Patrick Carpentier Fired!!?

May be...

yep fired
kicking a can
shlt out of luck

Well this is the big leagues. The guy didn't do much to show he belongs. I wish him luck.

That sucks for Carpentier since he was in the crappiest car out of the team. I feel sorry for Sorenson next year as well. GEM seems to give all the good cars to Kasey Kahne and even those cars aren't that good lately. I think a big factor in Carpentier getting fired before the season was out was due to him having an argument with his crew chief in public after he failed to qualify for the race Sunday.

I thought he did a decent job considering the circumstances. He wasn't in good equipment, the 10 team for GEM has never had great success, and on top of all that it was his first foray into oval racing. He got a raw deal, but Evernham made the decision to hire Reed Sorenson, and figured he had to get Carpentier out of the seat ASAP.

I hate it when this stuff happens in our sport. Same thing happened to AJ in the 84, and now he has an interim ride. Right now it is produce now or you're fired in Nascar, and that's a shame.

Liked him better than Montoya

It sucks for Carpentier. He didnt deserve this. He had one bad qualifying run and they fire him

And as for AJ Allmendinger. I thought he was racing the 00 for MWR this week.

Edit: AJ Allmendinger is taking over after Charoltette. Reed Sorenson will be in the 10 this week!

Patreek was over the hill.

He had a good run in CART until Forsythe decided to stick with that ****** PT instead of him.

OWell - looks like BOTH of them are looking for work now................

Don't forget Scott Speed, he is an extra Red Bull car this week, #82. I sure hope Patrick gets another ride. I really like him, he's funny and very upbeat in general. He is also a decent driver most of the time. He was the quickest of the GEM cars in qualifying and STILL got chewed out for not getting it into the show. He got a raw deal for sure.
edit: AJ is in the 00 MWR car THIS week and THEN he will be in the 10 car for the rest of the races, per jayski.
3 STR8 N 08!!!

he was a great qualifyer but...darn, just can't seem to race very well. It was wrong to fire him all together, but even more wrong to fire him for the reasons stated. If Gillette Evernham thinks Patrick is bad, wait till they get Sorenson in the car.

I think it stinks. I liked him too. In all of his interviews he was always nice, happy and very personable. I think given time he would of made a good driver. Hopefully someone will pick him up.

I think it's a shame. I liked the guy. he had a few Ok runs there. I hope he gets a ride.

well he had an argument with his crew chief and that got him fired

that was gonna happen eventually

What do you think about this?
We started this season with many Open-Wheelers. Now down to only Sam Hornish Jr.

Apparently AJ Allmendinger is taking over the #10 car for the final 5 races.reset stylus