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[Interferon]

kimi in font of alo

 

[Omiee]

Alonso lost a place to kimi during the pits.

 

[PdotMichael]

"pure" F1 is not entertaining. Ratings, crowds etc want to see overtaking. Technology these days means you cant have both.

Pretty sure the Schumacher time was the most succesful time of the F1.

The ratings get significantly worse with each season in the last years now.

 

[mclem]

What? They paid good money to watch a motor race and they have been robbed of a fair contest due to tyres randomly going pop. If I had paid the ridiculous ticket prices to watch this I would be upset.

Did spectators get refunds in the era when there would be several engine blowouts per race?

 

[Jezbollah]

Pretty sure the Schumacher time was the most succesful time of the F1.

MS winning the world championship by the French GP in Magny Cours wasnt entertaining. That's my point.

 

[marvelharvey]

Button, Di Resta, Hamilton, all together. Terrible weekend for the Brits.

 

[Salacious Crumb]

Why is TR not bringing Dan in? idiots

 

[PdotMichael]

MS winning the world championship by the French GP in Magny Cours wasnt entertaining. That's my point.

for you - not for the world.

 

[bobnowhere]

Ricciardo is going to get undercut by half the field due to TR's complete inability to make a sensible strategy.

 

[Jezbollah]

for you - not for the world.

Then why did the FIA/Bernie feel the need to introduce the Pirellis then?

 

[PdotMichael]

Then why did the FIA/Bernie feel the need to introduce the Pirellis then?

Pirelli was some years after Schumacher or?

And Pirelli was one of the many ideas to make the F1 "more interesting". The results are stunng.

 

[Hackbert]

ugh.. hamilton BOX:BOX;BOX ...

 

[Salamndar]

Rosberg

 

[fuenf]

MS winning the world championship by the French GP in Magny Cours wasnt entertaining. That's my point.

At least the fastest guy in the best car won back then, imo F1 went downhill when they started to focus on making overtaking easier. The audience isnt as dumb as you think, different fuel strategys etc. added tons of excitement and werent any harder to understand than this tyre crap.

 

[Addnan]

Have RBR ever messed up Vettels pit?

 

[Ark]

Got a link for that?

Nope, won't be looking for one either. I'm confident in my memory, but if I'm wrong then so be it.

I am livid.

 

[Omiee]

Thank you webber for once doing something to help vettel out.

 

[Regulus Tera]

Sutil :/

 

[Salamndar]

DAMN...Massa is slow !

 

[moojito]

Slasher finding his... unique approach to thinning out the competition not working out so well after losing the front wing?

 

[Omiee]

Have RBR ever messed up Vettels pit?

Did you miss the 2011 race when vettel was leading but was fucked in the pits?

 

[smiggyRT]

Nope, won't be looking for one either. I'm confident in my memory, but if I'm wrong then so be it.

I am livid.

Uhh... well I'm sure you can understand why I wont just be taking your word for it.

 

[Yen]

Did you miss the 2011 race when vettel was leading but was fucked in the pits?

So once, two years ago

 

[nny]

DIR vs HAM - good stuff!

 

[startyourengine]

di resta ham damn good racing

oops it was ham

 

[Jezbollah]

Pirelli was some years after Schumacher or?

It depends what years you define the Schumacher era as.

Also, why did the FIA introduce the massive regulation changes in 2009 - return to slicks, reduction of aero, KERS/DRS if the Schumacher era was the most successful? Why change such a successful formula?

"Pure F1", and "Entertainment F1" cannot co-exist anymore. Pirelli are not to blame with the issues today. They have never had issues like this in other control tyre racing like this - they are not incompetent. They are in F1 because they, the FIA/Bernie etc gave them the conditions they are currently running under. The FIA are to blame with no tyre testing. No teams want to see their cars blow tyres out of the lead. They want to run their cars within the parameters of reliability to secure the best results. No one wins in this current situation, but blame in this case is being pointed in the wrong direction.

 

[Omiee]

So once, two years ago

Which is a good thing. I forgot last year when he was fucked in monaco with wrong tires.

EDIT: i mean 2011.

 

[Diablohead]

Good scrap with paul and lewis there

 

[bobnowhere]

Di Resta rarely troubles the apex of most corners.

 

[Salamndar]

di resta ham damn good racing

oops it was ham

Are you sure you are watching the same race as the rest of us ?!!?


Edit* Ohh you corrected that

 

[Shaneus]

What did I miss re: RIC pit strategy? Is he losing too much time?

 

[Meteorain]

Exciting stuff between Di Resta and Hamilton there.

 

[Omiee]

Webber drive of the weekend? Fought his way back from 15th to 4th and maybe 3rd by the end of the race.

 

[derFeef]

Godd stuff there, more of that!

 

[Omiee]

Vettel losing a lot of time to rosberg, a looot of time in the second sector. 7 tenths.

 

[smiggyRT]

Rosberg closed the gap to the Vettel.

 

[Jezbollah]

Rosberg closed the gap to the Vettel.

By .5 on that last lap!

 

[Shaneus]

Fuck you, Sutil.

 

[Omiee]

By .5 on that last lap!

Vettel won .7 in the first sector.

 

[DrM]

Cmon Webbah, you can do it.

Did Felipe run over a magnet or smth, he lost his compass

 

[Salacious Crumb]

Fucking penalty for that! c'mon Sutil you twat.

 

[Dead Man]

Fucking hell Sutil.

 

[Omiee]

Bumping raikonnen off the podium would be good for Vettel and his title hopes.

Thank you webber!!

 

[bobnowhere]

That was a bit ugly from Sutil.

 

[Wax Free Vanilla]

Vettel has this under total control only a failure can stop him from winning


lol

 

[Adam Scott Aukerman]

Good one!

 

[Hackbert]

Vettel DNF

 

[Jezbollah]

VETTEL!!!

Edit: dat crowd roar lol.

 

[Shaneus]

Vettel!!!! YES BABY THATS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.

 

[kharma45]

lolololololol VETTEL