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Happy birthday, Steve!

Mosely's son found dead FIA's statement of condolence to the Mosely family As much as many F1 fans here don't like Mosely's leadership and proposals, or how one views the BDSM scandal he was in several years ago, no one deserves this. Thoughts and prayers goes to the Mosely family and friends.

Oh f*** it. Wings lose 4-3 in 3OT. Series tied 1 each. At least we'll clinch it at home this time

LET'S GO RED WINGS!!!!! My prediction: Franzen is going to get tired of this s*** and blast one from the center line and score 1 minute in 3OT. Hiller will fall over and not get up, not because he's hurt, but because he's tired and needed a nap LET'S GO RED WINGS!!!!!

Let's Go Red Wings!!! Mule for the game winning goal!

Brawn GP won't receive Honda commercial money The FIA had ruled that Brawn GP is a completely new entry as opposed to being a renamed entity, thus why the Brawn cars are numbered 22 and 23 as opposed to the numbers 18 and 19 that were the Honda cars last years. If FOTA can't come to an agreement on how to divide the money, reported to be up to 20 million pounds (about 29.8 million US dollars), then Bernie gets to keep the money, which would go to service CVC Capital's debt from when they bought the rights to Formula 1 (which was bought for several BILLION dollars, thus explaining a lot of Bernie's financial decisions regarding Formula One ).

With they way the NHL has been saying that they want to crack down on hits to the head and such, I would have thought they would have suspended Brown for at least one game. That much I feel is deserved, but lo and behold, the NHL is consistent in their inconsistency. What a surprise. Oh well, I don't like the decision, but at least Cluckles wasn't knocked out of the rest of the game/playoffs, though, so I guess that's one positive I can take from this. Let's finish the Ducks quickly, before they hurt any more of our players.

McLaren given a suspended 3 race ban McLaren is going to be on their utmost good behavior from now until April next year, I can guarantee you that. Unless they shoot themselves in the foot, again.

Bahrain Results: 1) Jenson Button, Brawn-Mercedes 2) Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull-Renault 3) Jarno Trulli, Toyota 4) Lewis Hamilton, Mclaren-Mercedes 5) Rubens Barrichello, Brawn-Mercedes 6) Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari 7) Timo Glock, Toyota 8) Fernando Alonso, Renault 9) Nico Rosberg, Williams-Toyota 10) Nelson Piquet Jr, Renault 11) Mark Webber, RedBull-Renault 12) Heikki Kovalainen, McLaren-Mercedes 13) Sebastien Bourdais, Toro Rosso-Ferrari 14) Felipe Massa, Ferrari 15) Giancarlo Fisichella, Force Inda-Mercedes 16) Adrian Sutil, Force India-Mercedes 17) Sebastien Buemi, Toro Rosso-Ferrari 18) Robert Kubica, BMW Sauber 19) Nick Heidfeld, BMW Sauber Ret) Kazuki Nakajima, Williams-Toyota (Oil pressure) Driver's Championship Standings: 1) Jenson Button: 31 2) Rubens Barrichello: 19 3) Sebastian Vettel: 18 4) Jarno Trulli: 14.5 5) Timo Glock: 12 6) Mark Webber: 9.5 7) Lewis Hamilton: 9 8) Fernando Alonso: 5 9) Nick Heidfeld: 4 10) Heikki Kovalainen: 4 11) Nico Rosberg: 3.5 12) Kimi Raikkonen: 3 13) Sebastien Buemi: 3 14) Sebastien Bourdais: 1 15) Felipe Massa: 0 16) Adrian Sutil: 0 17) Nelson Piquet Jr: 0 18) Giancarlo Fisichella: 0 19) Kazuki Nakajima: 0 20) Robert Kubica: 0 Constructor's Championship Standings: 1) Brawn-Mercedes: 50 2) Red Bull-Renault: 27.5 3) Toyota: 26.5 4) McLaren-Mercedes: 13 5) Renault: 5 6) BMW Sauber: 4 7) Toro Rosso-Ferrari: 4 8) Williams-Toyota: 3.5 9) Ferrari: 3 10) Force India-Mercedes: 0 McLaren's hearing before the WMSC is April 29th.

