But she also dated Flavio, and Flavio's taste in women is pretty solid!
I have the VHS of that season's review and she was decent, certainly not as well gloomed as today's standard (it's early 90's afterall) but certainly a fine woman
This month's podcast for Motorsport magazine is a hour in the company of Dario Franchitti. Lots of interesting stuff about Di Resta, mid 90s DTM, late 90s Champcar and so on.
Yea, weird strategy for Sato... He seemed to have the sheer pace to beat Power, and Power was definitely going to pit to cover Franchitti, so why not simply stick with him.
Special mention to Simona anyway, charging through the field being 9 laps down, passing the leaders trying to get on 0 stop, and taking the fastest lap in the process
He was indeed. Now seriously, this might be a good strategy if you're in midfield or at the back of the field and have nothing to lose, but certainly not if you're the leader and the fastest pace wise.
As I said Franchitti had enough fuel for sure at that point, it looks kinda obvious to me that most of the leaders were gonna pit(especially Power), to "cover" him.
I don't know if only 1 caution would've been enough also, he pitted like 5-6 laps from the finish IIRC, and I can imagine he went as far as he could.
Most of those caution periods were ~5 laps long. (IndyCar really needs to speed that up.)
As for why Sato decided to try that strategy... maybe he knew Power would beat him in the pits. Maybe he was surprised when the field behind him pitted on that yellow (happens a lot in NASCAR).
Nasty crash for Simona in practice yesterday. Mechanical failure -> airborne -> upside down -> on fire. She's ok aside from burns on her hands, though.