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auto-moto.104 vector,
Mark Blundell i Bryan Herta u Australiji. Odlican snimak one serije sikana. (kad se samo setim kako je Zanardi bio brz tamo na kvalifikacijama) 2301208p.jpg
auto-moto.105 vector,
Ovo vec ide u legendu ... ;) zanard01.jpg
auto-moto.106 vector,
Bla, bla, bla ... zanard02.jpg
auto-moto.107 vector,
Obratite paznju na gume. :) zanard03.jpg
auto-moto.108 vector,
E, _ovo_ vec ide u legendu ... zanard04.jpg
auto-moto.109 vector,
Zanardi u krupnom planu. zanard05.jpg
auto-moto.110 vector,
Zanardijev Target Reynard-Honda bolid. :) zanard06.jpg
auto-moto.111 vector,
Zanardi (zar opet? ;) u Majamiju. zanard07.jpg
auto-moto.112 vector,
Ma sigurno je bilo neko ulje na stazi ... ;) zanard10.jpg
auto-moto.113 vector,
US 500 Preview July 24, 1997 WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES...By Ned Wicker When the Target/Chip Ganassi Racing Team came to Michigan Speedway a year ago, Jimmy Vasser was licking his chops in anticipation of a repeat performance. The Target Reynard-Honda loved the superspeedway and Vasser had four race wins under his belt. He won the U.S. 500 pole and race in May and was looking forward to doing the same in the Marlboro 500. A lot has changed since then. For starters, there is no Marlboro 500, but this weekend is the traditional Marlboro 500 date, only with new name. Another thing that has changed is Jimmy Vasser's spot atop the PPG Cup leader board. Vasser is currently in seventh spot, and is his same consistent self, but he doesn't have the race victories like last year. In the PPG CART World Series, good doesn't cut it, very good is marginal, excellent is acceptable and some guys are just plain fantastic. It's not that Vasser isn't having a good season, it's just that everybody else is that much better this year. "We are not out of the points, by no means," said Vasser. "We need to have a great finish at Michigan and need to have a good run. We are sitting seventh now, not far out of the top five spot, and the top five is very close to the lead. So, we are certainly in a position to win this championship again, and that's our focus." A lot has changed in two months. Although Paul Tracy is leading the current points, the Penske cars have not been impressive the last couple of weeks, as neither Tracy nor teammate Al Unser Jr. (eleventh in points) has been able to come up with a well-balanced car on the road courses. Tracy, had a victories on the Rio and St. Louis ovals, so the team is hoping that will translate well to Roger Penske's high banked track this weekend. Tracy had poles at Nazareth and Milwaukee and should be in the mix at Michigan. The same cannot be said for Unser, who has been qualifying mid-pack all season. A year ago, the Honda was making all the power, leaving an improved Mercedes-Benz and the Ford-Cosworth in its wake. However, the Mercedes cars have been making tremendous horsepower this year, as evidenced by a dramatic advantage in straightaway speed. The Ford-Cosworth, likewise, is an improved engine, making the battled between the top three manufacturers all that much more interesting. This year is another race, entirely. Running in the Top 10 traditionally has been considered a good thing, but in 1997, a look at positions 11-15 reveal names like Al Unser, Jr., Bryan Herta and Bobby Rahal. Rookie standout Patrick Carpentier is 15th, so the traditional six or eight cars that were capable of winning has grown to 12 to 15. Another point to consider when looking at the competition for this weekend's race is the tire situation. Goodyear came up with a very good oval tire, but Firestones continue to thrive in the heat of the summer afternoons. In Toronto, the Firestones took over, so Goodyear is looking to even the score at Michigan. Reynard-Honda-Firestone combinations were tops last year, but this year could tell a completely different story. Who's Hot: -- Mark Blundell and the Motorola team have been scoring points and challenging consistently for the top level of the podium. Victories at Portland and Toronto have vaulted Blundell into the Top 10. -- Alex Zanardi is making his way to the top of the standings with the victory at Cleveland and a second place finish in Toronto. Remember, it was about this time last year that he really took off. -- Andre Ribeiro, last year's Marlboro 500 winner, has the Reynard and a new lease on life in 1997. He was a competitive third at Toronto, but has something to prove this weekend. Who's Not: -- Parker Johnstone continues to struggle in the KOOL Reynard-Honda. There seems to be a cooling off of the driver/team relationship there, as rumors persist that Robby Gordon is a consideration for 1998. KOOL is also considering sponsorship for another Team KOOL Green entry next year, so this gang might have an all new look. -- The #34 Payton-Coyne entry was a sled at Cleveland and it was a sled again at Toronto. This was the entry that finished third in last year's U.S. 500, but without driver Roberto Moreno, it isn't a happy car. NEWS...NEWS...NEWS... PENSKE MOTORSPORTS AND INT'L SPEEDWAY CORP INVEST IN HOMESTEAD Penske Motorsports, Inc. and International Speedway Corporation have each acquired 40 percent shares of the Metro-Dade Homestead Motorsports Complex, giving the two racing giants controlling interest in the facility. The remaining 20 percent is owned by founder Ralph Sanchez and partner Wayne Huizenga. Each have 10 percent ownership interest. Recently the track underwent an $8.2 million renovation, transforming the original quad-oval into a symmetrical oval. The move was made to improve the competitiveness of the shows. For Roger Penske, the move was his second major purchase in recent months, as he also obtained controlling interest in the North Carolina Motor Speedway (Rockingham), prompting speculation that CART may have a new home in the deep south in the next couple of years. "With the addition of Metro-Dade Homestead Motorsports Complex, PMI now has interest in five major auto racing facilities in the country," said Penske. "With the opening of the California Speedway outside Los Angeles and the addition of the beautiful facility near Miami, we are positioned in two of the country's fastest growing and most prestigious markets." Likewise, Bill France has been busy, as he has also recently purchased the Phoenix International Raceway. "In less than two months, ISC has entered into track ownership in two of America's most exciting and fastest growing markets, as well as acquiring 100 percent ownership of a famed road course racing facility in Watkins Glen.," said France. LOLA RE-ORGANIZES A group consisting of Lola's current management and senior engineers has made an offer to refinance Lola Cars Ltd. The offer was accepted by the administrator of Lola Cars, Peter Dunn of accountants Latham Crossely and Davis. Chairman of the new ownership group (which does not include Lola founder Eric Broadley) will be Michael Davies, chairman of National Express Group plc and Simon Engineering plc. According to Dunn, the refinancing bid is expected to be concluded within four weeks. NO MOORE McLAREN? The Toronto paddock was rife with talk that the McLaren F-1 team has designs on Greg Moore for the 1998 season. Moore, however, discounted such talk. "That's funny," he said. "I guess that's why they call this the silly season. There's no truth to that rumor." Apparently there is some truth to another rumor circulating in Toronto, namely that Players/Forsythe owner Gerald Forsythe approached Tony Bettenhausen about buying Patrick Carpentier's contract. "Jerry called to ask about it, but I told him I wasn't interested," said Bettenhausen. Although many were quick to link Forsythe's interest in Carpentier to Moore's supposed departure for McLaren, the more likely scenario is that Players is interested in running a French-Canadian in a second Players/Forsythe car next year as a teammate to Moore. Given the dearth of French-Canadian drivers in the Players pipeline who are likely to be ready to move up to Indy cars in '98, Carpentier is an attractive - but apparently unavailable - option. TWO KOOL? A decision is expected to be forthcoming by the end of July as to whether or not KOOL will back a second Indy car for Team KOOL Green in 1998. SERIES CO-SPONSOR IN THE OFFING In an interview in the June '97 issue of "Indy Car Magazine," CART president and CEO Andrew Craig said that negotiations were underway to bring a new sponsor on board to augment PPG's support for the series. "We may have an announcement as early as June," said Craig, "but if you don't hear anything in June then we've bombed." Craig's timing may have been off by a month or two. Executives representing a well-known, multi-national corporation believed to be interested in co-sponsoring the PPG CART World Series as early as 1998 were on hand at the Toronto Molson Indy. TORONTO SUCCESS Three days of beautiful weather - and quite probably the well publicized successes of Canadian drivers Paul Tracy, Greg Moore and Patrick Carpentier - helped boost attendance to record levels at the Toronto Molson Indy. After the second highest attendance in the history of the event on Friday, the Saturday and Sunday gates set new records and brought the three day total to 164,406, the highest in the event's 12 year history, surpassing last year's record of 163,019. BLUNDELL AND PACWEST ON A ROLL With his victory in the Toronto Molson Indy, Mark Blundell made it two out of the past three races, having earlier won the Budweiser/G.I. Joe's 200 at Portland. For want of a splash of fuel at Detroit, Blundell would have won three of the past four races. Clearly, though, Toronto was his most complete performance since joining the PacWest Racing Group last year. Second fastest in both qualifying sessions, Blundell took the lead as the result of the first corner incident between pole-sitter Dario Franchitti and Bobby Rahal. Not only did he lead the rest of the way - a couple of laps on pit stops excepted - he withstood intense pressure from the man who has arguably been the fastest driver in Indy car racing over the past 12 months - Alex Zanardi. Indeed, Blundell had an answer for Zanardi every time the Italian got within striking distance, able to quickly move out to a 2.5s lead seemingly at will. "The whole PacWest team earned this one," said Blundell. "We led just a little of the last one (Portland) but we got this one fair and square. This is one of the greatest moments of my career. We had a car that was simply the fastest one out there. I didn't want to change a thing all day. My guys gave me great pit stops, and other than a couple of backmarkers who didn't want to get out of the way, it was a perfect day." Blundell's surge is something of a surprise in that from the start of the season it appeared as though Mauricio Gugelmin would be the man to bring PacWest its first victory. But Gugelmin was not been able to take advantage of his early season form and has been somewhat adrift of Blundell's pace the past couple of weekends, in part because he was running some development suspension bits on his Reynard/Merc at Cleveland and on Friday at Toronto that hindered rather than helped his cause. Although he set the fastest time in Saturday's practice, he was only able to post tenth fastest time in qualifying. Sunday saw him lose a spot as the result of the Turn One scuffle, but eventually drive to solid race to recover to sixth spot at the finish. "It was a pretty straightforward day," said Gugelmin. "I lost a spot in the first turn and it was hard work getting positions after that. The car was pretty good, but not perfect. I made a few passes, but it's a difficult circuit to pass on. I was getting held up, so I asked to make my second pit stop a bit early and we got by a couple more cars as a result and finished sixth. I'm happy for my teammate at the PacWest team, but I hope next time it's going to be me." PENSKES STRUGGLE Marlboro Penske's indifferent street circuit form continued as Toronto, as evinced by the fact that Paul Tracy finished tenth and Al Unser, Jr. 20th, albeit after a losing a couple of laps replacing a left front tie rod after a Turn One barging match with Gualter Salles on Lap 28. The basic problems are two or three fold. First, the PC26 does not generate sufficient grip in qualifying trim on light fuel loads, which forces Tracy and Unser to start from mid-field or so. Second, it's becoming something of a clichÚ but it's true: the CART series has become so competitive that the days when drivers of the caliber of Tracy and Unser could expect to charge to the front from poor qualifying spots are long gone. A look at the finishing order underscores the fact that Firestone trounced Goodyear at Toronto. Seven of the top eight finishers were on Firestones (fourth placed Michael Andretti was the sole Goodyear representative). In terms of fastest laps, Firestone enjoyed