2005 Belgian GP @ Spa- Picks are due HERE by 7AM on Saturday September 10th - Team Juicy Racing's Racing School and Race Series Forums

sydude · #1 09-06-2005

There are now only FOUR races remaining, and the TJR Fantasy F1 Competition is getting tighter and tighter at the front. Spa, one of the greatest driver's circuits in the world is next up this weekend.

You must have your picks in by THIS Saturday, August 10th, 7 am. Please check your pick totals by clicking here, which will also give you the full spreadsheet. Make sure you're not over the limit on any of your choices. THERE ARE MULTIPLE TABS ON THE BOTTOM OF THE SHEETS - Click on them to see your pick totals, etc...

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As always, don't edit or post your picks after the deadline. If you want to change previously made picks, but the system doesn't let you edit your post, just go ahead and reply again with new picks. The new ones will override the old.

Good luck!

Here are the current standings and your current pick totals:

Rays-Royce · #2 09-06-2005

JPM

FM
CK

Toyota

jcraige · #3 09-07-2005

FA
MW
JV
TOY

cdh · #4 09-07-2005

MS
MW
JV

Fer.

CMAC · #5 09-07-2005

JPM
FM
TS
TOY

cisilp · #6 09-08-2005

MS

FM
JV

FERR

gmg321 · #7 09-09-2005

JB
DC
JV
Toyota

Maytag Mayes · #8 09-09-2005

JP
RS
FM
BMW

birkmama · #9 09-09-2005

MICHAEL!!!
ferrari!
MASSA
JV

Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain

cdh · #10 09-09-2005

Don't wish for too much rain...........

[09/09/05 - 17:28]
Doubts develop over Belgian Grand Prix

'A normal race in these conditions is not possible'

Leading drivers cast doubt over Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix after revealing Friday that the race cannot run if atrocious weather conditions persist here this weekend.

Friday's second practice session around the forested Spa Francorchamps circuit was a wash-out when heavy rain made the track completely undriveable and none of the 25 drivers set a time.

Only a handful of laps were run in the first session and with the weather predicted to worsen rather than improve even world champion Michael Schumacher was left wondering whether the race will go ahead.

"A normal race in these conditions is not possible," said Schumacher. "Maybe it can get better, but if conditions are like this then it is not possible to race apart from behind the safety car."

"I think this is the best (conditions) it will be this weekend. As far as we know now it is predicted to get worse and at the moment they are predicting heavy rain on Sunday. Today was supposed to be the best in terms of rain, so we still have to find out what that means for the weekend. It is difficult to explain how difficult it is driving in these conditions."

"It is too much rain. We probably needed a propeller to make it through this amount of water! You could see when the drivers that went out were on track that they couldn't really drive. In these conditions nobody can drive except maybe the safety car. In the end, you can only do things that are possible. If it is impossible to drive we will have to find another way."

The two one-hour practice sessions were the first run in rain since qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix in March and there has not yet been a wet race this season.

World championship leader Fernando Alonso revealed here Friday that he has not even driven his Renault car in the wet because the team does not run if it is raining to maximise their limited amount of available test days.

Italian test driver Vitantonio Liuzzi, of Red Bull, lost control of his car in the practice session and crashed into the barrier after his car aquaplaned off the circuit at Les Combes. The accident displayed how dangerous heavy rain can be, particularly at this long traditional circuit where crash barriers are closer to the track than normal.

Drivers can use wet weather tyres in the rain and there are specially designed extreme weather' tyres, but Michelin boss Pierre Dupasquier said even those were not good enough to tackle the amount of water on track here Friday.

Jenson Button backed Schumacher's claims that the race cannot go ahead if conditions persist and explained: "It is disappointing for the fans but we can't really help with that situation. We can't stop it raining here. It's been a pretty boring day for all of us, not being able to do any running, but there was no chance and if it is raining like that we can't race on Sunday. It would be too wet. It is dangerous."

"You are not in control of the car in any way. If you hit a big puddle like Liuzzi did that's it, it could be a massive accident. You are not in control and that's not what we're here to do. And the forecast is for rain on Sunday."

