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This VVeekend's Racing 5/12 - G.Irish - 05-12-2006
Saturday
1:00 pm Grand-Am Cup Series Laguna Seca
Sunday
3:00 am Formula 1 Qualifying Spain
12:00 pm MotoGP 250 Shanghai
1:00 pm Grand-Am Cup Series Phoenix
1:00 pm Formula 1 Spain **on CBS**
3:00 pm Rolex Sports Car Series Phoenix
6:00 pm MotoGP World Championship Shanghai
Da Big Race - Moto GP Shanghai
Valentino Rossi has gotten off to a rocky start defense of his 5th Moto GP title. The season opener saw him get taken out in turn 1 and he ended up only being able to claw up to 14th place. Race 2 Rossi came back to steal a narrow victory from Nicky Hayden (.9 second) but in Race 3 he struggled from the back of the pack to finish 4th but was not in contention for the win at any time during the race.
I expect Rossi to be back with a vengeance if Yamaha has made any headway on the handling woes that the YZR-M1 developed at the end of the preseason. He's consistently shown that when he lets it all hang out he can win with a less than optimal bike.
The other big story is that for the first time in his Moto GP career, American Nicky Hayden is leading the Moto GP championship standings. A second career win has eluded him thus far and he'll be hungry to get to the top step of the podium after his 7 consecutive podium finishes (the longest current podium streak ). He is the only Honda rider on the 2006 full development version of the RC211V. All of the other riders are riding 2005 evo machines of some sort so it'll be interesting to see how they perform in comparison.
- Sijray21 - 05-12-2006
thank god for TiVo and DV-Rs
- G.Irish - 05-14-2006
BTW, please do not post spoilers here
- Ginger - 05-14-2006
Are we watching at j00r place?
- Maengelito - 05-14-2006
just watched the F1 race on cbs...
i hate not getting access to every weekend's racing cuz watching it is awesome. there's something about these cars hitting 300 kph on the front straights and revving to 18k that makes my spine tingle. man, that sound is awesome
atleast they had a commercial for next week's alms on cbs next sunday at 1 as well, w00t!
- G.Irish - 05-14-2006
asteele2 Wrote:Are we watching at j00r place?
Yah mon come on ova
- .RJ - 05-14-2006
I'll be over at the start of the GP race
- Mike - 05-14-2006
G.Irish Wrote:asteele2 Wrote:Are we watching at j00r place?
Yah mon come on ova
are you even here?
- Feersty - 05-14-2006
Watching MotoGP now :thumbup:
- Feersty - 05-14-2006
Great GP race!
- bassmangrammy - 05-15-2006
Rolex race was good... does anyone know what the GTOs are crushing the field? I'm thinking it's a rule issue as well as a chassis difference issue.
- PDenbigh - 05-15-2006
I imagine it's the same reason the Mustang did it last year and the Colbolt is doing it in ST this year. It's the first year for the car and so the sactioning bodies haven't penalized it yet, or had time to "adjust" it. The Mustangs got a higher rear end and some pretty nasty throttle restrictors this year. The Colbolt had to run with a STOCK exhaust this past race.
My prediction is to wait a little bit and the GTO will get a few adjustments.
- Evan - 05-15-2006
bassmangrammy Wrote:Rolex race was good... does anyone know what the GTOs are crushing the field? I'm thinking it's a rule issue as well as a chassis difference issue.GTOs are tube frame, purpose-built, nothing in common with the street car but the engine.
Do you see all the pontiac commercials during Rolex races? I doubt its a coincidence.
Kind of sucks to be Porsche this year. Getting pummeled in both ALMS/LeMans and Grand Am.
