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« on: May 02, 2009, 07:05:26 pm »
And Piquet.
And Kovaleinen.
Both are being immensely outclassed by their teams mates consistently. Are they talented? Who knows. Are they working in their current teams? Hell no.
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« on: March 27, 2009, 12:52:44 pm »
+ slicks are back. Yeah I think we already covered the slicks, aero changes including moveable front wings (2 adjustments per lap) etc etc before last years season even finished. I was talking about new developments and controversies that arose in the last few weeks.
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« on: March 27, 2009, 01:12:39 am »
What do you mean by that? Pretty much what Baffled said, but with better grammar, spelling, and coherency lol: Senna didnt his seat yet... barichello still driving for honda. Oh to dream... Bruno Senna (Ayrton's Nephew) was expected to get Barrichello's seat at Honda if they got rescued. Honda made it, but Senna did not. Of course, in other news, there's been all sorts of hooplah about the points system being changed to "most wins gets the championship" behind the teams back, then changed back again because it was too close to the season start and therefore illegal of the FIA to pull shit like that. They did however (so far) pull some stupid 30mil budget cap rule for next year: but teams don't have to comply - the teams that do stay below 30mil have more relaxed technical rules, but teams that go over the budget have more restrictions: basically two different sets of rules for the cars specs. What the fuck are the head FIA guys smoking? Seriously. Than we come to McLaren and Renault threatening Bernie that they wouldn't come to OZ unless he paid them some TV money he owed them or something, so he said he would cancel their cargo plane for their cars etc to save $$, and they backed down. He went on record saying "If you're going to put a gun to my head, you better be prepared to pull the fucking trigger. Watch your backs"... And of course the expected diffuser protests - most teams are questioning the legality of Brawns, Williams, and Toyota's (I think) rear diffusers. Oh yay. I think that covers most developments for any F1 fan that has been held hostage in a dark cave for the last few weeks.
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« on: March 07, 2009, 06:35:53 pm »
Well, Brazilians will have to wait another year to jerk each other off over the Senna name being raced in F1 again. I'd say Brawn is taking the safe route, he knows these guys, knows they can perform, and they have the experience to help develop the car as fast as possible to catch up. He probably wants consistency and no surprises while getting this "new" team running. Plus he may have made promises to Reubens. Who really knows.
Having said that, they're not potentially as far behind as people are making out - they were the first to start developing this years car last year, and have still been developing while waiting to be sold. They've only missed out on a couple of four day tests, and Force India, Torro Rosso, etc have only done a couple of days each if that. It's not a mountain to climb.
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« on: March 07, 2009, 04:13:21 pm »
What? Where did you get that idea? The only comeback Schuey is planning on making is on his wife. He's still just collecting a Ferrari paycheck by following them around to a few tests etc and being an "advisor".
Brawn's keeping Button and Barrichello as drivers.
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« on: March 07, 2009, 11:29:51 am »
Well, Honda have sold to Ross Brawn & co, so they made it to 2009. Good on them, I hope they go well. Check out http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?id=45216 for more info if you want. They're now called Brawn GP or something (lol), or BGP. This suggests to me that Ross Brawn not only facilitated the deal through sponsorship, but actually put a fair bit of his own money into it. The car they worked on all last year (but have only tested yesterday): 
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« on: March 03, 2009, 07:54:31 pm »
Shasta, I agree with you, people that sign up ONLY to sell stuff are assholes.
But right now, you're being the asshole. If he was just selling stuff, he would have of given up and gone to TradeMe, rather than make an effort to post here. I don't see why you keep going on and on and on about this kind of stuff. Maybe you're trolling, and if you are then you're doing well. But if you aren't, you're just being a cock. He may be like me, and he likes to read about things that others do, because we ourselves can't do it. Hell, I even lurk on UG, and I've read enough stuff to even give some advice, and I've never built a guitar before. Bleach may just have been reading up on some stuff, and just happened to have some old gear lying around. Wow, an opinion from someone with less posts than the community leech we are discussing. Facepalm. Have you ever tried to sell stuff? Of COURSE he'd make a couple of extra posts when he's getting called out - it's to make idiots like you think he's actually part of the community, or trying to be. He doesn't give a fuck, he just wants to sell his shit and will do whatever he feels he must to keep his threads from being deleted. And do you REALLY think he took those pics, or those are his rigs? REALLY?
