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Nov. 4, 2008 12:10 a.m. RedS13Coupe New Reader

GameboyRMH wrote:

maroon92 wrote:

correcto!

next year they will have "hybrids" (boo), less aero (yay), and Slicks (yay)

I'm all for slicks but less aero? Why?

Hybrids are going to be such a jokey publicity stunt. It will all be about who can engineer a hybrid powertrain that could technically work and meet the rules, but will actually be a lightweight withered vestigal organ of a thing that will never be used.

and "push to pass" buttons.. F1 does not need a damn push to pass button...

(yes I am late, I only got to watch the race this morning...)
Nov. 4, 2008 1:18 a.m. NYG95GA Dork

Considering that it's taken Toyota about 4 years to build a competetive team, it suprises me that Honda has not risen to any decent level. Using has-been drivers hasn't helped, but even those aren't that bad; I think the car is just not right, which again, suprises me. I always heard the Japanese can copy anything but a Krystal hamburger, (they could copy that, but couldn't beat the price). Shame they can't figure out how to copy a Ferrari.......
Nov. 4, 2008 5:17 a.m. Varkwso Reader

NYG95GA wrote:

.....Shame they can't figure out how to copy a Ferrari.......

Ever looked closely at an NSX?
Nov. 4, 2008 8:56 a.m. Dr. Hess SuperDork

As I only have 3-5 channels now, NASCAR is on one of them and if you want to watch TV on the weekend, there isn't much choice. I'm so glad that they write the name of the car on the front bumper, otherwise, how would I know which was the "Camry" (Yeah!!) and which was the "Impalla" (Boo!!)? I wonder if I can order the 900 HP motor and 4 speed for a "Camry." I must admit that it is more interesting than F1. Watching these guys deliberatly crash into each other at 150MPH is certainly more entertaining. I can't remember the last F1 race I watched. No passing, no racing, just a bunch of cars with automatic transmissions going around a track waiting for gas fillups.
Nov. 4, 2008 9:18 a.m. P71 HalfDork

Varkwso wrote:

NYG95GA wrote:

.....Shame they can't figure out how to copy a Ferrari.......

Ever looked closely at an NSX?

Ever looked closely at a Ferrari? No comparison...

(and I LIKE NSX's!)
Nov. 4, 2008 9:28 a.m. carguy123 HalfDork

Dr. Hess wrote:

As I only have 3-5 channels now, NASCAR is on one of them and if you want to watch TV on the weekend, there isn't much choice. I'm so glad that they write the name of the car on the front bumper, otherwise, how would I know which was the "Camry" (Yeah!!) and which was the "Impalla" (Boo!!)? I wonder if I can order the 900 HP motor and 4 speed for a "Camry." I must admit that it is more interesting than F1. Watching these guys deliberatly crash into each other at 150MPH is certainly more entertaining. I can't remember the last F1 race I watched. No passing, no racing, just a bunch of cars with automatic transmissions going around a track waiting for gas fillups.

You are so far out of date that it's scary. And you a carguy too.
Nov. 4, 2008 11:32 a.m. drmike None

Dr. Hess wrote:

I can't remember the last F1 race I watched. No passing, no racing, just a bunch of cars with automatic transmissions going around a track waiting for gas fillups.

Um, no. Post-Schue F1 has been filled with amazing racing and down-to-the-wire championships. A few yawners, certainly, but in the main, it's been terrific.

If F1 goes "spec", though, that all goes out the window as far as I'm concerned.
Nov. 4, 2008 11:45 a.m. carguy123 HalfDork

This year every venue I've watched has been full of nail biters. I don't watch Nascrap so I wouldn't know there.

Koni Challenge, Daytona Prototypes, ALMS. You name it it has been close.
Nov. 4, 2008 12:11 p.m. Dr. Hess SuperDork

I guess the last few sleeper F1's I tried to watch put me off and they improved it. Is that guy that plays "National Socialist Party Concentration Camp and the Female Guards" still running the show? Did he ever learn to not have video cameras running when he's entertaining guests? Doesn't really matter anyway unless ABC or CW starts carrying F1. I'm sure PBS wouldn't touch it, and those are the only channels I get now.
Nov. 4, 2008 2:18 p.m. carguy123 HalfDork

Fox does a couple of the F1s every year.
Nov. 4, 2008 5:50 p.m. petemc53555 New Reader

SO let me get this right..., Timo didn't laydown?
It looked like he pulled over and let Hamilton by. He's driving for a McLaren contract!
Nov. 4, 2008 5:56 p.m. NYG95GA Dork

Timo may have laid down, but he denies as much.

Fact is his team made a risky call on the tires, and lost.
Nov. 4, 2008 6:31 p.m. carguy123 HalfDork

It looked more like Timo lost it and rather than risk taking out the leaders he got out of the way.
Nov. 4, 2008 6:38 p.m. jgp1843 HalfDork

Nope, no laydown. Toyota took a gamble to stay out on dry tires, which would have been brilliant if the rain had held off one more lap. You can find a list of all drivers' times (total and sector) for the last lap on a number of F1 sites, and you will see that both Trulli and Glock turned final lap times within 0.1 seconds of each other, and that their sector times were also very close - and around 20 seconds slower than everybody else, who were on intermediates. If they had stopped for inters, they would have finished considerably worse than Glock's final position. So they did the right thing for them, it just happened to affect the championship. Stuff happens.

I'm sure that Glock would have stuck in 4th if he could have - he's no buddy of Lewis'.

A truly class interview by Massa, BTW.
Nov. 5, 2008 5:59 a.m. z31maniac HalfDork

Laughs at the Hamilton doesn't pull "aggressive" moves comment.

Spa with Kimi, punting Webber at Monza in T1...................