Celebrating Five Glorious Years of Heikki Kovalainen: Formula 1 in 2012

Good race! Hamilton deserved it. Good for Grosjean and Perez.

Liked Mercedes' high tech attempts to fix the DRS problem.

when all else fails...

Everyone's tyres falling off a cliff makes for interesting finishes but it is no way to determine who is the best driver or who has the best car.

Didn't watch this live (lol 3am), so I tormented the Sky Sports coverage thinking this will be great...and then they had Jacques Villeneuve co-hosting.

Anyway, lol at Alonso's tyres.

Vettel was on David Letterman last night, having done a promo event for the NJ track earlier. Apparently that's a thing that's actually happening.

Supposedly for next season. Austin looks possible for this fall, but it doesn't seem close to finished. Either would be better than racing at Indy ever again.

Letterman was really repping for Indy and Vettel was just saying "yeah yeah".

Austin better be finished, i just bought tickets.

24 hours of Le Mans this weekend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJDGaiAZm6M

I want tickets but need some things to align first. Sure aren't cheap.

EZ, do you live in Austin?

Dallas.

ah ok

will revive an Austin thread when the time comes

cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWa2ZSZcUq8

Apparently that's a thing that's actually happening.

Not until the millions have been processed into the account of Bernie Ecclestone, Esq.

Letterman was really repping for Indy and Vettel was just saying "yeah yeah".

ahahahahaha

Speaking of Indy and IndyCar, THEY HAD TO DELAY THE BELLE ISLE RACE FOR TWO HOURS WHILE THEY FIXED UP THE TRACK IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RACE.

I'm looking forward to Le Mans because this reject IndyCar chassis the car of the future is racing!

http://www.motorward.com/wp-content/images/2012/03/Nissan-DeltaWing-1.jpg

We probably should mention Anthony Davidson's broken back, because some random Euro dudes in an Audi hybrid won Le Mans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsG0LUMrNsk

Alonso doesn't make Q2 (at Valencia!) because both Force India cars are in the Top Ten.

Good times.

Shout out to Luca di Montezemolo: you might be Italian but this isn't the 1970s, dude.

lol

Fun qualifying. Wacky season.

2 tenths of a second between pole and first.

uggggghhhhh alonso

hahahahahahahaha Vettel.

c'mon Kimi.

^^ overtaking under yellow flags, wtf go back to rallying

COME ON GROSJEAN

It looked to me like Kimi made the move prior to entering the local yellow zone. Definitely didin't complete it until they were under the yellow though.

OH COME ON

you jinxed him.

King Boy Pato, aka The Murray Walker of the Internet.

The question I want answered: WTF has happened to Button? He seems to have just lost the ability to race.

smooth move from The Pastor

Hamilton made some extra moves leading up to pushing Maldonado off track. Doesn't excuse Pastor cutting back into the track afterwards.

can't believe Schumi and Webber finished third and fourth after fighting for tenth with 7 laps left.

Boo hiss to Alonso winning, but this Alonso/Raikkonen/Schumacher podium in 2012 is the height of surrealism.

It's a very 2006 podium.

You know, that might be the most enjoyable Valencia race I can remember. The tires allowed for passing on track, there were pit problems, contact, cars retired; everything.

Fun race! Felt bad for Grosjean.

didn't watch this cos 'valencia is shit' apparently. raging

out of complete accident i caught this from start to finish, not watched an f1 race since last season. really enjoyed it, great race and gorgeous looking place.

even when Vettel had an 18 second lead and before the Safety Car and everything Lotus were apparently totally relaxed that their strategy for Grosjean to win would work. I want to know what that strategy was. Same with Hamilton...why ease off so early if you were going to do a two-stop strategy anyway?

Button just can't get those tyres to work for him at all. I wonder what's going on.

~the longest qualifying session ever~, too bad nobody is there to watch it and I'm watching Le Tour, only switching over during ad breaks

"There has been a fair bit of black humour around on Saturday, as Formula 1 took in the scale of the nightmare caused by the traffic problems on Friday.

"Good luck with the Olympics," HRT driver Pedro de la Rosa shouted with a smile at a group of English journalists.

And Andy Murray's achievements at Wimbledon gave further opportunity to the satirists. 'For the first time in 74 years a British man has...' a voice interrupted, saying: 'Got into Silverstone.'"

that last line is classic.

Anyone can win tomorrow...

...except Massa.

Kobayashi should try out for the professional ten-pin bowling circuit.

that was a bit scary.

Another great race. Alonso driving the tires off that Ferrari week after week is something to behold.

I hope they nix the Red Bull diffuser bullshit going forward. Spirit of the law vs. letter of the law always has me siding with spirit.

Glad to see Vettel penalized. Totally passed outside the boundaries of the track and was not ahead when he made the choice to run wide.