barcelona thoughts

[F1 Junkie]

Would love to talk about the race but whats the point. Sooo boring. It has always been a boring track. Eddie Ervine Once said he wished he had had a stereo in his Ferrarri after following Shumi in second for 60 laps.

They must do something to that track venue. How many passes. I didnt see any.

Maybe I missed one. Ralp tried a typical Ralph pass on teammate Trulli Luckily justice was served this when he was the one getting the damage.

Fernando is just the King. What an incredible performance. Rock solid. He is a tru champion. Toying with the compettion like that and again and again dusting your teammate. And this is without a gun to your head. What if Alonso Really had to show up. Scary...

Cool wire cam. Kudos to Spannish TV not making the feed into showing a renault in the lead for 60 laps.

anybody else saw/heard anyhting woth mentioning.

Dissappointed in Montagny. The real action was in GP2. what a race. The 1 st one. lewsi Hamulton is amazing. Premat shouldnt have diven in lik ethat in the last corner. He should thank his lucky stars and career that he didnt screw it up for both. What a desperat drive by an insecure almost 10 years older Frenchy...

He sucked as Rosbergs teammate and he sucks now. Premat - go home.

[murph]

I "watched" Spain on my computer ( following live timing on the F1 site) as this race is the 2nd of the f1 races on "tape-delay" here in the States......... unfortuanately Monaco will suffer the same CBS tape-delay this weekend. I was a little surprised that Fred won so easily as I thought Bridgestone was back..... but a few degrees in increased temps helps the Michelins so much (as cooler temps aide Bridgestone.

With Barca the major winter testing site for all the teams except Ferrari ( and Ferrari still tests there alot), all the teams have pretty well figured out what to do for the race weekend weeks/months in advance.......... so that in itself is the cause of boring races here...... only when "the rain in Spain" hits Barca like in '96 do we get to see great drives there........ I am hoping for a couple of rainy race days ( except for Indy and Monza as I wil be out in the wet conditions and not warm and dry in front of the TV in the game room with quantities of Irish coffee at my side...) that will allow us to see some heroics from some very good drivers in lesser vehicles......

Fred and Fisi drove great....... I still think Fred has to be having second thoughts about going to Macaroon next year.......

ciao

[murph]

speaking of rain...here are a few pics I've taken in the "wet"

Tambay at Montreal




Ronnie in the 6-wheeler at Mosport Park



Fisi at Spa 2 years ago



"Our Nige" at Montreal



Gilles at Mosport in his Ferrari debut



Jody at speed at Watkins Glen...... Jody was the 2nd fastest during the session, he was ONLY 11 seconds slower than Gilles !!!.... who set his time when it was raining harder....



ciao Y'all