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[stratoplayer]

Certainly! Everything on this forum is formal!

DUH!


Anyway, where is the race tomorrow?

[htcdude]

Jupiter i think.

[Just a Vampire]

My 2 cents:
I think that Schumacher won a lot of races 'cause his car had a lot of technological stuff, and when the rules changed he started to doing it bad. and maybe the age could be involved on it.
Montoya, someone mentioned him...he's a jerek. as a person, and in a certain way as a driver. In fact, I support Raikkonen, despite I'm Colombian. Of course it feels good whe he wins a race (you know, the patrotic feeling and that) but....in this last times he is really dissapointing.

About the others: I have no opinion, cause I haven't watched a race since the past year.
I guess i have to check some info about this year championchip before I post something more here

[Stratofanius]

Okay, lots of interesting things has happened during these past months...

Hungary GP was of course one of the greatest races I've ever seen and also Turkey GP was very interesting and we saw many good fights (though it's sad that Turkey isn't maybe gonna be at the calendar in the future because of these politic things...)

Also we have many big news. Next year we're gonna have two finnish drivers (+ "half-finnish" Nico Rosberg) in Formula One, which is of course great. Great that Kovalainen will start immediately at big team like Renault.
But the biggest thing in this weekend is of course what's gonna happen with Ferrari... I'm pretty sure that they confirm ALL three drivers to be in Ferrari (Massa, Schumacher, Räikkönen) and they give some extra time Michael for thinking what to do with his career, and he says his final words later.
(EDIT: ok, I was wrong, the news says that Schumacher has already decided what to do)
And it isn't even sure that Räikkönen is gonna join Ferrari forces, so this is pretty interesting.

About the upcoming Italy GP, I'm, really waiting for it! Many teams that use Michelin tyres have said that they have some difficulties because of new tarmac (or something, I don't remember the right reason so well right now). Also the weather forecast says that rain is possible... we will see.

The championchip situation is pretty hard now and Schumacher has still good changes. I'll hope that he will be the champion, not Alonso.

So the race is gonna be very interesting. I hope that my favourite driver Rubens Barrichello could make a good result for Honda team! Podium would be awesome, though not quite realistic with this year's car. But maybe next year Rubinho could return for winning races! I really hope so.

We're really living interesting times...

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By the way, I found some great animated formula one gifs from one awesome finnish F1 forum...


Dancing Coulthard


Jenson Button makes Nick feel not happy...


Monkey-Alonso


Evil-Trulli


Barrichello and Fry are "fighting"

[stratoplayer]

Well, I am quite sad that Schumi is leaving, man's a legend, a one of the last really aggresive drivers I've seen. And being only 2 points away makes this the most exciting championship in decades! I hope Schumi wins.


Can't say I'm not overjoyed about Kimi going with Ferrari

[Stratofanius]

Okay I think also that FIA did wrong with Alonso's penalty, but still Alonso seems to be too angry to FIA & Ferrari & Schumacher... and the main reason that he didn't get any points was because of his car, anyway...

Goodbye Schumacher, in any way you're still legend in formula one...

[IceBreaker]

Goodbye Schumacher, in any way you're still legend in formula one...

For sure. He has got actually everything can be earned in Formula 1 world. There was a long list of his records in Finnish tabloid Ilta-Sanomat Urheilu-liite, which made me think: Has Schumi got every possible records or are there still some old records which he hasn´t broken yet?

[Stratofanius]

Schumacher's records (these are from wikipedia, and I'm sure that he has many other smaller records too...):

As of the 2006 Italian Grand Prix, Michael Schumacher holds the following F1 records:

Career Records:

* Most championship titles: 7
* Most consecutive championship titles: 5
* Most race wins: 90
* Most consecutive race wins: 7 (in 2004 - European GP, Canadian GP, United States GP, French GP, British GP, German GP, Hungarian GP; shared with Ascari)
* Most race wins with one team: 71 with Ferrari
* Most race wins at the same GP: 8 at the French Grand Prix (Magny-Course)
* Most time between first and last race wins: 13 years, 11 months, and 3 days
* Most second place finishes: 43
* Most podium finishes: 153
* Most consecutive podium finishes: 19 (from the 2001 United States Grand Prix, until the 2002 Japanese Grand Prix)
* Most points finishes: 188
* Most laps leading: 4726 (in 130 Grand Prix with a total of 22,072.693 km)
* Most pole positions: 68
* Most starts from first row: 108
* Most fastest laps: 75
* Most doubles (pole position and race win): 40
* Most hat-trick (pole position, race win and fastest lap): 22
* Most championship points: 1,354
* Most consecutive race finished without retirement: 24 (from the 2001 Hungarian Grand Prix, until the 2003 Malaysian Grand Prix)
* Only racing driver ever, in any racing class, to win 5 times at Indianapolis Motor Speedway

2004:
* Most race wins in a season: 13 (out 18 races)
* Most fastest laps in a season: 10 (out of 18 races; tied by Räikkönen in 2005)
* Most championship points in a season: 148 (out of a maximum of 180)

2002:
* Most podium finishes in a season: 17 (out of 17 races)

Goodbye Schumacher, in any way you're still legend in formula one...

For sure. He has got actually everything can be earned in Formula 1 world. There was a long list of his records in Finnish tabloid Ilta-Sanomat Urheilu-liite, which made me think: Has Schumi got every possible records or are there still some old records which he hasn´t broken yet?

Well we heard something about that in finnish television during Monza race (god I hate MTV3's "hosts" or whatever they're called )...
Anyway, wikipedia says:

The one major record Schumacher is set to miss out on is the record for most Grands Prix competed in. His final race will be his 250th so he will finish 6 short of Riccardo Patrese's record of 256.

[IceBreaker]

Argh, how he lets him to end his career without breaking that last record, which could be only few races.

Didn´t see Monza race, was travelling the whole day...

[Stratofanius]

Shame that Schumacher's dreams are now broken well, it's not his fault that Ferrari engine blown up. Well we see what will happen in Brazil, though I can't see that race from TV I have to download it later...
I hope also that Rubens Barrichello could make a good homerace, his season has been very unlucky. Maybe the next season's car is better for him, I really really hope so!

[htcdude]

Haha Rubens always has a bad race on his homeground though, i doubt he'll finish

[Jaakko]

Lol "most laps leading", Shchumi seems to have went halfway round the world leading a Formula 1 race. And if we count out the sea, he's well on his second round circumnavigating trip by now. I bet he ends up in China although he just got out of there a week ago :lol