Hungary For More Action!

+The Hungarian GP can even some how manage to be a tad bit boring in the wet! Now don't get me wrong, today's race was quite decent but there was a very solid lull there in the middle of the race for awhile. I actually nodded off for a few laps, luckily I missed nothing.

+How interesting it is that in only the second track that Button has twice conquered, the conditions were amazingly similar to those in which he clinched his maiden GP win back in 2006. I guess that is pretty cool considering it was also his 200'th race. I was really surprised when SpeedTV was doing a little career retrospective on Button and they said it was in 2003 that JB had that heavy shunt in practice at Monaco... That kinda made me feel old as I think that was the first season I watched religiously from start to finish, every practice, quali & race. I remember when Sergio Perez had his bizarrely similar crash to Button's this year at Monaco and they showed them both - I recalled being wowed JB's was from '03. I must have put it out of my mind though, considering I was once again wowed today by how long ago that was!

+While I'm glad Jenson won, I once again felt The Brown Possum's strife and felt he ran a solid race considering the adversity he faced making 6 stops or something outrageous, along with that spin and all.

+I swear I heard today was only the 2'nd time that the Hungarian GP was wet and/or damp, which makes it even more odd that these "rare" conditions had the same winner. I also think I heard that with something like 186 million pit stops, that this race officially had the most pit stops ever, taking the crown from another race that happened this year. What I would like to know, is what race previously held the record prior to the Pirelli era?

+Lastly - Two things I found humorous today was when Heidfeld's car burst in to flames, the manner in which he exited. Looks like the wet car almost caused him to slip. I am glad he and his beard did not eat shit and fall. That would have been really embarrassing. The other amusing thing I noted was when Massa kissed the wall with his rear wing there was a dude with a camera like right there but he was walking AWAY with his back turned to the happening, which was really odd cos it seemed like it was going on VERY close to him. Maybe he had ear plugs in... but I couldn't help but wondering why he didn't hear a small Formula 1 car sliding towards him and the tire barrier at a mildly decent speed.

Kamui Power!

+I was happied to read earlier today that Sauber resigned Kobayashi. Sauber is a good place for him and I can't wait until he is signed with a real contender. It seems like it will only be a matter of time, cos the guy is awesome! He was pullin' off ridiculously fine passes in his first races before they made magical wings. It will be a glorious day when he makes his way into a Renault or better!

+I've always been a fan of Jarno Trulli but I think it is time for him to move on to DTM or NASCAR and call a day on his F1 career. He's been whining too much and that is probably why Team Lotus let Chandhok drive, which is fine by me. While I really have no idea of the guy's ability considering he's always driven turds on wheels, I do think Karun is a nice guy with a few bucks, so why not give him a chance till someone better or richer comes along. It is not like Jarno is paying Team Lotus or bringing any fine results and he's driven close to 250 races...

Bad Home GP Luck & Random Thoughts

+I find it curious how some of the "Big Boys" in F1 often have bad luck at home GP's when they qualify good. Today for instance, was not Vettel's day amazingly, which is fine with me since he already has such a massive lead and all, though I *almost* felt bad for him. I would have rather had Fern or Webber win as opposed to The Brown Possum, but it was nice to see Hamilton's genuine appreciation for his race win.

+At the British GP I truly felt bad for Button. What a horrible and terribly uncharacteristic problem that befell him! Then again, I kinda felt bad for JB today too, but that is mainly because I have had a newfound respect for him since he won his championship a few years back after riding him so hard for years as being a waster. I imagine if he wasn't Lewis' team mate I wouldn't be wanting The Brown Possum to fail as much as I do at times. I think my beef with Hamilton is that he's a bit too cheeky and some times comes off as entitled on track for my liking as we already know that he is a brilliant driver and I think he's a stand up guy off track, so as a whole I appreciate LH but rarely find myself rooting for him during races.

