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Points: 1324 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 19 2008 at 13:59
We can only hope that the Ferraris are weak at Monaco and Canada, I never enjoy seeing Ferrari do well in F1 as it's a constant reminder (to me at least) of how boring F1 became during Schumacher's era of total domination.
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Originally posted by N Ellingworth N Ellingworth wrote:

We can only hope that the Ferraris are weak at Monaco and Canada, I never enjoy seeing Ferrari do well in F1 as it's a constant reminder (to me at least) of how boring F1 became during Schumacher's era of total domination.


Yes, me too.
Granted it's better now that my fav driver will do the dominating...but I really hope it dosn't become another Ferrari festival...
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At least the Ferrari drivers can race against each other now, shame that both never seem to be "on it" at the same time.
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True...and the occasional race when Massa and Kimi are going head to head  Massa will probably crash it....

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 very good ,thx
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Originally posted by Isabella219 Isabella219 wrote:

 very good ,thx

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Looking at that users other post it's a spammer trying to look like a normal member. Wink
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Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

Next Sunday will be the greatest single day of racing ever:

Monaco GP
Indy 500
and Coke 600

Personally I'm looking foward to the first 2 mainly, but still
That's a lot of racing


You forgot the most important one - the Nurburgring 24 Hours. On the classic Nordschleife, no less.

So here they are, in the order of importance:

1. Nurburgring 24 Hours
2. Indy 500
3. Coca Cola 600
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1339. The Matchbox Race held by the kid next door
1440. Monaco GP
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^Is it the Nurburgring race this weekend? I thought it would be in June again, its been held on the same w/e as Le Mans for the last few years now. I expect the Phoenix Racing Aston DBRS9 will win this year.
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Monaco free practice session two times

1.  HAMILTON      McLaren       1m15.140s

2.  ROSBERG       Williams      1m15.533s

3.  RAIKKONEN     Ferrari       1m15.572s

4.  MASSA         Ferrari       1m15.869s

5.  KOVALAINEN    McLaren       1m15.881s

6.  KUBICA        BMW           1m16.296s

7.  ALONSO        Renault       1m16.310s

8.  BUTTON        Honda         1m16.351s

9.  NAKAJIMA      Williams      1m16.372s

10. BARRICHELLO   Honda         1m16.418s

11. HEIDFELD      BMW           1m16.426s

12. GLOCK         Toyota        1m16.688s

13. WEBBER        Red Bull      1m17.094s

14. COULTHARD     Red Bull      1m17.131s

15. PIQUET        Renault       1m17.246s

16. FISICHELLA    Force India   1m17.251s

17. TRULLI        Toyota        1m17.379s

18. BOURDAIS      Toro Rosso    1m17.581s

19. SUTIL         Force India   1m18.176s

20. VETTEL        Toro Rosso    1m18.225s



Monaco free practice session one times

1.  RAIKKONEN     Ferrari       1m15.948s

2.  HAMILTON      McLaren       1m16.216s

3.  KOVALAINEN    McLaren       1m16.248s

4.  MASSA         Ferrari       1m16.292s

5.  ROSBERG       Williams      1m16.653s

6.  KUBICA        BMW           1m16.834s

7.  ALONSO        Renault       1m17.498s

8.  BARRICHELLO   Honda         1m17.511s

9.  WEBBER        Red Bull      1m17.798s

10. FISICHELLA    Force India   1m17.835s

11. GLOCK         Toyota        1m17.942s

12. BUTTON        Honda         1m18.153s

13. BOURDAIS      Toro Rosso    1m18.245s

14. HEIDFELD      BMW           1m18.263s

15. NAKAJIMA      Williams      1m18.274s

16. TRULLI        Toyota        1m18.360s

17. SUTIL         Force India   1m18.360s

18. PIQUET        Renault       1m18.955s

19. VETTEL        Toro Rosso    1m19.176s

20. COULTHARD     Red Bull      no time
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I just can't wait for this Sunday
Especially Monaco

During practice their talking about Renault already wanting to dump Piquet Jr??
Give the boy a chance at least, even the 2 time champion is sucking in the Renault
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Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

^Is it the Nurburgring race this weekend? I thought it would be in June again, its been held on the same w/e as Le Mans for the last few years now. I expect the Phoenix Racing Aston DBRS9 will win this year.


Yes, it's this weekend.

http://adac.24h-rennen.de/en

Putting it back to May is a good idea, people might want to do this race and Le Mans, after all.

I don't think the Aston will win, it wasn't all that fast last year. Only sixth fastest in quals for tomorrow's race, 23 seconds off the pace, and those Porsches are mighty strong!

