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Khal
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 Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 9:55 am Post subject: OT: The Circus |
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So, getting towards mid-season in the F1 and Ferrari are way down the table  Schuey's got less than a third the points of Alonso, who's leading.
How quickly it changes, eh? Even our man Ken-doll is beating Schuey by a couple of points!  Pity Webber's not doing so well in the actual races... he's a gun in qualifying.
And Kimi seems to be right up there. Fastest in testing this week by a long way!
They're off to Canada this weekend. Anyone here gonna go watch it? Then they're at Indy the weekend after.
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Neil924
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 10:37 am Post subject: |
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| I want to go to the Canadian GP next year. I won't want to this year dur to the Ferrari situation. I only want to waste my money if "we" win. |
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Paul
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 11:16 am Post subject: |
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I'm going to the Indianapolis event, it's cheap when compared to Melbourne!
Good grandstand seats are $85, admission is $60 for the entire event! |
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Neil924
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 11:23 am Post subject: |
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| Paul wrote: | I'm going to the Indianapolis event, it's cheap when compared to Melbourne!
Good grandstand seats are $85, admission is $60 for the entire event! |
I expect to spend $500 for tickets and a 2 night stay in Montreal. I won't be taking the 924 though. The chance of Schui jumping in my car instead of his is just too great. |
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Khal
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| Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 11:32 am Post subject: |
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| Paul wrote: | I'm going to the Indianapolis event, it's cheap when compared to Melbourne!
Good grandstand seats are $85, admission is $60 for the entire event! |
Yeah, yeah... make me feel worse why don'tcha? Bad enough I can't go to the race.
But Melbourne maxxes out at about 80,000 for race day... what does Indy get, like, half-a-mil? Economies of scale...
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Khal
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Well, The Circus earned its name this weekend, eh?
What a shambles! 
Did you end up going, Paul?
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D Hook
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| Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2005 9:47 am Post subject: |
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| Khal: What happened? I heard some driver's pulled out because of a controversy over tires, or was that some other race? |
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Khal
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In a nutshell, Ralf Schumacher had a blowout and crashed fairly heavily. Was subsequently found that the particular Michelin tyres supplied weren't up to job of handling the high-g banked turn then the belt down the straight. So, in the interests of safety, Michelin announced that the teams shouldn't run with those tyres. A solution was offered to insert a chicane in (or just before?) the banked turn to slow the cars down. But that was rejected by the F.I.A., apparently.
It all went to pot from there...
Check out the official Formula One website.
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924RACR
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Yeah, was there, it was ugly... at least we got home early! 
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