Race Results: 1) Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull-Renault 2) Mark Webber, Red Bull-Renault 3) Jenson Button, Brawn-Mercedes 4) Rubens Barrichello, Brawn-Mercedes 5) Heikki Kovalainen, McLaren-Mercedes 6) Lewis Hamilton, McLaren-Mercedes 7) Timo Glock, Toyota 8) Sebastian Buemi, Toro Rosso-Ferrari 9) Fernando Alonso, Renault 10) Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari 11) Sebastien Bourdais, Toro Rosso-Ferrari 12) Nick Heidfeld, BMW Sauber 13) Robert Kubica, BMW Sauber 14) Giancarlo Fisichella, Force India-Mercedes 15) Nico Rosberg, Williams-Toyota 16) Nelson Piquet Jr, Renault 17) Adrian Sutil, Force India-Mercedes (Accident) Ret) Kazuki Nakajima, Williams-Toyota (Transmission) Ret) Felipe Massa, Ferrari (Electrical) Ret) Jarno Trulli, Toyota (Accident damage) Driver's Championship Standings: 1) Jenson Button, 21 2) Rubens Barrichello, 15 3) Sebastian Vettel, 10 4) Timo Glock, 10 5) Mark Webber, 9.5 6) Jarno Trulli, 8.5 7) Nick Heidfeld, 4 8) Fernando Alonso, 4 9) Heikki Kovalainen, 4 10) Lewis Hamilton, 4 11) Nico Rosberg, 3.5 12) Sebastien Buemi, 3 13) Sebastien Bourdais, 1 14) Adrian Sutil, 0 15) Felipe Massa, 0 16) Kimi Raikkonen, 0 17) Giancarlo Fisichella, 0 18) Kazuki Nakajima, 0 19) Robert Kubica, 0 20) Nelson Piquet Jr, 0 Constructor's Championship Standings: 1) Brawn-Mercedes, 36 2) Red Bull-Renault, 19.5 3) Toyota, 18.5 4) McLaren-Mercedes, 8 5) BMW Sauber, 4 6) Renault, 4 7) Toro Rosso-Ferrari, 4 8) Williams-Toyota, 3.5 9) Ferrari, 0 10) Force India-Mercedes, 0 Next race: Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday, April 26th.

Qualifying results: 1) Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull-Renault 2) Fernando Alonso, Renault 3) Mark Webber, Red Bull-Renault 4) Rubens Barrichello, Brawn-Mercedes 5) Jenson Button, Brawn-Mercedes 6) Jarno Trulli, Toyota 7) Nico Rosberg, Williams-Toyota 8) Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari 9) Lewis Hamilton, McLaren-Mercedes 10) Sebastien Buemi, Toro Rosso-Ferrari 11) Nick Heidfeld, BMW Sauber 12) Heikki Kovalainen, McLaren-Mercedes 13) Felipe Massa, Ferrari 14) Timo Glock, Toyota 15) Kazuki Nakajima, Williams-Toyota 16) Sebastien Bourdais, Toro Rosso-Ferrari 17) Nelsin Piquet Jr, Renault 18) Robert Kubica, BMW Sauber 19) Adrian Sutil, Force India-Mercedes 20) Giancarlo Fisichella, Force India-Mercedes

Legal The matter is now closed. On to Shanghai!

McLaren called to appear before the WMSC And in true Obama-like fashion, McLaren threw someone under the bus regarding this case: McLaren's press release on Dave Ryan's involvement in Australia GP controversy McLaren's press release regarding the WMSC's invitation

World Driver Points (highlight to read): 1) Jenson Button, Brawn-Mercedes: 15 2) Rubens Barrichello, Brawn-Mercedes: 10 3) Jarno Trulli, Toyota: 8.5 4) Timo Glock, Toyota: 8 5) Nick Heidfeld, BMW Sauber: 4 6) Fernando Alonso, Renault: 4 7) Nico Rosberg, Williams-Toyota: 3.5 8) Sebastien Buemi, Toro Rosso-Ferrari: 2 9) Mark Webber, Red Bull-Renault: 1.5 10) Lewis Hamilton, McLaren-Mercedes: 1 11) Sebastien Bourdais, Toro Rosso-Ferrari: 1 12) Adrian Sutil, Force India-Mercedes: 0 13) Felipe Massa, Ferrari: 0 14) Giancarlo Fisichella, Force India-Mercedes: 0 15) Kazuki Nakajima, Williams-Toyota: 0 16) Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull-Renault: 0 17) Nelson Piquet Jr, Renault: 0 18) Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari: 0 19) Robert Kubica, BMW Sauber: 0 20) Heikki Kovalainen, McLaren-Mercedes: 0 World Constructor's Points (highlight to read): 1) Brawn-Mercedes: 25 2) Toyota: 16.5 3) BMW Sauber: 4 4) Renault: 4 5) Williams-Toyota: 3.5 6) Toro Rosso-Ferrari: 3 7) Red Bull-Renault: 1.5 8) McLaren-Mercedes: 1 9) Force India-Mercedes: 0 10) Ferrari: 0 Next Race will the the Chinese Grand Prix on April 19th. On April 14th, the International Court of Appeals will hear the appeals from Ferrari, Red Bull, Renault, and BMW Sauber over the design of the diffusers from the Brawn, Toyota, and Williams teams. The protests involve the diffusers having more volume due to taking advantage of a gray area in the rules regarding the diffuser and the rear crash structure. If the ICoA rules the diffusers legal, then the matter will end and the other teams may try to come up with a trick diffuser like Toyota, Brawn, and Williams. Not sure of the decision can be appealed further, though. If the ICoA rules the diffusers illegal, then one of several things can happen: *The three teams (Brawn, Toyota, and Williams) will be disqualified from the fist two races *The results from the first two races will remain unchanged, but there may be a point deduction *Like the mass damper issue from a few years ago, nothing will happen to past race results or the points I'm sure there are other options that can be exercised, but that's all I have at the top of my head.

