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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2008 at 21:11
Oh..my bad. I actually will catch the race. 2:30 AM sunday means sunday MORNING and not Monday Embarrassed
Not sure what I was thinking. Well, here's to a good race
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 22 2008 at 23:31
Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

Oh..my bad. I actually will catch the race. 2:30 AM sunday means sunday MORNING and not Monday Embarrassed
Not sure what I was thinking. Well, here's to a good race
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2008 at 07:29
Robert Kubica the second!! Clap
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2008 at 10:40
Originally posted by Tuzvihar Tuzvihar wrote:

Robert Kubica the second!! Clap

Definitely a quality drive from Robert today. Its a shame that Hamilton had the wheel gun problem in the first stops as it would have been interesting to see him and Kubica fight for second.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2008 at 13:29
And Trulli managed to finish 4th, very nice for him!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2008 at 15:24
Congrats to Kimi for another win! Clap
Also a HUGE congrats to Kubica on his 2nd place finish, and Kovalainen for his 3rd
(That's a good podium) Also nice run for Truli.
 
Pretty decent race. Hamilton was screwed sine that pit stop and the Ferrari's SPANKED the field. That a was true battle for the win between them until Massa went off the track.
 
Anyway after 2 races I can safely say: This will be a good season, BMW Sauber is looking good, Toyota is looking better, and Renault has fallen off.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 24 2008 at 01:31
I feel the same, this will be another exciting season, it would be nice to see a BMW fighting for the title

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 24 2008 at 08:59
I dont think BMW will be fighting for the title, but I will be surprised if they dont win a race this year. I also think it was just a bad race for WIlliams, Rosbergs pace yesterday suggested that they would be just behind the BM's with a clear run. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 24 2008 at 15:36
It's like they said...we have to see who will be the "best of the rest" while Ferrari and McLaren continue to battle.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 30 2008 at 00:51
Oh wow..I fell so off track in the offseason
I just checked the schedule and saw there's going to be a Street Circuit in Valencia, Spain.
Looked like quite a layout, I'm not sure personally when they snuck that race in but I am looking foward to it.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 30 2008 at 04:03
They snuck that in to capitalise on the popularity of Alonso as since a certain German has left the sport there's no need to have 2 GPs in Germany instead there's apparently a need to have 2 GPs in Spain.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 30 2008 at 15:32
Ah, well that explains it.
Speaking of Alonso I've heard rumors, (and I mean RUMORS) of Alonso heading over to Ferrari?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 30 2008 at 15:45
Yep that's the current rumour, I suspect that if it's true Massa will be fired at the end of the season and Alonso brought in to replace him. Of course if Alonso's wishes had come true he'd already be in a Ferrari he only went to Renault because no one else would take him.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 30 2008 at 22:21
So those champ car boys have some catching up to do, eh?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2008 at 04:16
To be fair to the ex champ car teams and drivers they've had practically no time to get used to the cars and don't race on ovals very often.

Sad news this morning, it seems that former touring car driver David Leslie and team owner Richard Lloyd were among those killed in a plane crash yesterday in Kent.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2008 at 16:52
Second practice times here:

1.  MASSA         Ferrari     1m31.412s

2.  RAIKKONEN     Ferrari     1m32.327s

3.  KOVALAINEN    McLaren     1m32.752s

4.  HAMILTON      McLaren     1m32.847s

5.  KUBICA        BMW         1m32.915s

6.  ROSBERG       Williams    1m33.022s

7.  COULTHARD     Red Bull    1m33.048s

8.  NAKAJIMA      Williams    1m33.098s

9.  BOURDAIS      Toro Rosso  1m33.197s

10. PIQUET        Renault     1m33.247s

11. BUTTON        Honda       1m33.710s

12. ALONSO        Renault     1m33.755s

13. WEBBER        Red Bull    1m33.782s

14. TRULLI        Toyota      1m33.822s

15. GLOCK         Toyota      1m33.856s

16. BARRICHELLO   Honda       1m33.966s

17. HEIDFELD      BMW         1m34.023s

18. FISICHELLA    Force India 1m34.388s

19. SUTIL         Force India 1m34.405s

20. VETTEL        Toro Rosso  1m34.787s

21. SATO          Super Aguri 1m35.288s

22. DAVIDSON      Super Aguri 1m35.712s

Ferrari look to have the edge, agiain.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2008 at 17:25
I know there probably won't be too much concern here, but check up on Youtube in a few days or ESPN and try and find footage of the horrific crash Michael McDowell just had during qualifying for Sunday's race. I'm in Fort Worth right now and the garage area is just completely awestruck at how a driver can wake away from that kind of impact. Just a true testament to the safety of the new car, which we as racers all know is the number one thing in this sport.
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 04 2008 at 22:18
I just saw  vid of the crash and holy sh*t! Looks like the whole car disintegrated.
Shocked
http://youtube.com/watch?v=N4oSZIm3YAw


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2008 at 06:06
^Crap! He hit the wall nearly head on at unabated speed. Ande he just walked away? Thats amazing.

I guess for all its uglyness, the CoT does have some very good points about it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 05 2008 at 12:39
I was out with my friends at TGI Fridays when we saw that crash on TV. We all can't believe he was just fine.


And on F1 news:
W00T go Kubica! He's getting so close to that first win.
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