watching decades ago)
I think about 1/2 the competitors are not Americans. Some of the rounds are held outside the United States A F1 star came over to run it this year 10-15 Years ago Bernie Ecclestone was worried Indy Car was going to overtake F1 in popularity....obviously that isn't a concern any longer.
You fuckin idiots know Sato didn't kill anyone involved in WW2? He certainly didn't Kamikaze into anyone to win the race. Ohh my god the horror of carrying the flag of his birth country around after a victory. We should drop a big bomb on Andretti motorsports of something.
It's always funny to hear the elitist F1 crowd whining about the Indy 500!! That's not racing! That's where washed up F1 drivers go! You should listen to all of Alonso's comments. He basically said "later to F1, I'm coming here to have some fun". 15 Cars flying by within 1 second fighting for the lead..pretty exciting. It was a fantastic race, huge crowd, awesome racing, 35 lead changes among 15 drivers! What more do you want? Honda wanted this race bad, and turned up the wick, it bit some teams, but they won the race. It was easy to see, the Honda's dominated all day. I say open wheel racing in the US is coming back. Every track has improving ticket sales, 400k yesterday. Nascar is suffering big time with ticket sales, so is F1.
I agree with this. I don't think they meant disrespect by waving the home country flag. Without international riders and drivers our Motorspors wouldn't be as successful. Yes it's Memorial Day weekend but he wasn't pissing on soldiers graves now was he? No one has an issue with our riders waving American flags overseas. Hell how many times has the photo of Nicky with the American flag been posted? Yes I know we didn't go to war there but Japan is also now a pretty good allie to the USA. People just bitch about everything. If anyone should be pissed it should be Alonso for coming over here and drawing a crowd just for Button to pee in his F1 car
You remember Colin Edwards waving a Japanese flag at the Suzuka Eight Hours? You guys are looking hard for a reason to be offended.