E.A.

Source AFP

macdod · #11 09-09-2005

ms
fm
dc
ferarri

fitilehpeach · #12 09-09-2005

Alonso
Zonta
Fizzikella
Toyota

what happens if there is no race?
Do I get my piks bak?

gmg321 · #13 09-09-2005

Eau Rouge!

juicyjules · #14 09-09-2005

ms
jv
ck
ferr
and I reserve the right to change b47

sydude · #15 09-09-2005

I'm picking Chip Hanauer in Miss Budweiser. Who cares about the other picks, you'll all be left in my wake.

I crack myself up.

cdh · #16 09-09-2005

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Originally Posted by sydude

I'm picking Chip Hanauer in Miss Budweiser. Who cares about the other picks, you'll all be left in my wake.

I crack myself up.

OK, it is now COMPLETELY RIDICULOUS

JonMiller · #17 09-09-2005

Who drives the saftey car? I'm willing to bet he leads the most laps.

I didn't know that extreme weather tires existed either. Interesting.

If there's a race, here are my picks:
JB
GF
FM
Toyota

ML Peter Ludwig · #18 09-09-2005

Spa

Button

Sato

J. Villenueve

Honda

sydude · #19 09-09-2005

Doug-e, that was really good.. But you should have animated the boat driving up Eau Rouge while you were at it.

And I just heard that Chip Hanauer retired in 1999 (am I getting that old?), so I need new picks. Here we go:

Sydude picks MS, MW, JV and the Scuderia of the Prancing Horse.
Badger would like very much to order an MS for his entree, a JV and a CK on the side, and for dessert a Bayernische Motor Worken special. Thank you. Put it on the Underhill's, and while you're at it, give yourself a twenty. Sierra del Fuego.

tomahawk · #20 09-09-2005

Dirty cheating pointy-chinned German guy in red

Jack Newhouse
Next year will be my year (DC)

BAR

Jisu Kim · #21 09-10-2005

JB
AP
FM
BAR

dalyduo · #22 09-10-2005

MS
DC
MW
FER

cdh · #23 09-10-2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by sydude

Doug-e, that was really good.. But you should have animated the boat driving up Eau Rouge while you were at it.

Sy, I just don't think it would look realistic enough...

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macdod · #24 09-11-2005

Drivers I hate the most

Sato
Sato
Sato

He will lose his ride next year. And for good measure i hope he ends up in pieces at Suzuka! Calling his driving Kamakazi-like is too generous.

ML Peter Ludwig · #25 09-11-2005

BIG MAC- Your just pissed cause he took out your MS pick. I picked SATO too, he crashed, but I love him anyway becasue that is what the world needs more of.

- I LOVE HIM
- I LOVE HIM
- I LOVE HIM

Sy and and Jules loves him too right??

I think I passed you in the points this week SY!!! YOUR GOING DOWN BRO...

sydude · #26 09-12-2005

Ludwig, talk all the poopy you want, but the fact is that you blew your load early, tough guy. You've got no big picks left. Nothing, nada, zippo, NICTHS! My Kimi and my two McLarens are going to kick your little sausage making ass!

Enough of that drivel, and on to the results of this week's competition. Jimmy Craige has beat us all with 18 points, with only MPowa coming close (a pure accident - he forget to put in his picks, and last week's were pretty good!). JuicyJules has extended her lead over CMAC and Ray.

Jimmy, the review is yours if you choose to accept. The last two have been absent in their duties (I was one of them), so please show us up.

Here are the position changes, the results and the standings for this week, plus the graph:

Please check your picks by clicking here, which will also give you the full F1 game spreadsheet - click here There are a bunch of pages on the spreadsheet - you can navigate through them by clicking on the tabs at the bottom of the page. It contains lots of useless and exciting graphs and formulas, etc..

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jcraige · #27 09-12-2005

18 points and I get another write-up!!! I didn't even move up a notch in the standings.

OK, here it goes:

As exepcted all the way around with Kimi and Juan the class of the field. Juan in particular graciously showing his team spirit with a very deft bow to Kimi to give him the points.

