Canadian Grand Prix 2007
That’s MUCH better. After the complete and utter BOREDOM that was the Monaco grand prix, the Canadian Grand Prix delivered in spades. I seriously enjoyed this race for more than one reason. I’m a bit disappointed for Nico Rosberg, whom I think is an exceptional little driver and seriously one of the future stars of Formula One. He had it there to be much higher up there, but alas if Mclaren can get it wrong for Alonso, I think I can accept that the Williams team fucked it up for him and caused him to get a 10second stop go penalty.
However good on Wurz for coming out of friggin NOWHERE and claiming third. The guy was 20th on the bloody grid. That is a superb drive all around, no matter how fortunate you get with the safety cars etc. Speaking of safety cars, 4 of them. There was more crashes in this race then I can care to remember. Some of them were seriously lame, others like Robert Kubica’s unbelievable take off into the walls was pretty scary. Crashes on the race track are only acceptable (it’s part of racing at 320km/hr) when the guy in the cockpit gets out shakes the dust off and gets onto a motorcycle back to the paddock. Good to hear that the man got off pretty lightly with just a broken leg. Ralf never really recovered from the crash in America a few years ago.
Tomorrow however you know that all the news will be on Lewis Hamilton’s maiden victory. It’s amazing if you think about it since he’s only driven 6 F1 races in his life, so rather than wait 100 races or whatever he’s had it in the first 6. That’s pretty amazing and probably going to raise all expectations that he could be a world champion this year. The thing is and I know it’s not his fault, but I’m REALLY starting to get pissed off at the ITV coverage. They’ll spend something like 30 minutes before the race concentrating on Lewis and asking the drivers and everyone about him rather than concentrating on other aspects of the sport and other drivers. It’s really over hyping and it’s just getting annoying. Yes he’s having an exceptional debut, yes the story leading up to him getting the drive is great, but honestly how many bloody times do I have to hear it again and again.
I agree with that… fair enough that for once there’s a driver living up to the promise (they must have been _really_ disappointed with Button all those years ago), but it’s no excuse to devote the entire build up to him!
That said, it was a top race, and hope we get some more like it for the rest of the year
↓ Quote | 11/6/2007
07 season racing is so boring.
The new safety car rule spoils team’s pitstop strategy, and single tyre manufacturer rule is killing every possibility of overtaking.
Moreover, the acquiescence towards customer cars is kicking out some independent F1 teams like Williams, Spyker.
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No different than Nascar’s pre-race coverage where they take roughly an hour to get through everything before we finally see the drop of the green flag. Sadly, i don’t see F1 on very often here in the states. SPEED Channel covers it sometimes but thats only highlights :(
↓ Quote | 12/6/2007
Dustin said:
I really don’t understand the lack of penetration of F1 into the american market. I mean you guys are much much bigger petrol heads than the rest of the world. Hell I don’t even have a car and yet I watch F1 religiously. It’s soo strange.
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It could be down to there not being a large American presence in F1… only one driver who’s well down the back of the grid, and (afaik) no American teams since BAR left.
Also, the debacle of Indy a couple years ago soured a lot of people I reckon
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Well, Nascar has taken a strong hold on the motorsports market here in the states. SPEED Channel used to cover F1 often, usually showing the races on Sunday mornings here but lately, the channel is catering to all things Nascar. I would love to see more coverage of F1…not sure if that will happen though. Even the IRL/Champ Car series are nothing compared to Nascar now…
↓ Quote | 13/6/2007
In response to AJ, the PS3 recently got the newest F1 game, and i would have [nearly] killed to get it for the PS2, but again, as you said, there isn’t a very large American interest in F1 it seems though thats up to the eye of the beholder. I would love to see more, but the country as a whole, i guess not? Quite sad :(
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