an even greater edge, with Andretti (6th) and Christian Fittipaldi (7th) the only Goodyear drivers in the top ten. As for Marlboro Penske, Tracy was 12th on the fastest lap chart, while Unser was 21st. Where Mark Blundell turned a 59.185s lap on the way to his second win in three races, Tracy's best was a 60.644 and Unser's a 61.251. TASMAN REVIVAL Toronto marked a welcome reversal of fortunes for the Tasman Motorsports Group. Not only did Andre Ribeiro earn the team's first podium finish of 1997, but Helio-Castro Neves and Tony Kanaan finished 1-2 in the Indy Lights race and Neil Crompton finished 2-1 in the twin Super Touring races. Tasman's strong Indy Lights showing is not exactly news. Not only was this the team's third 1-2 finish of the season, Castro-Neves is threatening to make a runaway of the PPG Firestone Indy Lights Championship while Kanaan is a solid second in the points. Small wonder Tasman's Indy Lights group has been known as "the happy team" for most of the season...especially given the trials and tribulations experienced by the Indy car team in its efforts to come to grips with the Lola T97/00 chassis. The acquisition of an ex-Gil de Ferran Reynard for Ribeiro in time for the Cleveland race gave the team a welcome boost, even if they finished just out of the points when several gremlins set-in over the final laps. At Toronto, however, Ribeiro was right on the pace most of the weekend - he was the defending pole winner, after all - and came home a solid third. Meanwhile, defending race winner Adrian Fernandez eventually abandoned the primary Lola T97/00 and its various updates in favor of his bog-stock back-up chassis and drove to a steady - if circumspect - 14th place. "It has been a great 'team' weekend," said Tasman's Steve Horne. "Andre drove a great race. We talked a lot about focus and he was very focused. Adrian drove the wheels off the Lola for 14th place. We had tremendous finishes in Indy Lights and Touring cars. I will remember for this weekend for a while." MIS Track Facts U.S. 500 Michigan Speedway Track Type: 2.0-mile, high-banked oval Distance: 500 miles/250 laps Sunday, July 27 MICHIGAN TRACK RECORDS Distance Date Driver Time Speed One Lap 7/27/96 Jimmy Vasser 30:682 234.665 126 Miles 7/15/79 Gordon Johncock 44:13.00 170.976 150 Miles 9/13/75 Tom Sneva 51:05.39 176.160 200 Miles 9/18/83 Rick Mears 1:05:49.00 182.325 250 Miles 9/28/86 Bobby Rahal 1:22:33.20 181.701 500 Miles 8/ 5/90 Al Unser, Jr. 2:38:07.291 189.727 PAST WINNERS Date Driver Distance Speed 10/13/68 Ronnie Bucknum 250 163.043 7/ 4/70 Gary Bettenhausen 200 140.625 7/18/71 Mark Donohue 200 144.898 7/16/72 Joe Leonard 200 140.685 7/15/73 Roger McCluskey 200 161.146 9/16/73 Bill Vukovich 126 134.161 9/16/73 Johnny Rutherford 126 157.243 7/21/74 Bobby Unser 200 160.695 9/15/74 Al Unser 250 142.135 7/20/75 A.J. Foyt 200 N.T. 9/14/75 Tom Sneva 150 176.160 7/18/76 Gordon Johncock 200 165.033 9/18/76 A.J. Foyt 150 164.068 7/17/77 Danny Ongais 200 149.152 9/17/77 Gordon Johncock 150 175.250 7/16/78 Johnny Rutherford 200 159.941 9/16/78 Danny Ongais 150 146.246 7/15/79 Gordon Johncock 126 170.976 7/15/79 Bobby Unser 126 155.342 9/15/79 Bobby Unser 150 175.211 7/20/80 Johnny Rutherford 200 148.515 9/20/80 Mario Andretti 150 167.949 7/25/81 Pancho Carter 500 132.890 9/20/81 Rick Mears 148 125.957 7/18/82 Gordon Johncock 500 153.925 9/26/82 Bobby Rahal 150 140.515 7/17/83 John Paul Jr. 500 134.862 9/18/83 Rick Mears 200 182.325 7/22/84 Mario Andretti 500 133.482 9/24/84 Mario Andretti 200 168.523 7/28/85 Emerson Fittipaldi 500 128.220 9/22/85 Bobby Rahal 200 163.647 8/ 2/86 Johnny Rutherford 500 137.139 9/28/86 Bobby Rahal 250 181.701 8/ 2/87 Michael Andretti 500 171.493 8/ 7/88 Danny Sullivan 500 180.654 8/ 6/89 Michael Andretti 500 160.210 8/ 5/90 Al Unser, Jr. 500 189.727 8/ 4/91 Rick Mears 500 167.230 8/04/92 Scott Goodyear 500 177.625 8/01/93 Nigel Mansell 500 188.203 7/31/94 Scott Goodyear 500 159.800 7/30/95 Scott Pruett 500 159.676 5/26/96 Jimmy Vasser 500 156.403 7/28/96 Andre Ribeiro 500 152.627 POLE POSITION QUALIFIERS Date Driver Speed 10/12/68 Mario Andretti 183.670 7/ 3/70 Gary Bettenhausen 180.451 7/17/71 Bobby Unser 193.444 7/15/72 Bobby Unser 199.778 7/14/73 Bobby Unser 204.487 9/15/73 Gordon Johncock 204.545 9/16/73 Gary Bettenhausen a 7/20/74 Bobby Unser 196.239 9/14/74 A.J. Foyt 201.186 7/19/75 A.J. Foyt 193.809 9/13/75 A.J. Foyt 201.117 7/17/76 A.J. Foyt 198.238 9/17/76 A.J. Foyt 198.621 7/16/77 Tom Sneva 200.278 9/16/77 Danny Ongais 200.949 7/15/78 Tom Sneva 211.392 9/15/78 Johnny Rutherford 205.187 7/14/79 Bobby Unser 203.879 7-15-79 Gordon Hancock b 9/14/79 Bobby Unser 204.001 7/19/80 Bobby Unser 192.488 9/19/80 Mario Andretti 195.812 7/23/81 Tom Sneva 201.359 9/19/81 Rick Mears 200.111 7/16/82 Mario Andretti 205.233 9/25/82 Rick Mears 206.416 7/15/83 Teo Fabi 202.128 9/17/83 Bobby Rahal 205.274 7/20/84 Mario Andretti 211.088 9/23/84 Johnny Rutherford 215.189 7/20/85 Bobby Rahal 215.202 9/21/85 Bobby Rahal 214.254 7/31/86 Rick Mears 223.401 9/27/86 Rick Mears 219.445 7/31/87 Michael Andretti 215.530 8/ 5/88 Rick Mears 218.427 8/ 5/89 Emerson Fittipaldi 219.827 8/ 4/90 Emerson Fittipaldi 222.593 8/ 2/91 Rick Mears 225.169 7/31/92 Mario Andretti 230.150 7/31/93 Mario Andretti 234.275 7/30/94 Nigel Mansell 233.738 7/29/95 Parker Johnstone 230.458 5/12/96 Jimmy Vasser 232.025 7/27/96 Jimmy Vasser 234.665 a- Bettenhausen was originally declared winner of the first race. b- first-race winner earned pole for second race.
auto-moto.114 stukelj, -> #98, miko
> dvojbe zasluzio. Meni to samo govori da bi Benetton-u bilo bolje > da ga je zadrzao, nego sto je doveo ovu dvojicu koja su na svoje Berger prvi na kvalifikacijama, a Herbert je verovatno negde u rangu Nakana... ;)
auto-moto.115 vpoznanovic,
F1: German GP Saturday Free Practice Pos Driver Nat Constructor Time Gap To 1st ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Ralf Schumacher D Jordan-Peugeot 1:42.987 2. Mika Hakkinen FIN McLaren-Mercedes 1:42.989 0.002 0.002 3. Jean Alesi F Benetton-Renault 1:43.257 0.268 0.270 4. Giancarlo Fisichella I Jordan-Peugeot 1:43.349 0.092 0.362 5. Gerhard Berger A Benetton-Renault 1:43.428 0.079 0.441 6. David Coulthard GB McLaren-Mercedes 1:43.579 0.151 0.592 7. Michael Schumacher D Ferrari 1:43.628 0.049 0.641 8. Heinz-Harald Frentzen D Williams-Renault 1:43.646 0.018 0.659 9. Rubens Barrichello BR Stewart-Ford ZV10 1:44.096 0.450 1.109 10. Jacques Villeneuve CDN Williams-Renault 1:44.291 0.195 1.304 11. Jarno Trulli I Prost-Mugen 1:44.328 0.037 1.341 12. Shinji Nakano J Prost-Mugen 1:44.741 0.413 1.754 13. Damon Hill GB TWR-Yamaha 1:44.875 0.134 1.888 14. Norberto Fontana ARG Sauber-Petronas 1:44.927 0.052 1.940 15. Eddie Irvine GB Ferrari 1:44.988 0.061 2.001 16. Johnny Herbert GB Sauber-Petronas 1:45.082 0.094 2.095 17. Jan Magnussen DK Stewart-Ford ZV10 1:45.446 0.364 2.459 18. Pedro Diniz BR TWR-Yamaha 1:45.454 0.008 2.467 19. Mika Salo FIN Tyrrell-Ford EDV8 1:45.983 0.529 2.996 20. Jos Verstappen NL Tyrrell-Ford EDV8 1:46.548 0.565 3.561 21. Ukyo Katayama J Minardi-Hart 1:46.569 0.021 3.582 22. Tarso Marques BR Minardi-Hart 1:46.800 0.231 3.813 107% of fastest time: 1:50.196
auto-moto.117 vpoznanovic,
F1: German GP Saturday Qualifying Pos Driver Nat Constructor Time Gap To 1st ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Gerhard Berger A Benetton-Renault 1:41.873 2. Giancarlo Fisichella I Jordan-Peugeot 1:41.896 0.023 0.023 3. Mika Hakkinen FIN McLaren-Mercedes 1:42.034 0.138 0.161 4. Michael Schumacher D Ferrari 1:42.181 0.147 0.308 5. Heinz-Harald Frentzen D Williams-Renault 1:42.421 0.240 0.548 6. Jean Alesi F Benetton-Renault 1:42.493 0.072 0.620 7. Ralf Schumacher D Jordan-Peugeot 1:42.498 0.005 0.625 8. David Coulthard GB McLaren-Mercedes 1:42.687 0.189 0.814 9. Jacques Villeneuve CDN Williams-Renault 1:42.967 0.280 1.094 10. Eddie Irvine GB Ferrari 1:43.209 0.242 1.336 11. Jarno Trulli I Prost-Mugen 1:43.226 0.017 1.353 12. Rubens Barrichello BR Stewart-Ford ZV10 1:43.272 0.046 1.399 13. Damon Hill GB TWR-Yamaha 1:43.361 0.089 1.488 14. Johnny Herbert GB Sauber-Petronas 1:43.660 0.299 1.787 15. Jan Magnussen DK Stewart-Ford ZV10 1:43.927 0.267 2.054 16. Pedro Diniz BR TWR-Yamaha 1:44.069 0.142 2.196 17. Shinji Nakano J Prost-Mugen 1:44.112 0.043 2.239 18. Norberto Fontana ARG Sauber-Petronas 1:44.552 0.440 2.679 19. Mika Salo FIN Tyrrell-Ford EDV8 1:45.372 0.820 3.499 20. Jos Verstappen NL Tyrrell-Ford EDV8 1:45.811 0.439 3.938 21. Tarso Marques BR Minardi-Hart 1:45.942 0.131 4.069 22. Ukyo Katayama J Minardi-Hart 1:46.499 0.557 4.626 107% of fastest time: 1:49.004
auto-moto.118 vector,
Kvalifikacije za US 500: 1. Scott Pruett 2. Mauricio Gugelmin 3. Raul Boesel 4. Jimmy Vasser 5. Parker Johnstone 6. Bobby Rahal 7. Alex Zanardi 8. Bryan Herta 9. Andre Ribeiro 10. Gil de Ferran PS. Bice bolje na trci. ;)
auto-moto.119 miko, -> #114, stukelj
» Berger prvi na kvalifikacijama, a Herbert je verovatno » negde u rangu Nakana... ;) Da, bas se potrefilo ;)) Ali dobro, Berger je u poslednje dve sezone nezaustavljiv u Hockenheim-u, tako da bi trebalo ocekivati dobru trku. Pogotovo kada Mika pocne da ga forsira :)
auto-moto.120 stukelj, -> #118, vector
> PS. Bice bolje na trci. ;) U pravu si, cetvrto mesto na kvalifikacijama nije toliko dobro koliko smo svi ocekivali... Mada, s obzirom da su favoriti tako nisko plasirani, za ocekivati je da se Vasser, posle pobede, ukljuci u borbu za titulu... PS Dario tek 13. :(
auto-moto.121 stukelj, -> #54, vector
> Sto se tice Lagune, Zanardi je ionako bio najbrzi covek na stazi > tokom celog vikenda -- Herta se samo tu nasao i jednostavno nije > nista mogao da uradi. ;> A kako to da je, ako je bio ubedljivo najbrzi na stazi, bio iza Herte ulazeci u zadnji krug ??? PS Najbrzi covek na stazi je zavrsio trku na 4. mestu... ;)
auto-moto.122 stukelj, -> #74, vector
> Ovo je stvarno bilo neverovatno. :) Siguran sam da se niko od > svih aktivnih vozaca CART sampionata (i vecim delom Formule 1) > ne bi usudio na ovako nesto, i to pogotovo na samom pocetku > trke. :) Zanardi ispade najbolji vozac svih vremena u CART sampionatu, po tebi... Kako to da takav genijalac prosle godine nije bio sampion ??? A to sto kazes za to obilazenje, i Blundell je obisao Hira na isti nacin... istina, za ceo krug ;))
auto-moto.123 stukelj, -> #96, vector
> Ali, seti se trke u Torontu i na koji nacin je obisao Pruetta i > Rahala, pa reci - da li to moze jedan Villeneuve ? ;) Rahal ima Goodyear gume, pa tu nije nista cudno...
auto-moto.124 stukelj, -> #100, castrvm
> McLarena.Coultard da ume da prenese svoja zapa`anja kao npr.Senna , Coulthard-ov problem nije rad sa mehanicarima, vec to sto je on jedan idiot koji sa voznjom nema blage veze...
auto-moto.125 vector, -> #92, obren
┼─┤ likely go the way of Jean Alesi who, it has to be said, has been ┼─┤ looking much more impressive of late. Gerhard Berger has been close to ┼─┤ Alesi in testing, but I would expect his first race back to be ┼─┤ slightly off his best pace. Ipak im je Berger pokazao kako se vozi. Da li neko video na koji nacin je David Coulthard prolazio one sikane? (cini mi se da je prva serija sikana u pitanju) Sramota. I neko posle toga moze da prica da je on jedan od najboljih vozaca ...
auto-moto.126 vpoznanovic,
F1: German GP Sunday Warmup Pos Driver Nat Constructor Time Gap To 1st ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Jacques Villeneuve CDN Williams-Renault 1:45.006 2. Damon Hill GB TWR-Yamaha 1:45.347 0.341 0.341 3. Giancarlo Fisichella I Jordan-Peugeot 1:45.403 0.056 0.397 4. Heinz-Harald Frentzen D Williams-Renault 1:45.483 0.080 0.477 5. Gerhard Berger A Benetton-Renault 1:45.497 0.014 0.491 6. Ralf Schumacher D Jordan-Peugeot 1:45.782 0.285 0.776 7. David Coulthard GB McLaren-Mercedes 1:46.138 0.356 1.132 8. Mika Hakkinen FIN McLaren-Mercedes 1:46.258 0.120 1.252 9. Norberto Fontana ARG Sauber-Petronas 1:46.376 0.118 1.370 10. Jean Alesi F Benetton-Renault 1:46.448 0.072 1.442 11. Pedro Diniz BR TWR-Yamaha 1:46.477 0.029 1.471 12. Jarno Trulli I Prost-Mugen 1:46.560 0.083 1.554 13. Shinji Nakano J Prost-Mugen 1:46.655 0.095 1.649 14. Michael Schumacher D Ferrari 1:46.662 0.007 1.656 15. Rubens Barrichello BR Stewart-Ford ZV10 1:46.797 0.135 1.791 16. Johnny Herbert GB Sauber-Petronas 1:46.919 0.122 1.913 17. Eddie Irvine GB Ferrari 1:47.502 0.583 2.496 18. Tarso Marques BR Minardi-Hart 1:47.775 0.273 2.769 19. Mika Salo FIN Tyrrell-Ford EDV8 1:48.420 0.645 3.414 20. Jos Verstappen NL Tyrrell-Ford EDV8 1:49.418 0.998 4.412 21. Jan Magnussen DK Stewart-Ford ZV10 1:50.058 0.640 5.052 22. Ukyo Katayama J Minardi-Hart 1:50.614 0.556 5.608 107% of fastest time: 1:52.356
auto-moto.127 vector, -> #121, stukelj
┼─┤ A kako to da je, ako je bio ubedljivo najbrzi na stazi, bio iza Herte ┼─┤ ulazeci u zadnji krug ??? Lako. Koliko se secam, kada su naisli na backmarkere Herta je iskoristio sansu i obisao Zanardija, ali se u poslednjem krugu sve vratilo na svoje mesto.
