F1 engine warming up-Very cool!!!!!

[I.P. Freley]

Good day for BMW in qualifying today...

 

[wrxpilot]

Good day for BMW in qualifying today...

So did you guys watch the race?? I used to be a die hard F1 fan (I wanted to be an F1 engineer BAD!), but got kinda bored with it the past 2 yrs. After reading this thread I figured I need to watch the Euro GP and do some catch up. **CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED** how things have changed! I don't like the newer qualifying rules, but still the qual session was really interesting.

The race was pretty awesome. I can't believe Raikkonen's front suspension failed in the last lap! And congrats to Alonso and Benetton (ok, Renault now). It was a great race, and I'll be getting back into F1 again. I'm shocked at how much Ferrari has slipped back this year, figured they'd be dominant as long as MS was around. Should be an interesting season...

P.S. As far as the differences in varying racing orgs, I've been to numerous SCCA, CART, and IRL races. I also saw F1 in Indy in 2001. That was one of the most incredible events I've ever seen. The actual sounds far eclipse what you hear on TV, and the size of the cars was amazingly small compared to CART/IRL. If you're an F1 fan you gotta see them live some day.

 

[mudkow60]

NASCAR not cool...?

Lots more driver personality in NASCAR. I became a fan last year, and like drinking and relaxing during the race. Then, taking out the Vette afterwards and burning up and down the beach.

 

[Steveair]

Espn = Bs!!

Has anyone seen that movie of the Indy Car racing an F-18? They show the indy car passing the F-18 as it takes off but that's a bunch of BS! The F-18 didn't even have its afterburner kicked in. I vote for a rematch!

 

[I.P. Freley]

The race was pretty awesome. I can't believe Raikkonen's front suspension failed in the last lap! And congrats to Alonso and Benetton (ok, Renault now). It was a great race, and I'll be getting back into F1 again.

Welcome back, oh stray one.

I for one was not at all surprised that his suspension failed, after watching the in-car camera shots of the vibration he'd picked up on that right front tire... You gotta feel bad for Kimi, retiring on the first corner of the last lap after dominating most of the race, but to be fair he did it to himself. His off-track excursion around the halfway point, when he was nowhere near any other cars nor being pressed to maintain his lead, was the first indication that maybe he didn't have his full concentration directed to the race. The loooooooooong lockup that gave him the flat spot on that tire further on was pretty bizarre, but still HIS FAULT. It just got worse and worse until it got to the point that trackside cameras had slo-mo shots of the whole wheel assembly hopping up and down.

Of course, if we didn't have these stupid "one set of tires" rules, this never would've happened...

 

[PaulThomas]

He can also change one tire with no explanation I believe.

 

[I.P. Freley]

He can also change one tire with no explanation I believe.

Quite to the contrary. You can in fact change tires all day long, but you need to explain to the FIA why you did so. If they don't like your explanation, you will be DQ'd.

If Kimi had changed the damaged tire, he most certainly would've been penalized... I personally think it was a poor decision to leave him out with such an obvious problem with the tire, because what ended up happening seemed inevitable and it was clearly unsafe.

 

[wrxpilot]

Of course, if we didn't have these stupid "one set of tires" rules, this never would've happened...

Yeah, I agree the tire rule is rather silly. In the scheme of things, I don't see how this will make things cheaper. As we saw in this race, it may even make things unsafe, regardless of the FIA's allowance for damaged tire changes. At least the tether did its job.

It was interesting to see Kimi let his "ice man" style down at such a crucial point. I recall Mika doing this a few times too in the past. Those Finn's are cool characters, but they have their moments.

So when are we starting the Flightinfo.com F1 message board??

 

[I.P. Freley]

I think you're lookin' at it right now.

 

[Iceman07]

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