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f*** YEAH HELM!!! THE RED WINGS ADVANCE TO THE STANLEY CUP FINALS!!! BRING ON PITTSBURGH, *******!!! WINGS WIN 2-1, AND FINISH THE SERIES 4-1!!! DARREN "ENDING THIS s*** NOW" HELM!!!

Franzen. Game winning goal. NOW!!! LET'S GO RED WINGS!!! LET'S GO HOSSA!!! LET'S GO CLUCKLES!!! LET'S GO MULE!!! LET'S GO RED WINGS!!!

LET'S GO RED WINGS!!! LET'S GO HOSSA!!! LET'S GO CLUCKLES!!! LET'S GO MULE!!! LET'S GO RED WINGS!!!

Wings WILL get that one back, and get more after that! LET'S GO RED WINGS!!! LET'S GO HOSSA!!! LET'S GO CLUCKLES!!! LET'S GO MULE!!! LET'S GO RED WINGS!!!

Hell yeah, Cleary!!! Hopefully this will open the floodgates for the Wings!!! GET MORE GOALS, WINGS!!! LET'S GO RED WINGS!!! LET'S GO HOSSA!!! LET'S GO CLUCKLES!!! LET'S GO MULE!!! LET'S GO RED WINGS!!!

LET'S GO RED WINGS!!! LET'S GO HOSSA!!! LET'S GO CLUCKLES!!! LET'S GO MULE!!! LET'S GO RED WINGS!!!

LET'S GO RED WINGS!!! LET'S GO HOSSA!!! LET'S GO CLUCKLES!!! LET'S GO MULE!!! LET'S GO RED WINGS!!!

I want to see some scoring from the Wings in the 4rd now! Send them packing, Wings!!! Light them up! Own them! Just win!

Race results: 1) Jenson Button, Brawn-Mercedes 2) Rubens Barrichello, Brawn-Mercedes 3) Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari 4) Felipe Massa, Ferrari 5) Mark Webber, Red Bull-Renault 6) Nico Rosberg, Williams-Toyota 7) Fernando Alonso, Renault 8) Sebastien Bourdais, Toro Rosso-Ferrari 9) Gianacarlo Fisichella, Force India-Mercedes 10) Timo Glock, Toyota 11) Nick Heidfeld, BMW Sauber 12) Lewis Hamilton, McLaren-Mercedes 13) Jarno Trulli, Toyota 14) Adrian Sutil, Force India-Mercedes 15) Kazuki Nakajima, Williams-Toyota Ret) Heikki Kovalainen, McLaren-Mercedes (Accident) Ret) Robert Kubica, BMW Sauber (Brakes) Ret) Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull-Renault (Accident) Ret) Nelson Piquet Jr, Renault (Accident damage) Ret) Sebastien Buemi, Toro Rosso-Ferrari (Accident) WDC Points: 1) Jenson Button: 51 2) Rubens Barrichello: 35 3) Sebastian Vettel: 23 4) Mark Webber: 19.5 5) Jarno Trulli: 14.5 6) Timo Glock: 12 7) Fernando Alonso: 11 8) Kimi Raikkonen: 9 9) Lewis Hamilton: 9 10) Felipe Massa: 8 11) Nico Rosberg: 7.5 12) Nick Heidfeld: 6 13) Heikki Kovalainen: 4 14) Sebastien Buemi: 3 15) Sebastien Bourdais: 2 16) Gianacarlo Fisichello: 0 17) Adrian Sutil: 0 18) Nelson Piquet Jr: 0 19) Robert Kubica: 0 20) Kazuki Nakajima: 0 WCC Points: 1) Brawn-Mercedes: 86 2) Red Bull-Renault: 42.5 3) Toyota: 26.5 4) Ferrari: 17 5) McLaren-Mercedes: 13 6) Renault: 11 7) Williams-Toyota: 7.5 8) BMW Sauber: 6 9) Toro Rosso-Ferrari: 5 10) Force India-Mercedes: 0 Next race will be at Turkey in two weeks. The race will be shown on the local FOX affiliates, tape delayed (unfortunately), here in the States.

Qualifying results: 1) Jenson Button, Brawn-Mercedes 2) Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari 3) Rubens Barrichello, Brawn-Mercedes 4) Sebastien Vettel, Red Bull-Renault 5) Felipe Massa, Ferrari 6) Nico Rosberg, Williams-Toyota 7) Heikki Kovalainen, McLaren-Mercedes 8) Mark Webber, Red Bull-Renault 9) Fernando Alonso, Renault 10) Kazuki Nakajima, Williams-Toyota 11) Sebastien Buemi, Toro Rosso-Ferrari 12) Nelson Piquet Jr, Renault 13) Giancarlo Fisichella, Force India-Mercedes 14) Sebastien Bourdais, Toro Rosso-Ferrari 15) Adrian Sutil, Force India-Mercedes 16) Nick Heidfeld, BMW Sauber 17) Robert Kubica, BMW Sauber 18) Jarno Trulli, Toyota 19) Timo Glock, Toyota 20) Lewis Hamilton, McLaren-Mercedes EDIT: Hamilton originally qualified 16th, but will start last after changing his gearbox. Lineup has been edited to reflect that. The race will be on at 8 AM EDT here in the states

