The Motorsport Thread 2014

Rubens was never such a bitch about things! 

Indeed. 

Yeah I flat out forgot, couldn't even record. This DVR is nice though, I may just record every Indy race pre emptively and get to it on my own time :D

Certainly an intriguing guy to pick!

I'm also having a Jenson Button shirt made with the McLaren F1 logo on the front and then a '22' and 'Button' on the back since all of the shirts I found for him are kind of lame.  Too much in the way of the McLaren team and not enough Button. 

I'll admit, I didn't know much about James Hunt before Rush came out, but since then, I've watched numerous documentaries on F1 in the '70's and have read up on him and Lauda specifically, and I've been a pretty big fan of his since.  Probably him, Button, Lauda and Raikonnen being my favorites.  I know Hunt only won 10 races and 1 championship, but the fact that he was admired and respected by someone of Niki Lauda's caliber says something.  Also, had McLaren's cars been more competitive after '76, he may have been in the running for more championships, but unfortunately, the timing just wasn't there other than that one season.

Button? Weak

Edited by JJLehto - April 03 2014 at 10:35

sleeper wrote: Mills, have you seen the  3 documentaries on Graham Hill, Jackie Stewart and Jim Clarke from a few years ago, they were made by Mark Stewart (Jackie's son), they're brilliant and show the three champions off brilliantly.

I haven't, but I've heard great things about the Jackie Stewart one (I didn't know about the other two).  They'll be on my list of things to watch now. 

There is a documentary I recently watched on YouTube called Champions Forever: The Formula One Drivers, although I think it was originally titled The Quick And The Dead.  It's broken up into two parts, but it focuses on Jackie Stewart, Francois Cevert, Peter Revson and some others.  It came out some time in the 70's and is narrated by Stacy Keach.  Not a bad documentary.

Practice times from Bahrain, I think it's pretty obvious which team is going to win this one. Should be interesting as it's going to be a night race.

Pos Driver                Team                      Time      Gap     Laps
 1. Lewis Hamilton        Mercedes                  1m34.325s          28
 2. Nico Rosberg          Mercedes                  1m34.690s  +0.365  31
 3. Fernando Alonso       Ferrari                   1m35.360s  +1.035  28
 4. Daniel Ricciardo      Red Bull-Renault          1m35.433s  +1.108  28
 5. Felipe Massa          Williams-Mercedes         1m35.442s  +1.117  13
 6. Jenson Button         McLaren-Mercedes          1m35.528s  +1.203  21
 7. Sebastian Vettel      Red Bull-Renault          1m35.606s  +1.281  29
 8. Daniil Kvyat          Toro Rosso-Renault        1m35.640s  +1.315  31
 9. Kevin Magnussen       McLaren-Mercedes          1m35.662s  +1.337  22
10. Sergio Perez          Force India-Mercedes      1m35.802s  +1.477  40
11. Valtteri Bottas       Williams-Mercedes         1m35.920s  +1.595   9 
12. Jean-Eric Vergne      Toro Rosso-Renault        1m35.972s  +1.647  32
13. Nico Hulkenberg       Force India-Mercedes      1m35.998s  +1.673  18
14. Kimi Raikkonen        Ferrari                   1m36.366s  +2.041  32
15. Adrian Sutil          Sauber-Ferrari            1m36.962s  +2.637  13
16. Esteban Gutierrez     Sauber-Ferrari            1m36.975s  +2.650  35
17. Pastor Maldonado      Lotus-Renault             1m37.259s  +2.934  24
18. Romain Grosjean       Lotus-Renault             1m37.599s  +3.274  23
19. Jules Bianchi         Marussia-Ferrari          1m37.800s  +3.475  15
20. Max Chilton           Marussia-Ferrari          1m38.247s  +3.922  10
21. Kamui Kobayashi       Caterham-Renault          1m38.257s  +3.932  33
22. Marcus Ericsson       Caterham-Renault          1m39.136s  +4.811  30

Man With Hat wrote: Not much news, and not much progress but a slight positive sign: http://news.msn.com/world/manager-schumacher-has-moments-of-consciousness

Chris S wrote: Man With Hat wrote: Not much news, and not much progress but a slight positive sign: http://news.msn.com/world/manager-schumacher-has-moments-of-consciousness I was just about to post and say what an earth is going on re Schumaker......it must be awful for his family. Without sounding negative I wonder how much they are clearly not disclosing?

Given the extent of the brain injuries he received I don't think it's a surprise that he's taking a long time to wake up so short of giving us detailed medical readouts that most of us wouldn't understand, I don't think there's anything they haven't disclosed, though the family is deliberately keeping information to notable changes to avoid the place becoming a media circus. Lets face it, red top journalists are shameless pieces of trash that would do anything for a story.

Of more interest is the article Dr Gary Hartstein (former F1 doctor) wrote a few weeks ago condemning the Grenoble hospital for mis-handling Schumachers treatment, I wonder what he'd be referring to specifically?