The Motorsport Thread 2015

A fantastic race at Toronto today, overcast and a little bit of rain again.

CFH finishes one two with Josef Newgarden winning and Luca Filippi bringing home second. A much needed boost seeing as they haven't done well at all since winning at barber. There was some fantastic racing going on throughout the whole race.

sleeper wrote: It would have been a very close finish but for a couple of small things, namely a stop/go penalty for the 17 whilst Webber was at the wheel (for Hartley speeding in the pitlane I gather) and the 7 Audi having the right side of it's engine cover just blow off at 7am with Fassler at the wheel. It was on the lead lap still at that time and the Audi was faster during the day than the Porsche so we would have had a grand stand finish without that. An excellent race but not quit a match for the epics of 2008/11.

Practice times from Austria.

Pos	Driver	Car	Time	Gap	Laps
1	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1m09.600s	-	28
2	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1m09.611s	0.011s	50
3	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1m09.860s	0.260s	41
4	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus/Mercedes	1m09.914s	0.314s	44
5	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1m10.137s	0.537s	49
6	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India/Mercedes	1m10.160s	0.560s	49
7	Romain Grosjean	Lotus/Mercedes	1m10.267s	0.667s	38
8	Max Verstappen	Toro Rosso/Renault	1m10.356s	0.756s	48
9	Felipe Nasr	Sauber/Ferrari	1m10.495s	0.895s	39
10	Sergio Perez	Force India/Mercedes	1m10.585s	0.985s	46
11	Carlos Sainz	Toro Rosso/Renault	1m10.631s	1.031s	50
12	Daniil Kvyat	Red Bull/Renault	1m10.686s	1.086s	48
13	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber/Ferrari	1m10.744s	1.144s	40
14	Valtteri Bottas	Williams/Mercedes	1m10.746s	1.146s	34
15	Felipe Massa	Williams/Mercedes	1m11.011s	1.411s	42
16	Fernando Alonso	McLaren/Honda	1m11.517s	1.917s	17
17	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull/Renault	1m11.676s	2.076s	38
18	Jenson Button	McLaren/Honda	1m11.919s	2.319s	17
19	Will Stevens	Marussia/Ferrari	1m12.522s	2.922s	34
20	Roberto Merhi	Marussia/Ferrari	1m13.094s	3.494s	34

Quite a race from Austria! 

Edited by JJLehto - June 21 2015 at 08:50

Vompatti wrote: Could be Kimi just lost grip with the hard tyres or maybe Ferrari had messed up some settings again. Couldn't really see when or why Alonso hit him though. Great driving from Massa, Vettel got pretty close near the end.

I don't know if anyone else watched that insane Indycar race from Fontana, but that was awesome!  Reminded me of the IRL days on ovals.  A lot of close, hair-raising battles!  Of course, the drivers don't like it at all and voiced their concerns, but from a fans standpoint, I thought it was exciting as hell!  I never want to see a driver hurt, either (I was at the Vegas race in 2011, and it was a horrible feeling), but part of the thrill (for me, anyway) is that these guys have huge balls to do what they do as close to each other as they do it.  It's fun to watch close, tight racing where they can actually pass and make moves. 

It was a good one!  Just too bad only a few thousand showed at the track for the race.

We went to the Cup race in Sonoma this afternoon and it was another fun one!  I had high hopes for a solid day for Gordon (possibly a win), but what was I thinking!?  Of course they couldn't figure their s#*! out, but hey, Kyle Busch stealing a win from Jimmie Johnson made it all better.  Now, it's time to soak in some aloe as our sunscreen didn't work at all.  I look like .




Edited by MillsLayne - June 28 2015 at 22:02

Nicely timed pic that.

I need to catch up on my Indycar racing, I still haven't seen Texas and Toronto yet.

How many races are there left?

Great race from Fontana yesterday but you could sense that these cars are on the edge of disaster. Four wide passing with indycars is wonderful to watch on a high banked oval, however, I'm torn over this dilemma with driver safety.