Your favorite motorsport

ch85us2001 · Post by **ch85us2001** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 4:58 am

How fast is the truck Grimar? We have a corvette that does the 1/4 mile in 6.9 seconds @ 200 mph. Last year we had the world record holder in speed for super street (NHRA)/Quick Rod (IHRA). Our '67 camaro did 152 MPH on a 10.90 index. (By the way I'm a yank if you couldnt geuss

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Luis Antonio · Post by **Luis Antonio** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 5:48 pm

[QUOTE=Brynn]Who?

F1 is the only race I follow. I got to like it when I got together with my bf and he forced me to watch it every second week

It's fun to support your favourite even if you can never tell which rule they'll modify next.[/QUOTE]

Wow, you're mean... he's Rubens Barichello, milady, the top Brazilian pilot on F-1. I wonder... is there any Hungarian there?

(No offense meant. Alas, they've told me once that the nicest GP is the Hungary one because of the girls around the pits

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F-1 is the race I watch ever since I was born... I mean, Nelson Piquet, Airton Senna, Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost are names that I respect deeply. Those colorfull cars thave such a charming aspect and sound...

Grimar · Post by **Grimar** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 4:40 am

[QUOTE=ch85us2001]How fast is the truck Grimar? We have a corvette that does the 1/4 mile in 6.9 seconds @ 200 mph. Last year we had the world record holder in speed for super street (NHRA)/Quick Rod (IHRA). Our '67 camaro did 152 MPH on a 10.90 index. (By the way I'm a yank if you couldnt geuss

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dunno

it is VERY fast.... he drives in a class named competition. thats all i know.

once when he where in Germany, he spottet a sticker with his car on it! it said burn out king, and showed his car doing an xtreme burnout

ch85us2001 · Post by **ch85us2001** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 6:31 am

Competion is a very fast class. We plan on running it next year.

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Grimar · Post by **Grimar** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 6:39 am

cool! where are you racing?

ch85us2001 · Post by **ch85us2001** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 2:28 pm

Mostly in Ohio, USA, but also in indiana and kentucky

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C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 3:32 pm

[QUOTE=Luis Antonio]I still have faith in F1 (specially Barrichello

) and when I was younger my dream was to meet Ayrton Senna. Too bad he died too young

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I lost interest in F1 when Schumacher became dominant. Frankly I was never that impressed with his driving style. Ayrton Senna was my F1 hero, I was watching the race at TV at live broadcase when he died. Really a pity.

Darth Zenemij · Post by **Darth Zenemij** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 3:35 pm

What is Mortor sport?

Magrus · Post by **Magrus** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:05 pm

[QUOTE=Darth Zenemij]What is Mortor sport?[/QUOTE]

Oh, that's great fun. It's when you shell someones neighborhood for a cash prize.

Luis Antonio · Post by **Luis Antonio** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 8:28 pm

[QUOTE=C Elegans]I lost interest in F1 when Schumacher became dominant. Frankly I was never that impressed with his driving style. Ayrton Senna was my F1 hero, I was watching the race at TV at live broadcase when he died. Really a pity.

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Ayrton dared to do things that Schumacher seems to not need to do. I mean, he pilot in a cold, straightforward, neverfailing way as long as his equipment is reliable. So I understand what you mean, because Ayrton was top by fighting with all the others, and they seemed to have real enemies at those days. Now Schumacher is really a good pilot, but he seems to act as a robot to the situations, and he has not really a good "emotional driving skill". You cant expect him to fail.

After Ayrton died, the scene I've thought more emotional and cool on F1 was the first Rubens Barrichello win. He was in tears at the podium, and he cried like a baby when he received the cup.

Brynn · Post by **Brynn** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 12:43 am

What do you think about yesterday's race? I'm really curious to see the outcome of this!

Luis Antonio · Post by **Luis Antonio** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 7:24 am

In a word: Lame.

The TV hasnt broadcasted the race, since they were showing the soccer game between Mexico and Brazil (another lame game, we've lost) but the guy who was commenting the game always kept talking about how pathetic the race was.

