The Motorsport Thread 2011

Perez has had an impressive showing IMO
Of course he is a rookie on a middle pack team, but hopefully he can show some life and move up in the future.
Honestly, HRT was running close to the pace most of qualifying. Closer than I would've thought. Didn't end up too far off pace, at least Liuzzi... why the hell they picked Karthikayean is beyond me. They couldn't find anyone else????

Yeah, I wasn't sold on Maldonado. Only time will tell but a pretty unspectacular career in GP2 didn't give me high hopes for him.
Speaking of high hopes, Kubica is making a tremendous recovery I hear, expected to be walking soon and he hopes to be back in the seat this year! I doubt that, but still....what a beast.

This also may be Heidfeld's best, and last, chance to ever get a win!

Anyway, can't wait for the season to finally start for real! Race should be one 1:30 am here, so I can stay up till 4 and be able to sleep in on Sunday


Edited by JJLehto - March 26 2011 at 17:06

Well again, can only go off what broadcasters say. They figured maybe the stewards would give em a pass since it's the first race.

I just don't get the point, there was no 107% rule before. Why now?
I assume it's designed to keep really slow cars off the track that can be a pain in the ass or dangerous but I don't know...I just figure why the hell not? It's part of racing and feels weird not allowing a team to participate.

Besides, ALMS has 4 separate classes on track at once! That'd be like F1, GP2, F3000 and maybe some formula renault cars all racing at once! Though HRT is pretty much a GP2 car

I missed the start, how was it? 

The thing that surprises me the most after such a long time of watching F1 only once in a while is that they were already changing their tires 20 minutes into the race. That was strange, I don't remember this being done so early.

The two Mercedes are out, what a pity.

Now that you say it, I think I read something about the new tires.

The kers thing reminds me of video games, you have to race through that shiny thing on the track and once you hit it, voila! you boost you speed for 10 seconds, which will help you pass through helpless adversaries. Then it stops and you come back back to your regular speed.

I watched only once in a while since those times when Schumi was racing without any real adversaries.

The annoying moshkito-type commentator I mentioned is no more, the new owners of the rights have a different commentators team. This means I'm going to watch on a regular basis from now on.


Edited by harmonium.ro - March 27 2011 at 02:06

In 2001 I left home for Uni which meant no TV for most of the year, excepting the breaks of course. That's when my following of sports, TV shows, etc. took a major blow. Around 2007 I started watching football again with the aid of internet streaming, an I'm slowly expanding towards other sports that I used to watch.

Speaking of the frequent tire changes, I find it amusing to hear the commentators qualifying a one-stop strategy as "interesting", and a second pit-stop mentioned as "only" the second pit-stop...

EDIT: and what's with the lack of ads on the cars? Is it because of the crisis, or maybe because of tobacco / alcohol ads?


Edited by harmonium.ro - March 27 2011 at 02:08

Yeah! What a great race from Sergio Pérez. I am really happy with this result, he climbed up six positions and finished even ahead of Kobayashi. What an extraordinary debut!

Well, decent race. Some good moments.

Congrats to Vettel who dominated all weekend, Hami and especially Petrov on his first podium! Kid is fast, and maybe now developing as a driver.

Perez had a great debut.
There is a lot of young talent in this field. It is loaded. Also a lot of teams seem competitive at least.
Expecting another good year!

Oh, also a big congrats to Kam Kobayashi, also scoring some points for Sauber.
Another team that looks to be a continual point scorer.


Edited by JJLehto - March 27 2011 at 03:04