F1 2008
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Finnish Juho Annala to drive Indy Car this season.
http://www.hs.fi/urheilu/artikkeli/Juho ... 5234623433
He will drive in Rocketsport Racing team.
http://www.hs.fi/urheilu/artikkeli/Juho ... 5234623433
He will drive in Rocketsport Racing team.
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Hank W.
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Q: How does the Iceman do it in the loo at tropical -14C?
A: Quickly
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/motorsport/ ... 31,00.html
A: Quickly
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/motorsport/ ... 31,00.html
Cheers, Hank W.
sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin.
sitting here like a lemon looking for a gin.
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How about that... Kimi had the winning cards in his hand... couple of spins and they were gone... 
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It seems the "Ice man" is also suffering from the mild winter...
He melted today
He melted today
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The Ferraris seemed so normal. Maybe they are missing traction control more than everybody else. I wonder if Glock injured his back with that huge thud after he touched down. Kovalainen had the worst timing for a pit stop.....The field has really tightened up and thats great. But Hamilton! What a driver!
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Here's and interesting comment from someone who was at Melbourne last weekend.
It started when I was watching Friday practice on the mound immediately after Turn 9. As you'll see, the cars approach the right hand corner quite fast, drop down 4 gears on the left of the track, then off throttle, turn right and then left, getting back onto the throttle as they enter the opening up Turn 10. With no TC, it was clear that hauling the speed down and lining up for Turn 9 was tricky this year, with the cars dancing around a bit. But that's not my point. As they changed direction and headed off into Turn 10, the absence of TC was clearly placing an extra burden on driver judgement. Particularly on the Friday, a few had lurid tail out moments before backing off and going again.
But amongst the top guys, I couldn't help noticing that both Kimi and Felipe were apparently making a meal of the throttle application into T10. Typically the Williams, McLaren and BMW drivers, and certainly the likes of Trulli and Button were as smooth as silk in terms of engine sound. They appeared to carry a decent amount of throttle through T9 and into T10, with the engine sound smoothly rising in pitch as they went through T10.
In some contrast, both Kimi and Felipe appeared to come right off the throttle and almost.... stamp on it as they entered T10. ON. OFF, ON. They're both top drivers so there was no lurid tailiness but the whole thing looked a bit.... lumpy... to me. Certainly in enormous contrast to Hamilton whose progress through the sequence was silky smooth every time. The two Ferrari boys noticeably improved their technique through T9/10 as the weekend unfolded but I did ponder the reasons. And of course, they were both generally a bit flakier in corners than we've come to expect. After Friday, Baldisserri and Kimi talked about 'set up' problems but that could be anything.
Today, however, I was talking to a fellow who was of the view that Ferrari's TC last year worked better that anyone's and so the implication is that the two Ferrari guys perhaps have somewhat more relearning to do that most of their competitors.
If there's anything in this, I'm sure that both the drivers and the engineers will iron it out before very long.
But I wonder if anyone else who was there noticed a little more jerkiness... lack of smoothness with the two Ferraris than with the others. I fancy this was something sufficiently subtle that you couldn't pick it up unless you were trackside.
It started when I was watching Friday practice on the mound immediately after Turn 9. As you'll see, the cars approach the right hand corner quite fast, drop down 4 gears on the left of the track, then off throttle, turn right and then left, getting back onto the throttle as they enter the opening up Turn 10. With no TC, it was clear that hauling the speed down and lining up for Turn 9 was tricky this year, with the cars dancing around a bit. But that's not my point. As they changed direction and headed off into Turn 10, the absence of TC was clearly placing an extra burden on driver judgement. Particularly on the Friday, a few had lurid tail out moments before backing off and going again.
But amongst the top guys, I couldn't help noticing that both Kimi and Felipe were apparently making a meal of the throttle application into T10. Typically the Williams, McLaren and BMW drivers, and certainly the likes of Trulli and Button were as smooth as silk in terms of engine sound. They appeared to carry a decent amount of throttle through T9 and into T10, with the engine sound smoothly rising in pitch as they went through T10.
In some contrast, both Kimi and Felipe appeared to come right off the throttle and almost.... stamp on it as they entered T10. ON. OFF, ON. They're both top drivers so there was no lurid tailiness but the whole thing looked a bit.... lumpy... to me. Certainly in enormous contrast to Hamilton whose progress through the sequence was silky smooth every time. The two Ferrari boys noticeably improved their technique through T9/10 as the weekend unfolded but I did ponder the reasons. And of course, they were both generally a bit flakier in corners than we've come to expect. After Friday, Baldisserri and Kimi talked about 'set up' problems but that could be anything.
Today, however, I was talking to a fellow who was of the view that Ferrari's TC last year worked better that anyone's and so the implication is that the two Ferrari guys perhaps have somewhat more relearning to do that most of their competitors.
If there's anything in this, I'm sure that both the drivers and the engineers will iron it out before very long.
But I wonder if anyone else who was there noticed a little more jerkiness... lack of smoothness with the two Ferraris than with the others. I fancy this was something sufficiently subtle that you couldn't pick it up unless you were trackside.
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One thing to remember is that Kimi drove without TC in his first year in F1, unlike Hami...
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Great quote i found in the bbc website...
"I am going to kick 10 colours of **** out of that litttle *******!"
David Coulthard accepts accidents happen after being shunted out of the Australian Grand Prix by Felipe Massa.
"I am going to kick 10 colours of **** out of that litttle *******!"
David Coulthard accepts accidents happen after being shunted out of the Australian Grand Prix by Felipe Massa.
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You mean Barrichello...antstar wrote:Great quote i found in the bbc website...
"I am going to kick 10 colours of **** out of that litttle *******!"
David Coulthard accepts accidents happen after being shunted out of the Australian Grand Prix by Felipe Massa.
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You mean the BBC mean Barrichello...mCowboy wrote:You mean Barrichello...antstar wrote:Great quote i found in the bbc website...
"I am going to kick 10 colours of **** out of that litttle *******!"
David Coulthard accepts accidents happen after being shunted out of the Australian Grand Prix by Felipe Massa.
Lap 26: Massa and Coulthard come together and it results in the end of the race fro the Scot. Coulthard looks to have turned into Massa, who was alongside. The safety car is deployed.