Can I get excited about the F1 yet?
I'm veto-ing all answers of "no".

I'm quite upset Stefano GP isn't going to make it with Villeneuve as I'd quite liked to have seen him and Schuey going round 2.

If you're not excited about F1 you may talk about other things you are excited about occuring in the next week.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 11:56, 25 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Is F1 the one with the cars or the bikes?

(PsychoChomp, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:05, Reply)

Cars
MotoGp is bikes which is, admitadly, a lot more exciting as there is more overtaking, people falling off and crashes
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:06, Reply)

I was joking,
it's nice to know you think I'm that stupid.
(PsychoChomp, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:12, Reply)

I think everyone is stupid

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:15, Reply)

3 Days 18 Hours till Friday Practice!
Woo Hoo!
(bill, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:06, Reply)

is this more cars or are you a pretend internet doctor?

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:07, Reply)

More cars,
It's the first session of the race weekend.
(bill, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:11, Reply)

I'm rather excited about it
My prediction is that Hamilton will kick Button's arse this year.

I hope I'm wrong though.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:13, Reply)

Button isn't a great driver
and his attitude stinks. I am hoping he crashes and burns *(although not literally I'm not quite that harsh)
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:16, Reply)

I like Button
I like his amiable manner. But I think Hamilton's a better driver, despite his whining when things don't go his way.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:17, Reply)

Are you getting Button and Hamilton confused?
As soon as Brawn started going backwards in the field Button was all over the fact the engineering guys weren't doing enough to let him win. Wah wah wah.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:20, Reply)

Which, to be honest
was true. The car did have a bad period due to everyone else catching up. But in Hamilton's first two years, he was forever complaining about something too, even though he all but won, then actually did win the championship in that time.

I suppose it's in the nature of an F1 driver!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:25, Reply)

They do have the best excuses
I feel over a dog before the race so I wasn't on my best form
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:28, Reply)

The only moment of humour I've ever seen from Kimi Raikkonen
was a classic. Last race of 2007, I think. Schumacher had just been presented with an award for lifetime achievement or something. Martin Brundle asked Kimi if he'd been watching.

"No, I was having a shit", he replied.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:31, Reply)

That's because
the programmers of the KimmiBot haven't perfected the humour chip yet.

I did like the one race where no one knew if he had retured or not and the engineerers thought he was coming back as they could get the car started and he was walking round the motorhome eating ice cream.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:35, Reply)

I thought
it was just because he was Finnish. They're dour bastards, as a rule.

One of the highest suicide rates in the world too, along with the Hungarians (who are ethnically very similar).

Today's useless fact was brought to you by the letter F and the number 1.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:37, Reply)

Finns and Hungarians ethnically similar?
But geographically so far away! I want answers..
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:39, Reply)

They all originated somewhere around Mongolia
and migrated westwards. When they got to the Urals, one group went north, split again into two, and inhabited what is now Finland and Estonia, and the other group went south and ended up in Hungary.

The three languages are similar as a result (they constitute the Finno-Ugric group) and this may be one reason why the Finns traditionally turn up in large numbers to the Budapest GP. The languages are pretty difficult because they're so different. The accent in Hungarian (and possibly Finnish too) is always on the first syllable of the word, which is why it sounds so stilted.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:44, Reply)

This has sufficiently sated my appetite
thank you dearly.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:46, Reply)

Any idea
Why Hamilton has sacked his old man as his 'manager?'

No? Never mind.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:37, Reply)

You mean
"amicably parted ways"
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:41, Reply)

Just thought it was a stange decision
Although shortly after 'parting ways' he gets back together with his tart.

Reckon the two decisions are related?
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:43, Reply)

oh they back together?
I have to admit I did enjoy watching her jump around the pit when he did well
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 13:04, Reply)

So a Red-Top paper told me last week.
Quite agree, her bouncing about was a bit of a GP highlight.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 13:24, Reply)

no

( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 12:38, Reply)