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 Posted: November 16 2012 at 14:51 |
Practice times from Austin. Apparently it's a bit cold out there and the track is lackign a lot of grip, people were going off quit a bit in practice, particularly at turn 19. Vettel had a water leak on his car which is why he only did half the laps of everybody else. Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1m37.718s 17
2. Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1m38.475s + 0.757 36
3. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m38.483s + 0.765 35
4. Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1m38.748s + 1.030 31
5. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1m38.786s + 1.068 32
6. Felipe Massa Ferrari 1m39.029s + 1.311 33
7. Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m39.448s + 1.730 32
8. Bruno Senna Williams-Renault 1m39.531s + 1.813 38
9. Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1m39.653s + 1.935 36
10. Michael Schumacher Mercedes 1m40.115s + 2.397 30
11. Kimi Raikkonen Lotus-Renault 1m40.166s + 2.448 32
12. Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 1m40.230s + 2.512 35
13. Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 1m40.2$6s + 2.568 32
14. Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 1m40.326s + 2.608 35
15. Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m40.435s + 2.717 30
16. Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m40.516s + 2.798 32
17. Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes 1m40.700s + 2.982 34
18. Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1m41.430s + 3.712 35
19. Heikki Kovalainen Caterham-Renault 1m42.476s + 4.758 38
20. Timo Glock Marussia-Cosworth 1m42.652s + 4.934 33
21. Vitaly Petrov Caterham-Renault 1m42.846s + 5.128 38
22. Charles Pic Marussia-Cosworth 1m43.538s + 5.820 38
23. Pedro de la Rosa HRT-Cosworth 1m44.453s + 6.735 16
24. Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 1m45.114s + 7.396 20
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Posted: November 16 2012 at 21:22 |
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Congrats to James Buescher for winning the 2012 NASCAR camping world truck series championship.
Edited by Man With Hat - November 16 2012 at 21:23
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MillsLayne
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Posted: November 17 2012 at 04:28 |
 Man With Hat wrote:
Congrats to James Buescher for winning the 2012 NASCAR camping world truck series championship.
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Yeah, his first NASCAR championship and the first championship for his team, Turner Motorsports. Wild finish, too.
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Posted: November 17 2012 at 14:45 |
I didn't know it was first for TM. Thats great.  And yes it was. Truck series...still providing the best racing of the top three NASCAR series IMO.
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MillsLayne
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Posted: November 18 2012 at 13:49 |
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^Agreed. Plus, a lot of the drivers are mainstays in the series and aren't looking at the truck series as a stepping stone to Cup, like Nationwide has become.
Watching this F1 Austin race, I'm not sure how I feel about this new track. Plus, Vettel's led every lap so far. Ugh.
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Posted: November 18 2012 at 14:04 |
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Congrats to Ricky Stenhouse Jr for his second Nationwide championship in a row! Def deserves the cup ride imo (thouhg sad they had to let MK go for it).
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Posted: November 18 2012 at 14:05 |
MillsLayne wrote:
^Agreed. Plus, a lot of the drivers are mainstays in the series and aren't looking at the truck series as a stepping stone to Cup, like Nationwide has become.
Watching this F1 Austin race, I'm not sure how I feel about this new track. Plus, Vettel's led every lap so far. Ugh.
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I like it thusfar. Not my favorite, but pretty good lookin if nothing else. Though I enjoy Vettel leading...keeps Alonso from doing it. 
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Posted: November 18 2012 at 14:44 |
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Wow, Hamilton drove a brilliant race!
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Posted: November 18 2012 at 14:45 |
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Pretty good race. I love the track.
Great race for the lead with Vettel and Hamilton pushing each other all race along, and flying away from the pack.
Great win for Lewis and obviously beneficial for Alonso.
He's technically still in it, anything can happen but...well Fernando better start praying to the racing gods. Even with a win gunna need some help from Vettel, who is a very clutch driver. Don't see him pulling out the title but crazy things have happened.
