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Jeff Shyu wrote:

Bob Beamesderfer wrote:

Jeff Shyu wrote:i was really really hoping for a massa win (driver's champ), but all the drivers did what they needed to.. glock f'd massa

How do figure that? He's on dry tires, rain is falling harder and he can't keep up the pace.

i wasn't being serious. glock was doing great, and props for staying out as long as he did.

I was so excited when vettle overtook Hamilton..

Didn't know you were joking.

I wonder why Hamilton's car wasn't able to stay with Vettel's. Too aggressive a wet setup slowing the car off the corners?

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With new cars unless somebody gets very very lucky in development, we'll go back to Ferrari and McLaren in another league of performance. Then slowly the others catch up.

A quick look at the coverage given yesterday's race in the newspapers sold at my Starbucks:

LAT: Main art and story on Sports section cover
Press-Enterprise: secondary art ans story on Sports section cover
NYT: Four inches buried inside on one of the agate pages [lower-left corner of left-hand page, the visually weakest placement]. Three times the space given to NASCAR right above it. Otherwise it was football, NFL and NCAA.

i just want a USGP again.

Same here. Bernie makes Al Davis look like a piker.

Someone should a write a book about the history of the USGP from the standpoint of how it shifted from Watkins Glen and Long Beach to a host of street circuits to nothing for nearly a decade to the Brickyard years. An examination of the foibles of various parties. Looking at the years during which Bernie has been in charge of FOM, the commercial entity that controls the where and when of races, the USGP has been a half-hearted effort on his part with the possible exception of Indy.

Talk coming out today that Lewis Hamilton might have more earning power than David Beckham or Tiger Woods. Calling him the next Mohammed Ali.

Maybe he'll challenge Obama for Global Kalifah.

Steve Ekstrand wrote:Talk coming out today that Lewis Hamilton might have more earning power than David Beckham or Tiger Woods. Calling him the next Mohammed Ali.

Maybe he'll challenge Obama for Global Kalifah.

You just can't leave it alone. A scholar of the U.S. Constitution is going to take the oath of office--""to preserve, protect and uphold the Constitution of the United States of America"--and then go off the deep end.

Just because Nixon and W did this in clandestine ways, it is not proof that Obama will do this regardless of how you interpret the varying and biased analyses of his views. Has the GOP suddenly denounced "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice?" I see W and the neocons pulling the strings claiming a defense of the security of the U.S., but that neither includes or ensures the liberty of its citizens.

As of for "the next Mohammed Ali," the top endorsement values of athletes during the past 20 years were/are held by Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods. Beckham was a blip in the U.S. and Canada until he joined the LA Galaxy and now he's a blip-and-a-half. I've seen more of that Olympic swimmer than I have of Bechham. Ali? Hasn't been in the game for a long time because of Parkinson's. What year were the Olympics when bravely carried the torch? 1992?

For all that Hamilton has accomplished, his endorsement contracts will be in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Each tailored to the audience, of course. Doubt that he and Glock will be in any advert shown in Brasil.

Bob Beamesderfer wrote:Doubt that he and Glock will be in any advert shown in Brasil.

GO TOYOTA!!!

Giovanni Jaramillo wrote:

Bob Beamesderfer wrote:Doubt that he and Glock will be in any advert shown in Brasil.

GO TOYOTA!!!

Now Gio is talkin sense!

Vettle and Alonso at Renault for 09'

Not to go TOO off-topic but Aaron, can you reset the system clock? Remember this past Sunday was DST (Daylight Savings Time).

Giovanni Jaramillo wrote:Not to go TOO off-topic but Aaron, can you reset the system clock? Remember this past Sunday was DST (Daylight Savings Time).

procrastination will pay off in 6 months.

ask aaron's car clock.

El testo de tiempo!

Yep, the clock is an hour fast.

All times are UTC - 8 hours [ DST ]

North America isn't on DST anymore; in fact the switch over is two weeks later than it used to be.

That was a fun contest, just watched the dvr of the race today. Next season I think we should chip in a few bucks & have a cash prize(s) like a football/basketball etc pool.

We could pitch in and send Larry up some mosquito spray and chainsaw oil.

Steve Ekstrand wrote:We could pitch in and send Larry up some mosquito spray and chainsaw oil.

They got skeeters in the Santa Snooze mountains? Don't forget the latest Husqy catalog for winter reading.

Next season I think we should chip in a few bucks & have a cash prize(s) like a football/basketball etc pool.

+1

Bob Beamesderfer wrote:

Steve Ekstrand wrote:We could pitch in and send Larry up some mosquito spray and chainsaw oil.

They got skeeters in the Santa Snooze mountains? Don't forget the latest Husqy catalog for winter reading.

I already got a coupla gallons of husky chain oil, thanks. Seven bucks at Scarboroughs Ace...fifteen at Lowes. <shrug> That and a half-gallon of maxima 927 castor. The fumes get to me a lot worse than I thought they would, but the second best 2-stroke oil money can buy is cheaper than the little bottles on by-volume pricing. I have had my eye out for a Husky 3120 or Stihl 880 and an Alaskan mill - 30" hardwoods take a long time to get through - there's no way around it and three times as much horsepower has it's advantages. Have been wanting to mill up some unconventional sizes of hardwood lumber for a later timberframe house project for as long as I can remember. Guess lefties just have crappy work ethics and are always looking for some kind of hand-out.

Now, if someone can find me a whole day of weekend free-time without an emergency call from work, that would be a hell of a precious gift. I've still got 50% tread 215s on the Miata for crying out loud.

I want to say thanks to everyone for playing this year - keeping up with y'all really makes catching the races a lot more fun. -la

PS: Someone besides me needs to bug Will about getting software coded for PodiumPicker.com

Larry Andrews wrote:PS: Someone besides me needs to bug Will about getting software coded for PodiumPicker.com

Yeah, yeah. It drives me crazy when I read about the local game and I want to code the site. My job's going crazy (again), hopefully the storm dies down enough so I can breathe soon.

Olympics are coming up soon - getting the code straight beforehand would let the site become monetized fairly simply. Seems like advertising revenue alone would pay for most expenses and maybe a little gravy for the proud papa. :gpower:

Any scoop on the 2009 Montreal GP? I was going to go. Bernie said we're talking.

I didn't watch my DVR'ed recording to the very end. I assume that they never got to an interview with Hamilton.

Is it just a huge "failure of imagination" that they don't include the new World Champion in the post last race of the year interview?! It would have been so much more interesting if they had include Hammi with the top three of the race.

Mako Koiwai wrote:I didn't watch my DVR'ed recording to the very end. I assume that they never got to an interview with Hamilton.

Is it just a huge "failure of imagination" that they don't include the new World Champion in the post last race of the year interview?! It would have been so much more interesting if they had include Hammi with the top three of the race.

They did.........but on Formula One Debrief which is another show that I have TIVO'ed. yes it comes on a week after (anti-climatic) but I agree. In this case they did should've done the interview right then and there. Perhaps next year (but in the past few years, usually the winner of the F1 championship happens to win the last race (Brazil)).

I miss our old podium picker challenge