Posts by mistybear87

Ashley Cook64 said:English 🙂

Hmm, I wouldn't exactly call those warmer climates. 🙂

Ashley Cook64 said:🤔 So, does anyone know who's actually putting races on DVD these days? I'm looking to pick some up, but I'd really love to find something that won't absolutely break the bank. Does anyone have any recommendations for decent collections that aren't priced like luxury items?

It looks like Hrvo is at it again. 😉
I only have access to the highlights and stuff like that—basically whatever you can find easily online. 😉

mistybear87—I was thinking, maybe I should start looking into the visa situation, just in case I actually end up needing to travel.

And where exactly are you headed? 🙂

Ashley Cook64 said:well, I'm actually heading off to some warmer climates at the start of January 😎

Maybe swing by New York for coffee before then? 😉

Ashley Cook64 said:😁 No, my time zone shifts in January. 🙂

So, does that mean you won't be making it to my birthday party? 😢

Ashley Cook64 said:🙄 I’m not quite sure how old you are, but 👎

No, thank you for asking, though I usually don't hit the hay until about 4 AM.

Or maybe you just adjusted your time zone settings? Because from where we're sitting, that looks a bit wild. 🙂

Ashley Cook64 said:If you're interested, I actually have a video for you—it's a Gilles Villeneuve clip, about 35 MB and runs for roughly six minutes. It’s hosted on a site that requires a membership, but I can certainly pass along the login details so you can download it yourself.

For everyone else browsing, there's a decent amount of video content available, ranging from high-end supercar testing to footage from various events—like F1 in London or those Ferrari enthusiast days...

And, if anyone happens to be looking for the Ayrton Senna Suzuka 1989 video (about 11 MB), I have that too, though naturally, it isn't the full race.

Why don't you just send it my way? I'll go ahead and download everything—or at least the highlights—and then I can share them around with whoever might find them useful.😉

wearyraven41 said:Look, mistybear87, you’re usually the first one to break news, yet somehow you missed this one entirely...😢 😠

And honestly, there are two main reasons for my silence here:

1. I don't have satellite TV, so watching it wasn't even an option for me.
2. I was actually tied up at the time—busy with some other "obligations" (which is really just code for attending a very important and highly productive party).😁

Ashley Cook64 said:😂 😂 😂 then you must have misheard, because poor David was absolutely humiliated from start to finish. 😁

But honestly, why should I even care about him? 🙂

Jack Kelly5 said:Did you guys catch how those kids were absolutely tearing it up? It’s such a shame that red Ferrari just gave up the ghost during the Nationwide final...
I actually found the whole thing pretty fascinating!!!

I missed the broadcast, but I heard the Silver Arrows managed to push through everything thrown at them, unlike the red cars... it's a bit of a pity things work the opposite way in Formula 1, isn't it?😢

wearyraven41 said:I mean, how on earth was anyone supposed to actually watch that?

ESPN 😢

Fastest Laps:

1. Juan Pablo Montoya (Williams BMW) - 1'11.473 - lap 49
2. Kimi Räikkönen (McLaren Mercedes) - 1'11.562 - lap 52
3. Rubens Barrichello (Ferrari) - 1'11.672 - lap 22
4. Michael Schumacher (Ferrari) - 1'11.763 - lap 49
5. Ralf Schumacher (Williams BMW) - 1'11.764 - lap 23
6. Giancarlo Fisichella (Sauber Petronas) - 1'11.877 - lap 69
7. Takuma Sato (BAR Honda) - 1'11.941 - lap 51
8. Felipe Massa (Sauber Petronas) - 1'12.066 - lap 68
9. Fernando Alonso (Renault) - 1'12.118 - lap 42
10. Jacques Villeneuve (Renault) - 1'12.210 - lap 68
11. Jarno Trulli (Toyota) - 1'12.435 - lap 65
12. David Coulthard (McLaren Mercedes) - 1'12.522 - lap 40
13. Christian Klien (Jaguar) - 1'12.891 - lap 49
14. Ricardo Zonta (Toyota) - 1'12.961 - lap 69
15. Mark Webber (Jaguar) - 1'13.197 - lap 20
16. Timo Glock (Jordan Ford) - 1'13.905 - lap 68
17. Zöld Baumgartner (Minardi Cosworth) - 1'14.743 - lap 45
18. Giancarlo Bruni (Minardi Cosworth) - 1'14.756 - lap 50
19. Nick Heidfeld (Jordan Ford) - 1'15.855 - lap 11
20. Jenson Button (BAR Honda) - 1'24.440 - lap 2

Robin Fisher53 said:What's that supposed to mean?

You can't exactly force people to admit someone is the absolute best just because they have thirteen wins under their belt; why would you try to force that kind of consensus with just one? 🙂

Well...

I wasn't saying everyone has to concede he's the greatest of all time, just that they should acknowledge he's a damn good driver.
How can we really judge how talented anyone is until they're behind the wheel of the exact same car, or at least something comparable? We saw yesterday that Kimi Räikkönen and JPMorgan Chase are right there in the mix, which is exactly why I think next season is going to be absolutely wild when it comes to those two. 🙂

James Roberts87 said:Honestly, even if they had Montoya or Raikkonen, they wouldn't have seen more success than Rubens if they didn't have MS on their side.

The thing is, they’ll never truly have MS as a teammate because they'd never be allowed to actually beat him, would they?

