Schumi Wins Number Six!

[bart]

Schumi pulled it off, a record 6 Formula One Driver Championships. Unfortunately, he only came in 8th at Suzuka in Japan last night.

Ferrari won the Constructor's as well.

Way to go!

To keep focus on aviation, corporate, private and fractional aviation was well represented at the airports near the track.

The race cars all had wings, too.

 

[I.P. Freley]

Thanks, by the way, for ruining it for me.

F1 is hardly ever mentioned on here, so I figured it was safe to read this board before having a chance to watch the tape I made of the race (worked through the weekend, just home now to watch my tape).

Guess not.

You are officially off my Christmas card list.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

 

[mike1mc]

I had the same problem! I was flipping through the channels before watching the race which I recorded. Of all things, Telemundo had the Ferrari Team on and of course Mike was wearing a hat that had something about 6 Championships!! It was pretty cool seeing the vortices coming off the cars.

 

[skeezer]

Tape the race?!?! You girlie men! I stayed up till 3 something AM watching it. hehe

Seriously though I gotta give big ups to Schumi. That race may have been one of the ugliest I have seen him run in a while, but he deserved the championship. In my mind the points system needs more work than the qualifying for 2004 because with Schumi's 6 wins to Kimi's 1 it really shouldn't have come down to the last race.

Peace

Skeezer

 

[I.P. Freley]

Yeah, the point was made after the race that this was only the second time since 1991 (as in twice in his whole career!) that Schumichael had qualified outside the top ten! Thank the rain for that one.

In any case, he's finished in the points something like 75% of his total race starts, and on the podium for something like 60%.

There's no reason Kimi should even have been close... The new points system is a travesty, as is the new qualifying system. Reminds me of the old "best 12 scores" system that robbed Prost of the champeeeeeenship in 1988. Prost scored more total points, yet Senna took the title due to the retarded championship points system. (don't quote me on the year, coulda been '89)

Schumichael gets mad props for beating Fangio's "unbeatable" record of five titles.

 

[FL240]

IRL

I know you guys are talking F1....I love watchin Shumacher, but did any of you guys see the final IRL race yesterday? Kenny Brack got tangled up with Scheckter and flipped up into the fence. Probably the worst accident I have ever seen watching IRL. Good news is he lived and Gil de Ferran won.

 

[Hawker rider]

Why the heck isn't F1 on regulat tv broadcasted? i don't have satellite,(to get speed ). So i have to catch it on the internet, via a data stream.

Even the US grand prix was on ABc last year, none of that this time, no wonder it's just not very popular over here, i guess also not enough accidents huh..

BTW, wasn't Indianapolis one of the best races in the last year(s)??

 

[enigma]

Why the heck isn't F1 on regular tv broadcasted?

Because Bernie won't give anything away, that's why. F1 needs to run a few more US races and do some promotion. We won't see good coverage until it gets popular. If you want a weekly update, subscribe to autoweek. Their F1 coverage even comes before their stock car coverage.

regards,
enigma

 

[I.P. Freley]

Better still, IMHO, is "On Track" magazine, which covers practically every racing series out there... Especially F1 and the other major series.

This assumes it is still published, I haven't seen an issue in years.

 

[skeezer]

Speaking of magazines, I've been pretty partial to RACER lately. Although they have increased their "NASCAR" coverage the pictures are awesome and they cover all the good stuff (F1, CART, WRC, etc.)

I did see the replay of the Kenney's IRL crash and am glad to see he is alive because that was nasty. However I still refuse to watch a race of that b@stard series because of Tony George. The Indy 500 I can handle watching now but even that took a few years to get used to. Those first few 500's for the IRL, 1997 hangs in my mind especially, were a friggin joke.

On the subject of worst crashes seen on TV I would have to go with Greg Moore's in Fontana. That was horiible to watch and you knew as soon as it happened that one of racings most promising stars had been taken from us. I used to love watching crashes when I was younger but now I just cringe when they happen. I have a hard time watching any Winston Cup restrictor plate race because I know it's only a matter of time before we lose another stock car driver in the name of entertainment.


Skeezer

 

[bart]

Sorry to Spoil the Surprise

Sorry guys, I did wait 12 hours, thought everyone else would have caught the 11 am rerun.

The new point system is a joke, Kimi should not have been a contender with only one win. Maybe they will change it back now that Williams and Renault are competitive with Ferrari and McLaren.

10 to win, 6 for second, 4 for 3rd and 3, 2, and 1 for the rest...

 

[Hawker rider]

well, I do have a subscription to F1-racing, a monthly magazine that's like the title says dedicated to Formula1. It's just that I think the satellite providers fees are a little steep just to watch TV, especially since it'll only be for the 1 channel I don't get.

 

[Flechas]

Montoya

Remember this guys, Juan Montoya will be the champion next year, he's got the skills, and the car is getting up there too, if he was driving a ferrari he would have won this year.

flechas

 

[I.P. Freley]

Hey I didn't tape the race because I was too sleepy to watch it live, I was on an overnight at a hotel that doesn't carry Speedvision, darnit!

I have been getting up at o-dark-thirty for 15 years to watch races live, for crying out loud!

I also happen to have almost every race from 1994-2002 on tape.... But that is another issue entirely.

 

[Pistonpilot]

Schumacher ran a pretty ugly race I think to win that championship. The points system is stupid, but the possibility of Kimi taking the championship came much closer than I ever expected in Japan.
Michael fell victim to qualifying when it started to rain, but he didn't run a very impressive race. That was a stupid move when he was trying to pass Sato and he got his nose chopped off and had to pit. What kind of move was that when all you need to do is finish 8th or better.
The incident he had when Ralf was trying to get by him was something. It would have been interesting had that battle continued and Ralf kept the pressure on him.
How many times have we seen Barrichello leading a race only to have something go wrong. If it did, Kimi was right there for the victory with that 2 pit stop strategy.
Barrichello has been a great team mate for Michael.
Michael deserved the championship.
The points system and qualifying must be changed.

Kenny Brack has to feel like the luckiest man alive today.

 

[Airpiraterob]

celebrating F1 style.

heres the daily SUN reporting on the mayhem of schumi.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003471498,00.html

and how about those vortexes?...did you see them UNDER the car too? right behind the front wheels before the side-pods? man thats some cool lo-pressure zones.

i'm partial to Autosport magazine myself...gotta find it in Barns & No-bizz-els tho. and then theres race-car engineering for those tech heads like me. explains things like the 3rd shock absorber systems.

the points system should cater to the best overall results over the course of the year..so if you win one race and the next guy comes in 2nd twice as many times as you...he should win out of consistencey........although i would be mad too if i had won 2/3's more races than the next guy and it still came down to the wire at the last race? somethings wrong wth that...

the qualifying? i love the flying lap. i think it gives everyone the best opportunity. before the flying lap they were out there in a group posting times as many laps as they could get in in 15 minutes. and whoever got a clear track got heh best time. it was possible to go out there and never get a lap without traffic from someone warming up their tires or slowing down from their lap.....or puling you along in a draft for that matter. just wasnt even.

(speaking of cool racing sports.....since rally racing is getting REALLY popular in the US.....whens the WRC gonna do a US rally?.)

 

[bart]

On your footnote on the BMW 1.5 liter engine, they had one at Goodwood this year and Jackie (sp?) Ickes was talking about how they would manually completely shut the wastegate to get "full" power for a few seconds. He said it was scary when it was closed.

Can you imagine? With that power today's cars could probably do 250 down the straight at Monza. Da' Bomb!