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  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    Get_Right wrote:
    I will be checking that out thanks

    Prefer old montreal-for fun.
    We are just starting to put our heads together. The apt we rented this year is no longer available.
    I agree, but subway access - old montreal in minutes ;)
    How was the apartment?
    I'm not even sure what our group is planning for event seating...
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,138
    Rygar wrote:
    I agree, but subway access - old montreal in minutes ;)
    How was the apartment?
    I'm not even sure what our group is planning for event seating...
    the apt was freaking perfect
    three bedrooms and three couches
    5 guys
    $350 a man for the weekend

    it was perfect and was right in old montreal off rue st. paul
    better than hotel rooms because we could all hang out in the living room
    fridge and kitchen didnt hurt either-very nice

    race tickets are booked, but now we need to find a decent lodging alternative
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    Get_Right wrote:
    the apt was freaking perfect
    three bedrooms and three couches
    5 guys
    $350 a man for the weekend

    it was perfect and was right in old montreal off rue st. paul
    better than hotel rooms because we could all hang out in the living room
    fridge and kitchen didnt hurt either-very nice

    race tickets are booked, but now we need to find a decent lodging alternative
    Sounds decent!
    Next year should be fun, maybe I"ll try to get an extra day in or something
  • MrBrian
    MrBrian Posts: 2,672
    I'm reading a lot of articles about the Singapore race. Seems like everyones excited. I hope the lights don't cut out. That would suck,

    Rain I don't mind as much, just keep the lights on.
  • MrBrian
    MrBrian Posts: 2,672
    No rain in practice. Massa,Hamiton,Kubica and Alonso were all pretty fast.

    Should be a great race,
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    The track lighting was very bright, may as well have it in the daytime :p
    Going to have a lemans feel.
    Ferrari-McLaren fast practice 1, I was surprised to see Alonso show up in Practice 2.
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,138
    MrBrian wrote:
    I'm reading a lot of articles about the Singapore race. Seems like everyones excited. I hope the lights don't cut out. That would suck,

    Rain I don't mind as much, just keep the lights on.

    from what I understand, they have two backup generators ready in case of any failures

    Cant wait to see this, it should be a very interesting spectacle
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    Get_Right wrote:
    from what I understand, they have two backup generators ready in case of any failures

    Cant wait to see this, it should be a very interesting spectacle
    Agreed.
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    Nicely done Massa. Got excited when I thought Kimi was going to end up 2nd.
    Screw you Lewis.


    Not too big a fan of the track itself.
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    so this is gran turismo come to life? crazy


    and what's with the pit entrance? that might bew a problem during the race

    cars look cool under the lights though :)
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    cutback wrote:
    so this is gran turismo come to life? crazy


    and what's with the pit entrance? that might bew a problem during the race

    cars look cool under the lights though :)
    Yeah, it's gonna cause more problems than a stick-swingin' goon with an illegal curve in the Stanley Cup finals.
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    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? :p:D
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    cutback wrote:
    hehehe

    you're bring that up all the time now, aren't ya? :p:D
    I'm sure it'll wear off in a week or two :p
  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    My family are there. Got a call yesterday from the first practice session ... other than vrooooooooooom, vrooooooooooooooom couldn't hear much :p

    Fam will be cheering for Lewis.
    So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
  • MrBrian
    MrBrian Posts: 2,672
    Massa! Good stuff, perhaps another story if it rains. Alonso was looking fast, too bad for that fuel line issue?
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    Ridiculous.
    Wouldn't mind seeing Force India gone next year, and Piquet replaced...
  • MrBrian
    MrBrian Posts: 2,672
    I was pissed after Ferrari screwed up that pit stop. and of course Kimi lost the car again. Ferrari should replace him and F1 needs to change the rule for fueling during a safty car.

    Alonso probably loves Piquet, since it was Piquet who turned the entire table around for him! hahah,

    I would like to see Lamborghini and Porsche Join F1. That would be great.
  • MrBrian
    MrBrian Posts: 2,672
    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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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,138
    what a great race, exciting stuff, great locale and yet another winner this season

    Massa must be steamed-but it made me jump out of me seat

    Japan next- I will have to set the DVR for that one.
  • MrBrian
    MrBrian Posts: 2,672
    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.

    "

    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

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