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by minchy
Sun Mar 13, 2022 11:53 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Drive to Survive
Replies: 26
Views: 3886

Re: Drive to Survive

Finished the season off now. My main takeaway was that Mazapin's dad came across as a massive (insert 4 letter word here) and Nikita himself just a massive daddy's boy who was there because he could be. If almost makes you appreciate Lance and Lawrence Stroll having a slightly more mature relationsh...
by minchy
Mon Aug 16, 2021 1:53 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: The Official Formula E Thread
Replies: 82
Views: 6687

Re: Formula E

Regardless of any of formula e's issues, I enjoy most of the races (although London this year was awful!) and I really liked that they finished the season off with a championship podium after the race podium.
by minchy
Sun Jun 20, 2021 8:59 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: American grand prix.
Replies: 2
Views: 642

Re: American grand prix.

What the actual..... It's people's attitudes like yours which is why Britain has been on par with the US as to how badly the UK has coped over the past 18 with cases and deaths. It's not all the government's fault. This sentiment is harmful to the population and really doesn't have a place being a t...
by minchy
Sun Apr 04, 2021 4:47 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Extreme E in the desert - Live!
Replies: 24
Views: 2707

Re: Extreme E in the desert - Live!

I didn't see it being turned into a proxy war between Hamilton and Rosberg. They mentioned it when the teams were competing but didn't make a thing out of it. It's what commentators are supposed to do, give it a bit more intrigue with some back story. I don't know what to think overall. I liked the ...
by minchy
Fri Feb 05, 2021 3:36 pm
Forum: Hall of Fame
Topic: P-F1 Mod Retirement Thread (9 long years...)
Replies: 63
Views: 38529

Re: 9 long years...

I've not been active for a while now so only just seen this thread. I echo what everyone else has said and wish you a nice peaceful retirement without all the stress of us internet users! Since I joined (after the past issues that you took over from) I've always said to people that this forum is a g...
by minchy
Fri Feb 05, 2021 3:29 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: The Official Gaming Thread
Replies: 1941
Views: 877397

Re: The Official Gaming Thread

Anyone playing animal crossing? It's kept me sane these past 2 months. Also I platinumed the original final fantasy 7 on the ps4 within a week, my god the fast forward and the no loading times on the ps4 were amazing! I've been on it since the first lockdown too. I'm furloughed again so I've been b...
by minchy
Sat Apr 11, 2020 11:22 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Official Coronavirus Discussion thread
Replies: 464
Views: 118234

Re: Official Coronavirus Discussion thread

My brother has lived in China for 11 years now and 5 years in another stint previously, so he is used to how China works and accepts it as the norm now.
by minchy
Sat Apr 11, 2020 4:17 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Official Coronavirus Discussion thread
Replies: 464
Views: 118234

Re: Official Coronavirus Discussion thread

Damn I'm posting a lot this afternoon! I've just this second seen a post online from the brother saying that his wife's brother-in-law passed away last night (didn't specify if it was coronavirus related or not) in Guangzhou and his son was allowed to leave Hong Kong to go to his funeral but has now...
by minchy
Sat Apr 11, 2020 3:59 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Official Coronavirus Discussion thread
Replies: 464
Views: 118234

Re: Official Coronavirus Discussion thread

Another factor in China and the slower spread of the virus is simply the extreme poverty that most of the population are loving in. Outside the cities there is very little movement of people and not much movement between cities. You have to be fairly well off or work for the government to even consi...
by minchy
Sat Apr 11, 2020 3:25 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Official Coronavirus Discussion thread
Replies: 464
Views: 118234

Re: Official Coronavirus Discussion thread

Alien, I wasn't responding to your post directly as an example. I'm well aware of how massive China is and that Wuhan may as well be a different country to Jiangsu province. I was simply giving a rough idea of timescale for things to begin returning to normal. Having said that, I have been told that...
by minchy
Sat Apr 11, 2020 2:47 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Official Coronavirus Discussion thread
Replies: 464
Views: 118234

Re: Official Coronavirus Discussion thread

My brother lives in Nanjing and for timing reference for the lockdown, my niece started a school again today after being closed since Chinese New year began (25th January). Although they didn't confirm school closures until a week later during the new year holidays.
by minchy
Thu Apr 09, 2020 4:18 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Silverstone in reverse.
Replies: 20
Views: 10711

Re: Silverstone in reverse.

