A1

viges

Any Aussies make it to the Creek? Quite good races with good crowd. The circuit is nothing special but the elevation changes are nice.

Too many crashes caused by inexperience/lack of talent. Lapierre was supreme but he's not that far ahead. I'm sure the scrutineers are interested in that car.

Kerr was dreadful on the restarts. Christ, he had enough practice behind Lapierre!

Hard to know what to make of A1 really. 'Quite fun' is as far as I'll go but well done to the Minardi boys, a good weekend. Herta was no better than Speed for the USA. And poor Lauda ...

Brooksey

I didn't make it down there, and kinda glad I didn't after watching the race on TV. Race was punctuated by Safety Cars, and seemed pretty boring in the end. It's a shame because A1 looks like such a good concept, and the cars look fantastic, but some of the drivers are crap!

The crowed sucked apparently. I hear they pulled less people than the V8 Supercars, and they only managed 16,000...hence no V8's at the Creek in '06.

SuperRoo

It seems overtaking is an art these guys have yet to grasp.

I think the chopping and changing of drivers doesn't help. But it is fun and also frustrating at the same time with some of the amateurish moves.

MinardiP1

The crowed sucked apparently. I hear they pulled less people than the V8 Supercars, and they only managed 16,000...hence no V8's at the Creek in '06.

I thought it was 'close to a sellout' from the publicity pre-event? ;)

As for the SuperCars crowd - Sydney isn't a V8 town anymore, the high-tech events like AutoSalon draw more than 16,000 over two days.

SuperRoo

Sydney is hopless for sporting events, unless we're talking Olympics, World Cup or State of Origin/Grand Final Rugby Leage. Home and Away games are a Joke. Lucky if you get 9000 spectators.

Anyhoo, I heard 51,000 for the three days. Not bad for Sydeny.

Why are the frogs so fast?

Ger

As for the SuperCars crowd - Sydney isn't a V8 town anymore, the high-tech events like AutoSalon draw more than 16,000 over two days.

Man thats a shame. Back in the late 80's I remember huge crowds watching Brock and Johnson and co. at Amaroo and Oran Pk. Pity that.

viges

Through years of experience, most of it hilarious, I wait with interest the findings of the scrutineers. I hope they're up to it.

It seemed like a decent crowd at the Creek - I wouldn't have expected more than a V8 crowd.

re: overtaking. identical cars + fastest starting first = not much passing.

Biker

re: overtaking. identical cars + fastest starting first = not much passing

Except for the "power-boost"

bernie

the THEORY is that by having spec cas the drivers can distinguish themselves more adn there woould be more passing. again, from a m arketing side, if you have a constantly changing leader and close run to the season finish by the points leaders fan intereste will stay high. I think this series is still pretty new and there's a lot of sorting out to day with drivers, teams, equipment.

Why am I always having to take a wait and see attitude you ask? I dont' like to eat my own words later.

viges

GP2 it is not. I think the main thing for me is off-season fun.

Thus far, it isn't that fun watching a handful of hotshots embarrass the rest. The hotshots don't do that much overtaking either. Chopping and changing the drivers doesn't help.

Alex and Jos did well but weren't able to make an impact on the front-runners.

Minardus

Must be the difference in driver quality.

World Series by Renault also has identical cars, but ths season had a handful of different race winners.
The quality of the drivers was more or less identical in the top ten.

Biker

What about the japanese crash?

viges

As far as I could tell he did that all on his own in the flat-out turn one.

Biker

As far as I could tell he did that all on his own in the flat-out turn one

Good for him ! :hehe: