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And Kimi takes the win for Ferrari! Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Pts 1 1 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 66 1:38:19.051 1 10 2 2 Felipe Massa Ferrari 66 +3.2 secs 3 8 3 22 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 66 +4.1 secs 5 6 4 4 Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 66 +5.6 secs 4 5 5 10 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 66 +35.9 secs 7 4 6 16 Jenson Button Honda 66 +53.0 secs 13 3 7 8 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 66 +58.2 secs 12 2 8 11 Jarno Trulli Toyota 66 +59.4 secs 8 1 9 3 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 66 +63.0 secs 9 10 21 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari 65 +1 Lap 19 11 12 Timo Glock Toyota 65 +1 Lap 14 12 9 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 65 +1 Lap 17 13 18 Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 65 +1 Lap 22 Ret 7 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 41 Mechanical 15 Ret 5 Fernando Alonso Renault 34 Engine 2 Ret 17 Rubens Barrichello Honda 34 Accident 11 Ret 23 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 21 Accident 6 Ret 19 Anthony Davidson Super Aguri-Honda 8 Radiator damage 21 Ret 14 Sebastien Bourdais STR-Ferrari 7 Accident 16 Ret 6 Nelsinho Piquet Renault 6 Accident 10 Ret 20 Adrian Sutil Force India-Ferrari 0 Accident 20 Ret 15 Sebastian Vettel STR-Ferrari 0 Accident 18

I was on a school trip, we got into BCN the morning of the race and besides one of my friends, nobody likes F1 at my school! I pitched the idea but tickets were not cheap and only two of us really wanted to go, so no dice. Oh well...

Here is the grid order for the GP of Spain: Pos No Driver Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Laps 1 1 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:20.701 1:20.784 1:21.813 17 2 5 Fernando Alonso Renault 1:21.347 1:20.804 1:21.904 18 3 2 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:21.528 1:20.584 1:22.058 16 4 4 Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 1:21.423 1:20.597 1:22.065 13 5 22 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:21.366 1:20.825 1:22.096 14 6 23 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1:21.430 1:20.817 1:22.231 15 7 10 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:21.494 1:20.984 1:22.429 19 8 11 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:21.158 1:20.907 1:22.529 19 9 3 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 1:21.466 1:20.815 1:22.542 20 10 6 Nelsinho Piquet Renault 1:21.409 1:20.894 1:22.699 18 11 17 Rubens Barrichello Honda 1:21.548 1:21.049 12 12 8 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1:21.690 1:21.117 15 13 16 Jenson Button Honda 1:21.757 1:21.211 12 14 12 Timo Glock Toyota 1:21.427 1:21.230 16 15 7 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:21.472 1:21.349 15 16 14 Sebastien Bourdais STR-Ferrari 1:21.540 1:21.724 15 17 9 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 1:21.810 6 18 15 Sebastian Vettel STR-Ferrari 1:22.108 10 19 21 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari 1:22.516 11 20 20 Adrian Sutil Force India-Ferrari 1:23.224 8 21 19 Anthony Davidson Super Aguri-Honda 1:23.318 9 22 18 Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 1:23.496 9 This makes me sad, I was in Barcelona last year for this race and didn't go =[

Just to let you know, the answer is in the properties of the photo...

Bahahahaha that is awesome! I miss Kristen and you guys sooooooooo much! And wow, Baby Wonderland keeps expanding!

I paid $3.64 yesterday for 91 octane. Seriously, if you are paying for premium go to a 7-11 with the pumps that have like 5 different octane's on them. The 91 is cheaper by a good 5 cents over any other gas station.

I just came.

^I agree completely.

^I've had it looked at since it happened. Tire place said it was fine to drive on, but is bent and will vibrate at speed. Yeah, 70mph you can definitely feel it. Thats one of the many "to-do's" on my car, trust me there are a lot. 18's would also rub like CRAZY on my car. 17's work fine, and while I would like to have them this really isn't the 190 I would do it to. The car has 25,000 miles, its an 1988, and as far as 190's go, its the slowest NAm of the bunch. Its really more of a "keep in mint condition" car than a "make it look better" car. If I can get my hands on a 190E 2.3-16 I would definitely throw some AMG style rims on it among other things.

Washed and cleaned out the E today, took me two hours! My god I love this car. And my amazing bent rim. The end! Another angle. Its always satisfactory to drive a really clean car. Yay all clean. Notice the damage to my quarterpanel. Thank a 20-year-old tire for that. These rims are a b*tch to clean. NOTHING can get the dust off of them, nothing! You might think that washing this car is easy because its a box, but christ it takes me twice as long to wash this than my Buick did! All this junk I need to take upstairs at home, but I assure you its clean back there now! The interior usually looks like this, but I had to throw some trash away and vaccume the floor mats and floor itself. Before the vaccume process. It doesn't look it but it's really dirty! Oh....there it is! Guess everything in this pile and win a prize! Where'd everything go?!

