Montreal F1
 

Love this race. Been there many times. Saw the race when Nigel Mansell got busy waving to the crowd before he ALMOST won, only to stall and hand it to Piquet.

Was there to see Michael Andretti racing for McLaren, partner to Senna, fail to start from the grid, after a good quali slot lost to a bad clutch.

Saw Senna there several times, I'll never forget that.

Saw Panis crash hard and break his leg, right in front of us. Saw the beautiful new green Pepsi/7-up Jordons run well. Pretty cars.

Sat at the first turn a lot and saw ALOT of first lap crashes. Saw alot of fun in and around Montreal. Great city.


So who do you like this weekend? Ham is always good here. Maybe his day??

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De Cesaris ran well in Montreal when I saw it and I was hoping for a win by him. He was kind of a train wreck, poor guy. Nice car, good colors, nice OZ's

De Cesaris - wasn't he the guy who had some kind of seizures that made his eyes roll up into his head? I'm not kidding about this! It would happen while he was driving, from what I understand.

Sounds about right, he had a lot of chances but never quite got there for a win.

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Native son, Gilles V takes his first win at Montreal on a cold Oct day in '78. Beat all the big guns that day.

Just like a Porsche ... Nice at the front but best from the back

Again, looks like rain for practice and quali, with Sun/showers for race day!

Who do you think will be the first of the front runners to overcook the final chicane this year and get their suspension re-aligned on the wall of champions?

Most likely to whack the wall? Massa, (hope he doesn't) Perez, Grosjean,.

Least likely? Alonso wont hit it, he's too cagey for that nonsense. But hope he does. Kimi also is too sly for that. Vettel is more than capable if anyone gets
under his skin. And I think one of the Merc drivers WILL hit it!

BTW, here's a who's/who of the big guns who HAVE hit it.

Jacques V., Michael S., Damon H., Ruben, Jenson, JPM, Kobyashi, Seb Vettel, Pastor
Trulli, Berger, Coulthard, and Ralf and some old guys like Warwick and a few others.

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Muhahaha.........come on kimi......... :-)

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Practice 1 over and done with Paul DiR quickest on wet/dry session
P2 at 1355 Eastern on TSN

Alonso fastest in practice. They said that the last time he did that he won the race.

Using my great powers of perception, I predict that Romain Grosjean will be fast in practice but his race will end early when he tries to cohabitate with another driver on course.

This will be followed by the announcers stating that "he is fast, but he seems to have some pretty bad luck...":rolleyes:

Been going there for years, love this race.

Rain will make things interesting...

One of my favorite tracks. Looking forward to the excitement. Go Kimi.

Looks like wet quali, and surprisingly showers are now forecast for tomorrow afternoon, so might be interesting.

Last years pole time was 113.784 (Vettel) and fastest lap was (115.72) we'll
see how close we'll get to that this year.

Just a couple of pictures to pass the time while waiting for quali in about 2 hrs

Street scene from Cresent street, wish I was there.

Man that Island (man made) is skinny. Easy to get wet there.

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Holiday on Ice.

What was Diffy saying yesterday? "Pre-practice?" When is *practice?*

I didn't mind the guy so much until yesterday. He went on and on about the [u]secret[/i] Mercedes tire test. He was apparently pissed that he didn't get a press release about it. Nor did anyone else, but he took it upon himself to denounce the whole thing.

FU, Diffy. We were definitely spoiled by Varsha. Varsha could talk politics w/o being political.

Oh well, Diffy is better than Marty Reid. That guy was so befuddled at the Belle Isle race on the first lap that he didn't say a word until about the 4th corner. By then, Goodyear had to tell him who passed who.

Grid penalties
 

Kimi and Ricicardo sent back 2 places for infractions after red flag. I always thought red flag meant stop, wait for instructions where and when to proceed. Don't touch the cars, leave everything alone., Behave!!

How could they all just go to their garages and change tires and such?? Strange.

And then head down pit lane 4 cars wide??

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A lot of ruined final laps after red flag. Very disorganized

Red flag means stop, off line in view of the next flagging station.
Why don't these guys know the rules?
Looking forward to the race.

Didn't one of the podium finishers pass over yellow without a penalty? I guess some drivers get to drive under different rules........

I think Alonso did.
Matchett pointed it out during the race.
Curious to see what happens.

Nice battles back in the pack. I think rain would have been nice...

I just got to watch the race here in Pompeii, with the half Italian/ half English desk man at our hotel. It was Broadcast in Italian so he did some interpreting for me.
Interestingly Ferrari centric experience as you can imagine.

I knew that the broadcast was to start at 8pm, but went out for dinner at the corner restaurant , It ended up being kind a fine dinning affair. The kind where try to make it a nice whole evening for you, leisurely pace with plenty of time to enjoy each course. Mid way through the meal I realized it was 8:20 and counting. So I was trying to pick up the pace and thay were giving me a puzzled look and kind of scratching their heads as to what the problem was. So I told them about missing the race. They both brightened imidiatly and said go Ferrari and hurried the bill to me. Complete understanding!

My host really enjoyed seeing Alanso close in on and pass Hambone for second!

Cheers Richard

Canadian GP: marshal killed in crane accident

The FIA has announced that a Canadian Grand Prix marshal has died following an incident at the Montreal track on Sunday.

The marshal was helping to retrieve Esteban Gutierrez's crashed car following the race when he tripped while trying to retrieve a dropped radio and fell under the wheels of a mobile crane.

The marshal could not be seen by the driver of the crane, and was run over - suffering serious injuries.

After being taken to the circuit's medical centre he was transferred by helicopter to the Sacre-Coeur hospital in Montreal for treatment in its traumatology department.

However, despite all efforts to help him, the marshal succumbed to his injuries on Sunday night.

Canadian GP: marshal killed in crane accident - F1 news - AUTOSPORT.com

Exactly my thoughts. A bit of rain.

It's officially called Free Practice, perhaps that's what you heard. FP1, FP2 and FP3.

I like Varsha better too. Diffy gets a little too excited at the smallest thing. "Did you see that!!!!! The grass is growing outside turn 3!!!!!"

And how many times per race does David Hobbs say "there's no doubt about it?"

Canadian GP: marshal killed in crane accident

The FIA has announced that a Canadian Grand Prix marshal has died following an incident at the Montreal track on Sunday.

The marshal was helping to retrieve Esteban Gutierrez's crashed car following the race when he tripped while trying to retrieve a dropped radio and fell under the wheels of a mobile crane.

The marshal could not be seen by the driver of the crane, and was run over - suffering serious injuries.

After being taken to the circuit's medical centre he was transferred by helicopter to the Sacre-Coeur hospital in Montreal for treatment in its traumatology department.

However, despite all efforts to help him, the marshal succumbed to his injuries on Sunday night.

A sad reminder to all of us who work the track to be aware of what's going on around us.

It happened after the race, on the straight road to the garage areas. Nothing to stumble on - smooth, straight, level road. It's sad and also inconceivable that this even happened. It is truly bizzare.