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Zanardi u Torontu. 200103~1.jpg
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Mark Blundell, Toronto. 220103~1.jpg
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Long Beach, start trke. 350154~1.jpg
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Long Beach, Alex Zanardi (tacnije, bolid) u krupnom planu. 370100~1.jpg
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Miami, start trke. 380120~1.jpg
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Nazareth, start trke. 760154~1.jpg
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Mark Blundell u Klivlendu. 820154~1.jpg
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Zanardi vodi u Klivlendu ispred de Ferrana. 890103~1.jpg
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Laguna Seca '96. Zanardi ispred Gordona. zanard89.jpg
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┼─┤ Ipak im je Berger pokazao kako se vozi. Da li neko video na koji nacin ┼─┤ je David Coulthard prolazio one sikane? (cini mi se da je prva serija Jos nesto. Trenutno ne mogu da se setim staze na kojoj nije zablokirao pneumatike. Jednostavno ne moze da se skoncentrise i da zakoci pravilno. On, jedan od boljih vozaca? Daleko je on od toga. Kada je sledeci Grand Prix?
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> Coulthard-ov problem nije rad sa mehanicarima, vec to sto je on jedan On je srcani vozac , a treba mnogo toga da nauci a kao prvo da se obuzda . Ne treba mu vise to da izlece sa staze u krugu za zagrevanje... Da bi bio shampion nije dovoljno biti lud morash biti i pametan.
auto-moto.140 castrvm,
CESTITKA GEHARD BERGER-u Majstorski je vozio i vodio trku od starta do cilja. Matori se uzeleo cirkusa , a i staza mu odgovara.
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> 1. Jacques Villeneuve CDN Williams-Renault 1:45.006 IZLETEO SA STAZE shteta , vishe niko nece smeti da se kladi sa mnom da nece biti prvak. ili se mozda varam ?
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F1: German GP results Pos Driver Nat Constructor Time ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Gerhard Berger A Benetton-Renault 1:20:59.046 2. Michael Schumacher D Ferrari +17.527 3. Mika Hakkinen FIN McLaren-Mercedes +24.770 4. Jarno Trulli I Prost-Mugen +27.165 5. Ralf Schumacher D Jordan-Peugeot +29.995 6. Jean Alesi F Benetton-Renault +34.717 7. Shinji Nakano J Prost-Mugen +1:19.722 8. Damon Hill GB TWR-Yamaha -1 lap 9. Norberto Fontana ARG Sauber-Petronas -1 lap 10. Jos Verstappen NL Tyrrell-Ford EDV8 -1 lap DNF Giancarlo Fisichella I Jordan-Peugeot on lap 41 DNF Rubens Barrichello BR Stewart-Ford ZV10 on lap 35 DNF Mika Salo FIN Tyrrell-Ford EDV8 on lap 35 DNF Jacques Villeneuve CDN Williams-Renault on lap 35 DNF Jan Magnussen DK Stewart-Ford ZV10 on lap 29 DNF Ukyo Katayama J Minardi-Hart on lap 24 DNF Pedro Diniz BR TWR-Yamaha on lap 10 DNF Johnny Herbert GB Sauber-Petronas on lap 10 DNF David Coulthard GB McLaren-Mercedes on lap 2 DNF Heinz-Harald Frentzen D Williams-Renault on lap 2 DNF Eddie Irvine GB Ferrari on lap 2 DNF Tarso Marques BR Minardi-Hart on lap 1
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┼─┤ 1. Gerhard Berger A Benetton-Renault 1:20:59.046 Svaka mu cast. Covek je pokazao kako treba prolaziti one sikane i potpuno zasluzeno pobedio. ┼─┤ DNF David Coulthard GB McLaren-Mercedes on lap 2 Sa druge strane, Kultard je pokazao kako ne treba prolaziti iste sikane i, takodje, i ono sto pokazuje i na ostalim trkama - kako ne treba kociti. Uopste mi nije zao sto nije zavrsio trku. Kad malo razmislim, cak mi je i drago. ;) ┼─┤ DNF Rubens Barrichello BR Stewart-Ford ZV10 on lap 35 Barrichello bas nema srece sa Fordovim motorom ove godine. Koliko trka je uopste zavrsio? Jednu, gde je uzeo 6 poena? Cini mi se da je potpisao trogodisnji ugovor sa timom Dzekija Stjuarta. Steta. Zaista bih voleo da ga vidim u nekom boljem timu. Danas u 19:00 je U.S. 500 u Micigenu. Scott Pruett je uzeo pol poziciju, medjutim, poznato je da Alex Zanardi ima ubitacan (re)start. Bice izuzetno dobra trka. :)
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Zar je iko mogao da sumnja? A koliko je bio dominantan govori cinjenica da je obisao sve osim drugoplasiranog Marka Blundella za najmanje 1 krug. Izvestaj sa trke ce stici sutra. 1. Alex Zanardi 2. Mark Blundell 3. Gil de Ferran 4. Paul Tracy
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> Zar je iko mogao da sumnja? A koliko je bio dominantan govori cinjenica > da je obisao sve osim drugoplasiranog Marka Blundella za najmanje 1 krug. > Izvestaj sa trke ce stici sutra. > > 1. Alex Zanardi > 2. Mark Blundell > 3. Gil de Ferran > 4. Paul Tracy Svaka cast Zanardiju na tome sto je pomogao Vasseru da prevremeno zavrsi trku... Sjajan ucinak... svog "klupskog kolegu" je izbacio iz trke... Ipak zvezda trke je bio HIRO "MOBILE CHICANE" !!! Cini mi se da je uzeo nekoliko poena... :) Da se vratim na Vassera, covek je imao bolid sa kojim je mogao da pobedi, ali eto uvek mora neki kreten da ga spreci... :( PS Da su Vasser, Ribeiro, Andretti preziveli do kraja trke, sumnjam da bi Zanardi video podijum...
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US500 Race Results July 27, 1997 THIRD TIME'S A CHARM By David Phillips It took three tries, but Alex Zanardi finally made it to the finish of a 500 mile race at Michigan Speedway. And he did it in fine style, scoring his third win of the 1997 PPG CART World Series in a U.S. 500 that began at a blistering pace but which finished as a processional race of attrition. Some three hours after front-row mates Mauricio Gugelmin and Scott Pruett led 28 starters to the green flag, Zanardi took the checkered flag nearly a lap clear of Mark Blundell, the only other driver to go the distance in a race that featured several grinding crashes and a rash of transmission failures. "You always need to be lucky to win a 500 mile race," said Zanardi, who last year blew an engine while leading the U.S. 500 and crashed while leading the Michigan 500. "I was obviously taking care of my equipment. I guess other people were doing the same thing and yet they didn't finish. Other people threw their equipment in the wall, which is not a good idea. I'm obviously pleased my equipment held up until the end." Zanardi used a familiar method in coming to the front, repeating his exploits of a few weeks back in Cleveland by rebounding from an early penalty that dropped him to the back of the field. In contrast to Cleveland, where he marched smartly through the field, at Michigan he found his understeering Reynard-Honda in danger of going a lap down to the flying Andre Ribeiro's similar machine. Ribeiro had started ninth but pitted early during a caution caused when P.J. Jones's Toyota engine blew-up in spectacular fashion on Lap 11. Ribeiro dropped to the back of the lead lap, but took over first place when the leaders - Gugelmin, Pruett, Michael Andretti, Raul Boesel, Parker Johnstone and Zanardi - pitted on Lap 36 under the second caution of the day - this for debris. During the pit stop, Zanardi ran over teammate Jimmy Vasser's air hose and was assessed a pit lane "drive through" penalty after the restart that dropped him to twentieth. "When I entered my pit box I kind of realized I was too fast; then I realized I was in Jimmy's pit box, which was a terrible mistake that could have cost me the race," said Zanardi. "I thought 'OK, I'm going to get a penalty' but I had to run over the air hose of Jimmy (to get to my pit). While I was going to do that, his mechanic took his (air) gun up to let me go underneath. He thought that if I wouldn't touch that thing at all they wouldn't even penalize me. He did good, but unfortunately it got stuck in my front wing and his gun hit my sidepod and it was a big mess." Ribeiro subsequently took off like a scalded cat, lapping at 230 mph+ and drawing away from his pursuers, now headed by Andretti with Gugelmin, Pruett and Patrick Carpentier in tow. Ribeiro was preparing to lap Zanardi when Johnstone hammered the Turn Two wall after cutting a tire, causing the day's third caution period. Zanardi pitted under the yellow, effected some changes to his chassis set-up and rejoined in sixth spot. "I think I was lucky when the yellow came because I was about to be lapped by Ribeiro," said Zanardi. "Ribeiro at that point was putting a terrible pace. Nobody could keep up with him, and I was a little bit in trouble with the car. Then later on we made some adjustments and the car became much, much better. But at that point I couldn't run even close to the kind of speed that Ribeiro was doing. So if he would have put me a lap down we would have had to take some risks along the yellows in order to get that lap back. But the yellow came just in time." Ribeiro, however, ceased to be a factor when he and Vasser both retired with broken transmissions after pitting during the clean-up of Johnstone's accident. "We definitely had a fantastic car," said Ribeiro, "but something happened with the gearbox. When the yellow came out, I tried to downshift and only had fifth gear. Then that went." The Brahma Sport Reynard-Fords of Pruett and Boesel did not pit and so took over the lead from Andretti, Rahal and Al Unser, Jr. who was finding the Marlboro Penske-Mercedes an altogether more potent combination in race trim than it had been in qualifying. Andretti was also a potent force on race day after boost problems left him 19th on the grid. It took him six laps after the Lap 65 restart to catch and pass Boesel. Two laps later he was on Pruett's tail looking for the lead. But Pruett was not about to give way without a fight and the two ran nose to tail and side-by-side for a couple of laps before Andretti boxed-in Pruett behind the lapped car of Arnd Meier at the conclusion of Lap 75 and took the lead heading into Turn One. Andretti immediately began pulling free, but his lead would be short lived. On Lap 79 the Kmart/Texaco Swift belched a puff of smoke and Andretti's gearbox was through. "The car was perfect. Flawless," said Andretti. "We really deserved the win. From 19th to first, and then to have this happen. We could have probably lapped the field by the end of the race. It was a walk in the park from the first lap. The car was that good." The attrition continued to mount at an alarming rate. Gugelmin coasted into the pits with electrical problems and lost four laps while the PacWest team made repairs. Unser was next to go, blowing an engine on Lap 97. Four laps later Franchitti pulled into the pits for routine servicing, never to rejoin the race. "Dario came in and everything was fine," said Hogan general manager Doug Peterson. "Then he went to leave and the transmission started making awful noises and was it. "There's nothing but a bunch of junk inside the transmission now, so we'll have to do a post-mortem on it to see what went wrong. Whether this is the same thing that happened at Gateway, I can't say. But when so many cars go out with the same problem you can't say it's an assembly problem. There's obviously a weak link somewhere in the gearbox that shows up at tracks where there is high g-loading. First Gateway, now Michigan." "My team kept me informed about the transmission problems," said Blundell, who had patiently moved up to the top five. "Basically what we did, we took it easy on the transmission downshifting coming into the pits. We even short-shifted somewhat going out of the pits, although you have to be a little careful because the gearing is so long here it gives the transmission a bit of a thump. "So we were aware of it and we tried to drive accordingly. There's only so much you can do on oval in terms of gearshifts. So if the gearbox goes, it goes, so you try and take care of it while you're out there." Boesel would join the growing list of retirees when his gearbox failed during a pit stop on Lap 120, while Carpentier was destined to fall out - while leading - when electrical gremlins struck the Alumax Reynard-Mercedes, while Christian Fittipaldi's horrific luck continued when he lost a wheel following a pit stop on Lap 128. Not all the attrition was mechanical. Bobby Rahal looked a likely winner, leading handily from Lap 94 to 118, before giving way to Zanardi. But the veteran bobbled in traffic in Turn Two and crashed heavily, escaping with a bruised right hip. "I was trying to pass (Dennis) Vitolo and I went to the outside to go around him," said Rahal. "But he just kept putting me higher and higher on the track and I hit the marbles." Forty-eight laps later, Pruett exited the race in similar fashion, clouting the much abused Turn Two wall on Lap 174. Blundell, for one, pointed the finger at the reductions in downforce mandated by CART in an effort to limit speeds. "To be perfectly honest, there is no way that the car was as stable as what we had last year at both the Michigan races," he said. "We could place the car wherever we wanted to place it and it stuck to the road and we were there. Once it was hooked-up we were away. Today was very tricky. Traffic was very hard. Even coming by a backmarker you really had to be in a strong position on the road to make sure you could just get up on top of him and get by him. I think those accidents were caused, probably, by some problems with the balance in the cars." The carnage and mechanical retirements left Zanardi leading handily from Blundell with Paul Tracy an unlikely third, having qualified a dispirited 18th. Gil de Ferran had a quietly eventful afternoon, incurring an early penalty for a pit lane violation on his first stop, then fighting persistent understeer throughout the day. Nevertheless, he'd managed to stay on the lead lap and now ran fourth, while Bryan Herta was fifth, having lost a lap when he stalled on a pit stop on Lap 165 while lying fourth. The attrition may have made for a lot of empty space on the track, but it certainly helped Gugelmin in his efforts to recover from his early problems as he charged back into the top six. It was