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And he's a test driver.......!

:eek6:

 

word... way too weird.

 

Finally a fun race !

Spa showed pretty much what a level playing field can deliver.

I will not give away the result until others have seen it - but, really, wow that was an interesting and fun race.

 

This was a great race! Much like it used to be.

But, why in the heck didn't Kimi get a penalty for gaining positions at the first turn when he ran wide and made up 2 positions?
Oh wait......he drives the red car.

 

That was quite the race, exciting for the entire bit didn't even nap during it.

 

I did not see it that way. He was in third place when he ran wide and he came out in third after the excursion. No position gained. Plus the wife had him in the NUT pool, so she is $69.83 ahead of the game.

 

After watching the replay he was either 3rd/4th/5th or 6th depending on where the corner actually starts !

I think that a penalty after the race has finished would be stupid.....

He also used his KERs to good effect on the high-grip run-off area

 

There was this overhead shot of Kimi out on that other section during the start, you can see the rear do a little sashay to the right when he hits that KERS button.

 

Oh he definitely passed a car or two going into the corner. He was on the outside of both the third and fourth placed cars going into the corner and passed them both before coming back on track.

But then again he is sporting the invisible red paint scheme!

 

To be fair, the red car bias has been in place for so long it's now commonplace and everyone knows it. If any other team has as poor an outing as our buddy Luca he'd never have made a showing in that second race.

 

Hater.

 

Not me, I've been a tofisi for like ever. When F1 coverage in the US was limited to the annual Monaco race on Wide World of Sports, Nigel Roebucks 2 months after the race reports in Road & Track or maybe a few lines in Competition Press.

I bleed Ferrari Red.

 

He must be talking about that old game we played in high school. Hitting a garbage can = 1 point. Pedestrian = 2 points. Grandma = 5 points. Grandma with a shopping cart = 10 points.

 

As an ex Marlboro McLaren employee I am contract bound to hate Ferrari.

However my first memory of F1 was back in, erm, a bloody long time ago. My father had some black and white cine footage of Monaco from 1961, he showed me the film in about 1970 and I was utterly enamored with the Ferrari 156's (sharknose). The idea of a German Count driving a blood red Ferrari that looked like that sparked something in me that pretty much went on to lead to a life time fascination with F1.

Oh and yeah I was really happy to see Kimmi win this one - anyone that enters snowmobile races under the name 'James Hunt' is cool by me.....

 

Any one have an explanation for the height of the sidewalls on the F1 rubber?

 

Took all of about 14 seconds but I found the email address for Steve Matchette and sent him a note asking why the sidewalls are so large.