A1 Grand Prix (3 Viewers)

[Cape]

Good point. Who started the political shit. *Gives Bernie the death stare*

Maybe it had something to do with Stoddart whinging as well. Who knows.

Damn, ok, how about a ford instead? Pretty please, with a cherry on top?

 

[braad]

STODDART WILL BE GONE FOREVVVVVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

anyyyyyways bernie is yeh...a banker

i dont know, when is your b'day, i'll 20cents aside each day

 

[Cape]

My birthday is 3 days after the Australian round of A1GP! (9th of November).

I don't think 20 cents each day will be enough to buy me a Ford.

I read Stoddart might still be in F1, helping the Red Bull Minardi (or whatever the hell they call it) team.

What ever happened to those German Banks?

 

[braad]

what german banks?

and who said it the 20cents/day was for you IT WAS FOR MY ICE CREAMMMMS

RBM...sounds like a cheap rip off of RPM (although one costs more than the real thing )

stoddart is ok, but he complains about not having the finances, but is the owner...for fucks sake man! you OWN the team (now past tense, owned) so you should put more in, instead of buying $200million planes

 

[Cape]

The German banks who own 75% of F1.

I said the 20 cents was for me!

But RBM won't be <3 Webber

I'm not flying ozjet when its released in Australia. I don't trust stoddart =/

 

[braad]

ohhhhhhhhhhh...THOSE german banks....

they're silly, i dont understand their humor :s

meh <3 them, they are bankrolling F1

RBM wont be <3 webber??

 

[braad]

OH i've got something relevant to A1GP

Why the hell doesnt australia have a website?? gawd, even china and canada have one

 

[Cape]

Does the German one have a good website? I haven't been on it. I think I might rock up to the race wearing German colours like I always do

 

[braad]

yeh...wear all red for the germans *sniggers*

sorry, it was out of habit

um, yeh, although heaps dont have websites

 

[Cape]

Michael Schumacher is not the only German in the whole entire world!!

Stop being so slack!!

Why don't heaps have websites? Lazy bastards.

 

[braad]

even mexico and enzed have them

lets just claim new zealands as ours

 

[Cape]

naw!!! The Germans are lazy They don't have a website. How rude!

 

[Cape]

For this weekends race, the nominated drivers are:

A1 Team Driver 1 Driver 2

Australia Will Power; Christian Jones
Austria Mathias Lauda
Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr. ; Joao Paulo de Oliveira
Canada Sean MacIntosh
China Qinghua Ma ; Tengyi Jiang
Czech Republic Jan Charouz
France Nicholas Lapierre; Alexandre Premat
Germany Timo Scheider; Adrian Sutil
Great Britain Robbie Kerr; Alex Lloyd
India Karun Chandhok; Armaan Ebrahim
Indonesia Ananda Mikola
Ireland Michael Devaney
Italy Enrico Toccacelo; Nino Piccoli
Japan Ryo Fukuda
Lebanon Basil Shaaban; Khalil Beschir
Malaysia Alex Yoong; Fairuz Fauzy
Mexico Salvador Duran
Netherlands Jos Verstappen; Jeroen Bleekemolen
New Zealand Matt Halliday ; Jonny Reid
Pakistan Adam Khan
Portugal Alvaro Parente; Joao Urbano
Russia Alexey Vasiliev; Nikolay Fomenko
South Africa Stephen Simpson; Gavin Cronje
Switzerland Neel Jani
USA Scott Speed.

 

[shortygb]

its a real shame that none of the current f1 drivers are in the A1, then we could see who really is the best driver, and not just the best team/car.

 

[Cape]

its a real shame that none of the current f1 drivers are in the A1, then we could see who really is the best driver, and not just the best team/car.

I could already tell you that one

damn ... A1GP doesn't even have live timing on its website. And results for practice and qualifying etc aren't posted until the completion of the race. Damn it! And they call themselves the world cup of motorsport! I can't fricken watch the stupid thing!

