Monaco is the most exciting race when it rains... my memory of it was that it used to rain a lot... But now I can't really remember much rain in the last umpteenth seasons.frankwer wrote:F1 is total bullshit. The Monaco race is there just for weekend entertainment for rich people.
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- Sun May 26, 2019 3:02 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: 2019 Monaco Grand Prix Race Thread
- Replies: 395
- Views: 77571
Re: 2019 Monaco Grand Prix Race Thread
- Sun May 26, 2019 2:37 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: 2019 Monaco Grand Prix Race Thread
- Replies: 395
- Views: 77571
Re: 2019 Monaco Grand Prix Race Thread
My theory is they were sure it would rain, went for the mediums to build a gap for when everyone was forced onto intermediates.Aspar wrote:Just catching up, why is Hamilton with Mediums while all others are with hards? What's merc's idea or they just screwed with strategy, as usual on this track?
- Sun May 26, 2019 2:22 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: 2019 Monaco Grand Prix Race Thread
- Replies: 395
- Views: 77571
Re: 2019 Monaco Grand Prix Race Thread
I don't understand at all why they pitted Ricciardo under the safety car... they were not on the leaders pace, and track position is vital here... i am completely baffled and annoyed.
- Thu Mar 14, 2019 2:18 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Charlie Whiting 1952-2019
- Replies: 41
- Views: 13990
Re: Charlie Whiting 1952-2019
Rest in peace Charlie.
- Mon Nov 12, 2018 6:55 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Tires Are Not Really The Issue
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5931
Re: Tires Are Not Really The Issue
I think everyone wants to ignore the elephant in the room. Just get Pirelli to make the tyres even less durable, and reintroduce refueling. If you know you can run your car light without the risk of running out of fuel, your team may factor in an additional stop.
- Mon Aug 27, 2018 5:03 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: 2018 Belgian Grand Prix Race Thread
- Replies: 337
- Views: 77052
Re: 2018 Belgian Grand Prix Race Thread
I posted my take on it in the Halo thread and have since seen a slowed down version of the video and my speculation was right. I saw it on FB but it was a link to a Sky video. Alonso’s car was coming almost straight down at the point the cars hit each other and Leclerc was driving straight into the...
- Mon Aug 27, 2018 1:10 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: 2018 Belgian Grand Prix Race Thread
- Replies: 337
- Views: 77052
Re: 2018 Belgian Grand Prix Race Thread
I've come around to the halo, not that I was strongly against it. But I hate spin... and in my opinion, claiming the halo saved Leclerc is garbage spin. The halo might have saved Leclerc, but we've had incidents like this before with no great injury to the driver. An F1 car is quite rigid, and there...
- Tue Aug 07, 2018 3:00 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: When, and to where, will Ricciardo move? [A: 2019, Renault]
- Replies: 643
- Views: 186933
Re: When, and to where, will Ricciardo move? [A: 2019, Renau
Any professional F1 competing in a go-cart unsanctioned by his team would be a complete dumbass. Any F1 team that would sanction it should be kicked out of F1 for not being of the standard of an F1 constructor.
Kubica! No more needs to be written.
Kubica! No more needs to be written.
- Sat Aug 04, 2018 12:57 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: When, and to where, will Ricciardo move? [A: 2019, Renault]
- Replies: 643
- Views: 186933
Re: When, and to where, will Ricciardo move? [A: 2019, Renau
So, in the previous weeks I've been of the mind that RBR don't actually want to keep Ricciardo... they want to go back to Vettel-Webber situation, and like Ferrari and to some extent Mercedes, have a clear number one...and though they rate Ricciardo, they wanted to facilitate an exit. Not matching V...
- Mon Jul 30, 2018 8:01 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: 2018 Hungarian Grand Prix Race Thread
- Replies: 517
- Views: 93112
Re: 2018 Hungarian Grand Prix Race Thread
Don't the best drivers stay clean? Sure. If they have the fastest car..year over year..over year. What about the other drivers mentioned? My point is Vettel keeps being involved in bumps but its never his fault, is that believable? :lol: Whatever you say. Thanks for that but the joke is on you Blak...
