The Motorsport Thread - 2012

Just over halfway now...whew.

Ugh...of course right when I'm getting into a normal sleep pattern Le Mans is on...and it always seems to get really good the last few hours. I'll be up to 8 am now

JJLehto wrote: Ugh...of course right when I'm getting into a normal sleep pattern Le Mans is on...and it always seems to get really good the last few hours. I'll be up to 8 am now

Just saw the Delta Wing incident on YouTube, what a nasty move by Nakajima, shame on him.

Gerinski wrote: Just saw the Delta Wing incident on YouTube, what a nasty move by Nakajima, shame on him.   3,5 hours to go, man these Audi's are fast...

I wont completely exonerate Kazuki, but the DeltaWing was in his blind spot and he was fighting Treluyer for the overall lead.

Have you seen the video where Motoyama spends 1.5 hours trying to fix the car enough to get back to the pits? Pretty impressive.

No surprises that Audi win witha 1, 2 ,3 ,5 finish, the Rebellion Racing Lola-Toyota of Nicolas Prost, Neel Jani and Nick Hedfeldt spoiling the party in an excellent 4th.

And congrats to Ryan Hunter-Raye who won the IndyCar race last night.

Congrats to Marcel Fassler, Andre Lotterer, and Benoit Treluyer on their 2nd LeMans victory.

Was rooting for the Kristensen, McNish, Capello team but ah well.


In other news Ryan Hunter-Reay had a pretty dominant win at Milwaukee in Indy Car.
I always liked him from way back in the day, solely because the first CART/Champ Car race I saw he won, and I liked his name   Doing decently, currently 4th, in the standings.

Congrats to the Le Mans winners. Sounds like the end was worth watching (even though I didn;t).

NASCAR not usually the talk here but have to mention:
Dale Jr gets his first win in 4 years.

Man, to think it was almost a decade ago he had a (semi sort of) championship battle with Matt Kenseth.
After all the changes and continual lack of success I think it has to be concluded Dale just isn't that great a driver, (so I thought) but he's been good as of late and despite the lack of wins is second in the points.
He may take the lead after this I'm not sure.
Maybe 2012 is finally the year.



Edited by JJLehto - June 17 2012 at 17:11

JJLehto wrote: sleeper wrote: JJLehto wrote: Congrats to Marcel Fassler, Andre Lotterer, and Benoit Treluyer on their 2nd LeMans victory. Was rooting for the Kristensen, McNish, Capello team but ah well. In other news Ryan Hunter-Reay had a pretty dominant win at Milwaukee in Indy Car. I always liked him from way back in the day, solely because the first CART/Champ Car race I saw he won, and I liked his name   Doing decently, currently 4th, in the standings. I always root for the McNish car as well. They were on course to win until McNish got caught out behind a Ferrari in the Porsche curves and crashed. I wouldn't call it dominant for Ryan, he didnt hitthe front until lap 143. I remember watching that Mid Ohio race he won for, I think, Jimmy Vasser's team as well, back in the days Champ Car was live on Eurospor here (even if they couldnt stick to a timing schedule to save their lives). Well I didn't actually see it, just he led the most laps sooo Yeah he won Surfers Paradise back in 03, first CART race I saw ever and that was that. Indeed, I thought for sure Kristensen and co. were going to take it but what can you do? It was worth staying up but even after a nap, god damn I need to pass out!

Was it Surfers he won? For some reason I've got images of his excellent run at Mid-Ohio from that year stuck in my head.