Ayrton Senna's last lap...

So it's been fourteen years since Ayrton Senna perished in a Williams at the San Marino GP. Senna was the last man to die in F1. A great deal of this fact can be attributed to good old Max Mosley.

News report of Senna's death:


Speaking of Max, I read an interesting quote a few weeks ago that made me think a bit more of him than I already do (and I do respect Max even if he has pissed me off plenty in the past) it pertains to the "Black Weekend" in which Roland Ratzenberger and Senna died (Ratzenberger died a day before Senna at the same track) anyhow the Mosley quote was this: "I went to Ratzenberger's funeral because everyone went to Senna's. I thought it was important that somebody went to his."

I thought that was nice.

It's sort of ironic that of all the crashes that resulted in death that weekend fourteen years ago today that it was Barrichello's crash that was the most spectacular in sheer violence and he's still racing today.

Barrichello's crash:


I just liked this pic below of a young Senna with a rare glimpse of Lauda's burned head:


Lastly, at the Italian GP in 2000 Michael Schumacher tied Senna's record in win's and broke down and wept on live TV. Schumi had a pretty hard exterior and the impact Ayrton had on racing is pretty much summed up for all with the seven times world champion's tears...


Thanks Ayrton. You drove your car well.

Punish Max with some lashes to the behind...

I don't see why the whole friggin' world is calling for Max Mosley to step down as the head of the FIA. While I haven't seen the four hour orgy or followed the story too terribly closely I still don't get it. Maybe if in the video he'd made some proclamation about a distaste for the Jews or saying "This is for daddy" or something I could understand. But the guy was just role playing in some nasty assed old many orgy. This whole thing is getting too PC for me.

It's a known fact that Mosley is kind of a douche bag and in the end what I think this all boils down to is the fact that a lot of people don't much care for him and now they have a reason to tell him to piss off. All the automobile clubs of the world telling him to step down are probably just being PC because if they didn't call for his resignation they may be seen as being anti-Jew. All the former F1 drivers calling for his resignation probably just think he's a dick and are holding a grudge back from his days as co-owner of March Engineering when he provided them with shitty cars. I mean my beloved Jackie Stewart was berated by Max late last year which probably still has the wee Scot fuming a bit, but one must also remember that piece of crap Mosley provided Stewart via the March 701 (the M of March being Mosley's) back in 1970. Same deal with my namesake Niki Lauda, he was originally given a turdy March back in the early 70's as well that was a pig and had people saying it wasn't the car but due to Lauda's inept driving ability that results were scarce. Then there is 1979 World Champion Jody Scheckter who is a Jew which is why he's calling for Max to quit as I don't think he was ever outwardly effected by a shitty March car...

In the end I guess it doesn't really matter. I just hate overly PC politicking. Mosley is at the tail end of his FIA career anyhow, he has done a great deal of good for the sport in my opinion concerning safety and for that he should always be remembered and commended. Maybe he shouldn't mind also being remembered as a crusty old pervert that was having four hour sex orgies at the age of 67 either. It's almost a nod to his personal health, libido, and stamina... or something?

One scandal ends, a new one begins!

This is too good! News of the World some how came across a 5 hour video of a recent sex romp involving FIA president Max Mosley hanging out with a bunch of hookers having his ass beat bloody pretending to be a Jew in a concentration camp.



An S&M orgy as it were. While that's pretty fucked up, what makes it all the better is that his pops was a Fascist Nazi sympathizer during WWII. The video captures sure look like old Max. Since nothing has been confirmed or denied yet I'll just post the link to the News of the World story for all to read, laugh, and cringe at...

I can't wait to see how this all unfolds!



That is Max's wife. They met at a fascist Union Movement, so you'd think she'd be all for this junk. Maybe he just doesn't find her attractive any more and had to search elsewhere for his Nazi S&M sex romps.

Picking on McLaren again...