+While I am a fan of Vettel, I hope the SpeedTV guys are right and that maybe Red Bull's performance drops off a bit like what happened to Button in his championship year. I've already accepted that Vettel & Red Bull are probably going to win the championship again this year, but I sure wouldn't mind seeing some more wins by Ferrari and McLaren and my unlikely dream win of the year would be to have Schumacher bring home Mercedes first win in a wet race in Brazil after starting 12'th or something. It would also be nice to see Massa win again as even though Ferrari say he's racing for them next year, I suspect it'll probably be his last with the Scuderia.

Niki Lauda's finger

Chance & Broadcasters

I was on grandprix.com tonight doing some research for something (I've already forgot what it was, to be quite honest) and after I found out whatever information I originally went searching their archives for I got curious about what race it was that I first saw as an adult that got me obsessed with F1.

Once I pinpointed the race in question (French GP, Magny-Cours, July 21, 2002) I started thinking about the few people that really enjoy this blog all over the world and how the reason they come here is for my silly take on things. I'm not a news source. I'm not terribly technical. I am an opinionated American that some folks find amusing due to my semi-skewed take on Formula 1.

Once upon a time I was supposed to be an up and coming young F1 journalist years ago but apparently I was too old even at the time to win the Red Bull journalism prize (by 1 year) that I felt I needed to help get my career kick-started and at the same time I have yet to fulfill my Journalism/Mass Communications degree at the ripe old age of 28... So as you can see life got in the way and as of late I have forgot to update this blog as much as I should be doing. But in the end I sure do love to write about Formula 1 racing and the things that captivate and amuse me about the sport both new and old.

That is why this blog exists. That is the same reason there are only a handful of the many web pages devoted to F1 that are worth reading that DO serve as a news source. This blog exists to amuse, provoke some though and possibly educate. I don't break news. I'm not going to be able to explain very well why some teams were soiling themselves at the beginning of this past season over the double diffusers some other teams had. There are plenty of people who can do that well and plenty more people who aspire to.

Formula 1 at times can be kind of cold and soulless. I like to latch on to that bit of warmth that the sport does emit and discuss that aspect. With that said, I shall try to get back to my "roots" and tell more stories of how F1 has touched me as well as parody and lampoon the other aspects that I find absurd for the enjoyment of the few fine loyal readers I do have... starting this entry!

I learned 10 years ago as a young intern at Alternative Press magazine here in Cleveland that publishers don't get too excited over creative writing exercises involving humor concerning whatever subject it is that their publication "seriously" covers, but many readers can be and ARE entertained by such bits of nonsense. Who doesn't like entertainment?

With that said, I shall tell my eye-opening Formula 1 experience and elaborate on it a bit. I would greatly enjoy reading what your F1 eye-opener was.

The Tale:

It was early August in 2002. I had just arrived home from a 3 day trip to Peoria, Illinois and was kind of pissed off as a whole due to the person I was traveling with and the fact that we hit massive traffic delays about 50 miles south of arriving home which added an extra hour to an already long enough road trip. It was around midnight when I finally arrived home. My father was watching TV and drinking a glass of scotch as he often does. The old man was real excited because he'd found a channel that showed F1 races regularly.

Now, my dad has been a pretty devout follower of Formula 1 since the late 1960's when a buddy of his in college took him up to Watkins Glen for some racing action and evenings of drinking. He went to all the US GP's at The Glen from 1973 to 1980. In 1976 he first won tickets to the inaugural Long Beach Grand Prix from Formula Magazine. He had his father who worked at the local General Electric in Erie, PA make him up some "official" looking credentials that stated he was a Team Lotus photographer and was able to get into the paddock and on to the starting grid to take some amazing pictures of drivers and famous folk, on top of being able to get some great Super 8 film by hanging off of the barriers manned by a track marshal for drivers to enter through should they need to get past the catch-fencing and concrete barriers in the event of a failure or crash. Later that year he and my mother went to the race at Mosport In Canada. Then, in 1981 I was born. My birth caused him to have to give up wandering around the USA & Canada to watch F1 races. It also sadly caused him to have to quit racing in the SCCA's Formula Vee series. To make matters worse, my need for Pampers was so fierce that he had to sell his beautiful 1969 Lotus Europa which had aided him in the procurement of 3 SCCA Autocross championships in the mid-1970's. With my bottom covered in diapers with money received from selling relics of his youth he was still able to make it to two more GP's due to his employment with Phillip Morris. In 1982 and 1983 he scored some great tickets to the Grand Prix of Detroit, which sadly were the last races he has attended.

