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Not to mention Button won his title by more than a point whereas Hamilton kinda "backed" into his, if it wasn't for Glock sliding wide in Brazil, Massa would be holding the title and Hammy would be just another contender. You know that's gotta be on his mind. Vettel barely won his first title but dominated for his second and Hammy will be holding a solid 5th in the Championship standings.

Now as much as I dislike Hamilton as a F1 racer, he did well to promote himself as a likeable guy in the Seat Swap with Tony Stewart. He seemed genuinely stoked to be ripping around in a stock car.

RIP Wheldon. such a horrible accident :(

At least it was dry in Korea this year. Found it rather interesting that the talk last year was how Korea was going to building all sorts of housing/office buildings/shops next to the track and this year absolutely nothing has changed since the last race.

During the Speed broadcast, Varsha made mention that some teams had mentioned that after last years race, the track was essentially padlocked. One team even said that when they returned to their designated offices that the food from last year's race was still in the fridge!

And Hamilton continues to a whiny little bitch to his team!

and now simoncelli. these things always come in pairs, it seems :( what a horrible, horrible accident...

RIP Simoncelli.

Rumors of a second US F1 race??
http://www.itv.com/formula1/news/201...-streets-9914/

Gnarly.

+1...RIP Simoncelli....
Vibes to family and MOTO GP community...
That was a horrific thing to watch...
Cant even imagine how Rossi and Edwards must feel...
Not a damn thing they could do...

That's just fucking horrible...

Cannot get over how awful this was. I have the MotoGP subscription and was watching from the "no spoiler" link. When I saw the segment was only 35 minutes long and being rainy Malaysia I though the race was called due to rain. When the accident happened [I was enjoying the back and forth between Marco and Alvaro] I knew it was way worse. So heartbreaking to see his helmet rolling along the track.
I also feel for Colin, I was at Indy last year when Peter Lenz was killed in an accident. Colon had mentored him and knew of his passing [was not announced to the spectators till after the race] and just gave up during the race. This is not going to sit well with him.

I am going to miss the hair which was a tribute to Hendrix. RIP Marco

http://nimg.sulekha.com/sports/origi...-4-11-0-13.jpg

Wonder if Rossi will retire?

RIP. I will always wonder if he was pushing too hard... No race wins are worth it. Screw dying doing what you loved.

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This went through my mind as well. Were the two friends?

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This went through my mind as well. Were the two friends?

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Yeah, apparently very close. He said he didn't know if he'd hit him initially but seems clear he did... that's just got to be unbearable mental burden. Can't help but think 7th in championship isn't doing it for him either?

Still can't get over his helmet coming off... not buckled properly? Or, and I've wondered this about him before, how did he get a good helmet fit with that crazy hair? Just thinking out loud... not Monday morning QB'ing.

I was wondering about the helmet as well, if he wore it loose as a preference, kind of how some football guys barely tie their shoes.

The Ducati really isn't progressing, not what I expected when Rossi signed.

Toby Moody has a very nice article:

http://plus.autosport.com/free/featu...co-simoncelli/

^ agreed. Very nice.

Nicely done season edit[thankfully no final race]

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Still can't get over his helmet coming off... not buckled properly? Or, and I've wondered this about him before, how did he get a good helmet fit with that crazy hair? Just thinking out loud... not Monday morning QB'ing.

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It looks Vale runs right over his head. I'm surprised he ended up in one piece.

http://images2.gazzettaobjects.it/He...v=201110231445

^ a-t-m, out of respect, consider removing this pic...

elsewhere:
http://i.imgur.com/2Gbgi.gif

Wow, Marco! RIP..mesto lamento e dormir con pace

Filming for Ron Howard movie about '76 F1 season underway at the Nürburgring.

http://bridgetogantry.com/2/images/s.../rush/hunt.jpg

http://bridgetogantry.com/2/images/s...rush/hunt2.jpg

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/9419/photo0289d.jpg

US GP in Texass looking increasingly unlikely to happen.

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Seems like it would have been a wiser plan to bring a current track up to Bernie specs instead of trying to build a whole new circuit. Laguna, Road Atlanta, Road America, Mid Ohio, Bell Isle, Miller, Watkins Glen, VIR and so on versus a start from scratch/Tilke designed Texmess.

And All that talk of a night race in Vegas then voila...Jersey. I guess the Monticello track wasn't up to snuff.

Whole thing was leveraged on track owner getting state funding based on having contract to hold race there with the guy who'd buy the rights from Bernie using the money the track owner got from the state. Once the state realized they weren't actually buying anything with tax payer money deal dried up.

Existing track owners know they'd never make $ one hosting a GP. No other circuit does. The COTA developers actually wanted to make their cash in paying themselves to build the track. Leave the state to pick up the hosting fee because they'd sunk so much cash into it.

But Bernie doesn't care one way or the other. Actually he probably never wanted to go to Texass anyway. Don't really blame him.

Piranhas eat armadillos.

Contract or not, Bernie does as Bernie does. Even if he was contractually bound to provide a race date to COTA he'd just wax em of the calendar and claim they failed to meet certain obligations. Just ask the Koreans.

I'm actually more excited to go to Jersey (though I don't understand how it's supposed to be the greenest race) since I have a friend that lives in NYC and the idea of getting extremely hammered and hopping on the water taxi is most appealing. Though a day into night race in Vegas would have been worthy.

f1 helmet cam:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uie7xUZdIo

i think the audio is behind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UJ5PF87xAdU#!

Despite their recent bad form, I would've gone with Williams. They have new people designing the car, etc. Renault, I don't know, seems like they're going to always be a mid-pack team.

He's hilarious to listen to, sounds like a cosmonaut or something.

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like they're going to always be a mid-pack team.

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I think Williams would probably relish being classed as a mid-pack team at the moment after scoring just 5 points this season 36 behind the 8th placed constructor.

Let alone always being one?

I am happy to see Kimi back in F1, love the monotone voice and of course his skill behind the wheel.

USGP looks like a GO !

https://a1ljlw.bay.livefilestore.com...9;s%20mood.jpg

kimi at his best

The documentary Senna is now available for streaming from Netflix. If you didn't catch it in the theater, this is your chance to see an amazing film on one of F1's greatest drivers.

this is one ugly, ugly car:

http://i.imgur.com/8lkc0.jpg

Yep.

http://media.techeblog.com/images/lego_ferraris_7.jpg

More news about the Ron Howard Hunt&lauda film.

http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2012/...to-the-movies/

Sounds like this could be quite good. I wonder how the Tobacco ads over everything are going to go down? Basically it's going to be a 2 hour long Philip Morris commercial.

Massa looks excited :|

http://o.aolcdn.com/dims-global/dims...120044-new.jpg

When Formula 1 turned ugly

not f1 but exciting:

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this is one ugly, ugly car:

http://i.imgur.com/8lkc0.jpg

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Red vomit!

^^ is that the new design for next year?