No, he doesn't imply that he is toying with the rest of the field. In fact, he does the opposite. In more than 3/4th of his race wins, he claims to have had the best race of his career. That always makes me chuckle. I think he is consciously trying to stop himself saying that lately as I have seen ...

Ooops another leak for Webber

Shocked to see the difference between Button and Hamilton is just 0.1. I expected it to cross 0.2 easily. I am tempted to say that 0.8 in Spa was down to the wing but Button has done well overall and credit is due. Your original instinct was correct. I forgot to discount the races where they cannot...

Usman wrote:all drivers have their moments...... they mature with time... Vettel and Hami come under more scrutiny coz they became champions at a very young age while maturing process was beginning....

Agreed. Best just to giggle at these little outbursts and move on.

I always wondered why they were allowed to use DRS freely in practise & qualy and now I know. I'm not sure I agree with CW's reasoning that teams wouldn't have bothered to develop it much if it was restricted, as most teams go to ridiculous lengths for the smallest gains anyway. Generally a good cha...

I'm as excited as a very exciteable person who has a special reason to be excited!

Put some stats on a spreadhseet to compare Button and Kobayashi with their teammates. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dominic1/times.jpg If you try to judge on how close they are to their respective team mates then Kobi wins hands down, but I think Hamilton is skewing the result against Button as he is...

If I upload a video of my pomeranian running around the back yard, can FOM take it down? do they own copyright over the video footage? Will Bernie come around to my place and issue my pomeranian with a cease and desist letter? What are my pomeranians rights under this scenario? He needs to know Dep...

If I upload a video of my pomeranian running around the back yard, can FOM take it down? do they own copyright over the video footage? Will Bernie come around to my place and issue my pomeranian with a cease and desist letter? What are my pomeranians rights under this scenario? He needs to know Dep...

They blocked a video I had on youtube of a lap I did at Monaco in F1 2010. They are WAY over the top with things like this.

Red Bull Raikkonen, Hulkenburg - Would be great to see Kimi in a a top car again (no offence Enstone) and I'd like to see Hukenburg given a shot in a top car also. Think this would be a very solid team. McLaren Alonso, Button - For some reason I'd like to see Alonso have another go at McLaren, and ...

No pics to contribute sadly, but looking forward to this race more than any other this season. Weather reports that I have looked at saying dry all weekend too so happy about that.

Pole Vettel
2nd Webber
3rd Hamilton
4th Alonso
5th Button
6th Grosjean
7th Raikkonen
8th Maldonado
9th Massa
10th Rosberg

Race -
1st Vettel
2nd Hamilton
3rd Alonso

I hope I am completely wrong.

Toby. wrote:Hopefully they can find a purchaser. Not going to be easy finding somebody willing to purchase the lowest-placed team, though. I'd like to see Google or Apple come in with the big bucks.

An Apple F1 team eh, with the best looking most expensive cars that end up a little slower than the rest

Balibari wrote: ........ indecorous relish .......

I think I had some of that on a burger the other day All we need now is a debate on "momentum" and our journey back to 2008 will be complete.

Being a huge NASCAR fan, Gordon and Bowyer have had several on-track incidents this year, most of which ended up with Gordon getting the worst end of the deal. He was just fed up, but clearly overreacted. NASCAR race control then butchered the finish because they left the green flag out with a bunc...

Here's a sneak peek of the HRT simulation for the coming USGP being driven by PDL I believe

No and he does not have the type of personality to build a team the way Schumacher did in his heyday. How do you know? Well going on reports from McLaren personnel , links to which have been posted before on the forum. He has the opposite effect. Mentions have been made of only being seen being pal...

In a word disastrous, considering the general pace of the car. I would be hesitant however to lay all the blame at MW's door as the failures appear to me to be pretty much team wide, with the possible exception of the drivers. MW may get the blame for Hamilton's departure, but who's to say he wouldn...

I think the telemetry tells the story now, it's not unheard of for a driver to say the car feels awful then set a fast lap , didn't Jenson do something on that line this year? I think so. Seem to remember him saying at Spa that his car felt bad about 30 seconds before going fastest by about 0.5 sec...

There's a reason why Alonso, Hamilton, Vettel, Kimi and Button rarely if ever drive into each other. I believe it's called the championship. It's because they're amongst the best. Some of the attempted overtakes at Abu Dhabi were amateurish at best. Compare them with Vettel's pass on Button, which ...

I wouldn't be surprised to see Merc join the upper echelons of the sport in a few years No doubt, but how many actual years is a "few" years? The way F1 is competitive now, it could take Merc longer than Hamilton's F1 lifespan to match McLaren, Ferrari & RBR. And don't forget that those teams will ...

Alonso

Odd no one has picked up onthis yet. We made Lewis an offer - an offer, which I believe is more money than any other driver at the moment is being paid. That leads us to suspect that our competitor and our partner Mercedes-Benz offered a bit more money. I don’t know that , but I think for Lewis mad...

I'm really struggling to understand MW's motive for saying some of these things, particularly; ""I hope he thinks today that he's made an awful mistake and I hope he thinks that next year. He's made that decision and he has to live with that decision." That just comes across as incredibly bitter and...

Hadn't seen that before and really enjoyed it. Thanks for posting.

What makes a world class F1 pilot different than the rest? About 2-3 tenths of a second per lap I'd say. That may seem trite, but it really is those last couple of tenths and the ability to find them consistently that separates the great from the good. Of course the golden question is how do they f...

I genuinely have no idea how these guys manage to do what they do. The fitness and concentration required is staggering. Hell, my heads spinning after a 50% race distance Monaco race in F1 2012 and I doubt that even represents 1000th of a percent the effort required to do it for real.

That gut got an excuse for everything. Simple fact is his best is not good enough ................. To be fair, his best is actually very good indeed. Button could be compared to this years years Pirelli tyres in so much as he has a somewhat narrow operating window, and outside of that window strug...

I'd like to think I'm an F1 fan first and foremost, though I have always supported the British drivers. Although I do remember James Hunt winning his championship I didn't really start watching F1 regularly until Mansell came along. I avidly watched F1 throughout his career and then Damon's afterwar...

It goes without saying that all teams suffer failures and errors throughout a season, however the interesting point for me is that a top team has managed to throw away approximately 100 points for a single driver through operational errors and mechanical failures. That is an astonishing figure howev...