Club Arnage

OK - so the action hasnt even started yet, so its too early to comment on the race, but WFT has Jackie Stewart got on his head for a hat!!!  Looks like a Russ Abbott cast off.....  :o

Doesnt he have any mirrors in his house?

F

Its his favourite I think, we had a snigger at it at Knockhill last summer. It was roasting too- not hat weather for sure!
Hamiltons first win today? The backlash starts here!

I am cheering for Hamilton and Spyker :D

Yep - I can go for supporting both of those as well! 

Has Coulthard crashed/broken down yet? 

F

P.S.  LOVE the Iveco/All Blacks advert - tho you probably wont see that in NL.   :-\

Just had a thought... dont you have to give a bit of support to Toyota for the sake of Martijn DfH?   :-X

F

Said it all about GP racing today, when James Allen said, "Thats all the pit stops completed, so this looks like the finishing order unless anyone dares a passing manuever. " Thats with over 20 laps left . GP's that boring that there aren't any changes for position on the track anymore.

Yawn-o-rama race; good result.  It keeps peeing with rain here, why not Monaco? - would have cheered the thing up a bit.

Yep - Dullsville indeed.  Esp since (we are told) Alonson and Hamilton werent even trying from lap 10 onwards cos the team knew they had won!!!!

DC moaning as usual - surprise surprise - not his fault.....

Nice to see Hammy do well tho.

F

Why not :) i'll cheer for trulli next time

It looks as if they need all the help they can get!!  8)

Well I really enjoyed it, in the same way that I really enjoy other well known motor races - I slept from just after the start until the post race interviews!!   ;D

I've been saying for years that Monaco should be hoisted off the GP calendar.  Whats the point of holding a race on a track where you cannot overtake.

Just been watching Indy 500 and saw lots of overtaking, not that I'm advocating that driving around in circles constitutes skillful driving.  I reckon you could strap a chimp in an Indy 500 car and he'd have a chance ( .....and now I await the reposte from our American cousins !!!!)

Jem

On a personal note i now have something in common with Graham Hill. I was doing some contract work at Mclaren earlier this year and did some work on the making of the chassis. In the past i have worked on one Le Mans winner and two Indy winners. So can claim to have won the the big three races. Do i get a cigar.

Have a chance at what ? Crashing it, yes the chimp would have a good chance at that !

Driving it fast however takes skill. Indy is the toughest track to drive as all four corners are different to drive even if they look the same. The grove is real narrow and you have to hit your marks at over 230 mph, get off line by inches and you are a passenger and going into the wall. All this changes during the race and the track drives differently depending on abient temperatures and wind speed and direction.

So ask Dario or Dan if driving at Indy involves skill, or go and call them chimps, and see how they respond.

A cigar at the very least, Rhino.  Congratulations. 8)

Only one to bite so far !!

Tee hee.

Jem

If you take that attitude there will be no GP racing left at all...  You could be onto something  ;)

All four!? - must be tricky  ;D

Even the straights are a bit tricky, by the look of it:

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

So hang on a minute, they got as many as four tricky corners, and then on top of that there are what, two straights?!!!!! Jeez I don't know how these guys do it. It is amazing.  ;D

But don't forget the straights drive differently as the race progresses...

It’s all too much!! I had forgotten that would happen as the race progressed. Like I say amazing.

Surely if there are 4 corners there must be 4 straights (on the basis there arent any proper wiggly bits) - the basic rules of trigonometry demand that.  But maybe I am mistaken.....  ???

F

You would think so...  But actually it is more like two corners and two straights isn't it.  A couple of 180 degree turns and two straights

Ahhh - so the "all four corners are different" was overstating it somewhat - its becoming clearer!!!

 8)

Hmm just checked aerial photo of the Indy "oval" and its deffo 4 corners/4 straights (2 long 2 short) and more of a rectangle than an oval....its almost getting intriguing...but not quite

Edit:  Not sure if it will work, but link to aerial photo - http://www.indymotorspeedway.com/imsmap.htm#IMS

That seems to be the bone of contention.

They may look the same but are different apparently, but without a straight bit between them I still contest there must be two and not four corners.

I suspect Wheldon would hit me with his purse.

Montoya said his grandmother could drive an IRL car.  With the telemetry showing 100% throttle all the way around, it appears he wasn't exaggerating all that much.

Pity.  I remember when it really was a test of skill and you couldn't get a ticket if you tried.

They just love to show off don't they, why couldnt they just stick to something nice and simple. Like this

That would require them building cars with steering that allowed turns to the left AND the right to be made  ;)

And ones that can float in some instances....  ;D

I think everyone's getting a bit stir crazy waiting for the off.

To misquote Bat out of hell:  All packed up and no place to go