Monaco GP 09

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Brawn,brains and Button,
works everytime
even in Monaco

IM UPLOADIN MAH DRAFFFS

so i've realised i've gotta a ton load of drafts that need to published, so im just gonna do one big mega post to summarize them

24 Hours of Nurburgring [this was to be apart of my epic race weekend series i started a year ago]

Now the name alone shows how hard this race is: 24hrs of racing is long even if your rotating 4 drivers. I find that endurance races such as this test the driver's abality to maintain focus long enough to drive that long that fast and also the cars ability to withstand 24hrs straight of racing. The second part of the name is another sign of difficulty......the nurburgring is difficult cus:

• its long [ 7-5 times longer than most tracks] @ 14 miles.
  
• its bumpy [as in real world bumpy not some super perfect smooth track
• it has every single corner you can imagine [banked corners, pavement changes, long straight, sweeping right handers into tight lefts, bridges, jumps, corkscrew like corners etc etc]
• its dangerous [3-12 deaths per year, mainly by noobs visiting the track]
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[the track is so big it cant fit on this page]

http://www.g-unleashed.com/files/56_ringmap.jpg

Braeks [supposed to be a part of my lecture series on cars]

I've long considered brakes one of the most important components of a car.........in fact the name crossdrilled is derived from a type of brake rotor

but to simplify this brakes are any form of mechanism that decelerates the car usually by friction

on vehicles there are only two main types of brakes; drums and disks

they both have a pad which push against a rotating surface attached to the wheel. this pushing causes friction which slows down the wheel. drums have the rotating part on the outside and the pushing part on the inside where as disks have the pushing part resting on the rotating part

Disks

Drums

You can haz ur caeks 2.5 [a continuation of my performance eco cars]

Ariel Atom

some ppl might remember the face blistering speed achieved by this car on top gear but not a lot of ppl knows its deepest secret...........its 30mpg consumption!!! thats like a caterham with moar miles per gallon......jus a tad more expensive tho

Audi R8 V12 TDi

We are still waiting for the guys in ingolstad to build this. Take the engine out of a Le Mans car [the first and only diesel winner] and tune it for the road and u have instant diesel supercar. Some may say that this is stupid because of its excess weight........but its still lighter than a lot of other gasoline sports cars.........audis only excuse not to build this is to find a transmission that wont break.............i'll be wiatin

Best Race Weekend EVAR pt2

Monaco

Now this is the most epic F1 race EVAR!!!!!! the only way it can get more epic is if F1 returns to the Nordschlieffe Nurburgring Loop [which will never happen]

This is one of if not the oldest F1 track and what makes it even more epic is that it isnt a track.

Now Monaco is the smallest country in the world [like smaller than kingston small] so instead of building a race track they close of the roads because its so small and narrow it is difficult to overtake and easy to crash

[another pic too big to post]

http://formula1.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/race5_wallpapers_m2.jpg

because of this usually if you start off first you finsih first

last year's winner Lewis Hamilton came dead last in qualifying due to a penalty he had to serve for changing transmissions due to a crash so he was out of the race for points

so who was up the front? In qualifying it looked like it was going to be a comback for Kimi and Ferrari who were before this scraping for points. neways this years leaders Brawn and Button took the pole from Kimi by a little bit of time

So just like any other race this year Brawn dominated by getting one hell of a holeshot and they disappeared into the distance in fact they dominated so heavily i forgot who came 3rd

anyways monaco went well altho it didnt rain :( neways the only other interesting F1 race will be at Singapore cus its like Monaco just in the night

[yes i very well watched monaco]

more monaco stuff here

http://www.formula1.com/races/in_detail/monaco_810/circuit_diagram.html

Greatest Race Weekend EVAR!!!!! from Monaco to Dover pt1

Yes as all car heads should no that May is the month of all the big races [except for 24 hrs of Le Mans which is in June and Dakar Rally which is in January] But May is still epic cause in this one month there are more epic races than you can watch.

1) Formula 1 - Spanish GP & Monaco GP

2) NASCAR - Coca Cola 600 & NASCAR Sprint All Star Race

3) IRL - Indy 500 & Milwaukee Mile

4) Local - Caribbean Curcuit Racing Championships Starting Race @ Dover

4)Other - 24 Hours of Nurburgring

The highlighted events all appeared on the same weekend from the 21st - 25th and I had the tough choice of deciding which to watch [well NASCAR was put of the question]

Lets start with IRL

The big news was Helio Castroneves [former 500 winner, winner of dancing with the stars and also born on my birthday which is also in May] was in a huge scandal involving tax evasion, he was eventually acquitted of all charges and made a huge come back by winning his first race of the season [i think if he didnt win he placed high] neways this year at the indy 500 he essentially won [disclaimer i didnt watch this race]

Colors of Racing again

Great Britain [mainly england tho] - British Racing Green

available on almost every british car out used currently by aston martin this is sometimes accompanied by a yellow stripe

Japan - White with red circle

only used by honda if my memory serves me correct but toyota continues to use a red and white paint scheme

France - Blue

used by bugatti in the past and up to 07 or 08 renault was using it in f1

The Colors of Racing

ok in the 100++ years of racing there has been a various set of systems set up to differentiate teams.

the longest lasting one is the color system now i shall only cover 2 specific color areas

A) National Colors

back in the good ole days when the FIA was actually run by ppl and not banks the idea was that each country would have a specific color.....this is not necessary today but it is still kept by most teams

1) Italy - Rosso Corsa

still used by Ferrai in both race cars and road cars

Germany - Silver Arrows or unpainted metal

still used by almost all german companies specifically by mercedes benz sometimes mentioned as nurburgring silver

Germany part 2 - Alpineweiss or white

not so common for race cars but quite common in sports cars

still used by bmw and porsche

until the next post.........brb

Senna @ Monaco

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Senna won the Monaco Grand Prix six times!

nuff said...

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please

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of the paint