2008 Superleague Formula Round 5 - Valleunga [1/2 November]

[duke_toaster]

This weekend we will have the fifth round of the 2008 SuperLeague Formula season at Valleunga, Italy - a home race for the Italian teams (AC Milan and AS Roma). This series has been nice and unpredictable.

Substitutions

Stamatis Katsimis takes over at Olympiacos
Don't know of any others though.

Standings are

1 Beijing Guoan 271
2 PSV Eindhoven 236
3 Liverpool FC 235
4 AC Milan 216
5 Sevilla FC 199
6 AS Roma 190
7 RSC Anderlecht 189
8 Galatasaray SK 180
9 Tottenham Hotspur 173
10 Corinthians 169
11 Al-Ain 167
12 FC Basel 161
13 FC Porto 145
14 BVB Borussia Dortmund 143
15 Rangers FC 132
16 Flamengo 130
17 Olympiacos 110
18 Atletico de Madrid 99

Times are as London

Qualifying starts : 12:00
Race one : 9:30
Race two : 12:30

Note that these times are when the programme starts.

octoshape:Superleague_Formula
Stream link

http://www.octoshape.com/files/octos...MULA_l_odd.exe
Octoshape installer if you don't already have it

You can use any media player you want really, I like VLC but that doesn't matter.

Also on Setanta Sports 2 and other broadcasters. They say they have blacked it out in some countries, but it hasn't been in the past.

[eveningladies]

Stream's broken

[duke_toaster]

Live timing looks b0rked too.

[Stefvh]

cannot get the stream too.

[duke_toaster]

Anyone with setanta 2 with any luck?

[Stefvh]

Not here, u have nothing else than the stream.

[runshaw]

Why are the gaps between the drivers in this series so huge?

[strider]

In qualifying I think it's due to the format - see below:

The grid:

Pos  Team                Driver                 Time
 1.  Liverpool           Adrian Valles          1:21.855
 2.  AC Milan            Robert Doornbos        1:22.115
 3.  Beijing Guoan       David Rigon            1:23.907
 4.  Flamengo            Tuka Rocha             1:30.010
 5.  Galatasaray         Alessandro Pierguidi   1:22.771
 6.  Anderlecht          Craig Dolby            1:22.645
 7.  Roma                Franck Perera          1:21.998
 8.  Corinthians         Antonio Pizzonia       1:22.627
 9.  Atletico Madrid     Andy Soucek            1:22.833
10.  Rangers             Ryan Dalziel           1:23.498
11.  PSV Eindhoven       Yelmer Buurman         1:23.229
12.  Basel               Max Wissel             1:23.464
13.  Tottenham Hotspur   Duncan Tappy           1:24.345
14.  Sevilla             Borja Garcia           1:23.758
15.  Porto               Tristan Gommendy       1:24.516
16.  Olympiakos          Stamatis Katimis       1:24.661
17.  Al Ain              Paul Meijer             No Time
18.  Borussia Dortmund   Enrico Toccacelo        No Time

[Go_For_Pole]

All free practice sessions were run with a wet track but on quali it was dry. Olympiakos ran qualifying with a wet set-up as the team running the said car didn't have the time to repear the car from an off half way in FP2 and change the set up.

[ivanalesi]

Originally Posted by strider

In qualifying I think it's due to the format - see below:

Yeah, it's very exciting! I think this is the only championship in the world, where qualifying is much more interesting than the race(in the dry)! I mean, in F1 and all the top 10 shoot-out championship, the front runners are in danger just at the end. Here, just one mistake and you're out, sometimes the faster drivers get eliminated because they try too hard. The only problem is when some of the very fast guys got head-to-head very early on, like Perera and Pizzonia today. I think Valles, Perera and Pizzonia were the fastest cars today, but only Valles is at the front. So there's a bit of luck into it, but you can always have bad luck with traffic in normal qualifying...

[eveningladies]

Is anyone watching the streaming right now? It would appear they're not aware the mikes are switched on

[duke_toaster]

They always do that - Andrew Mariott with a mini-Ron Atkinson re. Spain?

[strider]

No, can you give me the link again please?

[Stefvh]

Originally Posted by eveningladies

Is anyone watching the streaming right now? It would appear they're not aware the mikes are switched on

[duke_toaster]

Race buildup started : get on the chatroom boys

[duke_toaster]

Originally Posted by strider

No, can you give me the link again please?

Links are in the first post .

[Martin Haven]

Both races live on Eurosport 2... with commentary that IS aware it's on air - for a change...

Also, both Jerez races are live on Eurosport 2

Dominick Muermans is a late substitution for Paul Meijer in the Al-Ain car... seems Meijer DID break bones in his hand crashing in qualifying - the car also had to be replaced, as there was damage to the tub... Muermans did some rookie running but otherwise new to the cars... didn't do a bad job...

Liverpool lost 4th on the final lap (unseen by the TV director) dropping to 9th with fuel pressure problems... the team thinks all will be well for Race 2...

HiTech (that runs Liverpool car) has also taken over running the Porto entry... ADR (Alan Docking - 'the Doc') is still running the Rangers car...

A massive brake lock-up for the Roma car not long before the end was obviously a bigger problem, as Franck Perera parked the car in the pits on the final lap...

Race 2 live at 1400CET on Eurosport 2... see you there

[Go_For_Pole]

Huge thumbs up to Stamatis Katsimis for his amazing debut! To see him closing in to an ex GP2 driver and safely ahead of a current UK FR2000 champion made everybody over here very, very proud.

Martin, get used to Greek names, we have drivers with way more difficult surnames than Katsimis

[Lam Pak]

chian team is gonna be champion.!!!!!!! i am proud beijing china is beating all major clubs in europe and america. this time, the 北京国安 had a very good performance and our mechanic did quite well and i say that has to do with the overall.