Since then he had always kept up with F1 via magazines and any races shown on TV. He named me after Niki Lauda and as a small child would try to educate me in the ways of F1. While I was too young to really understand I was always well aware of the names Stirling Moss, Jim Clark, Jackie Stewart, James Hunt, Emerson Fittipaldi, and of course Niki Lauda. I would play with his expensive small scale F1 replica cars and that was about it. I always had an appreciation and respect for the sport but due to it being hard to see in the states, never really started following it... until that fateful night in August of 2002 when the Speed Channel was replaying a recent race in the wee hours of the morning.

I remember just arriving back home and during a commercial my pops telling me how he was pretty sure a Michael Schumacher was about to surpass Juan Manuel Fangio's record of world championships that Schumi & Fangio up to that race currently shared. While my dad was familiar with the Schumacher name, I sure was not but this information was enough for me to at least sit down and watch the last half of the race. I found it interesting because at that point in time I had become very consumed with the art and science of driving so it was finally fascinating to me to watch these fine men driving the best cars to the limit.

From there on out my love of the sport only became more and more vicious. I spent the off season(s) reading tons of my dad's many books on F1 from the 60's and 70's and discovered the F1 web pages I still check first thing in the morning to this day. I started my own F1 book collection as I love the old school as much as the new school. I would poach my pops' books, buy new ones when I could find them at my local book shop, and buy ones online that while expensive, I felt I must have.

On top of raiding my dad's files and growing my own collection of books, and hours of internet reading I would watch the previous seasons races during the winter months because in 2003 I started recording EVERY race weekend and Formula 1 Decade and ANY other bit of F1 related material that came on TV.

From watching the previous seasons races during the winter I grew to love the American F1 commentators immensely. I remember when a Steve Matchett one day appeared on the broadcasts along with Mr. Hobbs & company. Matchett was so technical and business oriented that it threw me because he was so well informed and had so much insight. I was used to the other guys being efficient and lighthearted but this fellow just presented the facts and knew what he was talking about so intricately. It took a few races for me to warm to the man but now I don't know what I would do should he not call the races. Between Matchett, the wonderfully colorful and amusing David Hobbs & good old Bob Varsha I can no longer fully enjoy a race with out them. At times I have had to watch European coverage due to VCR malfunctions and it was just not the same. Those three men make F1 that much more interesting for me and are honestly the only reason I am so adamant about catching the Friday practices. We all know that not a whole hell of a lot happens during those practice sessions some times, but I derive a great amount of enjoyment hearing Hobbs, Matchett, Varsha, and Windsor just shooting the shit that Friday practice is an event for me. While I do enjoy qualifying the only reason I make sure to tune in at the top of the sessions is to hear them, as we all know the real action happens in the last 2 minutes of Q3 any how.

It is funny how the fellows who call your races can make such an impact on the overall viewing experience. The first time I realized this strongly was when Speed Channel would lose races to CBS and my three guys wouldn't be calling the races. I remember watching the last 15 laps or so of a thrilling San Marino GP in 2005 muted because the guys calling the race were angering me so much. You couldn't listen to them. They were atrocious. If "my guys" had been calling the race those last laps would have been just amazing. I was so pissed that I wrote a letter to CBS voicing my distaste. I appreciated that they were trying to bring a bigger American audience to Formula 1 (and more fine American dollars to Mr. Ecclestone's bulging bank account) but at the same time explained that if they had had Hobbs, Matchett & Varsha that people would be even more receptive. Eventually the races stopped being on CBS and instead on Fox, when not on Speed and thankfully we got our announcers back. I like to think my letter helped. It didn't. But I still like to think it did...