So both McLaren's have been each been sent back 5 spots on the starting grid due to purportedly holding up BMW's Nick Heidfeld. I watched qualifying and saw the supposed incident. The live shot I saw of Heidfeld slipping between the two McLaren's made me wonder if a fuss could be raised and upon replays of the incident it looked to me as though in fact the McLaren's had not impeded Heidfeld, I mean it wasn't like he had to lift or anything. Later on Heidfeld said it may have cost him a few tenths of a second which is serious enough time in F1 and if the case is true Heidfeld could have finished higher on the grid saying P2's time was 1:36.230 and Heidfeld's P7 time was 1:36.753 meaning not much time was between grid positions 2 thru 7, so in theory the 5 spot penalty both McLaren's have suffered can't be seen as a harsh punishment in respect to the supposed crime, though I sort of feel it is unjust.

Quite excited!

One of the things that I am most looking forward to during tonight's race is watching the STR's as Vettel starts in P9 and I expect him to race hard, though I'm also curious to see how the other STR Sebastian is going to fare, being he starts P17 and felt he could have done a bit better had it not been for a yellow flag at the very end of Q1. Bourdais has much more to prove in his first F1 race due to his advanced age (29) while Vettel is in a more comfortable position being only 20 and already loved around the paddock... so I expect the Champ Car Champ to be pushing really hard as well to make up some places in his debut F1 race.
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I wrote the above about 8pm eastern time. Due to obligations, I never got around to posting it. And all I've got to say after seeing tonight's race is... Wow. As I've only been watching F1 like a fiend since 2003, I can't say I've ever seen a race with so many failures. So many DNF's! Just... Wow. If you can, watch this re-broadcast. It's captivating in a way that F1 shouldn't be, but still fascinating none the less.

In the end, I inadvertently called Seb Bor's climb into the points, though I didn't see it coming about like this, but I felt that Frog would finish in the points... and did he barely just!

Wow!

Beautiful Grid

As an American, I'm supposed to always (and do) root for Ferrari, since I don't know any better. And while I'm sad that Kimi's car shat the bed, I must say this is a beautiful grid! In the top ten slots there are 7 different teams! That's friggin' awesome! I'm so happy to see Heikki The Huge Head off to a good start in a car worth driving. At the same time I'm happy to see Alonso nowhere in the top ten.

While I think Fernie is a great driver and a worthy two time World Champion, I've got to say he's a stupid son of a bitch... or a racist. One or the other. While Ron Dennis may or may not be an asshole and Lewis Hamilton may or may not be black (almost said African-American right there!) we all know McLaren produce good cars. And they have for quite some time. The reason Kimi did not win in a McLaren is that I think he has the propensity to beat the shit out of his cars. I think he drives them really hard and utilized all the driver aids. In comparison to his time at McLaren, Kimi's team mates had next to no trouble with their cars. Anyhow, point is, last year Fernie was the best driver in the best team and had a new guy who was pretty froggin' good too. Alonso got mad cos everybody at McLaren wasn't giving him a rim-job on a daily basis, and that's just silly. Last I checked in a sport such as this it is a good thing to have a team mate that can challenge you. It only makes you stronger, whether you win or lose, since all you want to do is beat that other fucker. Apparently Alonso got used to having a Turdsy Fisichella and Jarno Truli racing along side him because as soon as black boy wonder Hamilton started impressing the world Fernie started acting the bitch and complaining. Why not just drive harder. Don't ask the team to give the other guy inferior equipment. I'm sure he could have driven harder and kept his yap shut. I mean he beat Schumi for two years running, and that guy had his shit together. So what does Alonso do? He jumps ship cos by the end of the year everybody hated everybody else at that team and they were willing to be rid of his monkey ass. While Fernie should have just quietly hated on Hamilton and drove his Spanish nuts off, he went back to Renault who have been off form since he left them. Maybe it was a bad year for Renault? Maybe it was due to the fact that they were demoralized that Fernie left in the first place. I mean he gave them a year warning, after his last championship car was already built. So maybe they slagged off for the 2007 car. I don't know. What I do know is that I'm glad "Shitty Alonso" aka Heikki Kovalainen got yet another vacant Alonso seat because Fernie deserves to be relegated to that under performing Renault. While I feel and hope that Alonso is going to pull off some sweet drives this year I hope today made him step back and wonder for a moment if he left that half second that he purportedly brought to McLaren, at McLaren...

