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Offline Gh0stFT

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« Reply #45 on: April 04, 2004, 11:08:38 AM »
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that was one of the most boring races i have seen in F1 so far



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umh sry Nilsen, but the race had alot action in the middle field,
was fun to watch especially Trulli & Alonso!
And once again Schumi showed who the king of F1 Racing is !
Pole position & Race win ! :)
To bad nobody can beat him, maybe in 10 years a new Schumi will be born ;)

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« Reply #46 on: April 04, 2004, 11:15:39 AM »
Apart from the coming together with Ralf, I thought Sato had a fine race, and the scraps Button had were interesting too....But of course Shuey N#1 again!

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« Reply #47 on: April 04, 2004, 12:40:17 PM »
Why do some of you think  F1 is boring?  Simply because of the outcome?

I understand the NASCAR mentality - that the drivers are competing against eachother with the track simply as the place they are doing it... (as opposed to the F1 mentality (at least mine) that the drivers are individually competing against the circut and the driver that most effectively negotiates the circut beats out his rivals)... but why the 'boring' comments from the Euro types?

PS:  Tough being a McLaren fan these days.  :(
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« Reply #48 on: April 04, 2004, 01:32:41 PM »
lol "eurotypes"

booring because one team is to dominant and not much happened today besides afew breakdowns and some other minor incidents.

PS. Tough to be a Renault fan to but Mclarren really needs to get their things back on track
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« Reply #49 on: April 04, 2004, 01:58:23 PM »
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Why do some of you think  F1 is boring?  Simply because of the outcome?

I understand the NASCAR mentality - that the drivers are competing against eachother with the track simply as the place they are doing it... (as opposed to the F1 mentality (at least mine) that the drivers are individually competing against the circut and the driver that most effectively negotiates the circut beats out his rivals)... but why the 'boring' comments from the Euro types?

PS:  Tough being a McLaren fan these days.  :(


Saur, racing to me is driver vs. driver.  With the technology F1 uses its definitely like you said driver vs. track.  I don't watch racing for that.  Driver vs. driver is much more exciting.  When you have someone as talented as Schumaker in a car like a Ferarri there really isn't much else going on in the race is there?  It more or less boils down to waiting to see if Schuey makes a mistake.  That's F1 in a nutshell now.  BORING.
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« Reply #50 on: April 04, 2004, 02:04:28 PM »
I havent watched the race yet and inadvertantly found out that Michael/Ferrari won. Looks like BAR-Honda is going to be a strong contender this year along with Williams-BMW. Whether a race is boring or not is partly due to television coverage. Which cars they show which % of the time. If the race leader is leading from start to finish and the camera is constantly on him or the front then it could be a boring race (if your not the race leaders fan).
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« Reply #51 on: April 04, 2004, 02:30:12 PM »
I agree Coffe. Ferrari was almost not in camera at all today, main focus was on BAR, Renault and Williams....mostly BAR i think.

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« Reply #52 on: April 04, 2004, 03:08:02 PM »
The king bought himself a really fine television production crew.  There were plenty of good duels. The camera work and direction were excellent and really showed off these bits of wheel-to-wheel fighting. Nice heavy use of in-car cameras with cuts outside to show relative positions, glowing brakes and the larger context of the race.
One more race like that and Kimi is gonna be known as the Fiery Finn.
But there is a qualitative difference between a battle for sixth place and one for first.
And I fear that, just like Magny Cours, next time they race on this track there will be a lot less action, as the drivers figure out there's only one place on the track where overtaking can occur successfully.

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« Reply #53 on: April 04, 2004, 04:13:21 PM »
F1 TV production is handled exclusively by FOM, Bernie's little monopoly.

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« Reply #54 on: April 04, 2004, 04:47:43 PM »
The most entertaining F1 race in recent history was Spa a few years back.  And only then it was due to the commentators comments after the big wreck on lap 1.  Classic! :aok
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« Reply #55 on: April 04, 2004, 05:05:28 PM »
That big Spa wreck was hilarious.  It looked like bumper cars.

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« Reply #56 on: April 04, 2004, 05:20:17 PM »
Incredible to see what drivers can walk away from these days.

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« Reply #57 on: April 05, 2004, 02:53:39 AM »
Just saw the GP. Lotsa excitment, track was well build, etc... Very entertaining.

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« Reply #58 on: April 24, 2005, 02:49:16 AM »
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Anyone else here think this is a very odd idea?  I mean in the middle of the middle East.  The sand.  The possible terrorists.  Think I'd rather race my F1 car in an WRC event in Norway in the middle of winter than race in Bahrain right now.  

Thoughts?


It worked out well didnt it? Not the most exciting track on the calendar, but still.

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« Reply #59 on: April 24, 2005, 04:32:55 AM »
I like F1.


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