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[DrDickAction]

has it already been covered that it seems super fucking obvious that jr. intentionally flew into the wall?

is my sarcasm meter broken?

[DrDickAction]

shortly followed by the "Sorry guise..." radio transmission

this theory would be more tractable if jr. was actually talented enough to crash at will. I think it's just odds...crash in enough GPs and eventually you will do so at a time that will benefit your teammate.

[Dr. Jimmmah!]

this theory would be more tractable if jr. was actually talented enough to crash at will. I think it's just odds...crash in enough GPs and eventually you will do so at a time that will benefit your teammate.

so true..

throw enough shit at a wall and some of it is bound to stick.

[HighTachPres]

so true..

throw enough shit at a wall and some of it is bound to stick.

lol so true.
i didn't like the guy (jr) from the first race... but now he's getting on my good side :-D

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MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi wants to celebrate his latest title success with another test at the wheel of Ferrari's Formula One car.

The Italian won his sixth world title on Sunday, confessing afterwards in Japan that he misses the thrill of his flirt a few years ago with the four-wheeled world of Grand Prix racing.

Asked by La Gazzetta dello Sport what he would like as a reward for his 2008 championship, the 29-year-old replied: "I'd like to drive a Ferrari again. Not a road car, but the F1 one."

He insisted that "it would be a simple desire, with no future in it."

Rossi has two years to run on his MotoGP contract, to whom he reconfirmed his commitment by stating that "to start in F1 at 31 could be too late."

Ferrari team boss Stefano Domenicali, who has remained in close contact with Rossi since his first test with Ferrari in 2004, welcomed the proposal.

"He's great," the Italian said, adding that "everything can be done."

Rossi last tested for Ferrari in 2006.

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As in 2007, Honda is enduring another embarrassing struggle this season, but the rot could be set to end.

At Jerez last week, three more teams - Honda, McLaren and Williams - got their 2009 KERS systems up and running.

BMW apparently struck more problems, Williams was running a very early prototype, as was McLaren.

"Our prototype is about 18 kilograms heavier than what we are aiming for next year," McLaren Chief Executive Martin Whitmarsh told Auto Motor und Sport.

The same magazine reports that Honda is so far the most advanced with its KERS system for 2009.

"The extra boost is already very big," the Japanese team's test driver Alex Wurz said, after doing many laps with the system attached to an interim RA108.

[Dr. Jimmmah!]

maybe honda are trying to hype their KERS in an attempt to entice alonso to sign..

on the other hand they have always been ahead of the curve on this sort of tech. perhaps they will have something useful next year (although their cars will still be slow as shit in the bends)

[MrHahn]

brundle and coulthard for BBC's coverage commentary next year

DC, FUCK YEAH!!

thank fuck no James Allen, or Mark Blundell, or Damon Hill or any other useless brit for that matter

[HighTachPres]

duh, honda DID invent VTEC

[vietlol]

Its taken a while to kick in, yo

[Dr. Jimmmah!]

completely off topic, but look at the 2nd pic on this link... http://www.thesun.co...icle1740402.ece

[vietlol]

wtf monorail x-bow

[DrDickAction]

lucky to be alive i suppose

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Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo says it is 'humiliating' for Formula One that the safety car is needed to spice up the show.

And despite the widespread praise the Singapore Grand Prix received, the Italian was also critical of the Asian street circuit, which hosted Formula One's first night race.

"Unfortunately when we race on tracks where staging a circus or something else would be better, anything can happen, because the spectacle is supplied by the Safety Car," di Montezemolo was quoted as saying by Gazzetta dello Sport.

"This is humiliating for F1.

"I want to talk about this with all the other teams in the upcoming weeks."

Di Montezemolo had already said ahead of the race weekend that he believed street circuits such as Singapore or Valencia were bad for the sport.

"I have the impression it will be another one of those letdowns where you cannot overtake, like Valencia," he said last week. "Going forward with these circuits heralds a bad future for Formula One."

