Fairly bang-on, the race was definitely better than expected and to be honest I don’t think any F1 fan likes Valencia.
As for Versus, a decent job in the booth and the pits, but I think they need a new director for the road street races and they cut away from so many passing maneuvers only to show them as replays 20 seconds later

Right now, it’s not just the circuits, but also the cars that need to be fixed. They just have too much aerodynamics and too little speed to facilitate decent amounts of overtaking.

And I agree, the battles in the midfield were pretty exciting. I never once felt the race was stagnating, there was always something exciting to see. And kudos to the Versus production team, the coverage was really enjoyable. Just cut back on those commercials, they were excruciating! I live in Eastern Europe (don’t ask how I get to see Versus), so the style and frequency of the adverts was really painful.

Anyhow, it was a good race. Compared to the Valencia F1 race that was ran earlier the same day… now THAT was a snooze-fest!

Perhaps this is my unusual sense of humor or fascination with Viso, but that segment was one of the funniest I have seen in a while.

Versus-as always, good.

As to the race, the last few laps were excellent, the lack of passing notwithstanding. Lots of slicing, dicing, spinning and saving. The first part of the race was sooo boring that I did, in fact, fall asleep.

I am glad to get back into oval racing for the stretch run to the title. There are more opportunities for a sleeper to come into and break up0 the championship derby.