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Sidewaysbob

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Sorry, only just got back from an absolutely blinding day at Silverstone for the opening round of the world endurance championship. It was an early start so I didn’t see the F1 race with by the look of it was pretty predictable.
Anyway, here is a picture I took whilst standing in the Aston Martin team garages during the race. I didn't have a special ticket or anything, i just wandered in and took a picture. No one asked me what i was doing and i wasn’t throw out. This is exactly what F1 isn’t, and thank the Lord for that
Moving on, Congratulations to Johnny5 this week with a cracking 35 points, well done you. Clearly F1 is starting to get too predictable when the top 11 players get over 30 points !!

Jonny5,35
Duane Weatherall,33
Simbo,33
mortis,32
Dudley,32
Fragglerock,32
nuskool,31
PeteBrant,31
Velse,31
Sidewaysbob,31
merman,30
MrPogo,28
Buzbybill,27
ridgeracer ,26
Myoozikk,26
roskelld,25
Arakawa Automotive,25
Charles,25
Blue,25
kiroquai,23
mlewis,22
TarquinTheHppyMouse,22
King A,21
Baring,21
Jobi Stod,20
JPR,20
CHUGG2015,17
Tefleon,17
SMD,17
SeanR,16
makkuwata,15
jeebus,15
Valver,15
ilpostino,15
Rattlehead.ie,13
jaguar1,12

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Colour me a fully fledged Max Verstappen fan. Awesome stuff today from him. Easy for Lewis, nico looks lost. When Lewis was behind last year he'd hound the crap out of Nico if it killed the tyres or not. His "come on guys" comment when he came 2nd in quali said it all. I'd like Lewis to be a bit more challenged but considering his history hard to begrudge him a bit more of an easy ride when the opportunity presents itself.

Indeed. I don't understand how any racing driver can seriously make such a complaint. As you say in the reverse situation Hamilton would have been right up behind him until he passed, crashed or wrecked his tyres. Rosberg's clearly abandoned all hope of ever outracing Hamilton (it appears it didn't even occur to him to try and overtake) and has settled in for a season of aiming to finish second every week whilst hoping for mechanical failures to settle the championship in his favour.

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mexos

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If he continues in this way I can see Merc disposing of his services at the end of the year - contract or no contract. His off track displays at the moment make him a terrible brand ambassador. He looks and sounds like a petulant child not getting his way.

Ham needs to just keep doing what he is doing. If he pulls a trick like the blocking in qually last time out don't say anything and don't rise to it. That will push Nico further into his potentially spectacular meltdown.

It's fantastic that it's only a week till Bahrain. He will still be plenty mad come Saturday.

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Isn't the argument that - on the same strategy the cars are unable to pass each other through dirty air, so if the lead car slows down the trailing gets pushed back into Ferrari's clutches?

Makes a bit of sense then, in that Hamilton has a duty to the constructors championship, but at the same time - in this era of tyre wear and limited engines - going any faster than absolutely necessary for the win is compromising your own (and by extension also the the team's) chances for that race and the rest of the season with no personal benefit for the guy in front.

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Rosberg looked defeated before the race at Melbourne had even begun, hes backing out of moves as we saw when he had to make his way through the pack at Malaysia.

Also, I know its really early but Id love to one of the big teams to put Verstappen in a properly competitive car. No doubt he'll replace Kvyatt at Red Bull but Id like Williams to replace Massa with him

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Danny Ric will or should be thinking the same.

The RB situation is not getting fixed any time soon. I can see a good 3 years of pain before they get back to being a proper contender for a championship. They won't win jack this year, may not even get a podium.

If Cryberg keeps making his mouth go Ric should try and nick his seat. And Merc should go for him.

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Bacon Horsemeat

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WTF

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3037263/Stick-cork-Lewis-Formula-One-ace-Lewis-Hamilton-sprays-hostess-girl-face-champagne-winning-Chinese-Grand-Prix.html

It's the main headline on the Daily Mail right now. This despite so many drivers in the past doing exactly what he does... Mark Webber for one. Never heard any complaints, especially of sexism, back then. It's almost as if they have it in for the guy.

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Wouldn't that be a step backwards? He needs to get into a non Renault car.

Thats kind of my point, he'll get more in terms of his salary, but as that car/team stands right now, plus all the rumours of Torro Rosso becoming a works team for Renault, it'd be a huge mistake. But Kvyatt's performances since getting the second seat at Red Bull haven't been on par with Danny's last season (which I reckon Red Bull will have as their marker) and we all know teams like to ignore the fact that results on circuit are as much down to the car as they are the driver, if not more so, its easy to replace one young "failure" with another hungry driver.

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WTF

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3037263/Stick-cork-Lewis-Formula-One-ace-Lewis-Hamilton-sprays-hostess-girl-face-champagne-winning-Chinese-Grand-Prix.html

It's the main headline on the Daily Mail right now. This despite so many drivers in the past doing exactly what he does... Mark Webber for one. Never heard any complaints, especially of sexism, back then. It's almost as if they have it in for the guy.

1. It's the Daily Mail.

2. It's Lewis Hamilton (probably some sort of immigrant, taking our jobs etc.)

3. It's the Daily Mail.

TLDR: What a load of shit. If you are on the podium, you are a potential target for spray, male, female, boss of a major corporation or even a state leader, president or royal family member. Always been the way.

God I detest that paper.

