The Motorsport Thread 2014

sleeper wrote: More IndyCar this weekend from Belle Isle Detroit, the first of this years double headers so a race on Saturday and Sunday.

I was very excited to see Helio win round 2 today from Detroit!  It almost made up for Jimmie winning for the second straight week in Dover, along with my drivers having issues.

sleeper wrote: I hear hypnotisim works wonders! Montreal would be brilliant, more often than not you get a very good race from that track, though it's hard to imagine any future race would top 2011.

Agreed.  Probably my favorite Jenson Button victory.

I want to make a trip to Austin for F1 as well, or better yet, Montreal for the Canadian GP.  I've always wanted to go there.  Just have to convince the wife now, a non-race fan. 

I'd like to see the Indy 500 IRL some day. 

Edited by JJLehto - May 25 2014 at 21:55

Looks like Kurt Busch will come up a little short tonight trying to get to 1100 miles due to possible engine problems in the Cup race.  Bummer...

EDIT: And there it is.  Got past 900 miles, at least.


Edited by MillsLayne - May 25 2014 at 20:10

Yes, it was, and a fantastic finish!  I was fine with whoever was going to win once Dixon dropped out, but Hinch and Bell really screwed Carpenter over with their moves on that restart with about 25 to go.  Kurt Busch impressed the hell out of me today, too, with his 6th place finish.  Very patient, methodical top 10 from him.  Now only 600 miles to go.

JJLehto wrote: Congrats to RHR on winning the Indy 500!  After 500 miles just barely edges out Helio, gotta love it.  Really fast race going like 160 laps I think without a yellow. Gotta feel for Hinch who seems to get crashed out of every race.  Good results for Marco grabbing 3rd, Munoz and JPM in 4th and 5th, nascar's Kurt Busch gets 6th and good ol Sebastian Bourdais finishes in the top 10.  Appears Power was a bit down there, so RHR should take the title lead I believe? Great racing day as usual, stoked about the Nico, RHR wins.  I won't catch the coke 600 but would be nice to see either Dale Jr of Tony Stewart take it and make me a beyond happy race fan.

Great to see ryan hunter reay win the 500, he certaintly earned it. Helio and marco also were fantastic. Was hoping that graham was going to have a better run, but he had car troubles for the millionth time it seems.
Unfortunate for hinch and ed, but i'd say it was james fault. Making it three wide into a turn doesn't work at
indy.

Also worth mentioning the good run hildebrand had early in the race.

Quite the eventful race, and a really good run from Bianchi to get some points, they're ahead of Sauber now.

Well, despite Nico leading every lap, it was a pretty interesting Monaco GP with some interesting storylines.  Also, Jenson scored a 6th place finish!  Almost feels like a podium!  Besides Nico, though, the biggest winner of the race has to be Jules Bianchi and Marussia scoring their first ever points with a 9th place finish (even with 2 penalties).  And a driver I'm really starting to like is Daniel Ricciardo.  Maybe I'm a little late to the party, but he just seems like a cool guy and he seems happy no matter what and he's definitely a rising star in F1, even overtaking his 4-time champion teammate in the points today.  As for Lewis Hamilton, I'm not sure what to think of him anymore, but there definitely is some bad blood between he and Rosberg.  If you noticed in the post race celebrations, they didn't even make eye contact with one another and Lewis' podium interview was short and awkward.

We'll see by the first turn or couple of laps.  Should be good, though.  I'm glad Nico's pole was upheld after the controversy concerning the end of Q3.  Seems like some bad blood is brewing between those two, for sure.


Edited by MillsLayne - May 24 2014 at 18:56