Alessandro Marchesi wrote:I think the Chief Steward should lay off on the vodka before handing out penalties in the future, of course!
Marchesi's penalty is the verbal equivilant of a slap on the wrist. Besides, the Chief Steward got sick of people ramming up the backside of other drivers after about the 8th or 9th collision
Biscione wrote:"Some Turkemenistani gulag repurposed for residential use" is the best way yet I've heard to describe North / East Glasgow.
Alessandro Marchesi wrote:I think the Chief Steward should lay off on the vodka before handing out penalties in the future, of course!
Marchesi's penalty is the verbal equivilant of a slap on the wrist. Besides, the Chief Steward got sick of people ramming up the backside of other drivers after about the 8th or 9th collision
Alessandro Marchesi wrote:I was only referring to the sheer number of penalties, I'm not appealing anything. Besides, it's kinda expected with the crappy weather we got in Barca! And everyone's tires were cold. Especially mine.
Mistakes in potatoes will ALWAYS happen Trulli bad puns... IN JAIL NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM
Johannes Rueckert wrote:Yeah, I will definitely be lodging an appeal considering it was almost impossible to see in the wet weather and the fact that it was testing! I was watching the highlights of the old F1RGP2C races and I saw some maneuvers that ol' Theo Rulboke would deem worthy of a lifetime ban from a race car.
CoopsII wrote:On occasion I have ventured into the PMM forum but beat a hasty retreat soon after as it resembles some sort of bad acid trip in there
Theo Rulboke wrote:20 minutes before the start of the test, having seen the deteriorating weather outside, I called for a emergency drivers' meeting and explicitly stated that drivers should take extreme caution on track, especially when running with other cars. Within an hour of that meeting concluding, Rueckert had already hit two other drivers, ending the day for one of those drivers as Carlisle's car had suffered considerable damage. Both accidents could have easily been avoided if Rueckert had shown some more caution when running behind other cars. Furthermore, the conditions were never so bad at any point that any cars had to use the Monsoon compound tyres and Rueckert himself had driven in conditions worse than the ones during the final day at Barcelona on multiple occasions in an F2RWRS car, including just a week beforehand on the first day of testing at Barcelona, where the conditions were bad enough to use monsoon tyres for most of the morning.
Rueckert however does raise a good point that it is only testing and it has been taken into consideration. Therefore, the probation of both Tomo Kazama and Johannes Rueckert have been retracted. Instead, they'll both be given an official caution and a $25 000 fine for Kazama and $5 000 for Rueckert. Even so, we'd like to remind drivers that during testing, the last thing is racing cars getting unnecessarily damaged due to collisions with other cars as, frankly, they shouldn't be racing that hard on a test day to begin with.
Biscione wrote:"Some Turkemenistani gulag repurposed for residential use" is the best way yet I've heard to describe North / East Glasgow.
tommykl wrote:Swerts will drive the 20 car at Adelaide. This is how it goes for the season:
Swerts: Tasmania, South Africa, Turkey, Monaco, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Indianapolis
Pascal: France, Great Britain, Germany, North Sea, Singapore, Japan, America
Does that work?
Works for me. As long as Swerts does less than 9 races and doesn't drive in Japan, I'm not too fussed about how you do it. There are virtually no clashes in this year's calender anyway.
Biscione wrote:"Some Turkemenistani gulag repurposed for residential use" is the best way yet I've heard to describe North / East Glasgow.
tommykl wrote:Swerts will drive the 20 car at Adelaide. This is how it goes for the season:
Swerts: Tasmania, South Africa, Turkey, Monaco, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Indianapolis
Pascal: France, Great Britain, Germany, North Sea, Singapore, Japan, America
Does that work?
Works for me. As long as Swerts does less than 9 races and doesn't drive in Japan, I'm not too fussed about how you do it. There are virtually no clashes in this year's calender anyway.
Swerts does 8 races and Pascal drives in Japan, so it's confirmed.
kevinbotz wrote:Cantonese is a completely nonsensical f*cking alien language masquerading as some grossly bastardised form of Chinese
Gonzo wrote:Wasn't there some sort of communisim in the East part of Germany?
