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Post by forgotten in space on Sept 12, 2021 11:22:04 GMT
Nice F2 debut for Enzo Fittipaldi, too bad about the unsafe release.
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Post by Bartman on Sept 12, 2021 21:42:33 GMT
so daniel ricciardo found pace
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Post by forgotten in space on Sept 13, 2021 9:34:01 GMT
so daniel ricciardo found pace Sandbagging so far :P |
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Post by Awake on Sept 13, 2021 15:11:38 GMT
so daniel ricciardo found pace Sandbagging so far :P Is that like teabagging? |
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Post by Bartman on Sept 13, 2021 19:41:07 GMT
so daniel ricciardo found pace Sandbagging so far :P i have seen that enough times to not know if that is a joke or not 😢 mclaren fairly obviously have a low downforce car, ala the old daze, and didn't have a spa or montreal to show it off at. good on danny ric and i think he'd have won either way. a danny ric vs verstappen battle would've been tasty but a hamilton verstappen battle would always end up in a RACING INCIDENT like this |
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Post by Bartman on Sept 13, 2021 19:45:13 GMT
hamilton has more or less avoided accidents involving cars other than seb vettel since 2016 and this season he has had how many?
i respect lewis hamilton and his commitment to mind games and nonsense. this was but another example. vettel forced it in 2017 and 2018 but otherwise hamilton has been clean in recent years. he learnt from ron dennis and from fernando alonso and probably watched enough MSC, he gets it and the power of a tactical front wing. good on him. esp milking the injury the way he is. a real pro.
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Post by forgotten in space on Sept 13, 2021 20:18:12 GMT
hamilton has more or less avoided accidents involving cars other than seb vettel since 2016 and this season he has had how many? i respect lewis hamilton and his commitment to mind games and nonsense. this was but another example. vettel forced it in 2017 and 2018 but otherwise hamilton has been clean in recent years. he learnt from ron dennis and from fernando alonso and probably watched enough MSC, he gets it and the power of a tactical front wing. good on him. esp milking the injury the way he is. a real pro. Now it's Ocon who thinks he shouldn't have had to give way to Latifi nor gotten a penalty for squeezing Seb. This generation of drivers grew up with shit stewarding and tarmac run-offs and now think everything counts. 🙄 Quite cheeky of Lewis not to give Max room but after that Max knew exactly what he was doing, accelerating into a non-existent gap. They can both keep taking each other out for all I care, Lando, Checo or Valtteri for 2021 WDC! |
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Post by forgotten in space on Sept 23, 2021 9:20:08 GMT
Normally I would be happy about rain but after the Spa debacle... fingers crossed it's not a flood :P
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Post by Bartman on Sept 24, 2021 5:52:49 GMT
it's sochi... might not be the worst thing to happen if the race got called off...
though maybe rain'll be what makes the race good!
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Post by forgotten in space on Sept 24, 2021 8:47:45 GMT
Whitmarsh to Force India and now Ronspeak talking to Sky... could one of them please take Jenson away from Doritos pl0x..
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Post by Bartman on Sept 24, 2021 17:08:48 GMT
Whitmarsh to Force India and now Ronspeak talking to Sky... could one of them please take Jenson away from Doritos pl0x.. so we know that lewis won't be going to jordan when seb steps aside :p |
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Post by Bartman on Sept 24, 2021 17:09:00 GMT
indycar keep winning
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Post by Bartman on Sept 26, 2021 13:40:07 GMT
genuinely cannot think of a more appropriate way for lewis hamilton to get #100 than this one. it was pure hamilton.
and it was still a disaster for the championship!
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Post by Bartman on Sept 26, 2021 13:59:44 GMT
unfortunately for lando, he wasn't as blessed as brad binder a few weeks back when rain came late in the austrian motorcycle grand pric and he stayed out...
lando did everything right though and i think staying out was smart. if he pits with hamilton, there's still no guarantee that he finishes ahead. staying out was his best shot, the second wave of rain came 5-6 minutes too soon for him. unfortunately
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Post by forgotten in space on Sept 26, 2021 16:13:21 GMT
His pace and consistency to remain ahead of Lewis after the pitstops was pretty good. What a shame but it was worth the gamble for a win.
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Post by Bartman on Sept 26, 2021 22:02:15 GMT
well ricciardo can rest easy that there isn't an indycar CHAMPION chasing him within the team anymore...
that alex palou is a fucking excellent race car driver. was great in super formula, wins the indycar series in season 2...the world outside of F1 is bustling and thriving.
colton herta is a star and if andretti do find their way into haas or sauber, a seat has to be available to him should he want it. he almost had the measure of norris in msa formula/formula 4 back in 2015, he knows the european culture, if he wants to switch to F1 then F1 would be all the better for it.
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Post by forgotten in space on Sept 30, 2021 11:27:25 GMT
Qatar signs a multi-year deal but apparently only this season will be at Losail...is there anything inherently wrong with the circuit?
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Post by Bartman on Sept 30, 2021 16:23:38 GMT
Qatar signs a multi-year deal but apparently only this season will be at Losail...is there anything inherently wrong with the circuit? losail is a cracking circuit, i can't think of another circuit in qatar. my only guess would be that a some gimmick "street circuit" will be built around a world cup stadium or "park" that'll take up the rest of the contract. |
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Post by Bartman on Sept 30, 2021 16:25:19 GMT
smdh at the nerds that would rather see hockenheim on the calendar than losail. memed themselves into liking that circuit after the mixed weather 2019 race that lance stroll led.
although, hockenheim in november might have been fun...
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Post by Bartman on Oct 2, 2021 13:36:16 GMT
i wish that F1 drivers had the same balls as motogp riders to call out or complain, publicly, to race directors, circuits, organising bodies. http://instagram.com/p/CUhtR5nt6pN this post from aleix espargaro is funny, cheeky, and gets to the point of what riders have been saying - in the two and half years since last visiting COTA, the track surface has changed and it's shit. weather conditions, the lack of use for 18 months, NASCAR being the only major series to visit since autumn 2019 has wrecked the surface and making it dangerous for bikes to run. the paddock has no issue raising that. with how race direction has been in recent months, how fortunate the authorities are that F1 drivers are more interested in twitch than their own conditions... |
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Post by forgotten in space on Oct 2, 2021 22:25:41 GMT
i wish that F1 drivers had the same balls as motogp riders to call out or complain, publicly, to race directors, circuits, organising bodies. http://instagr.am/p/CUhtR5nt6pN this post from aleix espargaro is funny, cheeky, and gets to the point of what riders have been saying - in the two and half years since last visiting COTA, the track surface has changed and it's shit. weather conditions, the lack of use for 18 months, NASCAR being the only major series to visit since autumn 2019 has wrecked the surface and making it dangerous for bikes to run. the paddock has no issue raising that. with how race direction has been in recent months, how fortunate the authorities are that F1 drivers are more interested in twitch than their own conditions... I remember the F1 drivers complaining about massive bumps a few years ago. