A new F1 season starts,and nobody here talks about it?

Pete.Z · by Pete.Z on Sun Mar 29, 2009 5:22 pm

Bloody wimps,I came here specially to see Dunnas pictures. :smellywub:

Was a nice race,cars look weird,but it looks like we might see some action again this season.
Great show at the end by Vettel and Kubica, maybe stupid,but at least they were racing! :talon2:

Pennzoil GT-R · by Pennzoil GT-R on Sun Mar 29, 2009 5:29 pm

because its been a circus this weekend

Aristotle · by Aristotle on Sun Mar 29, 2009 5:46 pm

the race just finished here. i heard about the top 3, but they didn't start broadcasting the race until 2 hours ago.

good race, for sure. nice to see some action.

dunnas · by dunnas on Sun Mar 29, 2009 6:16 pm

You're out of luck Pete. I couldn't afford to go this year.

Aristotle · by Aristotle on Sun Mar 29, 2009 6:46 pm

didn't webber excuse himself from the race after a lap, anyway?

dunnas · by dunnas on Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:08 pm

First corner he was hit by Barrichello who was hit by Kovalleinan and that pushed him into Heidfeld. He was able to finish the race in last place after limping back for a new nose but the car wasn't in great shape.

big_jesus · by big_jesus on Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:21 pm

it's going to be a really cool season.

Aristotle · by Aristotle on Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:48 pm

yeah, i hope it's a good one.

Swerve · by Swerve on Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:33 am

Cars look good in real life. The front wings actually look normal, but the rears are still silly.

Great qualifying, racing, everything. Although I would have liked Vettel to win, the final result went shockingly right for my work Fantasy F1 team. I have Ferrari who looked to be the best sans-diffuser team until Kimi pulled an 08. Luckilu, I also have Renault, Hamilton and Barrichello. So 16 points for the weekend.

Pennzoil GT-R · by Pennzoil GT-R on Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:45 am

i agree on the looks part. renault had an 09 display car in their champs elysee store and it actually looked alright.

i disagree on the racing though. at least before you could love or hate hamilton/raikkonnen etc. but you at least had a semi argument that they were the best drivers out there. button and barrichello however???

Swerve · by Swerve on Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:21 am

Coulthard would have wiped the floor with everyone in Melbourne 98 had he not decided to let Hakkinen pass. Race one is always a bit weird.
I did think there was a lot of class displayed by Hamilton, Glock, Alonso and Kubica. I might need to check if the odds have shortened at all on Vettel, because he was 50-1 pre-season and looked like a good deal even then. Assuming his DNF clouded his ability, he may still be the pick of the bunch.

Talon · by Talon on Mon Mar 30, 2009 9:10 am

F1 & Rally > All

spaced cowboy · by spaced cowboy on Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:46 pm

Pennzoil GT-R wrote:i disagree on the racing though. at least before you could love or hate hamilton/raikkonnen etc. but you at least had a semi argument that they were the best drivers out there. button and barrichello however???

it's always been at least 50% the car, though. we now get to see good drivers who aren't on the biggest teams have a shot. button is good. perhaps not as good as hamilton/massa/kimi, but still, better than the honda he drove last year. the big teams got it mostly wrong, and some of the smaller teams got it right. the new rules definitely have produced more action though, since cars car get closer to each other, and they're more difficult to drive (the wide front slicks apparently make the cars oversteer a lot, which is good for me, and a pain in the ass for them, as it should be)...

spaced cowboy · by spaced cowboy on Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:49 pm

also, the american tv team are reporting a rumour out of melbourne that one of the reasons the protests over the diffusers have been so vigorous is that one of the "conventional diffuser" teams asked the FIA several months ago about a design like that and were told it wouldn't be allowed. they then are told that it would be legal when others showed up with it. needless to say, they were cheesed off.

the speculation is that was done deliberately by the FIA and bernie to try and break FOTA, since having all the teams together and getting behind a single agenda makes them a LOT more powerful. and max and bernie don't like others to have power...