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« on: March 03, 2009, 07:16:05 pm »
Give him a fucking break ffs No. People that sign up to a gaming forum just to sell their shit off to the community members there are shitheads. We've been over this several times, and in each case, that person is banned and their threads removed - so I'm clearly not the only one that feels that way. This guy had 7 posts, all of them in the for sale section, and two different threads selling his shit. Tardme is for joining up and selling shit, ICONZ is for gaming where it MEMBERS may also use the for sale section - it's not there for people to join just to use the for sale section. And I quoted the pics because they look like he just got some random pics from the net, and claimed they were pic of his rig. I wanted to preserve the retardation from him editing it away once busted.
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« on: March 03, 2009, 06:49:26 pm »
Apparantly I wasnt contributing much to Iconz forums and just using the BST. So this is my attempt at integrating.
Pics are newest to oldest of my PC's.
 Seriously? You don't get it. Spamming a few random pics is not contributing to the community. You're not fooling anyone, and are only here to sell your stuff / abuse the for sale section. This is a piss-poor attempt at adding a few posts to your count while you try and flog off your crap in you two sale threads. Go back to tardme.
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« on: December 23, 2008, 08:31:01 pm »
Bernie Ecclestone's idea to make the F1 championship decided not by point but by medal tally sounds fucking fantastic, i hope this proposal goes through, will make for much more exciting racing.
Link for those of you who havent been keeping up with f1 goss.
http://formula1.com/news/interviews/2008/12/8775.html You're way behind the times: Well, even though F1 is currently in it's off season phase, there is plenty going on to keep in touch with. For those of you F1 fans living under rocks, or missing the point of your internet connections:
Honda is OUT of F1, and is trying to sell up its F1 program.
http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?id=44707
Hockenheim seems to be joining Canada and China in dropping out of F1, or threatening to:
http://www.itv-f1.com/news_article.aspx?id=44690
The stupid looking 2009 wings have begun to make their way into testing - hopefully they at least help make the racing closer...
Other news:
Alonso has joined Ferrari in threatening to quit F1 if the engine rules dreamed up in Max Mosley's ass come into effect.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/7761669.stm
Ferraris side:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/7694009.stm
Bernie Ecclestone says 2009 season will be scored with gold, silver and bronze medals ONLY in drivers championship.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7749751.stm
Mark Webber breaks his leg during a cycle race
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7743308.stm
Berger sells his share of Torro Rosso to Red Bull owner Mateschitz
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7749003.stm
Bernie Ecclestone faces costly divorce.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7740348.stm
Brundle, Coulthard, Jordan join BBC F1 team.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7745347.stm Also formula1.com is owned by the FIA - so it's biased and you wont get any F1 goss they don't want you to know. And the medals thing is stupid. Most golds wins championship: So for the likes of Lewis & Kimi etc, silver means stuff all unless they all have the exact same amount of golds at the end of the year. Whoopty woo. And what about the rest of the field - they fly around the world every couple of weeks, and get 4th or something, and no recognition? Piss on that. The midfield battles can be just as exciting as the lead ones, and they deserve to get something for it. Bernie is a doddering old fool who is all about money and crackpot ideas that seep into his head. Next he'll say that all teams cars must have yellow on them because it looks good on TV. Well Bernie, your stupid podium music after the Anthems is boring on TV, and not keeping with the times. Do something about that instead.
