Well, I had tuned in hoping that Power would somehow manage to perform a miracle and win the race to hopefully win the championship instead of Dario “Francheaty” Franchitti, but I think I speak for everyone by saying I did not expect something like this to happen.

I know I’d given stick about it before, especially the oval variant of it – but I tell you now, I can’t wait for the new Dallara IR12 to come in next year, with all of its advances in safety designed to offer increased driver protection, and to stop them flipping over, especially following wheel-to-wheel contact.

Dallara IR12 "Oval"

So, I’ve been playing F1 2010 recently, and I thought it might be an idea to maybe try write up a “racing report” style of article once I eventually finish up the first season. Now the results themselves may seem a little askew given the current difficulty settings I’m playing under (Amateur difficulty; full ABS, TCS; manual gearbox; sim fuel/tyres/damage; max flashbacks; auto pit), but I’m blaming that on the fact I’m doing an achievement run in the first year for at least:

• Rocking the boat (15)
  Finish ahead of your senior team-mate in your first season with a new team
• Crushing victory (20)
  Outclass your team mate at each race, over one season
• Consistency is the key (25)
  Score a point in every round of a season

Maybe after I finish it completely – and I finish up doing my Let’s Play of Pokémon Black – I might do a Let’s Play of one of my future seasons in the game on a harder difficulty, which should ideally offset the fact I’ll be in a much faster car, particularly as I have both Force India and BMW Sauber interested in my services for next year

I’ve just been a little distracted by watching a few fair videos of the past hour or two of old CART races and incidents. I almost wish that the way the IndyCar Series runs right now could possibly take a leaf or two out of the old books, throw in a fair few more races on some of the more classic CART tracks like Cleveland and Portland, bring back the Panoz DP01 which only got a single season of use, and just in general, be a tad bit more exciting.

Oh well, judge for yourself maybe:

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G’wan Monty!!! Enough said really. Monty dominated at Watkins Glen, almost like he did at Indy for the past two years, but unlike those times, he comes out with the long-overdue win

I really just wish people who shut up about the fact his only two wins have been on the road courses. Have you not seen how many times he’s come second or third on an oval…?

Although a small part of me still kinda wished Marcos Ambrose could’ve won it…

Today is a really black day for motor racing. In each of the three races I watched, a driver had a mostly deserved win robbed from them.

First in the F1, Massa had his win robbed by his team, forcing him to pull over and let Alonso through.
Then in the NASCAR, Montoya had his win robbed from him when an invisibris caution occured, bunching the field up, dropping him down the order and then his car becoming way loose in traffic and hitting the wall.
And just now, the final straw, Castroneves had his win robbed from him by a very shit blocking call on a restart when he barley moved from his line on a fucking airport runway to make the first turn.

Motor sport officiating has gone to shit today, I can tell you that.

Been a little bit too busy recently for anything proper to write… Although after watching the NASCAR race today, I have found something epic to write about!

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Seems they won.

All that campaigning about how it was such a failure, never destined to win, at least not this year.

Seems the people believed in a change.

And in a drastic turn of fortunes, they’ve gone and done it.

All that downplaying by those against them to try and scare them into losing hasn’t worked as well as expected.

I wonder if their leaders are now no longer at risk of losing their jobs, after this result.

Maybe all of Europe will take heed and note that despite a poor start, you can always come back to win something.

Fucking Pompey…

(In all seriousness though, this was going to be about Lisbon. But then Portsmouth won earlier today, so that changed that!)

So, the end of the A1GP season came around a couple of months ago, and last month popped up the usual end of season fan quiz, which I took a bash at this year, given how I’d been quite addictively following this year – and with good reason of course, what with Ireland taking the championship and all

It was about time the results and answers were released, seeing as it was supposed to end after a fortnight, meaning it’s either a fortnight late, or the guys had quite a few submissions to grade. And all I can say is that my knowledge of this season was… impressive for my standards, but not nearly impressive enough for the world’s standards…

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Then obviously you haven’t been paying any attention to any of my feeds/tweets/statuses etc.

A1 Team Ireland are the A1 Grand Prix champions for 2008-09.

G’wan the Carroll! ’nuff said.

I’m still kicking myself for only getting around to checking out how the NASCAR at Talladega went last Sunday (god-damn IndyCars distracting me!), and I went as usual to the race rewind video of the race. While I was a little pissed off by the fact that Montoya was knocked out of the running late on, holy fuck that was some ending.