Lewis set his times on a dry track today. Apart from a little off in the first session it looks like MM are back up there. The win the other weekend must have steadied his nerves.

I'd be interested in seeing a 'dry' race in order to better assess his true chances of a world championship crown.

I love watching the two Friday practice sessions on ITV's website while at the office. :up:

Yes, bur friday is seldom a good indicator. I remember Honda doing well on several fridays.:rotfl:

Maybe not for most teams but for Ferrari and MM I think Friday is pretty indicative of pace.

Best race of the season. Massa snatched defeat from the jaws of Victory, MM almost lost it for LH....Good on Piqyet JR. Great overtaking by LH.

What was KR doing?

Good race. Nice to see some passing decide things for once. Even though there wasn't much doubt that LH was going to overtake FM.

Thought for a while McL had bungled (again) the safety car period by not pitting LH. Although I was thinking that FM might not have had enough fuel to finish and might have needed a splash and dash. Turned out the reverse on both counts.

Had to do without commentary today. TSN (English), and which uses the ITV feed/commentators, here was running the British Open, so I had to watch the race on RDS (French TSN). Doesn't fuss me in the slightest if it's in French, but the local commentators plus the one guy they have at the race (and who despite 21st Century technology sounds as if he's talking from the far side of the moon via tin can and wire) are the worst commentators going (in whatever language). They spend half the race going off on tangents with no attention to what's going on on the track. So you get maybe 10% of the actual race commented, which leaves you kind of short on what's going on. Gotta remember not to watch on tape delay if this happens again, so that I can get the live timing feed.

End of rant ... although I must add that I wish the Hondas would get a decent paint job .... have I said that before? :D

That car cam from just behind and to the left of the driver's helmet is great.

Best race thus far by a long chalk.

Ten down, eight to go.....the momentum for the title should start gathering real pace soon.

It was a great race:rock:

If you go on the UK F1 forums though the Hamilton bashers are out. I don't get what it is with British people having to bash a successful Brit? Seems many prefer a Tim Henman type who is close but no cigar top o old chap what? As soon as they start winning then they start getting knocked. If this was a US driver with a chance of winning the TV shows over there and US citizens would be raving about him.

The point of contention seems to be HK opening the door for LH but it was harder for LH to pass him than it was for Massa...

Sadly IMHO it's a part of the British culture that has developed over the past couple of decades due to the lack of top sporting achievements on a consistent basis.

We never were any good at blowing our own trumpets and telling the world how good we are/were.

The best way to silence them is to win LH (fingers crossed).

I agree. Maybe GB would get the G back if we started blowing our own trumpets when we are good at something.

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Hamilton drove a faultless and superb race. By current F1 standards that was an ok race to watch. :yep: I firmly believe that Lewis will win the Championship this year. Ferrari should sack Massa at the end of this year. He is an overated driver and his alleged defensive driving against Hamilton was just plain terrible. What a little surrender monkey Massa is. :down:

However, I just watched my man Casey Stoner do battle with Valentino Rossi for 20 odd laps with nothing but an inch between them swapping positions numerous times. Rossi came out the victor for his first ever win at Laguna Seca. These two guys are just fantastic bike riders. Pitty that we now have to wait so long for the next race to come around.

MotoGP is a blast. I like Rossi, just so funny and his Italian accent cracks me up..he is so happy.

stoner is good too. He got a lot of stick from UK MotoGP fans when he won last year which was bad sportsmanship...IIRC he got Booed at Donignton.