F1 looking closer

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Originally Posted by MarkB

yeah it was good Rosberg won and yeah a few over took but it's mostly a follow my leader thing and will never be a patch on bike racing, besides MotoGP bikes a quicker...

In 2004, Mr V Rossi lapped the Sepang circuit in qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix in the very quick time of 2:01 (dry), that's 2 mins and 1 sec. In the same year a Mr M Schumacher lapped the same circuit in the death defying time of 1 minute and 33seconds. This is a full 75% of the time a motorcycle takes. Or put another way; a F1 car can do 4 laps in the time a MotoGP cycles can do only 3.
So, that ends that.
Gav.
P.S. Cars are also fast at top speeds, ref Thrust SSC
Cars are faster accelerators, ref drag racing.
Cars are faster round circuits, ref F1 v MotoGP times.

Bob

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Well done Williams .Nice pressy for franks 70th. That win has pissed on a few teams fireworks

Bob

[Davey]

Cracking race, this season is just getting better and better. Brilliant drive by Maldonado and great to see Alonso being among the first to congratulate him. Also good to see Hamilton showing respect to Fank. Can it possibly get any more exciting?

D.

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Monaco , what a place. Old man schuey showing how its done. That will be some race.


Bob

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That was some race. Those boys earn their money at places like monaco. I cant get my head round the fact they bash so many perfect laps in for two hours. mm perfect.

Bob

[rpjg1975]

Definitely a hell of a circuit. As they said on top gear a couple of series ago, its one of those circuits you could pick up and put in the middle of a field somewhere without the harbour or the scenery and it would still be a great one with the closeness of the barriers and the 'can't get away with anything' lack of run off space.

Don't know if you have already seen it but on the senna film there is footage of him driving monaco, that is truly mesmerising to watch. Seems so much quicker if that is possible especially with all the gear changes etc as well.

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Well how about that? seven different winners!

Bob

[Davey]

yup its all still to play for. Got me portable dish set up as its another race that the Beeb are only showing highlights later. So we've got pictures live via German channel RTL and commentary live via BBC R5 live? Well not quite, for the first half hour of the race R5 was giving extended coverage of some boring cricket match YAWN! 7.30 they went over to the F1, 7.45 I fell alseep due to a combination of not being very well for the last couple of days and not sleeping well because of it, a HUGE roast pork sunday lunch and a quantity of brown falling down water. Resurfaced in time for the last ten laps or so.

Its still an interesting season, D.

[rpjg1975]

I'll second that. Only thing that annoys me sometimes is the drivvel that comes from the commentators and that pillock they have got in the pits now. Plenty of awards for stating the bleeding obvious!

[HandyAndy]

That was a great race

Lewis seems to be so more focused this season from last season, even tho its his first win of this season he,s now leading the championship ( by only 2 points ) but his consistant points scoring has got him there,

Nice to see 2 new upcoming drivers on the podium too , Perez was driving like Hamilton in his first season

great race & a great season so far