ADELAIDE IS NOT IN bathplug TASMANIA. I have seen this mistake several times and it still pisses me off massively. I don't give a bathplug if it's traditionally called the Tasman GP, this crap needs to be changed.
aerond wrote:Yes RDD, but we always knew you never had any sort of taste either
tommykl wrote:I have a shite car and meme sponsors, but Corrado Fabi will carry me to the promised land with the power of Lionel Richie.
Josh Carlisle wrote:That w*nker Rueckert wants to have a word with himself, it's only bloody testing, and the idiot just punts me off the road and ends my day early. I'm pretty angry about it because it's cost me a fair bit of track time, and it's vital I get up to speed with the team in time for the season. That said, the car feels good and I think we can have a pretty good year if things work out for us.
Ashley Lilly: I had a good run today. The weather was pretty bad but I always like driving in the rain, your concentration levels go through the roof and your so aware of everything around you. Sadly for Scott, he got caught up in a couple of crashes so couldn't run as well as myself. To crack the top 10 is encouraging, but we know days like this will be rare.
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Kay Lon wrote:Well, those penalties don't even need a comment: I mean, according to the report, the Chief Steward doesn't know which driver has car #6. Meh, incompetent tapeworms seem to be very comfortable in the RWRS system...
Alberto Cara wrote:Well, it was a pretty chaotic day. While it was not too conclusive, my car looks competitive. We will see whether I can take the battle to Alitalia.
Tomo Kazama wrote:The other guys drive like retards and I get a penalty!? Sure, let's just give the successful girl a harsh penalty. Kay always says "success breeds jealousy", I guess he is right.
Tomo Kazama wrote:The other guys drive like retards and I get a penalty!? Sure, let's just give the successful girl a harsh penalty. Kay always says "success breeds jealousy", I guess he is right.
Because successful driving includes giving Alberto Cara one of the most vicious chops I've ever seen in the middle of a freaking test session
Biscione wrote:"Some Turkemenistani gulag repurposed for residential use" is the best way yet I've heard to describe North / East Glasgow.
Prince Falik wrote:What a waste of a test session that was, Josh Carlisle only did a few laps before his car was damaged beyond repair by Johannes Rueckert just smashing into him, Hydook will be getting our repair bill for this as it is clear that he was at fault. The track was in monsoon conditions for most of the day, Yuka Katayama suffered from having to slow down to avoid accidents and aquaplaned off a few times, so her lap time was meaningless. I do hope the management do organise another test before teh season starts.
Yuka Katayama wrote:I was disappointed that I never really did a lap in anger as I had yellow flags nearly every lap I did and the conditions were such that I aquaplaned a few times so I was called in and we played Monopoly to pass the time.
<@Ataxia> these people are making a mess of their crepe suzettes
Dave Anderson wrote:I guess Tomo's eyeballs is mixed up, again. Watch your mirrors, babe!
Tomo's a girl
Give me the "distaff counterpart" of that word and I'll edit it immediately.
Fixed???
watka wrote:I find it amusing that whilst you're one of the more openly Christian guys here, you are still first and foremost associated with an eye for the ladies!
dinizintheoven wrote:GOOD CHRISTIANS do not go to jail. EVERYONE ON FORMULA ONE REJECTS should be in jail.
Looks like Enrico didn't entirely suck this time. Meanwhile, with a bit of luck McCracken could make a bid for the top 10 in the championship and earn himself a new Superlicence.
Eurosport broadcast for the 1990 Mexican GP prequalifying: "The Life, it looked very lifeless yet again... in fact Bruno did one, slow lap"
Babe, duck, lass: they're all just regional variations of the same thing, aren't they?
watka wrote:I find it amusing that whilst you're one of the more openly Christian guys here, you are still first and foremost associated with an eye for the ladies!
dinizintheoven wrote:GOOD CHRISTIANS do not go to jail. EVERYONE ON FORMULA ONE REJECTS should be in jail.
Phoenix wrote:That's for those who said on Twitter that Tanner Jason was an ass, ha!
Anton Bosevic wrote:I still hold that notion, Sir. Ha! It's good to see that even without my involvement preparations for the season are going well. Of course we expect to win the championship this year, with Molinaro being our Barrich... secret weapon.
