http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.a...42551&PO=42551

Qualifying will change with the Super Aguri demise. There are now 20 cars instead of 22.

Q3 stays the same, with the top 10 drivers for pole shootout.
Q1 and Q2 will each drop 5 drivers instead of 6.

Geez,

Anyone see the freak accident in the GP2 race this weekend?

Yeah, that was all bad :(

Yeah, poor nose-cone :(

Testing at Paul-Ricard today.

Looks like Honda's front winglets have spawned their own winglets.

Rumor mill has Sato replacing Piquet Jr. at Renault.

http://www.crash.net/motorsport/f1/n...t_renault.html

That's a good move, Piquet is shit.

Yeah... I've been pretty disappointed by his performance... though a lot of it has been just shitty luck getting wrecked out so often... but if you qualify in the back, you get wrecked more often.

As a Sato fan, I'd root for him in a Renault... especially if he can upstage Alonso even just a little bit. :devil:

According to the official F1 page, the weather will be pretty nasty in Monte Carlo this weekend. Currently there is a forecast for a high chance of rain Saturday and Sunday. Monte in the rain is an interesting prospect.

Dear god. :(

It'll be a massacre.

Indeed...I can't find any record of any past Monaco GP's in the rain, I'm sure theres been a few...but I know it will be carnage.

:mog:

Oh don't worry, the traction control will save them...

I found a simulation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-La5rqvXvc

:lol:

That's awesome. I almost choked on my burrito by mistakenly taking a bite just as the guy started mounting the cars in front of him off the start. :lol:

I think I may skip making picks this week :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BS-xH6ceqw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA5BIhVs5uE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb1Typscods

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDFdFAvUmNQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ3QLPshi3w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FoBcRNPKHg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD_GTLMzs9I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxsd6rnaW08

:cool:

F1 in the 90's was *awesome*... I really miss F1 Decade on Speed. :(

I know, I miss Teams like Footwork, Arrows and Tyrell.

Apparently in '96, Tyrell was running Kawasaki engines! How pimp is that!

Someone had Yamaha engines for a while too, I'd have to look that up.

Sounds like Sutil wouldn't have finished in the points at Monaco

http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headline...02093137.shtml

Eh, Force India should be allowed to pass under yellow.

Oooh burn! I remember seeing a lot of passing under yellow at the hairpin, but I thought those guys all sorted their positions back out by the time they got to the tunnel?

Either way, I don't think the lack of points, or the could have been penalty should take away from Sutil's drive that day. The kid really stepped up and showed that under the great equalizer (wet conditions) he's driver enough to duke it out with the big name drivers. All he needs is a fast car and he's a potential race winner IMO.

I totally agree his drive was amazing and I wish he had been put in a Mclaren as the rumors mentioned during the summer! I felt so bad for him when Kimi accidentally punted him coming out of the tunnel

Yeah that whole thing was ugly. I'm a big Kimi fan, so my opinion is typically a bit biased, but that to me looked like it was simply an ugly accident.

Drama time!

Mosely passes the vote of confidence by a wide margin. ADAC (Germany) announces boycott of FIA activities and AAA (US) is threatening the same. MSA (Britain) respects the decision and will stay on with the FIA. RACB (Belgium) doesn't seem likely to stay, but no official decision yet.

http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headline...03143317.shtml
http://www.f1technical.net/news/9321
http://www.f1technical.net/news/9320
http://www.crash.net/motorsport/f1/n...f_the_end.html

This is kind of a cool rumor.

http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headline...03105609.shtml

Coulthard -> Renault (Piquet's old seat)
Vettel -> Red Bull (Coulthard's old seat)
Piquet -> Scuderia Toro Rosso (Vettel's old seat)

oh great......

next thing you know there is going to be a spin off F1 series with Ron Dennis in charge

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...30/tinfoil.gif

interesting......though i dont know if Gerhard Berger would let go of Vettel

He will if RedBull$ tells him to.

Dang it, the start time was weird, so my DVR didn't get it and I have to wait until Wed. replay. :(

Matt says it was "The Best F1 Race Ever" or something like that.

It was on Fox, did you have it set for Fox?

Argh.... That's right....

Was there no pre-race show on Fox, or was it listed as a separate program? My recording started during the parade lap... about 15 seconds into the broadcast the lights went out. :unamused: Fox should be ashamed to have skipped Peter Winsor in the pit lane pre-race... it really takes away from the excitement of the race start when there's no build up, and Peter is an exceptional pit lane broadcaster.

At least they didn't have Derek Daly in the booth dropping the IQ of the broadcast to sub-NASCAR levels.

As far as the race itself... it was easily one of the best F1 races of the last 5 years. Lots of twists and turns, and some great drives by people you wouldn't expect to do well. :cool: I really think a lot of it has to do w/ the layout of the track in Canada... some very fast straights into tight turns and chicanes lends well to passing opportunities. Plus the lack of runoff in many spots means Canada is well known for being a Safety Car track, which despite my loathing of the use of the pace car in NASCAR, does in fact make the races a bit more interesting by playing with pit strategies mid-race and closing up the field.

Oh, just finished watching the race with Mike and Tyson. Easily the most enjoyable race I've watched in a long time. And sure, there were some shennanigans, but besides "the one" error, nothing seemed too horribly shuffled outside of some safety car strategies that worked out quite well.

Though, about 15 laps in I was ready to question Matt calling it the best race ever.

Fixed for the double take I did when I read that the first time. :lol:

http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headline...16103250.shtml

here we go again....break away series this time to be called GP1

OMG OMG OMG.... Sato in a Honda powered US F1 team?

http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headline...16154123.shtml

Where do I buy my hats and t-shirts?

And to go along with GP1, the FIA is going to start up Formula 2 for up and comping F1 drivers.

http://www.crash.net/motorsport/f1/n...er_series.html

The benefit being that the cost of running a car will be significantly less than a GP2 campaign (200k euros versus 1.3m euros)

I'm bored today.

Toyota Shens now. They've partnered with whoeverthehellisreleasingthenewbatmanmovie to promote the new Batman Movie. They even took a lap at Silverstone with Glock in teh TF108 and Truli in the Batmobile Tumbler. I'm mildly interested to see if that's up on youtube yet.

And if either gets on the podium, they'll be wearing Batman capes.

http://www.f1technical.net/news/9669

Ghey.

Ooh, video is finally online.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl_1apuVQzA

Felipe Massa looks like Wes, the guy with the old mustang at autox.

OK, I have to admit it... The Germany race was quite a race on many fronts. Wish they were all that interesting. No spoilers, but if you haven't seen it, do so.

x2 good race:)

:picard:
That is the closest we have to a sleeping emoticon...

Don't think any of this is a spoiler as you could have guessed it all if you had seen the course beforehand but I will be nice....

Oh boy, another street circuit with no visibility for the drivers, no overtaking and all the action in the pits or on the track in front of them. ;)

So Charter decided that the $140 we gave them last month wasn't enough, so they turned off our Cable last night before the race...

Does anyone still have the race on their DVR? Can anyone burn it to a DVD-R for me and Lisa?

I still have it if you want it.

Can you burn it to a DVD or upload it somewhere I can snag it from?