The Official 2008 F1 Series Thread

[Jean]

Nice Q session! Massa sure made me laugh, but I was hoping for KIMI to take first....but 2nd is still good.

Can't wait to watch the race tomorrow.

[Dave]

Who crashes out first, Vettel or Piquet?

[Hick]

The first safety car period won that race for Hamilton. He could run much longer than everyone else and it was pretty much over. Had it rained again it may of been a different story.

That and, poor poor Sutil.

[Jon325i]

I just finished watching the re-broadcast of the Monaco GP.....the rain certainly made what is already a crap-shoot event all that more of an epic race. Lots of everything: passing, crashes & surprises. BMW finishes strong again (well, Kubica anyway) and Sutil has to be absolutely p-o'd after Kimi drop kicked him like that after exiting the tunnel.....so late in the race with the promise of some points too.

Way too many other points to elaborate on. For those who did not see it, you missed a good one.

Jon

[Dave]

Poor Sutil.

Bravo Kubica.

[TDE30]

Poor Sutil. Poor Heidfeld. Poor Rosberg.

The race was epic though. A fairly wet first half made this a race of attrition, then the second half seemed to be a battle of the full wet tires and the option tires. Alonso, in typical fucktwat fashion, ruined Heidfeld's race by ramming in the hairpin and damaging his sidepod. But Heidfeld needs to wake up and get with the program (like Kubi's been doing since the beginning of the year.) Sutil proved that Force India is a halfway decent team whenever an equalizer comes into play. It was good to see P Diddy and L Hammy get their celebration on, a genuinely satisfied podium finisher is a pleasant sight.

I hope Kimi's ready for a 5 spot penalty in Canada, hehe.

[z31maniac]

Awesome race.

Way too bad about Sutil, but if he hadn't been there, we would all be talking about how Kimi kept it out of the wall while DC pummeled it.

[Jon325i]

F1 TV coverage question: there's been a blurb from SpeedTV message boards that the next few races aired in the US will be on Fox instead of Speed. Can anyone confirm this?

Jon

[Hick]

nooooooooooo

[Jon325i]

nooooooooooo

I've been doing a little network program schedule research, and I'm afraid I bring bad, bad news. Fox will be the network to catch F1 for the races listed below on their scheduled calendar day. Thankfully, these will be re-broadcast on Speed three days later if you'd prefer to watch it there and avoid the NASCAR-influenced jack-assery of Fox. I remember the last time Fox carried F1. The show gets chopped down to 2 hours so things like the pre-race show will be heavily edited and the post-race interview probably won't be shown at all. God help us if Ralph Shaheen and Derick Daly are the commentators.

Canadian Grand Prix at Montreal

Fox: Sunday June 8th at 1PM EST / 10AM PST
Speed: Wednesday June 11th at 12 noon EST / 9AM PST

French Grand Prix at Magny-Cours

Fox: Sunday June 22nd at 8AM EST / 5AM PST
Speed: Wednesday June 25th at 12:30PM EST / 9:30AM PST

British Grand Prix at Silverstone

Fox: Sunday July 6th at 8AM EST / 5AM PST
Speed: Wednesday July 9th at 12:30PM EST / 9:30AM PST

German Grand Prix at Hockenheim

Fox: Sunday July 20th at 8AM EST / 5AM PST
Speed: Wednesday July 23rd at 12:30PM EST / 9:30AM PST

Normal service resumes on SpeedTV on August 3rd with the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Links to keep an eye on:

Fox:

http://msn.foxsports.com/motor/f1/schedule

SpeedTV (race times only):

http://www.speedtv.com/schedule/filter/program/804772

F1 calendar from BBCTV

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/calendar/default.stm

Jon

[z31maniac]

Does this mean we will get to see F1 in HD like Silverstone and Indy last year? That's badass.

[Jean]

Oh man what a race. Poor Sutil as mentioned already, but that's life, accidents happen. I am happy for Robert, and Massa, but Lewis is such an arrogant bastard.... lol

[TDE30]

God help us if Ralph Shaheen and Derick Daly are the commentators.

"Derek, you were once a terribly unsuccessful Formula One driver yourself, tell us what you think."

I'm not sure which is worse, Daly trying to create words and form them into a sentence or Shaheen's nasally-whining.

[sennafan]

My DVR ran out of room before the end of the race. Can anyone make a copy? PLEASE?

[TDE30]

Yeah, whenever rain is projected for Monaco, it's always safe to record the following two programs. I have the race and the program after it (Speed Test Drive of the C63 AMG) on my DVR, but I have no idea how to get it from there to my computer. It's a DirecTV HR21-700 HD-DVR if anyone has any recommendations.