Round 11 Race Thread :Zolder (Race Spoilers)

[2112]

Originally Posted by luke

I think it starts at 1 pm my time, and the F1 race starts an hour earlier at 12pm my time I think because Turkey is 2 hours infront of UK.

Not according to all the schedules I`m checking.
Speed has the pre-race show at 7:30..then the lights go out a few minutes after 8AM in the eastern U.S.
ESPN-C shows CC at 8AM also, live.
http://www.tvracer.com/

[2112]

I can`t record and watch another channel on my satellite box unless one of the channels is OTA...so I may have to watch F1 on the TVU player, and CC on TV. I hate watching two races at the same time though.

[Jimmy Magnusson]

Originally Posted by 2112

Not according to all the schedules I`m checking.
Speed has the pre-race show at 7:30..then the lights go out a few minutes after 8AM in the eastern U.S.
ESPN-C shows CC at 8AM also, live.
http://www.tvracer.com/

Race should start about one hour later than the F1 race. Cunning planning, because everyone will be bored of F1 one hour into it and switch over to Champ Car!

[luke]

Yes, good point!

[Knowlesy]

And then swiftly switch back over.

It would have been an idea to have scheduled it to start after the F1, then some people could see both. They didn't think of me when they scheduled this and that disappoints me.

[JohnSSC]

Nor me, Knowlesy. going to have to figure out some way to watch one and record the other...

[Net-Ranger]

Speed latin has the race announced live at 8:00am Central US/Mexico City time...

Fox Sports Latin will broadcast F-1 as usual...and Champcar until noon

[marcus]

MORNING WARM UP RESULTS

1. Pagenaud 1.14.617
2. Rahal 1.14.841
3. Bourdais 1.14.850
4. Doornbos 1.15.174
5. Servia 1.15.180
6. Heylen 1.15.222
7. Wilson 1.15.339
8. Tagliani 1.15.358
9. Gommendy 1.15.421
10. Dalziel 1.15.638
11. Junquiera 1.15.646
12. Jani 1.15.785
13. Power 1.15.809
14. Dominguez 1.15.871
15. Tracy 1.16.280
16. Figge 1.16.336
17. Legge NO TIME

[marcus]

The race is due to get underway in about 5 minutes

[marcus]

fairly tame race so far , and a really REALLY crap job done by Race Director today

[cptkablamo]

Yeah, race director is struggling...but at least we don't have to commentate off of it like it sounds like the commentators do...in any case they seem to be having many issues - Bourdais look like he is checking out now...Power doesn't seem to have race winning pace...shame Bruno had a bad stop...

[cptkablamo]

Bruno pulls of a miracle!!! Best finish for Dale Coyne

Was a tense ending to the race - strategy wise...bad directoring...but good ending

[marcus]

Full Race results and Championship positions posted in the first few posts of this thread

[luke]

I thought that was a good race. I watched 5 minutes of CC then 5 minutes of F1 throughout the whole afternoon after I got back from the at 12:59 just in time!

Zolder is a fantatic race. I do think CC's second home is Europe and I hope they have 4 solid races a year there.

Robin Miller on windtunnel said that Tony Cotman has spoke with TG to not book any races in May and take part in the 500 so I guess they won't do their 2 euro races in the spring as well.

[marcel82]

ok, I just got home from Zolder: I'm really happy I decided to go in the end
champcars is really a blast to attend live

[luke]

Yep, I can't wait for Assen.

[luke]

And Tracy has been poor. Such a shame as he had such a good start to the year.

[norman-normal]

marcel, how was the crowd? and tell us a bit about the other races.

[marcel82]

the crowd was really good... in the general acces area. most grandstands I saw were far from filled though (exception being the ones in the last chicane)



Euroboss series I thought was a waste of time. they announce themselves as being a return to '90's F1 cars, but most of the field was made up from old feeder series cars. I didn't bother watching it to much, as the (lack of) talent created huge gaps...

same story for the Benelux Raxing League. mixed class stock car racing?

these might have been interesting if the main event would've been the Dutch Supercar Challenge or Belcar, but in a champcar-weekend, it seemed way under par

I didn't stick around to watch the ADAC GT3's, but I guess they are about the same as most GT3-series we see in Europe

[norman-normal]

Thanks, sounds like you will be there next year.

[marcel82]

If I can, most definatly

[HCForums]

Great weekend! For 30 Euro's we got see a lot of action. Champ Car, F1, GP2, World Series, IRL, BRL, GT3 and even a jet dryer made it very exciting too watch.

With one grandstand cancelled there were some doubts about the weekend. But in the end the crowd came to Zolder. Some grandstands (first turn and back straight for example) were still empty but the rest of them were packed. Especially the last turn grandstands were real neat, great on track action and two videowalls. But I do have to mention something negative. The paddock was closed for general tickets, which most people had. So you could not enter the track at the entry after the Bianchi turn but had to walk to the Kleine Chicane to enter the track. Then if you wanted to go to Eerste Linkse you had to go to the backstraight, cross the tunnel and exit the circuit. Then at Ickx you had to enter the grandstand area and you were told to walk through it immediately. You left the circuit again and then entered it once more, after that you could walk to that particular turn. This of course made it impossible to watch one race at the first part of the track and the next one in the forest part. But I'm sure they will work that out for next year.

Zolder did an awesome job and it was a race weekend never to forget. Bernie, if you're reading, try to beat that at Spa. I still remember the last time I went there. One lousy Mini race followed by a short Porsche race, then waiting more than 3 hours for a race that doesn't take longer than 1 hour and 30 minutes.

The BRL started off with a bang, sadly that meant the first race was ran behind the SC for the most part. Luckily the second race made up for this, proving us with some of the best action of the day. ADAC GT3 was a bit too long IMO, some more cars would not have hurt this series.

CCWS isn't a World Series, it's an American series. The horrible anthem, flyover and buzz in the pits already got me pumped up for the race. They know how to put up a show. When the first SC came out I of course watched the pitstops and I don't think I've ever seen anything more exciting at a circuit. The full field coming in, the pit limiter on, very short stops and then smoking the tyres on exit, going two wide, battling till pit exit. It was a great race and I enjoyed it very much. Bourdais made the crowd go wild when he decided to step onto the bridge on S/F straight. The Belgian crowd couldn't stop applauding everytime Sebastien put up his trophy and wearing a different sponsor cap. I went back to my seat but I wonder if the crowd was still yelling when he put on his 50th different sponsor cap.

[blueflagger]

Thanks for that description HC.

[tatounet]

Some pictures here :
http://www.racing-pictures.be