FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DU CANADA 2012: RACE *** SPOILERS ***

Race fans...~ 40 laps of real racing on TNT...NASCAR @ Pocono!

 

They make the tires the FIA wants.

 

Ferrari should not have had an issue finishing behind Lewis. It was still keeping ALO in the WDC lead. The should have pitted a lap or two after Lewis.

 

You mean where you lock the club on the steering wheel and call off the race if it starts sprinkling?

 

Did I hear the Speed crew correctly that she's his fiancee? Lewis, your "old lady" is 8 years your senior...think about that.(i.e long term)

 

+1

There's no point in gambling on these tires. If you guess wrong, the tires and your race are dead.


Mark

 

Well, I'm going to out and drive the 458 now. I want to see a Red car that actually goes fast today.

 

Either way works.

 

Experience counts!

 

I love it.

It is the same for everybody and avoids procession races. If a driver is faster DRS allows him to eventually get by and not depend on the driver in front of him driving a superwide car.

Particularly in combination with KERS it is doubly exciting. Like the PTP button on IRL.

 

"if you're treading on thin ice you'd might as well dance"

 

My wife picked up on that one too. Good for him.

 

Enjoy it!

 

The problem is that lewis stopped on lap 49. There were too many lap to allow him to run with fresh rubber (note: it did work for Lettuce though)

 

Doesn't bother me either. Works for both sides.

The crazy tire situation this year really is much more of an influence. We force cars to work at least one time on less that ideal tires. Actually, that sounds really stupid for a race, doesn't it?

Let the teams choose the tires they want before the race starts. Mixing two different types during a race is completely artificial. It's just sandbagging.

 

Yeah, that's the problem with F1.
It needs to be more like IRL

 

It's like allowing boxers to use knives.
But only on different rounds.

 

For a while it does...

 

Awesome race! So happy for Lewis. So sad for Schumi

I knew the whiners would be out in force, crying that it's fixed racing, a lottery, etc. Meanwhile, this is the best F1 season I can remember.

As for the tires... it's got nothing to do with having no idea how they last. It was a calculated gamble by Ferrari. They knew Alonso would save 25-some seconds on a pit-stop, and the gamble was whether he could make up enough time in the middle of the race to let him hold off the leaders until the end.

And it almost worked. A few seconds more lap time would have won it for him. And ya know what? It's *NO* different than any other year. I can recall tons of times when drivers decided to go with one less stop. It's nothing new for 2012.

 

IRL and even NASCAR got some things right that are not well done in F1.

F1 is king but that doesn't mean they can't steal a good idea from other racing series.

 

It was a good race....period!!! I will be happy with more of this.

 

http://www.vipbox.tv/watch/55401/1/nascar-sprint-cup-series-at-pocono-live-stream-online.html