Formula 1 Rd: 7 Grand Prix du Canada

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Edited Date/Time 6/12/2012 1:53pm
Practice starts at 2:30e today from the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal.

The fastest ever lap around the circuit was set by Ralf Schumacher with a time of 1:12.275 set in the qualifying session for the 2004 Canadian Grand Prix.

Weather for the weekend is going to be high of 74 on Saturday with a 10% chance of rain, and high of 78 on Sunday with 0% chance of rain. Cool

2012 Driver Point Standings

1. Fernando Alonso (76pts.)
2. Sebastian Vettel (-3)
3. Mark Webber (-3)
4. Lewis Hamilton (-13)
5. Nico Rosberg (-17)

McLaren has won the previous two runnings of the Canadian GP. Sick
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Keep an eye out for naked students on the streets...
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Keep an eye out for naked students on the streets...
On the news radio this morning they had a Jauques VIlleneuve quoted saying " enough already and get back to school". Those idiots don't even know how good they have it, or what they are protesting about. It's the rest of Canada that's paying for them to go to school. "Get a Job you bunch of Hippies......."

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AWESOME shots Seth!!! Practice on Speed in about half hour..........................
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indy_maico 6/8/2012 10:26am
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It's hard to believe with all their success the last few years, but this is one circuit that Red Bull has never won on.

I think that may change come Sunday. Who's with me?
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indy_maico wrote:
It's hard to believe with all their success the last few years, but this is one circuit that Red Bull has never won on. I think...
It's hard to believe with all their success the last few years, but this is one circuit that Red Bull has never won on.

I think that may change come Sunday. Who's with me?
Yes, but, who...?

Weber seems to be tired of being the Bridesmaid.
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ocscottie 6/8/2012 11:04am
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P2 on Speed right now.

Thx Seth! i been sick in bed for 2 days now and havent felt like doing shit. Sick
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ocscottie 6/8/2012 11:06am
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Those are not even steering wheels anymore, they are "input devices"
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HAR! i just came to post those pics! I like what Hobbs said about Seb having a piece of the GeoDome on his car Laughing
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Lame! the race is on Fox this week, and at 8:30PM PST?? must be delayed?
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indy_maico 6/8/2012 11:35am
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It's crazy they have to do that shit during a race week-end. Stupid no-testing rules!
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ocscottie wrote:
Lame! the race is on Fox this week, and at 8:30PM PST?? must be delayed?
It's on Fox live in Indy (2 PM Eastern). I just set the DVR last night.
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ocscottie 6/8/2012 11:39am
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hmm that is weird, they said live at 11am, but my media center has it set to record it at 8:30pm, i better update my guide and see if that clears up.
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ocscottie wrote:
Lame! the race is on Fox this week, and at 8:30PM PST?? must be delayed?
indy_maico wrote:
It's on Fox live in Indy (2 PM Eastern). I just set the DVR last night.
I had my "record series" settings set to Speed only, so it was picking up the re air on Speed Sun. night, all sorted out now Cool
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The Caterham wheel is cut from a flat carbon fiber blank. Sort of spartan. I guess it's good for when the driver throws a fit and chunks the thing out of the car.
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SEEMEFIRST wrote:
The Caterham wheel is cut from a flat carbon fiber blank. Sort of spartan. I guess it's good for when the driver throws a fit and...
The Caterham wheel is cut from a flat carbon fiber blank. Sort of spartan. I guess it's good for when the driver throws a fit and chunks the thing out of the car.
I don't know. Those switches and connectors are probably the biggest cost on those wheels. Grinning

Ever price a Deutsch Autosport mini connector?
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SEEMEFIRST wrote:
The Caterham wheel is cut from a flat carbon fiber blank. Sort of spartan. I guess it's good for when the driver throws a fit and...
The Caterham wheel is cut from a flat carbon fiber blank. Sort of spartan. I guess it's good for when the driver throws a fit and chunks the thing out of the car.
indy_maico wrote:
I don't know. Those switches and connectors are probably the biggest cost on those wheels. Grinning

Ever price a Deutsch Autosport mini connector?
Indy how much if any of the parts to an F1 car outsourced or is everything built in house?
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SEEMEFIRST wrote:
The Caterham wheel is cut from a flat carbon fiber blank. Sort of spartan. I guess it's good for when the driver throws a fit and...
The Caterham wheel is cut from a flat carbon fiber blank. Sort of spartan. I guess it's good for when the driver throws a fit and chunks the thing out of the car.
indy_maico wrote:
I don't know. Those switches and connectors are probably the biggest cost on those wheels. Grinning

Ever price a Deutsch Autosport mini connector?
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Indy how much if any of the parts to an F1 car outsourced or is everything built in house?
Smaller teams like Force India will use more outsourcing than someone like McLaren.

Everyone will outsource castings (except maybe Ferrari!) and gearbox internals. When Toyota was in it, they had a casting company make a couple of hundred titanium gearbox castings. They didn't need them, but they did it to keep the company from making parts for other teams! (my buddy was technical director at Jordan at the time, and he told me this, Jordan went to their supplier for cast titanium uprights, and were told 'we can't do it because Toyota have us tied up for the year!')

A lot of teams will have outside suppliers making headers and radiators (or at least the cores)

They will make their own hoses, with mostly standard fittings unless they are looking for some weird shape or size.

Brakes are all outsourced. They will make their own wiring looms, but mostly use off the shelf stuff.

Shocks may be farmed out, but they will be to the team's own design, and they will do all their own valving.
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Entertaining race, is this a tires and team manager series now rather than a driver's?
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FreshTopEnd wrote:
Entertaining race, is this a tires and team manager series now rather than a driver's?
Pretty much, It is surely not the F1 it used to be!
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FreshTopEnd wrote:
Entertaining race, is this a tires and team manager series now rather than a driver's?
ocscottie wrote:
Pretty much, It is surely not the F1 it used to be!
No indeed, this was not the F1 of old. There was plenty of passing (and I didn't fall asleep!). 10 laps out, did you really know the outcome?

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