I usually skip Bathurst. Glad I didn't today though. Those super-Taxi drivers put on a helluva show.
Love that the winner led a total of half a lap of a 161 lap race.
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- Sun Oct 12, 2014 8:05 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Bathurst 1000
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4744
- Sun Oct 05, 2014 3:38 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Jev. Is he stiff not to get a look in at Redbull ?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6714
Re: Jev. Is he stiff not to get a look in at Redbull ?
'Stiff'? It's slang, Australian I think, for unlucky. The harsh reality for JEV is that he is just too damn slow on Saturdays to be a top notch Formula 1 driver. He has notched up a few impressive races during his career, but most of them involved coming back into the points from a poor starting po...
- Tue Sep 23, 2014 12:26 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: The Official Daniel Ricciardo Thread
- Replies: 540
- Views: 162323
Re: The Official Daniel Ricciardo Thread
The drivers warm up tires and keep heat in them in a prescribed manner during the formation lap. Prior to this the drivers are also prepping the clutch packs to get the correct bite points. Depending on if the teams feel there may be more than one start this procedure may be different. It's a best ...
- Sun Sep 21, 2014 3:26 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: The Official Daniel Ricciardo Thread
- Replies: 540
- Views: 162323
Re: The Official Daniel Ricciardo Thread
Can anyone explain to me what the drivers part of launching an f1 car is? I assume there isn't a foot operated clutch like a typical road going manual car.Looks like he inherited Webber's clutch.
What does a driver have to do to get away well aside from have a quick reaction time?
- Sun Sep 21, 2014 2:59 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Smart Alonso makes his competitors look silly
- Replies: 55
- Views: 13080
Re: Smart Alonso makes his competitors look silly
Ric and Vet were side by side at the apex, if he illegally passed one then he illegally passed both.trento wrote:He actually gained on Ric going into the corner. So he was right in returning just one position.
- Sun Sep 21, 2014 2:56 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Smart Alonso makes his competitors look silly
- Replies: 55
- Views: 13080
Smart Alonso makes his competitors look silly
The start of the race was hilarious, all the other dumb drivers applied their brakes in order to successfully navigate the first corner. This method was not for Fred, nope, he straightlined it like a boss, gaining two places and then only returning one of them. Next year I look forward to all driver...
- Sun Sep 21, 2014 4:12 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: The Official Daniel Ricciardo Thread
- Replies: 540
- Views: 162323
Re: The Official Daniel Ricciardo Thread
Another great quali session for Dan, pace comparable to the Mercedes.
Fingers crossed he gets off the line ok and holds his position in to turn one, will be great to see what he can do if he can run up front with the mercs from the very start.
Please don't "Webber" your start Dan.
Fingers crossed he gets off the line ok and holds his position in to turn one, will be great to see what he can do if he can run up front with the mercs from the very start.
Please don't "Webber" your start Dan.
- Sun Sep 07, 2014 1:58 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: The Official Daniel Ricciardo Thread
- Replies: 540
- Views: 162323
Re: The Official Daniel Ricciardo Thread
I thought slavery had been largely eradicated in the west at least.
Then I realised that Dan Ricciardo has 'owned' Sebastian Vettel all season.
Sad really.
Then I realised that Dan Ricciardo has 'owned' Sebastian Vettel all season.
Sad really.
- Sun Mar 30, 2014 1:19 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Top 5 pecking order after Malaysia GP 2014
- Replies: 75
- Views: 16338
Re: Top 5 pecking order after Malaysia GP 2014
Mercedes (Have grabbed the new regs with both hands and hit the ground running) Red Bull (At this rate they'll have caught and passed Merc by Monaco. It's a frankly astonishing rate of car development even by their lofty standards.) Mclaren (Car looks solid but not spectacular) Ferrari (Alonso his t...
- Sun Mar 30, 2014 1:02 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Ricciardo given a 10 place grid penalty for Bahrain!
- Replies: 227
- Views: 35863
Re: Ricciardo given a 10 place grid penalty for Bahrain!
F*** this sport.
- Sun Mar 30, 2014 6:59 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Williams "monkey seat" wing?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5456
Re: Williams "monkey seat" wing?
Hmm... not sure about that, I suspect the car itself isn't too bad. Massa has always looked hopeless in wet conditions, Bottas is a talented young driver but may not have found his wet weather footing just yet.Amon wrote:Williams really is a monkey of a car when it rains it seems...
- Thu Nov 21, 2013 12:18 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: If you had a time machine........
- Replies: 85
- Views: 14717
If you had a time machine........
If you could go back to any formula 1 race in history and change an aspect of that race, what would it be and why? Let's leave out preventing fatalities / serious injuries because they are a given.. For me it would be Korea 2010 and I'd stop Mark Webber from crashing.... thus giving him a much bette...