Is it ruled out already that this wont just pop up at another SF park? Its pretty interesting that they would just scrap the project like that, but I guess SFNE has had the hardest time trying to construct it out of the three parks so I'm not overly surprised. And when it all comes down to it, its just a mouse in a box =]

This... and this... Are the effing GREATEST quotes of all time. Awesome stuff dude, I need to get back there eventually.

^I agree, I think my side just imploded. But this TR needs more boobs.

Yeah they really don't look like they would have done a whole lot do they?! And yes, I'm sure those brake disks alone are worth more than my car! He was there, but didn't realize it was a road course and ended up in the wall coming out of the straight. Oh well, atleast he was fast in a straight line =] You should have! I would have gone for the race had that been the case. And yes, the ALMS is pretty amazing! Yeah I looked it up and you are right, it is a Panoz Esperante which sounded equally as bad as the Corvettes. And ovals are rather boring compaired to the road courses. Hopefully those Cart guys do alright...

^Yeah she wasn't a total bitch, but then again when you're swamped by a sea of people its kind of hard to be nice to everyone! I caught her walking into some drivers meeting and was pretty much said hello, I like what you've done for the sport, I'm enjoying my first GP, and that she needs to drive in F1. She pretty much said "I have a meeting to get to but enjoy yourself, thanks for the support, and if I'm lucky I'll make it to F1 but I'm happy where I am now!" And that was it, kinda cool I guess.

Just a few more.... qualifying.wmv Here are a few videos clips I took. They are of the IRL, ALMS, and Indy Light respectively. See if you can hear the Audi as it passes at :28. That guy won, hooray! Apparently he's good enought that if he does well this season he will move up to the IRL next season.

Hellllllo TPR! Last weekend I went up to the St. Petersburg Grand Prix qualifying located in downtown St. Pete. I would have gone for the race but it would have just been myself, and as it turned out it rained for the race so it ended up being okay (plus I really wanted to see the American LaMans Series!) I'll let the photos do the rest of the talking, and don't expect anything amazing because its really REALLY hard to take pictures of fast moving objects! Overall I had a blast and would reccommend ANYONE to go see this or a race. Soooooo enjoy! Here's one of the restarts. I thought they were really cool to watch to be honest. This is pretty much how the entire race looked. We got into the grandstands which was nice, but this really isn't a popular event. Still I found it interesting. Awww they are so cute! The Indy Lights race was up next. They may look small, but they are really fast! Hell. Yes. Anyone want a bucket of parts? I dont know my cars THAT well, but is it a TVR or a Panoz? I think its a TVR, but I'm not quite sure. They look similar, do they not? Two at once, wooo. I think my 190E is louder than this thing! Its a spectacular feat of engineering. The race ended, and I have ZERO idea who won (I'm pretty sure one of the Audi's got P1) but it made for easy pictures of the cars entering the pits. Ahh much better shot of that turn! "Ya know, I'm a pretty skilled race car driver too" NOOOOOO!!!!! The Austin and the Viper had a big wreck. Both cars were in pretty bad shape, but the Viper got the worst of it. I snuck around to the bleachers as the race was ending. Nobody really seemed to mind us standing there, so I snapped some pictures... Oooohhhhh baby. But I will admit it was a SLICK looking car. This Ferrari totally killed the Ferrari Killer in the race. The Ford GT ended up way behind if I remember correctly. And this is the most amazing car of the bunch. Mind the NASCAR fan, but this Audi is a TDI. Thats right, its powered by the fuel of Satan. Diesel. Mmmmmmm Porsche. It has to be one of the best sounding cars I've ever heard ever. And Porsche IS pronounced Por-Sha as advertised by the Porsche T-Shirts! Closer shot of the Corvette. Seriously, this car was fast and all, but it was unnecessarily loud and annoying. This man was obviously deaf as he was completely passed out. A Dodge Viper, and someone you would probably see driving a Dodge Viper in everyday life. And once I realized that the fence was getting in the way, I went back to the back straight again. I moved over to the turns before the straightaway to try and get some better pictures. Word of advice, but bleacher tickets in advance. General admission viewing areas suck. Excuse me sir, your car is on fire. Lou will actually come to your house and rape you if you drive one of these things! Love you Lou!!! "GARGLE GARGLE GARGLE GARGLE SAVE MEEEEE GARGLE GARGLE..." Here are a few of the cars. I have to admit, I like the ALMS over Indycar so far. But holy crap, the 911's were absolutely quiet! Even the Audi's were louder than these things! As opposed to the Austin Martin, which sounded fantastic! The loudest and CRAPPIEST sounding car in the lot. Seriously, all 3 Corvettes and the TVR sounded like they were drowning. Oh man, two in a row! Thats soooooo many pictures. I'm getting better at this! After cooling off inside the theater (keep in mind this is a road course in the middle of downtown St. Pete!) for a bit we headed back out to watch the ALMS race. I DANCE WITH TEH STARS!!!!!!! The Civic Si is also pretty nice. Its definitely a "sports car" that would be easy to live with a drive everyday for cheap. BUT if I could have any Honda, it still wouldn't be this. Give me the RA108 over this any day! While extremely ugly, the Element has TONS of space in it. A friend of mine has one and they drive pretty nice as well. If I had to buy an SUVish thing, I would have to pick up one of these for both the space and the fuel economy. HELLAMENT This was at the end of qualifying. You had to pay extra to be in the bleachers on the front straight, but after qualifying was over with I ran up there and only this guy was still in the pits. Ah well, atleast its something! I'm going to seriously call "Smith Fence" and yell at the for ruining the ONLY good picture I took of the IRL guys. JERKS! You have ZERO idea how hard this is. And because I know this is what you guys are waiting for, here is a picture of Danica Patrick. I got a chance to meet her but I didn't want to be like everyone else and throw a camera in her face. She was kind of nice, but never smiled or anything when she was talking to anyone... Some more Indycar guys... The way qualifying works is there are two groups of cars that all go out for 20 minutes. The fastest 6 from each group move on into a third group which then determines the starting grid. I think thats how it works, correct me if I'm wrong. Same guy that was in the last shot, no idea who it is. The track is really in a great location. The Indy guys were out qualifying for the next days race. Its pretty interesting to notice the similarities and differences between Indycar and F1, but it looks like the IRL is catching on. Yes, I'm still not used to taking pictures of these guys at close range. Keep in mind they are doing 100+ right here. If you look really really REALLY close you can see a tupperware container. This is used to house official race sanwitches to keep them from getting stale. Oh, Tony Kanan is somewhere in there too. Here is a better shot of the other car. Notice the wheel and suspension damage. Uh oh, somebody had an accident! Sorry for the crap photo. I spy with my little eye some canary yellow short shorts. ...to take picture of fast moving cars at close range! These were only the Indy Lights too. Holy crap, it is really difficult... Seeing how this is the "Honda Grand Prix", Honda had a booth set up with all of the 2008 models on display. If you want to sleep with Lou then buy this car! "One of these things is not like the other, one of these things doesn't belong..." Some of the flag waver guys. Dig those pants. At the track you have to cross this bridge in order to enter the race grounds. Its directly over the race course and while you can't see them, you can definitely hear the cars going directly under you! The day started out by heading up to St. Pete at around 8:30am. We got there at about 9:15 and parked at Tropicana Field where we could catch a bus over to the track.

