What's the go with timing apps for iOS and Android this year?
All I can seem to find is the Soft Pauer $30 app =\
Angry Heikki's helmet!
you look beautiful in this pic ..
ask someone to take the pic for you to have a better angle
EDIT: oh. and I'm sooooo jealous right now .. . enjoy it bro
If an amazing picture of him with Webber doesn't come out of this I'll be severely disappointed.
Sadly, they had called the end of the pit walk a few minutes earlier so it was a bit of a shitfight at that point as it was. Suffice to say it's not the only pic I got in front of it, but it's definitely the best
Oh, and for Acrid:
Gig on day 3? It's Crusty Demons I think
Is that really Kovalainen's helmet? If so ... I will be cheering for him.
:O So you got me an autograph instead yeah?Oh, and for Acrid:
Lygon St?
Edit: No idea why I'm even asking, I know it'll be that one
:O So you got me an autograph instead yeah?
Nope. Got me a few though!
What time is the race pacific standard time?
Nice, is that Petrov's? if so, just cut it out and burn it..
Some random predictions for the weekend:
- Marussia & HRT will be subject to the 107% rule
- Webber will end up higher than Vettel
- Schumi will get his first podium
- Kimi will either end up 4th or win it
- Hamilton will be on pole position
- a Caterham will finish ahead of Williams
- Hulkenberg will surprise
- at least 6 cars will retire in the race
I've just re-read this... you know Crusty Demons is motorcross douchebags, yeah? Not music. At all. So there's no real music to get excited for short of the mid-90s speed metal they'll play to accompany them while they ride over a bus or something. No bands :/Get drunk and go, everything sounds good if you're drunk. Unless its Ferrari who won, you need to head down to the Italian street, I forgot the name, but its the one where Italian restaurants are occupying the whole road (ask about it) its nice, you get those "come inside come inside, my mom is the one who's cooking in the kitchen" [italian_accent] ..
Angry Heikki's helmet!
http://img.skysports.com/12/03/800x600/Sky-Sports-F1-Team-4_2733708.jpg
So this is the new Jake, DC & Eddie :(
Brundle looks like he misses Jake[/QUOTE]
At least he's not wearing a suit. :)
Hill, Brundle, who's the other guy?
HRT has requested a delay to the scrutineering of Pedro de la Rosa's car until Friday morning, while it continues to work on completing its second chassis.
The Spanish outfit lodged a request with the Australian Grand Prix race stewards on Thursday to be allowed to delay scrutineering of car number 22, with the FIA duly agreeing for it to be examined before 11am.
HRT only managed to shake down one of its cars at Barcelona last week during a filming day, before shipping its contenders to Melbourne for the first race of the campaign.
De la Rosa's car will need to go through scrutineering before it will be allowed to take part in practice.
They don't even care; look for who is cheap, qualified and that is all. Not what fans demand but cheap, sells, and fills the the spot
Mercedes' hopes of delivering on its strong winter testing form have received a boost, with the FIA confirming ahead of the Australian Grand Prix that a radical wing concept the team has pioneered is fully legal.
The Brackley-based outfit stirred up interest from its rivals throughout pre-season testing with its W03 featuring its own version of a rear-wing F-duct concept - that some suspected was activated by vents being opened when the upper wing elements moves during DRS activation.
It is understood that rival teams queried the legality of such a system which vents the air through the endplates and in to the main plane, to help stall the wing and boost straight-line speed with the FIA.
However, despite the way the system effectively makes use of driver movement when he activates the DRS, the FIA has no doubts that it complies with the regulations.
When asked by AUTOSPORT to clarify the situation, the head of the FIA's F1 technical department Charlie Whiting said: "Some teams are questioning it on the basis that they thought F-ducts were banned. Well, F-ducts are not banned.
"At the end of 2010 everyone was using driver operated F-ducts and the regulations that were changed specifically banned the use of driver movement to influence the aerodynamic performance of the car that got rid of that generation of so-called F-ducts.
"At the beginning of last year, with engineers being unable to unlearn things, they wanted to try and get the effect via different means, and they talked about opening and closing a duct by having interaction with the suspension. We said no, you cannot do that because that is not the primary purpose of the suspension system which is to insulate the car from undulations in the road.
"There was then a lengthy discussion in the TWG at the beginning of last year about that, to make sure everyone was clear about it. It seems a couple of teams went away from that meeting with the impression that F-ducts were banned in general. Whatever an F-duct is. But they are not."
Whiting would not reveal further details of how the Mercedes system works, but said that he viewed it as completely passive.
"What it appears some teams are doing is that when the DRS is operated, it will allow air to pass into a duct and do other things," he explained.
"That is all I can say you will probably have a pretty good idea of what it might be doing, and other teams will as well. But it is completely passive. There are no moving parts in it; it doesn't interact with any suspension. No steering, nothing. Therefore I cannot see a rule that prohibits it."
What's HRTs justification for even continuing in the sport? This is their third year and they still cant get cars completed in time for the first race. They can't be making money surely.
Will do! I'm going to keep posts to a minimum then on Monday (if I'm not hungover) sort and upload to Flickr or something. I'll also link up to my brother's Flickr, who has a far better camera and less bias toward Webbers, Ricciardos and Russians.Simon lazenby - The Presenter (The Jake of Sky Sports)
EDIT: Great pictures Shaneus, keep them coming
Argentina is on the verge of securing its return to the Formula 1 calendar, the country's president said on Wednesday.
Cristina Fernandez said the country has agreed a three-year deal that will see grand prix racing return to the South American nation from 2013.
She said the race will be hosted at a circuit in seaside resort Mar del Plata, 400 km from Argentina's capital Buenos Aires. There is currently no circuit in Mar del Plata.
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Old joke:
How do you make a small fortune in racing?
Start with a big one.
This has been a very short winter for the teams as they had to homologate chassis before testing. For teams such as HRT and Marussia who operate on a tiny budget this is a big hurdle for them to clear. Especially since they both failed some crash tests which would have an impact on the manufacturing of every other part of the car.
They have made it to the first race weekend (ready to race, not necessarily qualifying) for the third season in a row, and although they may struggle early on due to lack of testing, they should be given far more respect than most people give them.
I'm sure they are doing an impressive amount of work with a small amount of money but I mean surely at some point you just have to recognise you aren't going to be able to compete or make money and stop.
The other two new teams came in with a specific angle, Virgin were trying something new in terms of CAD, Lotus were trading on nostalgia, both have just given in to big money now, HRT just doesn't seem to have a purpose or a plan to establish itself properly. Can they really be any kind of a success just bobbing along the bottom of the standings?