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« on: December 05, 2008, 07:26:44 pm »
Well, even though F1 is currently in it's off season phase, there is plenty going on to keep in touch with. For those of you F1 fans living under rocks, or missing the point of your internet connections: Honda is OUT of F1, and is trying to sell up its F1 program. http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?id=44707Hockenheim seems to be joining Canada and China in dropping out of F1, or threatening to: http://www.itv-f1.com/news_article.aspx?id=44690The stupid looking 2009 wings have begun to make their way into testing - hopefully they at least help make the racing closer...   Other news: Alonso has joined Ferrari in threatening to quit F1 if the engine rules dreamed up in Max Mosley's ass come into effect. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/7761669.stmFerraris side: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/7694009.stmBernie Ecclestone says 2009 season will be scored with gold, silver and bronze medals ONLY in drivers championship. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7749751.stmMark Webber breaks his leg during a cycle race http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7743308.stmBerger sells his share of Torro Rosso to Red Bull owner Mateschitz http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7749003.stmBernie Ecclestone faces costly divorce. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7740348.stmBrundle, Coulthard, Jordan join BBC F1 team. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7745347.stm
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« on: November 05, 2008, 08:29:59 pm »
Eh, the commentary team I listened too on Channel 10 said that he had. :S. Ahh, so the COMMENTARY TEAM knows more than Toyota and Glock? Well, that's all the proof I need. /sarcasm
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« on: November 05, 2008, 08:28:29 pm »
It's an excellent observation and a considered analysis. If you look at his results this year, it seems to bear out:
Pole-Finish
AUS: 4-ret
MSA: 1-ret
BAH: 2-1 (overtook Kubrica)
SPN: 3-2
TUR: 1-1
MON: 1-3
CAN: 6-5
FRA: 2-1 (overtook Raikonnen)
GBR: 9-13
GER: 2-3
HUN: 3-ret (17th)
EUR: 1-1
BEL: 2-1 (Hamilton was awarded a 25 sec penalty)
ITA: 6-6
SIN: 1-13 (drive through penalty)
JAP: 5-7
CHI: 3-2 (overtook Raikonnen)
BRA: 1-1
Apart from Bahrain (when he got by a developing and unconfident BMW), the only times he won when not on poll was when he was allowed through by Raikonnen or the stewards.
You forgot to add that when he "overtook" Raikkonen in China, he was actually let past to gain max championship points, and when he got past Kimi in France, it was because pieces were literally falling off Kimi's car and engine - but in both cases, Kimi was a long way up the road before something happened to allow Massa through. Hamilton has a different problem, but more potential. He is fast, and can certainly race, but makes poor judgement calls and often pushes too hard at the wrong times. Then of course there are the bizarre call coming from the stewards...
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« on: November 05, 2008, 01:23:15 am »
He won more races than anyone else this year, and you can't do that by accident. Sure you can. Massa proved it this year. Sure, he's fast, but he's not a racer. If you can qualify on the front row, and your rivals have problems (some created by themselves, some created by Max & Bernies obsession with tampering with the results) then you can scamper off from the start and not actually have to race anyone. Which is exactly what he did each and every time. He's a great qualifying driver - and he races each lap in the race as a qualifying lap. The problem is, if he doesn't qualify well and has other actual cars around him, he's stuffed. He can't pass them, and often they can pass him. Or he gets flustered and stacks the car. And then there are his Brazilian emotions that usually get the better of him, although he has calmed those a little lately. He's a fast quali/test driver that got extremely lucky this year - Kimi sucked, Lewis made a few silly errors, Kubica's team started developing next years car early, Alonso's car sucked most of the year, and the FIA made some stupid calls against his rivals, and declined to make calls against him that should have been made.
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« on: November 04, 2008, 05:08:48 pm »
He's just won the Brazilian GP in the rain Rofl. If that was a "rain" race, I'm peter pan. They started on a damp track, that dried quickly, and had a small shower a handful of laps from the end. Puuuh-leease. A rain race is like Silverstone was. In fact, the only time during the Brazilian race that it actually rained, was about the time Massa crossed the line to END the race. The fact that it is such a big deal that Massa didn't smash into the wall during the handful of laps that the track had water on it, really says it all. Massa has STILL only won from the front row of the grid. Why? Because he can't RACE others. Sure, he's fast on a track by himself, but when he has to pass someone...well, I'm sure even Massa fans know how that ends.
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« on: October 28, 2008, 11:13:12 am »
Oh FSS. Those old twats Bernie and Max should be shot. They have past their use-by date LONG ago. They've completely lost touch with F1 and it's spirit, and are trying to micro-manage everything instead of just running a racing league like they used to.
