Base asphalt is down. My vacation days are scheduled. Can not wait.
Austin a step closer as asphalt goes down http://www.thef1times.com/news/display/05918?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Good article explaining Pull Rod suspension vs Push Rod Suspension in F1 cars
This is from the 1991 Autosport awards. If you haven't seen the new Senna Documentary, find it & watch it. Even if your not an F1 fan watch it. One of the best documentaries I've ever watched.
Watch closely you'll see a heavy crash were the GP2 car breaks up then the driver hops out & runs away like it was nothing. If your an F1 fan I highly recommend you start watching GP2 if you aren't already.
Right above this post is a link to my Tumblr. Mostly bike related reposts of cool bike pictures. I do scribble quick training notes there as well. Having a Tumblr app on my phone makes it easier to post quick stuff there instead of a full on blog post or a bunch of little posts here.
SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY! Big TV day Paris Roubaix live on the intrawebs then F1 Quali & the race on DVR. That means exiling myself from the intraweb from about 3am tonight till sometime Sunday when I'm all caught up. I like the surprise of watching the racing unfold. No spoilers please.
I got really excited watching the F1 race Sunday afternoon. I had to DVR it as per the norm. After an evening at a water park birthday party I was wiped & couldn't stay up. Luck had it that I had to go to a bouncy house birthday party Sun at noon so it was late afternoon before I could watch the race. A great race it was too. I don't think the movable wing & KERS played as much a part as the tires did. Most were on a 2 -3 pit strategy. Except Sauber's Rookie Perez . He managed to go with just one pit stop & finish just one place in front of Kobi who stopped 3 times. I was ecstatic. Both Sauber's in the points in the first race.
I had been on s self imposed news/web blackout till I could watch the race. As soon as the race was over I fired up Google Reader & my heart sunk. Both Sauber's had been been DQ'd because of a rules infringement of the rear wing. I won't go into detail I linked details below. The car showed pace & I think once all is worked out Sauber is going to surprise a lot of people. Perhaps even with a podium this season.
“Sauber have three versions of the flap available and two were brought to Melbourne. It seems the version raced was not fully checked at the factory and therefore the error was not picked up, whereas the other (un-raced) specification flap was checked and deemed legal. Not every car and every component gets fully checked by the FIA scrutineers. The cars will go through different tests at different points in the weekend. It seems the Sauber flap in question was not tested until after the race.”
Update: Sauber was going to protest but have admitted it was their fault & are taking the punishment. It was a manufacturing error & one version of the wing hadn't been fully verified & of course it was the one that got them in trouble with the stewards.
HMMM I have access to an autoclave about that size at work. Need to figure out where to lay my hands on some carbon fiber fabric.
FYI The Haynes manual is real. Its a promotional book , but supposedly has some basics of have to work on the RB1. Going to be out in the spring early summer. Going to have to get one.
Sucks the Bahrain GP is cancelled but it was the right thing to do. Back to the old season opener In Melbourne. A race that is in trouble itself. The Melbourne council is tired of sinking money into the race so they don't want to renew the contract when it ends in 2015. I imagine in the next few years there will be several GP's going the way of the dodo.
All this unrest in the Arab nations could bring on another global recession. I saw on the news expect $4/gal by summer & $5/gal by end of summer. That just adds more reasons for me to get CX races going here in Springfield. Its going to be hard to justify a big outlay of gas money to drive to KC or the STL for 40-60 min of racing(at least for me anyway). I've already stopped driving to work. A few of the production supervisors were giving me crap about riding to work the other day. I told them to laugh it up now because I'll be laughing at their fat asses when gas is $5/gal.
Anyway I got of topic there for a second. With oil going up its going to hit my job pretty hard since rubber is petroleum dependent. Expect bike tires & tubes to go up as well becasue of this. Better stock up on them now. I read on article on Velonews the other day about aging tubulars. Makes me wish my house had a basement. How I bought a house without a basement is beyond me.
