[izzNatta]

Its gonna be "suam-suam kuku" (not so hot) season for racing scene & fans for this year and on, as Honda (F1), subaru & suzuki (Rally), Audi (Alms) & recently kawasaki (still rumours?)from motogp.

For me, im still hoping honda will get new engine supplier & funder, or F1 will be kicking off with 18 cars on grid.... :lol: which also will give bernie a major headache & migrain for breaching contract with TV broadcaster (min 20 cars on grid)

Hmmm... what your opinion?.... A new hot sesoan or else?

OT:With global economic crisis, do simracer cut their budget.. ? You tell me :)

[maranello55]

Times are hard but its a cycle. things will go back to normal. Hard times like this will reminds us of hardship. Ppl tend to work a tad harder.
It'll take some time but keep up the good work and we'll see.

Im still planning to get G25 sometime next month. it has been in the budget since last year lol

[PCcrazy]

maranello55, on Jan 7 2009, 05:48 PM, said:

Times are hard but its a cycle. things will go back to normal. Hard times like this will reminds us of hardship. Ppl tend to work a tad harder.
It'll take some time but keep up the good work and we'll see.

Im still planning to get G25 sometime next month. it has been in the budget since last year lol

Good mara, good fiscal policy for your economy.

As for the signs of what is racing gonna be from spectators point of view, I have to say I'm optimistic that F1 will still provide good show for us. Particularly next season with all these new technologies and promise of better overtaking.

But be warned, should it fail to address the issue it wanted to address, it can fail really big time.

[maranello55]

Yeah but really sad to see honda go. I would never imagine a Jap giant like Honda can bungkus fr F1. But they'll be back....coz of 'We Love Racing' heheh...but for now 'We No Money' lol. Sometimes we need to step back abit to jump further.

Abt overtaking, im not to sure. To me the biggest factor that affect overtaking is the driver. U have the balls to shave 0.2s per lap by going on the limit for 5 laps to get that 1s gap down, then probably u have some overtaking or some attempts to.

[kamal afiq]

izzNatta, on Jan 7 2009, 03:35 PM, said:

Its gonna be "suam-suam kuku" (not so hot) season for racing scene & fans for this year and on, as Honda (F1), subaru & suzuki (Rally), Audi (Alms) & recently kawasaki (still rumours?)from motogp.

For me, im still hoping honda will get new engine supplier & funder, or F1 will be kicking off with 18 cars on grid.... :lol: which also will give bernie a major headache & migrain for breaching contract with TV broadcaster (min 20 cars on grid)

Hmmm... what your opinion?.... A new hot sesoan or else?

OT:With global economic crisis, do simracer cut their budget.. ? You tell me :lol:

im not sure how much the retirement of HONDA from F1 will affect the sport. but, im pretty sure the season will kick ass as ever with FERRARI, MCLAREN, BMW, and some other midfield runners which are improving as time goes by. but, the more team of coz even better lah.

do simracer cut their budget?
YEAH! i cut down my budget starting this month as im going to buy Ibanez GRX20 this weekend for RM520. then next month the roland microcube. haha...budak2 engineering UNITEN ni ramai kaki jamming. sume racun sampai tkleh tahan lagi dah . LOL!. then on march will start saving again for SIM RACING stuffs. but, cam tk leh gak kot, kalo SAGA dah nk siap rebuild..makan duit lagi nk isi minyak tu kt UNITEN =,=!. kete ada ke tkde ke kt UNITEN ni, monthly nye duit masuk same je. thats the agreement. huhu....pandai2 la jimat :) sem lepas dah hampir2 bleh tuka scholar, but so near yet so far. LOL!. tengok result baru lak. LOL! kalo bleh tuka, FUH! simracing budget will increase la agaknye ;)

[maranello55]

kamal afiq, on Jan 8 2009, 08:36 PM, said:

im not sure how much the retirement of HONDA from F1 will affect the sport. but, im pretty sure the season will kick ass as ever with FERRARI, MCLAREN, BMW, and some other midfield runners which are improving as time goes by. but, the more team of coz even better lah.

do simracer cut their budget?
YEAH! i cut down my budget starting this month as im going to buy Ibanez GRX20 this weekend for RM520. then next month the roland microcube. haha...budak2 engineering UNITEN ni ramai kaki jamming. sume racun sampai tkleh tahan lagi dah . LOL!. then on march will start saving again for SIM RACING stuffs. but, cam tk leh gak kot, kalo SAGA dah nk siap rebuild..makan duit lagi nk isi minyak tu kt UNITEN =,=!. kete ada ke tkde ke kt UNITEN ni, monthly nye duit masuk same je. thats the agreement. huhu....pandai2 la jimat :lol: sem lepas dah hampir2 bleh tuka scholar, but so near yet so far. LOL!. tengok result baru lak. LOL! kalo bleh tuka, FUH! simracing budget will increase la agaknye :)

WAH...i really missed my jamming days. (malas nk cite...jadik cam org tua lak...muahahahha).