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WTF

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3037263/Stick-cork-Lewis-Formula-One-ace-Lewis-Hamilton-sprays-hostess-girl-face-champagne-winning-Chinese-Grand-Prix.html

It's the main headline on the Daily Mail right now. This despite so many drivers in the past doing exactly what he does... Mark Webber for one. Never heard any complaints, especially of sexism, back then. It's almost as if they have it in for the guy.

The Daily Racist.

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The grid girl, Liu Siying, a 23-year-old who graduated from Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, told Shanghai Daily in an exclusive interview on Wednesday that she actually did not mind having been sprayed by the Briton.

“It lasted for only one or two seconds, and I did not think too much about it at all,” Liu said.

Liu works for the administrative department of a local real estate company. She is a fan of Finnish driver Kimi Raikkonen, and therefore applied to become the podium model of last weekend’s event.

“I think some foreign media are more sensitive about the topic compared to local media,” Liu said. “I was just told by my employer to stand on the podium, and that’s what I did.”

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Okay, we’re all back on track now.


Bahrain then this weekend. Another straight fight between Lewis, Vettel and the increasingly petulant Nico. You know you can always tell the good from the merely right place, right time drivers. The good ones say things like, “Well I didn’t really get the car going the way I wanted it, but we learnt stuff today so, we’ll do better next time”. The not so good say, “ Sir, sir … he was backing me up and going too slow and I couldn’t over take because the tyres sir, yes the tyres were round and black sir, I didn’t want to wear them out sir and he made me go too slow sir”.


Everyone who heard or read those words from Nico must have reached pretty much the same conclusion as me … “Well why didn’t you overtake Lewis then, if he was going too slow ?”


And I can’t really think of a reason as to why he didn’t, can you? Someone pointed out to me that Lewis spent last year tucked up behind Nico waiting for that mistake, the split second when he could make the move and take the win. He’d rag the tyres till they bled, push the car till the brakes cried enough. But he’d get the points and Nico would stand on the lower step, bottom lip trembling slightly as the champagne hit him in the face.


Lewis didn’t complain that Nico was too slow! No, he berated himself for not qualifying better and allowing Nico to dominate on Saturday. Then he’d win and make it look easy, Nico became increasingly desperate with the last lap crash in qualifying in Monaco and the elbows out crash at Spa. The crowds responded to this petulance by casting him as the panto villain and booing him on the podium. It wasn’t until Abu Dhabi, when Nico asked to be allowed to keep going till the end in his sick car, that the crowds forgave him for the tantrums and unsporting behaviour.


Nico is no fool, he is a pretty good driver, but he doesn’t seem to have that thing, that edge, that ability to win races when he doesn’t have the best hand of cards to play. Where Lewis or Alonso will just keep going, dragging whatever car they have under them to victory, Nico like Vettel needs a winning car before he can win. The two of them can get the best out of the car, but nothing more.


And Vettel has a very good car, Kimi is showing us that. For too long Kimi has been bored and dismissive during interviews. Mono syllabic answers, hiding behind big dark sunglasses and batting inane questions away with a lazy flap on his hand. Last year you could be forgiving for wondering if he actually turned up for the races he was so under the radar. Now though, robbed of a result in Australia, a drive back through the field to fourth in Malaysia and what I assume was another easy fourth in China and Kimi has his mojo back. Not enough to beat Vettel yet, but then he isn’t as lucky as the German.


So then last of the season opener fly away races, Bahrain was fantastic last year. It was Merc letting rip and showing just how fast they were. Nico and Lewis put on a show as Lewis stamped his authority all over Nico and showed him what was really required to win a championship. Going on past form, I can’t see there being much difference this year. Vettel … well Bahrain isn’t normally a high tyre wear circuit, so I think third again here unless Lewis does a better job of backing up Nico this time ;)


Williams next again .. Massa, what the Sally Hill has happened to Felipe Baby then? He’s got his act together and is showing Bottas the way home. Not the story I was expecting!


Then you get to choose from Nasr in a resurgent Sauber, Danny in a woefully poor Redbull and Grosjean in an unlucky Lotus. Although the championship points don’t really reflect it, the one to take a punt on would be Verstappen, who is raising plenty of eyebrows with feisty and controlled drives. I still think he’s a bit young, he doesn’t look like he even shaves at all, but he’s go the talent to get noticed, now he needs the talent to bring it home consistently.



Worth a punt too would be Perez, who’s looking pretty handy in a the Force India. I think the Hulk is looking at his exit strategy to Porsche and Le Mans now, so he’s taken his eye off the F1 ball for now. Perez has been almost exciting at times this year, jus the car letting him down a bit.


Further back and McLaren are sort of moving forward. But every time they tell us they’ll turn the engine up and start winning, I look at the car and think, “That car looks a bit of a handful”.

I don’t think turning the wick up is going to deal with the snap over steer or random handling quirks, she’s a bit of a handful and mistake. I think if they can get in to the bottom of the top ten before Italy in September, they’ll have done well.


And then we have Manor Marussia and they are still there, still plugging away. They’ve lasted longer than I expected and go on them for that. I ‘m not sure who’s going to be driving for them this weekend., I thought Merhi was only on a 3 race contract. Let’s see if he came up with anymore cash shall we.


Right that’s your lot.
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Jonny5

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I always go to bbc.co.uk/f1 to try and find the times that they'll be showing it and I always get massively pissed off that they don't seem to provide that info. There's a little box on the right of the front page with this info:

Schedule & Results

Clicking the Coverage link takes you to a generic page saying which rounds they are covering live & which are highlights, but I can't find anywhere where it says what they're actually showing. So annoying!

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