Category Archives: Sport

Schumacher. Go. Please.

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I really do hope that Schumacher does announce his retirement today. Then we can all be glad that when the FIA has screwed around and found every way possible to award everything to him and Ferrari then next year we might actually have a decent show.
This latest incident is indicative of just how much the FIA take it from Ferarri and then bend to the will of that Italian outfit. Every team that Schumacher has been in since Jordan has cheated – from the hidden launch controls to complaining about any other mod on any other car to knocking people off the track there are more and more events from the past, even wikipedia has a line or two about his tactics – so it really has to be in F1′s best interests for Svumacher to get out of a car and stay out of the car. Right now because of Ferrari and the slavish way the FIA want to let them win it all again and will make it so where humanly possible it’s a damn boring spectacle.

Alonso, who leads Schumacher by 12 points in the standings, said: “I am a sportsman, I love sport, I love the fans. I don’t consider Formula One anymore like a sport.”

Can’t argue with that.

After the race….

Michael Schumacher’s chances of retiring as an eight-time World Champion look better than ever after his commanding win from Ferrari successor Kimi Raikkonen at Sunday’s Italian GP.

Get real – the FIA will do everything they possibly can to give him the damn trophy. Which means cheating.

Footballing note

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“He kicked it in”
“Yes, but he was offside so it’s not a goal”
“But he kicked it in”
“Yes….”

/me goes to explain the off-side rule.

Update: It took a while, and a few pictures to get to the “aaahhhhh”. She’ll have forgotten by the next match :)

F1 amusement

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From the Planet F1 Race report

Scott Speed, Toro Rosso, 10th
Scott Speed is making new friends in F1 as quickly as Condeleeza Rice on a Tehran walkabout. It’s not a great idea to pick a fight with F1′s second most senior pro; David Coulthard, and there will be “afters” you can be sure of that. Red Bull should be putting the fun back into F1 not money in the swearbox. We can’t even remember the last GP driver who was fined $5000 for abusive language.

Even Fisi wasn’t fined for his “my car is f***ing ***t” outburst, so Spped’s languages must have involved mothers.

Though not as funny as what looks like an Ali G inspired thread over in the forums. This one really did make me ROFLMAO. (It might be genuine but I very much doubt it).

F1 stupidity

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If BAR had Michael Schumacher as one of their drivers, then don’t we all just know that BAR would not have the ridiculous penalty that they have now ? After all, Benetton broke the rules in 1994 and the German has broken rules while with Ferrari too yet nothing happens to him or his team ……. doesn’t take the brains of a fly to work that out does it ? What IS the frigging point of F1 now ? Crap TV coverage, pretty useless commentators when the ads are stealing the action, blatant manipulation of the results …