Race results (highlight to read): 1) Jenson Button, Brawn-Mercedes 2) Nick Heidfeld, BMW Sauber 3) Timo Glock, Toyota 4) Jarno Trulli, Toyota 5) Rubens Barrichello, Brawn-Mercedes 6) Mark Webber, Red Bull-Renault 7) Lewis Hamilton, McLaren-Mercedes 8) Nico Rosberg, Williams-Toyota 9) Felipe Massa, Ferrari 10) Sebastien Bourdais, Toro Rosso-Ferrari 11) Fernando Alonso, Renault 12) Kazuki Nakajima, Williams-Toyota 13) Nelson Piquet, Renault 14) Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari 15) Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull-Renault 16) Sebastien Buemi, Toro Rosso-Ferrari 17) Adrian Sutil, Force India-Mercedes 18) Giancarlo Fisichella, Force India-Mercedes 19) Robert Kubica, BMW Sauber 20) Heikki Kovalainen, McLaren-Mercedes The race was cut short due to rain before the 75% mark of the race, so half points will be awarded. I'll post the points later when I'm not as tired as I am now

Qualifying results (highlight to read): 1) Jenson Button, Brawn-Mercedes 2) Jarno Trulli, Toyota 3) Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull-Renault 4) Rubens Barrichello, Brawn-Mercedes 5) Timo Glock, Toyota 6) Nico Rosberg, Williams-Toyota 7) Mark Webber, Red Bull-Renault 8) Robert Kubica, BMW Sauber 9) Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari 10) Fernando Alonso, Renault 11) Nick Heidfeld, BMW Sauber 12) Kazuki Nakajima, Williams-Toyota 13) Lewis Hamilton, McLaren-Mercedes 14) Heikki Kovalainen, McLaren-Mercedes 15) Sebastien Bourdais, Toro Rosso-Ferrari 16) Felipe Massa, Ferrari 17) Nelson Piquet Jr, Renault 18) Giancarlo Fisichella, Force India-Mercedes 19) Adrian Sutil, Force India-Mercedes 20) Sebastien Buemi, Toro Rosso-Ferrari

As the wheel turns in this soap opera called Formula One... When was the last time someone was disqualified from a season in F1? I know the Tyrrell team was nailed about a controversy about their water system back in the 70s/80s, but I can't recall any other situation.

You bet I will I've been getting up early for F1 races for a few years now, so it isn't any real problem for me. And of note from this weekend's race: http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2009/4/9128.html The regulations state that the gearbox must last 4 race weekends. And now the Driver's points standings after the first race (unofficial until after 14 April ) 1) Jenson Button, Brawn-Mercedes: 10 2) Rubens Barrichello, Brawn-Mercedes: 8 3) Jarno Trulli, Toyota: 6 4) Timo Glock, Toyota: 5 5) Fernando Alonso, Renault: 4 6) Nico Rosberg, Williams-Toyota: 3 7) Sebastien Buemi, Toro Rosso-Ferrari: 2 8) Sebastien Bourdais, Toro Rosso-Ferrari: 1 9) Adrian Sutil, Force India-Mercedes: 0 10) Nick Heidfeld, BMW Sauber: 0 11) Giancarlo Fisichella, Force India-Mercedes: 0 12) Mark Webber, Red Bull-Renault: 0 13) Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull-Renault: 0 14) Robert Kubica, BMW Sauber: 0 15) Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari: 0 16) Felipe Massa, Ferrari: 0 17) Nelson Piquet, Renault: 0 18) Kazuki Nakajima, Williams-Toyota: 0 19) Heikki Kovalainen, McLaren-Mercedes: 0 20) Lewis Hamilton, McLaren-Mercedes: 0 Constructor's Points (unofficial until after 14 April ) 1) Brawn-Mercedes: 18 2) Toyota: 11 3) Renault: 4 4) Williams-Toyota: 3 5) Toro Rosso-Ferrari: 3 6) Force India-Mercedes: 0 7) BMW Sauber: 0 8) Red Bull-Renault: 0 9) Ferrari: 0 10) McLaren-Mercedes: 0

