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Points: 5154 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 29 2012 at 11:09
Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

I heard it was foggy for the early practice sessions at Laguna. That's one track that I just can't imagine being foggy!
 
 
Indeed yesterday morning it was foggy and nodoby dared to go out, I don't blame them!
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Kimi did a great race for 2nd.
Button was the big loser.
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Originally posted by Gerinski Gerinski wrote:

Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

I heard it was foggy for the early practice sessions at Laguna. That's one track that I just can't imagine being foggy!
 
 
Indeed yesterday morning it was foggy and nodoby dared to go out, I don't blame them!

Yeah, can't imagine going up to the corckscrew and not being able to see!

Excellent job from both Lewis and Kimi.
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Woo Lewis. Didnt see the race but he seemed to have it under control. And well done to lotus...they gotta break through eventually...and damn I hope its soon.
 
Of course...going to have like a month off before the next one. Ouch
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Points: 2504 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 29 2012 at 21:33
^I know.  Bummer.  But, I'll have cable by then so I won't miss any more races!


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I didn't go to the races, but I can say I live basically right beside Laguna Seca now!  
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Points: 166183 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 29 2012 at 22:23
Originally posted by SaltyJon SaltyJon wrote:

I didn't go to the races, but I can say I live basically right beside Laguna Seca now!  
 
I hate you.
 
 
 
 
And by hate I mean am extremely jealous of you.
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Today MotoGP at Indianapolis, reigning world champion Casey Stoner is doubt after a big crash yesterday in qualifying practice. Also Nicky Hayden and Hector Barbera suffered heavy crashes and will not race, too bad. Ben Spies also crashed heavily but normally he will be able to race.
 
The track surface was apparently very tricky, the inside part of the track is not used regularly and the grip level was uneven and unpredictable causing many crashes in all 3 categories, they should do something about it next year, these guys give their best and it's not nice to see them getting injured because of poor track maintenance.
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Points: 166183 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2012 at 17:42
Damn. This Indy place is one tricky b*****d.
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Points: 16449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2012 at 19:24
I'll have to read up but it sounds less like track maintenance and more that tit's just not used often, the infield was always very slippy for F1 at the start of the weekend when they raced there.
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Just watched the Silverstone 6 Hours for the World Endurance Championship. Audi won again but only by 55s from the second placed Toyota. If it hadent been for that last saftey car with an hour and a half to go it would probably have been more like 5 seconds instead. 
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Just heard on Speed that Spa's contract with F1 has been  extended to 2015. Yeehaw I say. (Sorry no link to confirm, but I hope they wouldn't lie to me like that)
 
 
Speaking of which Belgium coming up this weekend...finally!!!! My favorite track, most looking forward to it.
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I'd forgotten to mention that. Yes, a three year contract for 13, 14 and 15. It seems that since the change in government the chances of a return for the French GP, alternating with Belgium, have gone. Sort of sad because Paul Ricard would have been a good race track, sort of good because Belgium is now every year.

Fun fact for next weekends race, Kimi has either won or failed to finnish every year he has competed at Spa.
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I'm all for France coming back...just not at the expense of Spa. Big smile I think they could stil add more races...and some other tracks I wouldn't mind seeing not return...but thats a different discussion.
 
And oo cool fact. Certainly hoping for the former.
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Spa this weekend. It was so wet that Charles Pic went fastest in his Marussia (really, I'm not joking) so I wont bother posting times as only 9 others set one. Apparently the forcast is for better weather for the rest of the weekend. Looks like Lotus wont be running their new double DRS system and Weber has a five place grid penalty for a gearbox change.
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Spa!
Hey, for that brief moment, Pic got to win something. Have to take the little victories haha
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1 3 United Kingdom Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:49.250 1:47.654 1:47.573 1
2 14 Japan Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1:49.686 1:48.569 1:47.871 2
3 18 Venezuela Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 1:48.993 1:48.780 1:47.893 3
4 9 Finland Kimi Räikkönen Lotus-Renault 1:49.546 1:48.414 1:48.205 4
5 15 Mexico Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 1:49.642 1:47.980 1:48.219 5
6 5 Spain Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:49.401 1:48.598 1:48.313 6
7 2 Australia Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:49.859 1:48.546 1:48.392 121
8 4 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:49.605 1:48.563 1:48.394 7
9 10 France Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 1:50.126 1:48.714 1:48.538 8
10 11 United Kingdom Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1:50.033 1:48.729 1:48.890 9
11 1 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:49.722 1:48.792
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12 12 Germany Nico Hülkenberg Force India-Mercedes 1:49.362 1:48.855
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13 7 Germany Michael Schumacher Mercedes 1:49.742 1:49.081
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14 6 Brazil Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:49.588 1:49.147
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15 17 France Jean-Éric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:49.763 1:49.354
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16 16 Australia Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:49.572 1:49.543
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17 19 Brazil Bruno Senna Williams-Renault 1:49.958 1:50.088
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18 8 Germany Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1:50.181

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19 20 Finland Heikki Kovalainen Caterham-Renault 1:51.739

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20 21 Russia Vitaly Petrov Caterham-Renault 1:51.967

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21 24 Germany Timo Glock Marussia-Cosworth 1:52.336

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22 22 Spain Pedro de la Rosa HRT-Cosworth 1:53.030

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23 25 France Charles Pic Marussia-Cosworth 1:53.493

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24 23 India Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 1:54.989

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Stunning laps from Button, if his tyres last I reckon he'll win this one. Maldonado has got a 3 place grid penalty for blocking Hulkenberg in Q1, so will start 6th.
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Points: 34550 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 01 2012 at 15:37
Kam in second as well. Helluva start, I would love to see him have a high points finish. 
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Well that was a start worthy of Spa.

Pastor Maldonado either jumped the start or had the most spectacular one ever, and a pretty scary crash before they even get to turn 1.

Alonso's luck had to end at some point...glad he's ok, that on board was amazing with a car flying out of nowhere into you. And Koby who even get bumped a few times in all the madness and made it through, just crazy.

Edit: Well what can ya say? It's good to start on pole, Button was able to keep his nose clean, preserve his tires, superb victory.

Vettel ran a pretty perfect race as well, and had to make a few passes early on.
Congrats to the incredible Hulk on his personal best 4th place finish, Massa was a solid 5th, and Vergne and Ricciardo with their points finishes.

And just watching those cars fly around Spa is a sight itself, such a glorious track.


Just one week till Monza, awww yeah


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