Spa - the best, most exciting and best race of the year is on the agenda.
Spa is one of the last tracks of the old school. Instead, like the other tracks it has not occurred on the drawing board, but it still follows the old hand signals stretching, as it claims, the nature. Such courses are not driven by Formula One. Monza and Sao Paulo are perhaps exceptions. But it goes from uphill and Spa, there is the Eau Rouge, blanchiment, La Source. There are long straights, tight corners, sloping curves and many Mutpassagen. Among those Eau Rouge is still one. Although they are now fully extended, but the compression is more stunning, and a departure is rarely good. There is a small hell of a ride and the cars are pretty loaded. And amazingly, the throttle is 67% saturated.
And because the track has everything, it's hard to say who will be ahead. Clear that the KERS cars have a tremendous advantage to be. The long straight goes up to Les Combes well uphill, so we may use the 80 hp KERS well. Also likely to Puhon Rivage you can use KERS. But the key point is the straight line. There you can get a little time, which favors the McLaren and Ferrari to race clear. One might now expect that both teams go with a conservative strategy in the quality, but that's not even back then. The problem is that the start / finish line is too short, and even at the top it is very close to La Source. From sixth place, it is partly luck, if you come with an intact front wing around.
And then there's the weather. There are probably a dozen regional rules, where when it rains at Spa. A classic example: If one looks at the cows grazing no more, it gets wet. So far the weather forecast shows uneven. For some it will rain Saturday, not in others. Sunday, it will probably remain but dry. However, it is cool. On Saturday there will be 15 degrees, 18 degrees on Sunday. With Brawn will be probably be annoyed right now and hope the chassis changes have brought something.
Red Bull will look better in Spa, but Vettel has the problem that he has for six races, only two engines. Fridays and ends with one. The engine failure in Spain affected just a freshly built engine, Spa, Monza and several days off should have to hold out. The missing now and Vettel will probably come to a penalty not around.
I see the end in Spa but either a McLaren or Raikkonen on the podium. Would be very surprised if a car without KERS wins. There is simply too important at this track.
We will have fun again with Badoer. There is so much speculation about whether he is sitting still in the car at Monza. As can Ferrari do not allow the last position. But what should make Ferrari? Bourdais and Piquet will not be. Foreign test driver does not get you. It has a junior driver Mirko Bortolotti at the Angel, but he has no super license and get well no, despite his victory in the F2. Ferrari has really no other choice than to let Badoer continue.
And what else?
Previews for the rest of me to push.
| 28/08/2009 | |||||
| LIVE | Clock 09:55 | F1 | Spa 1 FT | sky, DSF | 12.15, 16.00 |
| LIVE | Clock 13:55 | F1 | Spa 2 FT | sky, DSF | 17.30 |
| LIVE | Clock 23:00 | NASCAR CWS | Chicago quality | SpeedTV |
| 29/08/2009 | |||||
| LIVE | Clock 00:00 | IRL | Chicago quality | VS, indycar.com | |
| LIVE | Clock 00:30 | ARCA | Chicago | SpeedTV | |
| LIVE | Clock 03:00 | NASCAR CWS | Chicago | SpeedTV | Starting about 3:15 |
| LIVE | Clock 10:55 | F1 | Spa 3 FT | Sky | 12:45 |
| LIVE | Clock 13:45 | F1 | Spa quality | Sky, RTL | 18:15 |
| LIVE | Clock 15:55 | GP2 | Spa 1 | Sky | |
| LIVE | Clock 17:30 | Formula BMW | Spa 1 | Sky | |
| Record. | Clock 17:30 | F1 | Valencia Qualifying | DSF | |
| Record. | Clock 18:20 | British GT | Silverstone | MotorsTV | |
| LIVE | Clock 20:00 | GrandAm | Montreal | SpeedTV |
| 08/30/2009 | |||||
| Record. | Clock 03:30 | NASCAR NW | Montreal Qualifying | ESPN 2 | |
| LIVE | Clock 03:00 | IRL | Chicago | VS. | |
| LIVE | Clock 08:30 | Formula Master | Spa | Euro | |
| LIVE | Clock 09:20 | Formula BMW | Valencia 2 | Sky | 17:00 |
| LIVE | Clock 10:25 | GP2 | Spa 2 | Sky | |
| LIVE | Clock 11:45 | Porsche Cup | Valencia | sky, € 2 | |
| LIVE | Clock 12:00 | BTCC | Silverstone | itv4 | |
| LIVE | Clock 13:00 | F1 | Valencia | Sky, RTL | 17:30 |
| Record. | Clock 15:30 | FIA GT | Budapest | DSF | |
| Record. | Clock 16:30 | F1 | Valencia | DSF | |
| LIVE | Clock 20:00 | NASCAR NW | Montreal | ESPN 2 | Starting around 20:30 |
| Record. | Clock 20:05 | V8 Supercars | Queensland | MotorsTV | |
| LIVE | Clock 21:00 | ALMS | Mosport | SpeedTV |
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With the ALMS, but did you Vetan. The drive at 3pm Eastern, that is 9 clock in the evening German time. Mosport is not equipped for night racing, except for the fact that the track is dangerous even in the daytime, but also saugeil (sorry, ahem ^ ^). Unfortunately, only 19 cars are on the entry list, because the GT Challenge Class will not come, and also lacks the Cytosport Porsche RS Spyder with Pickett / Count ...
