Posts from ‘International Racing’
Race of Champions Live Coverage
After all the complaining Jarno Trulli has already done from his crash into Adrian Sutil at Interlagos 2 weeks ago, he still continues to cry foul. Not only does he continue to defend his viewpoint, but he even has pictures to show to Sutil to prove he is right! Sutil left plenty of room for Trulli. He needs to stop complaining. Move on.
This past weekend brought championship success yet again to Valentino Rossi and Sebastien Loeb. Two great champions; Rossi on two wheels, Loeb on four. I figure that next year, they should take a wheel away from each competitor. Rossi will only have one wheel, and Loeb only three. How else is the competition going to have a chance?
Congrats to the champions, yet again.
Luca Badoer has been given the chance of a lifetime to race for Scuderia Ferrari in Formula 1, and he’s slower than the 19 year old rookie from Toro Rosso, Alguersuari. Not only is this embarrassing to Badoer and his abilities, but it is an even greater mistake by Ferrari and Di Montezemolo. Why didn’t Ferrari learn from other teams’ mistakes of using a test driver to replace a racing driver in a Grand Prix weekend? Most recently, De la Rosa got a chance in the McLaren and while still running a decent pace for the event weekend, a regular test driver just cannot be expected to jump into a Formula 1 car and be competing for a win, or even points, during a Grand Prix event.
Marc Gene has just recently won the 24 hrs of Le Mans with Peugeot, so why not use Gene to replace the injured Massa? Many speculate that Ferrari wanted to payback their loyal test driver, but at what cost? This is a Championship winning outfit, why would you put a driver in a car just for loyalty? Why wasn’t Ferrari loyal to Schumacher when they kicked him out of the team to make room for Raikkonen? These are questions that will likely remain unanswered.
Ferrari will obviously wait to see what sort of race results Badoer can provide before replacing him for GP events, but Ferrari needs to make sure they get a driver who has been racing recently, and can at least lap faster than 20th place.
We finally found some pictures from the podium for our 3rd place finish in the British/Petrol class (although we were 2 Americans, a Brazilian, and a French, our car was run by a British team):
Thanks to everyone who participated in The Grid, but unfortunately I had to cancel the project before leaving for Spa. I was unable to raise enough funds through the project to justify the printing, application, etc. I will continue to leave The Grid page on my site for those of you who participated.
I am offering two options to all of those that participated: 1) Refund of your money or 2) 100% donation to the Lance Armstrong Foundation via the Motorsport Army
Please email me at jameson@rileyracing.com or send me a tweet to @jamesonriley with your choice.
I’m going to try a new project similar to this one for our season finale Grand-Am KONI race in the Mazda RX-8 at VIR, and will post details about this project soon.
Thanks again to all who participated.
I’m going to be driving in the 25 hours of Spa-Francorchamps in the Fun Cup UK Series on July 10-11, which will give me a great opportunity to build-up some miles for my LIVESTRONG Pledge and help raise more awareness for the LIVESTRONG Motorsport Army (benefiting the Lance Armstrong Foundation). We’ll be driving a Fun Cup car with a diesel engine, which will get us much better fuel mileage than the petrol powered racers.
Here is a quick video about the Fun Cup UK Series:
Some more details to follow shortly.
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