With that said, I'm really enthused about this upcoming season. While I am of the school of thought that felt F1 is all about being the pinnacle of motorsport, therefore having the most cutting edge cars, I'm also very happy many of the driver aids are gone. I look at it this way, F1 introduced all those aids to motor sport. They ran with many of them for quite a number of years, and now it's time to give the cars back to the drivers for a bit and start coming up with a whole new batch of totally off the wall shit to incorporate into those cars that in 10 years will be banned by the FIA. It is so beautiful to see cars sliding about on the circuit and odd grids such as this one. It all just makes me smile.

This season is going to be even better than the last one because there isn't going to be a whiny Alonso, he is going to have to prove himself on the track, there won't be any Spygates, no longer is there Traction Control, and Lewis Hamilton is pissed off and likes the taste of blood!!

Flavio's semi bad analogy

"Briatore was quick to respond to criticism that this time last year he had tipped Heikki Kovalainen as being the future, only to subsequently offload the Finn in favour of Piquet, some believe because he feared Kovalainen would present Alonso with too great a challenge.

"The future has changed," he retorted. "Sometimes you have a girlfriend you believe is your future, then you meet a better one and the future has suddenly changed Maybe Heikki will come back to us one day; people love Renault so much they all want to come back!"

While I love Flavio Briatore and his quote about people loving Renault so much they want to come back (he must have been looking in Alonso's direction when he said that) I can't help but laugh about the future/girlfriend analogy. While normally this would be a spot on comparison... a sound analogy... this is coming from a man who knocked up Heidi Klum and then dumped her pregnant ass. What future of ass is better than Miss Project Runway?!

Flav is quite a cocksman and has speared many a fine woman in his career (Naomi Campbell, Adriana Volpe, and Heidi Klum) but shit dude, you don't abandon a preggers Heidi Klum and then four years later make the future/girlfriend analogy. You just don't.

I'll give you some tips for for the future Flav; Trim the shrubbery. It's lowering property value in the surrounding area!

Bernard and I think alike, apparently...

LONDON (AFP) - Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone believes the racist abuse suffered by Lewis Hamilton in Barcelona is just "an isolated incident" and claimed that the FIA's anti-racism campaign was "not necessary".

"All it does is give attention to people who want attention," F1 boss Ecclestone told the BBC.

Ecclestone described the abuse, in which Hamilton was taunted at a test session at the Circuit de Catalunya by spectators with blacked-up faces and wearing wigs last month, as "a one-off".

As my last blog entry below shows, I expressed the same sentiment three days ago as Mr. E recently has.

I must say, the next 24 days can't go by quick enough. That first Friday practice will be my personal highlight of 2008 up to that point, with Saturday and Sunday replacing the previous day as said high point. I've taken off work so I can bask in the first shots of F1 of 2008. I miss Friday/Saturday excitement. For the last five years of Schumacher's career I used to watch every Friday practice, Saturday quali, and Sunday race live, and record it. This involved getting up either in the middle of the night or staying up real late, depending on where the circus was. I always hated North and South American races because they came on in the middle of the day and I was so used to getting up at 730am to watch my F1. This past year I almost never watched or recorded Friday practice. Same went with quali, though some times I would record it. After the third or forth race I stopped getting up for the races and would just set the VCR. the only thing that sucked about that is that since I wasn't watching it, I couldn't pause for commercials. I don't really feel like my enthusiasm for the sport is fading, I just miss Schumacher (and I work weekends now so I try to sleep as late as possible) though I think this year I am going to attempt to wake up for practice/quali/race... We'll see how that goes.

What's to blame?

So I read Ron Dennis and his wife are getting divorced. I bet Anthony Hamilton shacks up with her. I always see those two in the garage together looking awfully close.

