I headed down to the bar tonight for a pint and a chat. Figured after a nice long weekend, drinking on a tuesday would be a positive. Turns out I was too early for our favorite bartender, so I had to sit around an hour or so, gave me time to enjoy beer.
Anyways, when he did show up, he was lively and entertaining. I had shown up with a few questions in hand from some tweeps on Twitter. I got those questions answered and got a couple other tidbits for your enjoyment.
@indy44 wanted to know what the bartender thought about his theory in regards to the 2009/2010 silly season. "Dixon to De Ferran, Danica to Ganassi & AGR running 2 car team with TK and Marco".
- He's not totally sure what is happening. Dixon all depends on the contract option, which no one seems to know if it is Dixon's option to return to TCGR in 2010, or Ganassi's option on Dixon for 2010. He says if Dixon can get out of the contract in 2010, Scott will be at De Ferran Motorsports asap. He says AGR runs three cars for Danica, Marco, and TK.
@PlanetIRLdotcom asked about where Dan Wheldon would end up in 2010.
- He said he had heard a possibility where Wheldon ends up at De Ferran Motorsports to team with Simon Pagenaud, but it is nothing substantial right now. Dan wants to go back to AGR, but they don't have an interest in him apparently. Dan will have to wait and see how the cookie crumbles.
For future reference, I will always post on my twitter page within a day of when I head to the bar, so if you have questions for him, just tweet me.
He also had this to say.
- He still expects Takuma Sato to be in a car at Homestead. Apparently Honda didn't want to break him in on ovals in front of his home crowd in case he had a bad outing.
- He said AGR is the only good team that wants to put up with Danica running both Nascab and ICS.
- He says to expect big things from HVM in 2010. Doornbos signed on with them for the rest of 2009 and all of 2010 because he was promised big improvements from his funding for the HVM Dallara's.
- J.R. Hildebrand to Panther? Jonathan Bomarito to Coyne?
That's all for tonight, I'll be visiting him on Friday night after the local Ribfest. Should be a good night, and I'll have something for you guys on saturday or sunday.
1 comments:
(it's drewdawg from MSF) Matt - great post man..if you recall over on MSF, i had speculated that if Dixon wasn't going to nab the de Ferran seat, then Wheldon would most likely try to jump on it...that seems like the most logical option, so I am glad to see the bartender agreed with me there. Hildebrand to Panther also makes perfect sense. I hope that HVM does deliver, right now Doornbos is dragging his ass along the rug at the rear of the field and it's not good...
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