The Motorsport Thread 2016

Man With Hat wrote: MillsLayne wrote: ^It is, really.  Having a fairly lengthy history with concussions, I'm just wondering how long of a career he has left.  The guy is engaged and has the rest of his life to live.  I know getting a racer to climb out of the car is probably the hardest thing to do, but his health is more important.   Honestly, I either a) was asleep or b) completely forgot him getting out of the car during the chase in (I think they said) 2012. It would be a shame if his career was derailed due to injury.   It does make you think too...I never really considered concussions a problem for racing drivers. I mean, it's logical with all the violent collisions, but the focus is always on other things.  Makes me wonder how many others are afflicted with them on a 'regular' basis and/or just drive through them.

It wouldn't surprise me if driving under the effects of a concussion was a semi-regular occurance all the way up to the early 2000's. These days sporting authorities tend to be much hotter on the issue as the long term effects are becoming better understood, and not just in motorsport.

The Cup race today sucked (pretty much the whole weekend's worth of racing did), but Kyle got his second straight Brickyard 400 win!  Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon's post race farewell lap was cool as hell, too.

Yeah, I'm going to call it now Hamilton will win the title in Mexico with 2 races to spare, might do it in Austin again. Rosberg should have been 2nd today but threw it away himself, he got a penalty in Austria for not turning in and forcing Hamilton off so what on earth made him think he could get away with it this time?

^ haha...that's great. I love Spa in the rain.

I don't know why, but a title fight between Pagenaud and Power seems boring as hell.  Maybe it's because they're teammates?  

For a Pocono race, it was actually pretty entertaining.  Of course, the uncertainty of weather made for some excitement at the halfway point on.

He's 6 points out of 30th, although his teammate is 29th, so I wouldn't be surprised if gets a little "help" to get him up a spot.

^That's awesome! I would love to see the Mad Russian win the Pocono 500!

^ Rats!

It's really hotting up that title fight, a surprise given how much Pagenaud was running away with it earlier in the year.

F1's back this weekend at Spa and there's one change to the driver line up. Haryanto ran out of money before the break so he's been replaced with Esteban Ocon who's a Mercedes and Renault young driver (rumoured to be Renaults main choice for a seat next year), he's the reigning GP3 champion and beat Verstappen to the Euro F3 title the year before that. Should be good to see how he does alongside Wehrlein.


Edited by sleeper - August 23 2016 at 04:49