Denver Post writer "very uncomfortable" with Japanese driver winning race on Memorial Day weekend

[disenfranchised]

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If a Japanese driver winning on Memorial Day weekend makes him uncomfortable, what does he propose we do? Should we lock up all Japanese competitors in camps over the weekend so they don't have the opportunity to win anything? I just sent an email to the Denver Post. I hope others will join me.

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[still_one]

1. No offense, but Frei should be fired for his racist bullshit

[shenmue]

2. Yeah

[elleng]

3. Yes he should be.

[disenfranchised]

4. no offense taken. ;) And the tweets that he has liked are also telling

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[50 Shades Of Blue]

6. ITA!!!

[dalton99a]

5. They need to stop coming over here and eating all the hot dogs in Coney Island

[nocalflea]

32. Oh, the shame !

[ornotna]

7. I wonder if he's aware that Germany won the World Cup?

[ProudLib72]

8. Sorry, but I feel like promoting a Japanese race car driver

who has won 9 world rally events in Colorado.


Nobuhiro "Monster" Tajima, winner of Pikes Peak Hill Climb 1992, 1993, 1995, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.

About "Monster": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobuhiro_Tajima


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[disenfranchised]

11. That is very cool. I did not know about him.

[ProudLib72]

17. Oh, Monster is REALLY cool

Lately, he has been racing electric cars. Notice how Rimac named their car after him.

http://www.carscoops.com/2015/06/monster-tajima-to-race-1100kw-rimac-e.html

http://www.rimac-automobili.com/en/press/releases/tajima-teams-up-with-rimac-for-pikes-peak-2015/

[flotsam]

12. How did the Unsers miss adopting him when he was younger??? N/T

[jmowreader]

36. That guy is too happy

[secondwind]

39. Wow! Thanks for sharing this!!!

[jberryhill]

9. Good lord... we built the foundation for modern Japan

[greytdemocrat]

10. What a dumbass.

[Quixote1818]

13. Wonder how he would feel about a lilly white German or Italian driver winning?

I mean, what is the difference based on his reasoning of who we fought in the past? What a complete ass!

[First Speaker]

14. Did he fret about Mario Andretti...?

[Awsi Dooger]

15. Sato looked the best throughout the later stages of the race

He had the fastest car among the leaders and the most varied passing techniques. With maybe 50 laps to go I told others in the room that he looked like the winner. The only problem was all the crashes and stoppages, never guaranteeing that the race would finish under green.

Sato was passed by Castoneves with maybe 8 laps remaining, and dropped into third. It was fantastic driving and strategy from that point to get by Chifton into second and then quickly retake Castoneves with maybe 5 laps to go. From that point forth the outcome looked like a formality.

Hey, an American won the PGA event today, saving par on the final hole to avoid a logjam playoff including dangerous foreigners like Jon Rahm. And an American college will likely win the NCAA men's golf championship match play finals in a few days. The racists have plenty of comfort food.

[Norbert]

40. Alonzo was on the march to the front.

and would have won if his Honda engine not puked a piston.

He was the best driver out there, bar none and almost made me glad I tuned in. Some of his passes for position were just unbelievable for a guy that just jumped into these cars a few weeks ago.

I will give Satu credit for at least getting to race F1 for a while, better than some of his indy car counterparts that struggled to be F1 test drivers. But frankly his Indy Car resume until yesterday was marked with one win in seven years of trying. You simply won't confuse his stats with that of Rick Mears or Tony Kanaan.

This writer dude is just not looking at the whole deal here. The powers that be in indy car racing to be highly competitive so they took a page from NASCAR and had one car made that fit a rigid spec. You pair that up with a rent-an-engine and you have a spec car race full of passes and wrecks. The Japanese guy won because he had the hot setup the last 25 laps and kept Helio and a couple of young drivers at bay. Had the scenario been slightly different he may have been lucky to hang onto 5th. Last year it was a kid that drive 85mph on the last lap to save fuel (slower than Gaston Chevrolets final lap almost 100 years ago). Next year the Russian guy, or the guy that lives in Dubai, who knows, who cares. I don't.

[Leghorn21]

16. couple of comments on tweet:

This is what happens when you live in a bubble,eat Breitbart news & drink Fox News..