also a boon to the likes of Dennis Vitolo and the Toyota- powered cars of Max Papis, Hiro Matsushita and Juan Fangio, II, who slowly but surely worked their respective ways into the rarefied air of the Top Ten. As the final round of pit stops approached, Zanardi enjoyed a five second lead on Blundell, with Tracy and de Ferran the only other unlapped drivers. The final stop saw Blundell stall, and drop the best part of a lap down to Zanardi. To make matters worse, he was forced to take on a set of Firestone's harder option tires as he was clean out of the softer primaries. "I just kind of cruised to the finish make sure of the points," said Blundell. "At the end of the race I got a lot of pickup on the tires, which gave me a high frequency vibration and my left hand fell asleep..." Zanardi's only concerns were the usual worries experienced by a driver with nothing between him and victory but a few final laps. "I was a bit concerned especially after what happened last year in the U.S. 500," said Zanardi. "I was also concerned with what happened at the Marlboro 500! That was really up to me to avoid that kind of problem." De Ferran, however, finally got his Reynard working in the final going and took off in pursuit of Tracy, catching and passing the Penske driver for third place with just nine laps remaining. "As the race went along the handling got better and better," said de Ferran. "The crew was absolutely faultless on the pit stops, there was not one glitch. (Race engineer) Bill Pappas kept changing the tire pressures and we kept putting-in more and more and more wing...We put in ten turns of front wing over the course of the race. You have no idea how much that is. But in the final two stints we finally got the car working." A stoical Tracy was satisfied if not delighted with his fourth place finish. "We wanted to score points," he said. "The car wasn't great, but it was good enough for fourth and that's better than fifth or sixth. We had a pretty steady push all day and on the last stop we made a change that made it push more, so I couldn't hold off de Ferran. We did all we could do, we just got a little too conservative for the last few laps." After qualifying a lackluster 18th, Tracy had every reason to be pleased by his fourth place run. Nevertheless, Zanardi moved into the PPG points lead with his second win in three weeks and now looks to the remainder of the season where his form only figures to get stronger. "If I tell you that I'm happy right now I'm not going to surprise you," said Zanardi. "Obviously the championship is not like a fixed goal. It is not something that I want very, very badly. I know there is a lot of factors that could work on our favor or could work against us. Sure enough I'm confident. I now that we are strong enough to play our role and be one of the main contenders for the title. I have no doubt about that. "But I think we've got to concentrate on every single event; try to get the most out of it. The opposition is so strong. These guys are so strong that you cannot rely on a good result on a Sunday afternoon and say 'Yeah I'm gonna win the championship.' "It's too early. Three races ago I was thirty points behind. Now I'm ahead, so obviously I can't complain. But I know that it's not over and anything can happen in less than two weekends." US 500 Boxscore PROVISIONAL BOXSCORE PPG CART WORLD SERIES RACE NO.12 U.S. 500 Brooklyn, MI SUNDAY JULY 27, 1997 Pos Pos # Driver Qual Time/Speed Laps Status 1 7 4 ALEX ZANARI 31.175 230.947 250 167.044 2 11 18 MARK BLUNDELL 31.362 229.358 250 RUNNING 3 10 5 GIL DE FERRAN 31.366 229.548 249 RUNNING 4 18 3 PAUL TRACY 31.562 228.122 249 RUNNING 5 8 8 BRYAN HERTA 31.278 230.194 248 RUNNING 6 2 17 MAURICIO GUGELMIN 30.836 233.493 244 RUNNING 7 27 34 DENNIS VITOLO 32.929 218.652 242 RUNNING 8 23 25 MAX PAPIS 32.405 222.188 241 RUNNING 9 26 24 HIRO MATSUSHITA 32.566 221.089 241 RUNNING 10 20 77 GUALTER SALLES 31.591 227.913 240 RUNNING 11 25 36 JUAN FANGIO II 32.539 221.273 225 GEARBOX 12 28 64 ARND MEIER No Time No Speed 223 RUNNING 13 17 19 MICHEL JOURDAIN JR. 31.507 228.521 182 GEARBOX 14 1 20 SCOTT PRUETT 30.788 233.857 174 CONTACT 15 12 16 PATRICK CARPENTIER(R) 31.395 229.338 144 ELECTRICAL 16 14 11 CHRISTIAN FITTIPALDI 31.469 228.797 128 LOST WHEEL 17 6 7 BOBBY RAHAL 31.170 230.991 126 CONTACT 18 3 40 RAUL BOESEL 30.932 232.769 120 GEARBOX 19 13 9 DARIO FRANCHITTI(R) 31.397 229.321 101 GEARBOX 20 16 2 AL UNSER JR. 31.485 228.680 97 ENGINE 21 19 6 MICHAEL ANDRETTI 31.588 227.935 79 GEARBOX 22 22 21 RICHIE HEARN 32.349 222.573 60 TURBO 23 9 31 ANDRE RIBEIRO 31.313 229.936 57 GEARBOX 24 4 1 JIMMY VASSER 30.957 232.506 57 GEARBOX 25 5 27 PARKER JOHNSTONE 31.013 232.161 53 CONTACT 26 15 32 ADRIAN FERNANDEZ 31.485 228.680 46 ELECTRICAL 27 21 99 GREG MOORE 31.612 227.762 19 TURBO 28 24 98 PJ JONES 32.489 221.613 11 ENGINE ENGINE LEGEND: Ford=Ford-Cosworth; M-Benz=Mercedes-Benz (R) Rookie driver M = Marlboro Pole Award ($10,000) TIME OF RACE: 2:59:35.579 AVERAGE SPEED: 167.044 mph CAUTION FLAGS: Laps 11-20, Car #98 Engine Laps 33-39, Car #34 Laps 54-64, Contact Car #27 Laps 79-84, Car #6 Oil Spray Laps 126-138, Contact Car #7 Laps 175-182, Contact Car #20 LAP LEADERS: 13 lead changes, 9 drivers Scott Pruett, 1 1 Lap Mauricio Gugelmin, 2-35 34 Laps Andre Ribeiro, 36-56 21 Laps Scott Pruett, 57-75 19 Laps Michael Andretti, 76-78 3 Laps Scott Pruett, 79-81 3 Laps Dario Franchitti, 82-93 12 Laps Bobby Rahal, 94-118 25 Laps Alex Zanardi, 119-129 11 Laps Patrick Carpentier, 130-143 14 Laps Scott Pruett, 144-152 9 Laps Alex Zanardi, 153-214 62 Laps Gil De Ferran, 215-219 5 Laps Alex Zanardi, 220-250 31 Laps TOTALS: Alex Zanardi 104 Laps Mauricio Gugelmin 34 Laps Scott Pruett 32 Laps Andre Ribeiro 21 Laps Bobby Rahal 25 Laps Patrick Carpentier 14 Laps Dario Franchitti 12 Laps Gil de Ferran 5 Laps Michael Andretti 3 Laps
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┼─┤ Svaka cast Zanardiju na tome sto je pomogao Vasseru da prevremeno zavrsi ┼─┤ trku... Sjajan ucinak... svog "klupskog kolegu" je izbacio iz trke... ┼─┤ 24 4 1 JIMMY VASSER 30.957 232.506 57 GEARBOX ˙˙˙˙˙˙˙ :) Zanardi uopste nije kriv sto je Jimmy Vasser zavrsio svoju trku pre vremena. A da je i ostao u trci, sumnjam da bi pobedio. ;)
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> Kada je sledeci Grand Prix? Mađarska (Hungaroring), za 15 dana, to je valjda 10. avgust...
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> Pos Pos # Driver Qual Time/Speed Laps Status > > 1 7 4 ALEX ZANARI 31.175 230.947 250 167.044 > 2 11 18 MARK BLUNDELL 31.362 229.358 250 RUNNING > 3 10 5 GIL DE FERRAN 31.366 229.548 249 RUNNING Svaka čast Zanardiju, a mogao si da baciš i stanje na tabeli posle ove trke, bilo bi zanimljivo videti... :)
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┼─┤ Madarska (Hungaroring), za 15 dana, to je valjda 10. avgust... Hmm, CART trka u Mid-Ohaju je takodje 10. avgusta. Alex Zanardi je tamo pobedio prosle godine ispred Vassera. To je bio prvi "1,2" za Target Chip Ganassi Racing Team, ako se ne varam.
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┼─┤ Svaka cast Zanardiju, a mogao si da bacis i stanje na tabeli posle ┼─┤ ove trke, bilo bi zanimljivo videti... :) 1. Alex Zanardi 127 2. Paul Tracy 121 3. Gil de Ferran 108 4. Michael Andretti 103 5. Greg Moore 95 6. Scott Pruett 82 7. Jimmy Vasser 75 8. Mark Blundell 72 9. Mauricio Gugelmin 72 10. Raul Boesel 66 11. Bryan Herta 55 12. Al Unser Jr. 49
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┼─┤ Da bi bio shampion nije dovoljno biti lud ┼─┤ morash biti i pametan. On nije lud, ali isto tako nije ni pametan. ;)
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Uz poruku je arhiva koja sadrzi pet slika najboljeg mladog vozaca... Naravno, u pitanju je Dario Franchitti, buduci rookie of the year.... :) dario.arj
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> Mađarska (Hungaroring), za 15 dana, to je valjda 10. avgust... Je li, hoćemo li da idemo? Mićo Kostić organizuje za nas Čačane veoma povoljno aranžman. Mogli bi se skupiti da odemo.
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> > Mađarska (Hungaroring), za 15 dana, to je valjda 10. avgust... > > Je li, hoćemo li da idemo? Mićo Kostić organizuje za nas Čačane veoma > povoljno aranžman. Mogli bi se skupiti da odemo. Nažalost, upravo 10. avgusta mi je drugi deo ispita na koji izlazim za koji dan :((
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CART Auto Racing Roars Into Downtown Houston for 1998 Texaco Grand Prix ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CART Online (July 29, 1997) -- The City of Houston, Texaco, Inc. and Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) have agreed in principle to stage a mojor international auto race, The Texaco Grand Prix of Houston, on the streets of downtown Houston beginning Oct. 4, 1998. The agreement calls for the race to be held annually through the year 2003. Anchored by the George R. Brown Convention Center, downtown Houston will be the setting of this exciting, premier grand prix and a series of support races. The race will be sanctioned by CART, an open-wheel Indy car series featuring 900-horsepower cars capable of speeds in excess of 230 miles per hour. The 1.68-mile street course will have 10 turns & traveling in front of the Convention Center on Chenevert and as far out as Clay, Austin and Capitol streets. This location provides an ideal backdrop to showcase the city for an international television audience in 188 countries, while minimizing traffic flow disruptions. Management of the event will be under the auspices of Texaco Houston Grand Prix LLC, a joint venture between Texaco, Inc. and Carl Haas. In addition to The Texaco Grand Prix of Houston, Haas is the race organizer at the historic Milwaukee (Wis.) Mile, and is an owner/director of Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis. Houston Mayor Bob Lanier said, "Houston's stunning skyline and the George R. Brown Convention Center will be fantastic backdrops for this premier race. The television exposure will help drive home the improvements Houston has made in downtown revitalization. I appreciate the efforts of Texaco and the Newman/Haas organization to bring this great event to Houston in first-class style." Glenn F. Tilton, Senior Vice President of Texaco, Inc. and President of Texaco's Global Business Unit, said, "Texaco is proud to sponsor this premier event in the City of Houston. It lets us give something back to a community that has been important to our company and home to many Texaco employees for decades. Partnering with Carl Haas on this project will ensure that the Grand Prix exceeds everyone's expectations." Carl Haas said, "Houston will be one of the finest city street race layouts ever. The natural boundaries formed by the George R. Brown Convention Center and City Skyline, combined with the wide streets and park settings inside the circuit, will create a unique ambiance and atmosphere, as well as provide a layout for competitive racing." CART will state a total of 19 races on four continents in 1998 & a mix of oval tracks, road circuits and street courses & in its PPG CART World Series. In addition to Houston, street races will be held in Detroit; Long Beach, Calif.; Toronto and Vancouver, Canada; and Queensland, Australia. Andrew Craig, President and Chief Executive Officer of CART, said "Houston is the type of market we desire to compete in on an annual basis; it's a world-class city and our series is truly international in scope. Twelve countries, encompassing five continents, are represented in our owner and driver ranks. This meshes well within the cultural diversity of a multi-ethnic city like Houston. I believe this event has the potential to quickly become one of our premier venues." In addition to the CART Indy car race, The Texaco Grand Prix of Houston will feature several support events. Also planned for the week leading up to the race are a pro-am style golf tournament and a charity ball, among other activities. The George R. Brown Convention Center will serve as headquarters for the event. All competing teams will be paddocked on the Center's 375,000 square foot first level. The upper levels of the Convention Center will house everything from race control and a media center to VIP hospitality accomodations. Pit lane of the race circuit will be constructed directly in front of the center. The agreement in principle between the City of Houston and Texaco Houston Grand Prix LLC to hold the event is subject to final contract terms and City Council approval. Tickets to the event will go on sale soon. The organizers also expect to open a sales office in downtown Houston in the near future. For information regarding tickets, corporate hospitality and sponsorship, call (281) 820-8378.
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Rahal Trys Some New Courses CART Online (July 31) -- Bobby Rahal's race day came to an early end at the U.S. 500, Sunday, July 27, when his Miller Lite Reynard Ford made contact with Michigan Speedway's Turn 2 wall while Rahal he running second in the U.S. 500 Presented by Toyota. But the bruised right hip and left knee Rahal sustained in the incident couldn't keep him from traveling to Scotland for a whirlwind golf vacation. Rahal, a nine handicap, was scheduled to play five legendary United Kingdom courses in five days, beginning this past Monday at Royal Troon, site of this year's British Open. A round at Western Gails was scheduled for Tuesday, followed by rounds at Preswick (Wednesday), Muirfield (Thursday) and St. Andrew's (Friday). "It's going to take a lot more than that [the crash] to keep me from playing those courses this week," Rahal said. "We might even get in a round at Loch Lomond if time permits. This trip is something I've wanted to do for a long time. I've talked about taking trips to legendary courses around the world when I retire from driving. Well, I'm not retiring from driving, but this is a trip I couldn't pass up."
