The Official F1 2009 Thread

[Hick]

ah... i guess i dont keep up on f1 enough.... :(

[PorkandBeans]

ah... i guess i dont keep up on f1 enough.... :(

It's political B.S. The election for the new FIA president is Friday - to replace Max Mosley. Vatanen says he wants to bring sweeping changes to the politics of motorsport. Todt is considered a continuation of what Max has been doing.

I don't really get into it much, I just pick up on it from the F1 websites.

[E30Kaiser]

Don't really care who gets elected as long as they don't act as disconnected with the world as Max. Does anyone know how Bernie gets replaced? I heard it had something to do with a board or something.

[YAN-3]

Don't really care who gets elected as long as they don't act as disconnected with the world as Max. Does anyone know how Bernie gets replaced? I heard it had something to do with a board or something.

death. he dies and a second clone steps in.call him Bernie II

[PorkandBeans]

Don't really care who gets elected as long as they don't act as disconnected with the world as Max. Does anyone know how Bernie gets replaced? I heard it had something to do with a board or something.

Bernie is a (big) shareholder of the company that holds the commercial rights to F1. Technically, I think he can be fired by the board, but he has made them all so much money that this will never happen.

[quickervicar]

Todt wins, 135-49. 12 votes disallowed/abstained

The future doesn't look good, in my opinion.

[Jparkr]

the Race edit is up on F1.com

[quickervicar]

Abu Dhabi in 48 hours. Should be interesting, but won't be.

[James Crivellone]

Abu Dhabi in 48 hours. Should be interesting, but won't be.

Talk about an amazing racing complex though, absolutely fantastic architecture and design.

[E30Kaiser]

I agree, tomorrow we get to see how good it is for racing though, which I care about far more.

[James Crivellone]

I agree, tomorrow we get to see how good it is for racing though, which I care about far more.

Qualifying and Practice made it seem like its going to be a good track, at least in my opinion...

Oh well, watching it live, going to be interesting.

[YAN-3]

lol WTF Hilary Clinton is at the race??? check out the photos on F1.com

[naplesE30]

This track looks boring and like all the other new venues. The complex looks great, but no elevation change, no fast sweepers, and prob not good for, other then the end of the long straight, overtaking. Maybee it was just me but their were not any cool shots in Quali to show the true speed of the cars. I think the old tracks kick these fancy new tracks asses as far as racing goes.

[cepa318is]

Race was good. That was the perfrect thing to wake up to this morning. I flip on the TV and there is the final F1 race of the season. That track is awesome, yet menacing at the same time.

[Dave]

nice battle at the end between Button and Webber.

I actually felt bad for Lewis.

And how about Alguersuari???? Oops, that's not my pit????!!!!!!