Sunday's race, which has been pretty much uneventful until then, was turned upside down thanks to a safety car period that helped Renault driver Fernando Alonso become the seventh different winner this season against all odds.

The race was a disaster for Ferrari, who failed to score any points for the first time since 2006. The team also lost the lead in the constructors' championship while Felipe Massa dropped seven points behind Lewis Hamilton.

Di Montezemolo says, however, that he is convinced Ferrari can bounce back.

"It was a bitter day, but there are three races yet and I have faith in all Ferrari's men, who have always demonstrated they're able to fight to the last metre in every circumstance," di Montezemolo added. "We saw that last year in the final race in Brazil.

"The car is the best, Massa is the best, and I expect Raikkonen to show in these last three races to be the world champion.

"Ferrari went through times much more difficult than this. We saw throughout the weekend that our car was the best and that Massa did an extraordinary qualifying, demonstrating to be be the driver in the best shape.

"I expect Massa and Raikkonen to always finish first and second in the three remaining races. In any case, ahead of McLaren."

Di Montezemolo also said it was "obvious" that Kimi Raikkonen would have to play a supporting role to Massa now.

"That's obvious, every driver knows he races for the team," he added.

"We have extraordinary mechanics who may make mistakes once in a while. Obviously the one that did is the most displeased one now, but he deserves us to stay close to him just like to everyone else, because at other times they turned the result around.

"We are the world champions, we are still able to win. Let's see if we don't do it with these exceptional people. You'll see a great reaction at the next race already."

pfft... like we have passing in other tracks anyways... this is F1 we're talking about, not Nascar where they switch it up every 30 seconds... guy needs to know what sport he's in...

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Lucas di Grassi has emerged as the leading contender to replace Nelson Piquet at Renault next year if the French car manufacturer decide to drop the Formula One rookie, autosport.com has learned.

Although Piquet has scored one podium finish with a fortunate second place in the German Grand Prix, he has been unable to find the pace to match the team's number one driver Fernando Alonso.

Piquet did not help his cause when he crashed out of the Singapore Grand Prix last weekend - although ironically his error played a key part in helping Alonso triumph.

Sources close to the team claim that Piquet has not done enough to justify a second season with the team, and his situation was not helped when di Grassi impressed Renault with a solid three-day run during the recent Jerez test.

It is understood di Grassi not only did well in terms of his overall speed in Jerez but also shone in the swift way he got up to speed, as well as his positive attitude towards the team.

Renault boss Flavio Briatore is currently considering what to do about his 2009 driver line-up, although any final decision does depend on whether Fernando Alonso decides the stay with the team.

Sources have revealed that Briatore has already offered Piquet to Scuderia Toro Rosso for next year, but it is understood the team are not interested unless there is a big financial incentive.

If Toro Rosso do not take up the offer, then Piquet could well be consigned to just a test driver role next year.

sign Sato and call it a day... we all know he can pass Alonso in an under powered car

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Sunday's first ever F1 night race beat the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony to become Singapore's most watched television spectacle, it has emerged.

Local reports say an average of 789,000 locals were tuned into Singapore's Channel 5 as Fernando Alonso took the chequered flag, compared with the 765,000 for the Olympics last month.

F1 > Olympics

[DrDickAction]

F1 > Olympics

definitely more entertaining than roided out jamaicans running in circles.

[DrDickAction]

sign Sato and call it a day... we all know he can pass Alonso in an under powered car

this is shaping up to be the least interesting silly season in years. Only bright side is that between STR, renault, and maybe even honda, it sure seems like sato has a fantastic shot at a drive

[kngrsll]

this is shaping up to be the least interesting silly season in years. Only bright side is that between STR, renault, and maybe even honda, it sure seems like sato has a fantastic shot at a drive

combined with the fact no one has ANY idea who will be fast next year.