 

[Komit]

Why the fuck would F1 drivers go and drive inferior machines? You need way more than being a good driver to be the best in F1. Ultimately, you can be the best driver in the world, but the shittest F1 driver there ever was.

 

[Cape]

Wasn't I discussing that with braad yesterday, I dunno But top F1 drivers would NOT leave F1 for A1GP. Drivers past their use by date eg: Firman, Verstappen, yoong and co would definately take up the opportunity to go to A1GP.
Although Firman and yoong weren't in F1 long.

Damn it! I want fox!! Would someone post the results up for poor Cat when they find out! Thankyou I don't want to wait for channel 10's crappy commentary.

 

[shortygb]

of course f1 drivers wont go down to A1, the money and glory is all in f1.

besides i guess it is hard to decide who is the best driver in the world, its hard to compare open wheelers to touring cars and them to rally. it would be hard to find a medium that can give each driver a situation whrere they can perform their best. A1 is only really determining the best of open wheelers (and even that excludes f1 drivers). The Race Of Champions has a formula that somewhat levels the field but it will never be all equal.

 

[Komit]

The Race of Champions is probably the best comparison since they race both rally cars and this special "open-wheel" car and it doesn't seem that the rally car gives WRC drivers any advantage as Sebastien Loeb was getting beaten by Schumacher and Heikki Koveleinnen.

 

[Komit]

Official Practice Session 1 (13.00 – 14.00)

A1 Team Driver Time No. Laps
USA Scott 1m16.516 19
Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr 1m17.156 13
France Nicholas Lapierre 1m17.216 20
Great Britain Robbie Kerr 1m17.463 21
Malaysia Alex Yoong 1m17.579 17
Australia Will Power 1m17.673 30
Switzerland Neel Jani 1m17.731 22
Portugal Alvaro Parente 1m17.740 19
Netherlands Jos Verstappen 1m17.970 20
Mexico Salvador Duran 1m17.997 27
New Zealand Matt Halliday 1m18.157 24
Germany Timo Scheider 1m18.344 13
Canada Sean MacIntosh 1m18.470 28
South Africa Stephen Simpson 1m18.640 21
Japan Ryo Fukuda 1m18.859 27
Pakistan Adam Khan 1m18.932 14
Czech Republic Jan Charouz 1m19.396 20
Lebanon Basil Shaaban 1m19.491 24
Ireland Michael Devaney 1m19.542 16
Austria Mathias Lauda 1m19.674 14
Indonesia Ananda Mikola 1m20.126 16
Russia Alexey Vasiliev 1m22.905 14
Italy Enrico Toccacelo 1m25.320 5
China Quinghua Ma 1m26.555 15
India Karun Chandhok 1m28.607 2


Official Practice session 2 (16.00 - 17.00)

A1 Team Driver Time No. Laps
Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr 1m25.122 14
Great Britain Robbie Kerr 1m25.361 21
Portugal Alvaro Parente 1m25.639 15
South Africa Stephen Simpson 1m26.294 16
France Nicolas Lapierre 1m26.328 18
Canada Sean MacIntosh 1m26.346 21
Ireland Michael Devaney 1m26.540 14
USA Scott Speed 1m26.665 14
Germany Adrian Sutil 1m26.817 15
Switzerland Neel Jani 1m26.947 15
Mexico Salvador Duran 1m27.553 20
Pakistan Adam Khan 1m27.738 17
Italy Enrico Toccacelo 1m27.890 17
Japan Ryo Fukuda 1m28.109 21
Austria Mathias Lauda 1m28.154 20
Malaysia Alex Yoong 1m28.193 9
Indonesia Ananda Mikola 1m28.241 18
New Zealand Jonny Reid 1m28.350 17
Netherlands Jos Verstappen 1m28.594 7
Lebanon Khalil Beschir Im28.806 12
Czech Republic Jan Charouz 1m28.827 17
Australia Christian Jones 1m29.346 12
Russia Nikolay Fomenko 1m30.207 12
China Tengyi Jiang 1m35.767 9
India Karun Chandhok 0