4:19 PM - 28 May 2017


Hoping that no one from a former Confederate state ever wins the Indy 500 would be exactly equivalent.

4:26 PM - 28 May 2017 from San Diego, CA

[lunasun]

18. Master Frei is the only one making me uncomfortable . here are some photos for him :)

Last edited Mon May 29, 2017, 01:11 AM - Edit history (2)

Got Milk Terry??http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/05/indy-500-winner-takuma-sato-milk-celebration-photos-indianapolis-motor-speedway

[spooky3]

26. I think you meant Frei. Friedman called him out.

[lunasun]

29. Thanks I changed it . Enjoy the celebration photos at the link, nothing uncomfortable about it

[spooky3]

31. Very cool. He's a handsome man. Bet he gets more endorsements.

[onenote]

19. would he feel uncomfortable with a British driver winning?

Or a German? Or an Italian? Or a Spaniard? A Korean? Vietnamese? A Native American? Someone from one of the states of the Confederacy?

What an ass.

[A HERETIC I AM]

23. He is the kind of person that would probably think "Chevrolet" was as American as Apple Pie....

But Gaston (Winner of the 1920 500) and his brother Louis Chevrolet (The founder of the Chevrolet Car Company) WERE FRENCH!


Moron.

[Mountain Mule]

20. Terry Frei Will Never be ABLE to Walk Down the Pearl Street Mall Again

Get him, Boulder!

[disenfranchised]

35. I wish I felt that same optimism

Someone said "F--- you Chink" to my wife a couple of weeks ago in Boulder when she was grocery shopping.

[NBachers]

37. My Chinese girl friend has Muslim friends teaching her how to arrange her scarf around her head

in different styles- I love walking at her side and seeing the reactions she gets.

Plus, it looks great on her.

[Mountain Mule]

42. REALLY?

That's just so messed up. Sorry that happened to her. As a native Coloradan, I'm mostly proud of my state, but all it takes are a few bad apples like Frei or the Neanderthal who said that to your wife. When I attended CU Boulder my best friend was a Chinese girl who grew up in Lebanon. She was never subjected to stuff like that. I'm afraid it's just a sign of these times, yet another low the so-called presidency has brought the country to. It's now OK to hate.

[WoonTars]

21. What about the Brazilian who came second, or the Brit that came third?

Fire his racist ass!!!

[yuiyoshida]

22. Continue to Stay UNCOMFORTABLE , baka yaro...

引き続き不快な滞在バカヤロ! Hikitsudzuki fukaina taizai bakayaro!

[NBachers]

38. You tell him, Yui!

[Akamai]

24. And I am uncomfortable with a n incompetent, unhinged person in

the white house.

[spooky3]

25. International drivers have won the Indy 500 many times previously.

Why does this idiot have a problem now?

I think the paper should be kind enough to fire the idiot to give him time to get therapy for his lack of comfort.

[A HERETIC I AM]

28. ...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029130052#post23

[juxtaposed]

27. maybe he should have won on December 7 if you want to play that game?

[mwooldri]

30. On further reflection I can see where he's coming from...

...but yeah, it's racist and not well thought out.

I personally think there were victims on all sides of the Pacific War of 1936-1945. I thought Memorial Day is to remember all the dead in all the wars. I mean... how far back do we have to go in our wars? The Confederate War? The battle of Waterloo? The Battle of Hastings? Further back? The war is over, we make peace, we let go. Pearl Harbor was awful. As was Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

If the Japanese can celebrate the 3 astronauts who first landed on the moon as part of their national Culture Day (a national holiday day to celebrate Japanese culture) a Japanese race driver can win the Indy 500 during Memorial Day weekend.

[BigmanPigman]

33. I wonder if he would be uncomfortable if a Russian had won.

I just watched "Torah, Tora, Tora" so the only excuse for him is that he just woke up and thinks it's Dec 7, 1941 and he's at Pearl Harbor.

[JI7]

34. there are many who feel similar and that's why we have Trump

[oberliner]

41. Here's his apology

[Paladin]

43. There was a WWII Japanese internment camp in Colorado.

I've drove past it once, years ago. Specifically and personally as to "journalist" Terry Frei: he's an asshole, and he ought to be without a job.

[DavidDvorkin]

44. He is no longer employed by the Denver Post

According to an announcement by the paper this morning, in which they also apologized for his tweet.