thewalrus · by thewalrus on Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:05 pm

spaced cowboy wrote:also, the american tv team are reporting a rumour out of melbourne that one of the reasons the protests over the diffusers have been so vigorous is that one of the "conventional diffuser" teams asked the FIA several months ago about a design like that and were told it wouldn't be allowed. they then are told that it would be legal when others showed up with it. needless to say, they were cheesed off.

the speculation is that was done deliberately by the FIA and bernie to try and break FOTA, since having all the teams together and getting behind a single agenda makes them a LOT more powerful. and max and bernie don't like others to have power...

In fairness it certainly seems that Max didn't mind others having power, as long as it was in seedy basements. And a whip is involved.

big_jesus · by big_jesus on Tue Mar 31, 2009 10:33 am

thewalrus wrote:
spaced cowboy wrote:also, the american tv team are reporting a rumour out of melbourne that one of the reasons the protests over the diffusers have been so vigorous is that one of the "conventional diffuser" teams asked the FIA several months ago about a design like that and were told it wouldn't be allowed. they then are told that it would be legal when others showed up with it. needless to say, they were cheesed off.

the speculation is that was done deliberately by the FIA and bernie to try and break FOTA, since having all the teams together and getting behind a single agenda makes them a LOT more powerful. and max and bernie don't like others to have power...

In fairness it certainly seems that Max didn't mind others having power, as long as it was in seedy basements. And a whip is involved.

Soliz Jr. · by Soliz Jr. on Tue Mar 31, 2009 10:32 pm

I LOVE BRAWN GP!!!!

Pennzoil GT-R · by Pennzoil GT-R on Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:03 am

hamilton disqualified for cheating again :roflmao:

Aristotle · by Aristotle on Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:38 pm

anybody watch this past weekend? interesting race. too bad the rain killed it early, though. i ended up switching back and forth between f1 and indy car. made it to the indy car race just in time to see danica crash. :roflmao:

thewalrus · by thewalrus on Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:06 pm

Pennzoil GT-R wrote:hamilton disqualified for cheating again

How do you figure that? F1 doesn't have any news on it, and Hamilton still has the same point he had after Malaysia.

dunnas · by dunnas on Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:45 pm

Check the dates :jay:

Pennzoil GT-R · by Pennzoil GT-R on Tue Apr 07, 2009 3:40 am

Aristotle wrote:anybody watch this past weekend? interesting race. too bad the rain killed it early, though. i ended up switching back and forth between f1 and indy car. made it to the indy car race just in time to see danica crash.

yeah it was good. when vettel finally manages to finish a race and brawn drop off mid season he is looking very good for the championship this year.

and what the fuck were ferrari thinking with raikkonen???

Aristotle · by Aristotle on Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:58 am

yeah, the ferrari thing was a bit weird. they do like pit stop strategy, but i think they were way too aggressive there. bad gamble.

Pennzoil GT-R · by Pennzoil GT-R on Tue Apr 07, 2009 2:43 pm

that cost raikkonen a chance of a podium

Aristotle · by Aristotle on Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:23 pm

yeah. i'm sure whomever made that decision heard about it. :roflmao:

dunnas · by dunnas on Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:01 pm

I loved that move by ferarri. Watching the live timing along with the race I could see what a fuck up it was right away. Lost about 20 seconds on the outlap alone. :lol:

Webber had terrible luck again though. Was in 3rd for the two laps before the one that the results were based on. :curses:

He was absolutely flying on the full wets compared to everybody else though. :talon2:

If he didn't pit to change to inters and then the next lap to change back to wets he probably would have won as he had pulled well ahead of heidfeld who didn't pit at the end at all. :smellywub:

Aristotle · by Aristotle on Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:31 am

drive by!

lol i'm so witty and funny :aris:

