formula 1 maggots

[PNWbrit]

Tire performance window lottery will "fix" that.

Hoping Jean Alesi doesn't end up dead at the Indy 500 too...... that car shouldn't be allowed in field. Seems like he doesn't think it should either.

[f2f]

loving kimi's helmet:
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[PNWbrit]

loving kimi's helmet:
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But this is cool Raikkonen wears James Hunt helmet design in Monaco

[f2f]

[f2f]

the nausea that is monaco in a fast car:

[f2f]

[DasBlunt]

now it starts raining. good food though.

[PNWbrit]

The Daly family have a proud and rich Monaco history of wheel over wheel contact.

[f2f]

this is the shit:

[PNWbrit]

F1 car cut in half along it's length. 3:24 makes you realize how high up in chassis drivers feet are.

[sidewall]

Fascinating. Seating position is weird. Looks like one of the old BMW cars.

[wickstad]

Here is an old Tyrell in turn 9 at Pacific Raceway. I prefer F5000 cars, though.

[Ski to Be]

F1 car cut in half along it's length. 3:24 makes you realize how high up in chassis drivers feet are.

Great Link ,
Thanks

[wickstad]

FHV and I are watching the 1996 Nurburgring F1 race right now. Villeneuve's first F1 win which is why I've kept it all these years.

[Cross]

Austin F1 ticket prices.
http://www.f1technical.net/news/1741...4cb28778cc907b

At these prices I will most likely be visiting Texas in November.

[PNWbrit]

Tempting. But it's still Texas.

I'm still not convinced that it's 100% certain to go ahead. Still rumors of $ shenanigans going on between owner and promoter.

[wickstad]

Tempting. But it's still Texas.

I'm still not convinced that it's 100% certain to go ahead. Still rumors of $ shenanigans going on between owner and promoter.

Pretty sure Canada is this weekend. I've only been to an Indycar race back when it was CART and it seemed like watching it on TV would have been better. I lost track of who was where and it was when Penske had Emmo, Tracy, and somebody else all racing for he lead but everything happened on turn nine and we were back on turn six.

Is it really that fun to see a formula one race in person or is it just a check mark in your life experience list?

[Hugh Conway]

Vintage Races with F1 cars are pretty f'ing cool - wander about pits, huge spectacle, can actually see cars without giving a kidney.

[PNWbrit]

Is it really that fun to see a formula one race in person

Without a doubt YES. And Canada race is this weekend.

But I went to my first one back in the mid-seventies so I may be biased?

Only been to one Indycar race. in Vancouver 10 years or so ago... honestly only 10% of the F1 experience.. Now an oval race may be another thing.

Really if you're that into it, to be watching JV reruns, I'd skip Texas and combine a race in Europe - Either Monaco, Monza or Spa would be my choices - with a Euro* vacation. Also consider going to LeMans 24hrs too/instead.

And Canada race is this weekend.

*Plus they have amazing animal products to eat in Europe.

[wickstad]

Yes I've been a F1 fan since about 1990? and Suzuka. Thank the video game Final Lap, Ayrton Senna, and Alain Prost. FHV and I renewed our interest a few years ago when we bought a big tv and cable. Now Comcast pisses me off but I won't get rid of it due to F1. We have a ski friend (need to screen these people better) who streams it but we haven't figured that out yet. I use my Ipad and google to visit tracks and not to suck up but I think Silverstone might be on my list.

Qualifying today was sweet since the tires were lasting more than one lap. I keep rooting for Massa and he was driving well and the Ferrari looks capable. Massa was champ you know for a couple minutes. I think it was 2008?

[wickstad]

Vintage Races with F1 cars are pretty f'ing cool - wander about pits, huge spectacle, can actually see cars without giving a kidney.

At Pacific Raceway for the vintage races one year there was a guy in this tiny little car. He was at the back of his class but he wasn't being lapped. I found him in the pits. His car fit into the bed of his '76 ford pickup. The little car had a two stroke engine with a snowmobile transmission. He had it torn apart due to transmission problems. He actually wanted to explain to me what the problem was and how he was going to fix it. Right there in the bed of his pickup. I'm just a gaper and he was going all in depth. I wish I would have stuck around and helped him. I told this to some of the other racers and they were like, "yeah he's really coming on with that thing.". Really it was almost smaller than a go-kart.

[milton]

7 races, 7 different winners. The tyre lottery continues.

New Jersey getting an F1 race next year?

http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/inde...en_welcom.html

[PNWbrit]

Valencia. What an amazing race.

[PNWbrit]

Marussia test driver Maria de Villota, the 32-year-old daughter of former F1 driver Emilio, has been seriously hurt in an impact with a support truck after her first run in Marussia's F1 car at Duxford airfield in Cambridgeshire, England.


"The accident is understood to have happened as De Villota returned to a tented area from which the straightline test was being conducted, after her installation run early on Tuesday morning. Eye witnesses say that the car inexplicably accelerated into the back of the team's parked support truck after initially slowing down.

BBC Cambridgeshire presenter Chris Mann, who was present at the test, the first time that De Villota had driven the car, told Reuters that it was a shocking accident and that "the driver's helmet impacted on the side of the truck."

De Villota's injuries have been described as "life-threatening." A statement from Marussia said: "Maria has been transferred to hospital. Once her medical condition has been assessed a further statement will be issued."

Looks nasty.

http://twitpic.com/a3duh9/full

[Hugh Conway]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012...s-eye-accident

she lost her right eye