F1 Thread (Could be a spoiler)

[Acadian Rider]

There must be enough F1 fans on ST.N to start an F1 thread.  I elect myself to start one.  

This year has been an excellent one for the fans IMHO.  After eight races, the top four drivers in the points have two wins each.

My favourite in recent years has been Raikkonen. However, even though he won in France this weekend, he's not going to win the Championship unless McLaren falls off the edge of the earth.  I'm still pulling for him but I would like to see him be a little bit more agressive.  The media doesn't think much of him but hey, you don't win races by being talkative with the media.  Some people at work are telling me that he's not doing that great even on Ferrari.  What I say to that is that M. Schumacher couldn't win either in the last two years on Ferrari. Had Raikkonen had a dependable car two years ago, he would have won the championship over Alonso whose car just wouldn't break down.    

Talking about Alonso, he  now has a challenger (Hamilton) on his new McLaren team and it doesn't look like he likes it.  Hamilton isn't exactly Fisichella you know.    

Yea, this Hamilton guy is something else.  As a rookie, he's only been on the podium on all of this year's eight races.  Pretty impressive.    And some of those tracks he had never seen before.  

I think that Ferrari will catch up to McLaren and start winning races.  What do you think?  

          

[Trash]

Great!  I love Formula 1.  

Thanks for starting this thread.  As I mentioned in another thread, I thought this year it would be Alonzo vs Raikonen.  Don't you love it when this happens.  Now (so far) it's Hamilton vs Massa. I was rooting for Raikonnen as well going in, but I really like and admire Hamilton.  

Yes, I agree after the French GP it looks like Farrari could bounce back.

Heidfeld is another driver I really like as well.

[miles]

I like F1, but I wish they would can the "no-passing" rule, and let them race.



miles

[shah269]

second attempt, the first one buggerd out!

Yes what an amazing year thus far, well except for S. Speed, who drives as if he has some sort odd tropicall disease which causes him to suck every sunday when he is sitting in a V-8 powered car!
As for me, I my self am a Kimi fan because...well because the wife is a Finn and if I don't support Kimi i will be severely beaten with a ruler.....which i kind of sort of like...but that's an intirely different story!
But as to this year, by god what a great year it has been for F1!
Ah the F1 god...most likely a Hydra of some sort, half German half Itallian with a pechon for good English tea and scantally clad Brazilian girls wearing Scottish kilts has bestowed upon us this year 4 possible challengers.
All worthy of becoming this years world champion but alas I don't think it will be Kimi or Massa. I feel deep in my gut a bit of gas and that gas is telling me that the fight this year will be between the rookie sensation Hamilton and the matador Alonso. Both are highly talented but only one can become work champ. And it can't be a greater difference between them, Alonso is cold and calculating, he's seen the tracks he knows how to read the other cars as well as his own, he knows what to tell the pit crew and the engineers to squeeze blood from the kidney stone of time. While Hammilton is young and fresh and has this way about him when he's in his car a true seat of the pants, let me escort this car threw this 150mph corner kind of guy. The way this young man pirouetted his car around the streets of Monaco (Yes NASCAR fans I did say Pirouette and yes i did say the streets, as if both left and right hand turns) was almost enough for the Vatican to reconsider it's Farrarie's only parking at St. Pete's Square. For after all it was only a few weeks ago that Kimi gave a sermon at the square...well we think it was a sermen. All the crowd could make out were a series of mumbles and squeaks and grunts quickly fallwed by Kimi downing a large bottle of Finlandia vodka jumping from the balcony and crowd surfing over the nuns heads. Ratzinger was not amused by such abject misuse of Nuns.
Never the less this incident does point out Kimi's greatest weakness. No one can understand what the hell that boy is saying! So could you imagine him trying to tell his engineers that he wants something changed on the car? Especially the Ferrari engineers, who as we all know are espresso free basing, opera singing, red shirt wearing, super men which rumor has it were developed by the Daimler Benz Engineering corp back in WWII to develop the super beetle in order to defend the Father Land. And so knowing such we all know that these wonder men are more than capable of tuning that V-8 engine to sing like Luciano Pavarotti, who are more than capable of making a chasey  as light as a feather but as strong as Thores hammer and who can coakse  the aerodynamics of that car so finely that Bernoulli's dead corpse would sport some major wood.
But alas Kimi the beeping mumbling boy can't communicate with such high strung engineers.
And with out such an ability Kimi will forever be destined to live just shy of his full potential conducting the worlds greatest orchestra while looking the wrong way. Mean while El Matador Alonso and Rookie Hamilton will continue to joust around the world. One calculating every odd every corner while the other just sticks his tail out and his face to the wind.


