HELLO FORMULA 1 FANS... Welcome back to the 2008 season, finally we can put that three-week hell behind us, everyone still with us? Griff, Shak, Billy, Mark, Mr. Stones, Ryan, Heff, Long, Alex... Alex... ALEX! Has anyone seen Alex? Oh and anyone else I have missed, WE ARE BACK!
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* * * IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT * * * *
Just before I crack on with my article as the old Formula 1 Community Leader with Sheiban Shakeri, we are announcing some changes that have already taken place within our community and what changes you need to make to get back to business as usual.
Okay, we’re going to try featuring Auto Racing on the front page (rather than F1 & NASCAR separately).
We still want the F1 and NASCAR Communities to thrive independently, but we're hoping that this way people will know that we have a Craftsman Truck Series / IRL page as well, etc.
It is my duty of letting the F1 writers know that going forward you should tag any articles you write with BOTH F1 AND Auto Racing?
In addition if you want to crack into the Top Writers list for Auto Racing, you will need to go back into your old articles and add the "Auto Racing" tag, I have just done all of mine and I am sitting pretty back up top.
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Onwards we go… So finally we can blow the dust of our team caps and don them once again as the Formula 1 showboat steams into port in Valencia.
Not only are we getting excited as the season calendar is negotiating the last few turns of the year, but we have two new circuits to face and this is the first of them.
Valencia is a purpose-built masterpiece that should be a street circuit but it just doesn’t seem to be. When someone says street circuit you think tight, twisting, bumpy tracks that are narrow and not much overtaking can go on...
Can the same be said for Valencia? No, it has been likened to Monza rather than Monaco. It’s a fast circuit where the average speed is set to be roughly 225km/h, so it’s going to be tough on the brakes. The top speed predicted on the track is just short of 324km/h and the low point is just over 90km/h.
As well as the brakes, the engines should get a thorough workout with some very high highs and some very low lows to really push the limits.
So if teams are on their third engines, it could be a short race. If they are on their first engine, then it could be a case of just hoping that you're reliable enough to last the race anyway.
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