The 15 minute session proved to be an intense once as Wouter Lamberigts lost his first hot lap when he came across Wojciech Cieslar, who was also on a hot lap, costing the Belgian a bucketload of time. Cieslar was then handed a repirmand a few minutes later when he held up Terry Hawkin whilst the Brit was on a hot lap with the Pole on a out-lap. It took a last-gasp effort from Hawkin to haul Jones into pre-qualifying ahead of Gillet by the slim margin of 2 hundreths of a second right after the checkered flag fell.
1. W. Lamberigts (RonDen-Lancia): 1:20.377 2. J-V. Albertini (Gillet-BMW): +0.494 3. T. Hawkin (Jones-Aston Martin): +0.554 4. G. Pazzini (RonDen-Lancia): +0.565 5. H. Shioya (Jones-Aston Martin): +0. 609 6. E. Swerts (Gillet-BMW): +0.692 7. S. Davidson (Kingfisher-Holden): +0.947 8. A. Lilly (Kingfisher-Holden): +0.951 9. A. Buyvolov (Dofasco-Audi): +0.967 10. W. Cieslar (Dofasco-Audi): +1.840
2015 F2RWRS Tasman Grand Prix - Qualifying
The first ever free-for-all qualifying session in the F2RWRS proved to be a great success for new commissioner Tom Douglas as the times continually tumbled and the order changed faster than a fruit machine. In the end it was Wouter Lamberigts and Alberto Cara who locked out the front row with the Belgian being the first driver to break the 1:20 barrier all weekend. Gigi Pazzini did a fantastic job in the second RonDen to be on the second row as the Lancias locked out four of the top six spots.
Miko Glotch and Enrico Molinaro were both given probations for holding up Terry Hawkin and Hansuke Shioya respectively, although it didn't make much of a difference to Shioya's day as he was down in a relatively lowly 16th place. But at least he wasn't doing as badly as Carter Simpson in the Young Lions car who blew both his hot laps at turn 9 to be last on the grid and with a lot of work to do on race day.
1. W. Lamberigts (RonDen-Lancia): 1:19.921 (1 point) 2. A. Cara (Beirao-BMW): +0.374 3. G. Pazzini (RonDen-Lancia): +0.589 4. A. Kremnicky (Alitalia-Lancia): +0.601 5. M. Cameron (Simpson-BMW): +0.644 6. B. van Nieuwenhuijzen (Alitalia-Lancia): +0.678 7. Y. Katayama (Falik-BMW): +0.773 8. T. Hawkin (Jones-Aston Martin): +0.861 9. T. Kazama (Aston Martin): +0.916 10. D. Anderson (Simpson-BMW): +1.032 11. M. Robertson (MRT-BMW): +1.192 12. T. Nash (Young Lions-Holden): +1.228 13. J. Carlisle (Falik-BMW): +1.284 14. P. McCracken (Hydook-Aston Martin): +1.315 15. R. Suoto Maior (Aeroracing-Audi): +1.380 16. H. Shioya (Jones-Aston Martin): +1.432 17. C. Lopes (Beirao-BMW): +1.537 18. M. Glotch (Aston Martin): +1.658 19. A. Marchesi (MRT-BMW): +1.671 20. T. Jason (Aeroracing-Audi): +1.793 21. E. Molinaro (Hydook-Aston Martin): +2.038 22. C. Simpson (Young Lions-Holden): +4.216
Biscione wrote:"Some Turkemenistani gulag repurposed for residential use" is the best way yet I've heard to describe North / East Glasgow.
Tommy Nash wrote:I'm not too concerned right now as this is only qualifying. Nice that the polesitter gets a point. Rewards people for doing well in qualifying.
Alessandro Marchesi wrote:The wind was against the car, it was obvious as to why I'm 19th
Mistakes in potatoes will ALWAYS happen Trulli bad puns... IN JAIL NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM
Garry Rogers wrote:Obviously this was a difficult session for us, but we're gonna go out there, see what we can get.
Rhys Davies wrote:Come on Carter, that was useless
Carter Simpson wrote:Ah, shut up.
Rhys Davies wrote:That's not very nice. Just put your head down, and try not to hit any MRTs. If you absolutely must hit someone, aim for that Kremnicky kid. He'll be your main competition in a few years.