Christ, Scott, you are a trooper! I would totally bag out if I was sick! Good to hear that despite that you had a good time, even if it involved witnessing a Ferrari Killer. But hey, there is no Williams-Ford competeing with Kimi now is there?! =]

^^Don't drive an SUV/Hummer maybe? I found that 7-11 sells their premium pretty cheap compaired to everwhere else. The 91 octane stuff was only $3.44 where as at every other place its $3.64. They sell 93 octane for that price, but I'm not that fancy.

Here are the results from Bahrain: Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Pts 1 2 Felipe Massa Ferrari 57 1:31:06.970 2 10 2 1 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 57 +3.3 secs 4 8 3 4 Robert Kubica BMW 57 +4.9 secs 1 6 4 3 Nick Heidfeld BMW 57 +8.4 secs 6 5 5 23 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 57 +26.7 secs 5 4 6 11 Jarno Trulli Toyota 57 +41.3 secs 7 3 7 10 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 57 +45.4 secs 11 2 8 7 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 57 +55.8 secs 8 1 9 12 Timo Glock Toyota 57 +69.5 secs 13 10 5 Fernando Alonso Renault 57 +77.1 secs 10 11 17 Rubens Barrichello Honda 57 +77.8 secs 12 12 21 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari 56 +1 Lap 18 13 22 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 56 +1 Lap 3 14 8 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 56 +1 Lap 16 15 14 Sebastien Bourdais STR-Ferrari 56 +1 Lap 15 16 19 Anthony Davidson Super Aguri-Honda 56 +1 Lap 21 17 18 Takuma Sato Super Aguri-Honda 56 +1 Lap 22 18 9 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 56 +1 Lap 17 19 20 Adrian Sutil Force India-Ferrari 55 +2 Laps 20 Ret 6 Nelsinho Piquet Renault 40 Gearbox 14 Ret 16 Jenson Button Honda 19 Accident damage 9 Ret 15 Sebastian Vettel STR-Ferrari 0 Accident damage How about that! BMW did fantastic! Good for them!

NEVER FORGET!

He sounds like Macy Gray.

And to think, TC would have prevented that! I'm kind of indifferent about the removal of TC. Sure it actually brings out the "skill" of each driver a bit more, but it also has been the reason for a couple of crashes/spins already in this season. I really don't care that its gone, but at the same time I'm also wondering if it was completely necessary to do so. Bahrain should be a good race. You can't really tell anything from the Friday practices, but Saturday practice and qualifying should provide some more info for us. I do like that the teams are getting "mixed up" more this year rather that it being mostly the same starting and finishing order like last year. It really shows that some of these underdog teams have a chance.

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Ummmm....you dont lose break fluid with a leaking master cylinder. The seals in the master go bad and allow fluid to get past them causing a loss of pressure and "spongey" pedal feeling. You should have a mechanic check it out. Also how many pot brakes are you running?