Hehe, the second Sebastian Vettel takes a win, suddenly everyone on this forum goes dead silent.
I really think it’s about time some people started owning up to certain things, don't you? 🙂

Anyway, massive congratulations to our top three finishers today.

That teaser for next season was absolutely killer, wasn't it? 🙂

Well, they're forecasting about 0.6 inches of rain for tomorrow (whatever that actually means 🙂)))

I suppose last night's race really threw everyone off their rhythm, didn't it? 🙂

Here are the results from the first qualifying session. Juan Pablo Montoya held onto the top spot for most of the run, though he was eventually edged out by Rubens Barrichello at the very end.

Driver statistics
1. 2 Rubens Barrichello Ferrari B 1'09"822 138 miles/h 3
2. 3 Juan Pablo Montoya Williams BMW M 1'09"862 + 0'00"040 3
3. 12 MASSA Sauber Petronas B 1'09"930 + 0'00"108 3
4. 1 Michael Schumacher Ferrari B 1'10"192 + 0'00"370 3
5. 4 R.SCHUMACHER Williams BMW M 1'10"258 + 0'00"436 3
6. 10 SATO BAR Honda M 1'10"373 + 0'00"551 3
7. 5 COULTHARD McLaren Mercedes M 1'10"418 + 0'00"596 3
8. 6 Kimi Raikkonen McLaren Mercedes M 1'10"440 + 0'00"618 3
9. 11 FISICHELLA Sauber Petronas B 1'10"467 + 0'00"645 3
10. 16 TRULLI Toyota M 1'10"478 + 0'00"656 3
11. 9 BUTTON BAR Honda M 1'10"607 + 0'00"785 3
12. 8 Fernando Alonso Renault M 1'10"637 + 0'00"815 3
13. 7 Jacques Villeneuve Renault M 1'10"708 + 0'00"886 3
14. 14 WEBBER Jaguar Cosworth M 1'11"230 + 0'01"408 3
15. 17 ZONTA Toyota M 1'11"315 + 0'01"493 3
16. 18 Nick Heidfeld Jordan Ford B 1'11"394 + 0'01"572 3
17. 15 KLIEN Jaguar Cosworth M 1'11"912 + 0'02"090 3
18. 19 GLOCK Jordan Ford B 1'12"242 + 0'02"420 3
19. 20 BRUNI Minardi Cosworth B 1'12"916 + 0'03"094 3
20. 21 BAUMGARTNER Minardi Cosworth B 1'13"032 + 0'03"210 3

Do you think they managed to save the engine, or are we looking at a ten-place grid penalty?

Carol Ortiz4 said:I wish I could have seen Fangio driving the F2004... but let's not go there... it just doesn't make sense.

Aside from being a bit too long, what was actually wrong with the track? 😁
It would have been quite the spectacle to watch... they could easily drop two races—say, the Canadian Grand Prix and Monaco—to make room for this circuit. 😁

I'm not starting anything; I merely pointed out that even at 71 years old, Fangio drove like he was still in his prime, just perhaps a little slower. 🙂 I was wondering if MS will ever be able to pull off something like that, but nobody was talking about NASCAR.

As for the track itself, hosting something like that today is practically impossible. You'd be driving in a straight line for fifteen laps, and it’s unlikely enough cars would finish to award full points by the end. You’d probably just be left with a Minardi, since they’d be far too slow to survive all those turns! :-)))))

Carol Ortiz4 said:That might actually turn out to be for the better... much like bringing back that old classic in Germany... how old was it again? 19 miles ??

Are you thinking of Daytona International Speedway?

I mean, honestly, who could possibly memorize a 13-mile track packed with 73 different turns?
Free practice sessions alone would probably need to run for three hours each just to make sense of it all...

Just look at the names of those corners:
Ice Curve, Seesaw man!, Courage curve, Foxhole, Swedish Cross, Great oaks, Animal Garden, Antonius' Beech... (it's so much better than today's boring "Turn 1, Turn 2, Turn 3" naming convention...)

By the way, I’d love to see what Michael would be doing at his age right now:

The pine trees flew silently past as the Mercedes-Benz 280SE zoomed up, then swooped down like a roller coaster car into a blind bend with a sheer drop-off on the outside. For a second, the 3-pointed star on the hood swept around the precipice, then homed back onto the road ahead. We seemed to be suspended in space as the road snaked wildly beneath us, as if in response to some crazy choreography. But, all was controlled by the iron fist of a perfect, almost inhuman computer incapable of making mistakes.

And yet, every time the road seemed to snake out of the way, I realized that we were the ones who were moving. The strange sensation was aided by the lack of dramatics: no shriek from the tires, no wild roll, no panic braking. Just a smooth, effortless transition from one bend to the other.

At the wheel was a 71-year-old man who not only knew the place like the back of his hand, but also drove as if the big sedan were an extension of himself. The place was Indianapolis and the man was Mario Andretti. In the midst of my astonishment at this unspectacular display of driving, I realized that had I been the passenger of anybody else I would be hanging on, feet braking against the floor, eyes bulging, breathing in short gasps. Instead I was calm, smiling, comfortably ensconced in my seat, looking at the road swirling beneath me, as I listened to the only person in the world with whom I could feel safe at that breakneck speed.

Jack Ward2 said:I saw on the news ticker that Indianapolis was saved after all.

Actually, I read somewhere that they might move the race to Donington instead.