Fisichella FTW!!!!!!!

Too bad for Sutil.

Two hours ago, if anyone said Fisi will take P1, I'd have called them daft. Now? LOL! :biggrinfl

Quote from tristancliffe :

Oddly, Senna's was the worst, but I suspect it was poorly translated.

The skill of an individual in a discipline bears no correlation to their teaching ability.

A driver who writes a book about driving needs to have good ability to translate their expertise into words. Senna, while a great driver, probably lacked in the teaching department.

Quote from GenesisX :

Will books on Racing Theory be any help for newbs learning racing theory (me )?

Has anyone read any that are useful? Will they contain more information, some that generally won't be found online? If so, which books are good for learning general racing theory (ofc a bit more in depth).

Well, racing is a "doing" thing. You need to "do" in order to learn.

For an online resource, try Don Palmer's online book about limit handling:
http://www.creativecarcontrol.co.uk/

For print, my first and only racing book was High Performance Driving by Bob Bondurant, which was a waste of space and time. Frankly, you're better off getting some coaching from a karting club, or doing a two day racing course.

Quote from Becky Rose :

That pretty much rules out Gene in the seat then, if they're looking to F3. I gather this Bianchi guy is running rings around F3 at the moment - i've not seen him race personally.

He's decimating the opposition in F3 Euroseries this year with 74 points so far (6 wins and 3 poles). His nearest rival is at 49 points. He was 3rd in his debut season last year.

He seems very good. Not quite a sweeper like Hamilton, but at least enough to give the other F1 young guns a kick up the bum.

Quote from Lible :

First time ever I'm supporting Ferrari.

Badoer for the WIN!

Guess who is a sucker for underdogs?

Ghastly luck for Vettel on the weekend. Two engine failures! Since when did modern F1 cars suffer two engine failures in one event?

Anyway, sweet win by Barrichello. Don't underestimate the old folk!

P1! (Long way from P20-something after the first race of the season.) Couldn't believe my luck. When I saw Button was so far down the grid, I was sure that whoever had Barrichello in their team must have gotten more points.

BTW, who is "Red Bull - Renault"? I find it humorously ironic that it has a nearly all Brawn setup.

They put some cracking ones on, eh?

Badoer looks embarrassing.

Quote from carey :

They could combine it with the Pamplona bull run (San Fermin).

Sponsored by Red Bull?

I'm hoping for a Red Bull Run.

... my bad...

I thought it meant Libya.

Ross Br - I mean, Jenson Button! Yeah, that's right...

Seriously, it's impossible to predict. Button has a huge lead, but we're only half way through the season.

The Australian Performance Cars Championship used to run some WRXs and Lancer Evos. The PROCAR series used to field them as well.

Quote from BlueFlame :

I agree with what you say, but I like small maps, no vehicles or bonus accesories (such as airstike and helicopter and UAV) and just fast paced play, like Counter-strike, Day Of Defeat or the original Call Of Duty's.

Then play Counter-strike, Day of Defeat, or the original Call of Duty.

Different strokes for different folks, you know.

I have some sympathy for Piquet Jnr, but he knew what he was getting into when he signed up at Renault. If he didn't, at least his dad did.

Having said that, the results speak for themselves. Flavio may have been a bit of a bastard to Piquet, but that needn't have caused Piquet to have made as many mistakes as he did.

Quote from el pibe :

ugh. wow... he cant even drive 1 car and you want him to drive 2 cars ? at the same time ? are you saying that he has a clone ?

The other is his dad.

Tell that to all those Counter Strike players. It's been around for a decade (just over a decade) and still the most popular online FPS!

Third fastest in Group N. Impressive! He's definitely a Finn!

Quote from Mustafur :

Ferrari don't care as long as he is driving a Fiat.

+1

Quote from Mustafur :

Since there is no mid season testing anymore the drivers just get huge breaks now, which imo is good as usually they would only get about a week free in a whole F1 season.

I was thinking that the 24 hours of Le Mans should be held during the F1 summer break. That way, the drivers keep racing if they want, and the Le Mans teams get to recruit some current F1 drivers.

No, his brain is quite logical.

Quote from The Very End :

Take your dad's lady (aka your mother I supose), drag her to the kitchen, then stuff her glory hole so full and hard she canot walk propper for a month, and for the sure win - make sure your dad see's it!

With every joke, there is a line you should not cross. Your post just crossed that line.

Quote from batteryy :

ah shit man that really sucks tell the girl and maybe your dad too(he did quite a bad thing to you you know) to go to **** off and never come back. i suppose this is what i would do
another way to deal with it is to get back to him someway, maybe tie him to chair,leave the place and call a gay stripper for him

We have a communication break-down here.

Quote from BlueFlame :

Well on Cod4 when you get deep impact and stopping power, nothing can stop you blasting through all of the walls on the map and killing people. The game should be equal, whether you've played it for years, or it is your first day. You should be able to get all the weapons and not have to battle people with Juggernaut and struggle to kill them until you can get it yourself. Trust me, Cod4 without perks is a whole different game, and a better one at that.

I can't agree with this entirely.

Yes, I did prefer the original COD which had no ranks or perks. But on the other hand, I like COD4 (and BF2, for that matter) because the ranks and perks give an extra dimension to play.

As for "nothing can stop you blasting through all of the walls", that's a huge exaggeration. Only in Killhouse does Deep Impact give uber-lethal ability. I admit it was annoying for me when I was a noob, but it took only a couple of hours of play to hold my own against veterans with Overkill, Red Dot, 3x Frags (the most annoying perk of them all), etc.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/77434

So, Massa is determined to race in Valencia. Typical racing driver, eh?

But what's the reality? Will he be fit enough to race, or will his doctors strap him to his bed in an inescapable hold?

Personally, I think Massa should rest up and miss Valencia, and perhaps Spa as well. Head injuries have a nasty and potentially lethal tendency to bring up complications without warning, even months after recovery.

Quote from BlueFlame :

If hes 7time world champion im sure he can do better than Mansell when he came back. There's no excuses.

Mansell raced IndyCars during his F1 hiatus. He wasn't out of the game.

Schumacher, on the other hand, has not done any serious autoracing since his retirement (no, those occasional motorcycle races don't count).


(PS: *gasp* I'm actually giving Schumacher support! Someone splash some icy water my face, please.)

Quote from BlueFlame :

Keke Rosberg. 1982

Which proves Intrepid's point. Winning a championship like that is an exception rather than the rule.

One could also contend that the reason why Williams wasn't further up in the constructor's standings, was due to the relatively poor quality of their drivers aside from Rosberg (namely, Derek Daly). McLaren had Watson and Lauda, Renault had Prost and Arnoux, Ferrari had Villeneueve(RIP)/Tambay and Pironi(RIP).

Quote from evilpimp :

:o Bruna Senna's in that?? Cool :P never knew xD

Senna signed with Oreca for this season. Him and Stephane Ortelli finished 3rd in Catalnuya in the Courage-Oreca car. He raced in the 24 Hours of Le Mans too, but DNF'ed.

Quote from Boris Lozac :

I haven't played COD4 multiplayer, just the campaign, but what is that in the trailer, when you kill someone there are messages poping like "booom headshot", "1337 killstreak dude!" and stuff? I don't know man.. and an airstrike on a that kind of small map?

You should play the map called "Shipment" in COD4. It's mayhem. Tiny map, 32 players, grenades, rockets, airstrikes, and helicopter gunships galore! You're lucky to survive for more than 3 seconds on that map in the open. The only way to survive is to hide in a shipping container, but even that won't protect you from grenades or people randomly shooting through walls.