The Motorsport Thread - 2012

Wow.
Pastor Maldonado.

Well...the "pay driver" who's just renting a seat has really shown some drive this year.
Gotta give him credit, great drive.

Was pulling for Alonso but the tires and car just wasn't there. Still a great podium with Kimi rounding it out

Great race for Grosjean, and the Incredible Hulkenberg for nabbing the final point.
Quiet race from McLaren, though congrats to Hami for the strong drive. Very quiet race from RBR, but Vettel did push hard at the end.

Massa was doing well at first but had to get himself penalized oi this guy. Jokes aside, not a bad driver but I will not miss this guy...seriously Alonso is pushing for a win and he's how far back there???

Congrats to Pastor and Williams
5th winner from the 5th team in 5 races


Edited by JJLehto - May 13 2012 at 08:51

Snow Dog wrote: JJLehto wrote: I agree it'd be good to get France back but uggggghh Magny Cours is sh*t Also at the expense of Spa is such a shame :( IDK why does James use a "Y" ? I thought that was the British way actually. Though someone, I think Sleeper, said not necessarily. I also found out you guys know/use miles? My perception of reality is all messed up. Of course we use miles. before you lot did.

....kilometers? What the entire rest of Earth uses?
Though apparently not entirely.
Everything I was taught was lies.

As for Sleeper's superior knowledge don't question him. I think he's actually a computer built to analyze racing.

Man what an epic year, and I still can't believe how hard Alonso is pushing in that car...I said he and Kimi were the top drivers in terms of pure skill and I stick with it


Edited by JJLehto - May 13 2012 at 09:00

The Proclaimers song just wouldn't work with Kilometres, neither would that Beegee's one.

I didn't know about the fire.  I was going to watch the F1 Forum afterwards but put Final Score instead.  I hope it wasn't too serious?

Didn't another team have a fire a few weeks back too?

Two occurrences this year.  That's a bit worrying.

VanderGraafKommandöh wrote: The Proclaimers song just wouldn't work with Kilometres, neither would that Beegee's one. I didn't know about the fire.  I was going to watch the F1 Forum afterwards but put Final Score instead.  I hope it wasn't too serious? Didn't another team have a fire a few weeks back too? Two occurrences this year.  That's a bit worrying.

Torro Rosso's hospitality suite went up in flames during testing. It looked pretty serious on TV as the black smoke was just pouring out of the back of the garage, lots of people running around with fire extinguishers and trying to get the hose in there to put it out.

Don't rule out Schumacher winning a race either.

Has there been any word about what caused the fire?

Oh and I shall be watching the highlights in a bit but did anything more come from the Schumacher and Senna incident?

VanderGraafKommandöh wrote: Don't rule out Schumacher winning a race either. Has there been any word about what caused the fire? Oh and I shall be watching the highlights in a bit but did anything more come from the Schumacher and Senna incident?

Snow Dog wrote: VanderGraafKommandöh wrote: Don't rule out Schumacher winning a race either. Has there been any word about what caused the fire? Oh and I shall be watching the highlights in a bit but did anything more come from the Schumacher and Senna incident? Kers as sleepy said http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/18051779

Autosport are also reporting that it happened whilst fuel was being prepared for transport. I guess it'll be a day or two before we fully find out what happened. 4 members from Williams have been taken to the medical centre, one on to hospital, with with undisclosed injuries, 4 from Caterham who are in the gragae next door have also been taken to the medical centre, 3 with resperation issues and one with a hand injury and one guy from Force India with smoke inhalation after helping to put out the fire. Get well soon to all of them.

EDIT: Before I forget, Schumacher has a 5 place grid penalty for Monaco after wipping out Senna.


Edited by sleeper - May 13 2012 at 12:01

A deserved penalty for Schuey. Notb as bad as Hamiultons penalty of course.

Great win for Pastor and Williams, congratulations!.

Well I'd agree and have quite a history of questioning the FIA but again, what can ya do?
Still the teams fault for being so foolish. How does it happen anyway?


IDK Gerinksi, each race is a new season basically...sometimes McLaren looks like class of the field, then off, RBR will dominate then not so much...it's real crazy. Every race is a surprise and fight. So I wouldn't get too set on any team being "not as strong as we thought"