I'm now imagining Becketts and Maggots in reverse - fast flowing corners getting faster and faster all the way :)
by minchy
Thu Apr 09, 2020 11:44 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Official Coronavirus Discussion thread
Replies: 464
Views: 118234

Re: Official Coronavirus Discussion thread

Seriously there is no basis for this. In order to affect a change in molecular structure the radiation has to have sufficent energy to break chemical bonds. 5G signals can do this, neither can they penetrate the skin to allow a virus to pass into the body. They are too weak. There is a more complet...
by minchy
Wed Apr 08, 2020 7:23 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Official Coronavirus Discussion thread
Replies: 464
Views: 118234

Re: Official Coronavirus Discussion thread

Mercedes has switched over their entire engine facility to manufacturing their modified CPAP devices for now: https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/148935/mercedes-hpp-repurposed-to-aid-covid19-fight What I found most impressive from the article was this bit: Mark II of the device has reduced oxygen co...
by minchy
Wed Apr 08, 2020 6:12 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Official Coronavirus Discussion thread
Replies: 464
Views: 118234

Re: Official Coronavirus Discussion thread

You gonna back any of them claims up? These are not my claims, this comes from Australia who are all out gunning for China. Go to 2:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn78Gx8Kwu0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKmUxSlOoUE Those are 2 videos of opinions and speculation. I'm sorry, but if that is wh...
by minchy
Wed Apr 08, 2020 11:51 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Official Coronavirus Discussion thread
Replies: 464
Views: 118234

Re: Official Coronavirus Discussion thread

What impresses me with that article is that they've made the design fully available to anyone. Can't imagine many another companies that would do that and not try to hog production contracts to themselves.
by minchy
Sun Apr 05, 2020 2:13 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: You're a trooper Bernie
Replies: 3
Views: 5132

Re: You're a trooper Bernie

Is this accurate?

I saw it reported on an F1 site (can't remember which one) and thought it must be an April Fool! But it was dated 2nd April so wasn't sure.
by minchy
Sun Apr 05, 2020 2:11 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Official Coronavirus Discussion thread
Replies: 464
Views: 118234

Re: Official Coronavirus Discussion thread

Have to say I was amazed at the restraint of the Openreach engineer, to say they will be responsible for killing their parents with the phrase. "bye bye mama" is deplorable. I notice she doesn't show her face! Incredibly she sounds educated and actually believes what she is saying. I would have tol...
by minchy
Tue Mar 17, 2020 6:58 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Drive To Survive season 2
Replies: 41
Views: 23662

Re: Drive To Survive season 2

If you still can't find it, try downloading the Netflix app through the windows store or appstore, I always found it a bit more user friendly that their website.
by minchy
Sun Mar 15, 2020 7:58 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Drive To Survive season 2
Replies: 41
Views: 23662

Re: Drive To Survive season 2

Just finished season 2, just as good as season 1, if not better! You get so much more emotion and connectivity to the driver, team principals etc than with the usual TV coverage. Really well edited so as not to be biased, give you behind the scenes stories but also not be detrimental to anyone. 1 th...
by minchy
Sun Mar 08, 2020 9:31 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: London suggestions please
Replies: 40
Views: 37734

Re: London suggestions please

Dunno if you're back in the states yet Blake, but let us Brits know if you enjoyed yourself and what you did. Always good to hear a foreigner's perspective of our cold, wet, flooded, windy, possibly snowy land :)

(And feel to complain about the weather while you were here, we love of bit of that!)
by minchy
Wed Jan 01, 2020 12:21 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: happy new year
Replies: 2
Views: 12639

happy new year

I've not been very active on the forum this year (just reading all the arguments you guys/gals have all been having!), but happy new year to all of you! :)
by minchy
Tue Dec 31, 2019 3:57 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Sir Lewis Hamilton
Replies: 52
Views: 10513

Re: Sir Lewis Hamilton

Alienturnedhuman wrote:
pc27b wrote:obviously i have heard about people being "knighted" other than the "sir" what does the title bring ? honestly curious, because i never thought about it before
It will mean he can move two rows forward and a slot to the side of his qualifying position.
:D
by minchy
Sun Dec 29, 2019 11:47 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: London suggestions please
Replies: 40
Views: 37734

Re: London suggestions please

If I remember from last time I went to Windsor, there isn't much there other than the castle and lego land, and I don't know what access there is for tourists to the castle? But Woking to Hethrow should be an easy drive in a hire car (M25 traffic depending). (when I went to Windsor I was playing wit...
by minchy
Fri Dec 27, 2019 10:11 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: London suggestions please
Replies: 40
Views: 37734

Re: London suggestions please

Probably not the suggestion you want, but get out of London! Try Bath or York or somewhere instead :) Minchy, I could go for that, but I suspect my brother might prefer the landmarks. Are Bath and York reasonable day trips from Heathrow? Both are a short(ish) train ride from London and both have a ...
by minchy
Fri Dec 27, 2019 3:35 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: London suggestions please
Replies: 40
Views: 37734

Re: London suggestions please

Probably not the suggestion you want, but get out of London! Try Bath or York or somewhere instead :)
by minchy
Mon Dec 23, 2019 2:42 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Rank the 2019 Circuits
Replies: 40
Views: 9092

Re: Rank the 2019 Circuits

Looks like mikeyg123 is personally keeping Monaco out of the bottom 3 :D
by minchy
Thu Aug 08, 2019 11:08 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: The Tripod of F1
Replies: 43
Views: 12486

Re: The Tripod of F1

It's a strange question, because it depends how you define fastest. They're really not the fastest cars in terms of out right top speed by a long shot, but they are the fasted round almost any track that isn't an oval (although, I'd love to see the lap time at Le Mans compared to an LMP1 class). For...
by minchy
Tue Aug 06, 2019 8:29 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: It's not the car, it's Lewis!
Replies: 232
Views: 45292

Re: It's not the car, it's Lewis!