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re: Hokenhajm Ima li konferencija za novinare, posle trke?
auto-moto.162 vpoznanovic, -> #161, junior
>> Ima li konferencija za novinare, posle trke? Sajt sa kojeg sam ih preuzimao je načisto puk'o, ne odaziva se već tri dana. Međutim, ja sam se kao i obično snašao... :) F1: German GP winners' press conference Q. Congratulations, Gerhard, on a memorable victory. Hockenheim seems to be a special circuit for you, doesn't it? GB: I seem to have been given some special powers today, but I think I know where that comes from and I am very happy about it. Q. What did you feel when you came out of the pits after your second pit stop and saw Fisichella in front of you? GB: I nearly lost the race because someone had blown his engine on the straight and it was so foggy that I could not see the road anymore. I almost had to stop the car, which cost me four or five seconds. At that point I honestly believed that I had lost the race. I was quite surprised that we were so close, it was only about one second, and then Giancarlo made a mistake in the second chicane. That allowed me to overtake him straightaway. Everything worked together. Q. In addition to victory, you got pole position and fastest race lap today. Does this mean a revival in Benetton fortunes at last? GB: Obviously it shows what potential we have. We have had potential since the beginning of the season, but for different reasons we have not been able to use it in the right way. Hockenheim is the sort of circuit where we know we can be competitive and quick, but the next circuit on the schedule has completely different characteristics. I am very interested to see how we go there. One thing which I believe is that we are going to be competitive at the end of the season, but of course we were not in close competition with anyone today: I started from pole, we had the right strategy and I had a good start. Everything worked together and we ended up in front. That is no reason to believe we are ahead, although I think we are competitive and we have a good chance to compete for points and podium places at the end of the season. Q. Michael, your second place seems to have pleased the home crowd. How did the race go for you? MS: I could not have hoped for better and after what happened in practice I am very pleased. I had to do an extra pit stop, due to what seem to have been some problems with the fuel rig, plus I was missing fifth gear from halfway through the race. It wasn't very easy to run the race like this. Q. With Mika so close behind you in those last few laps, how worried were you that he might pass? MS: Obviously we knew that we had to cope with our various problems, and I had to come in for an extra pit stop, so I had to push very hard. My problem at that stage was that I had been behind Alesi for quite a while and my tyres were finished, I had damaged them more than I would normally have done. So it was difficult to pull out the gap at the end which would be enough to come in ahead of Mika. Q. It must have been a relief to you that Jacques Villeneuve didn't finish today. How did you learn about that? MS: At the end of the race I asked for information about who had finished in the first six places. I was told that Villeneuve was out of the race. I have to say that I would not like to win the championship because somebody has fallen out of the race, I prefer to fight and beat someone. But we have been quicker [than Williams] all weekend and at this point I would like to congratulate Gerhard on his impressive comeback. For the championship, though, things are going well. Q. Mika, this is your first podium finish since Melbourne. Are you surprised to be here? MH: No, not really surprised here. But it is certainly a long time since Melbourne and my last podium finish. There are various reasons why I haven't been here recently, so let's hope that I will be able to visit you here more often in the future. Q. Once again, you only made one pit stop today while both the guys in front of you were on a twostop strategy. Should you have done the same as them? MH: I was in a situation where a two stop strategy might not have worked. When you are on the front row, and leading at the first corner, two stops will help a lot. If you are not in that situation, though, two stops is the wrong choice. That's why we chose to make one stop. Q. Gerhard, what are your plans before you go to the Hungaroring for the next race? GB: I will be testing at Silverstone this week, and I have to do some more fitness training. I have to catch up with my fitness because Hungary is a very hard circuit physically and it is usually very hot there. I am really looking forward to it because I like the circuit very much.
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Slika sa Hokenhajma, Schumacher vozi Fisichellu na svom bolidu, posle trke. 800x1133 germany1.jpg
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Još jedan ferrari, medijski okupiran ;) 800x650 (benneton, izgleda, opra'lja svoj sajt, pa nemam njihovih slika) germany4.jpg
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July 30, 1997 CART News TEXACO GRAND PRIX OF HOUSTON ANNOUNCED The City of Houston and CART announced today that they have agreed in principle to stage the Texaco Grand Prix of Houston on the weekend of October 4, 1998, subject to final approval by the Houston city council. The race, which will be held on a 10 turn, 1.68 mile street circuit near the George R. Brown Convention Center, will be held annually through the year 2003. PMI and ISC ACQUIRE HOMESTEAD Penske Motorsports, Inc. (PMI) and the International Speedway (ISC) Corporation have each purchased a 40% interest in Homestead-Miami Speedway, L.L.C., the operators of Metro-Dade Homestead Motorsports Complex in the latest round of the race track acquisition spree sweeping the land. Ralph Sanchez, founder of the Metro-Dade Homestead Motorsports Complex and partner Wayne Huizenga each will retain a 10% ownership in the facility, and Sanchez will continue as president of the track, Little more than a week ago, ISC purchased Phoenix International Raceway not long after acquiring 100% interest in Watkins Glen International. PMI's tracks now include Nazareth and Michigan Speedways as well as the recently opened California Speedway. PMI also recently acquired controlling interest in North Carolina Motor Speedway in Rockingham, North Carolina. In addition to Watkins Glen and Homestead, ISC's holdings include the Daytona International Speedway, Talladega Superspeedway, Darlington Raceway and Tucson Raceway Park, as well as an 11% interest in PMI. Speculation is widespread that PMI's Roger Penske and ISC's Bill France are forming a loose alliance to counter the growing interests of rivals Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Indy Racing League president Tony George, whose family owns IMS and is also involved in Walt Disney Speedway and the new Pike's Peak International Raceway, and Bruton Smith whose tracks include Atlanta, Charlotte and the new Texas World Speedway and Las Vegas Motor Speedway and who is widely believed to be planning to form a break-away stock car series inc competition to NASCAR's Winston Cup series. CRAIG DISCOUNTS ROAD ATLANTA RUMORS At the U.S. 500 CART president and CEO Andrew Craig threw cold water on the widespread speculation that Championship Auto Racing Teams is planning a races at Road Atlanta, Mexico City and several other new venues in the near future. "We went down to inspect Road Atlanta recently," he said. "It's an exciting track but the facility needs a substantial amount investment before we would consider staging a race there. Having said that, the track now has first rate ownership in Don Panoz and he has the resources to make Road Atlanta into a first rate facility. Atlanta is an attractive market for CART and my preference for a race in the Southeast would be a road course or street circuit. "But I would put Road Atlanta in the same category as several other tracks - Mexico City, Germany, Phoenix and couple of others. They are attractive to CART for a number of reasons and it may well be that we will hold races there in the future. But a lot of things will have to happen before we can talk seriously about staging races at those locations." Craig was cool to the idea of a CART race at North Carolina Motor Speedway (aka Rockingham) despite the fact that CART co- founder Roger Penske's Penske Motorsports Inc. has acquired 70% ownership in the track. JOHNSTONE'S LUCKY DAY Parker Johnstone was lucky to escape from his crash in the U.S. 500 with nothing more than a bad bruising and a major lump on his forehead, the result of a chunk of suspension penetrating his helmet. "It's a testimony to CART's safety and rules committee, and to Reynard for building such a great car, that I was able to jump out of the car," said Johnstone. "I also have to credit Bell helmets, because when I crashed the right side suspension came back at me in its entirety and hit the helmet on the left front side." MEA CULPA Speaking of Johnstone's accident, although it was initially thought to have been caused by a cut tire, Team KOOL Green owner Barry Green has issued a statement absolving Firestone of responsibility for the crash. "Immediately following the incident involving the Team KOOL Green Reynard-Honda in Sunday's U.S. 500, I cited a cut right front tire as the cause of the accident," said Green. "After the race, Firestone technicians and our team manager, Kyle Moyer, examined the right front tire in detail and found the tire completely intact. I have since inspected the tire personally. The tread and the sidewalls are scuffed as the result of the tire's impact with the Turn Two wall at a speed in excess of 200 mph, but it is clear the tire did not come apart. "I regret the statements I made Sunday afternoon in which I said the right front tire came apart and caused the accident. Unfortunately, I made those statements before Firestone and our team had the opportunity to thoroughly inspect the tire. It was a very emotional time, when we were all concerned about Parker's physical condition and had just experienced the disappointment of crashing in a race which we could have won. "Team KOOL Green continues to have the utmost confidence in Firestone's ability to produce tires that are competitive, consistent and, above all, safe and durable. Firestone, Reynard, CART and Team KOOL Green will continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding Sunday's incident in an effort to determine the cause of the crash. "In the meantime, we are extremely thankful that Parker Johnstone was not seriously injured in the accident." DELLA PENNA'S REYNARD Della Penna Motorsports is the latest Lola team to acquire a Reynard in the hopes of boosting getting some results for driver Richie Hearn. Team owner John Della Penna has been hard at work serching for a Reynard for some time now and thought his problems were solved when PacWest offered to help him cobble together a car based on a '97 chassis and gearbox, with Reynard supplying the suspension bits. However Sunday's carnage at Michigan, in which regular Reynard customers Brahma Sports Team, Team Rahal and Team KOOL Green heavily damaged their cars put the squeeze on the Reynard parts department and effectively killed that deal. Della Penna has since turned to Gerald Davis and acquired the Reynard 96I with which Davis Racing began the season at Homestead and which already has the requisite installation for a '97 spec Ford Cosworth XD. Della Penna plans to bring the car to the Miller 200 at Mid-Ohio as the team's primary car, with a Lola T97/00 with a revised undertray as the spare. "I really feel for Lola, but I've got to do what I can do to produce some results," said Della Penna. "My first loyalty has got to be to my team and to Richie. Richie deserves better than what we've been able to do for his this year, and so does the crew. So we plan to go to Mid-Ohio with the Reynard as the primary car and the Lola as a back-up. I want to take the two best cars we own." VASSER'S DNF Jimmy Vasser was one of six drivers to drop out of the U.S. 500 with transmission problems. Vasser's dnf marked the first time since the 1995 Vancouver race that he had dropped out of a CART race with mechanical problems. Earlier this season at Detroit, Vasser and the Target/Ganassi team tied a CART record 25 straight finishes before the PPG Cup champion was knocked out of the Portland race in a late coming-together with Parker Johnstone. PACWEST'S MICHIGAN RECORD With Mark Blundell running all 250 laps to finish second in the U.S. 500 and teammate Mauricio Gugelmin finishing 244 laps and taking sixth place, the PacWest Racing Group have now completed 2982 of 3000 miles in the last three 500 mile races at Michigan Speedway. Last year Gugelmin finished second in the U.S. 500 and third at the Marlboro 500, running the full 500 miles each time, while Blundell was fifth in the U.S. 500, one lap down, and sixth in the Marlboro 500, two laps down. GORDON ON THE PROWL Robby Gordon was much in evidence at the U.S. 500, spending every free moment away from his IROC commitments to meet and talk with CART owners past and possibly future. Gordon lunched with Team KOOL Green owner Barry Green on Saturday and was seen talking with former bosses Derrick Walker and Chip Ganassi among others. Gordon, of course, was close to a deal with Green last year before his 11th hour switch to the Sabco NASCAR team and most speculation centers on a possible linkage between Gordon and Team KOOL Green, either in a second car or as a replacement for Parker Johnstone who has had a disappointing 1997 season. 1996 PPG Cup winner Jimmy Vasser was widely thought to be in the running for a Team KOOL Green ride in 1998, but it now appears as though Chip Ganassi will exercise his option on Vasser's services next year. Indeed, Vasser hinted as much during a television interview shortly after his departure from the U.S. 500. Meanwhile, one of the more intriguing scenarios to surface at Michigan suggests that an existing two car team is at least pondering the possibility of spinning-off a satellite operation based around the talented, but mercurial, Gordon. NEARBURG RIDES AGAIN Charlie Nearburg, over his head in his CART debut at Cleveland in the Payton-Coyne Lola-Ford, will get a second chance at Mid-Ohio. At least Nearburg will have a Reynard to work with this time, Payton-Coyne having acquired Davis Racing's back-up Reynard for the remainder of the season. With Reynards at a premium, it's a shame Nearburg - not the long-suffering Adrian Fernandez or Richie Hearn - got one of the last ones available.
