5 April 2009

Malaysia 2009: Round 2 Results

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Congratulations to 2007 champion Karan on taking his fourth career win! Karan has doubled his win tally since Japan last year and after a highly chaotic and unusual shortened Malaysian Grand Prix, came away with the highest score so far this season. The result takes him up to third in the championship race.

Well done too to my missus on taking a close second - that win must be getting close!

In the standings its a battle of the champions, with three of the top four having taken the title before. Leading at the moment is me (Atomic) ahead of Australia winner and team mate Wooze, the two Ferraris and two Williams. Of course, at this stage of the season its still very tight and the top five are covered by just three points.

Logically, the Noah's ark style championship standings are reflected in the teams championship, with Brawn leading the pack from Ferrari and Williams. Red Bull have crept off the bottom after drawing a complete blank in round one.

Great Britain, Canada and USA have pulled ahead slightly in the nations standings, the three countries covered by a single point.

So what are your thoughts on the race today? Did the generous helping of action during the running make up for the early finish? Personally I think its a shame that this happened - even before we got to this weekend people were speculating that we could be looking at a red flag situation because of the new start time - this was totally avoidable. The actual racing though was great and even before the rain came, we saw some evidence that these new technical regs are making for better racing.

Roll on China!

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yeah true, if they'd started it just one hour earlier it would still have been an acceptable time (ish) for European audiences, and then we'd have got the whole race in!

Still, always fun watching cars being put under tarpaulines for nearly an hour :-p

British Touring Car and IndyCar made up for the shortened F1 race though.

IceMan

Anonymous said...

Wow a very pleasant surprise! Definitely did not expect the win, given that the race was stopped before mass chaos ensued, and I went a bit conservative this time.

I enjoyed the race a lot while it lasted, and definitely provided some entertainment value. The Scuderia's performance has been supremely disappointing but not entirely surprising. They definitely have a lot of issues to sort out, starting back in Maranello.

Roll on Shanghai!

Karan

Anonymous said...

I think that the FIA has something for ya Pete. On thuesday, they will change the ruling about the diffuser so all results will be void.

F1: the attorney league.

-Badboy

Anonymous said...

Interesting:

The former promoter of the Canadian Grand Prix believes that Bernie Ecclestone and Max Mosley, Formula One Management chief and FIA President respectively, should now be relieved of their duties in the sport.

Normand Legault, who saw his race lost from the calendar after the 2008 event, believes that Formula One does no longer need to be 'governed', and that he spoke to the teams regarding this issue last year. "I said to them 'why don't you reorganise yourselves like a North American sports league? When the Montreal Canadiens play the Boston Bruins, they don't ask the International Hockey Federation to referee the match," Legault explained to La Presse in Montreal.

"In the world of North American pro sports, each league has a board of governors, a commissioner and vice presidents who manage the business - the owners of the sport manage themselves. The teams could leave tomorrow morning - they could call it the 'Grand Prix World Championship'. If you have Ferrari, BMW, Williams, if you have Lewis Hamilton, that seems pretty much like the real thing," he added.

Legault continued to state that the business side of F1 has too great an influence on the sport itself: "To go back to the model of the NHL, if the league administrative costs are $50 million, and overall revenues are $1.8 billion, then that amounts to 3 per cent. In F1, the guy who manages the business costs you 50 per cent of your revenues."

-Badboy

Anonymous said...

:D


The former promoter of the Canadian Grand Prix believes that Bernie Ecclestone and Max Mosley, Formula One Management chief and FIA President respectively, should now be relieved of their duties in the sport.

Normand Legault, who saw his race lost from the calendar after the 2008 event, believes that Formula One does no longer need to be 'governed', and that he spoke to the teams regarding this issue last year. "I said to them 'why don't you reorganise yourselves like a North American sports league? When the Montreal Canadiens play the Boston Bruins, they don't ask the International Hockey Federation to referee the match," Legault explained to La Presse in Montreal.

"In the world of North American pro sports, each league has a board of governors, a commissioner and vice presidents who manage the business - the owners of the sport manage themselves. The teams could leave tomorrow morning - they could call it the 'Grand Prix World Championship'. If you have Ferrari, BMW, Williams, if you have Lewis Hamilton, that seems pretty much like the real thing," he added.

Legault continued to state that the business side of F1 has too great an influence on the sport itself: "To go back to the model of the NHL, if the league administrative costs are $50 million, and overall revenues are $1.8 billion, then that amounts to 3 per cent. In F1, the guy who manages the business costs you 50 per cent of your revenues."

-Badboy

Anonymous said...

It feels like RSC, double posts!

Atomic said...

I agree that Bernie's more than outstayed his welcome but the teams forming their own series would be suicide - you need only to look to the States to see what happens when a series splits.

Hopefully FOTA will continue to grow and grow and in future will have a greater influence on where they get to race. I'm sure within five years both Canada and USA will be back on the calendar.