I didn't really address the racism issue that popped up in recently in Spanish testing concerning Lewis Hamilton. Whilst I didn't read every single story on the matter the early ones I did read seemed to me that the issue was being blown slightly out of proportion and that such behaviors shouldn't have even been reported on by the media because no matter where you are in the world, there are going to be some ignorant assholes and there's nothing you can really do about those very few rotten apples. It's not like they were threatening his life. They put on some black face and held up a sign. I watched The Jazzsinger last night and saw fucking Neil Diamond in black face and a fake afro. The point is is that sometimes people don black face and while it shouldn't be socially acceptable, the FIA shouldn't shit in their pants over it. I'm sure the Hamilton family didn't lose any sleep over it.

What is really racist is the name of the first black man to drive an F1 car back in 1986. His name was Willy T. Ribbs. I mean. Come on.

It's funny...

"But on the bottom of that I don't want to see 'Webber is a pussy with safety'. I like taking risks, and I'm up for the challenge, but we need to always find a balance. And we will learn."

The above is a good Mark Webber quote about whatever it is that the two Red Bull drivers don't like about the current safety situation. Anybody that calls any F1 driver a pussy is a jerk cos even the pussiest of drivers still have a pretty big pair on them I would imagine.

Nothing is still happening

I'm itching for F1 to get going again. I'm glad the FIA has officially declared Spygate drama closed, since that shit was depressing on a variety of levels. However, now that that garbage has been put to bed nothing at all has been happening and I'm getting to the point where soon enough I'll be popping in old VHS tapes from seasons past just to get my fix. Speaking of which, If anybody out there has any old broadcasts from 2002 and before, hit me up.

Turdsy in a semi familiar toilet...

There are reports that Giancarlo Fisichella has signed with Force India. Nothing is confirmed, but that's what a few web sites are claiming. I don't see why it couldn't be true. If it is, he's essentially back at his old home of Jordan where he won his first race. Who knows how many Jordan guys are still there considering the team has changed hands like 3 times since he was last there, but in theory, he's back in a familiar back marker team.

As Grand Prix Dot Com pointed out, it's a real pisser that Tonio Liuzzi didn't get the drive (if these reports are in fact true) considering he is much younger and has more to offer. I'm with Bernard Ecclestone in the thought that Turdsy Fisi should just pack it in like old Ralf Schumacher. I've already detailed my reasoning for this in past entries, so there is no reason to say it all again other than Fisichella is a general disappointment... and old.

Trading Places

So McLaren signed the giant headed wonder Heikki Kovalainen to partner Lew Hamilton next year. I am glad about this since I feel that Kovalainen is a solid race driver and it would have been criminal if he did not have a seat in F1 next year. We all know Hamilton is going to do better and the fight between teammates on the track isn't going to be as close as was the case with Alonso and Hamilton this year, but I have a feeling Heikki will hold his own and not be made to look like a total fool by Lewis.

Conversley, I still have my reservations about the Alonso/Piquet line up at Renault for 2008, but we will see.

In the end I find it amusing that Alonso went from McLaren back to Renault, and that Heikki whom filled Alonso's vacant Renault seat this year is now filling Alonso's vacant McLaren seat next year.

Maybe we should call Kovalainen "Shitty Alonso"?

Michael Schumacher, you fucking rule!

Plenty of times you'll catch a story about an F1 driver getting a speeding ticket, or his license revoked for a long time in a certain country. Sure, makes sense. Not too surprising. However, Schumi is a man with style and awesomeness. I was just getting ready to go to bed when I saw on the front page of Yahoo! US a picture of Schumacher. At first I was worried, since you almost NEVER see any F1 related news on the main USA Yahoo! web page, so I was thinking my main man had died or something horrid. Then I read the story and just cracked the hell up.

You gotta love that due to the fact that he was running late he commandeered the cab to get to the family to the airport on time. That's pretty much the coolest thing I think Schumacher could ever do, other than come back to F1!

I tip my hat to the old boy.

I just read another article that says Renault is paying Fernie $51.3 million a year. If this is true The Fern is being paid by Renault $51.3 million dollars, I'll shit a puppy!

My favorite quote of the Alonso article is Fernie saying "I chose Renault in the end considering their commitment to the sport and because of their strong track record." considering he said he was leaving Renault for McLaren because he wasn't sure of Renault's commitment to F1.

God, I love it!

