The Motorsport Thread (was the F1 thread)

Nice, finally we're getting back to some racing.

Edited by JJLehto - May 10 2007 at 17:04

Hey, I've lost track of time for a while.

CC  was better than I thought actually.

sleeper wrote: N Ellingworth wrote: JJLehto wrote: Yea, there hasn't even been any champ car races at least. I've been relying on NASCAR. So, who's your bet for this race? I will continue to say Hamilton until he wins. I think either of the McLarens are a safe bet (I would say that tough as I'm biased against Ferrari). I think the if Hamilton keeps up his current lelvel of performance he could win a few this year and he is certainly a championship contender. sleeper wrote: N Ellingworth wrote: Indeed, the gap has been horrible. All I been able to watch on TV was the BTCC (British Touring Car Cahmpionship) and that was terrible, should be renamed the BBCC (British Bumper Car Championship) IMO. I've missed rounds 2 and 3 this year, is the racing just as contact-heavy as last year? I did watch the FIA GT race at Silverstone on Men and Moters, great racing between Maserati, Aston and Chevrolete. BTW, Valencia has signed a deal to host a street race around the harbour area in F1 from next year, giving Spain 2 races (and they've only just gotten rid of the second Italian and German races). The BTCC is getting worse, just look at the pictures of Matt Alison's crash last weekend, he was hit by Turner (SEAT) but the crash was blamed on Alison's team mate which is scandalous in my opinion as the contact between Turner and Alison's team mate was literally just trading paint, not a shove up the rear which wrecked the car. But of course since John Palmer is in charge of both the MSA and the BTCC and is good friends with Plato, SEAT are untouchable. From what I've read the FIA GTs were very good, I wish I could have watched the race. I think you mean Alan Gow, not Palmer, and yes, I think the BTCC reall needs to clamp down on the door banging, its not supposed to be a contact sport.

Yeah I do, that'll teach me not to type in an angry mood.

Those times are surprisingly close together, I know that Friday practice times don't mean much but it's nice to see Hamilton as the top of the time sheet.

I thinkl it's also interesting that the Super Aguris are still fast, I know they'll be slower on race day but it's nice to see them putting in competetive times

Friday second session times, its looking good for McLaren this week, and I'm wondering where that speed that Ferrari were demonstrating in the test last week went.

1.  ALONSO        McLaren     1m21.397s

2.  FISICHELLA    Renault     1m21.684s

3.  KOVALAINEN    Renault     1m21.966s

4.  MASSA         Ferrari     1m22.048s

5.  HAMILTON      McLaren     1m22.188s

6.  RAIKKONEN     Ferrari     1m22.251s

7.  ROSBERG       Williams    1m22.415s

8.  HEIDFELD      BMW         1m22.543s

9.  WEBBER        Red Bull    1m22.589s

10. SPEED         Toro Rosso  1m22.617s

11. KUBICA        BMW         1m22.710s

12. COULTHARD     Red Bull    1m22.719s

13. BUTTON        Honda       1m22.808s

14. BARRICHELLO   Honda       1m22.926s

15. WURZ          Williams    1m22.950s

16. LIUZZI        Toro Rosso  1m23.143s

17. SCHUMACHER    Toyota      1m23.219s

18. TRULLI        Toyota      1m23.307s

19. SATO          Super Aguri 1m23.493s

20. DAVIDSON      Super Aguri 1m23.497s

21. SUTIL         Spyker      1m23.609s

22. ALBERS        Spyker      1m23.736s

Tomorrows starting grid looks interesting.

1.  MASSA          Ferrari

2.  ALONSO         McLaren

3.  RAIKKONEN      Ferrari

4.  HAMILTON       McLaren

5.  KUBICA         BMW

6.  TRULLI         Toyota

7.  HEIDFELD       BMW

8.  KOVALAINEN     Renault

9.  COULTHARD      Red Bull

10. FISICHELLA     Renault

11. ROSBERG        Williams

12. BARRICHELLO    Honda

13. SATO           Super Aguri

14. BUTTON         Honda

15. DAVIDSON       Super Aguri

16. LIUZZI         Toro Rosso

17. SCHUMACHER     Toyota
18. WURZ           Williams
19. WEBBER         Red Bull
20. SUTIL          Spyker
21. ALBERS         Spyker
22. SPEED          Toro Rosso

Speed had a gearbox problem and never went on track, Webber had a hydrolics problem and was called in on his second flyer so thats why he starts 19th and Wurze said he haid bad traffic, particularly blaming Trulli for holding him up. Looks like another closs fight between Ferrari and McLaren.

After a long break, here we go again, Massa on pole is not a surprise anymore, last race i said that he would be easily overtaken in the first turn, since that did not happen, i wont say anything like that anymore , but i think all is served for Alonso, to win in his country, it would be nice if hamilton could win, though.

No joke, I am so excited this race is finally here.