Jimmie Johnson......

[Mr. Ford95]

Cup Champion was involved in a golf cart crash. Broke his wrist and will miss the International Race of Champions in Paris. He was not driving the cart and was not holding on tight enough. His driver took a turn a little fast and ejected him.

Think Hendrick is going to take away all golf cart usage for one year after winning a Cup title from now on. Gordon won the title in 2001 then had a scary wipe out in 2002 at Richmond on a golf cart. Went into the first turn of a special golf cart race in the infield and prematurely hit the eject button.

[yoopr]

IROC in Paris, France????
Or is it Paris, Texas? :P

[Mr. Ford95]

Sorry, not the IROC we know yoop. It's in Paris, France. It's the Race of Champions consisting of champs from F1, WRC, Nascar and a bunch of other race groups. The best of the best are pitted against one another country by country. It's really crazy because it's in cars that none of the drivers have ever driven and a crazy wild track. If you hit the wall, even nudge it, you get a time penalty. I think SPEED channel has gotten into showing it.

The US won it in 2002 with Jeff Gordon being the lead driver.

http://www.eurosport.co.uk/home/page...to785435.shtml That has a pic of the track and the lineup from like 2004 or 2005.

[yoopr]

ok-Jimmie drives for a VERY Wealthy man and woman I know up here who live in Iron Mountain and he was the Founder of Boss Snowplow which is pretty international now. Anyway, This guy has one of those types of Cars and Johnson drives his car occasionally.

[Mr. Ford95]

yoop, that wouldn't happen to be the man who funded hs ASA car is it?? The name slips my mind right now but I do remember that when coming up thru the ranks, JJ actually moved to Wisconsin so he could be with the team.

[Twilight Flyer]

You know, I;m glad he wasn't hurt badly. But when you think about it, that's just ironically funny. Spends a whole year running a race car around a track and 200 MPH and then after the season, falls out of a golf cart.

[yoopr]

yoop, that wouldn't happen to be the man who funded hs ASA car is it?? The name slips my mind right now but I do remember that when coming up thru the ranks, JJ actually moved to Wisconsin so he could be with the team.

Dave Brule was the Founder of Boss snowplow.
I don't live in Wisconsin :P
I don't really know different types of race cars. I'll do a search and try and find the one he drives.

[yoopr]

ok-here ya go
go down to #6

http://www.speedtv.com/articles/auto/roadracing/9586/

Dave and his wife are really great people-She does alot for Vets overseas and sends them all sorts of gift packages.

[Mr. Ford95]

Oh crude, Jimmie didn't just fall out of the cart when the driver took a turn too fast for him, he was up on top of the f-ing thing's roof. He was golf cart surfing!!! Had to be beer involved for that. What a dumbas. He was laying up on top on his stomach when his playing partner, who was driving, hit a berm on the cart path while driving to the 16th hole and it bucked JJ off. That so reminds me of the old commercial for NASCAR where they had the guy jump onto the roof of one of the cars at Watkins Glen and put a cup to the roof so he could hear the driver talking to his crew.

[Blacksheep]

Oh crude, Jimmie didn't just fall out of the cart when the driver took a turn too fast for him, he was up on top of the f-ing thing's roof. He was golf cart surfing!!! Had to be beer involved for that. What a dumbas. He was laying up on top on his stomach when his playing partner, who was driving, hit a berm on the cart path while driving to the 16th hole and it bucked JJ off. That so reminds me of the old commercial for NASCAR where they had the guy jump onto the roof of one of the cars at Watkins Glen and put a cup to the roof so he could hear the driver talking to his crew.

I just heard that on sports center, can you say dumb ass.

[Mr. Ford95]

yoop, that is prolly who he is racing with again in this year's 24 hours at Daytona. I hear a bunch of Nascar's top drivers are going this year, more than last year.

[yoopr]

Dave and Elsa are super super people even though they are very very Rich SOB :P
Ran into Dave and his wife at Walmart and was talking to him about his new "Car" and he told me they(whoever "They" are) wouldn't even let him drive it(and He owns it :P ) and I told him Hell with that. If I own it I'm driving it :P

[NWRally]

Too funny!

First Paul Tracy (ChampCar racer) injures himself "jumping" a sandtrap with a golf cart, now this???

Don't forget that defending WRC champ Sebastian Loeb (Citroen) broke his arm a couple months back riding his mtn bike like it was his rollcage-equipped rally car (& nearly lost this year's title as a result).

Somebody's gotta get these guys to postpone their off-duty stunts until their driving careers are over! :P

[yoopr]

You know there's gotta be a clause somewhere in their contract for that kinda thing.

[Mr. Ford95]

Seems to happen a lot to NASCAR drivers. Scott Riggs was injured a few years ago riding a dirt bike during the season. Another one, name slips my mind at the moment, nearly missed the Martinsville race a few years ago after getting hurt in a go-kart wreck. I wanna say Jerry Nadeau. Denny Hamlin nearly ripped his hand off earlier this year at a test session at Charlotte doing a foot race with his crew members.

Juan Montoya missed a few races in F1 last year after being injured outside of his car. Nobody knows the truth other than Juan but it pissed his team off.