Oh boy... Apparently, McLaren and Hamilton misled the stewards regarding the Trulli/Hamilton incident, where Trulli spun off the track and Hamilton passed him, but then allowed Trulli back by, fearing a penalty from the stewards. Revised results: 1) Jenson Button, Brawn-Mercedes 2) Rubens Barrichello, Brawn-Mercedes 3) Jarno Trulli, Toyota 4) Timo Glock, Toyota 5) Fernando Alonso, Renault 6) Nico Rosberg, Williams-Toyota 7) Sebastien Buemi, Toro Rosso-Ferrari 8) Sebastien Bourdais, Toro Rosso-Ferrari 9) Adrian Sutil, Force India-Mercedes 10) Nick Heidfeld, BMW Sauber 11) Giancarlo Fisichella, Force India-Mercedes 12) Mark Webber, Red Bull-Renault 13) Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull-Renault (accident) 14) Robert Kubica, BMW Sauber (accident) 15) Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari (differential) 16) Felipe Massa, Ferrari (suspension) 17) Nelson Piquet Jr, Renault (spun off) 18) Kazuki Nakajima, Williams-Toyota (accident) 19) Heikki Kovalainen, McLaren-Mercedes (crash damage) 20) Lewis Hamilton, McLaren-Mercedes (disqualified)

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=414808

Race results: 1) Jenson Button, Brawn-Mercedes 2) Rubens Barrichello, Brawn-Mercedes 3) Lewis Hamilton, McLaren-Mercedes 4) Timo Glock, Toyota 5) Fernando Alonso, Renault 6) Nico Rosberg, Williams-Toyota 7) Sebastien Buemi, Toro Rosso-Ferrari 8) Sebastien Bourdais, Toro Rosso-Ferrari 9) Adrian Sutil, Force India-Mercedes 10) Nick Heidfeld, BMW Sauber 11) Giancarlo Fisichella, Force India-Mercedes 12) Jarno Trulli, Toyota* 13) Mark Webber, Red Bull-Renault 14) Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull-Renault (Accident) 15) Robert Kubica, BMW Sauber (Accident) 16) Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari (Differential) 17) Felipe Massa, Ferrari (Suspension) 18) Nelson Piquet, Renault (Spin) 19) Kazuki Nakajima, Williams-Toyota (Accident) 20) Heikki Kovalainen, McLaren-Mercedes (Accident damage) * Jarno Trulli was penalized 25 seconds after passing under the safety car period near the end of the race. Sebastian Vettel has been penalized 10 grid spot for the next race after his crash with Robert Kubica near the end of the race. Vettel and Red Bull Racing were also fined $50,000 for driving around with a damaged car for two laps before he parked it. Amazing race overall!

Qualifying results 1) Jenson Button, Brawn-Mercedes 2) Rubens Barrichello, Brawn-Mercedes 3) Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull-Renault 4) Robert Kubica, BMW Sauber 5) Nico Rosberg, Williams-Toyota 6) Felipe Massa, Ferrari 7) Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari 8) Mark Webber, Red Bull-Renault 9) Nicke Heidfeld, BMW-Sauber 10) Fernando Alonso, Renault 11) Kazuki Nakajima, Williams-Toyota 12) Heikki Kovalainen, McLaren-Mercedes 13) Sebastien Buemi, Toro Rosso-Ferrari 14) Nelson Piquet Jr, Renault 15) Giancarlo Fisichella, Force India-Mercedes 16) Adrian Sutil, Force India-Mercedes 17) Sebastien Bourdais, Toro Rosso-Ferrari 18) Lewis Hamilton, McLaren-Mercedes+ 19) Timo Glock, Toyota* 20) Jarno Trulli, Toyota* *Penalized after qualifying. + Changed gearbox, incurred 5 grid spot penalty for the race. Full qualifying results here: http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2009/805/6602/ EDIT: The Toyotas were sent to the back of the grid for violation of Article 3.15, which the rear wing element was showing extreme flexing. Also, Lewis Hamilton will start 18th after changing his gearbox. The engineers decided to change it after 4th gear broke during qualifying and are being cautious.

Not sure who this ******* team is, but that wasn't the Red Wings that the Islanders beat. No one bothered to show up in this game until it was too ******* late. Shame on this team for this pathetic game against the worst team in the league. They better be fired up and win the rest of the games this season and win the Cup, again.

We need to capitalize on these chances and finish them.

Ugh, Cleary hit with goalie interference. Wings PK.