Sports Have a story idea? Contact us at sports @theotherpress.ca @ Angry and bored Finn wins Formula One race By Aidan Mouellic, Contributor he 2012 Formula One racing season is well underway with Adu Dhabi being host to the most recent grand prix on the third of November. The 18th race of the season was held at the glorious Yas Marina circuit, a $1.3 billion racetrack located in the desert. Finnish racer Kimi Raikkonen, who drives for the Lotus-Renault team, came out on top to win the race with Ferrari’s Spaniard Fernando Alonso in second spot and current Formula One championship leader Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing in third. Kimi Raikkonen brought his typical, ‘I would rather be doing something else,’ attitude to the race and man- aged to belittle his team managers during the race who communicate to him via two-way radio. While getting a time-split from a team member in the pits, Kimi fired back, “Just leave me alone | know what I’m doing.” Later on in the race when he received a radio mes- sage from a mechanic in the pits telling Kimi to conserve his tires, Kimi responded over the radio with this quip, “Yes, yes, yes, I’m doing it all the time, just leave me alone, you don’t have to remind me every second.” No word on whether or not Raikkonen took his crew out to celebrate his win after the race. After the race, while being interviewed on the podium and asked to describe his emotions after winning his first Formula One race in four years, Kimi responded by saying he did not have many emotions after his recent victory. When asked why he had so few emotions he blamed the fans for, “Giving me shit because I didn’t smile enough the last time.” This is not the first time Kimi Raikkonen has caused controversy in the Formula One world: before his very first race in F1 his team had trouble finding him and when they finally did 30 minutes before the race, he was asleep in his trailer. Earlier in his career, he even stated on television that he had missed a podium presentation by soccer legend Pele, because he was busy “having a shit.” The 2012 Formula One season is almost over, with only two more races left. The next race will be held on November 18 in Austin, Texas with the final race of the Sonic relief for the hockey draught Punk rocks two essential albums for the hockey fanatic By Dylan Hackett, News Editor ith the NHL's lousy labour dispute holding hockey fans in a headlock, many have turned to buying their $6.50 beers at Giants games or watching any other occasional junior league broadcast. If those methods of dealing with an NHL-free winter don’t work, try jamming these classic Canadian punk rock albums recorded as a tribute to the “good ol’ hockey game.” The Hanson Brothers Sudden Death, (1996) Recorded by the alter egos of long-standing local punks, Nomeansno, The Hanson Brothers, with obvious namesake 22 from the essential hockey film, Slapshot, sound like a tongue-in-cheek tribute to hockey “bro- dom” distilled through the simplicity of the Ramones. On Sudden Death, they open witha double-tempo cover of Canada’s second national anthem, Stompin’ Tom Connors’ “The Hockey Song,” with the mock announcer voice in the song (“secund’ peerud’”) replaced with a voice closer to Eric Cartman from South Park than Jim Hughson—tacky, but fitting. The rest of the album sounds like Screeching Weasel with more testosterone. The track “Rink Rat” is the best example of this with its charming chorus lines that’ll take you back to your unrequited rink fantasies as a 14-year old. “I’m in love with the hot dog girl/I’m in love with the popcorn girl/I’m in love with the ticket girl,” sings front- man Johnny Hanson. The album is full of charming, chuckle- worthy lyrics from end to end. “Stick Boy” opens with “I got no name or number/I just hand out the lumber,” an anthem for benchwarmers across the country. The album is a much overlooked piece of Canadiana— think Trailer Park Boys raised on Ramones and Dead Kennedys. D.O.A. and Thor Are U Ready (2003) Are U Ready is a deadly pact between Vancouver’s most legendary punk band, D.O.A., and the city’s most legendary heavy metal act, Thor. The split consists of groups going track-for-track on a dozen songs, self-described on the back cover to be “Incredible sporting tunes!” The self-titled album opener performed by D.O.A. was actually played at Canucks games for a while upon release. I reckon it was a welcome break from constant barrage of Nickelback and Gary Glitter. This album belongs in the hockey rink. Thor’s track, “Gladiator Stomp” is designed to be a between-plays chant, and likely would be that for the Canucks if “Go Canucks Go” didn’t exist as the go-to refrain. There was also a familial tie to that track—my uncle season on November 25 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Kimi Raikkonen is out of the race with only 198 points to his name and only two races to go—mathematically, he is no longer eligible. The 2012 Formula One world champion will be either Fernando Alonso or Sebastien Vettel. Vettel, the German driver for Red Bull, is leading the championship standings with 255 points, 10 more points than Alonso. There is a lot on the line the next two races for these two leading drivers and their respected teams. played the organ on it. D.O.A.’s best number on the disk is “Beat ‘Em, Bust “Em”, a rally-cry for enforcers everywhere. The line “You gotta smash them in the teeth at least once or twice” sounds a lot less goony over the major key tune. The track would sound a lot scarier if it were shouted out by Thor himself, a champion bodybuilder known for bending metal at shows.