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Formula One teams are considering a radical shake-up of the race weekend format as part of their plans to revitalize the sport.

The new Formula One Teams' Association (FOTA) is evaluating all aspects of Grand Prix racing, and autosport.com has learned that part of the discussions revolve around a total overhaul of the way weekends are structured.

In particular, the focus is on ensuring that Fridays deliver more for fans - and one proposal being floated is for the current extended practice sessions being replaced with a special, shootout-like, timed session for a cash prize.

McLaren F1 CEO Martin Whitmarsh, who heads the sporting working group of FOTA, told autosport.com that discussions had already taken place about changing the structure of Fridays.

"We are looking at the whole format of a race weekend," he explained. "At the moment we formulated a Friday testing format, but in reality no one is doing the normal disciplined testing. We are preparing for the race (instead).

"If you give a race team the chance to go on the race track where they are going to race at on the Sunday on the Friday before, then we must have been nuts to think that we will be doing engineering testing. So we are all as bad as one another.

"So we say, is this good value? Does it help the show? Or do you perhaps do something where you say, let's cut it down to 45 minutes only, maybe you give a completely different specification of tyres, a really hard tyre, and you create a mini competition where everyone tries to set the fastest time and you give a million dollars to the winning driver?

"It means there would be something to write about and it introduces the weekend. It is separate from the race. So there are all those sort of ideas about.

"The good thing is that people now realise that we do have to do something and I think (we are having) quite a creative open discussion. And I hope over Japan and Shanghai that we will reach some conclusions.

"We then have to make recommendations to FOTA and that has to then go through the FIA, but hopefully we can do that."

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definitely more entertaining than roided out jamaicans running in circles.

Bolt was fun to watch though...

[Redliner]

Bolt was fun to watch though...

I kinda liked watching Bolt too And Phelps...

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British team Williams last year recorded a second consecutive annual loss.

According to accounts filed on Tuesday by the jointly Frank Williams and Patrick Head owned team, Williams' combined loss in 2006 and 2007 was (US) $88 million.

The directors' report said Williams, currently eighth of the ten teams in the 2008 constructors' championship, has increased bank borrowings.

"The decision to increase net debt to support a return to competitive on-track performance was driven by a strong long-term business plan," it said.

Auditor Grant Thornton said "there is a reasonable expectation the company (Williams) has adequate resources to continue operating for the foreseeable future."

Williams, the winner of 113 Grand Prix between 1979 and 2004, made a profit of $60m in 2005.

It is the only current team not backed by a car manufacturer or a billionaire.

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Nick Heidfeld could be set to move from BMW Sauber to Honda for the 2009 season.

The struggling Japanese team's Chief Executive Nick Fry told spox.com that he is keeping an eye on the availability of the 31-year-old German, whose inconsistent form this year has cast doubt on his future.

It is believed that Jenson Button will definitely be retained by Brackley-based Honda next year, but team chiefs have been weighing up their options for the seat currently occupied by veteran Rubens Barrichello.

Honda's most high profile target was Fernando Alonso, but the Spaniard is now widely expected to stay at Renault.

"I've already spoken with Nick, and more than just saying 'hello'," Fry admitted.

The Briton also confirmed rumours that 2008 GP2 runner-up Bruno Senna is in the frame, even though it is believed team boss Ross Brawn is pushing for an initial test driver contract.

"He has the name, he has the genes," Fry said.


Wilder speculation, repeated in the authoritative French sports daily L'Equipe, is that Toro Rosso has thrown in a serious bid to sign the available Alonso next year.

"Of course I am interested (in Alonso), but so is everybody else," team co-owner Gerhard Berger said, admitting that his Faenza-based team cannot compete with the financial incentives offered by its rivals.

Honda's Fry, meanwhile, advises Alonso to spurn BMW Sauber's advances.

"Fernando found that McLaren is rigid, and BMW is even worse," he said.

[Redliner]

I'm worried for Williams

Someone save their asses already!