Milka Duno

[29speedsix]

Interesting that Ms Duno is now an Indy driver. Is this another case of sponsor money over talent? Her sponsor, CITGO is owned by PDVSa, the national oil company of Venezuela. PDVSa is the funding source for the very anti-American Firebrand, Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, known for, among other things, his Anti Us/George Bush comments in the UN and his strong stand against the US' growing interest in gasohol. Interesting bedfellows.

[Alexamateo]

What you say is true, but it is not a case of sponsor money over talent, because the team only exists to have a car for Milka. SAMAX is a sports car team and did not race Indycars. Milka wants to race Indycars, SAMAX starts a brand new team, so it's not as if she replaced somebody who didn't bring sponsorship a la Nelson Phillippe or Bruno Junquiera.

[OWFan19]

Not to take this completly political, this is a capitalistic country. What do you hate more, the IRL or Citgo?

[luvracin]

Interesting that Ms Duno is now an Indy driver. Is this another case of sponsor money over talent? Her sponsor, CITGO is owned by PDVSa, the national oil company of Venezuela. PDVSa is the funding source for the very anti-American Firebrand, Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, known for, among other things, his Anti Us/George Bush comments in the UN and his strong stand against the US' growing interest in gasohol. Interesting bedfellows.

Then you should take pleasure in the irony of a car sponsored by a Venezuelan oil company, having to use 100% Ethanol.

[RGM Fan]

^^^
Of course in Venezela their ethonal is like eight times more effective than ours because they can make it out of sugar cane not corn.

To me her entry seems more like stunt casting than a racing operation.

[Alexamateo]

FYI Brazil is where they use ethanol made from sugar cane. In Venezuela, gas is $.12 per gallon, although I think Chavez is wanting to raise prices now.

http://en.ce.cn/subject/EnergyCrisis/ECworld/200605/12/t20060512_6934874.shtml

[29speedsix]

Not to take this completly political, this is a capitalistic country. What do you hate more, the IRL or Citgo?

Actually...Chavez.

To LUVRACIN: thats what I meant about "strange bedfellows"

[29speedsix]

oops make that "interesting bedfellows"

[Mark in Oshawa]

I just find it sad that she will MAKE the race. IN the good ole days, you could buy whatever stuff you wanted, but with 55 plus entries, you had to make the race based on time. Now, in today's IRL, you have the car, you pretty much will make the race unless you and your team are clueless. We can only wonder and hope right????

[DBell]

Milka Duno? STINKS! what more needs to be said?

[futuretiger9]

I just find it sad that she will MAKE the race. IN the good ole days, you could buy whatever stuff you wanted, but with 55 plus entries, you had to make the race based on time. Now, in today's IRL, you have the car, you pretty much will make the race unless you and your team are clueless. We can only wonder and hope right????


I remember the diversity of the cars and entries at Indy in the late 1980s/early 1990s, with the CART front-runners up against the once-a-year Indy specialists. Remember the Buick push-rod engines? That variety seems to have gone forever. The depth of the field is not there anymore.

[29speedsix]

Talk about variety...how 'bout the 60's with OFFY Roadsters, EAGLE Stock-block Fords, Lotus 4-CAM Fords, STP Turbines, Novis and Smokey Yunick's sidecar OFFY. That was variety

Talk about variety...how 'bout the 60's with OFFY Roadsters, EAGLE Stock-block Fords, Lotus 4-CAM Fords, STP Turbines, Novis and Smokey Yunick's sidecar OFFY. That was variety

I'd have said that a South american female driver sponsored by a Bush-despising Communist was providing quite a lot of variety in itself.

No other series has such a thing.