2005 Grand Prix of Japan...Best ever?
 

That could go to the top of my list of best grand prix races ever...wow. It has been an incredible season, and this race all but caps it off. One to go at China!

Quite. Go Kimi.

Mike comments?

We tired calling you.

How can watching rednecks drive in a circle compare to that!!?! :)

It cain't!

3 F1 passes = 200 NASCAR passes, you know.

David Hobbs speaks the troof!

Those helmet shots of Raikkonen, in his black Mercedes and the scene of him closing in fast on Fisichella sort of reminded me of Darth Vader chasing down Luke in the Death Star trench!

Seemed to me during the press conference that Fisichella almost appeared somewhat dejected, as if his ass was handed to him big time, by arguably the best driver in F1 today.

I for one was heart broken when Mikka Hakkinen decided to retire, but am truly impressed with Kimi's performance! First year I could see serious potential there! Good job Kimi!!!

Haha nice connection there. But Fernando Alonso might have something to say about the second part... ;)

Alonso owns you. He passed the hell out of people also.

Takuma wins the "I don't belong here" award.

Hey, some sort of misplaced nationalism has me rooting for Sato every race.

Well, not necessiarly rooting for him to win, just rooting for him to finish in one piece.

I like Sato... he just shouldn't be an F1 driver.

I think Sato should spearhead the Subaru sports car effort. How about an Impreza STi GTS ALMS program? :devil:

As far as "the best driver in F1", I think it's Kimi. He'd be way out in front of the drivers championship if Mclaren didn't have such an issue with reliability. This guy came from dead last on the grid to win! Who else has done that in the modern F1 era?

Now, Alonso's drive at Imola holding of MS was absolutely brilliant, and he backed it up last weekend by passing Michael with the positions reversed, so I will certainly agree that Alonso is better than the outgoing champion, but I think Kimi is the current king of F1, and he'll take the title next season.

I figure, it took a year after Paragon got built for Mclaren to finally get their car to be faster than the Ferraris (the new Michelen tires didn't urt either) and my guess it that by next season they'll have the reliability worked out. All that's left is figuring out a way to let Kimi run right behind another car in the draft w/o losing all his front end grip. Once they get that, Kimi will destroy the field no matter where he starts!

The 2nd Alonso pass on MS was brilliant. The first was just straight line speed and guts, but the 2nd was all skills to force MS to miss the chiccane.

Yeah, it takes a lot to intimidate that guy and get him to over-cook the chicane... after that, MS knew he was beaten and just let Alonso by on the following straight... only a Button-style block could have stopped that pass.

Speaking of Button... I'm surprised he didn't get penalized for just about sending Alonso into the grass by blocking. :roll: What a tool... when you're passed, you're passed, if the guy following you has that much of a run, crashing into him isn't the answer, the answer is to make sure he doesn't get that much of a run to begin with!

I thought that was Webber?

Oops... yeah. Webber's the dirty Australian. :P

I'm easily confused by the names that match "\w{2}(.){2}\w{2}" regex.

You just brought the nerd content of this thread from 1/10 to 10/10 with that statement.

but I would have written it "..(.){2}.."

I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have mistaken "2~AAi9" for "Button".

Hell, as it is, my regex would match Bu%%on or something. It really should have been "\w{2}(\w){2}\w{2}" to make sure it limited only to word characters.

Or even better yet: "[A-Z][a-z]([a-z]){2}[a-z]{2}" to make sure platform specific word characters aren't allowed if the regex should be used on a wierd system.

11/10... nerd-overload!

\w matches digits, so "\w{2}(\w){2}\w{2}" could match wt77ag

/okay, this stops now :p

Oh, and I can't wait till Kimi is done with McLaren. Nothing against the team, I just don't like myself rooting for any Mercedes affiliated motorsports :p

You're both fired.

... from a great height

Like I said, some platforms consider numbers word characters, but on most systems \w is the same as [A-Za-z_], or all letters, uppercase and lowercase, plus the underscore.

And, we should probably be fired... like this: