Formula 1---AET---Thread

Rygar wrote:

Yeah, it's gonna cause more problems than a stick-swingin' goon with an illegal curve in the Stanley Cup finals.

hehehe

you're bring that up all the time now, aren't ya?

My family are there. Got a call yesterday from the first practice session ... other than vrooooooooooom, vrooooooooooooooom couldn't hear much

Fam will be cheering for Lewis.

Ridiculous.
Wouldn't mind seeing Force India gone next year, and Piquet replaced...

I must say that Massa is handling this situation like a real champion. Really good to see.
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Human error in the Ferrari pits
System not to blame Massa insists
28/09/08 19:59


Felipe Massa has admitted that abandoning Ferrari's unique 'traffic lights' pitstop solution is an option, following yet another blunder in Singapore on Sunday, but the system itself was not the cause of the pitlane gaffe.

The latest mistake could cost the Brazilian the world championship, after he fell seven points behind McLaren's title leader Lewis Hamilton by failing to score at F1's first night race.

Massa pulled away from a pitstop too early, ripping the refuelling hose from the rig, knocking over a mechanic, and incurring a penalty for driving into the path of another car.

"It was not a technical failure, but a human one, so the same thing can happen with any system," the 27-year-old told reporters when asked if Sunday's incident might finally compel Ferrari to abandon the 'traffic lights' system.

"Of course we could return to using a lollipop, but today's problem was not about this," Massa added, explaining that because a mechanic pressed a button too soon, the green light on the driver gantry simply came on too soon.

"These things happen," he continued. "We are all human and we can all make mistakes."
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Luca di Montezemolo and bernie ecclestone are at it.
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Bernie Ecclestone, the chief mastermind of the night racing concept for F1, has hit back at Ferrari boss Luca di Montezemolo's claim that the Singapore Grand Prix was akin to a "circus."

Also lashing out at the lack of overtaking opportunities at new street circuits, and the farcical Safety Car rules, Montezemolo said last week that "all this is humiliating for F1."

But Ecclestone, F1's chief executive, hinted to Britain's Mail on Sunday newspaper that the attack by Montezemolo was perhaps to divert attention from Ferrari's woeful showing under the city-state's floodlights.

"If the Ferrari President is right about the Singapore Grand Prix being a circus," he said, "then we have to be grateful to him for providing the clowns.

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The 77-year-old is undoubtedly referring to title rival Felipe Massa's botched pitstop, when the Brazilian ripped the fuel hose from the rig and pulled it the entire length of the pitlane.

Ecclestone continued to fire: "After the weekend Ferrari had, their President should have shut up and kept his head down. If Massa loses the World Championship, he will know the team were responsible."

The British billionaire also slammed Ferrari's unique pitstop gantry lights system, used instead of a traditional lollipop, as "over the top."

"Why do you want to have some other piece of technology that can go wrong?" Bernie wondered.

http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headlines/news/detail/081005174434.shtml

The fucking Canadian GP in 2009 has been dropped...ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!
This is un(fucking)believable. Stupid motherfuckers.
http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2008/10/8483.html

edit - fuck.

MrBrian wrote:

Yeah wtf! I just read that on the front page of Yahoo, booo!

This is very annoying. Very very very annoying.
GR's gotta get himself a refund!

MrBrian wrote:

I guess time to save up for a trip to Europe, or Perhaps abu dhabi and visit Ferrari world (that new theme park coming) and watch the Grand Prix.

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/11/05/ferrari-theme-park-lays-the-first-stone-and-its-red/

I'll stick to the television
This is a pretty big downer.

Rygar wrote:

I'll stick to the television
This is a pretty big downer.

MAJOR BUMMER

those fuckers

what are they thinking

suddenly too expensive to cart the F1 teams over to North America?

Get_Right wrote:

double fuck

I'll second that double fuck.

MrBrian wrote:

MotoGP, haha, yeah it's cool. But you know that valentino rossi wants to drive for Ferrari in F1. I hear he's pretty quick on four wheels also.

This has been a rumour for years. I hope he never changes. He's the greatest motorcycle rider the world has ever seen and such a showman.
I think he'd be hopeless at F1. He overtakes over the top, underneath and on the dirt, I think he'd shunt a few in F1.

MrBrian wrote:

I think he requested another test for Ferrari a few weeks ago, but also signed for another 2 years in MotoGP, perhaps after that he will switch. and Schumacher enters MotoGP.
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Haven't heard this, hope not! MotoGP wouldn't be the same without him.

Schumacher enters MotoGP!! You have a fine sense of humour.

MrBrian wrote:

from last year

http://www.crash.net/motorsport/motogp/news/156889-0/schumacher_talks_motogp.html

Would be interesting to see them switch,

@er in Moto GP.

MrBrian wrote:

I guess time to save up for a trip to Europe, or Perhaps abu dhabi and visit Ferrari world (that new theme park coming) and watch the Grand Prix.

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/11/05/ferrari-theme-park-lays-the-first-stone-and-its-red/

Well so much for going to see an F1 race....sucks.....hopefully they can come back to the US....maybe they will bring both the US & Canadian GP in 2010.

MrBrian wrote:

Japan qualies tonight...I don't think TSN is showing it (Live), guess we gotta watch it online (here in Canada)

Not even TSN 2?
Go Massa Go!