Cyprus and Turkey are traditionally considered Asian, and not European. Cyprus is now considered European due to cultural considerations. Turkey actually sits on the border of Europe and Asia, and is considered Asian in terms of physical geography but European in terms of politics.

Russia is an interesting thing. Russian geographers consider parts of the country from the Ural mountains to the west, as being part of Europe, while the parts east of the Urals is classed as Asian.

If you think Cyprus and Turkey's geographical classification is screwed, try Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia.

Quote from BlueFlame :

India is in Asia, correct, it's also next to Pakistan which is in the middle east and Pakistani folk are called Asians too yup yup yup. it's called the middle east because it's in the centre of America and China therefore from say, Syria, all the way to Bangladesh is middle east.

Your geography is weak.

Pakistan is Asian. It is sometimes grouped within the Greater Middle East, but this is a largely a rubbish political category coined by George W Bush to describe the Muslim countries near Europe.

The Middle East is correctly Cyprus, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, the Arabian peninsula, and the land mass directly to the east of the Mediterranean Sea (Israel, Lebanon, etc.).

Pakistan and Afghanistan are Asian nations, as is Bangladesh (where did you get the idea it's in the Middle East?).

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Hopefully he'll be picked up by a works team somewhere. He obviously doesn't have a budget for anything, but I think he's proven that he might be a worthwhile investment for a works drive.

Perhaps he could find somewhere to race in one of the Le Mans series or the Japanese Super GT, if not an F1 seat.

Quote from BlueFlame :

Then again, when did you hear of a Japanese driver winning ANY major motorsport competition?

You've got to be freaking joking.

Kenjiro Shinozuka and Hiroshi Masuoka have won the Dakar rally three times between them. Nobuhiro Tajima is the current Pikes Peak unlimited class record holder. Toshi Arai won the Production WRC championship twice. Tetsuya Harada and Daijiro Kato were MotoGP 250cc champions; Kazuto Sakata and Haruchika Aoki 125cc champions. Seiji Ara and Masanori Sekiya were Le Mans 24 Hours winners.

...and that's just from 5 minutes worth of Googling.

Motorsport doesn't start and stop with just F1. Nor is it limited to only Europe.

Quote from 5haz :

You need 2 bikes, to have a race.

Good save!

Quote from BlueFlame :

Name a famous jap driver that hasn't been an F1 driver and isn't Tsuchiya.

Nobuhiro Tajima

Toshi Arai

Quote from Stefani24 :

Racing is the only sport that requires two balls.

So drivers like Danica Patrick, Susie Stoddart, and our very own Becky, all have a pair?

Quote from Hyperactive :

Word. Always nice to finish before smelly raging homosexuals .

The top 3 couldn't have been any tighter, just 50 points between 1st and third. Sub league win was always ours.

How much money do you guys have left? I'm down to 80,116 millions.

86.114 million. Gosh, if only I had that kind of money in real life!

We completely thumped the subleague competition!

F1-Live.com is working for me, but their forums aren't.

1 1 1 1 1 1 1!

Great season everyone. Roll on 2010!

Do we get hats this time too?

Racing is a sport where the competitors' objective is to complete a predetermined course of travel in the shortest possible time.

Quote from tinvek :

"kobayashi maru test"

Please explain.

Great drive by Hamilton, although I suspect he may be fuelled light.

Good showing by Vettel and Webber too. A bit disappointed for Brawn, but they may be heavier.

Weights will be very interesting to look at.

Here's to a fine finale!

I've been quietly surprised that Alonso hasn't said much about the incident, and is taking it in his stride... even grinning from ear to ear while Trulli and Sutil were jibbering behind him.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/79824

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/79877

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot9Smwd6rIg

ROFL @ Alonso and Kimi laughing.

Trulli needs to build a bridge and get over it. He's about to lose his Toyota seat for next season and is trying way too hard to save face. Perhaps the two should have a cage match or something.

Quote from Mustafur :

and Audi!!

I think it will more likely be Volkswagen, rather than Audi. They have a S2000 car already.

Quote from Hyperactive :

So the last race is getting closer and closer. Kinda tight on the top of the list and I think it is possible that the top 6 can get a nice shuffle if the last race is anything like monza or spa.

Personally the first place looks like it's too far ahead but I think the 2nd position is mine .

This has been kind of different season though. Brawns were really strong early on the season and everyone had money to get full team of them straight in first race. I think it has made the season a lot tighter too. Having almost 100 millions extra doesn't bother me either .

For sure, it will be hard to win this season, but the team is working hard toward maintaining 2nd. For sure, we can keep ahead of Hyperactive in the last race.

Well, I went from about 20-something in the beginning, to 2nd now. So it hasn't been all bad.

Quote from JackDaMaster :

Grand Tourers: V8 Supercars

V8 Supercars aren't grand tourers. They're just touring cars, like the WTCC.

Quote from logitekg25 :

(i created this thread so i can get names of leagues to search for cars to skin after :hide

(preferably rb4 :hide

For the RB4, you should be looking at the Group A rally period. The Toyota Celica GT4, for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djpmK6MiYgY

Quote from Storm_Cloud :

They could make F1 cars made to current rules run at 300 mph if they wanted, but there's no F1 track with a 10 mile straight.

F1 car would be at least 20-30 seconds faster than a Veyron round Silverstone.

Errr... the speed record for an F1 car is 246.983mph, set by Honda at Bonneville in 2006.

Source: http://www.autoblog.com/2006/0 ... ed-records-at-bonneville/

Quote from Mysho :

You try to be a champion six times in a row (), for him it's everytime new challenge, but I wouldn't be surprised if he will state 'I lost motivation' in near future. Anyway, congrats.

Don't mistake me. I'm not down-playing his achievement in any way. Just speaking from a fan's point of view.

Again.

Congratulations to him, of course , but he's won it far too many times now it's just getting a wee bit boring.

Porsche 936 at Le Mans:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWeLuglJr9I

Those closing speeds with some of the slower GT cars gives me the jeebees.

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Quote from SidiousX :

Am I missing something, I follow formula 1, but not that in depth. What is this "for sure" they are talking about. Can somebody fill me in?

It's the tendency for a lot of F1 drivers (managers too) to prefix a sentence with the phrase, "for sure" during interviews. Example: "For sure, I would have liked to win, but there was nothing more I could do".

I think it started with Michael Schumacher. It's particularly rampant within Ferrari.

If Michael Schumacher got away with using "for sure" so many times, why not Button? Why are you trying to interpret the regulations inconsistently for different drivers? You're as biased as Alan Donelley!