Pennzoil GT-R · by Pennzoil GT-R on Tue Apr 28, 2009 4:24 pm

word spreading around motorsport community is to expect a couple of new faces at brawn soon. a certain short, tubby frenchman was spotted wandering around the paddock in distinctly un-ferrari clothing.....and one german chap was apparently thrown out of the ferrari garage after his error in telling raikkonen to change onto full wets. both have a very good friend at brawn

spaced cowboy · by spaced cowboy on Tue Apr 28, 2009 5:42 pm

Pennzoil GT-R wrote:word spreading around motorsport community is to expect a couple of new faces at brawn soon. a certain short, tubby frenchman was spotted wandering around the paddock in distinctly un-ferrari clothing.....and one german chap was apparently thrown out of the ferrari garage after his error in telling raikkonen to change onto full wets. both have a very good friend at brawn

entirely possible. and ferrari's loss. could we have a slow motion repeat of 1961, with brawn an ATS that delivered?

todt would make an interesting addition, i wonder where he would fit in at brawn. and michael. he's still pretty damn fit, and he definitely didn't seem entirely ready to retire when ferrari pushed him out. could this be rubens last year, with michael returning to the grid next year?...

Pennzoil GT-R · by Pennzoil GT-R on Tue Apr 28, 2009 6:06 pm

spaced cowboy wrote:
Pennzoil GT-R wrote:word spreading around motorsport community is to expect a couple of new faces at brawn soon. a certain short, tubby frenchman was spotted wandering around the paddock in distinctly un-ferrari clothing.....and one german chap was apparently thrown out of the ferrari garage after his error in telling raikkonen to change onto full wets. both have a very good friend at brawn

entirely possible. and ferrari's loss. could we have a slow motion repeat of 1961, with brawn an ATS that delivered?

todt would make an interesting addition, i wonder where he would fit in at brawn. and michael. he's still pretty damn fit, and he definitely didn't seem entirely ready to retire when ferrari pushed him out. could this be rubens last year, with michael returning to the grid next year?...

what better way to get button and rubens to shave an extra tenth off than reminding them there's a german with itchy feet waiting in the garage who could still show everyone on the grid the way home.

thewalrus · by thewalrus on Wed Apr 29, 2009 11:11 am

What? Schumacher driving in F1 again? Dude's fucking old. Probably drive the course 30 kph slower than everyone else, with his left blinker on.

Aristotle · by Aristotle on Wed Apr 29, 2009 8:29 pm

schumi is going to get his own grid spot for every race without qualifying first

Pennzoil GT-R · by Pennzoil GT-R on Thu Apr 30, 2009 3:36 am

good thing schumacher is sitting in the car behind ^_^

dunnas · by dunnas on Thu Apr 30, 2009 4:14 am

Oh well, Rubins is only a few years younger. They can take turns using the disabled spot.

Pennzoil GT-R · by Pennzoil GT-R on Thu Apr 30, 2009 6:24 am

just because the old man can still drive. just watch him through acque minerale and variante alta :blowjobface:

thewalrus · by thewalrus on Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:21 am

Pennzoil GT-R wrote:good thing schumacher is sitting in the car behind

Figures the guy is so old and delusional he doesn't even know where he is, or where he's supposed to be.

Aristotle · by Aristotle on Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:50 am

thewalrus wrote:
Pennzoil GT-R wrote:good thing schumacher is sitting in the car behind

Figures the guy is so old and delusional he doesn't even know where he is, or where he's supposed to be.

Aristotle · by Aristotle on Sun May 10, 2009 3:06 pm

man, another humdinger for brawn.

dunnas, even your man webber got on the podium.

Pennzoil GT-R · by Pennzoil GT-R on Sun May 10, 2009 3:09 pm

man its beginning to get boring now. i want to see the best drivers on the podium not the best car

Aristotle · by Aristotle on Sun May 10, 2009 3:17 pm

yeah, that brawn merc is pretty awesome.