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Originally Posted by Por_sha911
Marco had a better car but the team did not have a better driver.
Uber is his future.
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His pit crew lost him 3 places on 2 consecutive pit stops. That's a big handicap being sent back to the middle of the pack. Who, if anyone, made up or advanced 10 cars by passing during racing laps? I'm talking about the first half of the field. Rossi doesn't count even if he did before he stuffed it.
Marco ran a good race and better than his finish would indicate. He did a good job. Maybe the issue is that
he needs a new team.
Now that having been said, and I believe it, I'm also big on conspiracy. I remember the year of Richard Petty's retirement — his 'farewell' season as they call it. He won the pole at the Daytona 500 and promptly dropped back to middle pack by the 3rd or 4th lap. I'm sorry, but you can't tell me that NASCAR didn't overlook a big engine in during qualifying.
I'll leave my conspiracy thoughts there. Note that Mario drove the 2-seater again with who would you guess sitting behind him? Now, that seat is normally given out by some form of lottery and the preparations are not slight. There is no way in hell that a regular customer was headed for that seat and then told, "Hey, if you don't mind, Marco just won the pole 33 years after Mario did at 33 years of age (as the last car on the track). We need to put Michael in the back seat."
postscript: If I was Michael i would have said no way, put dad in the back!