Camel....be warned...SAGA is actually babe magnet...trust me i know.

[PCcrazy]

maranello55, on Jan 8 2009, 08:49 PM, said:

WAH...i really missed my jamming days. (malas nk cite...jadik cam org tua lak...muahahahha).

Camel....be warned...SAGA is actually babe magnet...trust me i know.

Trust me it's not saga that is babe magnet, it's mara driving a saga. or MARASAGA/SAGAMARA. That is a babe magnet. :lol:

[L-PlateDriver]

PCcrazy, on Jan 9 2009, 03:15 PM, said:

Trust me it's not saga that is babe magnet, it's mara driving a saga. or MARASAGA/SAGAMARA. That is a babe magnet. :lol:

Itu depends lah brother.

Hantar ke Powerzone kat Shah Alam. Balingkan Stage 3 supercharger dalam enjin tu, pasti jadi babe magnet.....barangkali jadi polis/JPJ magnet jugak LOL

[L-PlateDriver]

izzNatta, on Jan 7 2009, 03:35 PM, said:

Its gonna be "suam-suam kuku" (not so hot) season for racing scene & fans for this year and on, as Honda (F1), subaru & suzuki (Rally), Audi (Alms) & recently kawasaki (still rumours?)from motogp.

For me, im still hoping honda will get new engine supplier & funder, or F1 will be kicking off with 18 cars on grid.... :lol: which also will give bernie a major headache & migrain for breaching contract with TV broadcaster (min 20 cars on grid)

Hmmm... what your opinion?.... A new hot sesoan or else?

OT:With global economic crisis, do simracer cut their budget.. ? You tell me :)

To be honest, I'm not really convinced.

So many years in the sport and a huge budget thrown into it and all they have by way of results was Button's one-race win in Hungary 2006 and only because the front-runners screwed up (Alonso and the loose wheel nuts; Schumacher and the decision not to change his worn intermediates). Not much to show for all the effort and $$ wasted. They had a great season in 2004 with multiple podiums but that was BAR Honda back then. It went downhill after Honda bought over BAR's Brackley operation and turn it into a 100% works team. I think economic downturn is just a convenient excuse for the face-important Japanese culture. More face-saving to say that exit caused by economic circusmtances out of their control, rather than saying that they failed miserably against the F1 competition. The funny thing was F1 Racing Magazine had this to say "Would they still have quit had Button been World Champion ?" hehe

Same thing with Subaru and Kawasaki really ...when did they last win ?

As for Audi...there's really no serious competition for them at ALMS. One-horse race.

[PCcrazy]

L-PlateDriver, on Jan 19 2009, 12:30 PM, said:

To be honest, I'm not really convinced.

So many years in the sport and a huge budget thrown into it and all they have by way of results was Button's one-race win in Hungary 2006 and only because the front-runners screwed up (Alonso and the loose wheel nuts; Schumacher and the decision not to change his worn intermediates). Not much to show for all the effort and $$ wasted. They had a great season in 2004 with multiple podiums but that was BAR Honda back then. It went downhill after Honda bought over BAR's Brackley operation and turn it into a 100% works team. I think economic downturn is just a convenient excuse for the face-important Japanese culture. More face-saving to say that exit caused by economic circusmtances out of their control, rather than saying that they failed miserably against the F1 competition. The funny thing was F1 Racing Magazine had this to say "Would they still have quit had Button been World Champion ?" hehe

Same thing with Subaru and Kawasaki really ...when did they last win ?

As for Audi...there's really no serious competition for them at ALMS. One-horse race.

I agree it's more of a political face saving ploy than really is economic blunder. Anyway, it's just what I think without data and figures.

[maranello55]

PCcrazy, on Jan 20 2009, 04:32 PM, said:

I agree it's more of a political face saving ploy than really is economic blunder. Anyway, it's just what I think without data and figures.

I thot they boast abt in their commercials saying 'We love racing'. They ought to complete it to 'We love racing.... but if we keep on losing we think we stop for abit'.