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Eurosport stiffed me out of the fencing it promised me on Saturday, which annoyed me. No, Moto GP2 qualifying is not the same as sabre finals.
I still ended up watching the GP2 race the next day, mostly to see what 42 bikes off the start line went like. The answer is not as badly as expected. The race was fun, more so than the actual Moto GP but I think that's because they all have the same engine, give or take the tuning.
They were making a lot of fuss over the fact that Karel Abrahams is getting a Moto GP ride next year, only because Daddy is bankrolling a team for him, and while yeah, so not fair for the other riders, it doesn't necessarily mean that he can't race. Because the boy can race, as he then showed. Also, given the number of teams even terrible pay-to-race drivers have kept solvent, I wouldn't complain even if he couldn't race.
Then I watched the Moto GP race. Like I said, not as much fun. This is not just because I don't like Jorge Lorenzo, although I don't. Why must you have a 99 on the front of your bike? (The 99 in my name was originally supposed to be for Marco Melandri, who is now going off to superbikes, but Lorenzo is now using it.)
I also watched the Formula 1 grand prix, where I was hoping that Nico Hulkenberg would do a better job after his awesome pole position (btw, Rubens Barricello, the loveliest teammate ever or the loveliest teammate ever?) but, given that the Williams is a terrible car, he did pretty well. So very happy for Red Bull, and amazed that they aren't issuing team orders yet. I feel sorry for Mark Webber, because I'm not certain that they would be this fair if the roles were reversed.
Of course, if Alonso wins the driver's championship by fewer points than the number he got from the switcheroo, it only encourages team orders and proves that Ferrari were right to do it. By the by, I can see why people hate team orders, but I'm totally behind any team that use them, because of how important the driver's championship is to the team and it also enables a team to probably do better in the constructor's championship because two cars finishing in the points is worth more than your two cars knocking each other out of the race because they both want to be first.
And then finally, tonight, I got to watch both the epee finals. I forgive you, Eurosport. More amazingly they were both good to watch.
Eurosport stiffed me out of the fencing it promised me on Saturday, which annoyed me. No, Moto GP2 qualifying is not the same as sabre finals.
I still ended up watching the GP2 race the next day, mostly to see what 42 bikes off the start line went like. The answer is not as badly as expected. The race was fun, more so than the actual Moto GP but I think that's because they all have the same engine, give or take the tuning.
They were making a lot of fuss over the fact that Karel Abrahams is getting a Moto GP ride next year, only because Daddy is bankrolling a team for him, and while yeah, so not fair for the other riders, it doesn't necessarily mean that he can't race. Because the boy can race, as he then showed. Also, given the number of teams even terrible pay-to-race drivers have kept solvent, I wouldn't complain even if he couldn't race.
Then I watched the Moto GP race. Like I said, not as much fun. This is not just because I don't like Jorge Lorenzo, although I don't. Why must you have a 99 on the front of your bike? (The 99 in my name was originally supposed to be for Marco Melandri, who is now going off to superbikes, but Lorenzo is now using it.)
I also watched the Formula 1 grand prix, where I was hoping that Nico Hulkenberg would do a better job after his awesome pole position (btw, Rubens Barricello, the loveliest teammate ever or the loveliest teammate ever?) but, given that the Williams is a terrible car, he did pretty well. So very happy for Red Bull, and amazed that they aren't issuing team orders yet. I feel sorry for Mark Webber, because I'm not certain that they would be this fair if the roles were reversed.
Of course, if Alonso wins the driver's championship by fewer points than the number he got from the switcheroo, it only encourages team orders and proves that Ferrari were right to do it. By the by, I can see why people hate team orders, but I'm totally behind any team that use them, because of how important the driver's championship is to the team and it also enables a team to probably do better in the constructor's championship because two cars finishing in the points is worth more than your two cars knocking each other out of the race because they both want to be first.
And then finally, tonight, I got to watch both the epee finals. I forgive you, Eurosport. More amazingly they were both good to watch.