But that wasn't the first time I realized how much "your guys" meant to the overall viewing experience. It all originally clicked with me and made sense one day when some really good racing was going on and that new Matchett guy was getting excited. When he gets excited the man gets an aggressive, very British tone about him when truly stirred and that in turn made me even more excited about what was transpiring since I knew that if Matchett was really excited that it was the real deal. From that point onward I realized why people were so sad when Murray Walker retired. As a newbie AND an American I never really heard him call races but after spending a lot of money on bootleg DVD's of vintage seasons and hearing him I realized that he was the voice of British F1 viewers and to many, his voice was all they knew. He was a part of the family. Like a cousin or uncle.

The guys who call the races that you watch make up such an important part of the show. You figure on average, if you watch all the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday events that you are hearing "your guys" talk for almost 80 hours a year.

Think about that.

So in the end I would like to thank my father, that shitty trip to Illinois back in 2002, Niki Lauda, Michael Schumacher and the announcers on Speed's F1 broadcasts for all helping me discover my love of Formula 1 Racing.

Thanks guys!

There better be a triumphant return...

I was very pleased to read that my new main man, Kamui Kobayashi, found a decent ride and has signed for the recently revived Sauber sans BMW team. I look forward to his fun style of racing and possibly pissing off smooth kings of driving like World Champ J. Button.

Other than that I am as "over the moon" as little old Bernie Ecclestone is with all the stories I continue to read about Michael Schumacher's supposed return to F1 with Mercedes GP. When you are reading stories with Luca di Montezemolo talking about how in his eyes it is Schumacher's "twin" that will be racing for the Silver Arrows next season you can only assume gears are turning and Schumi really is on the verge of coming back.

I just love it!

If Schumacher does in fact return to the grid I wonder if Jenson Button will be kicking himself in the ass for not staying with Brawn... if it was a challenge he was really after.

While very few will debate that Lewis Hamilton is a great driver who will win more championships in the future, even fewer will debate that Michael Schumacher is a force of racing nature.

If Button wanted a same-machine challenge going head to head with Schumacher would have been the wisest choice on his part considering he apparently wants to be chewed up and spat out by his team mate. While I am rather confident Lewis will not have much of a problem doing this to JB, Schumacher would humiliate Button in a way that Max Mosley has to pay to receive.

I understand the main reason Schumacher is being poached is because Mercedes GP want to start their re-introduction to F1 with a beastly German super-team, on top of having the means and will to procure such a talent. If this were still Brawn GP there would be far less of a chance they'd be knocking on Schumi's door, even after letting their champion go to McLaren and their old reliable saunter on over to the Williams pasture to graze. Maybe they would? Maybe Schumacher would still have come back had the team been Brawn and not Mercedes? I don't know.

All I do know is I am excited to see Schumacher either live up to his fans expectations of a come back or fail miserably. I also know if after achieving world champion status if the next step in Button's personal career path was to try to go head to head in the same car with someone he deemed to be a worthy adversary that Michael Schumacher is the man to try to prove something against.

Glock's gut...

I just read a little story about Timo Glock saying his gut feeling is that Michael Schumacher is going to come back to F1 racing. I hope his gut is right and knows something my gut does not.

How nice...

I find it pleasant to read that Ferrari will supposedly not cock-block Michael Schumacher if he decides to return to kicking ass and taking names in F1 for Mercedes GP. That is honorable.

Edge of seat announcement... or not?

So it looks quite likely that tomorrow the Lotus name in F1 will be revived with two guys I like quite a bit but always let me down. Of course I am talking about the speed demon of qualifying and slow poke of the race as well as being owner of the thickest neck in F1, Mr. Jarno Trulli. Purportedly the other man is a fellow with whom I share a birthday and is the proud owner of the biggest head (physically, not metaphorically) in Formula 1, Finland's sole Fin left in the sport (as of the time of this writing) Mr. Heikki Kovalainen.

I am excited, as I am a vintage Lotus F1 lover. I can now proudly wear my old brass Lotus belt buckle not just as a fan of their fine ugly little road cars but also as a Formula 1 team enthusiast. While I don't expect much out of the team I do hope they aren't the slowest of the lot next year. I would like to bequeath that honor to Virgin F1 because Richard Branson is a cheap-ass-rich-man-hippie. I actually like Branson just fine but hope he gets what he pays for as he got lucky last year sponsoring the underdog as he so often likes to state.

