F1 - 2011

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  1. Steve

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    How 'bout Massa's Hail Mary "pass" at the end? He no doubt knew he was over cooking it and he wouldn't be able to stay between the lines at the next turn (and he didn't) but given the timing it didn't matter!
     
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    That was a race to say "Yep, saw that one on TV."

    :drool
     
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    I really wish Alonso had still been in the mix at the end.
     
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    Now wouldn't that have been fun!!!
     
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    Asking anyone else who watched the Hamilton - Stewart car swap last night, is "BORING" a pretty good 1-word description or is it just me?

    The announcers from the two series' were all trying way too hard to be pleasant and complimentary. The guys asking questions of the drivers seemed to have zero imagination, no interviewing skills. The only fun part was Hamilton right after he got out of Stewart's car. The only smile I got from watching Stewart was during the Mobil 1 commercial where he wedges himself into the F1 car.
     
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    I live ~2 hours from Watkins Glen and the lack of access, weather and generally no promotion of this kept me from going.

    After watching it last night I am glad I didn't.

    Very cold tv show at best...
     
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    I missed it and was hoping to find a repeat on Speed. Guess I don't need to seek that out now.
     
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    The biggest problem for the driving itself is the track started out wet and was drying as they went but they spent the whole time on wet weather tires. Best line from Stewart was "It's fun to have downforce again." Sam Posey's short Watkins Glen history segments with old video were pretty good but otherwise this is probably the best segment. I checked a bunch of them on YouTube and the idiots seem to have cut every second of the best part with Hamilton finishing up with a donut and then getting out of the car with a big grin and gushing about how fun it was.

    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsrYLNRn-MY]YouTube - ‪[HD] Lewis Hamilton & Tony Stewart - Seat Swap Special (Part 4) Lewis Drives NASCAR‬‏[/ame]
     
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    I tried to DVR the seat swap but it ran past the allotted 30 minutes. Oh well. Would have been cooler to watch in the dry, maybe with some other cars out there running qualifying laps so you get a feel for how fast they're actually going.
     
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    Same here. But I found a rerun, added 2 hours of recording time to that and will try it again. Seeing the stock car and an F1 car side by side is "weird". Talk about a size differential.
     
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    I have it on the DVR, it runs 1 full hour including the commercials. FWIW, you can see all but that bit with Hamilton's emergence from Stewart's car in segments on YouTube, in HD and w/out all the commercials.
     
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    Hamilton's laps

    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkHYEZvyIro]YouTube - ‪Lewis Hamilton Drives Tony Stewart's NASCAR In Seat Swap‬‏[/ame]

    Stewart's laps

    [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E46hMecVYt4]YouTube - ‪Tony Stewart Drives Lewis Hamilton's F1 Car - Seat Swap Special 2011‬‏[/ame]
     
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    Ok, what is this thing -- inerter -- Trulli is talking about? Dangling between his legs.....

    Trulli reveals unusual Montreal problem (gpupdate.net)
     
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    Let me Google that for you....

    Wikipedia ..

    So then we go look up J-Damper where we find this page J-Dampers in Formula One - F1technical.net
     
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    F1 to switch to V6 engines – but not until 2014 (crash.net)
     
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    I'd not heard of the Audi back-story until now.

    Newey: Audi to blame for four-cylinder engine chaos (crash.net)
     
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    Priceless....
     
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    Yes priceless indeed.

    During the Le Mans broadcast some high exalted potentate from Audrey said they had no desire to run F1. Sports cars were the companies core product. Or something to that effect.
     
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    They shurwooda looked purty though... :cornut:

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    Newey and Horner are full of surprises this week...

    Exhaust clampdown set to benefit Red Bull (yallaf1.com)
     

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