- Sun Jul 29, 2018 3:54 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: 2018 Hungarian Grand Prix Race Thread
- Replies: 517
- Views: 93112
Re: 2018 Hungarian Grand Prix Race Thread
The Vettel Bottas incident on the other hand was a racing incident. I like Vettel, and he is definitely one the elite F1 drivers. But he (and Verstappen too, although Vettel's vast experience doesn't afford him the leeway that Verstappen is fairly due) has a tendency when passing to chop off the car...
- Sun Jul 29, 2018 3:13 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: 2018 Hungarian Grand Prix Race Thread
- Replies: 517
- Views: 93112
Re: 2018 Hungarian Grand Prix Race Thread
Anyone trying to argue Bottas was not in the wrong for the Ricciardo incident have no argument, as he revealed the darkened, stubborn mood that caused it, by subsequently resisting his team's order to give Ric the place Ric was entitled to pick up. And that's besides the "Slam dunk" that it was Bott...
- Wed Jul 25, 2018 10:28 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Marchionne deceased (formerly Marchionne replaced)
- Replies: 38
- Views: 11420
- Mon Jul 02, 2018 12:12 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Mercedes Radio Apology
- Replies: 104
- Views: 23591
Mercedes Radio Apology
I'm really taken aback that more hasn't been made of Mercedes allowing the chief strategist to self-flagellate so publicly like that on Lewis's radio. I'm angry at Lewis's sulking triggering it, but it is highly beneath Mercedes to have allowed that grovelling apology. The team should always come fi...
- Sun May 27, 2018 4:32 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: 2018 Monaco Grand Prix Race Thread
- Replies: 498
- Views: 117501
Re: 2018 Monaco Grand Prix Race Thread
I was surprised that the Sky commentary weren't conveying more concern with Max's tangle with Sainz... I think they may have actually touched... and I thought the last thing Red Bull would have needed at that point in the race for their lead driver was a safety car. Thankfully Max kept it clean enou...
- Sun May 27, 2018 4:21 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Nico Rosberg is quite a likable F1 pundit.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5309
Nico Rosberg is quite a likable F1 pundit.
It's a shame there was such venomous hate towards him when he was a driver. Always struck me as a nice enough fellow, self-effacing over the Britney moniker, etc. And his F1 punditry is confirming that to me. He's well spoken, and is fitting in very well. And I like Hamilton too... I guess it's a bi...
- Sun Oct 29, 2017 12:35 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Jerez 1997 - 20 years on
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3646
Re: Jerez 1997 - 20 years on
Watching this video, although it doesn't excuse it, to be fairto Schumacher he was right at the time that Villeneuve had broke too late. He was wrong that Villeneuve wouldn't have made the corner, but had his car not been ailing and he still had confidence in it, Villeneuve almost certainly would h...
- Fri Oct 27, 2017 8:15 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Jerez 1997 - 20 years on
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3646
Re: Jerez 1997 - 20 years on
I watched this race live too. Of course I was willing Schumacher on. There had to have been something wrong with his car, perhaps they overfilled it or something, because the rate at which Villeneuve caught him was unfathomable. As the collision happened, for a spilt second I had wanted to believe t...
- Fri Sep 22, 2017 11:35 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: So is that that for the title battle?
- Replies: 140
- Views: 39655
Re: So is that that for the title battle?
It's done. Ferrari just don't get it. Persevering with Raikkonen the so long has sealed their fate. For any chance they need their number two to harrass and harangue Hamilton. Get in front and force Lewis into potentially taking damage. But Raikkonen is just not up to the task.
- Thu Sep 07, 2017 8:42 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Max is Out-Performing Daniel (Believe it or Not)
- Replies: 649
- Views: 239120
Re: Max is Out-Performing Daniel (Believe it or Not)
I'm with the GHogweed about Ricciardo (currently) being overall the better driver :) Some here seem to be a bit revisionist also - in Austria - the penalty Max (rightly) got - did NOT cost him a podium. If he'd driven normally at turn 2, he'd have been in 5th place behind Dan (who clearly had track...
- Mon Sep 04, 2017 1:08 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Max is Out-Performing Daniel (Believe it or Not)
- Replies: 649
- Views: 239120
Re: Max is Out-Performing Daniel (Believe it or Not)
Here's a couple of axioms from other sports that might clear this up a bit. In cricket there are two types of "leaves", a "good leave" and a "bad leave". In F1 there are two types of passes, a "good pass" and a "bad pass". In football, if you slide tackle your opponent in the box, don't be surprise...
