The Motorsport Thread (was the F1 thread)

^Very sad news, I was hopeing that the Weigle groups bid would be accepted but I know the Honda F1 team was very much against it.

N Ellingworth wrote: Indeed, but why was Nick Fry allowed to decide whether SA should race, I think Honda will have made a lot of enemies over the past few days.

I think its more to do with Ross Brawn, its just that Nick Fry gets to deliver the bad news so to speak. I think since RB joined last year he's been pushing with the Honda managment to cut SA loose and focus on the works team, especially after last years disasterus car. Fry said something in the press about the Weigle group being too small to properly support an F1 team and thought it better to have the team finish than limp on alla Arrows/Minardi in their last few years.

 I believe it was the Honda bosses that pushed for Bernie to ban SA from entering the Turky paddock (there's a joke in there somewhere) so that if the deal fell through it would be as embaressing for them.

I wouldnt count on it then. VW-Audi/Porsche arent really interested, GM doesnt have a global car company besides Chevrolette, who are well invold in GT's, NASCAR and the WTCC, Ford only got out a coupleyears ago and Hyundai's motorsport record speaks for itself. 

^Aston dont really have the money, plus they're beginning to push into LMP1 this year with the Charouze Racing Lola B08/60 (run by Prodrive, effectively making it a works car, and its certainly capable of keeping the Audi R10's on their toes, despite being 50hp+ down).

Pratice times!

1.  RAIKKONEN    Ferrari      1m27.543s
2.  HAMILTON     McLaren      1m27.579s
3.  MASSA        Ferrari      1m27.682s
4.  COULTHARD    Red Bull     1m27.763s
5.  KOVALAINEN   McLaren      1m27.954s
6.  KUBICA       BMW          1m28.431s
7.  TRULLI       Toyota       1m28.619s
8.  NAKAJIMA     Williams     1m28.664s
9.  ALONSO       Renault      1m28.681s
10. HEIDFELD     BMW          1m28.817s
11. BUTTON       Honda        1m28.826s
12. GLOCK        Toyota       1m28.849s
13. ROSBERG      Williams     1m28.907s
14. FISICHELLA   Force India  1m29.008s
15. BARRICHELLO  Honda        1m29.024s
16. PIQUET       Renault      1m29.212s
17. VETTEL       Toro Rosso   1m29.462s
18. BOURDAIS     Toro Rosso   1m29.630s
19. WEBBER       Red Bull     1m29.633s
20. SUTIL        Force India  1m30.832s

And with the demise of Super Aguri, only 5 cars will be knocked out of Q1 and 2 instead of 6.

Edited by sleeper - May 09 2008 at 09:45

Looks like Massa won another pole

Not the best race ever but it was moderately entertaining, I thought both McLarens put on a great performance and that 3 stop strategy definitely seemed to work well.

Its a shame the McLaren couldnt deal with the cross winds in qually or Hamilton would have been on pole. From their he would have won with his three stop strategy. I think the McLaren was very nearly a match for the Ferrari, look how Kimi couldnt really get close enough to even consider attacking Lewis for second.

Coke 600, and...

sleeper wrote: Wherre the hell is the Coke 600? Would watch Indy but I dont have a channel here that shows it. I'm certain Hamilton will win in Monaco, but I was last year as well. Good luck with your race Chris, heres to another podium.

MONACO! Can't wait.
Myself....gotta pick Raikkonen!

And you don't know what the Coke 600 is???
NASCAR race, 600 miles long  Charlotte, NC