Prof. Sid Watkins has passed Formula One has been paying tribute to its former medical delegate Sid Watkins, who died on Wednesday evening at the age of 84. Watkins, a wise-cracking neurosurgeon with a love of cigars and whisky, was F1's on-track surgeon from 1978 until 2004, his crusade to improve medical facilities helping to dramatically cut the number of deaths and serious injuries in the sport. His actions helped save the lives of Northern Ireland's Martin Donnelly, Finland's two-time world champion Mika Hakkinen and the Austrian Gerhard Berger, among others. F1 leads the tributes for Sid Watkins, its long-time medical delegate | Sport | guardian.co.uk
Alonso heads the drivers' championship standings. Asked about the most likely championship rival: "If I had to choose between Hamilton or Vettel, I choose Raikkonen."
Uh, oh...which do you hate more? Here's Webber's take: ‘Wheel protection more vital than closed cockpits’ (GPUpdate.com)
No comments on the Singapore race? My darn DVR cut out with 3 min to go. Dang this older technology, while I have it set to record all of the races I have to manually add time to each recording. I can't tell to expand the whole group of recordings. No, that would make to much sense. And here I was avoiding all race media all day so I could watch the race in the evening.
Not much to tell after Lewis fell out. Kind of a boring race. But I hate most street course anyway.....:biggrin5:
Not a street course fan myself. And if hear Steve Machett say "inch perfect" one more time I might just scream.
Yep once Hamilton broke the race was all Vettel's, then it turned into an endurance race when others fell out leaving most teams just wanting to finish. One exciting moment was when Michael's depth perception or something failed him again as he pile drives another in the rear... Not sure if something broke but it is becoming a trend for Michael. I do know that when one has all wheels locked up, there is no steering and the ability to drive around a problem...
I think it's hard to have a good F1 race on a tight street circuit. If Machett is right Singapore is even slower than Monaco. Most of the on-track passing either caused damage or threatened it, which doesn't entertain me at all. I can't understand why they don't shorten that race a bit. If any track ought to host a longer than average race and threaten to end by hitting the time limit rather than max laps it should at least be an interesting one. I was happy to see Schumacher acting genuinely apologetic after taking out Verne. He also seemed confused about how it happened...maybe Herr Brawn will help him figure that out.
Geez that was a long race. I was kinda hoping for a boring procession with Hamilton in the lead, but that went out the window. Feel sorry for Maldonado though, I had hoped he would be able to hang out near the front longer, and I was expecting a really aggressive dash to turn one, but he just couldn't really compete. Too bad about the early retirement too.
I was a bit impressed with Senna's run from the back considering what a premium there was on passing!
Although I have to say the one pass by Massa on [I don't remember who] had to be the pass of the season so far. No idea how he held it, or how he made it stick.
That pass by Massa was just dumb luck the way I saw it. Kimi's pass on Michael at Spa was the pass of the year so far for me.
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