Who do you think will win the 500?




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Originally posted by Visitor13 Visitor13 wrote:

Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

^Is it the Nurburgring race this weekend? I thought it would be in June again, its been held on the same w/e as Le Mans for the last few years now. I expect the Phoenix Racing Aston DBRS9 will win this year.


Yes, it's this weekend.

http://adac.24h-rennen.de/en

Putting it back to May is a good idea, people might want to do this race and Le Mans, after all.

I don't think the Aston will win, it wasn't all that fast last year. Only sixth fastest in quals for tomorrow's race, 23 seconds off the pace, and those Porsches are mighty strong!

Who do you think will win the 500?



The Porsche is a GT2 class car, despite the name, and the Aston is a GT3 class car (GT2 Vantage is yet to really get going, so dont expect to see that matching Porsches and Ferraris on pace for at least a year), so the Porsche was bound to be faster but the Phoenix Aston was leading last years race by a long way when it droped out at about 3/4 distance. I agree with you about the date change, though I know there were some drivers that competed in both events last year (talk about a long weekendLOL)!

As for Indy, I dont know, probably Dixon or Castroneves, but I expect the N/H/L cars to put on a bit of a late charge.

JJ, Renault were saying the same about Kovaleinen last year, and look where he is.
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^ True

And it really is a shame about the Indy 500   one of the crown jewels of racing and most people just don't give a sh*t or watch it just because its the Indy 500...
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^Oval racing only holds mass appeal in the states, I guarentee that anyone wathing NASCAR in the UK that isnt a streight up motorsport fan anyway is watching it for the crashes and nothing else. Plus, the 500 only gets shown in this country on a football dominated satelight chanel.
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Ha well I guess it's all the same.
Sports networks don't even mention a word about soccer, er... football, until there's a championship  THEN we have the right to complain about how it ended LOL

Anyway, waking up early tomm to catch Monaco qualifying and of course the race on Sunday
Maybe the 500 depending on how I feel.
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Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

Originally posted by Visitor13 Visitor13 wrote:

Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

^Is it the Nurburgring race this weekend? I thought it would be in June again, its been held on the same w/e as Le Mans for the last few years now. I expect the Phoenix Racing Aston DBRS9 will win this year.


Yes, it's this weekend.

http://adac.24h-rennen.de/en

Putting it back to May is a good idea, people might want to do this race and Le Mans, after all.

I don't think the Aston will win, it wasn't all that fast last year. Only sixth fastest in quals for tomorrow's race, 23 seconds off the pace, and those Porsches are mighty strong!

Who do you think will win the 500?



The Porsche is a GT2 class car, despite the name, and the Aston is a GT3 class car (GT2 Vantage is yet to really get going, so dont expect to see that matching Porsches and Ferraris on pace for at least a year), so the Porsche was bound to be faster but the Phoenix Aston was leading last years race by a long way when it droped out at about 3/4 distance.


It was? Ugh, my memory is all shot full of holes Dead But my money's still on one of the Porsches.




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Massa grabs pole @ Monaco
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We're on!

http://adac.24h-rennen.de/en/live/streaming.html

http://adac.24h-rennen.de/en/live/database.html
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Originally posted by Visitor13 Visitor13 wrote:

Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

Originally posted by Visitor13 Visitor13 wrote:

Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

^Is it the Nurburgring race this weekend? I thought it would be in June again, its been held on the same w/e as Le Mans for the last few years now. I expect the Phoenix Racing Aston DBRS9 will win this year.


Yes, it's this weekend.

http://adac.24h-rennen.de/en

Putting it back to May is a good idea, people might want to do this race and Le Mans, after all.

I don't think the Aston will win, it wasn't all that fast last year. Only sixth fastest in quals for tomorrow's race, 23 seconds off the pace, and those Porsches are mighty strong!

Who do you think will win the 500?



The Porsche is a GT2 class car, despite the name, and the Aston is a GT3 class car (GT2 Vantage is yet to really get going, so dont expect to see that matching Porsches and Ferraris on pace for at least a year), so the Porsche was bound to be faster but the Phoenix Aston was leading last years race by a long way when it droped out at about 3/4 distance.


It was? Ugh, my memory is all shot full of holes Dead But my money's still on one of the Porsches.



I only really went with the Aston because Phoenix are the best run team out there, most of the top Porsche squads are local semi pro teams whereas Phoenix are an FIA GT squad (I think they teamed up with Hezemans Carsport Holland team).

Cheers for the link to the streaming.Thumbs%20Up
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