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Simon1969

A merc driver will NOT win the WDC,

Simon1969

I keep thinking back to Alonso cutting his team mate up into the pits and wonder if any agreement or instruction is relevant. Alonso is there to win. Win races and championships, and beat his team mate. IT is what he is being employed for. A quote in the link posted by O/p says it all, Alonso is as...

Simon1969

I don't drive a car, so I chose other...

I've been on two wheels since 1987.

Simon1969

It doesn't bother me. If the government wanted half of my wages to waste on pointless wars, bailing out banks etc.. I'd tell them to take a hike.

I could do much better things with my money (If I had that kind of money) and I'm sure Lewis does some fantastic and worthwhile things with his money too.

Simon1969

Still don't really understand why he left Red Bull to join a midfield team ... but whatever, I wish him luck.

Simon1969

Does anyone else find the f1 driver mimicking "for sure" as the start of a post as funny as I do? Anyway , I think bottas is definately all he is said to be which is a future world champion. Similar to hulkenberg,ricciardo and I believe grosjean given half a chance. Talent makes them capable of it ...

Simon1969

The 2nd best car and only 3 podium and best finish of 3rd when even Felipe got a 2nd place. I really not see why all the hype.Both Williams have under performed.A good driver but not world champion material IMO. 6 podiums no?? also at the first few races they defo didn't have the second best car......

Simon1969

. SO those people who watched the "red button" Forum - what did you think of Vettel's interview ? ( OR Eddie Jordon's statement re. VW in 2017 - [unsure if that was "Red Button" or ordinary programme ? ) . . you'll have to remind me... but I do remember thinking "that was a bit of a weird one" RE V...

Simon1969

The 2nd best car and only 3 podium and best finish of 3rd when even Felipe got a 2nd place. I really not see why all the hype.Both Williams have under performed.A good driver but not world champion material IMO. 6 podiums no?? also at the first few races they defo didn't have the second best car......

Simon1969

haha, thanks ... that was awesome.

Simon1969

I honestly think he's been really really good and if it wasn't for the Merc's almost total dominance he'd have been in the WDC hunt. Take the Merc's out and he'd have won four races but Ricciardo would have won six and taken the title quite comfortably 315 to Bottas 273. For sure.. but I think Ricc...

Simon1969

I honestly think he's been really really good and if it wasn't for the Merc's almost total dominance he'd have been in the WDC hunt.

Simon1969

If Button is as good as some people think he is and age is not a problem etc. then why doesn't he have any F1 offers or options available to him? The reason is obvious, the team bosses and decision makers simply aren't interested in him. The obvious reason to me is there isn't enough cars/ too many...

Simon1969

Jensons done brilliant this season but he seems emotionally crushed by whats going on around him. Even yesterday in his interview he seemed timid in his answers, where I would of been emphasizing to the public and Mclaren board the amount of dominance over my team mate and how I got Mclaren that wc...

Simon1969

I used to support Johnny Herbert, I was never under any illusion that he was one of the greats or any better than he was. It never mattered to me, I liked the guy... and I really enjoyed the few great results he had.... the win at silverstone especially. Other than that I'm more of a 'team' supporte...

Simon1969

I watched sky round a mates house, then watched BBC on iplayer later on ..... to be perfectly honest I'm not keen on either's coverage at the moment. I still haven't got over my initial dislike of Lazenby, so he kinda ruins the sky coverage for me and the BBC just hasn't been the same since the spli...

Simon1969

Valtteri ...... but as things are as they are, Lewis.

Simon1969

If it were me in charge at Williams I'd get rid of Massa and get Button instead (If McLaren don't want him)

Simon1969

Do people really think Lewis would go back to McLaren? I just don't see it myself.

Jenson and Kamui would be perfect for the marketing side of things.

Simon1969

Free To Air This would actually solve a lot of the ratings problems. Bernie was always very definite about the necessity of FTA. In fact he said losing it would be a nightmare and wrote it into the Concorde Agreement... The teams were pretty adamant too. I'm not sure what they're hoping to achieve ...

Simon1969

moby wrote:There is a saying in UK. Cut your coat accordion to your cloth.

not sure I've heard that one before!!

Simon1969

Started watching every race and considering myself 'a fan' around '94 when I moved in with a mate who used to watch and record every race on VHS to keep. I always had a passing interest before that but it was more of a 'what's on TV, oh F1, I'll watch this' kind of thing, a bit like I am with other ...

Simon1969

yeah, the problem for me is that it isn't really a forum anymore... it's just a walk down the pitlane going "and now we can hear from ......" and "now we can hear Lee talking to Jenson button" .... "and now we can take a look at the start again" etc etc. I can watch those clips on the BBC website la...

Simon1969

Floppy_Boy wrote:
Simon1969 wrote:Have Nissan ever been involved in F1?
To my knowledge, no, but Subaru have!

Have they? I never knew that.

Simon1969

Peter77 wrote:Redbull dominated 4 entire seasons

Mercedes so far has dominated 3 races.

yeah, this is it for me ... I don't mind any team having a dominating season or even 2 but when it gets to the third I get a bit bored.

Simon1969

Have Nissan ever been involved in F1?

Simon1969

I used to love crofty on the radio, I used to listen to him while I watched the BBC with the sound down .... (during the legard period)

Simon1969

zaar wrote:Although I'm definately not even close to be a fan of Alonso, but today he drove a perfect race.

Same, not being a fan I've never really appreciated (or not wanted to admit maybe) just how good he is. He's making Kimi look very average.

Simon1969

I don't really like the whole overrated/underrated thing ... but I think Ricciardo is a bloody good driver and I have no doubts about that. If he doesn't win a WDC at some point in the future I'll be suprised.

Simon1969

nothing at all even though I've been following F1 for about 20 years .... I've just never been bothered.

Simon1969

Imagine this. Hamilton way out in front in a race, and suddenly his fuel flow meter goes faulty and even when idling a stationary car it is now reporting too high a fuel flow. Everybody knows the readings have gone wrong and the meter is broken, but the only way to comply with the meter is to switc...

Simon1969

As a guess I don't see anyone getting points back ... but I'm curious to see what will happen, I might well be wrong.

Simon1969

I wonder what he will do now? Will he go somewhere else to work in F1 in some other capacity?

I'm presuming Ferrari won't give him a job doing something else....

Simon1969

mcdo wrote:Well this is awkward

cutting your nose off to spite your face .......

Simon1969

It's available to all, I just watched it....

Thanks!

Simon1969

I'd love to see Massa win WDC, it would be fantastic for so many reasons.

Simon1969

Bottas, I loved watching him drive, the fact that he hit the wall, got his car back to the pit, kept his cool and carried on charging forward says a lot to me.

Simon1969

From my understanding It's not merely a case of 'listen or else', but of the FIA's sensor being the primary method of determining fuel flow and the only one the FIA are willing to accept a reading from. Therefor it does not matter if RB's readings are 100% accurate and the FIA's are wrong, RB's rea...

Simon1969

Not sure its all Stefano. I think its much more, I think Ferrari have been too easy on how F1 mandates testing and electronics. I just think we should have better results over the last three years. There seems to be a real problem at Ferrari in moving forwards, their in season development has been ...

Simon1969

I enjoyed it.

It wasn't really any less or more than I was expecting really.

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