F1 Thread

[JC]

how smug was lewis at the post qualy press conference 

and good old kimi, - non compliance with his race suit down

[Toby]

Bo lex!

Slept through it! Didn't record it neither!!

 

[JC]

slept thru it, did record it 

[MAW73]

Great pole Lewis!  Would love to see that turned in to a race win tomorrow

Unfortunately tomorrow will be very much down to tyre management where I think the Mercedes will come out short. The tyres wear does mix things up and create excitement in the race to a degree but I wish it was all about the fastest car/driver.

Perez is going well then   

[stu646]

Great for Lewis! Seemed he did in the end make the right decision

McLaren are so bad this season! Yet another bad qualifying session. 

[RandomJord]

Great pole Lewis! 

And him qualifying first isnt bad either!  ARF! ARF!

[LittleReDuck]

Perez is going well then   

Yer into the walls surrounding the track...Repeatedly 

[stu646]

I see Bernie is coming under pressure from the smaller teams in F1 now due to the majority of races only being live in Sky.

Last year was the first season it was not on free to air TV and the figures show over 3.8 million less people watched F1 than the year before. The daily viewing figures for the F1 Sky Channel are now so low even the BBC Parliament News Channel has more viewers per day on average. Only 86,000 tune in daily for the F1 Channel.

It is getting so bad Bernie is trying to get Sky to send free Sky boxes to people with only the F1 channel free to view while all other normal Sky channels are behind the pay wall. Bernie says this will work as people over time will want to unlock all the other channels on the box so Sky will still make money from it!

Course they will Bernie!

[Wayne]

Drop in viewing figures could be down to more than the switch to Sky, dare to say it but maybe people are losing interest.

What with the tyres made of cheese, DRS needed for overtakes and the same person winning it for the last 3 years, I have not watched it as much and this year the tyres are even worse.

The supersofts used at China were gone after 5 / 6 laps, what is the point of that, racing should be racing not a question of tyres etc.

I mean it got so bad at China that even Button was on the radio asking do I race or let him past

[stu646]

Drop in viewing figures could be down to more than the switch to Sky, dare to say it but maybe people are losing interest.

What with the tyres made of cheese, DRS needed for overtakes and the same person winning it for the last 3 years, I have not watched it as much and this year the tyres are even worse.

The supersofts used at China were gone after 5 / 6 laps, what is the point of that, racing should be racing not a question of tyres etc.

I mean it got so bad at China that even Button was on the radio asking do I race or let him past

Yep, I heard that to and just sums F1 up now. Same the week before. Despite Vettel not listening..the top 4 cars were just told to stop racing and bring the cars home slowly. Hardly the pinnacle of motor sport.

Every race is getting the same now, go out and spend 3/4 of the race managing the tyres and then race for the last 10 laps or so. DRS on most tracks is boring to. Look at the last race, how easy was it for every car to overtake with DRS on either on the two long straights DRS was enable for. With cars only being allowed to move one way to defend it is so easy to overtake with DRS.