for tomorrow's race. Big Q.: will Schumi's Bridgestones be better than Kimi, Juan Pablo, Jarno and Ferando's Miches in the slop?

 

Anyone up for the start of the Belgian GP.

 

Red Bull buys Minardi...interesting...

Morn'n! Is it going to rain?

 

WTF was that pre-race intro all about. It was the most bogus thing I have ever heard.

 

Did anyone catch the clips of the MINIS crashing in the race before the GP2 race this morning. They really tore up the guard rail. Okay, formation lap starting, back to the race...

 

Missed the MINIs...

You are up early sir! Geez the roostertails!

 

The one MINI did a header into the guardrail and the other MINI must have rolled about four or five times. Yes, have to get up with the chickens out west to catch the GP2 race. Keeping my eye on Scott Speed.

 

I've had Speed on from 3AM to now and never saw any MINIs. They may not have shown it it my area.

 

Scott Speed probably has a regular F1 drive next year

Of course it is with the former Minardi team

 

When they stopped the GP2 race due to the wet conditions they showed clips of the MINIS racing and the crashes that held up the start of the GP2 race.

 

OK, rhetorical question, does anyone know what it takes to become a F1 driver these days?

I know what it took in the late 60’s early 70’s when I was racing. I also know what it takes today. Anyone want to bite on this one? Great driving is not part of the answer BTW.

 

Sato should not be on that track. Which brings me back to the question - Good driving has nothing to do with it.

 

Bucks, cash, moola...or to put it in racing terms, sponsorship!

Sato...

 

Sato is out of a drive in F1 for sure with that move

There are two ways to get into F1

1 is to do well in feeder series and team testing

2 is to bring lots of sponsorship with you to the poorer teams

This year just has not been Schuey's year

Maybe he can comeback next year to at least challenge if not win again.

 

I’m seeing sponsorship as an answer and its part of it, but how do you get sponsors?

 

I think the ability to draw an increased viewership in markets that have low viewership (Japan? & US for example) will increasingly play into who's driving who is not. I don't think they'll pull Sato unless they have a replacement from Japan. This may also explain the big drive to get a driver from the US behind the wheel and is why we'll see Speed in that role next year.

 

DING DING DING, we have a winner for the most part - money is the other part. You buy sponsors. Driving has little to do with it these days.

Many if not most of us could drive F1 as well as the rest of them, that is if you're up to the true speed and be mid pack or top of it.

F1 has actually gone down hill over the last few big money years.

 

Go Kimi.

 

Well that was a hit in that MINI...anybody grab that on video?

 

I've got it on the video recorder. Will try to copy it to the computer.

 

...job well done.

 

WTG KIMI.

 

And it was Peter driving that MINI.

 

yay kimi! :smile:

but doesn't it just figure... montoya being taken out of the race.

i'm not saying that alonzo isn't an amazing driver, but, boy is he lucky.

 

I guess there is no such thing as bad publicity. Great shots of Peter Windsor stuffing his MCS into the armco at Spa. Just glad nothing more than his ego and a little sheetmetal were damaged.

Fernando Alonso 2nd. WooHoo!