Alonso once again latched to Renault's teat

Even though we all saw it coming months ago, it is official that Fernie Alonso is back with Renault. Since it seemed inevitable, I can't say I'm surprised, though since it took so long to announce I sort of am. Like, I knew it was going to happen because it makes the most sense. But then came Renault's spy troubles which obviously held up Alonso's re-involvement with the team. Then Renault somehow get cleared of no wrong doing and FINALLY Fernie is back in the loving arms of The French manufacture. Point is, is that anything could have happened because nothing was happening and even though you were pretty sure you knew what was going to go down, it wasn't, so for all we knew, Alonso could end up striking a deal to race on the moon with an alien vehicle manufacture??????

Hopefully Heikki Kovalainen picks up Fern's old seat at McLaren. It'll be sad if he doesn't, cos I like that huge headed Finn and as I've said it before, I do not trust Junior Piquet. Heikki would have been a good team mate to Fern. While I hope I am wrong, I think Nelshino may be a little hot headed next year and will not be a good team mate for Alonso. The only reason I want Alonso to have a bitch team mate is because I'm sick of Alonso whining about not being treated with the respect a 2 time beater of Michael Schumacher deserves. Oh well. So it goes.

Renault not guilty?!

So I just read that Renault are not guilty of the same breach of rules that cost McLaren their constructors championship and $100 million dollars! How is that possible? It even looked like Renault were a bit more guilty than McLaren due to the fact that it seems more people saw the McLaren documents at Renault than McLaren people did of the Ferrari drawings at McLaren. So I must say that I'm quite baffled.

Were Renault cleared of any massive fines because they were purportedly more forthright with the FIA when they supposedly first found out they had McLaren information? Or was it because if Renault were heavily penalized that they may just choose to leave the sport and Fernie Alonso would have no place to race and this would be seen as a massive victory for McLaren who want to win something this year?

I honestly don't know, however I look forward to the FIA's explanation whenever it comes out and hopefully maybe they will revoke McLaren's fine or something, considering Renault was not punished at all, not even posthumously stripped of their 2007 constructor's points, which was what I figured was going to happen.

We will see. Yes. We will see.

Nothing to say...

So Ross Brawn has joined Honda. Fernie is still not signed. Schumacher, Michael is still fit.

There is nothing to say, and I am busy, hence no speak. Sorry. This is the draw back of post season. Trust me, once there is something to say, I'll say it, even if I have to wait till March.

Actually, that's a lie. I've got plenty of Paint ideas, just am lacking the time, but it will happen, and you will laugh... maybe.

In the mean time, I'm still teaching kids to drive well, still listing records on ebay... and still waiting for something to write about.

In other news: I ran my car our of petrol tonight and before it was stopped I tried to be like James Bond and tried to start to push it before the car was stopped. I ended up rolling under the car and almost got run over by my own motor. However, I found out Toyota's are easy to push and they pick up speed quickly. I mention this for the benefit of Toyota F1's team next year.

I've sold my stocks in Band-Aid

Yesterday it was announced that Ross Brawn is set to become the new team principal of Honda's F1 operation. Curiously enough Ferrari announced the same day that Jean Todt AKA "The Nervous Ferret" would no longer be in his current position of F1 activities.

While both stories surprised me, it was mainly due to the fact that they came out on the same day. Many knew Todt's time was running out at Ferrari and that Ross Brawn would come back to F1 and be running a team, but I imagined many folks (myself included) thought Brawn would be taking Todt's position. Not that Todt would be replaced by some Italian guy and Brawn would be taking over Honda.

I still wonder why Brawn didn't take over Ferrari. He claims it was due to the fact that he became reacquainted with his family and that Ferrari wouldn't have been much of a challenge because they are still in good working order, but that seems like a cop-out answer to me in all honesty. OK, so he didn't wanna go live in Italy again. Living in the UK does sound much nicer. However, I think Ferrari are about to enter another dark age, such as the one Todt, Schumi, and Brawn helped drag Ferrari out of... so taking over Ferrari and not having the team slide into oblivion would have been a challenge. Maybe a challenge Brawn wasn't interested in tackling. By taking over Honda, who have in the past had semi-decent cars at times, he can't do any worse than Nick Fry or the rest of the team have done so the results are only going to get better over the next two years and Brawn will never have to worry about looking bad. He has already said that his engineering prowess will really have no effect on the 2008 car, as it has already gone into production. So his ass is covered this year any how.