Not sure if someone else has pointed this out, but as the OP is averaging out the past 3 seasons showing the points difference between Hamilton and Bottas. Let's assume that Hamilton wins and Bottas is 2nd - divide Hamilton's points haul by the 25 for winning and Bottas's by 17 for coming 2nd and th...
by minchy
Thu Aug 01, 2019 2:37 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: The TV Thread
Replies: 693
Views: 457911

Re: The TV Thread

Stranger Things 3 didn't disappoint, it had a little of the customary Netflix preachyness, but to be fair, women's rights in the 80's were shocking and it was fairly accurate to how women were treated in the workplace and should be a bit of an eye opener to see for anyone who didn't live through tha...
by minchy
Thu Aug 01, 2019 2:24 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: 2019 Hungarian Grand Prix Free Practice & Qualifying Thread
Replies: 147
Views: 34651

Re: 2019 Hungarian Grand Prix Free Practice & Qualifying Thr

I don't know much about engineering or tensile strength etc, but that new suspension looks like it'll come apart from the little wheel bang or hard hit curb!
by minchy
Thu Aug 01, 2019 2:20 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Renault at 1000bhp ?
Replies: 40
Views: 12483

Re: Renault at 1000bhp ?

Maybe they have smaller horses in France than Italy, Germany or Japan?
by minchy
Thu Aug 01, 2019 2:15 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Hamilton won't allow Netfilx to use German GP footage
Replies: 33
Views: 8937

Re: Hamilton won't allow Netfilx to use German GP footage

I agree that not having Ferrari and Mercedes made the first season better with focusing on the midfield, if you watch the sport anyway, we see plenty of Ferrari and Merc in race weekend footage as it is! Having said that, if Ferrari and Mercedes are to take part, it really should be warts and all, e...
by minchy
Thu Aug 01, 2019 1:01 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Who will be Hamilton's main challenger for the 2019 title?
Replies: 51
Views: 11826

Re: Who will be Hamilton's main challenger for the 2019 titl

It should be Bottas, but after the Verstappen and redbull's recent form I'm thinking that Max may well be 2nd this year. I think it comes down to Bottas's mind set after the Spa and if he either has a new contract with Mercedes which may relieve some tension and let him concentrate on driving better...
by minchy
Mon Jul 29, 2019 4:28 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Is Vettel finished?
Replies: 211
Views: 39594

Re: Is Vettel finished?

I personally don't rate Vettel that highly and have been thinking since this thread came into being that maybe his time as Ferrari's no.1 was over, but credit where it's due, he drove a great race today when it mattered. We'll just have to wait and see if it continues.
by minchy
Wed Jul 03, 2019 12:59 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Should Verstappen get a penalty for his overtake on Leclerc?
Replies: 393
Views: 87057

Re: Should Verstappen get a penalty for his overtake on LeCl

My take on the whole thing is simply that what Max did (and it was Max taking a wide line that caused the contact) is acceptable within the rules as they stand , but that these rules are ambiguous and should be changed to make this against the rules. There are very distict rules regarding leaving s...
by minchy
Wed Jul 03, 2019 12:24 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Should Verstappen get a penalty for his overtake on Leclerc?
Replies: 393
Views: 87057

Re: Should Verstappen get a penalty for his overtake on LeCl

My take on the whole thing is simply that what Max did (and it was Max taking a wide line that caused the contact) is acceptable within the rules as they stand, but that these rules are ambiguous and should be changed to make this against the rules. There are very distict rules regarding leaving spa...
by minchy
Sun Jun 23, 2019 12:26 pm
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: FORMULA E: Season 5 [Everything's new!]
Replies: 227
Views: 88263

Re: FORMULA E: Season 5 [Everything's new!]

Just caught up on the Bern race and WOW! What an amazing race! Shame about the first lap, but that's a lot to do with the track design and that stupidly tight chicane on the start straight. Amazing racing between JEV and Evans right through though and a couple of really great overtakes from Bird an...
by minchy
Sun Jun 23, 2019 7:22 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: FORMULA E: Season 5 [Everything's new!]
Replies: 227
Views: 88263

Re: FORMULA E: Season 5 [Everything's new!]

Just caught up on the Bern race and WOW! What an amazing race! Shame about the first lap, but that's a lot to do with the track design and that stupidly tight chicane on the start straight. Amazing racing between JEV and Evans right through though and a couple of really great overtakes from Bird and...
by minchy
Tue Jun 04, 2019 11:12 am
Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
Topic: Watched the Mario Andretti TV show,how is he viewed as an F1
Replies: 23
Views: 10424

Re: Watched the Mario Andretti TV show,how is he viewed as a

The 1980 year literally killed him..... I really hate to be a pedant, but that line "literally" made me doubt my entire recollection of F1 history for about a second! :) Depends whether it's being used in a formal way, or an informal way. Most dictionaries now recognise it's informal use. Used for ...