PS
maybe it's the Gin and Tonics I've had tonight, but did some one say that CRASHCAR was going to Montreal and they were going to race on the famed Gelles Vellenue race track!
This should be fun! I predict lots of broken smashed  up cars at the wall of champions!

[R Doug]

Ah, c'mon... there's plenty of passing back in the middle of the field.  

I know F1 get criticized for this, but it's only true up front where the cars become more evenly matched.  

This year is one of the most exciting in a long time for me.  Plus, I've been a Team McLaren fan for a LONG time which makes this season even better.  Hamilton is amazing to watch.  I would have never guessed his results thus far.  Kimi is very fun to watch, he's the only driver who almost made me switch teams and start cheering for the Scuderia boys in red.  Shame on me!

[Mac]

I like F1, but I wish they would can the "no-passing" rule, and let them race.



miles

No passing rule?

[Trash]

second attempt, the first one buggerd out!

Yes what an amazing year thus far, well except for S. Speed, who drives as if he has some sort odd tropicall disease which causes him to suck every sunday when he is sitting in a V-8 powered car!
As for me, I my self am a Kimi fan because...well because the wife is a Finn and if I don't support Kimi i will be severely beaten with a ruler.....which i kind of sort of like...but that's an intirely different story!
But as to this year, by god what a great year it has been for F1!
Ah the F1 god...most likely a Hydra of some sort, half German half Itallian with a pechon for good English tea and scantally clad Brazilian girls wearing Scottish kilts has bestowed upon us this year 4 possible challengers.
All worthy of becoming this years world champion but alas I don't think it will be Kimi or Massa. I feel deep in my gut a bit of gas and that gas is telling me that the fight this year will be between the rookie sensation Hamilton and the matador Alonso. Both are highly talented but only one can become work champ. And it can't be a greater difference between them, Alonso is cold and calculating, he's seen the tracks he knows how to read the other cars as well as his own, he knows what to tell the pit crew and the engineers to squeeze blood from the kidney stone of time. While Hammilton is young and fresh and has this way about him when he's in his car a true seat of the pants, let me escort this car threw this 150mph corner kind of guy. The way this young man pirouetted his car around the streets of Monaco (Yes NASCAR fans I did say Pirouette and yes i did say the streets, as if both left and right hand turns) was almost enough for the Vatican to reconsider it's Farrarie's only parking at St. Pete's Square. For after all it was only a few weeks ago that Kimi gave a sermon at the square...well we think it was a sermen. All the crowd could make out were a series of mumbles and squeaks and grunts quickly fallwed by Kimi downing a large bottle of Finlandia vodka jumping from the balcony and crowd surfing over the nuns heads. Ratzinger was not amused by such abject misuse of Nuns.
Never the less this incident does point out Kimi's greatest weakness. No one can understand what the hell that boy is saying! So could you imagine him trying to tell his engineers that he wants something changed on the car? Especially the Ferrari engineers, who as we all know are espresso free basing, opera singing, red shirt wearing, super men which rumor has it were developed by the Daimler Benz Engineering corp back in WWII to develop the super beetle in order to defend the Father Land. And so knowing such we all know that these wonder men are more than capable of tuning that V-8 engine to sing like Luciano Pavarotti, who are more than capable of making a chasey  as light as a feather but as strong as Thores hammer and who can coakse  the aerodynamics of that car so finely that Bernoulli's dead corpse would sport some major wood.
But alas Kimi the beeping mumbling boy can't communicate with such high strung engineers.
And with out such an ability Kimi will forever be destined to live just shy of his full potential conducting the worlds greatest orchestra while looking the wrong way. Mean while El Matador Alonso and Rookie Hamilton will continue to joust around the world. One calculating every odd every corner while the other just sticks his tail out and his face to the wind.


