2009 F1 Season...

[mohaughn]

Originally Posted by marko

As in with any other sport - fan emotions are a huge part of it... some drivers & teams just appeal to you while others simply dont.

I wanted him to succeed when he first came on - I really wanted him to beat Alonso to (another primadona)... but then he turned into a real cocky a-hole.
Arrogant attitude with wheel banging bully tactics - with only a handfull of races under his belt. Turned me off - & now makes my skin crawl. In fact, I wish someone puts him in a wall head first at 200mph.

& all this coming from a die-hard Shui fan! LOL who wrote the book on this stuff - mostly due to the fact that his career begun while Prost, Senna & Mensell were duking it out hard-core every race - so he did what was common & acceptable at the time... but thats another story for another day. LOL

Its gonna be a good season.... any predictions for Sepang folks???

I say BrawnGP 1 & 2 - Ferrari 3 & 4 - Kubica 3 (Nick sux), etc...

I'm a BMW fan, so I understand rooting for your team, but that doesn't mean you have to hate the other drivers. I don't want to see Mclaren or Ferrari up on top any more, but I don't hate any of their drivers, just me I guess..

And talk about aggressive driving. Schumi wrote the book on that as well. He is well known for punting people out of his way. Again, not hating on him, he is an incredible driver and holds a ton of records, but he could also be a real a$$ to other drivers on the track. Being friends with everyone doesn't win championships..

He got a penalty as he overtook Hamilton during the second safety car which put him into 4th and Hamilton upto 3rd.

25 second penalty and he ended up like 10th or something. He was out of the points completely.

[Chris S]

Originally Posted by mohaughn

25 second penalty and he ended up like 10th or something. He was out of the points completely.

Ah my bad, turns out he ended up 12th. Just read Mclaren have been punished for "for providing evidence deliberately misleading to the stewards at the hearing on 29 March" and have been stripped of position and points and Truilli's 3rd again now! Might as well just settle races with musical chairs at this rate.....

[marko]

Nice!

http://f1.gpupdate.net/en/news/2009/...an-grand-prix/

Originally Posted by Chris S

Ah my bad, turns out he ended up 12th. Just read Mclaren have been punished for "for providing evidence deliberately misleading to the stewards at the hearing on 29 March" and have been stripped of position and points and Truilli's 3rd again now! Might as well just settle races with musical chairs at this rate.....

[mohaughn]

haha.. Geezz.. Now that is certainly a boneheaded thing.. I would also say that I'm shocked that the stewards didn't listen to the radio communication, watch the video, or look at telemetry before giving Trulli the penalty.

[yoda]

Man o man!.... this is definitely going to be an interesting season!...
Brawn, Toyota, Redbull!.... WOW!!!!!.....

I can't believe what Hobbs said about Ferrari having to spend 20 million just to fit in a new diffuser in the car!... The only way that makes sense is by them having contracts that make no sense like the government does!... Over paying like crazy just to have a little thing done... Especially in the day and age of CAD!... it is F1, so it is what it is.

Very interesting start, now lets see what happens in the race!...

[adamud]

Originally Posted by yoda

I can't believe what Hobbs said about Ferrari having to spend 20 million just to fit in a new diffuser in the car!...

Correction.. They said 30 million....
Also the cap for next year if I am not mistaken

[marko]

funniest thing I saw on Sunday - race stopped (not over officially), & Kimmi is in the caffeteria eating a popsicle while already changed in street clothes! LOL



ferrari race strategy is

[Ray Cism]

Brawn Gp and Button are kicking some ass. It'll be interesting to see what Ferrari comes up with for the next race. This is the most interesting season in a while. Anyone else see the Bahrain race?

[marko]

yeah, I saw all of them... I'm happy for Ross Brawn - I like & respect him from Schumacher days.

But being a Ferrari fan, I got to say the season sucks for me... they wont any better till Spain - and even that wont help this year. 2009 is shot...

Better luck in 2010, I guess.

[mohaughn]

The last race was a lot of fun for the first 20 laps or so, and then it just settled into the normal, no overtaking, not a lot of movement on the grid F1 race...

Definitely sucks that BMW is performing so poorly, but also a lot of fun watching the former underdogs duking it out up front.

I know people hate Lewis, but he is doing one hell of a job with what is a much slower car than the brawns. Same can be said for Alonso. I think Renault and Mercedes will be on pace before Ferrari and BMW are back on pace.

[marko]

Originally Posted by mohaughn

I know people hate Lewis, but he is doing one hell of a job with what is a much slower car than the brawns.

hopefully, the FIA will take care of that tomorrow during their 'liegate' punishment meeting... LOL

Jk..

not really.