I could be wrong and it could be the truth. However, if he was looking for a challenge then I guess that Honda was the team to go with. They sucked ass this year, they have money, a decent driver in that of Button, Brawn knows Barrichello, and I'm sure the money was right... not to mention a challenge was presented.

The only good news about Jean Todt's departure is that his poor fingers he nibbles on all the time will finally have a chance to heal and his fingers will no longer be shrouded in Band-Aid's

For the time being, I am going nowhere near the Renault-McLaren info case. I'm just letting this one unfold.



Lastly, Schumi tested today for the first time in over a year and topped the time sheets. I called this one, but I wanna see a test where he and Hamilton are together.

NASCAR can choke on a dick!

"NASCAR is not like Formula One racing, where three teams absolutely rule the sport, but the fear is that NASCAR is ambling down the same road.

When asked how close the sport is to a crossroads – and more precisely, how close it is to becoming like Formula One, the kind of boring, follow-the-leader racing guys like Juan Pablo Montoya came to NASCAR to get away from – Evernham opened his eyes wide and spit out, "We've passed the street signs. The crossroad is coming."

I just read the above garbage in an article on Yahoo! in a really long and boring bit about franchising NASCAR teams. Statements like this just piss me off. One of the things they were saying is how half of the THIRTY-FOUR RACES that NASCAR has had this year were won by one team. How can they liken their predicament to F1? NASCAR has like 43 car field per race from about 20 full time teams and there are 8 part time.

Sure, the best funded teams win, that's just the way it is... in ANY SPORT, especially if the sport involves a machine as well. However, one of the reasons F1 is ruled by a handful of teams are due to the fact that there are only 11 teams in F1, and again, money rules. So in F1 the team with the most money can develop the best car and contract the best drivers where as in NASCAR the vehicles are fucking pigs, using technology from the 1960's in general, so in reality, the best funded teams aren't pissing a boat load of cash towards R&D and are throwing that money mainly to drivers that have skill within their sport, since as much as I think NASCAR is boring as shit to watch, I do understand that from a driver's stand point it is a rather exciting from of racing where emphasis is placed more on skill than car development. So the team(s) that have won the majority of the races this year are doing so because they have the best drivers, not particularly due to the fact that they have the best car. The rich boys always have the best package.

I suppose my point is is that you can put Rubens Barrichello in a Ferrari and he will win some races and challenge for a championship from time to time, while when you stick a Rubens in a Honda, you finish your season with 0 points sometimes. An even better example is Sebastian Vettel who was terribly impressive in his debut race, because he is a good driver in a good car. You then stick the good driver in a not so good car and you can still see the good driver doing impressive things, but the results are different in the end.

Formula One has it's flaws, and is almost as much about the cars (if not more) than it is about the pilots of the cars, but this is just how it is and I'm not complaining. I like the technology. A lot. F1 is all about the perfect package, class, and sophisticated driving techniques. NASCAR is about... I dunno... drinking beer, having a hairy back, and waiting for "The Big One", while on the sporting end it's all about driving rough or dirty in cars that are like tanks, but with no technology on board.

So stop trying to liken these two entities when writing articles about franchising... because it just pisses me off and makes me think less of the NASCAR scribes.

Death Rides, Devil Horns, and guys on their way out... or already gone!

This next piece of Microsoft Paint will probably land me in hell, and I call it

"Barrichello's '94 Imola (near) Death Ride and The Devil Horns"


Yup. He's giving the old Devil Horns during his hellacious crash at Imola back in 1994, which is pretty hardcore.

I find it odd that old Rubinho is getting so much coverage in my blog as of late, considering I don't particularly think too much of him one way or another, other than I like him more than most of the old guys still kicking around F1 that won't leave. With that said, I think I shall take a moment to speak about drivers who I wish would already leave F1 or have raced their last race.