PS
maybe it's the Gin and Tonics I've had tonight, but did some one say that CRASHCAR was going to Montreal and they were going to race on the famed Gelles Vellenue race track!
This should be fun! I predict lots of broken smashed  up cars at the wall of champions!

Shah! Fucking Shah! Paragraphs, fucking paragraphs man!  Like your commentary but fucking paragraphs my head will explode!!!

[Trash]

No passing rule?

Yeah, Huh?

[miles]

No passing rule?

Six races out of eight so far this season have been won by the pole position car.  The other two were gridded at second(Malaysia) and third (France).

Why bother with the race?  Just award the win to the guy who gets the pole position in qualifying.

[shah269]

Shah! Fucking Shah! Paragraphs, fucking paragraphs man!  Like your commentary but fucking paragraphs my head will explode!!!

Dude it's streaming thought....you know kind of like streaming audio!
That and I just had 3 gin and tonics after workin on the condo all day.

[Orson]

Here's a Formula 1 message board I stumbled across that includes a neat Nostalgia section.

Check out the F1 court section where they hash out old debates like the 1990 Senna vs Prost bust up at Suzuka.

and I thought I had no life  

[vitaminC]

Six races out of eight so far this season have been won by the pole position car.  The other two were gridded at second(Malaysia) and third (France).

Why bother with the race?  Just award the win to the guy who gets the pole position in qualifying.

Possibly something to do with the guy qualifying on pole having the fastest car?  

[Acadian Rider]

Interesting developing story with the spying issue.  Did McLaren actually benefit from any secrets that Nigel Stepney, Ferrari's fired technical manager may have leaked to them.  McLaren has suspended their chief designer over the allegations.  You know what they say, when there's smoke, there's usually fire.  

How will this emerging controversy affect the British Grand Prix on McLaren's homeland?  

How will sensation rookie and points leader Lewis Hamilton react to the extra pressure of performing in front of his fans?  

Will Ferrari once again make up the gap between them and their main rivals?  

Check this article and the related stories.  

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19576062/

[XLR8]

We watch every race. l like to see Alonso squirm as his teammate hand him his ass. Good stuff.

[bluedogok]

Six races out of eight so far this season have been won by the pole position car.  The other two were gridded at second(Malaysia) and third (France).

Why bother with the race?  Just award the win to the guy who gets the pole position in qualifying.

Go watch your Nascar if you want passing for the sake of passing

We went to the F1 race at Indy this year, this has been a good year so far.

[Acadian Rider]

Well, Hamilton managed to qualify 1st for tommow's British Grand Prix.  I would have loved to see Kimi take the pole.  He qualified 2nd by 0.102 of a second.    We'll see tommorow if Hamilton qualified light on fuel.  

This Hamilton rookie is really putting Alonso in his back pocket and I like it.  

Go! Kimi Go!

 

[R Doug]

   I forgot that this thread can be a spoiler.  So I better go watch today's qualifying before revisiting it this evening.  

Go McLaren!  

And, just to prove I'm not a bandwagon jumper... check out the hat.  

[R Doug]

PS... I did get a one of the new McLaren / Vodafone hats in silver... as ghey as they are.  But, it was hot at Indy this year and the black hat was more than I could handle.  

[Jeff N]

From when the drivers were fat and the tires skinny-



 

Oh, and a cool viddy-

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9178761914513537949&q=formula+1+duration%3Along

[bluedogok]

Last night Speed had a Victory by Design marathon, the first one was about Grand Prix cars. The first one was a 1908 model and covered many cars but stopped at the wing era. It was a great show, they also had Ford Muscle and Corvette episodes after that.