The Motorsport Thread 2011

So Andrew...touring cars are just "lower end"?

Opposed to sports cars which are Ferrari and Audi etc etc

Because sports cars, touring cars....I dont know the difference.


Malaysia this weekend!
And HRT says they are confident they will make the race.
Baby steps guys !

Edit: Oh god Barret Jackson. I watched it once. I wish it didn't hog up so much of the SPEED block....

I mean it must be great for real car nuts. Guys who just get enjoyment looking at all the cool cars.
Since that's pretty much it. I'm ok with some TV shows but yeah, I wish SPEED would put rally back on, and all types of other racing we don't know about.


Edited by JJLehto - April 08 2011 at 00:25

^Not a clue. Can you describe it a bit more?

To put it simply, GT's uses 2 seater sports cars and Tin Tops (touring cars) uses family cars.

Webber fastest in P2, just ahead of Button with Hamilton and Vettel a bit further back. Ferrari still a little of the pace but Mercedes and Williams look better. Should be more pitstops this time as the tures dont seem to be holding up quite as well in the heat, so no one stopper from Perez this time. Worrying suspension failures for the Renaults, though it appears to be simply a bad batch of carbon fiber.

JJLehto wrote: On that note: Question my friends. One time I saw this race, where the car had some handle thing and someone was literally holding onto it. Only saw it once and I had no idea what to think. Anyone have any clue what the hell this was?

Bobsleigh?

 

JJLehto wrote:   I also remember hearing about something where a car had 2 people in it, but the driver controls the gas, while the passenger controlled the brakes. I don't believe it was well known at all. There are some obscure racing styles out there!

That was Top Gear vs a German motor programme where they had stucked two cars on the top of each other. The bottom man controlled the gas & brakes and the top man was stearing the......... ehh...... four wheel thing.  

Also, Malaysian GP at 3:30 am!?

Good lord.
Well I enjoy watching them live and hate having to record/hope they replay it... My shift at work does start at 2:00 pm...
Suppose I'm stayin up late this Saturday/Sunday!

James wrote: In England, we get the whole race shown again live later in the day, if it's on at silly o'clock.

Well once its over it's no longer live
They do replay the race but I don't know when. Seriously. And I've looked it up and never found out. The info was just not here. At least the last 2 seasons.
Sometimes they never did replay it.

Gawd, so unpopular here...


Edited by JJLehto - April 08 2011 at 13:38

JJLehto wrote: James wrote: In England, we get the whole race shown again live later in the day, if it's on at silly o'clock. Well once its over it's no longer live They do replay the race but I don't know when. Seriously. And I've looked it up and never found out. The info was just not here. At least the last 2 seasons. Sometimes they never did replay it. Gawd, so unpopular here...

Look at it like this, I'll have to go to work half way through the race, and watch the end on the iPlayer.

^Sounds bad for both of us.

Last bit of info, weather forcast for the weekend is thundery showers, should be fun.

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3	Grid
1	1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	1:37.468	1:35.934	1:34.870	1
2	3	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	1:36.861	1:35.852	1:34.974	2
3	2	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	1:37.924	1:36.080	1:35.179	3
4	4	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	1:37.033	1:35.569	1:35.200	4
5	5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	1:36.897	1:36.320	1:35.802	5
6	9	Nick Heidfeld	Renault	1:37.224	1:36.811	1:36.124	6
7	6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	1:36.744	1:36.557	1:36.251	7
8	10	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	1:37.210	1:36.642	1:36.324	8
9	8	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:37.316	1:36.388	1:36.809	9
10	16	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	1:36.994	1:36.691	1:36.820	10
11	7	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	1:36.904	1:37.035		11
12	18	Sébastien Buemi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:37.693	1:37.160		12
13	19	Jaime Alguersuari	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	1:37.677	1:37.347		13
14	15	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	1:38.045	1:37.370		14
15	11	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	1:38.163	1:37.496		15
16	17	Sergio Pérez	Sauber-Ferrari	1:37.759	1:37.528		16
17	14	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	1:37.693	1:37.593		17
18	12	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Cosworth	1:38.276			18
19	20	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Renault	1:38.645			19
20	21	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Renault	1:38.791			20
21	24	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	1:40.648			21
22	25	Jérôme d'Ambrosio	Virgin-Cosworth	1:41.001			22
23	23	Vitantonio Liuzzi	HRT-Cosworth	1:41.549			23
24	22	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	1:42.574			24
107% time: 1:43.516 HRT has made it, huzzah!

Edited by JJLehto - April 09 2011 at 04:31

The weather forecast for the F1 race is rain and thunder. Can be interesting......

In Indycar, Simona de Silvestro is again impressing by qualifying 13th in a very unfancied team (HMV... who ran as Pacific Racing in F1 back in 1994-95). Keep an eye on this female racer (and rather forget Danica Patrick) because she is outdriving most males these days. 4th last race around.