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Davidbl

First of all I don't take it for granted that everyone knows what a black and orange flag is so a quick explanation. It signals to the driver from the FIA that a driver should return to their pit because they have damage to their car. It does not mean they are disqualified. So I suggest this flag is...

Davidbl

I do think there is some (a lot of) truth in the fact that the FIA seemed to have encouraged contact between competitiors. Earlier in the year we had Vettel effictively using his car as a weapon and yet in the interview afterwards said: "F1 is for grown-ups." Yet driving into a title rival on purpos...

Davidbl

1995 is a year that no one has mentioned but there were some really good races in that year Spa and Nurburgring being two of the best ones.

Davidbl

Hamilton now becomes the 3rd most successful driver in F1 history. Behind Schumacher and Fangio? Yep. Of course its not just about the numbers but at whatever stat you look at it is clear that Hamilton is now near the top of every list, 3rd in most world championships, 2nd most wins, most pole posi...

Davidbl

Hamilton now becomes the 3rd most successful driver in F1 history.

Davidbl

Well - let's see if Vettel can put in a performance for the ages to finish 2nd and somehow keep the race going. Wouldn't that be extraordinary? No, considering he had to ram his opponent out of the race and go unpunished. Without it there is nothing else Vettel could do. If this really happens, i w...

Davidbl

Either way then it is desperate to show the picture of Vettel then as they are not comparing a like-for-like example.

Everyone keeps saying there are loads of examples in the past race. Name them then. No one will be able to at all.

Davidbl

Well in that case then we all know that the first lap is treated differently to the rest of the race.

Davidbl

Didn't Vettel have two wheels still on the curb.

Davidbl

Anything could happen, but the best way to guard against that is to continue racing for the wins. As already said the field spread is so large that he really just needs to finish the race at a normal pace to win the world championship. For the last 3 races in a row he has finished over a minute ahea...

Davidbl

Lewis Hamilton is surely building up towards this.

Davidbl

Thought I may as well start this topic, seeing as one with the triple world champions is also on going. First of all, can anyone on this list, ever really be considered an all time great, if they have only won 2 world championships? Also can Alonso the only active driver on this list, ever make it 3...

Davidbl

I think that we might just be about to see the best yet to come from Hamilton.

Davidbl

The race coverage today seemed to feature a lot of people watching the race. I don't want to watch them, I want to see the cars on the track. Its a motor race, a bit of a clue as to what they should be showing us!

Davidbl

I can not see a separate thread about this (I guess it might be discussed in the main race thread, but I considered it important enough to have it as a sepatate thread, so here it is.) Anyway to me it was uncomfortable viewing watching the marshal get the debris off the track, (in the middle of a co...

Davidbl

But any changes should be carefully considered and not a knee jerk reaction to something, as this usually causes more problems than it solves. And there have been a lot of knee jerk reactions on this forum lately. After Jules Bianchi's death, one post on this forum said that cars should just simply...

Davidbl

I don't see how it can be. Any activity where cars go at 200mph can never be completely safe. This is clearly true. But it should never be used as a reason not to make it safer . The thing is though at some point there will be an incident which the FIA have not foreseen, which no one has foreseen.

Davidbl

I don't see how it can be. Any activity where cars go at 200mph can never be completely safe.

Davidbl

It is safer to have the cars removed from the track than to sit there for the rest of the race.

Davidbl

Flag regulations 4.1.2 Flag signals to be used at observation posts: a) Red flag: This should be shown waved only on instruction from the Clerk of the Course when it becomes necessary to stop a practice session or the race. All drivers are required to slow down immediately and proceed to the pit lan...

Davidbl

Schumacher not only kept all of his wins in 1997, he kept all of his points as well.

Anyway mine is in 1997 there was a last race battle for the championship. Heinz-Harald Frentzen finished runner up in the championship.

Davidbl

Sky sports news just demonstrated the new safety features taken after the accident. I'm very annoyed to see that they've not mentioned a ban of caterpillars on the race track during a race. I was watching Brasil 2003 two weeks ago where several cars lost control and crashed into the barriers at T3....

Davidbl

Sky sports news just demonstrated the new safety features taken after the accident. I'm very annoyed to see that they've not mentioned a ban of caterpillars on the race track during a race. I was watching Brasil 2003 two weeks ago where several cars lost control and crashed into the barriers at T3....

Davidbl

I feel very uncomfortable with this report being made public. The one person who knows the details of what happened cannot put his point of view across or defend the allegations of "not slowing enough". There was no need for the FIA to make this report public and should have only been circled withi...

Davidbl

This is part of the FIA's reaction to the Jules Bianchi crash.

Davidbl

It always used to be the norm for standing restarts after red flags in dry races. This video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WW2PFaNUCI (go to 5:30 onwards) shows them restarting after a red flag with a standing start. The race is San Marino 1994, (the link does not contain any replay of the Senna i...

Davidbl

I assume we will have standing restarts for red flags though.

Davidbl

Lewis Hamilton USA 2014. It was simply the way that he hunted Nico down overtook him and got the win.

Davidbl

https://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=RfxODwrEjyI&lc=j1UxQZ_gp0_C1Er39UnLA97kV4X20TKDG-yYNRkV84A it is completely ridiculous but unfortunately very true The youtube video proves my point. A cheer as he goes off (which is normal, although I would suggest its more amazement at the crash) then slienc...

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hydra wrote:The British fans cheered when Schumacher crashed and broke his leg, it was not seen as something 'negative' although cheering for someone breaking his leg is pretty low. I guess it depends who it is, and where you are from

This is completely ridiculous and definately not true.

Davidbl

I don't know what they were trying to do, but I agree they were not cheering him breaking his leg, I guess they were cheering his crashing or retiring from the race. They must have cheered for something His brakes had clearly failed and it was obviously the second he went off the track it was going...

Davidbl

There is a bit of a difference between greatest and most successful. Most successful is based on the facts of number of championships and number of wins etc.

Greatest as already mentioned is more subjective. However I do enjoy watching Hamilton.

Davidbl

So pleased for him. The low points of 2011 when the stewards seemed to just continously have it in for him have all being forgotten. Completely deserved 11 wins to 5, and he did it in style with a win at the last race. More importantly he did it without cheating or knocking another driver off the tr...

Davidbl

Well, who would have predicted Rosberg would end up with more reliability problems in this season's race-days than Hamilton? Conducted himself well all season in spite of some completely undeserved and unsubstantiated accusations of wrongdoing (especially at Monaco and Spa ) ;) 8O You can pull all ...

Davidbl

People can say what they want but it does put Hamilton's achievement into the context of F1 history. His name will be in the record books for years to come. I think that sort of thing is important to him.

Its still a worthy achievement.

Davidbl

I don't remember Red Bull or Christian Horner publicly announcing any blame in the wake of the Turkey collision with Webber and Vettel - whatever they might have done behind closed doors. That's the only thing that really soured my enjoyment of this season - Mercedes' treatment in public of their o...

Davidbl

Is it because Senna won 3 is that why 3 seems to be the magical number?

Davidbl

9 drivers have won at least 3 world championships and Hamilton is the driver that has won the most races out of those drivers winning 2 championships. Obviously for some these numbers mean everything, but for some not much at all. But that is what is in the record books. I think we all know he wants...

Davidbl

Azi wrote:None of them were told to box it and retire though!

Obviously I know that but I just don't think saying I want to go to the end is a special thing though.

Davidbl

All the other drivers also raced to the end rather than just parking it in the garage and giving up.

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