Sammy Jones wrote:Those f*ckers ruining my boys' laps!! Bloody grateful we made it into qualifying considering, and then to have it happen again in the main session is just ridiculous. I'm hoping for better things in the race.
Positives: Bastiaan van Nieuwenhuijzen - The flying Dutchman has gone from strength to strength since late last year and today he showed the world that he is a match for his more highly-rated teammate. The tap on Gianlugi Pazzini which forced the Italian in for a front wing change may have been questionable but the sublime driving either side of it wasn't. He picked up the baton magnificently when Andrej Kremnicky spun off just before the first stops and controlled the race from thereon in to take his first win in the series.
Simpson Motorsports - On a day where the Lancias probably had a slight advantage on the field, the new quasi-works BMW team had the distinct title of the best of the BMW-powered teams with Michael Cameron continuing his excellent pre-season form to finish second behind van Nieuwenhuijzen. Meanwhile, Dave Anderson in the other car managed to take advantage of his above-average grid position and a rare bout of good luck to score a career-best fourth place finish.
Josh Carlisle - Before today, the kid never scored a point in any of the Commission-approved feeder category but on a day where having a level head was paramount over all else, he took the Falik Arrows car to 6th on debut. Prince Falik however was fuming none the less when Yuka Katayama in the sister car was taken out of a very promising result early on by Terry Hawkin when the Jones driver ran out of road at turn 10 and tried to rejoin the track, which got the Brit a probation as a result.
Wouter Lamberigts - On past form, one would have expected him to fall down the order like a brick after the start, especially when teammate Pazzini simply drove around the outside of him at Wakefield Street on Lap 1. However, this was by far one of Lamberigts' best races in his career as he was holding on to 6th place until the Lancia powerplant developed a severe misfire on the final lap and dropped the Belgian from 6th all the way to 10th in one lap.
Daniel Melrose - Under normal circumstances, early March in Adelaide is pretty uncomfortable at best. Add a stomach bug and a throbbing headache due to dehydration and it's a nigh-on miracle that Melrose managed to commentate the entire race on his own without requiring a trip to the bog or the medical centre. Not that it made his team's performance that afternoon any better mind you.
Negatives: Gianluigi Pazzini - The Italian got ahead of Lamberigts at the start and led the first 10 laps magnificently on debut in the second RonDen car. As soon as Kremnicky got past however, it all started to unravel for Gigi as he got a love tap from van Nieuwenhuijzen in the braking zone for the hairpin at ended up losing the front wing on the wall at the exit as he tried to gather it up. After that point, Pazzini made virtually no progress through the field as he finished a dismal 16th; scant reward for what could have been so much more.
Andrej Kremnicky - This really was a race that got away from the Slovakian when a rare error removed him from contention for the win and any major points that afternoon. Unlike Pazzini in the customer team however, Kremnicky drove like a bat out of hell to make up for lost time but spent far too long fighting for sheep stations just outside the top 10 with the likes of MRT, GRM Young Lions and Aeroracing before getting a lucky 8th place at the final corner. One wonders what he could have done had he not thrown it off the road and chances are, it would have been a dominating win for him.
GRM Young Lions - Carter Simpson's progress early on the race proved to be far slower than anticipated and once it became clear that Tommy Nash wasn't going to threaten the points scorers anytime soon, the team seemed resigned to their fate of midfield mediocrity.
Hydook - They took out ROTR at the first race of last season and they repeated the dose here today on the streets of Adelaide. Phil McCracken tried his hardest to make the hateful Hydook-Aston Martin combination work before he joined Aeroracing from the next race onwards while Enrico Molinaro was stuck at the rear of the field before a spectacular engine failure put a merciful early end to his afternoon.