Now what I really would appreciate the most of all things F1 related would be a statement released by Mercedes GP or the Michael Schumacher camp that was notarized by a notary public declaring either he has in fact been released from contract by Ferrari, declared fit by a doctor to race, and has indeed signed a new 1 year contract to race Mercedes super all German Nazi rocket sleighs OR can not get out of his Ferrari contract, is still not fit to race, and no longer cares to think about racing F1 cars any longer.

Just give me one or the other. I don't want to wait any more. I've already been teased by a Schumi return once this year and gotten over it. Stop dangling this frotting carrot in front of my face already!

We've got interest now!

According to Bloomberg, Daimler and Aabar are paying around $184.2m for 75.1% of Brawn GP making the saviors of Honda's F1 team an immense chunk of coin. You do the math. How amazing it was that a sub-par team called Honda decided to quit F1 after spending a great amount of time and money developing what would end up being the strongest car for pretty much the first half of the season.

Instead of putting all those people who worked so hard for the team out on their asses they sold the team to Ross Brawn and company for a British pound sterling and THEN financed that season for them with the understanding that "You get one free year and then it is up to you to make this work and if you don't then it is your conscience that has to deal with making all these people jobless"

This ultimately led to the newly named/birthed Brawn GP who went on to sew up the constructors championship AND the drivers race as well in only their first year, something that had never happened before and to top it all off it was the team's only year... and on somebody else's dime!!!

If that wasn't a good enough of a story now they've gone and flipped the frotting team for $184.2 million dollars because Mercedes wanted to have more say in how an F1 team was run as well as not having much interest in financing a team that will soon be producing supercars that will challenge their own works?

I do recall an earlier entry at the end of March where I proclaimed "Ross Brawn may be Jesus Christ" and I'm beginning to think I was right. Making crappy bloated teams into dual, lean championship winners and then selling the team for a tidy pile of money... a lot like turning water in to wine if you think about it, but with a capitalistic lean.

Brawny Mercedes

Norb Haug is apparently hinting at some sort of "surprise" in the form of driver line up and thus people are talking about Michael Schumacher coming back to drive for the silver arrows as he has purportedly given up F1 counseling duties with Ferrari and is supposedly just working with the development of road cars. However, I always thought the reason Ferrari was giving Schumacher these contracts over the past three years was to keep him legally bound to the team till he was too old to go driving any more and thus not any kind of competition threat to them any more, which is when he would really be allowed to fully retire.

Don't get me wrong, that would be awesome if Schumacher ditched Ferrari and hooked up with his old mate Ross Brawn and drove a Nazi rocket sleigh around F1 tracks. That would be gold. Especially if he won!

In the end it would be far more than a simple surprise if M. Schumacher came back to F1 driving a Mercedes. I have a feeling Haug's surprise is Kimi Raikkonen. Now that WOULD be a surprise. Getting rid of a cheap Button for an expensive Kimi.

Whatever. I wish them all the best in their new teams... and surprise me with a Schumacher of the non Ralf variety.

They only care about Jenson Button and Nick Heidfeld's fucking stupid beards...

Ok... Button & Heidfeld's stupid shit beards and poor old Tom Pryce's viscous demise. Those three things are what drive traffic to this fine, proud, and often times humorous Formula One blog. I will go down in the annals of Formula One history as the guy that analyzed the facial hair trends of F1. I'm not even finished yet. For the past year or two I've been wanting to put together a somewhat definitive piece on facial hair through out F1's years I just have not had the time to compile it the way I would like.

It is unfortunate that as soon as the season ends I have time to write about the sport. I don't quite get it other than the fact that my life as a whole quiets down during the late fall and that as soon as Formula One is over and done with I start to pine for it and feel the need to speak about it in an effort to quench my thirst for F1 action.

I sit here with my autographed picture of the late Ronnie Peterson's beautiful Lotus looking down upon me proud of the fact that I may never find the means and the way to become a "proper" Formula One journalist but at least I can amuse people from time to time and that they know where to go when curious about Jenson Button or Nick Heidfeld's facial hair.