So, speaking of such it seems as though Turdsy Fisichella has been given his walking papers being that Mini Piquet will probably race with The Fern at Renault, and purportedly Heikki will move on over to Alonso's vacated seat at McLaren. At least this is what I have read, and I do hope it is the case, because I'm only against the promising Finn being moved to another team if it is a lesser team than his current one. Moving to McLaren wouldn't be a horrid deal and I could live with this.

So it looks like Fisi is out of F1. Good riddence. Don't get me wrong, I like the guy as a person but I think he's a truly unspectacular racer and a slight whiner. I remember back in 2003 or maybe 2004 when there was talk of Schumi retiring that Fisi went to the press literally begging Ferrari to sign him. It was at that point that I realized this guy wasn't good for much other than delivering Jordan Grand Prix their last race win. Why not show on the track yer worth the Scuderia's time. After being brought to Renault to replace Trulli/Villeneuve in 2005 he was outclassed by Alonso, and again in 2006. Fernie left for 2007 and Fisi had the team to himself and did nothing with it. Sure, the car was kind of a turd this year, but it wasn't the previous two years when he did next to nothing with the machine.

Nick Heidfeld and his unspectacular beard look to be safe because for some reason people still think he has some chance of doing something with himself. Sure he scored 61 points to The Kube's 39, but that is not a fantastic representation, considering Kubica had 3 retirements and 1 missed race due to injury, whereas Heidfeld only had two retirements. Either way, I do concede that Nick was quicker than The Kube this year. No denying that, just Heidfeld has been kicking around in F1 for 7 seasons, making a total of 132 starts, while The Kube has raced just 1.3 seasons, making only 22 starts... so Heidfeld better be quicker. I just think Heidfeld is a solid-to-mediocre driver at best.

Moving along, I wonder what is going to become of Jarno Trulli and his massive neck? Jarno is another one of those guys that is probably on his way out. While he has a valid contract for 2008, due to the uncertain future of Alonso, Toyota have seemed to be entertaining the idea of buying him out of his contract which could leave him marooned. The way I see it is that Toyota should let Jarno stick around for another year. They have never given him a great car, so therefore have nothing lost by keeping him around the paddock for yet another year. Besides, what else is he going to do with that tree trunk of a neck?

Ralph Schumacher on the other hand, I can understand why they did not retain his services. However, if all Ralphie was asking for was to keep any prize money won/earned and for Toyota to take care of travel expenses, then Toyota should have kept him around for another year, being as with Jarno, Toyota have never really ponied up a fantastic car and we know Ralph is capable of winning races... but I imagine his proposal to them was to halve his salary, which would still be $10 or $11 million a year, which is not exactly a bargain, even if you are the world's most prosperous car maker. I suppose next year will be the first Schumacherless year since 1991.

David Coulthard deserves another year or three with Red Balls considering he purportedly helped engineer Adrian Newey's entrance to the team and as of yet, Ade hasn't yet spat out one of his classic designs. While DC will never win a championship, he's still a solid racer and in the twilight of his career, yet still producing strong results with what he has been given. I mean, he out performed The Webb, whom is another driver I'm not too sure about, yet I shant talk shit upon since he always ends up in the wrong car at the wrong time, though if he doesn't do something soon, I will start hating on him.

Wurz retired, which was a smart move. I have already addressed this subject though in previous enteries.

Then there's the guy who keeps popping up in all my blog entries like he was my favorite friggin driver or something... Mr. Rubens Barrichello. I like Rubens, I will admit this. The guy has had an interesting career, and was Michael Schumacher's ultimate bitch. Sure, if he had not been at Ferrari he probably would have never won a race and have been out of F1 a long time ago, but here he is. He is currently the most experienced driver on the grid, the only current driver to have raced with Senna, and in 2008 will have raced in more GP's than any other driver ever. This year was Barrichello's worst season ever, considering he scored not one point, and scored 2 points back in his rookie season in 1993. This was namely due to Honda producing possibly the shittiest car on the grid. Due to this abortion of a car, Rubens was rewarded with one last contract. It's damn near impossible he will have a worse year than this one, and can leave the sport at the end of 2008 as the guy who raced longer than all others.