- Sun Sep 03, 2017 1:37 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Max is Out-Performing Daniel (Believe it or Not)
- Replies: 649
- Views: 239120
Re: Max is Out-Performing Daniel (Believe it or Not)
Interesting that Max unable to pass others at Monza on SS (unless there is some issue not clear at this point affecting performance which might be the case) where Dan did on Softs Super performance from Dan Yep max has proven without doubt he is faster on saturday this season but dan keeps producin...
- Sun Jul 30, 2017 2:18 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: 2017 Hungarian Grand Prix Race Thread
- Replies: 549
- Views: 109219
Re: 2017 Hungarian Grand Prix Race Thread
Some really childish responses in this thread. Commenting on Ferrari's sportsmanship. Both Ferrari and Mercedes showed exemplary sportsmanship. The sniping is just because Vettel is disliked, and took maximum benefit. But if these childish commenters took a moment and thought about it, Raikkonen com...
- Sun Jul 16, 2017 2:16 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: 2017 British Grand Prix Race Thread
- Replies: 421
- Views: 86077
Re: 2017 British Grand Prix Race Thread
I've never understood the Pirelli bashing. From a situation a few years ago where, per FIA instruction, we had tyres that required multiple stops per race, we now have tyres that everyone is pushing for half a race or more. From commentary in previous races, it sounds like this is outside the window...
- Fri Dec 02, 2016 1:29 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Nico Rosberg retires from F1, with immediate affect
- Replies: 498
- Views: 99214
Re: Nico Rosberg retires from F1, with immediate affect
I posted on the World Champion thread. Admirable. This is the absolute pinnacle for him. The strain this season was obvious. He caught the dragon. He's smart to stop the chase. The filling of the second seat at Merc is going to be riveting. Can Alonso get out of his contract? Though again, it might ...
- Fri Dec 02, 2016 1:25 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Nico Rosberg - 2016 World Champion
- Replies: 283
- Views: 59160
Re: Nico Rosberg - 2016 World Champion
Rosberg retiring right? Admirable. He's cemented a legend of form with that.jonnymcr wrote:and that's the end of that
It is going to make filling his seat next season extremely exciting though.... Alonso maybe?
Needs its own thread though.
- Sun Nov 27, 2016 3:59 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: The Official Sir Lewis Hamilton thread
- Replies: 5307
- Views: 1359055
Re: The Official Lewis Hamilton thread
Lewis is an excellent driver. One of the all time greats. He has had a great season too. However he has again diminished his character in my view, only from the comments he made in the post-race press conference. Before the race, it is OK to mention that his championship has been cruelled by reliabi...
- Sun Jul 03, 2016 2:03 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hamilton vs rosberg. Part 265
- Replies: 1070
- Views: 157666
Re: Hamilton vs rosberg. Part 265
Pretty obvious by Rosberg... I'm no fan of either. But this was totally Rosberg's fault. He hammed it up (pardon the pun) too much. Much like Schumacher at Jerez.
- Mon May 30, 2016 12:51 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Daniel Screwed out of Two Wins on the Trot
- Replies: 119
- Views: 22145
Re: Daniel Screwed out of Two Wins on the Trot
Big Ricciardo fan (aussie, so figures). But he really has to be careful. I know there are only so many ways to express frustration, but I thought his comments were rude and disrespectful to the team as a whole. We all know he's a nice guy, and gets some latitude as a consequence. But the team have b...
- Tue Sep 22, 2015 1:28 pm
- Forum: Off Topic
- Topic: VW Diesel Engine Scandal [Split from VW/RedBull Thread]
- Replies: 99
- Views: 37463
Re: VW To Buy Red Bull
Well Yahoo has this story on the front page so it is getting traction out in the mainstream media. Bad timing for VW,as there is a massive scandal underway in the US over their TDI engines. VW has admitted to rigging the computer that controls the engine for their TDI cars to run ultra clean when t...
- Mon Dec 01, 2014 11:10 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Caterham allowed to run 14 cars in 15. Why was it an issue?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3842
Caterham allowed to run 14 cars in 15. Why was it an issue?