Toyodor

Well, it is 2am round about now and I keep reading very loud whispers about Toyota pulling out of F1 with immediate effect and just closing the team down. Not selling it. No nothin'. Just game over.

I'm bummed in a sense since Toyota looked like they were making some progress. I had always hoped they'd secure at least one win... but doesn't look like that is going to happen now.

Honestly, I probably wouldn't even really give a fiddler's fart about it all had stupid Timo Glock not skinned his knee and vertebrae and opened the door for that loveable and adorable ragamuffin Kamui Kobayashi to go racing.

I have absolutely no 100% solid reason as to why this guy amuses me as much as he does, other than the fact that he's pissed off Button and driven hard in his two races and managed to pick up some points quite quick. I just hope the guy has found a few supporters inside the F1 circle and can hopefully land a ride with one of the new teams.

Hell... Sauber's probably got a seat open now that they are a team again saying they had a provisional spot and now that Toyota's about to call it a day. Come on Peter Sauber. Kamui Kobayashi is worth a shot. This incarnation of Sauber wouldn't even be stepping up to go racing had Toyota not just pulled out.

However, for all I know the management at Toyota were just saying Kobayashi would get the drive next year since they knew their team was toast. Trying to do The Kob a favor, raising his stock.

Either way, I hope Mr. Kobayashi finds a ride next year. Obviously the guy has made a good impression on me and I am very suspicious of Japanese F1 drivers in general. They never seem to deliver... yet this guy has my attention for some reason.

Lastly, I'm glad Max Mosley's prediction of the manufacturers making a semi mass exodus is finally coming true. As crazy and stupid as some folks thought Mad Max was, you can't say the guy didn't know what he was talking about even if the reason the manufacturers are leaving are for different reasons than Mosley predicted. Or not.

Max probably didn't expect to be on his way out with the manufacturers however I am glad he had the foresight to get the costs lowered and get Cosworth back.

The Kob

I like Kamui Kobayashi. He is goofy looking. He smiles a lot. He gives entertaining and candid interviews and most important he is a balsy, aggressive driver... but doesn't appear to be a "crazy" or "wild" driver like I always felt Takuma Sato was. Hopefully he will get a drive with Toyota next year. Hopefully Toyota will still be in F1 next year.

Earlier today I was reading some articles about who goes where next year. The topic of USF1 was brought up, how they want to promote American drivers yet there are no Americans currently holding a superlicense. I figure Scott Speed probably still has a superlicense. Do they expire? I mean he only got shitcanned from Toro Rosso a year and a half ago. However, maybe the article I was reading meant that any American that USF1 is mildly interested in does not have a superlicense. I suppose that is fine considering old Scott Speed says "I hardly even follow Formula One any more". He's content to keep driving those big old NASCAR shitboxes around ovals while Red Balls foots the bill. I can't say I completely blame him I suppose... though I'd still follow F1.

Abu Dhabi's Yas Marina - A New Wave band...

I was somewhat skeptical of the new track in Abu Dhabi. I expected it to be beautiful but boring. The track is in fact beautiful and I surprisingly find the course interesting. How it folds in on itself at first kind of bugged me but after watching practice for awhile I found it was interesting since it appears to be pretty intense from the drivers standpoint going through all of those slow corners on the brake off the brake constantly changing gears and so forth. So in the end I am excited about the race in Abu Dhabi. Maybe now we can get rid of Bahrain's course with something a little more interesting. That track is so flippin' boring in every conceivable way!

OK. That's all I've got now unfortunately...

Button Lipped

I almost felt bad for ripping into Button's ass yesterday about monetary disputes when I read an article that he was only looking for $8 million but then I realized it wasn't a dollar sign by the 8 and instead that of the pound sterling. While £8 million still isn't totally ridiculous in F1 circles, especially for a newly crowned world champion... I still don't feel bad.

