A1 GP Rocks!!

[nikimere]

If anyone watched today's race you'll agree i'm sure!! (unless your swiss :schwitz:)

[Leifde]

Yeh, it was a good race today, lots of trying to overtake but not quite doing it.

Bad if you're british too, 2nd in the sprint race then a DNF in the main. :(

[axus]

The South Africans (I'm proudly not one - I'm Bulgarian) could have made a better track though - it didn't have any actual corner sequences but was simply straight, corner, straight, corner, straight, corner, straight, corner etc etc.

[JeeP]

JOS VERSTAPPEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :thumb:


my hero :shy:

[ChristijaNL]

Saw more action this single race then in the last couple of years of F1.

That guy from Libanon cant drive, but its nice to make a bet which lap he will crash:D

[TagForce]

JOS VERSTAPPEN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :thumb:


my hero :shy:

Funny how in about an hour and a half, a driver can go from zero to hero...
He should never have stuck it on the outside in the sprint race, and I cursed him for that stupid move... Then in the feature, he did the same thing at the same spot at the same lap (the final one), and pulled it off, and guess what? It was a brilliant move now :P

[TagForce]

Track sucked though...
It's a silly excuse for a circuit, even a street one.
The only wide spaces are completely useless because they give you no opportunity to overtake, and the places that allow overtaking end up in a bottleneck making every attempt at passing overly risky.

Sole exception being the hairpin at the end of the s/f straight.

The race was eventful, I'll give them that. But being held up by team Lebanon, because blocking here only takes about 10cm of deviating from your line, has to be something nobody likes very much.

Next season they should go to Kyalami or Welkom in SA, and add a different street circuit to the calendar. I've always been a fan of Long Beach for some reason.

[Niels Heusinkveld]

If they do Kyalami next year it'll be even better :)

[no_one]

Track sucked though...
It's a silly excuse for a circuit, even a street one.
The only wide spaces are completely useless because they give you no opportunity to overtake, and the places that allow overtaking end up in a bottleneck making every attempt at passing overly risky.

Sole exception being the hairpin at the end of the s/f straight.

The race was eventful, I'll give them that. But being held up by team Lebanon, because blocking here only takes about 10cm of deviating from your line, has to be something nobody likes very much.

Next season they should go to Kyalami or Welkom in SA, and add a different street circuit to the calendar. I've always been a fan of Long Beach for some reason.

I don't think that the Lebanise driver was that much of a roadblock. Most everyone got past him or collided with him eventually. Either way good entertainment ;)

What I wanna know is why the swiss team was so slow on the last lap/how did Jos get past them so easily?

[deggis]

No team Finland in A1 GP. :shrug:

[TagForce]

I don't think that the Lebanise driver was that much of a roadblock. Most everyone got past him or collided with him eventually. Either way good entertainment ;)

What I wanna know is why the swiss team was so slow on the last lap/how did Jos get past them so easily?

According to Neil his brakes were gone... So he had to slow down earlier to make the turns.

[RMachucaA]

Quote:
Originally Posted by no_one
I don't think that the Lebanise driver was that much of a roadblock. Most everyone got past him or collided with him eventually. Either way good entertainment ;)

What I wanna know is why the swiss team was so slow on the last lap/how did Jos get past them so easily?


According to Neil his brakes were gone... So he had to slow down earlier to make the turns.

*In ALL the races

[bobvanvliet]

Track sucked though...
It's a silly excuse for a circuit, even a street one.
The only wide spaces are completely useless because they give you no opportunity to overtake, and the places that allow overtaking end up in a bottleneck making every attempt at passing overly risky.

Sole exception being the hairpin at the end of the s/f straight.
I don't quite agree with you there. I liked the crampt feel of it, but still there was plenty of overtaking.

About Jos... In the final lap op the feature race I was screaming "Noooo! Don't even try!!"... but then I was happy again. :D :razz:

That was the best afternoon of racing on TV I've had for a while.

[XRRoy]

it was (again) great watching, both races had plenty of action:thumb:

loads of people say that Jos ****ed up in the sprint race but i love his thinking, " hey look a there, a gap, i can fit it, hmm i'm 2nd, don't like that, i want to win, ok here i'll go" to bad that he came on the dirty side of the track and gave to much throttle but atleast he tried:D

2nd race, with a bit of luck, he even won :D :thumb:

[nikimere]

it was (again) great watching, both races had plenty of action:thumb:

loads of people say that Jos ****ed up in the sprint race but i love his thinking, " hey look a there, a gap, i can fit it, hmm i'm 2nd, don't like that, i want to win, ok here i'll go" to bad that he came on the dirty side of the track and gave to much throttle but atleast he tried:D

2nd race, with a bit of luck, he even won :D :thumb:
exactly, its good to see drivers with balls are still at the top level of *at least one* racing series.

