Motorsports (non-NASCAR)

[CBear3]

Greatest Day in Racing!!! Headed to the Speedway, had to leave the F1 race at the hotel.

[tifosi77]

Right on! Have a good one, take pics.

[dodint]

Teehee. Sato gonna Sato.

[tifosi77]

Won't cite outcomes to give the DVR crowd a couple days to catch up, but the final laps of both Monaco and Indy were hugely compelling.................... for very different reasons.

[dodint]

Yeah, haven't watched Monaco. Won't until next Monday.

I thought the shot of the wives at Indy were funny given the outcome.

[tifosi77]

Isle of Man TT getting off to a rough start this year: Two deaths already (one spectator, one racer) and the event is only in (I think) its third day.

[dodint]

When I heard things were bad for Mercedes at Monaco I was excited. Finding out it was a dual podium was upsetting.

[MR25]

Max Verstappen had quite the accident

[dodint]

Yes, and claimed to have been brake checked. I was bummed it wasn't Maldonado that he ran up the back off.

[tifosi77]

Yeah, but come on; tell me you weren't laughing when LH pitted at the end.

The team wanted Lewis to stay out (because Rosberg and Vettel) were staying out. LH said the his tires were rooted, so he didn't think that was the best idea. The gap to Rosberg was such that at the virtual safety car speeds, he had just enough of a gap that he might have been able to change and get back out in front. But as it happened, on the box lap Hamilton picked up the real safety car. He lost something like 11 seconds just from Tabac to the pit entry, and that was that. The team didn't realize he got slowed.

Then his antics when he left the pits, trying overtake Vettel behind the SC. WTF?

[MR25]

I laughed my ass off when he knocked over the 3rd place pylon thing at the end of the race.

[tifosi77]

To clarify, it's not that the real SC is that much slower in terms of laptime. But behind the virtual safety car, your speeds are limited the whole way around the circuit. However, if you haven't been picked up by the real safety car, there is no speed restriction on track between the pit-in safety car line and the pit-out safety car line. (Which seems odd, considering the incident was at turn 1)

Lewis was a good 1/2 mile up the road from everyone else when he picked up the SC, but by the time he peeled off into the pits, the gap had closed down from 20 seconds to 17-18 seconds. This was already enough to lose the lead. But because the cars were not speed restricted between the pit-in and pit-out SC lines, there was enough time for Vettel to also blast ahead. That's the phantom 11 seconds.

[tifosi77]

I love it how every single year, Le Mans seems to sneak up on me.

Porsche drew first blood in today's practice session. It's nice to see Mark Webber be happy behind the wheel of a racing car.

[dodint]

Source of the post I love it how every single year, Le Mans seems to sneak up on me.

I panicked last weekend thinking it was June 6th.

That National Corvette Museum is having a really great looking event. For $100 they're going to air it in their presentation/movie theater live, and feed you for the 24 hours. Had I not moved my wife up here last week I would've gone down my with my friend that lives in Cincy ('Vette junkie). I would've worn my BMW polo the first day and my BMW-Williams F1 crew shirt the second day.

[dodint]

F Le Mans.

Not only did I not get nearly the result I wanted, it took 22hrs to make that apparent.

Also, the Fox Sports coverage was atrocious. I **** hate it so bad. I'm going to have to move to Europe to get anything resembling competent coverage. Last year I streamed it and that was great but that was more of a one-off thing. I'll have to come up with a better solution if I'm going to bother trying to watch it in the future.

[tifosi77]

So I made the post about it coming up, and then promptly forgot about it until two hours after the race ended.

McDreamy finished second in class. Yay.

[dodint]

That was one of the things that chapped my ass. The other was one of the Taylor brood winning in the Vette.

[Freddy Rumsen]

http://www.foxsports.com/motor/story/f1 ... r=54060157

Imola

[tifosi77]

I would love to see F1 return to Imola, especially now that the reprofiled the track and eliminated the final chicane.

[CBear3]

I hate it at the expense of Monza, but I always thought Imola had a great setting. As tif says, leaving out the last chicane should make it much more entertaining as well.

Nico trolling with his 24H trophy was funny.

[Shyster]

Approve. I know Monza has all that history, but I think Imola is a better track. Although it was much better in the pre-1995 configuration. In particular, I wish they would go back to the tricky chicane at Acqua Minerali. I liked that better than the faster corners they have now.

[tifosi77]

Can't remember where I read it, but part of the reason they reprofiled Aqua Minerali was because it was almost universally reviled by the drivers as the worst bit of track in F1. And mind you this was when they had two races at Aida, which itself was basically 2+ miles of Aqua Minerali.

[Shyster]

Call me an apostate, but in my book the "worst bit of track in F1" is the entirety of the Monaco circuit. Although I must admit that may be because I think I crashed out of every Monaco race back when I was playing Geoff Crammond's Grand Prix II.

[tifosi77]

Austria used to provide decent racing. That's all I'm going to say about that.

The lap 1 incident from the on-board camera perspective was pretty frightening.

[slappybrown]

I see Bernie Ecclestone somehow continues to become worse and worse as a human. He and Blatter are assuredly Siths.