So proud of "my boys"!!!

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Edited Date/Time 1/19/2012 3:19am
Congrats to my Red Bull brethren! I still find is somewhat funny and ironic that my two fav motorsport athletes are both young German rider/driver and both under the Red Bull tent. (and yes i was big fans before they were winning titles, so it is not the case of bandwagon hopping!) Cool

Today Seb Vettel just wrapped up his 2nd F1 World Title in a row (will 4 rounds still remaining!) It was pretty cool, on the cool down lap after the race Seb couldnt even respond to his crew, he was just so overcome by emotion.



..and of course Kenny snagging his first World MX2 Title



Both are still young, and i see many, many title celebrations in their future,
WoooHooooo!!!!
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Gayle 10/9/2011 10:04am
10/9/2011 10:04am
uh, that title trophy says MX1
sbarrington314 10/9/2011 10:45am
10/9/2011 10:45am
watched last night for my first time. i could get into F1. id want to know more about it tho. like the rules and how equal are the cars and stuff. those pit stops are unreal. you blink and you miss them change 4 tires.
sbarrington314 10/9/2011 10:51am
10/9/2011 10:51am
another thing i dont get... how do they memorize those tracks so quick while going so damn fast?

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jeffro503 10/9/2011 11:38am
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Very cool Scottie! This is my Redbull sport........





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ocscottie 10/9/2011 12:37pm
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sbarrington314 wrote:
another thing i dont get... how do they memorize those tracks so quick while going so damn fast?
Hours and hours in the simulator, ill dig up the RedBull sim vid later after football is over, you will shit, and want one SOOOO bad.

Also remember it is not like MX, these tracks dont change. Think how long it takes you to memorize a track playing MVA? now imagine if someone was paying you millions, i bet you would know every bump real quick. Seb's win bonus = $700k per race win
sbarrington314 10/9/2011 12:57pm
10/9/2011 12:57pm
wow. yea, id like to see that when you get time. did you see the video of codemasters f1 side by side with real life? pretty sweet. thinking of getting it.
there was a nascar driver that said he never raced pocono, so he bought nascar the game for like xbox or ps3 and raced it over and over to learn the track. kinda funny.
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ocscottie 10/9/2011 1:02pm
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Dale Jr is so big in the NASCAR online iRacing stuff that a guy he met racing online that does skins for cars actually designed his 2012 car, how stoked is that guy? lol
sbarrington314 10/9/2011 2:00pm
10/9/2011 2:00pm
wow. cant imagine how much that thing costs!
sbarrington314 10/9/2011 5:21pm
10/9/2011 5:21pm
where do these guys start scottie? i assume go karts. but then what? gotta get experience somewhere. im sure there very very little room for errors going that fast.
Antipodean 10/9/2011 10:22pm
10/9/2011 10:22pm
Webber will get him, next time...maybe.
Antipodean 10/9/2011 10:23pm
10/9/2011 10:23pm
Gayle wrote:
uh, that title trophy says MX1
Because he's just that good.
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TMV 10/10/2011 12:54am
10/10/2011 12:54am Edited Date/Time 10/10/2011 4:43am
Here is what we have here in Lyon France.

http://uk.i-way-world.com

I did the F1 race 2 years ago. You spend most of the quali doing circles but when you realize you're not a pro and have to drive it a gear upper it's simply incredible.
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jamma10 10/10/2011 3:33am
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sbarrington314 wrote:
where do these guys start scottie? i assume go karts. but then what? gotta get experience somewhere. im sure there very very little room for errors...
where do these guys start scottie? i assume go karts. but then what? gotta get experience somewhere. im sure there very very little room for errors going that fast.
Most will start racing go karts around 7-8

Then progress to single seater racing (Formula Renault or Formula Ford) in a domestic series around the age of 14...

Then they progress to Formula Three, or more commonly these days GP2, which was set up as a direct feeder series to F1 a few years ago. Formula Three cars are all built using the same (stock) 2-litre, 4-cylinder engines but can have different chassis (I beleive) whereas GP2 cars are all built from the same chassis, the same 4 litre Renault V8 engine and all use the same tyre manufacturer.


Only a few lucky ones will make it to Formula One.

Most F1 drivers will have previously raced the majority of the circuits on the calendar during their years racing in lower formula's and the GP2 series supports the F1 championship, in Europe certainly. So the drivers will have a certain amount of knowledge of the circuits anyway, but as Scottie says they'll use simulators or even playstations to learn or refresh their memory of new tracks.
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Jefro98 10/10/2011 7:10am
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sbarrington314 wrote:
wow. yea, id like to see that when you get time. did you see the video of codemasters f1 side by side with real life? pretty...
wow. yea, id like to see that when you get time. did you see the video of codemasters f1 side by side with real life? pretty sweet. thinking of getting it.
there was a nascar driver that said he never raced pocono, so he bought nascar the game for like xbox or ps3 and raced it over and over to learn the track. kinda funny.
That's how Jaques Villeneuve learned how to drive Spa Francochamps in Belgium.
Played it for a few weeks on the Playstation.

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