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  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    MrBrian wrote:
    What is wrong with Hamilton? He's driving like a nutter. I hope BMW get's back on track, they had a bad weekend.
    He was letting the urgency and frustration get the better of him yesterday, that's for sure.
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,136
    I starting to believe that FIA stands for Ferrari International Assistance.
    Any other car wouldhave been ordered into the pits, at the very least.

    Decent race, uneventful other than Kimi's car.

    Why two weeks til the next one? And its on FOX again darn it!
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    Get_Right wrote:
    I starting to believe that FIA stands for Ferrari International Assistance.
    Any other car wouldhave been ordered into the pits, at the very least.

    Decent race, uneventful other than Kimi's car.

    Why two weeks til the next one? And its on FOX again darn it!
    Hahaha, FIA!

    The announcers thought it was going to be called off the track (not the Fox "announcers") but after a few laps they assumed it was ok (Ferrari had the head engineer in the pits with a fire extinguisher...).
    They do get away with a lot.
    Mostly uneventful. It was funny that Trulli didn't think he and Kovaleinin touched wheels (at 180mph, lolsters).
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,136
    Rygar wrote:
    Hahaha, FIA!

    The announcers thought it was going to be called off the track (not the Fox "announcers") but after a few laps they assumed it was ok (Ferrari had the head engineer in the pits with a fire extinguisher...).
    They do get away with a lot.
    Mostly uneventful. It was funny that Trulli didn't think he and Kovaleinin touched wheels (at 180mph, lolsters).


    We got the usual speed crew, but the broadcast was condensed into two hours. No peter windsor on the grid or in the interview room after-totally sucked.

    UK next

    cheers
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    Get_Right wrote:
    We got the usual speed crew, but the broadcast was condensed into two hours. No peter windsor on the grid or in the interview room after-totally sucked.

    UK next

    cheers
    Yet ANOTHER two week wait, ugh!
    TSN had a pre-race 30 minutes, and got the interview afterwards for a change.
  • MrBrian
    MrBrian Posts: 2,672
    Yeah why another 2 weeks. jeeze. too long.
    ---

    Interesting developments, well sorta. A few American backers are trying to set up an F1 team...Use Honda systems (engines,gear boxes) for the cars.
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    http://www.tsn.ca/auto_racing/story/?id=241517&lid=headline&lpos=topStory_auto_racing

    Another huge increase for teams. $450k to over a million for the yearly fee now, not that most can't afford it.
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    http://www.tsn.ca/auto_racing/story/?id=241614&lid=headline&lpos=topStory_auto_racing
    No Indy next year, either.
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    Rygar wrote:
    http://www.tsn.ca/auto_racing/story/?id=241614&lid=headline&lpos=topStory_auto_racing
    No Indy next year, either.


    i think f1 is done in the us....there just isn't enough fan support for it....nascrap is just to popular and most of their fans hate open wheel
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    cutback wrote:
    i think f1 is done in the us....there just isn't enough fan support for it....nascrap is just to popular and most of their fans hate open wheel
    Well I think you're right and you're wrong. F1 always had that standing in the US but sold out anyway. The problem in this case is sponsorship, although it is more popular elsewhere and many of these other places are trying hard to get a race, which will make it hard for the US to get one back (Australia is trying to get rid of theirs, though, so not everyone is trying to get a race ;)).


    Oh, whoever owns the Indy Speedway is definitely trying to get sponsorship.
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    Rygar wrote:
    Well I think you're right and you're wrong. F1 always had that standing in the US but sold out anyway. The problem in this case is sponsorship, although it is more popular elsewhere and many of these other places are trying hard to get a race, which will make it hard for the US to get one back (Australia is trying to get rid of theirs, though, so not everyone is trying to get a race ;)).


    Oh, whoever owns the Indy Speedway is definitely trying to get sponsorship.

    that's just it.....the sponsors want the exposure that comes from nascrap....and since our economy isn't the greatest right now no us companies are willing to spend the $$$ on a race where the majority of the viewers are not in this country

    Australia wants to stop? that sucks
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    cutback wrote:
    that's just it.....the sponsors want the exposure that comes from nascrap....and since our economy isn't the greatest right now no us companies are willing to spend the $$$ on a race where the majority of the viewers are not in this country

    Australia wants to stop? that sucks
    At the Montreal GP this year they speculated that around 70% of the crowd was from Europe and the US, hehe!