F1 is one of the only racing series I can think of where the teams must actually research, develop and build their own cars. All of this standardisation is a load of shit - and Bernie & Max are only thinking like accounts now, rather than F1 fans or bosses. They are trying to make "a" racing series cost effective, rather than working out ways to make FORMULA 1 more economically viable. They are sterilising it into just another "everyone buys and runs pretty much the same shit" series. Sure, reel in the spending, but not at the cost of the very essence of the sport.
I enjoy following the technical challenges and breakthroughs as much as the racing, seeing teams come up and go down the grid due to upgrades and such, and knowing that a team that is shit at the start of a season (Renault) can really work hard and develop stuff to bring them back up. I like seeing the poorer teams beat the leaders in bizarre races, and reading about how team X has developed part X to try and get in front etc. You don't get that often in indy cars, A1, V8's etc etc etc. F1 is FAST heading towards being just another one of those.
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« on: October 23, 2008, 02:16:49 pm »
Agreed about the team orders thing. Shumacher and Barrichello were penalised for doing the exact same thing - swapping positions so that the other could get more points for the championship - and were penalised for it. Where they went wrong, the reason they were penalised etc, and the difference between then and the GP just gone, is that they did it in front of the chequered flag, wheras Kimi and Mr Craptastic did it not long after the last round of pit-stops with many laps to go.
It's going to happen, it makes sense to happen: just don't pull the fingers to the fans while you do it by tweaking the race results meters before the flag. It's like someone sleeping with your sister - it's going to happen, you're OK with it as long as the guy doesn't jump up in down in front of your face screaming "I fucked your sister!".
Besides, the stewards have the job of making the race results bullshit well under contol this year.
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« on: September 29, 2008, 05:21:49 pm »
FFS I hate this..!!!
I agree again - stupid internets.
However - let's play Devils Advocate.
How big is the TV audience in Europe? How big is it in Asia/Pacific (not the potential - how big is it ACTUALLY?)
Where are the major sponsors based?
If the TV audience down here gets to be as large as in Europe and more companies from this region sponsor the teams/F1 then that will help them put the races on at a decent time for us. Lol - I'm not just talking about Asia / Pacific. Or do you think that Asia / Pacific is "the rest of the world"? I never said that he should arrange things for US down here, I know we are just small-fry, but he needs to think about places and people beyond the smog of Britain. My point was that Europe is not the only place & timezone on the planet, yet Bernie wants to organize F1 SOLELY around that timezone. Once again: Europe = 1 part of the world. Planet = large thing we live on. People - live all over the planet. Not just in Europe. There are places bigger than Europe, and people with money that like motorsports live there too. Wanting a global audience = not just gearing it optimally for one timezone. It's so tiring having to explain the simple things...
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« on: September 29, 2008, 02:31:42 pm »
Yep, Bernie & co need to go. They were good, now they're getting senile it seems. Amongst their other stupid ideas, decisions and rulings these days (by them and their appointed representatives etc of course) is one of the biggest points of fail: they want F1 to be (and already is) a global sport right? Makes sense - so WHY oh WHY does Bernie Piddlestone insist upon the small handful of races in OUR timezone (singapore, malaysia, oz etc) becoming night races - in his own words "because it's just uncivilized that people watching in England have to get up at 2am to watch those races". W T F. There is an entire rest of the planet Bernie, and if you want F1 to increase in following globally, you need to think about them too, not just Europe. I don't complain about having to get up for most of the races, but FFS don't actually go out of your way to suit one small corner of the globe only. The night race was good, and I'd like to see say nurburgring at night etc. Don't limit it to just pacific timezones. Dick.
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« on: September 29, 2008, 03:34:50 am »
Well another disappointing race from Kimi, I've almost lost all faith in him. I'm sure he hasn't lost his talent, he just doesn't seem to give a shit about F1 anymore.
I have to thank Massa though, I got several huge laughs from that wannabe during the race. Sure, the pit incident didn't seem to be his fault, but it was funny all the same. The penalty for the unsafe release was a bit or karma kicking them in the arse, and there was no way they were going to get let off with that one - it was RIGHT in the path of Sutil (again) and with a long hose to boot. Hilarious stuff. Poor pit guy though. Then his total lack of anything left was not surprising, and he ended the race with his usual off track antics and even hitting the wall. There's the Massa we can rely on. He's still only won from the front row (all poles except 1) and by getting to the second corner first. That's not a racer, that's a guy doing 1 1/2 hours of qualifying laps. Real racers can pass people, and stop them from passing you.
