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Weekend round up 16 August 2010 #NASCAR #F1

Posted on August 16, 2010 by thatconsultantbloke

Good to see that the worst kept secret on two wheels is now out in the open and good luck to Rossi with Ducati.

Over at Michigan the NASCAR race saw Kevin Harvick pull off a confident win, his third of the season. My favourite MM had a bad result and slipped back out of the chase. Not so good there.

Twenty five years since Manfred Winklehock died after crashing his Porsche 956 at Mosport, and Stephan Bellof was lost at the next race at Spa in a similar car trying to do with Jacky Ickx what Siffert and Rodriguez had pulled off a few years before in Porsche 917s; side by side through Eau Rouge. Two great talents lost.

Staying with German drivers, best wishes to Hans Stuck for a quick recovery from surgery to remove blood clots.

News that Bahrain will revert to the old layout doesn’t impress me. Sorry guys, but let’s bring back a race that people will actually show up to watch.

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Weekend roundup 8 August 2010 #NASCAR #Indycar #DTM

Posted on August 9, 2010 by thatconsultantbloke

A good run for the Mercedes armada with a 1-2-3 in the #DTM and another good result for Bruno Spengler. A good shot for the title this year maybe? As an Ingolstadt fan I’m cheering for the wrong team here, but I’m more of a fan of the three pointed star drivers.

Over at Watkins Glen #NASCAR some good news for a few of my favourites. JPM got a good win, Marcus Ambrose I would also have been happy to see win, but third isn’t too bad, and the double M moved into 12th in the standings. He’s has a quiet year in 2010 compared to last, but I’d like to see him make the chase. So three good blokes there, but what is it with mad, bad Boris? The guy has talent, so why does he drive like an animal? The first time I saw him was in a truck race at Sonoma (when it still was) back in the second truck season (or was it the first? Whatever). He had a braging match, lost out then waited at the side of the track for the pack to come round and T-boned his adversary off the track. Lunacy. Why they didn’t park him for a long spell then I could never work out, but there you go. Well done Smoke for putting into the wall. Driving standards do generally seem to be falling as I’ve said in earlier blogs, especially with re-starts. These guys get paid a fortune; can’t they actually manage to drive a few laps without hitting each other?

Across to Mid Ohio for the #Indycars. Seven poles so far this year for Will Power, and a good second in the race, putting Dario under pressure, but thinking about the championship lead and not doing anything stupid. A good run for Simona de Silvestro too.

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Welcome – Motorsportmania’s first musings

Posted on August 7, 2010 by thatconsultantbloke

The series of posts on motor sport, and other driving related activity, that I used to post here on WordPress in the John’s Jottings blog will now appear here instead so, to get things going, what am I thinking about right now?

Well, first off, congratulations to the ‘Dinger on a new RPM contract over in NASCAR. He’s not been doing an bad job in the #43 car and might just have the makings of a winner in stock cars.

Indy cars are at Mid Ohio this weekend. A nice road course and worthy of a decent race, so hopefully they’ll get one. I’m enjoying seeing Will Power have a good season. I recall him blasting out of Aussie Formula Ford and blowing off all the F3 regulars down under a few years back. Shame he didn’t get the breaks here in the UK, but the bloke has talent by the bucket load and that is showing through this season.

That’s it for a first post. See you all soon.