auto-moto.166 kenza,
Hi! Jel zna neko neki servis za popravku siberdaha? Blizi se zima, a meni prokisnjava... :(
auto-moto.167 stefan, -> #166, kenza
>Jel zna neko neki servis za popravku siberdaha? Blizi se zima, a meni >prokisnjava... :( Ovo je ipak pre za Extra:automobili :)
auto-moto.168 stukelj,
Scott Russell... prosle godine dok je vozio u Lucky Strike Suzuki timu... Inace, Scott Russell se pominje kao zamena za Troy Corsera, ako ovaj ne sklopi ugovor sa RedBull Yamaha timom... scott01.jpg
auto-moto.169 stukelj,
Opet Scott Russell... scott02.jpg
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Rio, August 3, 1997 500cc Results Pos Num Rider Nat Total Time Motorcycle TEAM 1 1 M.DOOHAN AUS 45:05.793 Honda Repsol Honda 2 7 T.OKADA JPN 0.706 Honda Repsol Honda 3 3 L.CADALORA ITA 22.535 Yamaha Red Bull Yamaha WCM 4 18 N.AOKI JPN 23.493 Honda Rheos ELF F.C.C. T.S. 5 5 N.ABE JPN 23.769 Yamaha Yamaha Team Rainey 6 16 J.FUCHS GER 29.435 ELF 500 Elf 500 Roc 7 19 D.ROMBONI ITA 41.674 Aprilia IP Aprilia Racing Team 8 12 J.BAYLE FRA 44.113 ModenasKR3 Marlboro Team Roberts 9 55 R.LACONI FRA 1:02.722 Honda Tecmas Honda Elf 10 23 A.GOBERT AUS 1:06.351 Suzuki Lucky Strike Suzuki 11 21 J.V.D.GOORBERGH NED 1:09.161 Honda Team Millar MQP 12 22 K.McCARTHY AUS 1:25.393 ROC Yamaha Red Bull Yamaha WCM 13 6 D.BEATTIE AUS 1:27.215 Suzuki Lucky Strike Suzuki 14 9 A.PUIG SPA 1:28.898 Honda MoviStar Honda Pons 15 17 L.PEDERCINI ITA 1:50.890 ROC Yamaha Team Pedercini 16 25 L.NAVEAU BEL 1 Lap ROC Yamaha Millet Racing 250cc Results Pos Num Rider Nat Total Time Motorcycle TEAM 1 19 O.JACQUE FRA 42:09.114 Honda Chesterfield Elf Tech 3 2 31 T.HARADA JPN 0.233 Aprilia Aprilia Racing Team 3 5 T.UKAWA JPN 6.088 Honda Benetton Honda 4 65 L.CAPIROSSI ITA 15.065 Aprilia Aprilia Racing Team 5 1 M.BIAGGI ITA 22.377 Honda Marlboro Team Kanemoto Honda 6 15 S.PERUGINI ITA 31.888 Aprilia Nastro Azzurro Aprilia 7 7 H.AOKI JPN 47.291 Honda Matteoni Racing 8 12 T.TSUJIMURA JPN 50.732 T.S. Honda F.C.C. Technical Sports 9 27 S.PORTO ARG 52.808 Aprilia PR2 YPF - ESCO 10 11 J.McWILLIAMS GBR 53.489 Honda QUB Team Optimum 11 8 C.MIGLIORATI ITA 1:00.520 Honda Team Axo Inoxmacel 12 2 R.WALDMANN GER 1:04.124 Honda Marlboro Honda 13 10 L.BOSCOSCURO ITA 1:05.342 Honda Dee Cee Racing Team 14 26 E.ALZAMORA SPA 1:07.396 Honda Fortuna Honda 15 17 J.CARDOSO SPA 1:09.352 Yamaha S.S.P. Competicion 16 99 G.FIORILLO ITA 1:10.294 Aprilia Radiant Racing Team 125cc Results Pos Num Rider Nat Total Time Motorcycle TEAM 1 46 V.ROSSI ITA 42:32.218 Aprilia Nastro Azzurro Aprilia 2 7 N.UEDA JPN 1.379 Honda Team Pileri 3 41 Y.UI JPN 8.481 Yamaha Team Yamaha Kurz 4 3 T.MANAKO JPN 9.015 Honda Team UGT 3000 5 8 K.SAKATA JPN 27.102 Aprilia UGT 3000 6 32 M.GIANSANTI ITA 27.240 Honda Matteoni Racing 7 5 J.MARTINEZ SPA 27.391 Aprilia Team Airtel-Aspar 8 10 L.CECCHINELLO ITA 27.454 Honda Spidi Honda LCR 9 19 F.PETIT FRA 27.582 Honda Team RMS 10 2 M.TOKUDOME JPN 27.731 Aprilia Docshop Racing 11 15 R.LOCATELLI ITA 27.981 Honda Team Axo Inoxmacel 12 22 S.JENKNER GER 37.002 Aprilia Team Aprilia - ADAC Sachse 13 72 G.McCOY AUS 37.228 Aprilia Marlboro Team Alfa Bieffe 14 24 G.BORSOI ITA 39.196 Yamaha Team Semprucci Biesse 15 17 J.MATURANA SPA 39.514 Yamaha Team Yamaha Kurz 16 62 Y.KATOH JPN 48.621 Yamaha Team Semprucci Biesse
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500cc Pos Riders Total 1 M.DOOHAN 245 2 T.OKADA 129 3 N.AOKI 126 4 A.CRIVILLE 102 5 L.CADALORA 85 6 C.CHECA 83 7 T.AOKI 80 8 N.ABE 77 9 A.BARROS 69 10 D.ROMBONI 62 11 A.PUIG 56 12 D.BEATTIE 43 13 A.GOBERT 40 14 S.GIBERNAU 38 15 J.BAYLE 31 16 R.LACONI 27 250cc Pos Riders Total 1 T.HARADA 162 2 M.BIAGGI 160 3 R.WALDMANN 151 4 O.JACQUE 126 5 T.UKAWA 107 6 L.CAPIROSSI 87 7 H.AOKI 74 8 T.TSUJIMURA 56 9 J.McWILLIAMS 56 10 S.PERUGINI 50 11 N.NUMATA 42 12 S.PORTO 33 13 O.MIYAZAKI 31 14 M.LUCCHI 30 15 L.D'ANTIN 29 16 F.BATTAINI 29 125cc Pos Riders Total 1 V.ROSSI 220 2 N.UEDA 143 3 T.MANAKO 124 4 K.SAKATA 112 5 J.MARTINEZ 96 6 G.McCOY 70 7 M.TOKUDOME 69 8 F.PETIT 67 9 Y.UI 63 10 Y.KATOH 59 11 M.AZUMA 54 12 M.GIANSANTI 51 13 R.LOCATELLI 45 14 G.SCALVINI 38 15 L.CECCHINELLO 34 16 M.GEISSLER 23
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Hungarian Grand Prix 1997 from Hungaroring, Budapest, Hungary 8th August 1997 - 10th August 1997 Friday, August 8th 1st Free Practice (11:00 - 12:00 CET) 2nd Free Practice (13:00 - 14:00 CET) Saturday, August 9th 3rd Free Practice (9:00 - 9:45 CET) 4th Free Practice (10:15 - 11:00 CET) Qualifying (13:00 - 14:00 CET) Sunday, August 10th Warm-up (9:30 - 10:00 CET) Race (14:00 CET)
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Mid-Ohio Preview August 7, 1997 ZANARDI POISED TO EXTEND POINT LEAD AT MID-OHIO By Nathan Siebens Alex Zanardi, who took over the PPG Cup point lead with his win at the U.S. 500, will be looking to extend that lead this weekend when the PPG CART World Series returns to action in the Miller 200 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. Zanardi went on a tear in the July races, winning at Cleveland and finishing second in Toronto before taking the point lead with his win a Michigan. He has certainly emerged as the odds-on favorite to win the PPG Cup judging from his 1996 performance at the remaining events on the schedule. Likewise, he is the favorite to win at Mid-Ohio, an event he dominated last year. Still, the Italian feels that the Miller 200 will be a challenge. "Since last year, we have less downforce on the cars (due to rule changes)," said Zanardi. "Last year the cars were much more forgiving. This year, if the setup is not right, you cannot rely on a new set of Firestone tires to go fast. Finding the balance is much more crucial. I believe it takes much longer to find the setup and go fast. Nevertheless, I am confident. I believe we were understanding things on the car by the end of our three-day test (in mid-June) and were going very fast. I hope the circuit will not change much when we go back for the race. I hope the car is good out of the box as it was at Cleveland." One driver that might have something for Zanardi this weekend is Bryan Herta, who was the quickest driver in the mid-June test at Mid- Ohio. Herta owes Zanardi one, as Zanardi stole a certain victory from Herta at Laguna Seca last year. Driving for nearby Hilliard, Ohio-based Team Rahal, Herta, now a resident of New Albany, Ohio, cannot help but feel he has some sort of a "home track" advantage. "One of the biggest advantages to living in Columbus now and having our team's headquarters here is being so close to Mid-Ohio," Herta said. "We've been able to test at the track several times already this season and have run very competitively. That kind of familiarity breeds confidence and that's something we'll need plenty of come race day. We've had strong cars the last three series races, having made the podium at Cleveland and the top five at the U.S. 500. We were on that same kind of string last year when we arrived at Mid-Ohio and we rode that momentum to a fourth place finish. Let's hope we'll be a few rungs farther up the ladder late Sunday afternoon." Others to watch this weekend include Bobby Rahal, Andre Ribeiro, driving for another Hilliard-based team in Tasman Motorsports, Al Unser Jr., and Michael Andretti. Tasman's acquisition of a Reynard chassis for Ribeiro has breathed new life into Ribeiro's previously dismal season driving the Lola chassis. The Brazilian has been ultra-competitive since making the switch. The "old guard" of the PPG CART World Series, Rahal, Unser Jr., and Andretti have all had a great deal of success at Mid- Ohio. Last year, Zanardi shattered the track record in qualifying to take the pole and tore off into the lead for the first 28 laps before handing the lead to his Target/Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Jimmy Vasser when he made his first pit stop. Zanardi regained the point when Vasser stopped two laps later and ran away again. On Lap 56, Zanardi made his final pit stop of the day, again giving the lead to Vasser, and when Vasser made his final stop two laps later, Zanardi led the rest of the way to take the win. Vasser took advantage of two late race caution periods to close in on his teammate, but did not have enough and crossed the finish line 1.914 seconds behind Zanardi. Andretti took the last spot on the podium in third, followed by Team Rahal teammates Herta and Rahal in fourth and fifth, respectively. WHO'S HOT Alex Zanardi - The win at the U.S. 500 propelled the Italian into the point lead with five races left in the season. Of the remaining races in the 1997 season, Zanardi sat on the pole for all of them a year ago, and won at Mid-Ohio and Laguna Seca. Judging from his performance at Michigan, he must also be the favorite for the season-ending Marlboro 500 at the new California Speedway. A repeat performance of last year will most certainly give him the championship. Mark Blundell - The win at Toronto and a second place effort at the U.S. 500 makes Blundell one of the hottest drivers on the circuit right now. A tough early portion of the season will likely dash any championship aspirations, but he should be a shoo-in for CART's 1997 Most Improved Driver award. Gil de Ferran - Nobody has scored more points in the past five races that de Ferran, but the Brazilian is still looking for a breakthrough victory in 1997. His second place finish at the U.S. 500 vaulted him into third place in the point standings, but he needs a win soon if he is to challenge for the championship. WHO'S NOT Paul Tracy - While Tracy has done what he needed to do to win the championship by finishing races, and more importantly finishing in the points, his early season dominance has dried up. He needs to heat up again quick before Zanardi gets away. Greg Moore - While Moore was one of the hottest, if not the hottest driver of the month of June when he scored his first two career Indy car wins, July was exactly the opposite. By not finishing in the points in any of the July races, Moore has plummeted from second to fifth in the PPG Cup standings. Jimmy Vasser - A dream season in 1996 has turned into a nightmare '97 campaign for the defending PPG Cup champ. No longer the top dog at Target/Chip Ganassi Racing, Vasser has been very public about his desire to move on to greener pastures. However, team owner Chip Ganassi does have Vasser under contract through 1998 and fully intends to have the Californian in his stable for the duration of his contract. Mid-Ohio Statistics PPG CART WORLD SERIES Miller 200 - Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Lexington, Ohio Date: Sunday, August 10 Track Layout: 2.25 Mile Road Course (199.3 Miles, 89 Laps) 1996 Winner: Alex Zanardi 1996 Pole: Alex Zanardi Track Records 2.25-Mile Road Course (1991-present) 2.4-Mile Road Course (1980-1990) Distance Date Driver Time Speed One Lap (2.25) 8/10/96 Alex Zanardi 1:06.339 122.100 mph One Lap (2.4) 8/31/85 Bobby Rahal 1:15.267 114.791 mph 150 Miles 7/13/80 Johnny Rutherford 1:48:04.93 86.601 mph 185.8 Miles 8/14/94 Al Unser Jr. 1:40:59.436 110.387 mph 199.3 Miles 9/13/92 Emerson Fittipaldi 1:51:23.444 107.352 mph 200.5 Miles 9/06/87 Roberto Guerrero 1:51:58.698 107.431 mph Past Winners Date Driver Distance Speed 9/03/89 Teo Fabi 200.5 miles 104.820 mph 9/16/90 Michael Andretti 199.3 miles 85.751 mph 9/15/91 Michael Andretti 199.3 miles 99.789 mph 9/13/92 Emerson Fittipaldi 199.3 miles 107.352 mph 9/12/93 Emerson Fittipaldi 199.3 miles 102.217 mph 9/14/94 Al Unser Jr. 185.8 miles 110.387 mph 8/13/95 Al Unser Jr. 185.8 miles 107.110 mph Pole Position Qualifiers Date Driver Speed 9/02/89 Teo Fabi 114.168 mph 9/15/90 Michael Andretti 115.652 mph 9/14/91 Michael Andretti 116.589 mph 9/12/92 Michael Andretti 117.790 mph 9/11/93 Nigel Mansell 118.372 mph 9/13/94 Al Unser Jr. 119.517 mph 8/12/95 Jacques Villeneuve 121.192 mph
