The Motorsport Thread (was the F1 thread)

Practice 1 times ffrom Malaysia

1.  ROSBERG       Williams      1m36.260s
2.  NAKAJIMA      Williams      1m36.305s
3.  BUTTON        Brawn         1m36.430s
4.  BARRICHELLO   Brawn         1m36.487s
5.  MASSA         Ferrari       1m36.561s
6.  RAIKKONEN     Ferrari       1m36.646s
7.  HAMILTON      McLaren       1m36.699s
8.  WEBBER        Red Bull      1m36.703s
9.  VETTEL        Red Bull      1m36.747s
10. GLOCK         Toyota        1m36.980s
11. TRULLI        Toyota        1m36.982s
12. FISICHELLA    Force India   1m37.025s
13. KUBICA        BMW           1m37.039s
14. PIQUET        Renault       1m37.199s
15. SUTIL         Force India   1m37.241s
16. ALONSO        Renault       1m37.395s
17. BUEMI         Toro Rosso    1m37.634s
18. HEIDFELD      BMW           1m37.640s
19. BOURDAIS      Toro Rosso    1m38.022s
20. KOVALAINEN    McLaren       1m38.483s

and Practice 2 times

1.  RAIKKONEN     Ferrari       1m35.707s
2.  MASSA         Ferrari       1m35.832s
3.  VETTEL        Red Bull      1m35.954s
4.  ROSBERG       Williams      1m36.015s
5.  WEBBER        Red Bull      1m36.026s
6.  BARRICHELLO   Brawn         1m36.161s
7.  BUTTON        Brawn         1m36.254s
8.  NAKAJIMA      Williams      1m36.290s
9.  KOVALAINEN    McLaren       1m36.397s
10. PIQUET        Renault       1m36.401s
11. HAMILTON      McLaren       1m36.515s
12. TRULLI        Toyota        1m36.516s
13. BUEMI         Toro Rosso    1m36.628s
14. GLOCK         Toyota        1m36.639s
15. ALONSO        Renault       1m36.640s
16. SUTIL         Force India   1m36.875s
17. KUBICA        BMW           1m37.267s
18. BOURDAIS      Toro Rosso    1m37.278s
19. FISICHELLA    Force India   1m37.432s
20. HEIDFELD      BMW           1m37.930s

^By being the fastest. Heck, he made 3 pitstops in the space of about 10 laps in Malaysia when the rain started and still held the lead from Glock and Hedifeld who made 2 and 1 respectively. Then he says the car doesnt handle too good in the wet!

Cant wait for next semester! Then I'll be in an apt that gets SPEED.
Well, apparently things are still crazy. Button leads the points followed by Rubens, Vettel and Glock.
While Massa, Kimi have no points?

Yea this is madness! 

So glad to be back home. I didnt get SPEED out at school so I couldnt watch F1!
Luckilly, I am back in time for the glorious racing day.
Monaco GP, Indy 500, and Coke 600.

Now, since I havnt caught anything someone update me. Whats going on?
Button leads the points with 4 wins out of 5 races.
Rubens is in 2nd
Though I am very glad to see Webber in 4th I am surprised
not to mention Hami is in 7th and Kimi is 13th?

Another great race @ Monaco. I just LOVE watching the racing there...insanity.
Indy 500 was the usual, glad to see him win.

Coke 600 never got started, so TBD

It sure did...

I loved the race, though the last 15 laps or so were a major disappointment, with everyone basically locked into their positions. The sooner these cars are disposed of, the better. The current design seems to limit overtaking opportunities severely.

Sad to see Meira get hurt. Though this accident might have been much worse. I see shades of Piquet's Indy crash in '94 ('93?) in that.

I'll probably not watch another NASCRAP race again in my life, with the way they destroyed Carl Long. I'm not fully convinced of Jeremy Mayfield's guilt either.

Oh, and the first 50 minutes of the Nurburgring 24 hours were pure magic. Dirk Adorf in a Ford GT40 holding off Marc Lieb in a Porsche 911 GT3, just stunning. Too bad Adorf would spin and couldn't catch up.

 

Edited by Visitor13 - May 25 2009 at 08:58

limeyrob wrote: Presumably if Jenson Button wins the next three races he will be World Champion. This assumes that I am correct in thinking that the rules have changed and it is the driver with the most number of wins who becomes champion and points are only taken into account in the event of two or more drivers with the same number of wins. Well done if this is so but a bit of an anticlimax for the rest of the season.

Nope, they changed it right before the season began due to complaints from teams.
Thank God!
I hope they never go to that system.
Though if Button was to win the next 3 he might have the title anyway

No prob. I am very glad too...I think a "most wins" championship is a terrible idea. Just terrible.
Besides, Im sure they had a solution for this, but does anyone know what they proposed if 2, or more, people had the same amount of wins?

And the Coke 600 is on the verge of becoming the 24 hours of Charlotte
Personally, used to be a big NASCAR fan but just lost it over the years. I cant watch it anymore. Like I enjoy it still but just can't get "into it" and really follow it. I just watch the Daytona 500, Brickyard, Coke 600, and a race if I feel in the mood.

Personally, Ive noticed a fundamental difference in American race fans and Europeans. This is just off my experience now....but ive noticed Americans support a consistency based points system, while Europeans support "more win" oriented points. Hence the old F1 system where a win was 10 followed by 6, 4, etc
I suppose thats growing up with NASCAR/F1 but yea I guess a champion having less wins then a 2nd place finisher is kind of a downer, but I dont see a big deal. If you get 6 wins but 5 DNF's....you should NOT win the title over someone with 1 win but finished in the points consistenly. But I've gotten in that debate before and like I said...I saw a simple fundamental difference in mindset.

And I cant vouch for the "good days" back in the 80's. All I know is I started watching F1 in 2003 and it was cool but pretty unexciting until the 07 season. 07 and 08 were the best 2 seasons Ive seen yet.