http://www.imsaracing.net/2009/Events/mosport/2009 20ALMS%%% 20Mosport 20Entries.pdf
Ne time another question: who actually built the "new infield" at Spa, which is the section of Les Combes to Stavelot? I've never found something there too? It would even dare Hugenholtz, but was more active in the '60s. I've never read it anywhere its own name and it'd really interest me ...
Uh, thanks. Since I've fallen for me. Had I been surprised.
I wonder sometimes want to know why you have ruined the Bus Stop Sun For Sunday I'm hoping for rain, but again not as much as they send out so that the SC again, "would".
why is it so F1 on Sunday in Valencia? ;)
@ Me: I think that was the main concern, that a longer, wider and just wanted to have (re) start and finish line (Bernie's request?), And this one had nunmal reverse the chicane in the other direction, otherwise it would not gone.
My tip for ferrari: take a look at bruno senna times. superlizens should have enough southern and blood too. :)
But quite seriously, I notice people _einige_ set the time, talent and should have superlizens:
Davidson, Sato, Senna, Verstappen, Yoong, de la Rosa, Wurz, Gene, Piquet Jr, Bourdais, Liuzzi, thorns etc Boos
each of the aforementioned currencies faster than Badoer imho. or Badoer driving but "secretly" testing?
@ Abductee: The big part of your pilots mentioned, but has also never been in a race car 2009er. And it apart, like a size-de la Rosa has indeed not even get the cockpit at Force India ;).
Looking forward to Spa. The race promises ever felt 300% entertainment than Valencia.
@ Prometheus: Somehow,'s so be it. I go these constant changes in any case a powerful effect on the nerves. The new routes are bad enough, but there could well be the least time-honored routes in peace?
Conversions criminalized I consider wrong. Sure, sometimes a line will be worse off, but the opposite is also possible without any modifications we have absolutely no Eau Rouge, no Motodrom in Hockenheim, not so popular today Maggots / Becketts / Chapel combination in Silverstone, not Senna-S at Interlagos and no Porsche Curves at Le Mans (which also overhauling times ne need for greater run-off areas, and urgently) and many routes were no longer simply passable.
Formula 1 is nunmal now an event that needs a modern infrastructure and security. In Spa has one in my opinion, well resolved, and whether the bullying now goes around the left or right, that's pretty much me personally could not care less.
Sure, security is important, even if motor sport is like that, or so dangerous and remains. Some changes in the past may have done far certain sense, and that's why it's not the point. But changes such as the demolition of the bus stop (the old layout was interesting for me very well) or the complete destruction of the Hockenheimring was surely far from being the security owed.
@ Xenic: already clear, but they are all over Badoer "dropped out before grade 5 minutes" :)
The IRL is incidentally also on SKY
@ Prometheus: it may be that you are confusing at Hockenheim what? The Motordrome was built in the early 1960s when the highway came. Previously there was only ne hairpin. The F1 drove at Hockenheim in 1970 and then again until 1977
At last the long forest conversion in 2002 precisely coincided with the Jim Clark chicane and Ostkurve gone, but the hairpin turn came with the Parabolica.
@ NASCARaddicted: No, exactly what I mean. Is the Motodrom it only because the track was rebuilt once. By that I meant the conversion in the 60s. I just wanted to make clear that sometimes can occur through conversions ;-) good things about the conversion of '02, you can argue forever that I will not start now (I only say that I gave him at least not as averse to stand like many others).
@ Me: By the way, that was quite interesting to see what Schulz and Surer said today about the bus stop Schkane: Schulz also said it would be a shame that it had been rebuilt, after which Surer said once energetic, he was glad that the silly old Holper chicane was finally replaced by a reasonable good mobile.