I mean, first:

This tires rule sux completely and so uberly sux that it gives me the creeps to see the whole race without a tire exchange. I mean, they may blow up, and kill the pilot. Whatever bad driver with 1 year of experience driving at 60 mph on a road knows that if your tire is worn, it'll blow, and you'll either fly or lose control of the car.

Second:

FIA seems to be playing the game against the teams. Ok, the poorer teams might have a better chance with that no-high-tech yada yada policies, but hell, F1 is a great laboratory for new techs. So what are you doing? Taking F1 out of her own characteristic of breakthrough in racing.

Third:

FIA wants to have another race in the US. Even though they want that, they dont have the capacity to bend the rule a little to make the race interesting on US. Nor they can bend the rules a little so that the teams that make F1 what F1 is interested in continuing. You can see that the maneuver they had today was related to this tire situation. Bend the Rules, FIA, Bend the rules or you'll suffer the inevitable price to be a despot. Nobody will love you, and even the public will play agaisnt you.

Fourth:

Schumacher. He's the world champion. Ok. He's outstandingly good, he used to have the better equipment and now he's crippled. Why dont the champion, the central figure just make a lobby between the other cars and boycot the racing? I mean, it could be Ferrari too. But no - I'm backwards in the championship, I need to win this race. Against those who're left? "Bah!" he says. "I've even pushed Rubens out of the track." I mean, he dont say that, but his very actions in the race shows his disregard with the very thing that makes F1 F1. F1 needs 4 guys who fight for the championship. 4 giant pilots. Schumacher and Ferrari want to monopolize that. As Williams did, as Mc Laren did. But that will make it only dull.

Yeah, whatever, lots of that is rant... but hey, I'm upset about this whole F1 thing.

Darth Zenemij · Post by **Darth Zenemij** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 7:33 am

I meant Motorsport.

Luis Antonio · Post by **Luis Antonio** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 10:02 am

My friends have been questioning me about who's guilty for the fiasco at US gp. I say FIA is guilty, not Michelin. The race could have been delayed, rescheduled to the end of the championship, the rules could have been bend.

Anyone thinks Michelin is guilty?

ch85us2001 · Post by **ch85us2001** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 10:52 am

I dont follow open wheel much but isnt that where the teams/drivers didnt think the tires were good enough? And if it was wouldnt be the teams fault if they didnt want to race? I mean, there are probably a 100000 people who wouldve jumped through multiple hoops to drive those cars and they just scoffed at em. Sorta childish if you ask me. I'm sorry if I offended anybody and I relalize that not everybody gets a chance at the big leagues but thats my viewpoint.

Dottie · Post by **Dottie** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 11:49 am

[QUOTE=Luis Antonio]My friends have been questioning me about who's guilty for the fiasco at US gp. I say FIA is guilty, not Michelin. The race could have been delayed, rescheduled to the end of the championship, the rules could have been bend.

Anyone thinks Michelin is guilty?[/QUOTE]

I agree this is not Michelin's fault. I think the blame is on both FIA and the Ferrari team.

@ch85us2001: It was the tire manufacturer who couldn't guarantee that the tires used were safe. Under those circumstances I think its perfectly okey to refuse to race. But like Luis says, everything could have been handled so much more smothly.

ch85us2001 · Post by **ch85us2001** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 12:25 pm

If the tires werent safe why were they sold? But they most likely couldve rescheduled the race. Oh well.

Dottie · Post by **Dottie** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 12:33 pm

The manufacturer couldn't guarantee the safty of the tires because the traing runs casued two tire malfunctions, witch were not yet fully examined.

Yes, resceduling the race would have been one option, another would have been to alter the track slightly, to cause less strain on the tires, But the Ferarri team, witch uses tires from another manufacturer, did put in a veto.

ch85us2001 · Post by **ch85us2001** » Thu Jun 23, 2005 6:50 am

BTW I just lopped all open wheel cars into indy and all GT classes and stuff into road racing. If you have anyother choices post them. Sorry I forgot dirt track racing (sprint cars, Modified, late models, street stocks, etc.). Or gocarts. Jus post it.