2008 Malaysian GP - Race 2/18

Agree entirely. Problem is that whilst bernie smurf is in charge it wont happen.We have design packages at work that could knock 2 seconds off the record lap for Monza for eg.Can't use then due to FIA restrictions.
 
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1993 may have been good but how many people died in 1994? The Correct answer is too many.
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Any driver dying is too many. But '94 wasn't a high-tech year, was it? It was the first season after TC, active ride, ABS, fully auto gearchanges and all those other wonderful gizmos were outlawed.

Overlag said:
Far better than Nascar where they only turn left and overtake 1000s of times a race. Same with BTCC, sure they overtake loads, but its Banger racing.....
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Uh....stock cars turn right as well. The Nationwide series goes to the Montreal GP track and the Mexico City roadcourse. The Cup series goes to Watkins Glen (former home of the US GP) and Sears Point.

As for overtaking 1000s of times per race - you exaggerate somewhat. You might get a lot of overtaking - well, changes of position would be a better way to describe it - at a plate track (Daytona or Talladega, where they do run flatout and three-wide all the way around when the tyres aren't worn), but when they go somewhere like Darlington it's a bit different. There, overtaking is actually pretty difficult as the racing groove is fairly narrow (albeit widening in recent years, should be even wider post-resurface). But because of that, you end up with races like in 2003 - Ricky Craven and Kurt Busch leaning on each other and actually ending up crossing the line pretty much welded to each other. Craven won by a hair.*

I posted this link in one of my NASCAR raceday threads - clicky. That's all the tracks in the main three NASCAR series (Cup, Nationwide and Trucks). Note how some of them - gasp! - aren't ovals.


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* - a hair being this much:

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Craven is #32.
 
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Tack temp - 46 C
no rain predicted for next 30min - some black clouds in the distance though
edit: update rain now expected at 7mins past the hour

RBR cleared to run: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/65980

sat praccy:

Code: 
Pos  Driver        Team                     Time             Laps
 1.  Heidfeld      BMW Sauber          (B)  1:35.019          18
 2.  Raikkonen     Ferrari             (B)  1:35.262 + 0.243  17
 3.  Massa         Ferrari             (B)  1:35.388 + 0.369  17
 4.  Trulli        Toyota              (B)  1:35.389 + 0.370  20
 5.  Webber        Red Bull-Renault    (B)  1:35.437 + 0.418  16
 6.  Coulthard     Red Bull-Renault    (B)  1:35.653 + 0.634  17
 7.  Piquet        Renault             (B)  1:35.768 + 0.749  15
 8.  Button        Honda               (B)  1:35.781 + 0.762  19
 9.  Vettel        Toro Rosso-Ferrari  (B)  1:35.827 + 0.808  16
10.  Glock         Toyota              (B)  1:35.911 + 0.892  21
11.  Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes    (B)  1:35.927 + 0.908  13
12.  Alonso        Renault             (B)  1:36.068 + 1.049  14
13.  Nakajima      Williams-Toyota     (B)  1:36.183 + 1.164  14
14.  Fisichella    Force India-Ferrari (B)  1:36.229 + 1.210  21
15.  Rosberg       Williams-Toyota     (B)  1:36.490 + 1.471   7
16.  Kovalainen    McLaren-Mercedes    (B)  1:36.529 + 1.510  16
17.  Kubica        BMW Sauber          (B)  1:36.618 + 1.599  19
18.  Bourdais      Toro Rosso-Ferrari  (B)  1:36.668 + 1.649  15
19.  Sato          Super Aguri-Honda   (B)  1:36.908 + 1.889  14
20.  Sutil         Force India-Ferrari (B)  1:36.939 + 1.920  21
21.  Davidson      Super Aguri-Honda   (B)  1:37.140 + 2.121  12
22.  Barrichello   Honda               (B)  1:37.703 + 2.684   6
 
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Heidfeld having to thread his way through slow cars doing fuel saving - going to have to do something about that, just not safe.

Q1 result:
Massa
Kimi
Heikki
Lewis
Trulli
Kubica
Heidfeld
Webber
Alonso
 
Stormrider said:
Heidfeld having to thread his way through slow cars doing fuel saving - going to have to do something about that, just not safe.
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Indeed. From trackside cameras it looked slightly hair-raising, but from the in-car view it was insane. :eek:

Something has to be done, as at the end you've got opposing imperatives - "I need to go as fast as possible" and "I need to go as slow as permitted" - on the same track.

Good result for Trulli in particular, and Button a creditable 11th. Bring on the rain tomorrow! :)
 
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