This BBC article http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/formula1/30272621 tells us: Formula 1 team Caterham will be allowed to compete in 2015 with this year's car - if a buyer is found for the team. The outfit are in administration and have been given special dispensation to make it easier to find a buyer. My ...
- Sun Nov 23, 2014 8:38 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Flexgate redux (Red Bull excluded from qualifying)
- Replies: 76
- Views: 16432
Re: Flexgate redux (Red Bull excluded from qualifying)
Now I'm not really sure what happened but surely what Redbull are doing isn't really cheating? Unsporting, yes, but cheating? Cheating would imply that they've broken the rules where as they've actually just skirted around the rule no? This is going off the basis that I read it was "down to interpr...
- Sat Nov 22, 2014 2:25 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Silly Season 2015 Uberthread [MERGED]
- Replies: 2131
- Views: 390516
Re: Alonso & Webber at McLaren for 2015?
Other posters have posted in other threads that McLaren might be tempted to take on Kobayashi as a Japanese driver in the partnership with Honda. Maybe he's this mysterious 4th driver?
- Fri Nov 07, 2014 2:21 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Lewis could win on countback(?) + fascinating WDC scenario
- Replies: 27
- Views: 6273
Lewis could win on countback(?) + fascinating WDC scenario
After being reminded of the rules around the final lap as it pertains to lapped cars, and cars that retire on the last lap, by the "Minor problem with 5 second rule?" thread [ http://forum.planet-f1.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11341 ] (and a previous thread in the off-season that played devils advocate ...
- Fri Mar 07, 2014 3:36 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hypothethical "3 hour" race
- Replies: 58
- Views: 9287
Re: Hypothethical "3 hour" race
In all likelyhood, this'll never happen. Not even with Lewis at the wheel..... So the need for some contingency plan isn't necessary. I think Alienturnedhuman has highlighted a very valid point, and statements like this and some others in this thread are missing the point here somewhat. Alienturned...
- Fri Mar 07, 2014 7:59 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hypothethical "3 hour" race
- Replies: 58
- Views: 9287
Re: Hypothethical "3 hour" race
If so, then you've validily highlighted a rule that needs tidying up (per the Schumacher one, if memory served me correct, and possibly Vettel at Interlagos 2012 ). What was wrong in Interlagos '12? I may have remembered that wrong, but I vaguely remember some debate on here around exactly what the...
- Fri Mar 07, 2014 7:58 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hypothethical "3 hour" race
- Replies: 58
- Views: 9287
Re: Hypothethical "3 hour" race
If so, then you've validily highlighted a rule that needs tidying up (per the Schumacher one, if memory served me correct, and possibly Vettel at Interlagos 2012 ). What was wrong in Interlagos '12? I may have remembered that wrong, but I vaguely remember some debate on here around exactly what the...
- Fri Mar 07, 2014 1:46 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hypothethical "3 hour" race
- Replies: 58
- Views: 9287
Re: Hypothethical "3 hour" race
I could be wrong (it doesn't crop up much), but: If the leader retires on the last lap and the 2nd place driver is more than 1 lap behind, then I think the race ends when the the 2nd place driver next crosses the finish line having passed the leader. The leader still wins the race having completed ...
- Fri Mar 07, 2014 1:34 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hypothethical "3 hour" race
- Replies: 58
- Views: 9287
Re: Hypothethical "3 hour" race
Hamilton wins, Rosberg will be counting laps down on Lewis, 25 laps down, 24 laps down... but never unlap himself. The race will end when the last car passes the line after 2 hour mark has been hit. If you start a lap after the 2 hour limit you take the chequered flag and return to the pits at the ...
- Tue Dec 31, 2013 8:35 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Michael Schumacher Accident - Messages of Support
- Replies: 500
- Views: 101404
Re: Michael Schumacher In Skiing Accident - Serious Head Inj
Touching Article by David Coulthard on Michael Schumacher http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/michael-schumacher/10543292/I-only-hope-Michael-Schumacher-pulls-through-so-that-he-can-see-all-the-nice-things-people-are-saying-about-him.html?utm_source=dlvr.it Don't get me wrong, I ...