Author Topic: Official Racing Thread (Read 137109 times)

SomethingWild · « **Reply #580 on:** December 16, 2007, 01:02:13 PM »

Tonight is the Race of Champions! Always a fun event.. who do you think will win?

ctz · « **Reply #581 on:** December 16, 2007, 04:05:06 PM »

Germany took the Nations' cup... I guess Vettel was pretty solid, so probably he has a good chance to win...

I'm cheering for Kovalainen anyway

ctz · « **Reply #582 on:** January 07, 2008, 12:26:23 PM »

The new Ferrari unveiled yesterday!

Looks kinda cool. The nose looks better than McLaren's "bridge" last year.

Interesting to see how McLaren responds today(probably the same car painted in silver

)

More pics of F2008 here

JFC · « **Reply #583 on:** January 07, 2008, 06:12:10 PM »

Nice pics. It's interesting how they've tweaked the nosecone.

ctz · « **Reply #584 on:** January 07, 2008, 07:05:20 PM »

Of course these cars are different from what we'll gonna see in Melbourne.

McLaren had it's new car's launch in Stuttgart today (photos).

Looks pretty much like the last car. I wonder why the don't have the "bridge" over the nose anymore... Maybe it'll have a comeback later.

SomethingWild · « **Reply #585 on:** March 03, 2008, 01:51:49 PM »

Anyone into WTCC? Talk about a bad start of the season for Chevrolet

JFC · « **Reply #586 on:** March 03, 2008, 08:51:51 PM »

Williams has unveiled their entry for the 2008 season.

http://f1.gpupdate.net/en/news/2008/03/03/williams-presents-2008-livery/

ctz · « **Reply #587 on:** March 04, 2008, 12:46:07 AM »

Black&Grey Williams

But it seems it's actually black&white, not grey

Well it still looks good imo.

Tuffty · « **Reply #588 on:** March 16, 2008, 01:26:26 AM »

So Hamilton's in Pole Position for the upcoming Australian race. Decent start. Looking forward to this F1 season.

JFC · « **Reply #589 on:** March 16, 2008, 06:04:29 AM »

K, so the Australian GP has started, and the biggest thing for me so far...is how strange it is to see that Ross Braun is now the Team Principle at Honda.

EDIT:
Well, congrats to Hamilton on the opening day win, as well as to Heidfeld and Rosberg for their podium finishes. Crazy day of racing. Glock's car absolutely launched itself when he hit that bump in the grass, half of the racers didn't finish, and it's weird seeing the Vodafone logo on the McLaren instead of the Ferrari.

Looks like the drivers had really gotten used to having the electronic traction control helping them out.

Too bad for Bourdais, having his engine die on him with 2 laps to go. He was on pace for a Top 5 finish too.

Surprised that Rubens didn't get black-flagged for leaving pit lane on a red light.

ggliff · « **Reply #590 on:** March 16, 2008, 02:37:13 PM »

What a great race. Cool and controlling drive from Hamilton in the front all the way, real good weekend for him and McLaren.

All sorts of stuff going on behind him. Nightmare weekend for Ferrari?? Looks quick when Raikkonen can get it together, will be close for the rest of the year.

What a shame for Toro Rosso, Bourdais so nearly got a great finish.

But isn't it great to see all the cars sliding around with opposite lock, good rule changes to get rid of all the computer control stuff and leave it to the drivers. Great race to start the season.

JFC · « **Reply #591 on:** March 24, 2008, 12:02:18 AM »

Fuck, totally forgot about today's race. By the time I remembered they were doing the post-race interviews.

1st - Raikkonen (1st win this year)
2nd - Kubica (Good for him and for BMW-Sauber.)
3rd - Kovaleinen (This is his first podium, is it not? Good for him.)

EDIT: Mistakenly put that this was Raikkonen's second win of the season. Oops.

ctz · « **Reply #592 on:** March 26, 2008, 06:34:47 AM »

A great comeback for Ferrari in Malaysia. Well, at least for Raikkonen. Massa's performance was sad. He won't be any help for the team if he can't do better.

But what was it with McLaren... Wasting laps behind Trulli and Webber. If it's that hard to pass Toyota and Red Bull, it'll be a great season

Quote from: JFC on March 24, 2008, 12:02:18 AM

3rd - Kovaleinen (This is his first podium, is it not? Good for him.)

He was second in Suzuka last year. Probably gonna win this year. Kubica and BMW too -I hope.

SomethingWild · « **Reply #593 on:** May 23, 2008, 12:49:12 PM »

Awesome news for me. Every year the Dutch Rally Championship comes through my village. To attract more visitors they are creating a Nascar track (with actual Nascars racing) between two roundabouts!! How insane is that

and just a couple 100m away from my house!!

JFC · « **Reply #594 on:** June 09, 2008, 03:10:33 AM »

Canadian Grand Prix was today, and congrats to Robert Kubica for his first ever win in F1 as well as to his BMW Sauber team for a 1-2 finish! Also props to DC for provin' that the older guys can STILL do it!

http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2008/6/7900.html

Race highlights here
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Aside from the Raikkonen/Hamilton crash, the highlight of the race for me has got to be when Massa pulled off that insane pass on the inside track of Kovaleinen at the infamous hairpin at Turn 10 in the final few laps. THAT took major balls!

reina's eyes · « **Reply #595 on:** June 09, 2008, 03:38:04 AM »

Quite a race, as could be expected with 4 teams in the top 4 quali positions.

Lewis blew it and I'd be surprised if he doesn't get penalized in fairness to kimi.

Alonso had a good run going for a while. Ferrari sure screwed things up with massa and kovaleinen didn't do much for mclaren (or the other way round?).

Kubica (and heidfeld) showed them all today how it's done. Nice to see dc have a good clean race.

The top two teams can't afford any mistakes, but they make them anyway! :-)

ferrar1 · « **Reply #596 on:** June 09, 2008, 07:29:09 AM »

Bah 10 places penalty only for Hami, which he could still probably score some points or even a podium finish if he drove decently for the next race.

UNFAIR, he should be banned for 1 game.

Tuffty · « **Reply #597 on:** June 09, 2008, 02:20:00 PM »

Quite surprising seeing a pro driver like Hamilton do that. More like something I see in a Sainsbury's car park. Ironically, Lewis' dad crashed his car into a ditch earlier in the week

Nice to see Kubica win it. Or indeed anyone that isn't in McLaren/Ferrari for a change.

ctz · « **Reply #598 on:** June 10, 2008, 10:50:30 PM »

Well at least Hamilton's amateurish mistake made the championship fight a way more interesting. Kubica leading in points, who would have guessed that. BMW needs to take the final leap in the development of their car that they can seriously challenge McLarens and Ferraris at the end of the season.

Kubica earned his first GP win, as did BMW. I'm a bit sorry for Heidfeld though, having driven almost his entire career for Sauber and BMW, Kubica takes the glory before him.

SomethingWild · « **Reply #599 on:** June 15, 2008, 07:29:41 PM »

Le Mans wasn't really interesting this year.. Peugot did pretty good, i think they'll be able to beat Audi eventually.