The Motorsport Thread 2014

So they finally got the 500 going, last I saw off it the track was waterlogged.

F1's second test finished on Saturday in Bahrain. Rosberg was fastest for the week, less than a second from his poll lap from last year, and with more pace expected to come, completely blowing out of the water the myth that these cars were going to be slower than GP2 (unless you have a Renault engine, in which case your f**ked). I'm going to say it now, Vettel will not be champion, at this point it's going to be a real challenge for Red Bull to reach the end of races.

I'd say the fight will be between McLaren and Mercedes for the title, though I don't think Ferrari have pushed on for lap times yet so who knows where they will be. Williams are looking very good as well, they're so far along with their development program that they're even doing pitstop practice, most other teams could only dream of being in that position. 

Yeah, twas a good race.  Would've preferred Gordon or Kyle Busch, but oh well.  Jr. seemed pretty happy after that one. 

Congrats to Dale Jr!! 

Edited by JJLehto - February 23 2014 at 22:55

Hopefully someone hits the track dryer again.

Austin Dillon grabbed the pole today for next Sunday's Daytona 500, with Martin Truex, Jr. (now in the 78) starting on the outside pole.  I think he's the 5th rookie to get the pole for the 500, too.  I just hope we don't have to hear about the fabled "3" all week now, but I'm sure we will.  Anyway, those two are locked into their respective spots (barring a crash or something in the Duels on Thursday), while everyone else has to race on Thursday to determine where they start.

Massa ended the last day fastest for Williams, whilst Mercedes were the first team to start running race simulations. In terms of preparation I think Merc are miles ahead of everyone. Red Bull completed a grand total of 21 laps for the four days, whilst McLaren, Mercedes and Ferrari all did over 100 laps today alone. I've read a lot of comments about cars getting sideways under power out of corners, I think we could be in for a wild start to the season. 

Lol...not surpised. I can't seem to post links on this website anymore. I can very easily on JMA (and facebook and the like)...silly PA...

But yes indeed. It was the wreck. Made the front page of MSN.com when it happened. Only thing that alerted me to the 24 hours happening. Thanks for the 24 hour news as well.


Interesting thing with the Red bull. Too early, I think, to really be worried for them. And at least Ferrari seems to be starting on the right foot this year. We shall see how long that lasts.

Also, once again I've missed the 24 hours of Daytona. Didn't even see it listed on Foxsports 1. Anyway, don't know who won but this made the internet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnKZE7YAeh4

JJLehto wrote: Great to see Kam back!! Crap team but better than nothing. Also I read doctors are starting the process of lifting Schumacher's coma.

First day of testing, very unreliable. Kimi got the most laps in at 31 (though he did only make it to turn 5 on his first lap) but a lot of teams only did a handful. Mercedes were looking very good until Hamilton had a front wing failure that put him into the turn1 barrier. McLaren didn't go out at all, Red Bull only put in a couple of instillation laps at the very end of the day, Caterham only did 1 lap in what is probably the ugliest car I've ever seen and Lotus wont turn up until Bahrain testing in a couple weeks.