- Thu Nov 21, 2013 12:11 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Your best memories of Mark Webber!
- Replies: 101
- Views: 18190
Re: Your best memories of Mark Webber!
Surprised Monaco 2006 hasn't been mentioned so much, in what was one of Williams worst years up to that point he used his Monaco magic to pressure Alonso and Kimi for the first two thirds of the race, trading purple sectors with the championship contenders right up until his car eventually expired. ...
- Tue Jul 30, 2013 11:20 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Now All of a sudden I'm rooting for Lewis
- Replies: 140
- Views: 25596
Re: Now All of a sudden I'm rooting for Lewis
I pretty much count myself as a member of the ABV (ANYONE but Vettel) fan club. If that's Lewis then so be it. I used to see Lewis as a bit of an arrogant tool, but as he matures it becomes apparent that both his speed and his race craft are sublime. I love watching him race wheel to wheel with guys...
- Fri Jul 19, 2013 10:41 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Red Bull and Toro Rosso 2014 Lineups
- Replies: 60
- Views: 13583
Re: Red Bull and Toro Rosso 2014 Lineups
I'm not under-selling anything. F1 has turned to be a business before being a sport since a lot of time. Whatever RBR tries to make us believe, F1 is just another advertising gimmick for their bubbles... And you know what ? If they ever sign Raikkonen, it will not be mainly for his driving, but muc...
- Fri Jul 19, 2013 3:17 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Red Bull and Toro Rosso 2014 Lineups
- Replies: 60
- Views: 13583
Re: Red Bull and Toro Rosso 2014 Lineups
Vergne's main problem is that Red Bull will never sell as many cans of its vomitous bubbles to Frenchmen than to the Brits and the heirs of the British Empire... He may be a better racer than Ricciardo (which I think he is), as an advertising poster he will never be as efficient as Ricciardo. That ...
- Thu Jul 04, 2013 9:50 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Team Mate Wars
- Replies: 71
- Views: 11280
Re: Team Mate Wars
Your Ricciardo / Vergne section got the points right but contained some rubbish in the text. Vergne temporarily got ahead of Ricciardo and the Lotuses because they had pitstopped and he hadn't, the Lotuses were directly behind and Daniel only a few seconds down the road. Vergne was a full pitstop be...
- Sun Jun 30, 2013 1:59 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Vettel: most hated driver??
- Replies: 322
- Views: 47105
Re: Vettel: most hated driver??
He is a great driver and a douchebag in equal parts. Can we all just agree to this and move on?
- Sun Jun 30, 2013 1:50 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Ricciardo on track for a Podium?
- Replies: 33
- Views: 7411
Re: Ricciardo on track for a Podium?
Today showed the difficulty of a driver trying to compete with the front runners when in a mid grid team with a mid grid mentality. *They botched his first pit stop *They kept him out too long in the 2nd stint losing lots of time to the guys he was racing with *They failed to pit him for tyres under...
- Sun Jun 30, 2013 1:24 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: 2013 British Grand Prix Race thread!
- Replies: 612
- Views: 78461
Re: 2013 British Grand Prix Race thread!
I thought it was fantastic. But I'm mean like that.chrcoluk wrote:I didnt like crowd cheering vettel DNF.
- Fri May 17, 2013 8:59 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Andrew Davies
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9535
Re: Andrew Davies
It should be noted here that Davies has corrected the recent Vergne / Ricciardo section of the TMW article which is what any good journalist should do when they are wrong about something. So good job.
- Thu May 16, 2013 11:05 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Andrew Davies
- Replies: 50
- Views: 9535
Re: Andrew Davies
Davies is out of his mind. Vergne ahead of Ricciardo? Absurd. Vergne lead Ricciardo for the first few laps until Ricciardo overtook him. Any subsequent instance of Vergne being ahead of Ricciardo was a very very brief accident of pit stop timing. Ricciardo was in the hunt for points all race, Vergne...
- Mon May 13, 2013 10:52 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Does anyone else find Ted Kravitz Annoying?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 8582
Re: Does anyone else find Ted Kravitz Annoying?
Is Ted Kravitz the guy who delivers the pit lane reports during the races? If so I do find him annoying. he seems to go back and forth between the Mclaren and Mercedes garages without stopping anywhere else. Just once I'd like him to mention that he'd just stopped by the TR or the FI or the Sauber g...
- Mon May 13, 2013 7:29 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: The Official Daniel Ricciardo Thread
- Replies: 540
- Views: 162323
Re: The Official Daniel Ricciardo Thread
I just read that Dan inherited his point in the race due to JEV's problems on PF1's winners and losers column.
Who knew? Thank god for the superior wisdom of the columnist in question....
Andrew Davies is a twit.