[bbman]

Where and when can I watch this? :Looking_a

[Highsider9]

(unless your swiss :schwitz:) Soooo Close :weeping:

[nikimere]

Soooo Close :weeping:
he he he! hard luck :)

[cgrassham]

Track sucked though...
It's a silly excuse for a circuit, even a street one.
The only wide spaces are completely useless because they give you no opportunity to overtake, and the places that allow overtaking end up in a bottleneck making every attempt at passing overly risky.

Street circuits are like that though. Monaco used to be the same, but is almost a roadcourse these days. It reminded me of the old Monaco in places in fact. It created a good impression of speed and I saw overtaking at several corners. The track was a success IMO.

[TagForce]

Street circuits are like that though. Monaco used to be the same, but is almost a roadcourse these days. It reminded me of the old Monaco in places in fact. It created a good impression of speed and I saw overtaking at several corners. The track was a success IMO.

Good point. It's not that it didn't look good on TV though. There was more overtaking in this race than in most of the F1 season combined, but that's not the point. The point is that overtaking on this track was overly risky, and that several potential overtaking spots were ruined by so-called speed-limiting chicanes. The first chicane reminded me of the Surfer's Paradise double chicane on the backstretch, but without a useful purpose. I can see how it was needed in Australia, but in South Africa the speeds at the point of the chicane were about 90mph slower. And that's the feeling I got from the track. Several good spots for overtaking ruined because the track was made single file at them. Which is a shame.

I love streetcircuits though. Including the concrete walls. Armco looks cheap in comparison. So I vote for more street circuits, but please... On bigger streets, and with less artificial chicanes/apex's.

[Tweaker]

I am hoping to take pics while I am at the A1GP race @ Laguna Seca.... I haven't ordered tickets yet, but will be soon (race is in March). :D

tis right next door :)

[axus]

Kyalami rules. There is a BMW vs Cobra club day there on the 25th - looking forward to it :). With any luck I'll get a ride in an E36 with a 3.0l M Turbo (1.4bar) when I'm there :tilt:. I think Kyalami will be perfect for A1 GP.

[bobvanvliet]

Where and when can I watch this? :Looking_a

check out http://www.a1gp.com and http://austria.a1gp.com/.

Can't imagine no-one broadcasts it in Asutria seeing that you compete in the series. But iirc there is also a live video stream on the site...:shrug:

[nikimere]

There used to be a video stream on media.a1gp.com but they removed it... :shrug:
Just to let you dutch guys know, A1 is supposed to be coming to Zandvoort in October :D not confirmed yet but it's looking good :)

[bobvanvliet]

Can I ask where you're getting that info?

(would be cool, I would go for sure!)

[nikimere]

Can I ask where you're getting that info?
;)
A dutch friend

[SamH]

I was at the first A1GP, here in the UK. Great racing, great day out. Since then, I've not caught a single race. I need a better TV package! :Looking_a

If anyone rediscovers an online stream, please please PM me!

[SamH]

I was also at the first race, in the pits with the Malaysian team. :P It was a great day, I got to meet Alex and the team and stand right next to the car as they fired it up.

Argh! You lucky ####ing ########! :x

:D

[Leifde]

I was at the first race too. How did you manage to be allowed in the pit garage? I walked down the pit lane but not in any of the garages.

[XRRoy]

if A1 will come to Zandvoort i'll be there!

the news was last or 2 weeks ago on formule1.nl btw:)

[bbman]

There's NO motorsports in austrian tv channels (besides F1 and ATV+ shows MotoGP-series, but thats all)... I am lucky to hear one little comment in daily sport news... :shrug:

But seeing that Premiere covers A1GP, it clears up quite a bit... Sh*tty pay-tv... :Kick_Can_

[topcat_inc]

here's the stream of both races :)

http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/a1gp/archive/2005/durban/a1gp_durban_encoder_1-2.wvx

[joen]

here's the stream of both races :)

http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/a1gp/archive/2005/durban/a1gp_durban_encoder_1-2.wvx

And this is the adress of the live stream during A1GP races:

http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia-live/a1gp/9663/300_a1gp-racing_051022.asx

[Leifde]

Contacts. :P I'm trying to get somewhere in motorsport.. I was invited to see how high profile teams work and run for a day and get a view from the drivers perspective rather than a spectator one. It was very kind of Alex's dad to arrange it all for me. :smileypulAny chance you could get 4 passes for me and my family? :P