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but Despatie said he never focused on prizes
Topic Started: Sep 27 2012, 01:53 AM (128 Views)
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EDMONTON -- If adversity makes you stronger, then IndyCars Swiss Miss should be able to deadlift a Dallara chassis. Josh Cribbs Jersey . Simona De Silvestro and her HVM Racing team are in Edmonton this week hoping to put a slew of problems behind them that have left her buried deep in the driver standings. "Finishing races would be a pretty good first goal. Weve only finished three races this season," said the 23-year-old. "Weve had a really difficult season, but we just have to work through it and try to get the best we can every race weekend." De Silvestros No. 78 Dallara stalled out at the season opener in St. Petersburg, Fla., and its all gone downhill from there: collisions, mechanical problems, engine failures, fuel pump problems and gearbox breakdowns. She was also blackflagged early at the Indianapolis 500 because her Lotus engine was too slow. Lotus has indeed been the locus of HVMs despair. The engine-maker came late to the series in 2012, and its 2.2 litre turbocharged powerplant has been running about 2.5 per cent slower than the Chevy and Honda engines being used by the other teams. The four other teams using Lotus have switched to a rival. Lotus has been allowed to make modifications, and De Silvestro said the 2.5-per cent gap narrowed a bit in Toronto two weeks ago and may close a bit further for Sundays race on the 2.2-mile, 13-turn temporary street course at Edmontons City Centre Airport. "I think we got a little bit closer (to bridging the gap)," she said. "But I think were still outside of that." The woman from Thun, Switzerland -- dubbed the "Iron Maiden" or "Swiss Miss" -- sits a distant 24th in the point standings. She has completed just 598 laps in nine races while all the other full-time drivers in the series are over 1,000. Sebastien Bourdais, by comparison, has 626 laps and hes sharing a ride with Katherine Legge at Dragon Racing. When De Silvestros car holds up, there have been results: a 13th-place finish at Belle Isle, Mich., and 14th at Iowa. The driving skill is there, as she showed last year in St. Petersburg while duelling with Tony Kanaan en route to a 4th place finish -- her best result in three years of driving in IndyCar. But it has been a tough three years. After a promising rookie season in 2010, she has since been burned, bruised, concussed and pinballed between walls at Milwaukee, and spun clockwise on her head down the track in a fiery wreck at Indianapolis. Her hands have been burned twice: in Texas in 2010 she was trapped in her blazing car for a minute while crews worked to unhitch a kinked water hose. A year later at the Indianapolis 500, her rides back end slipped out coming out of a turn in practice, went airborne, caught the catch fence, flipped over, skidded down the track and caught fire. Despite burning her hands again, she was OK. But three races later at Milwaukee, she sustained a concussion when her car lost control out of a turn, spun rear-end first into the outer wall then pinballed, back-end first again, into the concrete inner wall. There are still reminders. "You can see the burns a little bit on the hands, but its all good now," De Silvestro said. She added that the Indianapolis crash led her to question driving for a living, but it ultimately taught her a lot about who she is and what she wants to be. "When I went back in (the car), it just really showed me that thats what I wanted to do," she said. "I wanted to be a race car driver, and that makes me want to work even harder to be successful." That journey continues with Edmonton, focusing only on the car in front of her. "Usually you go into the race and you want to win it, where in our case its not really realistic, so you try to make a better result than you had before," De Silvestro said. 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The new Fantasy Hockey Report is online, and it was done before the Bruins ripped it up against the Isles. MONTREAL -- Alexandre Despatie doesnt remember hitting his head on the diving board during training, and says that may be a good thing going into London Olympics. The two-time Olympic silver medallist, who suffered a concussion and nasty gash on his forehead during practice June 12 in Spain, confirmed his participation at the 2012 Games at a news conference Thursday. His Olympic future looked in doubt when he banged his head while training for the Madrid Grand Prix. Despatie was admitted into hospital and required surgery to close a 10-centimetre wound near his hairline. "For sure, its a concern, but the good thing is that I dont remember what happened," Despatie said. "There was a four or five minute period where I dont recall anything." Initial neurological tests indicated the 27-year-old from Laval, Que., hadnt suffered a concussion but a specialist in Canada confirmed otherwise. Despatie says he is back in the pool training a few days ahead of schedule, although he has yet to work on the dives he will use in competition. He said that due to the concussion, getting back to Olympic form is a step-by-step process that cannot be rushed, butt he feels hes doing well. Jermaine Gresham Jersey. He will leave with the team for Italy in a few days to begin the final stage of preparation. "Its a big challenge with the adversity Ill face until the end of this process," he said. "But Im going to the Games to do my best." There is concern the injury may diminish his chances of claiming a medal in London, but Despatie said he never focused on prizes even when at full health. "It was never a question of medals or scores for me," he said. "On the day of the competition, I just want to have my best performance ever and get the best result possible." Despatie won silver in springboard at the 2004 Summer Games in Athens to become the first Canadian male to earn an Olympic diving medal. Despite breaking his foot a few weeks prior to the 2008 Games in Beijing, Despatie won silver again. "Thank you to all the fans, the public that sent so many encouraging notes," Despatie said. "It means a lot to me. You have no idea. "It was a bit overwhelming, but Im very happy that you guys are proud of me and Ill do everything I can to make you proud still." ' ' '
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