Formula 1

[BooBoo-Kitty]

kimi raikkonen = cannot be fucked with.

two consecutive "i blow'd my engine so i'm gonna qualify hotly and then drive to a podium from the middle of the grid" performances is hard.

[charlos3000]

yeah that fool kimi is gangsta.

and yo, Giancarlo, wassap dog? you drive your ass off only to stall in the pits, 2 weeks in a row!!! flabio's gonna ass rape you!

anyone else think alonso's weird eyebrows look...weird?

F1's top driver hotties:


1. mark webber, BMW Williams


2. jenson button, BAR Honda


3. kimi raikonnen, MBZ-Maclaren


Special Mention: Connie Montoya. Hot.

[Steven P]

During Saturday qualifying the announcers on Speed were talking about this neat DVD, 50 Years of Formula 1 On-Board. As the title suggest, just a bunch of cool on board race shots... I found a link if anyone is interested

http://www.f1racingshop.net/index.asp?articleid=12059

How about that JPM though, huh!

I was on the edge of my seat watching his qualifying run, especially with the smoke that appeared from the rear of his car early on in his lap. Then my heart dropped as he spun on the last freakin turn of his lap, knocking my boy to the back row. Did he pull out a race or what. From second to last, to second palce and his spot on the podium! I love that guy.

Have the rest of you still given up on F1 after the US race?

[atomicscissors]

Originally posted by Steven P
Have the rest of you still given up on F1 after the US race?

Not at all. Watched qualifying but missed the race!

[atomicscissors]

Hutchison 'could buy Formula One'

Hutchison, which owns the UK's 3 mobile network, is reported to be preparing to buy Formula One for about $1bn (£575m).

Bernie Ecclestone, Formula One tycoon, confirmed on Sunday that he had been approached by the Hong Kong firm.

He told the Press Association: "One guy came to see me and I put him in touch with the people that own the shares - the (three) banks."

Hutchison could buy the banks' 75% stake in holding company Slec without his say-so, but it wants his support.

Hutchison's media unit, Tom Group, is reported to have met the three banks that own 75% of Slec, the ultimate holding company for the sport.

Tom is said to want Mr Ecclestone's approval, before making a bid, because of his influence over the sport. Mr Ecclestone also owns 25% of Slec.

But Mr Ecclestone told PA that he would not welcome a Hutchison deal and said: "Why do I want to change the shareholders we've got for shareholders we don't know?"

Commercial rights

In March, the three banks that own Slec - JP Morgan, Bayerische Landesbank and Lehman Brothers - managed to gain a greater say over the running of the Formula One operating companies, giving them more control over commercial rights to the sport.

Previously, although the three owned a majority of Slec between them, Mr Ecclestone often had more influence in how the rights were managed.

A banking source quoted in the Sunday Telegraph said: "Hutchison... sees great potential for Formula One in Asia and it is now spending a lot of time cosying up to Bernie [Ecclestone].

"The banks are quite happy to sell out."

Story from BBC NEWS

[charlos3000]

missed it cuz it was a CBS broadcast, but wow, what a race for JPM.

and you know what, button might just be the best driver in F1 not named alonso, kimi, or MS. wonder what happens when you put him into a Cosworth powered Williams, and who BAR brings into the fold.

also, like mercedes production cars, their F1 cars have serious reliability issues. how many #1's has kimi given away?

[nagasawa]

Interview w/ Keke Rosberg in this month's Motorsport. Man, what a character. Take this part for instance,

"I had a huge shunt at Laguna Seca at the first corner - which in those days was flat. I blew the offside front tyre and went into an earth bank at what felt like the speed of sound. That happened in qualifying on the Saturday - and I raced on Sunday! I can't even remember if I went to the hospital or not...On Sunday, though, I was so out of it that, after the warm-up, I went back to the hotel and slept until the race. I should never have raced - I had a concussion! But the medical checks in those days were sort of, 'Are you ok?, Yes, I'm ok." All right then..."

"I couldn't hold the steering wheel because I was so badly bruised, so we put double-sided tape on it and I just stuck my gloves on it! Of course it got away from me, I spun in the Corkscrew, but I still finished fourth."

