The Motorsport Thread 2015

I'm very sad to hear of Bianchi's passing. I still can't help but feel that a SC would have eliminated this tragedy. There's always the backlash statement that F1 doesn't need American style cautions to stymie the race.

Edited by SteveG - July 28 2015 at 16:16

Another exciting Indycar race from Iowa tonight!  RHR gets himself back into victory lane, while the top 3 guys in points entering the night have all sorts of issues, allowing Graham Rahal to take over the 2nd position after the race.  JPM still maintains a 42 point lead, I believe, which, after his race ended tonight after 9 laps, he's probably thanking the racing gods.  Honestly, his point lead should be gone, but an issue with Dixon and then Helio's car just seemingly falling off at the end, he's able to really not lose anything.

Also, besides all the awesome battles in that race tonight, Sage Karam was a mad demon tonight and charged to a third placd finish, and he pissed Ed Carpenter right the hell off.

Wow.

Ferraris passed both Mercedes in the start, Hamilton went off track on first lap, dropped below tenth, and again later hit someone I don't remember who and had to do an extra stop, Kimi lost KERS(?) and had to quit, Nico hit Ricciardo's(?) front wing and had a puncture.

Well that is quite eventful. Sad I missed that comedy of errors from Merc. 

Vompatti wrote: Ture. Nico was second for quite a while until Ricciardo tried to pass him.

3!? WOW

Good F1 race this morning, although I would've preferred Button finishing ahead of Alonso (but that's just my JB fanboyism coming out , still happy to see double points finishes for McLaren).  What were the Merc drivers thinking today?  They both drove sloppy and have results to show for it.

And Kyle Busch won his third race in a row and fourth in the last five races and his biggest win of his career today at Indy, holding off Joey Logano in a GWC finish to secure it.  I don't know if it has anything to do with it, but if this is all because he broke his leg, then maybe that was the best thing that has happened to him, as bad as that sounds.  Gordon was screwed, in his final Brickyard start, when Bowyer spun in front of him, causing him to crash into the wall as he tried to avoid it.  Not the way I wanted his final season to go.

The Hungarian GP was so good, I watched it three times. Great to see Vettel with another win and the glimmer twins (Hamilton and Rosberg) take themselves out of contention with dumb mistakes. Did they forget that they were fighting for the title?  And kudos for a Alonso in 5th! (Without having to get out and push!)

Edited by SteveG - July 28 2015 at 16:39

It's amazing how well Rahal is doing this year, I've seen more than a few comments along the lines of "Who is this person and what has he done with Graham Rahal?", it's certainly caught everyone by surprise.