Results: 1. B. van Nieuwenhuijzen (Altialia-Lancia): 1h 13m 01.319 2. M. Cameron (Simpson-BMW): +12.012 3. A. Cara (Beirao-BMW): +26.488 4. D. Anderson (Simpson-BMW): +28.649 5. T. Kazama (Aston Martin): +34.019 6. J. Carlisle (Falik-BMW): +45.659 7. T. Hawkin (Jones-Aston Martin): +46.104 8. A. Kremnicky (Alitalia-Lancia): +49.753 9. A. Marchesi (MRT-BMW): +50.278 10. W. Lamberigts (RonDen-Zastava): +51.150 11. T. Jason (Aeroracing-Audi): +53.637 12. M. Robertson (MRT-BMW): +54.235 13. C. Simpson (Young Lions-Holden): +57.258 14. R. Suoto Maior (Aeroracing-Audi): +1:10.060 15. T. Nash (Young Lions-Holden): +1:10.516 16. G. Pazzini (RonDen-Zastava): +1:12.037 17. P. McCracken (Hydook-Aston Martin): +1:18.151 18. C. Lopes (Beirao-BMW): +1 LAP DNF. H. Shioya (Jones-Aston Martin): Brakes DNF. M. Glotch (Aston Martin): Water Leak DNF. E. Molinaro (Hydook-Aston Martin): Engine DNF. Y. Katayama (Falik-BMW): Collision
Pole: W. Lamberigts (RonDen-Zastava): 1:19.921 Fastest Lap: A. Kremnicky (Alitalia-Lancia): 1:20.528 Reject of the Race: Hydook - Subpar performance makes Pre-Q worringly likely possibility Infinite Improbability Drive of the Race: Bastiaan van Niuewenhuijzen - Repays team's faith in him with excellent debut win Leaders: G. Pazzini: 1-10 (Total: 10) A. Kremnicky: 11-17 (Total: 7) B. van Niuewenhuijzen: 18-36, 39-53 (Total: 34) M. Cameron: 37-38 (Total: 2)
Drivers Championship 1. B. van Nieuwenhuijzen (Alitalia-Lancia): 10 points (1 win) 2. M. Cameron (Simpson-BMW): 8 points (1 2nd) 3. A. Cara (Beirao-BMW): 6 points (1 3rd) 4. D. Anderson (Simpson-BMW): 5 points (Best Result: 1 4th) 5. T. Kazama (Aston Martin): 4 points (Best Result: 1 5th) 6. J. Carlisle (Falik-BMW): 3 points (Best Result: 1 6th) 7. T. Hawkin (Jones-Aston Martin): 2 points (Best Result: 1 7th) 8. A. Kremnicky (Alitalia-Lancia): 2 points (Best Result: 1 8th) 9. W. Lamberigts (RonDen-Zastava): 1 point (Best Result: 1 10th)
Teams Championship 1. Gulf M/Power Simpson Motorsport-BMW: 13 points (1 2nd) 2. Scuderia Lancia Alitalia: 12 points (1 win) 3. Licor Beirão Portugal Racing-BMW: 6 points (1 3rd) 4. Aston Martin Motor Racing: 4 points (Best Result: 1 5th) 5. Falik Arrows-BMW: 3 points (Best Result: 1 6th) 6. Castrol Jones Racing-Aston Martin: 2 points (Best Result: 1 7th) 7. RonDen Racing Engineering-Zastava: 1 point (Best Result: 1 10th)
Phil McCracken wrote:Aye, this car wasn't of the best I've driven, and I'm just happy to be driving for the more promising Aeroracing boys from the next race onwards.
Enrico Molinaro wrote:This is sabotage! Mi perfetto race ended by engine failure!
Eurosport broadcast for the 1990 Mexican GP prequalifying: "The Life, it looked very lifeless yet again... in fact Bruno did one, slow lap"
Prince Falik wrote:What is Terry Hawkin doing???? He was running quite high up, left the track and came back on without looking at the road and took out Yuka Katayama, who lost a front wheel. She could have ended up in 3rd. He is a cucumber and I hope that Sammy Jones will be reading him the riot act and comparing him to a rock ape for losing Jones high value points. Josh Carlisle did well to score some points but he is a little off the pace and I hope he improves as the season goes on.
<@Ataxia> these people are making a mess of their crepe suzettes
Enrico Molinaro wrote:This is sabotage! Mi perfetto race ended by engine failure!
It was indeed sabotage,The saboteur being the muppet driving the car
I know, but Enrico never admits that.
Douglas Mann Mk II in the making, if these engine failures continue!
watka wrote:I find it amusing that whilst you're one of the more openly Christian guys here, you are still first and foremost associated with an eye for the ladies!
dinizintheoven wrote:GOOD CHRISTIANS do not go to jail. EVERYONE ON FORMULA ONE REJECTS should be in jail.
Never mind.