Who knew? Thank god for the superior wisdom of the columnist in question....
Andrew Davies is a twit.
- Sun May 12, 2013 1:54 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: The Official Daniel Ricciardo Thread
- Replies: 540
- Views: 162323
Re: The Official Daniel Ricciardo Thread
All that passing for only 10th.... Maybe he was having save fuel towards the end. At least he is getting plenty of time in front of the camera for the right reasons. I agree, Dan could have had a lot more out of today, but his last stint seemed uncharacteristically slow and his strategy was off. Th...
- Sun Apr 14, 2013 1:30 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: The Official Mark Webber Thread
- Replies: 1127
- Views: 256903
Re: The Official Mark Webber Thread
Wow... 5 years??
That's a big lock in. Hope he ends up liking it!
That's a big lock in. Hope he ends up liking it!
- Sun Apr 14, 2013 9:41 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: The Star of Shanghai
- Replies: 78
- Views: 16579
Re: The Star of Shanghai
Maldo.... Kept it on the track (mostly).
- Sun Apr 14, 2013 9:33 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Webber and Vergne's coming together
- Replies: 41
- Views: 7394
Re: Webber and Vergne's coming together
As a Webber fan i'm pretty happy to admit this was Mark's fault. When an RBR is overtaking a Toro Rosso usually a gap magically opens and stays open, I think in this case Webber pretty much just expected that Vergne would just stay on the outside. Vergne for his part probably would have left the gap...
- Sun Apr 14, 2013 9:19 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Mark Webber's Woes 2013
- Replies: 139
- Views: 28121
Re: Mark Webber's Woes 2013
Maybe this thread should be deleted. It's becoming a self fulfilling prophecy!
- Sun Apr 14, 2013 9:14 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Ricciardo WOW
- Replies: 42
- Views: 11548
Re: Ricciardo WOW
Strong result for Dan, shame he couldn't quite get to Massa and Button at the end of the race, oh for a few more laps.
- Sun Apr 14, 2013 9:12 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Webber has yet another "Mysterious" mechanical issue
- Replies: 54
- Views: 14654
Re: Webber has yet another "Mysterious" mechanical issue
Yesterdays Webber problem was genuinely suspiscous.
Today? Just an innocent goof.
RBR had absolutely no reason to want any Webber problems at that stage of the race.
I'd have to say though that Webber's aim was pretty good, that tyre nearly took out Vettel.
Today? Just an innocent goof.
RBR had absolutely no reason to want any Webber problems at that stage of the race.
I'd have to say though that Webber's aim was pretty good, that tyre nearly took out Vettel.
- Sat Apr 13, 2013 8:42 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Webber - The fix is in
- Replies: 128
- Views: 32132
Re: Webber - The fix is in
The following is a direct quote from Bernie Ecclestone... “I had one driver challenging for the world championship – I’m not going to say who it was – and the other guy that weekend happened to be bloody quick. I said to him, 'Whatever you do, you ought to take it easy and let the other guy pass you...
- Sat Apr 13, 2013 8:37 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Webber - The fix is in
- Replies: 128
- Views: 32132
Re: Webber - The fix is in
So, just for clarity, some of you actually believe the following: At some point the senior management of Red Bull have called a meeting, sat down and said: "right, we all know we need to get Mark out of the game somehow. Ideas on the table, please. Anything considered." Because any conspiracy needs...
- Sat Apr 13, 2013 7:14 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Webber - The fix is in
- Replies: 128
- Views: 32132
Re: Webber - The fix is in
seandean41 wrote:Well it looks like there may yet be a tiny bit of Karma for RBR. Wonder if they will butcher Webbo's clutch setting to make sure he has more than 4 positions to slice through before smashing into dingleberry.
- Sat Apr 13, 2013 6:50 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Webber - The fix is in
- Replies: 128
- Views: 32132
Re: Webber - The fix is in
Eh, it basically insures that the two teammates won't cross paths competitively tomorrow. Webber's got a quick enough car to bring home points and contribute to the constructors regardless of where he starts. The last thing RBR would have wanted is them starting on the front row together and choppin...
- Sat Apr 13, 2013 6:39 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Webber - The fix is in
- Replies: 128
- Views: 32132
Webber - The fix is in
Well done red bull, you've seperated your drivers and reinforced Webbers no. 2 status. Thought you'd be a little less obvious about it but there you go.
By the way...your energy drink goop tastes awful.
By the way...your energy drink goop tastes awful.
- Fri Apr 12, 2013 8:27 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: When was Mark Webber's prime?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6935
Re: When was Mark Webber's prime?
As someone who has closely followed Mark Webbers career, I'd say his best driving happened in 2006. Don't go searching for podiums or points results though because his car broke down so many times that season and that this stole so many amazing finishes from him. He lead the Australian GP and should...