Formel Eins!

[infidel]

On another note, is this the most beautiful F1 car ever??

Jeez, I dunno about that, esp w/ the dayglo wheel covers!

'09 cars look ok from side profile, but the narrow tall rear wing and the wide low front wings look awful from any other angle. Hardly the best looker from this decade, never mind the historical beauties (alfa 159, lotus 49 & 79, mp4/4, merc 196 R...countless ferraris )

it is the best looking of the '09 cars tho I think

Truilli's penalty was bullshit, Ferrari were a disaster but the race, great season opener
both boo & hiss at auntie for no onboard camera for practice/qually and cutting away from the press conf. Post race coverage is good tho. EJ is annoying.

How I watched the race (slightly diff from pic) -

left - main feed
center - onboard
top - speedtraps and circuit info(temp, wind etc)
right - live timing, highlights, live blog, circuit map
poor mans pit wall

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Mike I envy your trip to Mclaren, even if it was the home of the enemy *spit*
as for wrc, if you have no fear of the torrents, register at http://www.racing-underground.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;, you can get a choice of wrc torrents (w/ no ads!!) as well as anything else w/ engine&wheels

Roll on Malaysia!!

[[U2OP]Mike]

Del thanks for the link, no problem with torrents as it the only way to watch some decent TV at the moment.

BTW only followed McLaren while DC was racing with them.

[Jonnywhy]

Jeez, I dunno about that, esp w/ the dayglo wheel covers!

it is the best looking of the '09 cars tho I think
...
Mike I envy your trip to Mclaren, even if it was the home of the enemy *spit*
Roll on Malaysia!!

Haha I love the orange/black/white colour scheme.

You a ferrari man then?

[Fester]

This year maybe a bad year to get back into following the WRC with only Ford and Citreon fighting it out and Solberg with his own team following the leaders, while its a much more interesting year for F1 with new rules and regs. its going to be a dull and boring year in WRC but always worth a torrent for the watch

[Jonnywhy]

World rally at its best:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMHyalitLZw" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Fester]

was one of the best years in the championship Jonny.. sad to say but 06 was the last good year in wrc with teams pulling out and the change to s2000 coming in soon the turbo will be gone was sad loosing the monsters of Group B now we going to loose the nowadays monsters of Group A

anyway this is F1 thread

[Jonnywhy]

[hijack]Why did the teams pull out? Lack of interest in the sport or something? [/hijack]

[Fester]

same as everything nowadays MONEY!!

[Jonnywhy]

Hehe, what's that?! Interesting to see the way F1 has tackled the problem, different rules for smaller budgets such as (if I remember rightly) higher revving engines if your budget is below a threshold value

[infidel]

Truilli's penalty was bullshit

The Stewards having considered the new elements presented to them from the 2009 Australian Formula One Grand Prix, consider that driver No 1 Lewis Hamilton and the competitor Vodafone McLaren Mercedes acted in a manner prejudicial to the conduct of the event by providing evidence deliberately misleading to the Stewards at the hearing on Sunday 29th March 2009, a breach of Article 151c of the International Sporting Code.

'"Under Article 158 of the International Sporting Code the driver No 1 Lewis Hamilton and the competitor Vodafone McLaren Mercedes are excluded from the race classification for the 2009 Australian Grand Prix and the classification is amended accordingly.

hahaha, cheaty cheaterton got caught out for telling porkie pies. No points for you.

Proper order

He's lucky he's not getting a harsher penalty for bringing the sport into disripute