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Post by ctkag » Sat Jul 05, 2008 9:44 am

I used to really enjoy getting up on a Sunday morning, making a pot of coffee, and sit and watch an F1 race. I'm usually on to other things in the afternoon.
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Post by chaos4NH » Sat Jul 05, 2008 10:26 am

ctkag wrote:I used to really enjoy getting up on a Sunday morning, making a pot of coffee, and sit and watch an F1 race. I'm usually on to other things in the afternoon.
I, and a lot of others would agree! If the Nascar race was at 100PM on Sunday, you can bet the F! would have been at 700 AM.
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Post by StephanAlfa » Sat Jul 05, 2008 2:10 pm

chaos4NH wrote:
ctkag wrote:I used to really enjoy getting up on a Sunday morning, making a pot of coffee, and sit and watch an F1 race. I'm usually on to other things in the afternoon.
I, and a lot of others would agree! If the Nascar race was at 100PM on Sunday, you can bet the F! would have been at 700 AM.
And that conlcudes it's the wrong crowd to watch F1. If you know F1, you'd get the pot of coffee and watch it in the ealry AM...

Kovaleinen on pole ... wow! even more wow is Webber in 2nd spot...
And Piquet Jr. is in front of Massa and Rubens ... wow too!
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Post by enjoythemusic » Sat Jul 05, 2008 2:14 pm

Amen, the F1 race is to be enjoying with a double shot of expresso (ristretto for those curious). Still, i like that fact that Ferrari is getting humbled. Was watching T1 speeds and WOW!!! One thing you GOTTA love about open wheel winged cars with proper undertray is the ability to take turns 'at speed'. :twisted:
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Post by StephanAlfa » Sun Jul 06, 2008 7:40 am

Checked the paper this AM and the F-1 race will be tape delay at 1 PM... :evil:

In French we say "merde!" :!:
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Post by chaos4NH » Sun Jul 06, 2008 10:24 am

StephanAlfa wrote:Checked the paper this AM and the F-1 race will be tape delay at 1 PM... :evil:

In French we say "merde!" :!:
There was always "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" on FX. Hey, she was one of Bill C's 10 hottest and you know he could really pick the women.
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Post by grovefromnh » Sun Jul 13, 2008 8:09 am

ALMS at Lime Rock, noon, SPEED. What a different track from their last one- LeMans!!!!
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Post by chaos4NH » Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:30 am

I talked to Tim Mahoney who went to watch qualifying at LRP. He said the new track configuration is a mess. The kink put in at the bottom of the up hill (end of No Name) caused traffic jam after traffic jam. It might be the make or break place on the "new" track.
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Post by Shawn624 » Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:19 pm

Looks like they added a chicane and some tires for $5,000,000.00. I could have done it for half that. :)
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Post by chaos4NH » Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:04 pm

Actually 2 chicanes, one at the bottom (which collected lots of trash, I.E. wrecked cars) and one just before the down hilll. What a lot of wrecks and agricultural racing!
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Post by cuda6666 » Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:13 pm

If they'd just repaved the old track and removed the bump at the downhill apex, they would have accomplished the same improvement in safety without all the bullshit.
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Post by Shawn624 » Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:49 pm

yeah. That chicane at the end of "no name" doesn't seem to have all of the bugs worked out yet. It collected alot of very expensive parts today.
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Post by chaos4NH » Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:46 pm

It was fugly.
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Post by grovefromnh » Fri Jul 18, 2008 3:53 am

German Grand Prix on Fox at 1:00pm IndyCars @ MidOhio roadcourse at 1:30 on ABC GrandAm at Barber Motorsports Park at 3pm on SPEED
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Post by Dave_G » Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:24 am

You forgot the best one of the weekend: ALMS @ Mid-Ohio at 12 noon on NBC.

Just please don't ask me what geniuses at FOX and NBC decided it would be a brilliant idea to tape-delay the F1 and ALMS races so that we have three top-flight road races all being broadcast at the same time. :roll:
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