Saturday May 14, 2005 Random ramblings
Saturday May 14, 2005 One year to learn, one year to win; Rossi going to F1?
Rossi's contract with Yamaha finishes in 2006, and he's contemplating switchin to WRC or F1 for 2007. He raced karts as a kid, has already tested with Ferrari once and has beaten professional car racers at that annual winter charity multi-discipline rally-cross event held in Lanzarote. Presuming he switches and continues his amazing record of taking one season to learn a new class and then winning it as of his second season, his record could look like:
- 1990: Starts his bike racing career in the Italian minimoto series at age 11
- 1991: Italian minimoto Champion
- 1993: Italian production 125cc champion (Cagiva)
- 1995: European 125cc champion (Aprilia)
- 1997: Grand Prix 125cc World champion (Aprilia)
- 1999: Grand Prix 250cc World champion (Aprilia)
- 2001: Grand Prix 500cc World champion (Honda) - the last 500cc champion ever
- 2002: MotoGP World champion (Honda)
- 2003: MotoGP World champion (Honda)
- 2004: MotoGP World champion (Yamaha)
- 2005: ??? MotoGP World champion (Yamaha) ???
- 2006: ??? MotoGP World champion (Yamaha) ???
- 2008: ??? Formula 1 World champion (Ferrari) ???
(500cc class is renamed to MotoGP, and four-strokes are gifted an engine size increase, up to 990cc, as of season 2002)
If he follows the timeline above, he'll be F1 champion at age 29.
He's already in the record books as the only man who has ever (indeed, will /ever/ be, given that 500cc has been banned) been champion of all 3 of the two-stroke GP classes. Only man ever to hold all 3 classes (be it two stroke or whichever class replaces them - eg there is talk that 250cc will be replaced by a 600cc four-stroke prototype class). Can he become the second man ever to hold both the premier motorcycle and car circuit racing titles after Surtees?
Is Rossi a "mere" motorcycle racing god, or will he become the indisputable god of automotive racing full-stop? :). It will be interesting to find out!
( May 14 2005, 02:11:39 AM IST ) Permalink Comments [3]Yesterday's security research today!
Must be a slow week in security research land. First "news" that IPSec could be configured insecurely! which IPSec implementors have known about for ages and had already taken steps to ensure the user was warned if AH was not configured. Then a shock announcement that HyperThreading is harmful because it could allow a timing attack against OpenSSL RSA, an attack which has been known about for years and which has had a defence implemented in OpenSSL for only, oh over two years now.
Anyway, I'm off to browse the wayback machine now, to see if I can predict next week's shock security news...
[Update: Turns out the previous SSL RSA attack was different, so this is a new attack. A very difficult one though]
( May 14 2005, 12:37:35 AM IST ) Permalink Comments [0]