    I should clarify, the Australian government wants to stop the race due to the noise and cost of hosting it (I think noise is cover, as it's probably all due to cost).
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    That was awful for driving (except for Hamilton).
    Someone from Ferrari's pit decision making ought to get fired for that ;)
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,136
    Rygar wrote:
    That was awful for driving (except for Hamilton).
    Someone from Ferrari's pit decision making ought to get fired for that ;)


    I loved that race.
    Great start by hamilton and the championship is up for grabs
    Honda on the podium!!!! :D

    Would have been nice if I could have seen the darn finish though. FOX showed hamilton finishing and then went straight to the podium.

    It really sucks watching these races on FOX. German race is also on fox.
    I think I might go the beach instead.
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    Get_Right wrote:
    I loved that race.
    Great start by hamilton and the championship is up for grabs
    Honda on the podium!!!! :D

    Would have been nice if I could have seen the darn finish though. FOX showed hamilton finishing and then went straight to the podium.

    It really sucks watching these races on FOX. German race is also on fox.
    I think I might go the beach instead.
    It was shaping up to be a real battle between Hamilton and Raikkonen, what a dumb move.
    Absolute destruction after that.
    Tight championship.
  • MrBrian
    MrBrian Posts: 2,672
    Rygar wrote:
    It was shaping up to be a real battle between Hamilton and Raikkonen, what a dumb move.
    Absolute destruction after that.
    Tight championship.

    Yeah, I was waiting for a battle, a great battle. But that's racing for yeah, anything can happen.

    I feel bad for massa. I think he has not recovered from that friday crash he had. I think it got to his head and screwed his mind up for that race.

    Hamilton, *clap* *clap* good job.
  • MrBrian
    MrBrian Posts: 2,672
    Get_Right wrote:

    Would have been nice if I could have seen the darn finish though. FOX showed hamilton finishing and then went straight to the podium.

    It really sucks watching these races on FOX. German race is also on fox.
    I think I might go the beach instead.

    You can watch everytg online on itv,practice,qualies,race,post race.

    http://www.itv-f1.com/videohome.aspx

    take your laptop to the beach, throw in one of those At&t wireless cards and you should be all good. well i've yet to try it myself. But it should work. I mean why would it not? unless it's zoned or something?
  • Baystone
    Baystone Posts: 111
    Rygar wrote:
    Well I think you're right and you're wrong. F1 always had that standing in the US but sold out anyway. The problem in this case is sponsorship, although it is more popular elsewhere and many of these other places are trying hard to get a race, which will make it hard for the US to get one back (Australia is trying to get rid of theirs, though, so not everyone is trying to get a race ;)).


    Oh, whoever owns the Indy Speedway is definitely trying to get sponsorship.
    Melbourne has renewed the GP for another 4 years. I think the noise was a factor because Ecclestone wanted it to become a night raceso there would be a bigger TV audience in Europe. They have compromised and the race will now start at 5pm.
    I only lied because it was the easiest way to get what I wanted.
  • Baystone
    Baystone Posts: 111
    Rygar wrote:
    It was shaping up to be a real battle between Hamilton and Raikkonen, what a dumb move.
    Absolute destruction after that.
    Tight championship.
    At the time that Raikkonen made his pit stop I think Webber was the fastest on track and he was another that kept the tyres on... Unfortunately it rained again.
    I only lied because it was the easiest way to get what I wanted.
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    Baystone wrote:
    Melbourne has renewed the GP for another 4 years. I think the noise was a factor because Ecclestone wanted it to become a night raceso there would be a bigger TV audience in Europe. They have compromised and the race will now start at 5pm.
    That is good news indeed. Time to check time zones :p
    Baystone wrote:
    At the time that Raikkonen made his pit stop I think Webber was the fastest on track and he was another that kept the tyres on... Unfortunately it rained again.

    Webber? You mean Alonso? I missed Webber keeping his old tires. Knew Kimi and Alonso left theirs on and it was a huge mistake.
    I know Heidfeld was ripping the times up.

    My point was the Raikkonen was catching Hamilton, then on the tire gaff he went from 5 seconds back to 20 seconds back in one lap.

    Massa can't drive in the rain, plain and simple.

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