He got paid quite well all those years Honda were giving him shitty cars. He should give back. Receive a few paltry millions as opposed to many and just get on with it, his dream of being the first Briton to ever win back to back world championships. If he pulls that off, then he'll have more of a right to flat out demand money. Until then he should just be happy he's in a good car with a good team.

The Nervous Ferret Rides Again!

I'm not sure how I feel about Jean Todt becoming the new president of the FIA. While I expected him to win, I am surprised at how badly he kicked Ari Vatanen's ass.

If Button does leave Brawn over money issues and joins McLaren or something I'll be kind of offended and surprised. He says racing is not about money but at the same time apparently feels he is not paid well enough. He should join Toyota. I'm sure they'll pony up 20 or 30 million to him and he can not win and be more rich. It would be nice if Toyota one day built a F1 car that was good and had a driver capable of taking it to victory.

How depressing...

So I get all excited thinking Schumacher is going to come back and drive around, thus making me happy, even if he wasn't winning all the time. Then that doesn't happen. That really pissed me off. I would have liked to see the lap times he did testing the old Ferrari as I give it a 50/50 chance that it really was his neck bugging him on long hauls or that he'd lost a bit more speed than he thought. Who knows. I was quite surprised at how poorly Luca Badoer showed.

While I was really bummed Schumi didn't rise from the retired and that Badoer was shitty, I must say I thought it very cute Ferrari signed Turdsy Fisichella. Now, I've never been a huge fan of Fisi, and have actually been wishing he would just leave F1 now for a few years, I do have a soft spot for the guy. I remember in 2003 or 2004 when when he was out of a drive with either Jordan or Sauber that I read a story on Yahoo about Turdsy wanting to drive a Ferrari. It was absolutely pathetic and schmaltzy. But now he is a driver for Ferrari and can go away at the end of the season. So I guess it is a win-win.

Now we've got the whole Renault thing. We'll discuss that soon.

It is a great shame... but still great!

Michael gets the call on his scarlet "Schumifone" and after quickly ducking into the nearest public toilet he emerges and is ready to save the day and make millions of super sad little Ferrari fans happy once again. Schumacher himself will now prove that either the F60 is in fact a pig, or that he really is as good as some say!



While it truly is a great shame that something like this had to happen in order to get Michael Fucking Schumacher back into the cockpit, it is still great! When I got home from work and read that Schumacher was returning to help out some old friends I let out a yell that would be likable to one a hillbilly might make if Dale Earnhardt himself rose from the dead.

That picture of Felipe makes me so damn sad though. Poor old Massa. When I saw the footage I had to leave the room cos a tear came to my eye. Kinda like back in 2004 when Ralfie Schumacher ate shit so badly into that wall at Indianapolis. That was the first time I was ever scared watching an F1 race. When I saw this actual picture, I was even more upset than when I saw him catch that spring to the head. If that thing had been caught any lower our little Felipe would no doubt be dead and that would be even worse than is the case now.

When Lauda made the mention that Schumacher was the only real choice for Ferrari, I entertained it for like 2 seconds and decided that it would never happen and that Lauda was just saying his normal off the wall shit (albeit always with a grain of truth) just to ruffle some feathers. Then I started secretly yearning for it to become a reality. Then yet again I realized it just wouldn't happen... so when I saw the story on GrandPrix.com I almost tossed my cookies with excitement.

While nobody wanted to see Massa hurt, I bet the guy just gained a million new fans because I know I am not the only one who has missed Schumi the past 2.5 years.

I'm so glad Michael has a month to train and am truly excited to see him back racing, if only for a little while.

Kick some ass Schumacher.

Get Well Massa

annnnnnnnnd...I don't even care about BMW pulling out of the sport any more.

Vettelstone

There were some good dices today during the race. It was nice to see Ferrari not totally sucking. The Red Balls seem to be working nicely with their new additions. Old Seb Vet made it look easy out there.

I truly hope that Donington Park fails in a way. I like Silverstone. A lot. Even if Silverstone does have to take a break eventually I'd still rather see the British GP at Brands Hatch as opposed to Donighton... but whatever.

I'm sad it will be another three weeks before the next outing of F1'ing.