And now, the technical regulations (found on the previous post, or here) Changes for the Cost Regulated Teams (hereto referred as CRT): Basically, the CRT will be allowed to change the front wing angle by a maximum of 10 degrees, while the other non-CRT are limited to 6 degrees. And the CRT teams are not limited to the 2 adjustments per lap for the front wing angle. No rpm limit to the CRT. Self-explanatory there. Opening the possibility of four-wheel drive? From what I understand, it either means input to KERS can come from both the front wheels and rear wheels, or output from KERS can go to all four wheels, which would probably explain 9.1 (above this article). That's all I saw from skimming through the regs. Granted, these were posted on May 6th (sport regs) and April 30th (tech regs), and Mosley has said that a "two tier" championship is out of consideration, so these can change in the future. Either way, this does look like a "two tier" championship, which would be bad, IMO. Having different regs works in sports car racing/touring car racing because of the different ways the cars have been made for homologation. The last time there were two different classes was in the Turbo era for Formula 1 when many of the teams had turbos that helped the engines produce nearly 1000 hp in qualifying trim and the smaller teams were naturally asperated, and that was because they didn't have the money to work with turbos. If Ferrari, Toyota, BMW, Red Bull, Toro Rosso, and Renault pull out, that's more than half of the field gone, and it's possible that new teams can't fill the grid to the minimum number of cars necessary to carry out the championship (12 is the miminum number of cars needed to run a championship event under Article 5.7). And that doesn't mention the various contract breaches Bernie Eccelstone would be in if there are fewer than a certain number of cars for an event (rumored to be about 18). The deadline for 2010 entries is May 29th, and the list of eligible teams will be published on June 12th. We will see then if the six mentioned teams hold to their rhetoric and do pull out or if it's one of F1's many, many political pissing matches.

Looks like 2009 may be the last season for the famed Scuderia Ferrari. Ferrari had filed a court injunction against the FIA to block them from implementing new rules for 2010 that many feel would bring in a "two tier" Formula One championship regarding a budget cap. Today, the court ruled against Ferrari, paving the way for the FIA's 2010 regulations: http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/20052009/3/f...-f1-appeal.html And it's not only Ferrari that have threaten to quit F1. Toyota, Red Bull (and by extension, Toro Rosso), BMW and Renault have also said they would pull out over the regulations. I think the main reason Ferrari is against the cost cap is that it's too low at 40 million pounds/euros (about 60 million US dollars), and that Ferrari will have to cut from 400 million euros to the 40 million mark will be difficult to do, as there are contractual issues that will come up. FOTA (Formula One Teams Association) have proposed a "parachuting" cost cap, where the cap will slowly step down from the 400 million mark to the 40 million in a few years. That way, the teams can simply refuse to renew expiring contracts and let them go gradually instead of all at once. Here's the 2010 sporting regulations from the FIA's website (in .pdf format): http://argent.fia.com/web/fia-public.nsf/7...006-05-2009.pdf And here's the technical regulations for next year: http://argent.fia.com/web/fia-public.nsf/8...030-04-2009.pdf Changes in the 2010 sporting regulations that strike me involving the cost capped teams: Cost capped teams are exempt from rules a, b, c, h, and i, which means that b) they have unlimited testing, c) they can test any time of the calendar year, h) they can use a full sized car for wind tunnel testing, and i) they can run the tunnel speeds at more than 50 metres per second (180 kilometres per hour/112 miles per hour). Not sure what to make of the exemption to rule 22.1a, so maybe the more knowledgeable members can help out there (hell, I'm not sure if I interpreted the exemptions right!) Now, here's what they have about the spare cars, engines, and gearboxes: Cost capped teams are exempt from this rule, as well as rule 28.6: Appendix 8 has all of the regulations for the cost capped teams. That's a lot of info to take in, and that's just the sporting regulations! The technical regulations will be in the next post, as I'm just skimming through them right now.

Sammy made up for his screw-up earlier in the game, thank your deity of choice

SAMMULSON MOTHERf***ERS!!!! WINGS WIN! WINGS WIN! WINGS WIN! 2-0 WINGS LEAD THE SERIES HEADING TO CHICAGO!!!!

LET'S GO RED WINGS!!! LET'S GO RED WINGS!!! LET'S GO RED WINGS!!! LET'S GO CLEARY!!! LET'S GO HOSSA!!! LET'S GO DATSYUK!!!

Smells like, victory LET'S GO RED WINGS!!! LET'S GO RED WINGS!!! LET'S GO RED WINGS!!! LET'S GO RED WINGS!!! LET'S GO RED WINGS!!! LET'S GO CLEARY!!!

s***, we're heading to OT. Let's hope that Cleary ends it very early in OT. LET'S GO RED WINGS!!!

LET'S GO RED WINGS!!!

C'mon, Cleary, this is your goal to get!

LET'S GO RED WINGS!!! LET'S GO RED WINGS!!! LET'S GO RED WINGS!!! LET'S GO RED WINGS!!! LET'S GO RED WINGS!!! LET'S GO RED WINGS!!!

PP Wings, they have to capitalize on this chance NOW!!! I want the Wings to own them from now on!

Captain Clutch is my call for the GWG!

Blah, sustained pressure by the Hawks lead to the tying goal GET IT BACK, WINGS!!! LET'S GO RED WINGS!!! LET'S GO RED WINGS!!! LET'S GO RED WINGS!!! LET'S GO RED WINGS!!! LET'S GO RED WINGS!!!

LET'S GO RED WINGS!!! LET'S GO RED WINGS!!! LET'S GO RED WINGS!!! C'mon, Wings, score some more!!! You guys know how to do that!

Where's our Magnificent Insurance Agent (Helm) when we need him?