Sep 18 2016

Formula One 2016: Marina Bay

I hate the fly aways. Among other things they’re a huge personal inconvenience, disrupting the odd times I can actually sleep, but they also represent the corruption and venality of Formula One, bribery driven circus sideshows of geeky (in the biting heads off chickens sense) display that leave one feeling the need for many long showers that never quite restore a sense of cleanliness.

Why Singapore? Bahrain? Abu Dhabi? Azerbaijan? Tinpot dictatorships willing to erect Potempkin villages on the backs of the people.

Money, that’s why. Eight and a Half Billion Dollars for this freak fest from Liberty Media. Bernie boasts he’s still Supremo for 3 more years, Chase Cary says who is this Ecclestone fellow?

Maybe it’s good news after all.

I doubt anything positive actually comes of it, but I’m an optimist (read it again, it makes perfect sense), at least it’s not Turn Left Bumper Cars where the slow suicidal tendencies of the beer guzzling, chain smoking, open carrying infield dwellers is cutting into the audience for flaming chunks of twisted metal faster than the brain damage from full tilt mosh pit Throw Ball.

Today/Tonight’s debacle will take place on the repurposed streets of Singapore where headlights are forbidden (it’s a small place and well lit so they’re not necessary even for ordinary drivers) and it’s still a tropical 100/100 degrees/humidity even in the dark and speeds are as slow as Monaco in the longest, by time, race of the year. Pirelli is offering Softs, SuperSofts, and UltraSofts. Mercedes qualified on the Ultras and will be looking at a 3 stop, Ultras, Soft, Soft. Rosberg has the pole so if he survives the opening lap he’ll basically disappear straight to the tall step and take over the lead in the Driver’s Championship. Vettel broke his suspension and will start from the back (after a spectacular qualifying lap which was kind of like watching a Top Fuel Dragster wheelie through a Quarter) a position he does not do well from since his only driving talent is blasting to the front and putting an insurmountable gap between himself and the more talented (basically everyone else, he’s also an arrogant asshole so bonus points for that).

If the Baseball season ended today my Mets would get crushed by the Giants in a Wild Card Playoff leading to a Cubs/Senators Series that the displaced D.C. disgraces formerly owned by War Criminal W would win because… it’s the Cubs man! They would find a way!

And Formula One would still have a month of racing left where the only question would be Rosberg or Hamilton.

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  1. Vent Hole

  2. Pre race

  3. Half hour of hype

  4. Recon laps

  5. The Texass Rangers (not a misspelling, commentary) are the Washington Senators of futile, feckless reputation. I suppose they could lose to the Cubs which would be only what they deserve as Senior League traitors trying to disguise themselves with a cosmetic name change and seeking to improve their image playing a game which is not Baseball but a showcase exhibition of the too old, slow, fat and overpaid.

  6. Formation lap

  7. We race

  8. Safety car

  9. Hulkenberg tags a corner under pressure from Torro Rosso

  10. Free pit for tire changes. Mercedes should, everyone else already on Softs.

  11. Massive pits

  12. Hulkenberg and Grosjean finished

  13. Mercedes went Ultra (idiots)

  14. Lap 5 of 61

    Rosberg
    Ricciardo
    Hamilton
    Raikkonen
    Alonso
    Kvyat
    Sainz
    Verstappen
    Massa
    Magnussen

  15. Sainz must pit for damage

  16. And he does.

  17. Ericsson pits

  18. Lap 10 of 61

    Rosberg
    Ricciardo
    Hamilton
    Raikkonen
    Alonso
    Kvyat
    Verstappen
    Massa
    Magnussen
    Gutierrez

  19. Rosberg and Hamilton getting warned of Brake problems

  20. Palmer pits

  21. Alonso pits. Verstappen too for SuperSofts

  22. Ricciardo pits from SuperSofts, Hamilton from UltraSofts

  23. Kvyat pits

  24. Bottas Button pit

  25. Rosberg pits

  26. Lap 16 of 61

    Raikkonen
    Rosberg
    Ricciardo
    Hamilton
    Magnussen
    Gutierrez
    Perez
    Vettel
    Nasr
    Alonso

  27. Rosberg and Hamilton both on Softs

  28. Raikkonen, Magnussen, Nasr pit

  29. Gutierrez pits

  30. Werhlein pits

  31. Lap 20 of 61

    Rosberg
    Ricciardo
    Hamilton
    Raikkonen
    Perez
    Vettel
    Alonso
    Kvyat
    Verstappen
    Massa

  32. Ocon pits

  33. Vettel pits

  34. Lap 25 of 61

    Rosberg
    Ricciardo
    Hamilton
    Raikkonen
    Perez
    Alonso
    Kvyat
    Verstappen
    Massa
    Magnussen

  35. Perez pits

  36. Ericsson pits again

  37. Rosberg and Hamilton on just Softs, Ricciardo on SuperSofts

  38. Ricciardo running out of time to catch Rosberg.

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