Valencia Spoiler

Done.

I'm done.  At least for a while.  I cannot watch anymore.  That was a complete debacle.  For every step forward F1 tries to make, they take two steps back.

LH cheated, in an unsportsmanlike way even, delayed Alonso out on purpose, trying to hang him behind the SC while he got by, then screwed up the execution/timing of his plan and passed the SC himself.  He gets a penalty that doesn't even lose him a position.  The cheat was so bad that even his announcer apologists outright used the word 'cheat' to explain it.

The 9 other cars get a post race 5 second penalty to cover a SC speed violation.  A safety violation.  The reason this was so light is clear though.  LH's violation was way worse, so since they under penalized him, they were restricted (they felt) to go even lighter on the other 9.  That also explains why with plenty of time to give them in-race penalties, they still waited for post race.  They had already given LH the lightest possible in race penalty.  To go even lighter they had to do post race.  

Then there was the red light on pit exit on Schumacher when the field was not even lined up yet.  What?  Absurd mis-management of the SC and lights.

Basically, behind Vettel and LH it was just random.  Vettel was dominant.  LH got away with cheating.   For everyone else there was no sort on any merit.

I missed it as was away with Family for the weekend.. might catch highlights later.

I did see a clip of the Weber/Kovaleinen?? shunt.   That looked scary.

If you want some good racing to fill in the F1 void for a while AJ, there's always BTCC, sure its on youtube if nothing else.   Garanteed good racing, cant garantee its clean

I already watch BTCC, and will continue to , although I am behind this year.  I torrent them.

I'll probably watch Spa, just because that was Schumi's first dominant track, one of his better over time, and the one one I targeted from before the season as the one where he'd finally be on-song and the rust would be gone.  The British GP was what I predicted to myself would be the one where he finally surpassed his teammate, and would be about 90% back.  We'll see about that (or rather you'll see, since I'm not watching).  I may be wrong on that one though.  Rosberg is stronger than expected.  Schumi may not surpass him until he is 95%-100% back.

the more sports car racing I watch the less interesting F1 is becoming, and today when I needed to decide whether to record Valencia or the Australian V8 cars on Speed I chose the V8s. That is a really fun race to watch. My current favorite series are ALMS, Rolex sports cars, Aussy V8 and some BTCC.

I actually taped the entire lemans coverage on speed and watched / fast forwarded through the entire race over four days, more fun than the F1 antics of late...

Grand Am (Rolex) is probably my favorite series right now, although I do cheat on some of the longer enduros and fast forward  the middle stints.

I like the open wheel form factor best, as a spectator and especially for sim (due to the cockpit view), but no real life open wheel series has its act together at the moment along with a deep field of talent.  F1 has talent, but as a sport is a mess.  Indy is getting its act together (finally) but is thin on talent.  GP2 is still FIA, and is currently a little thin too.  Most of the feeders are poorly covered and are also thinner on talent than top tiers.