Hopefully it'll be a helluva finale
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Posted: November 18 2012 at 16:04 |
^ The opening bit is wonderful. Track def gets my thumbs up. Should only get better with age. Hopefullly it wont be three races and done. Go Vettel!
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Posted: November 18 2012 at 16:25 |
Well...it seems that if Vettel finishes at least 4th in Brazil it's game over. Title is his. Of course anything can happen any race but the chances of Vettel finishing 5th? Certainly he is in the cat bird seat. This is obviously assuming Alonso wins. If he was to finish 2nd then Vettel would need to finish 8th for Alonso to win the title. And 3rd place?? Well if that was to happen he pretty much needs Vettel to DNF  So yeah, Fernando's chances are slim but we shall see what goes down!
Edited by JJLehto - November 18 2012 at 16:26
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Posted: November 18 2012 at 17:08 |
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^ Indeed. By no means counting chickens. All sorts of mechanical bugaboos could arise, not to mention possible tanglings with others (either lapping thesuck cars or in the opening few laps, esp if he doesn't get pole)
Edited by Man With Hat - November 18 2012 at 17:08
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Posted: November 18 2012 at 18:55 |
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Amazing race, I think COTA certainly surpasses Turkey as the best of the Tilke dromes. Great racing throughout the race and through the field. Raikkonens pass on Hulkenburg at turn 2 early on was a real hilight, the onboard showing how he was fighting the wheel to stay on track during the process was breath taking. Role on Brazil, where I'm rooting for Alonso.
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MillsLayne
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Posted: November 18 2012 at 18:59 |
Congratulations to Brad Keselowski and Roger Penske for winning the 2012 Sprint Cup Championship. It's Penske's first Cup championship, which almost seems hard to believe.
Also, congrats to Jeff Gordon on picking up win #87 and for checking off Homestead on his list of tracks he's never won on. I believe Kentucky is the only one left, now.
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Posted: November 18 2012 at 19:40 |
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I've fallen out of NASCAR totally by now (I just watch the 500 these days) but it is great to see someone besides JJ win for once!
I dont hate him like I used to though. Just like Schumacher, if you're just the best...well what can we do?
Indeed, COTA is great. The Tilke tracks seem calculated to me, formulaic. OK I know COTA is pretty much a bunch of other ones stuck together...but I like it's long flowing nature.
Also, supposedly the facilities were top notch.
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Posted: November 18 2012 at 20:02 |
MillsLayne wrote:
Congratulations to Brad Keselowski and Roger Penske for winning the 2012 Sprint Cup Championship. It's Penske's first Cup championship, which almost seems hard to believe.
Also, congrats to Jeff Gordon on picking up win #87 and for checking off Homestead on his list of tracks he's never won on. I believe Kentucky is the only one left, now. |
I"m not a Brad K fan but I am happy to see the captain get a title in his trophy case. And thats right! I totally forgot he had never won there. Awesome. Here's looking to next year!
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Posted: November 18 2012 at 20:04 |
It also feels weird that even though NASCAR is over we still have F1 racing going on. But no complaints. Racing season can never end IMO.
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Posted: November 18 2012 at 21:12 |
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^Agreed. I have a love/hate thing with fall. It means the end of racing for the year, but then I love the cold weather and football. And then, before I know it, February arrives, along with Speedweeks at Daytona!
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Posted: November 19 2012 at 06:25 |
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Not much of a NASCAR fan, but even I find it hard to believe this is Penske's first first stock car title, such a legend in single seaters, even for us Europeans (shame he closed the F1 team down, I'm sure he would have won titles there as well).
I'm interested to see if Jay Penske's Dragon Racing team can take the fight to his dad Roger's team next year in Indycar.
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Posted: November 20 2012 at 03:57 |
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^Penske did get a Nationwide title with Keselowski in 2010, but this is his first Sprint Cup title, so technically his second "stock car" title.
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The Motorsport Thread - 2012