Dude couldn't grip the steering wheel so they taped his hands to it! And still managed to finish the race in the points. Oh man, how things have changed. Granted we don't have drivers dying every weekend like back then.

[kyberPaavi]

Originally posted by nagasawa
Interview w/ Keke Rosberg in this month's Motorsport. Man, what a character. Take this part for instance,

"I had a huge shunt at Laguna Seca at the first corner - which in those days was flat. I blew the offside front tyre and went into an earth bank at what felt like the speed of sound. That happened in qualifying on the Saturday - and I raced on Sunday! I can't even remember if I went to the hospital or not...On Sunday, though, I was so out of it that, after the warm-up, I went back to the hotel and slept until the race. I should never have raced - I had a concussion! But the medical checks in those days were sort of, 'Are you ok?, Yes, I'm ok." All right then..."

"I couldn't hold the steering wheel because I was so badly bruised, so we put double-sided tape on it and I just stuck my gloves on it! Of course it got away from me, I spun in the Corkscrew, but I still finished fourth."

Dude couldn't grip the steering wheel so they taped his hands to it! And still managed to finish the race in the points. Oh man, how things have changed. Granted we don't have drivers dying every weekend like back then.

Keke Rosberg is definitely a hardass. I still prefer the 80's racing with those mullets and moustache's. Those were the days...He was the first F1 champion of Finland and of course song had to be made of him, lyrics started with the line kekekekekekeke.

Still cracks me up

[nagasawa]

The whole interview with Nigel Roebuck had me cracking up. I think Rosberg even called the Can Am cars shit, but backed that up by saying they were truly men's cars, needing serious cojones to wring the performance out of them.

After the race at Laguna Seca he recouperated at a friend's place in San Francisco. He said he slept for 2 solid days, then woke up, made some coffee and found a pair of roller skates in his friend's apartment. He thought it would be relaxing to go for a skate so he strapped them on and went outside.

The area was very hilly and he went down a huge hill but couldn't figure out how to stop. He raced through a double lane intersection, miraculously not getting hit by anyone, hit the farside curb, launched through the air and came down straight on his Zippo in his back pocket. I guess it left a bruise on his ass for a few weeks.

[charlos3000]

Reading some carroll smith books, and in between the impossibly complicated explanations of how slip angles and camber and all these other things affect a driver, he's got some great stories and anecdotes about guys like Senna, Prost, Mansell, Andretti...

interesting to read, b/c it's not always supplicating. There's a point where he basically says Paul Tracy could rule the world if he would pull his head out of his ass.

[nagasawa]

Uh oh. Time for Takuma to pony up.

"The situation is very simple in lots of ways," said Fry. "If Jenson stays there won't be a race seat with Takuma, you don't need to be a mathematician to work that out, we have two race seats and two great drivers. Whether Takuma stays with the team after that we will see, I think it is as much his decision as ours whether he would want to stay as a third driver, we could discuss it."

"If Jenson goes then there are no guarantees for Takuma. We have talked to more drivers than I can remember, to be honest, and we are not short of alternatives."

[charlos3000]

Sato doesn't deserve a seat, he's not producing.

Latest rumor has hiedfeld tied to BAR. Personally i'd like to see Jenson back, but hiedfeld/RB wouldn't be such a bad lineup.

[highdensity]

i keep thinkin that they could just swap drivers like the NBA swaps players and deal RB to williams to keep Button. but it aint gon' happen. i think this goes to arbitration again and Button gets told whatfer, like the end of last year.

i think Rubens deserves a #1 seat, and the Button/Barrichello thing would kinda be like Mclaren's tandem except less asshattery (JPM) and less woodenpuppet talk (KR), and probably less pace (i think the aforementioned two would beat a Rubens/Jensen team at a chinese firedrill around monte carlo in a yugo)

[atomicscissors]

So do you guys think Schumy will leave Ferrari?

[Jook Sing Vegas]

Nah Schuey will ride out his contract till 2007. with regulation changes ferrari prob wont win another title