Suzuka Circuit -JAPANESE Grand Prix 2009 - Race 15/17

just noticed in the 2005 gp replay, alonso cuts the final chikane then lets the guy back past on the straight then slip streams him into the next corner, reminds me of something :p
 
smr said:
is anyone getting up at 5am on sunday to watch the race or are you going to view at the more respectable time of 1pm-3pm?

I'm really dithering over it :D There's something slightly missing when you don't watch events live. Takes the sparkle off it :)
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Going to record the qually and watch it when I get up on Saturday and watch the race live Sunday morning. Will watch the practice sessions during the day sometime as they often loop over.
 
smr said:
is anyone getting up at 5am on sunday to watch the race or are you going to view at the more respectable time of 1pm-3pm?

I'm really dithering over it :D There's something slightly missing when you don't watch events live. Takes the sparkle off it :)
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FOR SURE. get up, watch race, then go paintballing!
 
NightSt@lk3r said:
Yep except Teflonso didn't get a penalty for a perfectly legit move.
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actually he did, watch it to the end. In his interview he says he had to loose 2 places to let the car(forget teh driver) back past. After being told to by FIA/Team

Dont get me wrong, i love alonso bashing and thought exactly this relating to lewis v kimi spa 08. Only a driver in a red car can cut corners and get away with it.... as shown spa 09.
 
The 'rules' state you must give the place back, and there has apparently always been a 'gentlemans agreement' that you dont then go back past them at the corner straight after. The issue was that in Spa Hamilton was deemed to have broken the 'gentlemans agreement', and the FIA then decided to make the 'gentlemans agreement' a proper 'rule' and then went back and retrospectively penalised Hamilton for it... Hours after the race... with a type of penalty that cannot be appealed.
 
Anybody know if the live stream of the race on the BBC website will be repeated in the afternoon?

I don't have TV access since moving back to uni and have been relying on the streams. :p

Edit: Found it, seems not. :( Early morning it is.
 
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orderoftheflame said:
Anybody know if the live stream of the race on the BBC website will be repeated in the afternoon?

I don't have TV access since moving back to uni and have been relying on the streams. :p

Edit: Found it, seems not. :( Early morning it is.
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they are available through the iPlayer website, I had to watch the Hungary GP that way after missing the start. It's put up in two parts as it's so long, so 1 hour buildup tends to get onto the site around 4 hours after live, the race around 6 hours (takes that long to encode).

Qualli is also on the iPlayer, but FP1, 2 and 3 aren't (as they are red button).
 
philjohn said:
they are available through the iPlayer website, I had to watch the Hungary GP that way after missing the start. It's put up in two parts as it's so long, so 1 hour buildup tends to get onto the site around 4 hours after live, the race around 6 hours (takes that long to encode).

Qualli is also on the iPlayer, but FP1, 2 and 3 aren't (as they are red button).
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Cheers. :) Looks like that's the way to watch it if I oversleep. :p
 
utajoker said:
didnt think there was a gentlemans agreement before it happend just that fai 'clarified it' afterwards but, lets not get into this again :p
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whatever the rulings or anything, it has made things a bit stupid. Everyone is now scared of cutting chicances and the penalties for doing so since the FIA allowed them to do it by removing all the walls and turning them into just painted lines on flat tarmac. Put the barriers and walls back up, that way the penalty for jumping a chicance is retirement with a smashed up car.

That'll Learn 'Em.
 
Skeeter said:
whatever the rulings or anything, it has made things a bit stupid. Everyone is now scared of cutting chicances and the penalties for doing so since the FIA allowed them to do it by removing all the walls and turning them into just painted lines on flat tarmac. Put the barriers and walls back up, that way the penalty for jumping a chicance is retirement with a smashed up car.

That'll Learn 'Em.
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It's not as bad as the Senna DSQ in 89, allowed the push start because of dangerous position, but then DSQ for cutting the chicane (despite him gaining no advantage, it was just the only way back onto the course). That decision really stank, oh well, he got his own back the next year :D
 
philjohn said:
they are available through the iPlayer website, I had to watch the Hungary GP that way after missing the start. It's put up in two parts as it's so long, so 1 hour buildup tends to get onto the site around 4 hours after live, the race around 6 hours (takes that long to encode).

Qualli is also on the iPlayer, but FP1, 2 and 3 aren't (as they are red button).
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but you can watch P1, 2 and 3 on the website a few hours after.

am i the only one up watching FP1?
 
Nope, im here too.

Unintentionally, was playing some games and just realised it was 1:30, lol. Gonna go to bed and watch so I can fall asleep if I need to.
 
I much prefere the races early in the morning, it reminds be of the early 90s when me and my brothers got up to watch it with my dad. its not quite the same staying up though
 
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