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PPG Cup Points Leader Zanardi Set To Defend Miller 200 Title At Mid-Ohio CART Online (August 3) -- Alex Zanardi has his cohorts in the PPG CART World Series right where he wants them. For the first time in his 28-race career, Zanardi (Target Reynard Honda) sits atop the PPG Cup standings, following his July 27 victory in the U.S. 500 Presented by Toyota at Michigan Speedway. The win, Zanardi's first career victory on an oval, boosted him to a 127-121 lead over Paul Tracy (Marlboro Penske Mercedes) in the PPG Cup race as the PPG CART World Series heads into Round 13, the Miller 200, Sunday, Aug. 10 at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio (3 p.m. ET, live, ABC-TV). Not only has Zanardi wrested the points lead from Tracy - who had held it for seven events, since the May 11 Hollywood Rio 400 at Rio de Janeiro, he also is embarking on a portion of the schedule where he enjoyed considerable success in 1996. Zanardi is the defending champion from the pole on the 2.25-mile permanent road course at Mid-Ohio and also scored podium finishes at Road America (third) and Laguna Seca (a victory), three of the remaining five venues in the series. "We know that the opposition is very tough and it is going to take all we can to try to beat it," says Zanardi, owner of three victories (he also won at Long Beach and Cleveland) and seven top four finishes en route to the PPG Cup lead. "There are teams out there who are capable of doing the same kind of job that we have been doing. But we definitely are confident that if we can get the best out of [ourselves], we are going to be close to the lead. A number of other drivers have realistic expectations of being close to the lead as well. Tracy owns three runner-up finishes (1992, '94 and '95) in four career starts at Mid-Ohio. Gil de Ferran (Valvoline/Cummins Special Reynard Honda) has recorded five podium finishes in his past seven starts, tying him with Michael Andretti (Kmart/Texaco/Havoline Swift Ford) for the season-long series lead. As a result, de Ferran, third with 108 points, and Andretti, fourth with 103, are in the thick of the PPG Cup race as well. Andretti, Bobby Rahal (Miller Lite Reynard Ford) and Al Unser Jr. (Marlboro Penske Mercedes) are all two-time winners at Mid-Ohio, all in back-to-back fashion. Rahal won at Lexington in 1985 and '86, Andretti in '90 and '91 and Unser Jr. in '94 and '95. Mark Blundell (Motorola PacWest Mercedes) belongs in the mix as well. He has collected a series-high 61 points in the past four races, including his first career victories (Portland and Toronto), a runner-up finish at the U.S. 500 Presented by Toyota and ninth at Cleveland. Suddenly, he is eighth in the championship with 72 points. Blundell's PacWest Racing Group teammate, Mauricio Gugelmin (Hollywood PacWest Mercedes), also has 72 points. He has qualified in the top 10 for 15 consecutive events and leads the series in miles completed with 2,537.409 of a possible 2,696.037. Bryan Herta (Shell Reynard Ford) scored his second top-five finish of the season with a fifth at Michigan and was the fastest of 19 drivers who participated in a two-day open test session at Mid-Ohio in June. He turned a lap of 123.568 mph, well above the track record of 122.100 set by Zanardi last year. Christian Fittipaldi (Kmart/Budweiser Swift Ford) returned to the cockpit at that same open test, barely two months after sustaining a broken right leg during an accident in Australia. The undulating Mid-Ohio layout helped prepare him for an outstanding fourth-place effort in his competitive return at Portland. PPG Cup champion Jimmy Vasser (Target Reynard Honda) finished second to Zanardi at Mid-Ohio last year and seeks a return to the consistency which saw him post 15 consecutive points-paying finishes over the latter half of '96 and the first half of '97. Greg Moore (Player's/Indeck Reynard Mercedes) remains fifth in the PPG Cup with 95 points, but has gone three events without scoring for the first time in his career. Brahma Sports teammates Scott Pruett (Brahma Reynard Ford) and Raul Boesel (Brahma Reynard Ford) qualified first and third, respectively, for the U.S. 500 Presented by Toyota, but neither finished in the points. Pruett was running fourth when he made contact with the Turn 2 wall. He finished 14th while Boesel encountered transmission problems and finished 18th. Andre Ribeiro (LCI/Marlboro Reynard Honda) led 21 laps at Michigan, the first time he has led all season, but fell victim to transmission problems as well. Tasman Motorsports Group teammate Adrian Fernandez (Tecate/Quaker State Lola Honda) has finished sixth or better in all three of his career starts at Mid-Ohio. Parker Johnstone (KOOL Reynard Honda) qualified a season-best fifth at Michigan, but exited due to contact after 53 laps. Several drivers come to Mid-Ohio off season-best finishes at Michigan. Max Papis (MCI Reynard Toyota) finished a career-high eighth and was one of three Toyota-powered drivers to score, along with Hiro Matsushita (Panasonic/Duskin Reynard Toyota), who finished ninth, and Juan Fangio II (Castrol-Jockey Reynard Toyota), who finished 11th. Matsushita's finish was the second best of his 108-start career while Fangio's was his second best of the season, exceeded only by a 10th at Detroit. Rookies Gualter Salles (INDUSVAL Reynard Ford) and Arnd Meier (J.A.G./Marcelo/Hawaiian Tropic Lola Ford) also scored at Michigan, finishing 10th and 12th, respectively. Salles is just four points behind Dario Franchitti (Hogan Motor Leasing Inc. Reynard Mercedes), 8-4, for second place in the Rookie of the Year race led by Patrick Carpentier (Alumax Reynard Mercedes) with 27 points. Meier's 12th-place performance at Michigan gave him the first PPG Cup point of his career. Michel Jourdain Jr. (Herdez/Viva Mexico! Reynard Ford), Richie Hearn (Ralphs-Food 4 Less Lola Ford) and rookie Charlie Nearburg (Nearburg Exploration Lola Ford) will be making their first competitive appearances at Mid-Ohio. PJ Jones (Castrol-Jockey Reynard Toyota) hopes to help continue Toyota's recent run of success. The PPG CART World Series continues with the Texaco/Havoline 200, Sunday, Aug. 17 from Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisc.
auto-moto.175 vpoznanovic,
F1: Hungarian GP Friday Free Practice Pos Driver Nat Constructor Time Gap To 1st ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Michael Schumacher D Ferrari 1:17.583 2. David Coulthard GB McLaren-Mercedes 1:17.810 0.227 0.227 3. Jarno Trulli I Prost-Mugen 1:17.848 0.038 0.265 4. Heinz-Harald Frentzen D Williams-Renault 1:17.884 0.036 0.301 5. Damon Hill GB TWR-Yamaha 1:18.161 0.277 0.578 6. Ralf Schumacher D Jordan-Peugeot 1:18.368 0.207 0.785 7. Rubens Barrichello BR Stewart-Ford ZV10 1:18.565 0.197 0.982 8. Giancarlo Fisichella I Jordan-Peugeot 1:18.686 0.121 1.103 9. Eddie Irvine GB Ferrari 1:18.734 0.048 1.151 10. Johnny Herbert GB Sauber-Petronas 1:18.796 0.062 1.213 11. Jacques Villeneuve CDN Williams-Renault 1:18.805 0.009 1.222 12. Jan Magnussen DK Stewart-Ford ZV10 1:18.856 0.051 1.273 13. Gerhard Berger A Benetton-Renault 1:18.923 0.067 1.340 14. Jos Verstappen NL Tyrrell-Ford EDV8 1:19.346 0.423 1.763 15. Jean Alesi F Benetton-Renault 1:19.358 0.012 1.775 16. Ukyo Katayama J Minardi-Hart 1:19.521 0.163 1.938 17. Gianni Morbidelli I Sauber-Petronas 1:19.567 0.046 1.984 18. Pedro Diniz BR TWR-Yamaha 1:20.002 0.435 2.419 19. Mika Salo FIN Tyrrell-Ford EDV8 1:20.106 0.104 2.523 20. Mika Hakkinen FIN McLaren-Mercedes 1:20.176 0.070 2.593 21. Shinji Nakano J Prost-Mugen 1:20.414 0.238 2.831 22. Tarso Marques BR Minardi-Hart 1:20.707 0.293 3.124 107% of fastest time: 1:23.013
auto-moto.176 vector,
Foto-finis sa jedne 125ccm trke (ne secam se tacno koja je u pitanju). U glavnim ulogama: Valentino Rossi i Noboru Ueda. :) 427x309 125cc01.jpg
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Tetsuya Harada, Ralf Waldmann i Max Biaggi. 600x439 250cc01.jpg
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Criville sa leve strane, Doohan u sredini i Okada sa desne strane. :) 600x374 500cc03.jpg
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Na slici: Alex Criville & Michael Doohan. 600x392 500cc04.jpg
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Criville vodi, cini mi se, u Jerezu ispred Okade i Chece. 600x451 alex02.jpg
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Alex (Criville, naravno :) u akciji. 400x616 alex03.jpg
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Ako neko ne zna zasto Criville trenutno ne ucestvuje na trkama - evo mu razloga... :) 600x400 alex05.jpg
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Carlos Checa :) 600x421 checa02.jpg
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Tetsuya Harada sa otprilike 10 godina. :) Zanimljiva slika... 247x400 harada01.jpg
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Loris Capirossi, Aprilia Racing Team. 400x530 loris01.jpg
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Luca Cadalora :) 600x451 luca01.jpg
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Evo onog legendarnog Maxovog skoka. Ne znam ni sam kako mu uspeva... 400x521 max04.jpg
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Max Biaggi u akciji... :) 600x396 max07.jpg
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Mick Doohan, trostruki svetski sampion :) 400x628 mick05.jpg
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Michael Doohan u akciji. :) 400x601 mick08.jpg
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Ralf Waldmann, dobra slika... 600x398 ralf01.jpg
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Evo i slike sa jedne revijalne ;) fudbalske :) utakmice. Naravno, ekipa motociklista je pobedila sa 6:3 ili 6:4, a Barros i Rossi su, koliko ja znam, postigli po jedan gol. Na slici su Cadalora, Barros, Rossi, Harada, Capirossi, Romboni (ako sam ga prepoznao), ... squad.jpg
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Dosta za danas ;)
auto-moto.198 pecanac, -> #175, vpoznanovic
# 5. Damon Hill GB TWR-Yamaha 1:18.161 0.277 0.578 Pazi maloga! :))
auto-moto.199 stukelj, -> #176, vector
> Foto-finis sa jedne 125ccm trke (ne secam se tacno koja je u pitanju). > U glavnim ulogama: Valentino Rossi i Noboru Ueda. :) Ocigledno je u pitanju Austrija...
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Mid-Ohio Friday Results August 8, 1997 PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT By David Phillips Bryan Herta of New Albany, Ohio and Team Rahal of Hilliard, Ohio used the home track advantage to the maximum today at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in earning the provisional pole for Sunday's Miller 200 CART race. Herta, who was quickest in a couple of CART open tests at Mid-Ohio earlier this summer, turned a fast lap of 66.277s to edge PPG Cup points leader Alex Zanardi for the top spot. While conceding the Mid-Ohio race has special meaning for himself and for Team Rahal, Herta downplayed any advantages he might have running on his home track. "The hometown track situation is a nice feeling," he said. "We get a lot of local fans here supporting us and a lot of guys on the team who don't normally travel to the races come up for the weekend. So in that respect it's like a combination race weekend and company picnic. "Beyond that we don't test here much more than the other teams. We were here for the open tests and we have been able to develop a good set-up that seems to work real well here." Zanardi is also a man who has a good set-up at Mid-Ohio, as evinced by the fact that he won the pole and led 79 of 83 laps en route to victory in the 1996 race. He was relatively pleased with his effort today, one that fell just .026s shy of the provisional pole. "I ran into traffic on my second set of tires," said Zanardi. "On my last lap I had to pass a slower car and made a small mistake. But at the end of the day, second is not terrible. It's a good place to start." Third quickest was Greg Moore, looking to rebound from three straight dnfs that have dropped him some distance back of the lead in the race for the PPG Cup. "It's extra important to get back on track this weekend," said Moore, a two time winner in 1997. "The last three races we've had three dnfs, two from mechanical failures and a third from an incident at Toronto (where he and Zanardi collided). It's important to get points here, to get the confidence back in the team and get the momentum going. We had the momentum earlier this year, now we need to get it back." Zanardi is the driver with all the momentum at present, having scored two wins (Cleveland and Michigan) and second place (Toronto) in the last three events, a record that has enabled him take the PPG Cup points lead. However, Zanardi - like Moore - knows well that momentum can change in a hurry. "We had no momentum before Cleveland," he said, "so I know it can change very fast. Just because you have had good results it is no sure that you will keep going. The great thing about racing is that it is unpredictable." One prediction on which the top three agreed is that today's qualifying results will be a distant memory tomorrow afternoon. Improving track conditions should make for much quicker times in the second day of qualifying. "It feels great and it's nice to have the provisional pole," said Herta, "but it's a false sense of security because everybody's gonna go faster tomorrow. They're gonna wipe this off the chalk board. We're gonna have to do our homework and go faster, because everybody else will." "Just to satisfy my personal ego it would have been nice to go to sleep with the pole in my pocket," said Zanardi. "But tomorrow's going to be another day." And Sunday will be still another day when tires and tire wear are expected to be a deciding factor. So far in 1997, Firestone has had the edge and Herta was by no means confident