The Motorsport Thread (was the F1 thread)

yea, its pretty much sewn up. But I suppose you never know.
Maybe we will have a 3 way battle between Button Mark Webber and Rubino!
Never though id say that

I think I'm talking to myself now but if anyone is out there:
Button is continuing his Schumacher-esque year. Win 6 of 7.

Always had a liking for Webber so glad to see him doing well in the red bull scoring a 2nd place.
In 3rd was Vettel while Kimi, Hami, and Heikki are still doing abysmally.
I'm looking into the last time a driver had a start his amazing.
In 2002 MS had 7 straight podiums to start but only 5 wins.

So is Button off the the best start ever?

Ahh Turkey this weekend.
One of my favorite tracks. Looking forward to a good race

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.

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.

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

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

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

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?

Yea this is madness!