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I'd also like to see the "vintage race of the week" - old footage of races, particularly from the 60s and 70s, particularly Trans-Am at some of the defunct tracks. Our first purpose-built race car was a Datsun 510 and Datsun/Nissan used to have a promo (VHS, lol) about John Morton's first year racing it which was fun to watch. I know they've got old F1 footage as well, I remember it on Wide World Of Sports.
I remember sitting thru an hour and twenty minutes of Sumo Wrestling and Tiddly Winks(REALLY!) to see ten minutes of the Monaco GP
Some old CanAm footage would be pretty cool too.
My favorites are the machines built in the period between the World Wars, race cars, boats, and airplanes. The pace of development in that era was fierce yet so many of the designs seem to owe as much to art as to science.
I'd actually like to see a little more coverage of vintage racing in Europe, there's one every other year in Monaco and LeMans and I believe Spa host vintage events. I love the old race cars and in the videos I've seen of Monaco they were tossing these priceless old cars around between the Armco as if they'd just picked them up the rental counter at the airport.
That would be awesome.
Would even like to see some of the Super Touring car races.
Haven't watched the race yet, but qualifying was interesting. Perez out qualified Button (not sure if that's really surprising). I felt bad for Webber, he seemed pretty annoyed. Hamilton, Vettel and Grojean were incredibly fast. I loved the radio transmission with Hamilton at the end of Q3, he was very surprised lol.
Haven't watched the race yet, but qualifying was interesting. Perez out qualified Button (not sure if that's really surprising). I felt bad for Webber, he seemed pretty annoyed. Hamilton, Vettel and Grojean were incredibly fast. I loved the radio transmission with Hamilton at the end of Q3, he was very surprised lol.
I totally forgot to set my DVR for the practice and qualifying sessions.
Just got done watching the race and I thought it was pretty good. Not the most exciting.
Great drive by Hamilton! He owned that race and it was definitely a well deserved victory. And GOO KIMI!! Nice drive by the Iceman too and good to see him with a good result and on the podium again.
Also very good drives by Webber and Grosjean. Would have been nice to see where Grosjean would have finished if it were not for the drive through penalty and precautionary pit-stop.
Was strange to see Rosberg so far back though and too bad about his retirement.
Seems Force India's luck also has not changed. Bit of a shame for them.
Also seems Mclaren has not got over their hump. Not bad results though.
Some other thoughts, nice to see Williams got their first point.
And really good to see there were no real tyre issues given the new specifications.
Seems there may not be another break-in/maturity period.
Well, maybe for Ferrari. Seems their car doesn't love them too much.
During F1 extra, it was mentioned that Webber's ride is most likely going to Daniel Ricciardo. Soundsed like its already been confirmed.
It was an ok race but this track is not known for overtaking its hard to overtake there but great drive by Hamilton, im so glad Vettel was stuck behind Button for 12 laps that surely helped because no way is that Mercedes up to the level of the RB.
What a surprise Grosjean crashes again got a drive through penalty still think this guy is quite useless but a stella drive from Kimi to keep again the faster RB behind and grab 2nd.
It was an ok race but this track is not known for overtaking its hard to overtake there but great drive by Hamilton, im so glad Vettel was stuck behind Button for 12 laps that surely helped because no way is that Mercedes up to the level of the RB.
What a surprise Grosjean crashes again got a drive through penalty still think this guy is quite useless but a stella drive from Kimi to keep again the faster RB behind and grab 2nd.
Grosjean was basically owning Kimi this weekend.
The penalty was very harsh, he didn't leave the track until he was ahead of Massa and then again he did it to avoid a collision. They would not have handed that penalty to Alonso, Vettel, Hamilton or Raikkonen, I'm sure.
He got 20 seconds for the one on Button as well, that one is more debatable, but frankly I think they are obsessed with punishing someone every time cars touch, no matter how mildly and inconsequential.
The penalty was very harsh, he didn't leave the track until he was ahead of Massa and then again he did it to avoid a collision. They would not have handed that penalty to Alonso, Vettel, Hamilton or Raikkonen, I'm sure.
He got 20 seconds for the one on Button as well, that one is more debatable, but frankly I think they are obsessed with punishing someone every time cars touch, no matter how mildly and inconsequential.
This was the weekend for Grojean to shine and prove he is worthy of his seat at Lotus which imo he isn't good enough. Kimi has pretty much owned Grojean all season forget about qualifying its the race day that counts and you just wouldn't see Raikkonen doing the same mistakes hence the huge difference in points and why he is the team no.1 driver.
The one on Button was fully Grojeans fault, Button had the racing line so he had track position you can see Grojean moving left and hitting Button.
Everytime I see Grojean in action I am always waiting for him to crash I honestly thought it would be Vettel since he was behind him for so long, its a case of when will Grojean crash next and to who.
I will give Grojean some credit hes better than last year that's for sure but for me he doesn't show that hes a good quality driver.
The penalty was very harsh, he didn't leave the track until he was ahead of Massa and then again he did it to avoid a collision. They would not have handed that penalty to Alonso, Vettel, Hamilton or Raikkonen, I'm sure.
He got 20 seconds for the one on Button as well, that one is more debatable, but frankly I think they are obsessed with punishing someone every time cars touch, no matter how mildly and inconsequential.
Agreed.
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