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Old May 24, 2009 | 06:06 AM
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Monaco is def a fun course to watch. The passes that were done were fabulous and the crashes were not as spectacular as I had expected.

Controling the slides the way they did was great to watch (talk about time loss) and espc how they basically had to dive for the wall out of the one turn and then control it to keep going past it.

Did they ever give penalty for four wheels off? They warned the teams but anything else?
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Old May 24, 2009 | 06:31 AM
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Old May 24, 2009 | 06:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Super6
Then their should be know suprise that button is getting better cars
*surprise


I guess I'm just used to both drivers getting great cars like at Ferrari....go back and look who was #1 and #2 driver last year and tell me that the #2 driver is "supposed" to get a worse car....

-Massa's pass in Tabac was amazing bordering on nuts... and I was surprised at the pass in the hairpin.

-Well, of course Monaco and Ferrari was no surprise. It was understandable that they would make improvements to the car and they still have the best combination of #1#2 drivers in the field. Of course the Brawn cars are still no match for the rest of the field but I will say that at Monaco, the fact that both brawns ran well and stayed out of the wall is commendable.

-I was really hoping that Kaz would finish better (or finish at all for that matter). I keep wondering when Williams will start to become a race team instead of a practice/Qualifying team??

-And finally another close but no cigar run for Force India. I hope they keep making strides and it will be interesting to see what they do once they have KERS. I don't think that KERS makes a huge difference amongst the fast cars, but back further in the field I do think it could give them a big enough advantage to start scoring points...
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Old May 24, 2009 | 04:07 PM
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Outstanding race and another great finish for my boys at Brawn. I was surprised to see someone passing in the hairpin as well, especially after the incident there last year in the wet. I also took notice of Lewis Hamiltons terrible race, such bad luck for him to have been stuck in the back for nearly the entire race distance. Its great to see the Ferraris might finally be bouncing back from their 5 race failfest as well.
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Old May 26, 2009 | 09:21 AM
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Great result for Sebastian Bourdais.
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if you want to have fun get the s2k, if you want to go fast in a straight line but get made fun of in everyday traffic, get the srt4
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Old May 26, 2009 | 06:28 PM
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jenson is doing pretty good so far.this season could be his year.
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Old May 26, 2009 | 07:50 PM
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All this season has shown me so far is the first 4-5 races Button has been faster than Rubins. Although the "team orders" took the win away from Rubins in Spain with the strategy change.

The Brawn cars have been in another league.

Keep an eye on Ferrari, they are increasing race pace and Massa "owns" Turkey (Istanbul). They're too far back for CC/WDC though, just looking for wins now and the 2010 car, assuming FIA gets their act together.
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Old May 26, 2009 | 07:53 PM
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my only hope right now is mclaren and ferrari finish all the races ahead of the brawns, and then massa wins it in in the last race
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Old May 26, 2009 | 07:57 PM
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I watch the BBC coverage of the races and one of the BBC reporters interviewed Max Mosley on camera and he said that they will not do a 40 mill cap for 2010, but for 2011 there will be a 45 million euro cap in which all of the teams agreed on. This is all according to Mosley though.
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Old May 26, 2009 | 09:08 PM
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on Speed, Max could barely string together a full sentence. lol

I'll wait for an official announcement.
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