While I hated it when all the GT series were Spec 911, Porsche has been the only manufacturer to consistently put in major development into the GT class over a long timeframe. Then a few tubeframe cars come along and after 6 months of development are whuppin up on the p-cars (although in fairness, the Panoz has been around for quite some time and deserves a shot at being competitive)
- G.Irish - 05-15-2006
Evan Wrote:bassmangrammy Wrote:Rolex race was good... does anyone know what the GTOs are crushing the field? I'm thinking it's a rule issue as well as a chassis difference issue.GTOs are tube frame, purpose-built, nothing in common with the street car but the engine.
Do you see all the pontiac commercials during Rolex races? I doubt its a coincidence.
Kind of sucks to be Porsche this year. Getting pummeled in both ALMS/LeMans and Grand Am.
While I hated it when all the GT series were Spec 911, Porsche has been the only manufacturer to consistently put in major development into the GT class over a long timeframe. Then a few tubeframe cars come along and after 6 months of development are whuppin up on the p-cars (although in fairness, the Panoz has been around for quite some time and deserves a shot at being competitive)
Well the GTO-R thing has a couple of facets but but in short I'm against them.
TRG is a top notch team and they managed to win one 24 Hours of Daytona overall over the Daytona Prototypes with a 911 (first year of the DP's). They've got strong drivers and a successful history so its not surprising to see them have success with their GTO program.
However, the bottom line is that the street GTO is not a damned tube-framed car. Why should Porsche even bother supporting race teams when Grand Am is gonna allow a $30k enough modifications to beat them. If my company made exotic (or semi-exotic) sports car I wouldn't support a series trying to bend over backwards to make a car like the GTO beat my car. What's next, RWD tube-framed Civics? Actually I do know what's next, Infiniti is building tube-framed G35's and Mazda is building a tube-framed RX-8.
My opinion is that GT racing is for true sports cars. Not tube-framed-fiberglass-body-that-looks-like-the-production-version-but-really-has-nothing-to-do-with it-stock cars.
Granted its kinda boring when its all Porsches but at the same time I don't wanna see GT racing Nascar-ized. Trans Am got Nascar-ized too and you see where that ended up.
- Feersty - 05-15-2006
G.Irish Wrote:Evan Wrote:bassmangrammy Wrote:Rolex race was good... does anyone know what the GTOs are crushing the field? I'm thinking it's a rule issue as well as a chassis difference issue.GTOs are tube frame, purpose-built, nothing in common with the street car but the engine.
Do you see all the pontiac commercials during Rolex races? I doubt its a coincidence.
Kind of sucks to be Porsche this year. Getting pummeled in both ALMS/LeMans and Grand Am.
While I hated it when all the GT series were Spec 911, Porsche has been the only manufacturer to consistently put in major development into the GT class over a long timeframe. Then a few tubeframe cars come along and after 6 months of development are whuppin up on the p-cars (although in fairness, the Panoz has been around for quite some time and deserves a shot at being competitive)
Granted its kinda boring when its all Porsches but at the same time I don't wanna see GT racing Nascar-ized. Trans Am got Nascar-ized too and you see where that ended up.
But Gerald, everyones LOVES NASCAR!
- Sijray21 - 05-15-2006
Feersty Wrote:But Gerald, everyones LOVES NASCAR!
that's what SPEED wants you to think....
- .RJ - 05-15-2006
G.Irish Wrote:I don't wanna see GT racing Nascar-ized
It already is - Demolition derby style racing, with full course yellows to tighten up the field for more "excitement".
- G.Irish - 05-15-2006
.RJ Wrote:G.Irish Wrote:I don't wanna see GT racing Nascar-ized
It already is - Demolition derby style racing, with full course yellows to tighten up the field for more "excitement".
I meant the cars but you're right, the driving is very NASCAR-esque.
- Ginger - 05-15-2006
.RJ Wrote:G.Irish Wrote:I don't wanna see GT racing Nascar-ized
It already is - Demolition derby style racing, with full course yellows to tighten up the field for more "excitement".
I'm with stupid. The "mistakes" some of those drivers made we pretty agregious.
- Feersty - 05-15-2006
Can we talk about the damn MotoGP race yet?