F1 driver Kimi Räikkönen to the NASCAR

[MiloMorai]

Kurt Bush needed to be taken off the track and sat down.

Maybe but they did show one car having some grease applied to the rear bumper so the front bumper of the following car would slide better across the front car's bumper.

[DrDea]

Yea,but 3 cars spun off his nose. Its all a product of that kind of racing tho. They need to do something wit those cars.

[Saurdaukar]

Logitec makes a great one. I have the  G 25.ran 220 bucks but it is as solid as the ch stuff so it will last.

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Doc - do you have any additional pictures of that setup you built?

[Saurdaukar]

China.

Webber.

Started 18th.

Finished 3rd.

No KERS.

Sebastian who?

 

[DrDea]

Doc - do you have any additional pictures of that setup you built?

Sure do. I even had a computer chair hooked up to it at one point. Send me your e mail and I'll shoot a few off to ya. I used boards from a waterbed for the frame mostly. Sturdy as hell.

[Kazaa]

Webber could have easily of taken second place if his first stint wasn't such a disaster. It goes to show how valuabe a fresh set of soft tires are.

[SlapShot]

The Chinese GP was not a bad F1 race (not the usual F1 parade race) but the 'Daga' NASCAR was a country mile better.

First and second places separated by .001 second and with 8 cars crossing the line within a car length of each other. Iirc there was some 90 lead changes.

3 wide stacked into the last corner ... 4 wide coming down the straight to the finish line ... was a crazy finish for sure.

[DrDea]

 I really hate whats happened to Daytona and Talledega racing. 2 cars at a time just bump drafting away. Its caused a lot of wrecks.

[Saurdaukar]

Webber could have easily of taken second place if his first stint wasn't such a disaster. It goes to show how valuabe a fresh set of soft tires are.

I will once again state that I do *not* like the new tires.  FIA wants increased degradation... fine... but the marbles ("Klag" in Euro-speak) are/(is) downright dangerous.

I would not be surprised, assuming the tire formula is not changed, if the teams banded together and sent a boycott message ala the US GP at Indy way back when over that tire safety issue.

You simply cannot be driving over 'rubber gravel' at 200MPH.

Did you see the slow-motion replay of that massive, 1x1 inch piece of tire that was bouncing along the track at China?  I don't want to think about what would happen if a piece like that impacted a driver's visor at those speeds... again with a reference to Massa...

Very, VERY displeased with Pirelli.  They know better...

[rpm]

I really hate whats happened to Daytona and Talledega racing. 2 cars at a time just bump drafting away. Its caused a lot of wrecks.

And some GREAT racing.

[DrDea]

And some GREAT racing.

Great finishes. The rest of it not so much.

[68ZooM]

And some GREAT racing.

Great racing is right, the two car train was amazing to watch them fall to the back of the Field then come storming back thru, many drivers had close calls and some crashed out but the best save of the day would have to go to Ryan Newman X2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIxU3LR3WXU&feature=related

[DrDea]

 Yea Ryans a dirt racer from way back. That first one he saved was just insane. He was all but 90 deg slideways and just caught it at 190 mph. THATS skills

[Reschke]

I miss the old days of NASCAR when you had showroom type cars that were driven on Sunday. Those were the days when I enjoyed watching it. at least then you could tell which car was a Chevy, Ford, Pontiac, Dodge, etc...

With drivers that gave pit crew and family members rides in the right side with no safety gear for laps around Talladega at 180+mph. I heard Bobby Allison talking about that last week when he took his wife on a few laps around the track at Talladega that fast and she didn't talk to him for a few weeks.

[Masherbrum]

I miss the old days of NASCAR when you had showroom type cars that were driven on Sunday. Those were the days when I enjoyed watching it. at least then you could tell which car was a Chevy, Ford, Pontiac, Dodge, etc...

With drivers that gave pit crew and family members rides in the right side with no safety gear for laps around Talladega at 180+mph. I heard Bobby Allison talking about that last week when he took his wife on a few laps around the track at Talladega that fast and she didn't talk to him for a few weeks.

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