F1 Fanatic round-up: 30/7/2010

Practice for the Hungarian Grand Prix starts today so look out for the live comments posts during each session and don’t forget to send in your predictions for the race result.

Here’s today’s round-up:

Links

Felipe Massa – Budapest, one year later (Ferrari)

Video interview with Felipe Massa on his crash in Hungary last year.

Comment of the day

Sticking with Massa, why does he say ‘for sure’ all the time? André C has a theory:

“For sure” is a literal translation for a very common expression in Portuguese “com certeza” which means definitely so is understandable that a native portuguese speaker not so fluent in English uses so much that expression. /> André C

From the forum

Glue asks for thoughts on Heikki Kovalainen’s performance since his move to Lotus.

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday to Cyanide!

On this day in F1

It’s ten years to the day since Rubens Barrichello scored his first Formula 1 win in a memorable race at the Hockenheimring.

Barrichello had qualified 18th after rain on Saturday and ran light on fuel early in the race to move up the field. This required an extra pit stop which cost him time but the disadvantage was wiped away when the safety car came out.

The caution period happened for a truly bizarre reason. A former Mercedes employee, angry at his dismissal, made his way onto the track in a bid to disrupt the Mercedes-powered McLarens’ bid for victory. He certainly helped, as Barrichello was now within range of the front runners.

But an audacious gamble by Barrichello during a late rain shower sealed his maiden victory. While other headed for the pits to change tyres, Barrichello stuck to his dry-weather tyres and as the shower quickly passed he took the lead. Barrichello led home the McLarens of Mika Hakkinen and David Coulthard.

Like Barrichello, Jenson Button also stayed out on his dry weather tyres, gambling on the conditions in much the same way he has twice already this year. That netted him fourth place for Williams, the best result of his F1 career which at that point was only 11 races old.

Here’s two videos of the moment which changed the course of the race:

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10 Responses to “F1 Fanatic round-up: 30/7/2010”

f1yankee Says:
July 29th, 2010 at 8:34 pm
was it 2000 when the green lights failed (twice) with chaos on the grid?
Ned Flanders Says:
July 29th, 2010 at 9:15 pm
Nah the next major scandal was the European GP safety car row, so technichally you’re completely wrong.

Seriously though, congratulations on your spooky prediction. Make sure you put the lottery on at the weekend!
Oli Says:
July 29th, 2010 at 9:21 pm
Got to love Murray walker

“where’s mr halfwit??”

“ding dong are were going to have a good race”

Brilliant
Ned Flanders Says:
July 29th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
Perhaps… but Silverstone 03 runs it close. He was immense that day.

In fact, come to think of it, he is always brilliant at Silverstone. He was on pole there in 2000, he went from last to 2nd in 2002, 3rd in 2008 and 2009 and of course 5th there the other week. He was even in 9th in 2007, which was more impressive than it sounds given how bad his Honda was that year!

Wow I’ve gone off on a tangent. Of course none of this has any relevance to today’s round up… but when I have a ’stat attack’ I have to share it with everyone!
f1yankee Says:
July 29th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
“and where is mr. half-wit now?”

i kinda like the priest more tho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iO1_ybL14g
John H Says:
July 29th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
Can’t believe Barrichello’s win at Hungary was 10 years ago, great scenes. Also remember the disgruntled Mercedes employee, and Murrary describing him as a ‘mad-man’ or something similar $:)

And, apologies for blowing my own trumpet, but I just can’t resist…

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2010/05/31/turkish-gp-team-by-team-mercedes/comment-page-1/#comment-379587
Bien Says:
July 29th, 2010 at 11:04 pm
Man, the cars looked so twitchy under braking back then! I’ve only started watching last year so this is great to watch. Thanks, Keith.
Ned Flanders Says:
July 29th, 2010 at 11:49 pm
For sho’ that is an interesting “for sure” theory! I remember another one I read last year on Ed Gorman’s blog:

http://timesonline.typepad.com/formula_one/2009/08/at-spa-the-greatest-track.html

“I couldn’t resist asking (Lewis Hamilton) about “for sure”. Amazingly Lewis has never noticed he even says it… It will be interesting to see if he carries on with it or tries to drop it. As far as “fantastic job” is concerned, I told him he was already the out-and-out title holder on that one and no one would ever get close. “Really?” he replied, incredulous.

On the subject of where “for sure” comes from, my colleague Joe Saward had the best explanation. He believes it goes back to the era when there were many French drivers in Formula One and he reckons Jacques Lafitte may have unwittingly started it by using the French phrase “bien sur” (of course, naturally, yes etc) during interviews which then got picked up and Anglicised by the English speakers. And so it got handed down to the likes of Lewis, Jenson and Felipe.”
xabregas Says:
July 30th, 2010 at 12:35 am
I remember quite well that 2000 german gp (got it vhr ) it was a fantastic drive from Barrichello.
It´s one of those races which we don´t bother to wath it again. Plenty of action since the start till the end.
Lots, lots, lots of overtaking.
Must be his very best win of his career.
SoLiDG Says:
July 30th, 2010 at 12:42 am
That was a great race by Rubens! Let’s hope his Williams can do something again this weekend. Atleast they are heading in the right direction.