Fisi continues to impress with his ability to slide off the track and hit hard with his pancaking at Radillon. Sato takes the Alex Young award with his Schumacher drilling. I like this guy. He always tries to make up for his lack of race pace/talent in one or two corners with late braking. I feel his pain.

Pizzonia should be caned. Enough said.

So, I get 18 points for using my last FA and MW picks just nipping mpowa by one point.

Next race: Brazil. The women are crushing us men with our best hope of retaining any manly pride resting on RaysRoyce who is only 20 points behind.

Good hunting RaysRoyce!

cdh · #28 09-12-2005

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Pizzonia should be caned. Enough said.

for you late arrivals here is some video to back up this sentiment about Pizzonia....

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rhpearson · #29 09-12-2005

HOLY CRAP! Haven't seen that before. That is frightening.

cdh · #30 09-12-2005

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Originally Posted by rhpearson

HOLY CRAP! Haven't seen that before. That is frightening.

and here is a good sound file to go with the video

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birkmama · #31 09-12-2005

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Originally Posted by cdh

for you late arrivals here is some video to back up this sentiment about Pizzonia....

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I loooove the Pizzonia steering technique....Hey I got massive understeer, so let us try full lock so at least the front wheels dig in when we hit the gravel.

Wonder why Jaguar fired him.

Sy, how do you explain Mounttoya's inability to finish now? Do you want to blame an innocent bystander yet again?

sydude · #32 09-12-2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by birkmama

I loooove the Pizzonia steering technique....Hey I got massive understeer, so let us try full lock so at least the front wheels dig in when we hit the gravel.

Wonder why Jaguar fired him.

Sy, how do you explain Mounttoya's inability to finish now? Do you want to blame an innocent bystander yet again?

You have provided your own answer!! Jungle boy must have understeered right into him. Il Monstro is faultless. Like me, he never ever makes a mistake.

jcraige · #33 09-12-2005

I would like the record to show that my write-up has generated 5 responses thus far.

macdod · #34 09-12-2005

I still say Pizzonia couldn't see over the dashboard

birkmama · #35 09-13-2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by sydude

You have provided your own answer!! Jungle boy must have understeered right into him. Il Monstro is faultless. Like me, he never ever makes a mistake.

Since this was an intra jungle-boy combat, I am confused who understeered into who? As far as I could tell no Jaguar was involved.

Question to the SB audience: Wouldn't it be a good time now to remove JPM from the "alumni" page? Apparentlz the guy never really took a LAPPING session

juicyjules · #36 09-13-2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by ML Peter Ludwig

BIG MAC- Your just pissed cause he took out your MS pick. I picked SATO too, he crashed, but I love him anyway becasue that is what the world needs more of.

- I LOVE HIM
- I LOVE HIM
- I LOVE HIM

Sy and and Jules loves him too right??

Peter darling,
sorry, but.....no, definitely not - absatively posalutely N.O. and not because he took out my tier one pick (MS the cranky) but because he is a bloody menace on the track! he deserved the smack in the head from MS (which kinda made up for the spin out

). but my favorite is still JPM

He wins when I pick him and when I don't he crashes! (or has engine failure, or gets a blown tire or makes an error.........) gotta love that!

BTW, is that you I see sneaking up in my rear view mirror??

CMAC · #37 09-14-2005

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Originally Posted by juicyjules

but my favorite is still JPM

He wins when I pick him and when I don't he crashes! (or has engine failure, or gets a blown tire or makes an error.........) gotta love that!

juicyjules · #38 09-14-2005

Sorry Christina,
but he did cost you the win - I was writing my step down speech when he went off - boy was I pleased! Besides breaking records when we are blind

(cdh - good catch!) us Southern Africans have been known to do a little voodoo. when I met jpm I stole a lock of his hair and pinned it to a straw doll. when I don't pick him I throw the doll accross room and voila! Smash - wham - alacazam! it took a little longer this race, but he came through - gotta love that!

rhpearson · #39 09-14-2005

I could use a little positive voodoo these days... and I haven't had a haircut since early June... lots to make a good omen doll?