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The Formula 1 2012 Season |OT2| WHY AREN'T YOU WATCHING THIS SEASON?!
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I meant his first ever in a German GP in his whole career.
Kimi had the worst luck in the German GP's retiring from 1st position, last lap while leading, poles converted into mechanical failures..etc
His best finish was 4th in 2006
Sleeplessnights
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Yup, they gave a 20 second penalty as expected. Nothing controversial or surprising about it. Anyone familiar with the rules knew exactly what was going to happen! Dumb move on Vettel's part because it actually cost him valuable points.
I'm surprised Red Bull didn't warn Vettel and ask him to give the place back.
Yup, they gave a 20 second penalty as expected. Nothing controversial or surprising about it. Anyone familiar with the rules knew exactly what was going to happen! Dumb move on Vettel's part because it actually cost him valuable points.
Both Red Bull and Vettel are arrogant imo, they have gotten away with so much imo in the past few years that they are just feeling cocky about it
really wish Web-God went to Ferrari!He was they showed some on board right after the overtake and Vettel was livid. His own fault for being slower.
They probably weren't thinking straight, and the race was pretty much over at that point. Sucks to be them! Lol.
GO BUTTON!
Found it on the tubes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbcPBHxfhW0 , so good, he must hate that hairpin now.
It was funny too, just before McLaren asked Hamilton to make sure as to get out of the way of Button, so he was just following team orders.
Nah, you don't. For once, the team is on his side (moreso than ever, it seems), he has a car he likes (no fucking blown diffuser bullshit) and is up there in the points. I was stoked to hear that he was sticking with RBR because this year he's really shown that it's only under certain circumstances that he's a #2 driver. I think we're back to 2010 again, although hopefully with a slightly different result (provided Vettel doesn't take him out in one of the weekends again).Both Red Bull and Vettel are arrogant imo, they have gotten away with so much imo in the past few years that they are just feeling cocky about it
that advertising writing is grippier than asphalt (except in wet, where its like ice), the hot rubber of the tyres sticks to it like velcro, hence vettels crazy pull away from button at that point.
what they need to do is put that brightly colour stuff down around these sort of corners, that destroys your tyres
Oh c'mon. Don't you remember Massa's 4th place at Silverstone? That surely was the driving performance of the year.
You talk like his teammate has 154pts and leading the WDC while Massa only has 23. You guys are so unfair to Felipe.
Sky again.
brotkasten
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John Dunbar
correct about everything
He was 3rd in the German GP in 2006.
Yes.
Don't know why they chose Abu Dhabi and Korea.
About 2/3 of the race.
Monza and Austin are 2 races Sky would definitely want to have exclusively.
It's a shame, since the Sky coverage is pretty shit in my opinion.
It's ridiculous that I watched two hours of pre-race and they barely mentioned any tyre strategies before the race started.
I don't even know what they did mention.
Playing it safe since I may have missed a few minutes here and there since my mind wandered while trying to pay attention to some of their boring chit chat. I don't recall anything at all, personally.
Same here, actually. :lol
I'd take the "shitty" Sky coverage over the abysmal one we have in France any day, trust me.
I mean, in France, they've stopped showing qualifying on TF1, you have to get Eurosport to see them again (they had already stopped showing them on free TV for two or three years, something like five years ago). FP are also exclusively shown on Eurosport.
Now, I don't mind the FP because it's not always interesting and most of the time I wouldn't be able to watch them anyway but not showing qualifying is a joke.
Also, you have no idea how bad the race coverage is here. First, they have like the worst commercial breaks ever (I still remember missing Schumacher's engine breaking down at Suzuka in 2006 because of that). Pre-race build-up is only done on European GPs and there's never any post-race coverage (show ends right after the podium, seems like Walker Texas Ranger reruns are more important than F1). I mean, yesterday I loved seeing the guy walking down the pitlane while the whole Formula 1 circus was packing up.
Don't even get me started on the commentator team we have...
Now I didn't watch the Sky build-up so I can't compare that but both race and post-race coverage are miles ahead of what France get. No wonder we don't have a GP anymore honestly...
Anyway, pretty good GP. I've never been a fan of Alonso but he's probably the best driver on the grid at the moment.
I'd love to see Schumacher and Kimi in better cars and hopefully Grosjean will stop making small mistakes and having bad luck.
BTW, FOM should just call Turn 10 to get their icy tarmac formula. That would prevent drivers going outside the corners too much. I'm sure many Forza players were thinking about that yesterday when some drivers were going onto the drag strip in the final corners.
brotkasten
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I didn't know that HRT would go all Spanish in 2013.
http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/281833/clos-to-practice-again-in-hungary/
Are you sure HRT will race in 2013?
They might get a bailout
So here's something that crossed my mind after yesterday's GP.
Imagine a situation where the constructor's championship is sealed up, but the drivers' championship is still volatile, with one member of a team not a contender, the other fighting for the win.
Is there anything in the rules stopping the non-competitive team-mate deliberately going backwards - I don't mean turning around, just putting in slow laps - to explicitly give his team-mate a DRS boost as frequently as possible?
Imagine a situation where the constructor's championship is sealed up, but the drivers' championship is still volatile, with one member of a team not a contender, the other fighting for the win.
Is there anything in the rules stopping the non-competitive team-mate deliberately going backwards - I don't mean turning around, just putting in slow laps - to explicitly give his team-mate a DRS boost as frequently as possible?
Psychotext
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As long as it wasn't dangerous... probably. Would be hell to try and organise though. They'd be better off pushing their luck on the blue flags with the leader (though staying within the letter of the law).
Merc tried something similar in qualifying couple years ago (pre DRS). They wanted to give the cars some slipstream on long straights, but abandoned it quickly as they found it extremely difficult to pull off. The speed delta is just too big, as to perfectly synchronize it in a single lap - let alone for several consecutive laps.
They've never raced.
But I think they plan to drive round all the tracks again next year
Yep, NOOOOO!!!!!
RukusProvider
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meh. I liked stuff much more on 2 forum. I always forget community.
Let's see what happens if they stay at 12th place in the WCC and don't get any money from the FIA.
Wouldn't work. You'd have to be so close that you'd be in the dirty air the entire time and your tyres would just fall off.
A la Button on Alonso yesterday.
Just trying to be consistent with the other sports threads!
Psychotext
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My mother said I'm special.
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http://www.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/281835/gpupdate-net-half-term-stats-2012/
Stats from the 2012 season.
Combined age of torro rosso = age of schumacher :lol
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