/Massa is a huge fraud rant
A real shame about Kubica & co - that pit lane closed rule has got to go.
Good to see someone else sharing the victories this year, even if it is spiteful Alonso. I was hoping for Kubica or even Trulli / Rosberg, but oh well. Hell, with Massa out of the picture and Hamilton not doing too well during the race, even Kimi had a chance to almost claw his way back to around 10 point from the championship lead - even 3/4 through the race.
At the end of the day, the race was entertaining.
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« on: September 25, 2008, 08:17:42 pm »
Theyre supposed to wait til after the corner after the incident... eg after the corner at the end of the straight.
But i think they really only clarified this after the race (which is why everyone was being so careful at monza in the last race)
However as has been said... the race director told him twice it was ok... At the time Hamilton made the move there WAS no "wait til after the next corner" rule. So you can't say "They're supposed to wait til after the corner after the incident" etc - because up until after that race, they were NOT supposed to wait until the next corner at all. They simply added that rule before Monza to ensure that no advantage of momentum etc could be carried from a failed move into the following corner. Hamilton followed the letter of the rules at Spa AS THEY WERE written until they were modified after his incident. Monza was the first race held using this NEW rule. The clarified rule is a good idea. The way Hamilton had his win taken from him, or that he was even penalised at all, and that the result was changed hours after the race, are all bad. And wrong.
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« on: September 24, 2008, 03:43:51 am »
Aaaaaaaaaaand what did I tell ya: http://www.itv-f1.com/News_Article.aspx?id=44040FIA rejects Spa appeal as inadmissible
Lewis Hamilton has failed in his bid to have his Belgian Grand Prix victory restored after the FIA judges declared that McLaren's appeal against his penalty was 'inadmissible'. They avoided having to take sides - or avoided changing the result of a race for the second time after the race had ended - by declaring that the penalty was not allowed to be appealed.
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« on: September 23, 2008, 10:44:10 pm »
Hoohah!!! Vettel gets Coulthards Red Bull car next year!! Err... old news is old. The FIA is deliberating over Hamiltons Spa penalty .... it would be just and right if they reversed it!!
There ... I said it!! And me a Ferrari fan ,..... who would have thought!:eek: Yep, they should reverse it - but they wont. They'll decide the sport has lost enough credibility by changing the result after the race that it would be even worse to change it back 2 weeks later. I'd even go so far as to say they'll decide that the penalty they applied (it comes under a drivethrough - less than 3 laps from the end a drivethrough becomes 25 sec added to race time) is not able to be appealed. Yes they're hearing the case, but they haven't even decided if they're allowed to do anything about it. That way they don't have to back McLaren or go against them. They can just claim they're unable to intervene.
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« on: September 08, 2008, 04:47:34 pm »
What a joke. I back Kimi, but not Ferrari. Very disappointing that he screwed up so close to an important victory for him. I don't usually watch the podium ceremony etc, so what a load of shit that the result I saw on TV was not the end result. There was no mention of an investigation by the time Hamilton got out of his car and I turned the TV off. The incident was a typical "overshoot the corner in a failed passing attempt and run off the road". As long as he immediately let Kimi back in front - which he did - there is no further action required. It happens ALL the time. Any penalty being given at all for that is a joke, and the result being changed after the race is a joke.
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« on: August 05, 2008, 06:14:46 pm »
Yeah, I've been a Raikkonnen fan since he started, but he's pretty lazy and only performs when he feels like it. He often only gets up 20 mins before he has to be in the car. He loses motivation really easily. I think he's got to the point where he has a championship now, heaps of money, and I think he just wants to go spend it and party now etc. I think after his contract expires next year he'll quit F1, unless something drastic happens like he starts kicking arse in every race with ease. As soon as something bad happens to him he pretty much gives up.
The rumours are that Alonso is up for his seat when he goes, and Ferrari don't seem to care about his prima donna attitude, so wait and see I guess.
2009 is pretty much a reset button for everyone, as the rules - especially the aero rules and the KERS devices - are so different that literally anyone could be up the top, as the cars are virtually a clean slate.
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