[FairfieldLife] Re: Force, India!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 wrote: > > > > It's slightly ironic, that Force India uses Ferrari engines (I believe)! > > > > They use the same Mercedes engines that Brawn and McLaren use. > Yeah. That's true. Sorry! :)
[FairfieldLife] Re: Force, India!
> It's slightly ironic, that Force India uses Ferrari engines (I believe)! > They use the same Mercedes engines that Brawn and McLaren use.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Force, India!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > > Lewis Hamilton has put McLaren on pole position for the Italian Grand > Prix after edging out the Force India of Adrian Sutil in qualifying. > Hamilton finished two-tenths clear after the German made a small error > on his final flyer. Kimi Raikkonen will start third for Ferrari. > It's slightly ironic, that Force India uses Ferrari engines (I believe)!
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Lewis Hamilton has put McLaren on pole position for the Italian Grand Prix after edging out the Force India of Adrian Sutil in qualifying. Hamilton finished two-tenths clear after the German made a small error on his final flyer. Kimi Raikkonen will start third for Ferrari.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Force, India!
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[FairfieldLife] Re: Force, India!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > > > Nothing short of ultrahypermegasensational! Force India (Fisichella) > > ended up second after Ferrari (Kimi The Red-nose "Drunkard")! > > FI had zero points before this race! > > > > That might well be "ominous", let me tell ya... > > Your enthusiasm about F1 reminds me of my youth, Card. > I spent (or misspent, depending on your POV) some of > it following racing, and even doing a little SCCA > racing myself. > Well, the main reason I'm interested in F1 might well be that there are two Finns in it, Raikkonen (Räikkönen, Ferrari) and Kovalainen (McLaren). A couple of things make F1 interesting: choosing the right tyres according to what kind of weather is expected during the race, and pit stops, during which the tyres are changed and more fuel taken. A typical pit stop takes about ten seconds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-48JGkr2tTU
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> Nothing short of ultrahypermegasensational! Force India (Fisichella) > ended up second after Ferrari (Kimi The Red-nose "Drunkard")! > FI had zero points before this race! > > That might well be "ominous", let me tell ya... It's good to see an underdog do well and put pressure on the top dogs. FI chasing a Ferrari! what a year! It's edge of your seat stuff nearly every race. Monza will be something.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Force, India!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > Nothing short of ultrahypermegasensational! Force India (Fisichella) > ended up second after Ferrari (Kimi The Red-nose "Drunkard")! > FI had zero points before this race! > > That might well be "ominous", let me tell ya... Your enthusiasm about F1 reminds me of my youth, Card. I spent (or misspent, depending on your POV) some of it following racing, and even doing a little SCCA racing myself. I never had a competitive car, and did it Just For Fun. The *most* fun, however, was making friends with a guy who had an old F1 car (a Lotus, from the 3.0 liter non-blown days of racing). I sucked up like mad, and it finally paid off when he let me drive it around a track for a few laps. Driving a Formula 1 car on concrete has been likened to driving a high-powered sports car on hard ice. That analogy is correct. It scared the shit out of me. I could "put the pedal to the metal" on a straightaway at 130 miles per hour and spin my wheels. Suffice it to say that F1 races are won by tenths of a second and my lap times were 10 to 20 seconds away from the regular driver's. I gained a great respect for the level of skill that F1 drivers bring to the cockpit that day, and a realization that I was not even remotely in their class. So who's good these days? And is F1 racing more about the car (the best equipe wins) these days, or the driver (a good driver in a less-than-top-rank car can still win a race)? It sounds to me from what you are excited about that the latter sometimes still rears its head. That's exciting. I'm old enough to have seen Stirling Moss race. I once saw him win a race in a car that was not given a ghost of a chance of even finishing in the top ten.
[FairfieldLife] Re: Force, India!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, guyfawkes91 wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > > > > > Yeehaw. As we say here in Finland: "Kyä lähtee!" > > > > http://www.formula1.com/ > > > > If anyone tells you Formula One racing is predictable, they werenât > > watching at Spa on Saturday as Giancarlo Fisichella took pole position for > > Force India ahead of Toyotaâs Jarno Trulli and BMW Sauberâs Nick > > Heidfeld. Yes, you read that right. > > > You missed out the bit about Hamilton and Button being knocked out in Q2 and > Ferrari having one car last on the grid. > > This year has been wonderfully unpredictable. > Nothing short of ultrahypermegasensational! Force India (Fisichella) ended up second after Ferrari (Kimi The Red-nose "Drunkard")! FI had zero points before this race! That might well be "ominous", let me tell ya...
[FairfieldLife] Re: Force, India!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister wrote: > > > Yeehaw. As we say here in Finland: "Kyä lähtee!" > > http://www.formula1.com/ > > If anyone tells you Formula One racing is predictable, they werenât > watching at Spa on Saturday as Giancarlo Fisichella took pole position for > Force India ahead of Toyotaâs Jarno Trulli and BMW Sauberâs Nick > Heidfeld. Yes, you read that right. > You missed out the bit about Hamilton and Button being knocked out in Q2 and Ferrari having one car last on the grid. This year has been wonderfully unpredictable.
