Canadian Grand Prix – 2006

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Randymcchickenf
I knew i should have checked this thread earlier, i didnt know when it was showing on ITV... :( Is there anywhere i can watch the race online? Even just the highlights?
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You can still watch the highlights on ITV, if you have ITV4

Highlights: Tuesday 27 June 0410-0505 ITV4
 
Omnis
Ralf spun under the Safety Car. :lol:
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Which brought out a comment from commentator Bob Varsha:

"They should just put Ralf's name on that parking space."

Also, in reference to the FCC nearly fining David Hobbs:

"To those of you who are baseball fans, a fagpaper is a cigarette wrapper."
 
Solid Lifters
No, it wasn't tire temp; it was engine temp.
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And it was hotter not cooler.


I'm hoping for a win for Alonso at Indianapolis, or Fisichella.

Also on Sunday, I caught some of Daly's great commentary on CBS for the Champcar race.
 
My man Kimi can't catch a break. He had first place, seriously it was in the bag, and then the clutch went causing a botched pit stop and it was all over. Sucks 👎. Damn near miraculous driving by the geezer at Ferrari though. It erodes my respect for alonzo to see the competition hand it to him every week.
 
You guys have an awesome folks working at ITV... to say that to Olivier Panis:

Louise Goodman
Olivier Panis must have good memories of this track, Olivier you've raced here ten times.
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:lol:


@Danoff: Alonso was handed the win by everyone else, but Micheal wasn't handed 2nd by Kimi??
 
Carl.
@Danoff: Alonso was handed first by everyone else, but Micheal wasn't handed 2nd by Kimi??
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They both were. Micheal was not handed the three or so seconds he made back on Alonso in two laps.
 
Toronado
They both were. Micheal was not handed the three or so seconds he made back on Alonso in two laps.
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I'm not sure of what moment of the race you're speaking of, but in the last stages of the race it's not unusual to back off when there's enough of a gap between you and the 2nd car, so it's hard to tell. Neither do we know if Alonso just made a mistake and went wide somewhere.

Perhaps Micheal would have been closer to Fernando if he had been more aggressive on the first lap and wasn't stuck behind Trulli for so long.

I don't see how some can think that Alonso don't fully deserve what he's earned so far, when you look at his teammate's performance. Even moreso when you know that Flavio would be much happier if his Italian teammate, who remained "loyal" to Renault, was in front...
 
Carl.
@Danoff: Alonso was handed the win by everyone else, but Micheal wasn't handed 2nd by Kimi??
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Michael was handed 2nd by Kimi, but he wasn't handed 3rd. He battled his way nicely to within not far of the lead from a pretty severe deficit. I agree that the last bit of that was handed to him.
 
Carl.
in the last stages of the race it's not unusual to back off when there's enough of a gap between you and the 2nd car
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It's not only unusual, it's basically mandatory with today's engine regulations. With the race in hand, the team will dial back the revs, and the driver will short-shift. With a 15 second lead, who cares if second place gains 3 seconds each lap? This leads to skewed margins of victory, making the race look closer than it was, and giving false hope to fans of the 2nd place driver. Case in point: at Melbourne, the margin of victory was 1.8 seconds. Tell me, was that race ever in doubt? It only looked close at the end because Alonso closed his eyes and took one hand off the wheel for the final few laps. Even so, people delude themselves about the chasing driver's abilities...
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great day for renault, bad day for mclaren. Given 2 more 3 more laps, kimi would have caught up to alonso
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Anyway, if Michael's car were a match for the Renault, he would have been able to easily get around Trulli, now wouldn't he? Even though he never really got a shot, I don't think Michael would have been able to catch Alonso in the closing laps.
 
kylehnat
It's not only unusual, it's basically mandatory with today's engine regulations. With the race in hand, the team will dial back the revs, and the driver will short-shift. With a 15 second lead, who cares if second place gains 3 seconds each lap? This leads to skewed margins of victory, making the race look closer than it was, and giving false hope to fans of the 2nd place driver. Case in point: at Melbourne, the margin of victory was 1.8 seconds. Tell me, was that race ever in doubt? It only looked close at the end because Alonso closed his eyes and took one hand off the wheel for the final few laps. Even so, people delude themselves about the chasing driver's abilities...
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I HATE the engine regulations, and it's about to get worse, with one engine for every 4 races. Whoever came with that stupid idea should be hit with a broken crankshaft, several times, hard. :grumpy:

On the "plus" side, it allowed some drivers to pull some miracle drives (Kimi, for the most part). Besides that, all it does is to hurt the sport. Standardized ECUs / parts are a much better alternative for lowering costs and closing gaps in the field.
 
Elegy
I'll admit to not quite catching the component, but I'm pretty sure he was complaining about being colder... :confused:
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I'm pretty sure he was talking about the engine. I think he might have been implicitly complaining about having a lower rev-limit than Liuzzi.
 
He said that if Liuzzi's engine is five degrees cooler, then someone's head is gonna roll.
 
I heard from some pals of mine that, after the friday practices, they did some patch-work on the hairpin that started coming up during the race. They said that, from where they were sitting, they were easily distinguishable from the marbles, but on tv, they looked almost the same. The track coming up is a pretty good reason for the cars sliding, they looked more like they were on gravel than on loose rubber (like JV's crash.) It also fits with Kimi's post-race comments on his expedition in the hairpin.
 
Yes, it’s the same thing that happened in the Champcar race at Montreal last year, if I recall.
 
The Internet
I heard from some pals of mine that, after the friday practices, they did some patch-work on the hairpin that started coming up during the race. They said that, from where they were sitting, they were easily distinguishable from the marbles, but on tv, they looked almost the same. The track coming up is a pretty good reason for the cars sliding, they looked more like they were on gravel than on loose rubber (like JV's crash.) It also fits with Kimi's post-race comments on his expedition in the hairpin.
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Are the Candians using dodgy tarmac???
 

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