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Weekend round up – 25th September 2011 #F1 #NASCAR

Posted on September 26, 2011 by truckertoggle

#F1 Fairly inevitable winner, but perhaps JB’s second place wasn’t on the cards after practice. Lewis was really very unlucky with the Massa contact and the drive through was possibly underserved. MSC was equally unlucky we think with the contact that took him out of the race. Back markers were a problem and there are a few guys out there who show their inexperience, but the stewards decision is final and that is that.

The Singapore organisers are apparently considering whether or not to continue the event. Here at MSM we would not be sorry to see it go. Leaving aside DJ’s opposition to the night race, it is not a great circuit and we would rather see the race at a decent venue.

#NASCAR was back in New Hampshire where Ryan Newman followed up his team owner’s win last week with pole, but in another fuel mileage decided race it was Smoke in the #14 who pulled off a second straight win and takes a 7 point lead into the Monster Mile.

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Weekend round up – 18th September 2011 #NASCAR #IndyCar #F1 #DTM #BTCC

Posted on September 19, 2011 by driverjohn

Starting with #F1, we wrote here in the week about the Indian GP and how good it would be to have Karun Chandhok back in F1, but we’ve since had confirmation that Narain Karthikeyan will also be in the field. The fans there are in for a bit of a treat anyway, but having two local heroes to cheer on should make it a bit special even if they won’t be up the front end of the grid.

#NASCAR. Some dark mutterings from Richmond about whether or not Paul Menard deliberately brought our a yellow to help team mate Harvick who subsequently won. Maybe they should have nipped over to the trucks and asked Nelson? There have been instances of dodgy cautions for years; people chucking padding out of the window for a “debris on the track” caution etc. Who knows for sure what happened when they went to channel 2?In any case, NASCAR have brought out enough phantom cautions over the years haven’t they, especially when some poor sap is way out in front and going away with 50 laps to go?

Meanwhile over at Chicago rain stopped play yet again and they will try to run the race today despite a 30% chance of rain. Was it a dumb decision to move the race to this time of year? Certainly it does seem to have been a bad year for postponed races and how can that be good for the fans or the TV schedules, let alone the teams?

Given our views here about The Chase being a waste of a good season’s racing maybe they should have given them all cycles and done 50 laps in the rain? Something for the fans to cheer maybe, and our money would have been on Mark Martin; still the fittest man in NASCAR?

We’ll give the results a mention here when they come through, meanwhile some of us have work to do!

#DTM. In a very wet Oschersleben the DTM teams were out on tracks and Miguel Molina picked up a surprise pole in his #Audi despite not having scored a point yet this season. In the race Mattias Ekstrom powerboated through the rain to win, Miguel fell off at the first corner and ended up 8th. Points leader Martin Tomczyk came back from a fraught race to second while main challenger Bruno Spengler retired with steering problems. Two rounds to go to decide the title.

#IndyCar. The circus travelled to Motegi in Japan where Scott Dixon won from Will Power despite a late caution for a Hunter-Ray spin out. Dario recovered into the top ten from having been sent to the back for rough driving (now what was it Will said about him the other week?). So WP wins the 2011 Mario Andretti Trophy for road course performances and re-takes the series lead by 11 points with 2 rounds to go here as well.

#BTCC or should we say WWF? Come on Messers Neal & Plato, we don’t need all this stupidity. Be fierce track rivals yes, but let’s leave the unsavoury stuff out. It sets a bad example and we don’t need it.

In between the Sunday showers here the Brits showed that you can race in the wet on the banking as Plato, Sheddon and Nash took the wins at the combined Rockingham oval & road course circuit, Nash’s win being his first in the series.

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What are Renault up to firing Nick Heidfeld?

Posted on August 26, 2011 by driverjohn

OK, so the bearded one hasn’t set the world alight (even if his car has set itself on fire), but he has done a competant job driving the thing. He is an experienced development man and you would think that his experience could have been put to good use, although others have done that better and the Renault has been left behind after a promising start.

But duping him at this point doesn’t make sense. Grosjean has shown that he has what it takes after all and could have been brought back in later in the season, but Senna? What has he got other that a name that vaguely rings a bell?

Maybe this weekend will prove me wrong, but we’ll see. Meanwhile, fingers crossed for Robert Kubica and his recovery.

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weekend round up – 21 August 2001 #NASCAR #F1

Posted on August 22, 2011 by truckertoggle

#NASCAR – So the younger Ugly Brother holds off the #48 in a green/white finish at MIS and locks himself into the chase (yawn). The #5 is the fastest car on a longer run, but still gets a top 5 out of the day and the #24 leads a bunch of laps to take The Kid past 22,000 laps led. Not a bad stat. Three more races to go before the Chase is on.

#F1 – the wait is nearly over and we’ll be at Spa next weekend. Hopefully they’ll all be able to remember how to drive after 4 weeks off. The silly season is begining to kick in with rumours and speculation as to who will go where. Assuming that Kubica is fit and returns to Renault, the key seems to be MSC and whether or not he will carry on. Musical chairs at the smaller teams is a fact of life as folks queue up to flash their wallets, but hopefully those with the real talent will still be in with a chance of a drive. Grossjean should win the GP2 title to show that he is still worthy of a shot in F1 for example.

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Weekend round up 31 July 2011 – #F1 #NASCAR

Posted on August 1, 2011 by truckertoggle

#F1 What a great win for JB! A shame for Lewis, but JB did better in the conditions and had better feel for what grip there was. Second for Seb moved him further ahead in the title race; who can catch him now? And didn’t MSC lead part of a lap? We hope all of the personnel enjoy their well earned break.

#NASCAR Well done Paul Menard and the #27 Crew. There was a time when I thought that PM was someone with more wallet that talent, but he’s proved me wrong many times since and my respect for his abilities have grown as he has quietly got on with driving the car well. A win has been on the cards for a couple of years now, so it’s great to see him finally get one and where better to grab your first one than Indy?

So, wins for two good blokes. Not a bad weekend.

DJ has moaned all weekend about the F1 Sky/BBC deal with his #skypaynoway campaign, so I’ll not drag than one on myself.

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