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[Hanwombat]

:yawn:

what? there was a race on yesterday

cant for the life of me remember watching one

[al4x]

it was a race, a race to see who which fans could go the distance, i made it, but it was hard! felt like a 24hr race haha

[Hanwombat]

it was a race, a race to see who which fans could go the distance, i made it, but it was hard! felt like a 24hr race haha

I musta passed out then, dont remember a thing.. Im obv not hardcore

[7UpJordan]

Who cares, it was boring race. The track being lit up and the beautiful city of Singapore was more interesting than the race itself.

I like your style.

[myownalias]

Street circuits in general are dull and boring because overtaking opportunities are limited so we end up with a parade of very expensive F1 cars.
I didn't even bother getting up to watch the race, I'd rather stay in bed than kid myself that I can actually make the race distance

[Gilles 27]

I like street circuits because you can see the drivers really driving the cars on low grip surfaces with bumps and stuff. Sunday's race was a waste of time because of the penalties that took out 2 of the top 3 drivers in the race.

[bud]

Its all relative you get good and bad of both types of circuits. people whinge about purpose built circuits such as Hungaroring, Magny Cours etc yet forget circuits like Melbourne, Cricruit de Gilles Villenueve are also street circuits yet have good racing.

[Gilles 27]

Overall, I think street circuits are a better breed than purpose-built ones... All the great circuits are ones that have been built to navigate existing obstacles or to use existing roads or pathways;

Spa
Monza
Silverstone
Monaco
Gilles Villeneuve
Melbourne

The only great, truly purpose build track is Suzuka...

[bud]

Im biased but i would throw Adelaide Street Circuit in there, the drivers used to love it.

[AKR]

I didn't even watch it all. Halfway into the race and I just walked out from watching it (Was with friends). I haven't walked out from a race in years. But this 2009 season has been like that. hehe:

words of a true glory hunting fan

Incorrect. Words of a Ferrari can only be glory fan and F1 is all about Ferrari. And by the way I would of been very angry had Lewis Hamilton won at Monza. (I am sure I have given enough hints at that) No way that man is going to win in my country. No way...........

Next year.

Lewis, Kimi 1-2

Ferrari no longer want Kimi because he is well past his use by date. He has won a world championship and doesn't care anymore. That is why Ferrari want to boot him out. If McLaren do not have a competitive car in 2010, Kimi will do nothing and you know this. Also Lewis Hamilton will beat him anyway because at least Lewis Hamilton has more of a desire and hunger to win. So here is Kimi Raikkonen, the man that started at McLaren and will retire at McLaren and spent most of his racing F1 carreer at McLaren, a one time World Champion at Ferrari. At least he will be remembered as being a World Champion for the greatest team ever in F1. Ferrari. Kimi the ratnik (Warrior). Only because he won his only World Championship at Ferrari. And by 1 point over a foolish Lewis Hamilton who threw out an almost certain title for himself at the last race of 2007.

[AKR]

and F1 is all about Ferrari.

Yup typical Ferrari fan through and through, Too think or even publicly come out with a statement like that is nothing but ignorace

you know she's right though dont you... F1 wont be F1 without Ferrari. !!

F1 wouldn't be the same without Ferrari, that's completely different than saying "F1 is all about Ferrari".

Exactly. Ferrari are an amazing team (though their contribution to Formula One is completely overrated), and it would be an awful shame if they were not in Formula One. However, if anybody thinks Formula One will die off without them, they are delusional. No one team or driver is bigger than the sport. Anybody who knows the history of the sport should know this.

On the contrary I am very knowledgeable in the history of F1 all way back to its inception as the World Championship in 1950, and in fact in the "Golden Era" pre 1950 as well. I follow F1 because of Ferrari. In the Golden Era, the works of Enzo Ferrari as a racer and manager of his Scuderia Ferrari Alfa Romeo team interest me greatly. If it were not for "Ferrari" and his contribution to Grand Priz racing as a whole, I wouldn't care less about Grand Prix racing and F1 anymore than I would about say Touring Car racing. If Ferrari were not in F1 I would walk out as a fan. In fact had Ferrari really pulled out after this year during that crisis, I would of no longer been an F1 fan. And I do believe I am not the only one that shares this view. So I guess you're half right. No one is bigger than the sport itself. But I am afraid to tell you that Ferrari is the sport and as you said it yourself, no one is greater than the sport thus no one is greater than Ferrari.

And on the topic of Ferrari. There is sportscar racing (Nowadays GT racing). Ferrari was dominant in the 50s and 60s and early 70s. The did ok in the American equivlant of Sports car racing called IMSA in the 90s Ferrari managed to winn a championship in 1995. Today Ferrari dominates the GT1 and GT2 catergories. The GT2 has beenwon by Ferrari for a few years in a row now. Ferrari's main rival is Porschee which I like as well anyway. In GT1 the 550 has won a few world titled and in the last few years it has been won by the Maserati MC12 (Which is mechanically a Ferrari and the body s based on a Ferrari Enzo or Ferrarim FXX). So basicallly anywhere where there is Ferrari, I know it. I am a Ferrari tifosa and all that concerns me is Ferrari. I know a lot about Ferrari so before you just brush me off think twice. I know I am arrogant but hey it comes with the territory from where I am from.

[Jim Riven]

Yeah, aint Ferrari great!

/end sarcasm.

[texasmr2]

Yeah, aint Ferrari great!

/end sarcasm.

Well actually they are!

/no sarcasm .