that things will be different on Sunday. "No question the tires have been a factor this year," he said. "With Goodyear at times we've had good grip and at times we've had good durability, but it's rare that we've had both. "We have good grip today, but durability is a question mark. I can't go as fast on my second run on a set of tires as the first, no question. But as the track rubbers-in, hopefully that will help the durability situation." "I think Bryan will find out about his tires on Sunday," said Zanardi - a Firestone customer. "And he's going to find out that Firestones are better - I hope." At least for Friday, the tire competition was relatively even, with Goodyear on the provisional pole with Herta, Firestone next up with Zanardi and Moore followed by fourth fastest Gil de Ferran (Goodyear), Dario Franchitti and Scott Pruett (Firestone), Christian Fittipaldi (Goodyear) and Jimmy Vasser, Mauricio Gugelmin and Raul Boesel rounding out the top ten for Firestone. * In light of the fact that Mid-Ohio winners come in twos - Michael Andretti won in 1990 and '91, Emerson Fittipaldi won in '92 and '93, and Al Unser, Jr. won in '94 and '95, history favors Alex Zanardi in 1997. * The CART technical committee has recommended new engine rules for a new millennium, calling for turbocharged 1.8 liter V8s with boost at 50- 55 inches. Qualifying Statistics Provisional Qualifying Times POS NO DRIVER TIME SPEED 1 8 BRYAN HERTA 1:06.277 122.649 (R) 2 4 ALEX ZANARDI 1:06.303 122.601 3 99X GREG MOORE 1:06.473 122.287 4 5 GIL de FERRAN 1:06.653 121.957 5 9 DARIO FRANCHITTI 1:06.689 121.891 6 20 SCOTT PRUETT 1:06.724 121.827 7 11 CHRISTIAN FITTIPALDI 1:06.751 121.778 8 1 JIMMY VASSER 1:06.861 121.578 9 17 MAURICIO GUGELMIN 1:06.956 121.405 10 40 RAUL BOESEL 1:06.995 121.334 11 27 PARKER JOHNSTONE 1:07.001 121.324 12 6 MICHAEL ANDRETTI 1:07.016 121.296 13 18 MARK BLUNDELL 1:07.235 120.901 14 19 MICHEL JOURDAIN JR. 1:07.359 120.679 15 3 PAUL TRACY 1:07.387 120.629 16 31 ANDRE RIBEIRO 1:07.515 120.400 17 7 BOBBY RAHAL 1:07.533 120.368 18 2 AL UNSER JR. 1:07.603 120.243 19 98X P J JONES 1:08.061 119.434 20 77 GAULTER SALLES 1:08.084 119.394 21 32 ADRIAN FERNANDEZ 1:08.085 119.392 22 21 RICHIE HEARN 1:08.095 119.374 23 16 PATRICK CARPENTIER 1:08.220 119.156 24 36 JUAN FANGIO II 1:08.629 118.446 25 25 MAX PAPIS 1:09.167 117.524 26 64 ARND MEIER 1:10.578 115.175 27 24 HIRO MATSUSHITA 1:10.890 114.668 28 34 CHARLIE NEARBURG 1:11.152 114.246 R = New Record Track Length: 2.258 Miles Morning Practice Times POS NO DRIVER TIME SPEED 1 4 ALEX ZANARDI 1:06.399 122.424 2 5 GIL de FERRAN 1:06.799 121.690 3 20 SCOTT PRUETT 1:07.123 121.103 4 11 CHRISTIAN FITTIPALDI 1:07.170 121.018 5 8 BRYAN HERTA 1:07.309 120.768 6 99X GREG MOORE 1:07.561 120.318 7 6 MICHAEL ANDRETTI 1:07.585 120.275 8 40 RAUL BOESEL 1:07.598 120.252 9 17 MAURICIO GUGELMIN 1:07.690 120.089 10 7 BOBBY RAHAL 1:07.742 119.996 11 1 JIMMY VASSER 1:07.800 119.894 12 3 PAUL TRACY 1:07.874 119.763 13 18 MARK BLUNDELL 1:08.195 119.199 14 27 PARKER JOHNSTONE 1:08.265 119.077 15 31 ANDRE RIBEIRO 1:08.311 118.997 16 9 DARIO FRANCHITTI 1:08.650 118.409 17 77 GAULTER SALLES 1:08.951 117.892 18 2 AL UNSER JR. 1:09.152 117.550 19 19 MICHEL JOURDAIN JR. 1:09.213 117.446 20 98 P J JONES 1:09.412 117.109 21 16 PATRICK CARPENTIER 1:09.506 116.951 22 32 ADRIAN FERNANDEZ 1:09.621 116.758 23 36 JUAN FANGIO II 1:09.978 116.162 24 99 GREG MOORE 1:10.008 116.112 25 21 RICHIE HEARN 1:10.065 116.018 26 2X AL UNSER JR. 1:10.243 115.724 27 25 MAX PAPIS 1:10.384 115.492 28 25X MAX PAPIS 1:10.542 115.233 29 36X JUAN FANGIO II 1:10.887 114.673 30 34 CHARLIE NEARBURG 1:11.042 114.422 31 3X PAUL TRACY 1:11.705 113.364 32 24 HIRO MATSUSHITA 1:11.982 112.928 33 64 ARND MEIER 1:12.064 112.800 34 5X GIL de FERRAN 1:17.990 104.229 35 20X SCOTT PRUETT 1:36.881 83.905
auto-moto.201 vpoznanovic,
F1: Hungarian GP Saturday Free Practice Pos Driver Nat Constructor Time Gap To 1st ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Heinz-Harald Frentzen D Williams-Renault 1:15.431 2. Jacques Villeneuve CDN Williams-Renault 1:15.500 0.069 0.069 3. Mika Hakkinen FIN McLaren-Mercedes 1:15.839 0.339 0.408 4. David Coulthard GB McLaren-Mercedes 1:15.998 0.159 0.567 5. Michael Schumacher D Ferrari 1:16.032 0.034 0.601 6. Jarno Trulli I Prost-Mugen 1:16.175 0.143 0.744 7. Jean Alesi F Benetton-Renault 1:16.205 0.030 0.774 8. Eddie Irvine GB Ferrari 1:16.274 0.069 0.843 9. Ralf Schumacher D Jordan-Peugeot 1:16.343 0.069 0.912 10. Gerhard Berger A Benetton-Renault 1:16.373 0.030 0.942 11. Damon Hill GB TWR-Yamaha 1:16.556 0.183 1.125 12. Johnny Herbert GB Sauber-Petronas 1:16.739 0.183 1.308 13. Shinji Nakano J Prost-Mugen 1:16.841 0.102 1.410 14. Pedro Diniz BR TWR-Yamaha 1:17.117 0.276 1.686 15. Rubens Barrichello BR Stewart-Ford ZV10 1:17.129 0.012 1.698 16. Ukyo Katayama J Minardi-Hart 1:17.605 0.476 2.174 17. Giancarlo Fisichella I Jordan-Peugeot 1:17.757 0.152 2.326 18. Jan Magnussen DK Stewart-Ford ZV10 1:17.864 0.107 2.433 19. Jos Verstappen NL Tyrrell-Ford EDV8 1:18.025 0.161 2.594 20. Gianni Morbidelli I Sauber-Petronas 1:18.043 0.018 2.612 21. Mika Salo FIN Tyrrell-Ford EDV8 1:18.087 0.044 2.656 22. Tarso Marques BR Minardi-Hart 1:19.912 1.825 4.481 107% of fastest time: 1:20.711
auto-moto.202 stukelj,
HILL TRECI!!! :)
auto-moto.203 vpoznanovic,
F1: Hungarian GP Saturday Qualifying Pos Driver Nat Constructor Time Gap To 1st ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Michael Schumacher D Ferrari 1:14.672 2. Jacques Villeneuve CDN Williams-Renault 1:14.859 0.187 0.187 3. Damon Hill GB TWR-Yamaha 1:15.044 0.185 0.372 4. Mika Hakkinen FIN McLaren-Mercedes 1:15.140 0.096 0.468 5. Eddie Irvine GB Ferrari 1:15.424 0.284 0.752 6. Heinz-Harald Frentzen D Williams-Renault 1:15.520 0.096 0.848 7. Gerhard Berger A Benetton-Renault 1:15.699 0.179 1.027 8. David Coulthard GB McLaren-Mercedes 1:15.705 0.006 1.033 9. Jean Alesi F Benetton-Renault 1:15.905 0.200 1.233 10. Rubens Barrichello BR Stewart-Ford ZV10 1:16.138 0.233 1.466 11. Johnny Herbert GB Sauber-Petronas 1:16.138 0.000 1.466 12. Jarno Trulli I Prost-Mugen 1:16.297 0.159 1.625 13. Giancarlo Fisichella I Jordan-Peugeot 1:16.300 0.003 1.628 14. Ralf Schumacher D Jordan-Peugeot 1:16.686 0.386 2.014 15. Gianni Morbidelli I Sauber-Petronas 1:16.766 0.080 2.094 16. Shinji Nakano J Prost-Mugen 1:16.784 0.018 2.112 17. Jan Magnussen DK Stewart-Ford ZV10 1:16.858 0.074 2.186 18. Jos Verstappen NL Tyrrell-Ford EDV8 1:17.095 0.237 2.423 19. Pedro Diniz BR TWR-Yamaha 1:17.118 0.023 2.446 20. Ukyo Katayama J Minardi-Hart 1:17.232 0.114 2.560 21. Mika Salo FIN Tyrrell-Ford EDV8 1:17.482 0.250 2.810 22. Tarso Marques BR Minardi-Hart 1:18.020 0.538 3.348 107% of fastest time: 1:19.899
auto-moto.204 obren,
Dejmon kao demon! :) Majstor je uzeo treće mesto na kvalifikacijama! Inače poredak je: 1. M. Schumacher 2. Villeneuve 3. DAMON HILL 4. Hakkinen Za dalje nisam siguran (od euforije ;) pa da ne lupam, okačiće već neko.
auto-moto.205 obren,
Formula 1 Rumors, ili "od trača do istine i obratno" ;) * Gianni Morbidelli is to race in Hungary but it's said that Peter Sauber booked Alexander Wurz for the rest of the season until his scheduled departure for Benetton. * Apparently Martin Brundell was the test driver last week at Benetton. He's the one who shooked down the B-197. Is Tom Walkingshaw loosing all his friends? * Could it be that Mika Salo who was rumored to Ferrari (see 23-04-97) will finally get a "real seat"? He is now part of the names in line for Fisichella's place at Jordan. * Don't expect Arrows to get the Ilmor engine next year. Apparently Mercedes refuses to share the engine with some other team unless it's the version that happeared last year. * Ford will continue with Cosworth for four more years even if BMW buys the firm. (see 06-08-97)Also, Cosworth is presently preparing a customer V10 for Tyrrell and... Minardi. * Willy Weber already produced T-shirts for Michael Schumacher claiming the 1997 F1 World Champ. It's said that he's now working on the 1998 version! * Did you know that Gerhard Berger will be 38 years old(!!!) a three days after the Belgium GP. * Ford-Cosworth could end pretty soon. The Northampton-based engine firm of defence giant Vickers is rumored to be sold to BMW. The German company wants to build it's own motors by 2000. * More on the next Arrows engine. Yes, it could be a Hart V10 renamed. Brian Hart a strong competitor to Judd (Yamaha) and Ilmor(Mercedes) was low in the finance area. He was waiting for a sponsor to produce his V10. It's said that he is presently working on the V10. Minardi didn't get a sponsor yet for the engine and apparently Volvo wants it for Arrows. * Another engine rumor. Benetton's Renault-Mecachrome engine could be renamed next year as Agip. A direct competition to Petronas. * You could now expect David Coulthard to go with Jordan next year. After the German GP, he went to see Eddie Jordan in the Jordan motorhome still dressed up in race trim. * It was heard that Olivier Panis will go as a spectator at the Belgium GP. He is expected to walk by himself in less than two weeks. * More on TWR. About a month ago, apparently Tom phoned Sauber in order to know if Peter would sell him the ex-Ferrari engine deal. * Gerhard Berger is now linked to McLaren after his great performance at the last GP. * Apparently Damon Hill almost signed a contract with Peter Sauber (see 02-08-97). They agreed for Hill to drive a C16 this year but Peter was to sign only if Damon would stay until the end of 1998. Damon called it off. So don't expect Hill to Sauber in the near future. * Gerhard Berger was also approach by Peter Sauber. No word yet on the results. * It's said that TWR has his engine deal for next year. It would be a Ilmor (Mercedes) engine renamed. (need more info). * It's said that Olivier Panis will be set to make an F1 comeback at the Luxemburg GP in september 28th 1997. * Walter Wolf is ready to make a return to Formula One. He will align his new team in 1999. * Also in the comeback mood to F1 is included Erich Zakowski with Zakspeed. Apparently there was some negotiations with Bernie Ecclestone for an entry in... 1999! * Yes, Alexander Wurz was confirm to be Benetton's driver for 1998. Benetton is now booked. * Apparently Damon Hill was in Hinwil trying to negociate a contract with Sauber for next year. * Depending on the Hungary GP, we will know if Frentzen stays or goes. * Gerhard Berger is more than ever related to a seat at Williams for next year. Frentzen's seat that is. * Honda is rumored to come in 2000 with it's own chassis with it's own engine. * It's said that Gerhard Berger could end up at McLaren or Williams. It all depends what happens to Heinz-Harald Frentzen.
auto-moto.206 vpoznanovic,
F1: Hungarian GP Sunday Warmup Pos Driver Nat Constructor Time Gap To 1st ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Michael Schumacher D Ferrari 1:16.996 2. Jacques Villeneuve CDN Williams-Renault 1:17.393 0.397 0.397 3. Mika Hakkinen FIN McLaren-Mercedes 1:17.579 0.186 0.583 4. Heinz-Harald Frentzen D Williams-Renault 1:17.614 0.035 0.618 5. Pedro Diniz BR TWR-Yamaha 1:17.696 0.082 0.700 6. Eddie Irvine GB Ferrari 1:17.781 0.085 0.785 7. Gerhard Berger A Benetton-Renault 1:17.875 0.094 0.879 8. Ukyo Katayama J Minardi-Hart 1:17.890 0.015 0.894 9. Damon Hill GB TWR-Yamaha 1:17.953 0.063 0.957 10. Johnny Herbert GB Sauber-Petronas 1:18.050 0.097 1.054 11. Jarno Trulli I Prost-Mugen 1:18.114 0.064 1.118 12. Shinji Nakano J Prost-Mugen 1:18.499 0.385 1.503 13. Gianni Morbidelli I Sauber-Petronas 1:18.632 0.133 1.636 14. Jean Alesi F Benetton-Renault 1:19.013 0.381 2.017 15. Rubens Barrichello BR Stewart-Ford ZV10 1:19.122 0.109 2.126 16. Giancarlo Fisichella I Jordan-Peugeot 1:19.145 0.023 2.149 17. David Coulthard GB McLaren-Mercedes 1:19.246 0.101 2.250 18. Jos Verstappen NL Tyrrell-Ford EDV8 1:19.332 0.086 2.336 19. Ralf Schumacher D Jordan-Peugeot 1:19.673 0.341 2.677 20. Jan Magnussen DK Stewart-Ford ZV10 1:20.154 0.481 3.158 21. Mika Salo FIN Tyrrell-Ford EDV8 1:20.432 0.278 3.436 22. Tarso Marques BR Minardi-Hart 1:20.778 0.346 3.782 107% of fastest time: 1:22.386
auto-moto.207 stukelj,
Katastrofa... u zadnjem krugu :(((
auto-moto.208 vector,
Sramota za celu Formulu 1. ;) Hill je imao vise od 30 (trideset) sekundi prednosti u odnosu na drugoplasiranog Vilneva i desilo mu se to sto mu se desilo ;) 2 kruga pre kraja... Zaista neverovatno... Ipak, kako komentator sa RTL-a kaze: 'Hill je moralni pobednik.' :) Danas u 21:00 je CART trka u Mid-Ohaju. Pol poziciju osvojio je Bryan Herta, dok ce Alex Zanardi startovati sa drugog mesta. Iza njih su Greg Moore i Gil de Ferran. :) Ne bih da podsecam prisutne da Zanardi ima odlican (re)start. ;)
auto-moto.209 darth.vader, -> #198, pecanac
>> # 5. Damon Hill GB TWR-Yamaha 1:18.161 0.277 0.578 >> >> Pazi maloga! :)) Izbezobrazio se ;))) Pustio krilca ;)