nascar should never be used in a sentence with f1.
ogc said:It was on at like 8pm last night... that wasnt to bad..
I didnt see the qualifying thought, Did Shumacher really only qualify 15th or did somthing happen.
Good to see the season start out with him not finishing though.
tang350 said:Yes, F1 is amazing racing. I've been a fan and going to F1 races starting in Long Beach, way back when, in the days of Hunt, Lauda, Villenueve (Gilles) and Fittipaldi (Emerson). Nothing like it, IMHO from a technology standpoint. If yu think these cars are cool, you should have seen the 1000HP Tag/MaClarens running with the electronic stability control.......amazing! Sadly, the utter domination of Schumi and Ferrari the last few years has taken a lot of the excitement out of it...hopefully two podium finishes by Renault in Oz mean there is an exciting year in store for us!
28 said::bowdown: F1 ownz Nascar.....
ogc said:It was on at like 8pm last night... that wasnt to bad..
I didnt see the qualifying thought, Did Shumacher really only qualify 15th or did somthing happen.
Good to see the season start out with him not finishing though.
RagTopSnake said:I stopped following NASCAR when I figured out more NASCAR fans could count carbs, than rebuild one. To me, it's become WWF on wheels.
CarpetCityCobra said:The ultimate in stupidity has to be that KFC commercial..."the only carb I care about is under my hood". Never mind that every car produced nowadays is EFI for emissions regs. These people wouldn't know a carb even if one jumped up and bit them in the ass anyway.
CarpetCityCobra said:Sai, you had seats at start finish? The last US F1 that I attended was in 2000 at the inaugural. Maybe because it was so new the spectator areas were woefully inadequate and in order to get into the spectator areas in the pits it was a mind-numbing $200 US per person on top of what we already paid for our tix. We were at start-finish in the paddock penthouse. We were frozen to our bones by the end of the race, I bought several shirts and jackets to take home to pass out and wound up wearing every single one of them in layers! It warmed up by the end of the day and by then it was a futile exercise in crowd control (meaning there wasn't any). I was thoroughly unimpressed and, owing to other expenses like renting a house for $850 just for the race weekend since there were no hotels available in any direction for 200 miles at any price, I just haven't gone back. Other venues have been much better run and the spectator areas were much better than what Indy offered.
However, I'm with you...the spectacle of an F1 start just made all that other stuff worthwhile. I also live for the sound of a Grand Prix motor at full chat from a slow bend blowing up the gears to the next turn, when I can hear each motor individually. It brings tears to my eyes. Nothing else compares really.
In that vein the McLarens (in 2000 at least) used some type of power valve technology they had developed that supposedly increased the low level torque of their powerplant, and made a noise in person at that GP that was not adequately translated through television coverage. The noise that engine made was absolutely medieval. Glorious...
Kurt Busch said:Yes, and orange "ownz" apple too
Kurt Busch said:Actually nascar cup cars are carburated. So are busch cars and the craftsman trucks. So maybe they do know a little about carburators
CarpetCityCobra said:It is now apparent that "Kurt Busch" is picking a fight in the thread because we're not talking NASCAR, evidenced by the two above responses. I'm going to keep my comments on F1 only from here forward...I'm sure there are half a zillion NASCAR threads on here and everywhere else for Kurt to peruse.
Kurt Busch said:Sorry, I didn't realize I wasn't allowed to participate in this thread about F1.
The last thing I wanted to do is pick a fight, beleive me.
I just wanted to contribute, but obviously I'm a moron and all I can do is pick a fight.
Word
50 BMG said:All I can say is it's the first time I've watched an entire F1 race since Mika quit
50 BMG said:All I can say is it's the first time I've watched an entire F1 race since Mika quit.
This should be a fun season. The rule changes are -long- overdue.