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[Eric]

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Kyle Busch to test F-1 car: Kyle Busch will test a Formula One car with Toyota later this year in Japan. As teams get ready for Saturday’s Sprint All-Star Challenge, Busch said Formula One is something that appeals to him, but not on the near horizon. "I'm planning on retiring at 30 and going Formula One racing,” the 23-year-old Busch said at Lowe's Motor Speedway. He also reveled his plan to drive an F1 car for the first time at the end of this year when he goes to Japan to do NASCAR exhibition runs for Toyota. "We're working on a test session right now at the end of November, or the beginning of December, sometime going to Japan and doing a little exhibition, to see what it's like," he said. "We'll take a Cup car over there too and just run around there at either Twin-Ring or somewhere like that to show them what the Cup cars are like and try to get into a Formula One car too. We'll see how well I test first, we'll see if my neck can stand the g-forces of braking and everything. I wouldn't mind. If I can do it and if I'm good at it then I'll give it a shot and try it." However, Busch admitted however that the actual racing part of F1 appeals the least to him. "It seems as though the racing isn't all that great," he said. "They get stuck in line, the aero takes over everything and Toyota is not necessarily one of those companies at the moment that's like Ferrari or McLaren, or like Renault was a couple of years ago. I don't think it's only a driver that you put in the seat that's going to make it go, you know. You need a little bit more of a car."

From the legendary Jayski's

I remember DOF said he wanted to see The Shrub in F1 because of his car control.  Well, I want to see him in F1 because I don't want to have to deal with him anymore.  He's a whiny, stuck-up punk.  I can't wait to get punks like him out of NASCAR because they don't belong.  F1 can have him, and I hope they do have him.  I want him off my hands.

I will go back on my bias policies and change my name to FUBusch and become a troll if he goes to F1.  Man, I just can't stand that guy.

[Quiet One]

Bah, I thought this was about that other dream you told me. The one where you and DOF have intercourse dressed like Barney in a swimming pool filled with marinara sauce.

[HandyNZL]

s##t - A Nascar driver that can name FOUR F1 teams!! that's practically half the grid! Lol.

30 is a bit old to start an F1 career though...looks like you're stuck with him Eric

[Eric]

HandyNZL, on May 16 2008, 04:45 PM, said:

s##t - A Nascar driver that can name FOUR F1 teams!! that's practically half the grid! Lol.

30 is a bit old to start an F1 career though...looks like you're stuck with him Eric

Well, fortunately I'd have to be paid $50/hour to watch a NA$CAR event these days, I don't have to deal with him.

[HandyNZL]

I heard he was buying into the RedSox??????

[Autumnpuma]

Though I admire Kyle's car control he doesn't have the proper 'head' for F1. He lacks too many essential skills to do more than embarrass America in an F1 car. Hell, even Danica Patrick has a better work-ethic than Kyle.

[Eric]

Autumnpuma, on May 16 2008, 07:15 PM, said:

Though I admire Kyle's car control he doesn't have the proper 'head' for F1. He lacks too many essential skills to do more than embarrass America in an F1 car. Hell, even Danica Patrick has a better work-ethic than Kyle.

He could win every ****ing Grand Prix, and he'd still embarrass America by being a childish punk with a bad attitude.  Some day, when Tony Stewart switches teams next year, Kyle Busch is going to get his a## punted.  If they weren't teammates...  Someone needs to put that bitch in his place.  He thinks he's all that a bag of chips, but he isn't.  Hasn't he noticed no one likes him?  His family doesn't even like him.  I don't even think his girlfriend likes him, after he thanked his brother's wife at the banquet instead of his own girl.  Moron.

Watch this video to see how much of a pansy Kyle is

Fighting with your helmet on?  Girl.  Getting owned by some 10-year-old kid with Tourette's while he's still in the car?  Pussy.

Edited by Eric, 17 May 2008 - 12:12 AM.

[HandyNZL]

Couldn't get that link to play Eric, so's eyes's finded it hereya

Busch...what a dork....
Wallace...you know how they say that there are complete opposites of things in the universe...matter and anti-matter....Wallace has to be the anti-Kimi...man that boy talks fast!

[DOF_power]

Let's see it on youtube.

[The Rumble Strip]

I don't see that he would be better than any of the other American's that have come into F1.

[Eric]

Team Formula One, on May 18 2008, 01:13 PM, said:

I don't see that he would be better than any of the other American's that have come into F1.

He'd be worse because he doesn't have an open wheel background.  The transition from stock cars to F1 is damn hard, just as the one from F1 to stock cars is damn hard (just ask Montoya and Villeneuve).

There are no American racers that I'd like to see in F1 currently.  I think Graham Rahal is good enough, but I want him to stay in the US.  American open wheel should not be a feeder series to grand parading.

Peter Windsor, who was biased against Scott Speed during his entire career, said that he felt that Scott Speed would've easily won races had he been with a different team.  Scott's the only F1 driver who can actually drive stock cars, too.

[DOF_power]

Still think Schumi would kiss a** in the NASCAR <ish> Cup ... with team Ferrari CUP spearheaded by Todt + Brawn + Byrne + no. 2/3/4 team-mates.

[Eric]

DOF_Renault_BMW, on May 18 2008, 04:05 PM, said:

Still think Schumi would kiss a** in the NASCAR <ish> Cup ... with team Ferrari CUP spearheaded by Todt + Brawn + Byrne + no. 2/3/4 team-mates.

He drove at Texas Motor Speedway in 2002.  Pole speed in 2002 was 194.224 mph.  Schumi barely broke 165 before he scared himself out of it.

Schumacher is a great driver, but the transition wouldn't have been any easier for him than it was for Montoya, Villeneuve, Speed, Franchitti, Hornish, Carpentier, etc.  I think Schumi, like JPM, would have an advantage over some others because he's not afraid to mix it up with the other drivers.  I think that after a year in Late Model Sportsman Budweiser Sportsman Budweiser Grand National Busch Grand National Busch Series Nationwide with some CTS and ARCA, he could turn out to be better than any of the other current transitional drivers.

I think, of all transitional drivers, you'll see the most successful were the ones from an oval background from day 1.  Tony Stewart was the 1997 IRL champion, and he came from USAC midgets.

Speaking of USAC midgets, any of you Americans out there remember Friday Night and Saturday Night Thunder on ESPN?  No?  I'm alone?

Damn shame.  The first racing I watch was USAC.  Damn, do I love midgets and sprints.

Anyway, the F1 drivers do have one advantage: they are used to a style of racing where the engineer makes decisions and driver feedback is minimal.  The veteran drivers have fallen off the map because they are used to driving by touch, feel, and sound, and in new NASCAR you're supposed to listen to your crew chief and do as they say.  The value of the driver has declined in NASCAR, and I can't stand it.

[DOF_power]

Did the same thing with a Ducati and was 15 sec. behind, then at the second trial he shaved of 10 seconds.
Ol' Schumi would dominate NASCAR the same way he dominated F1.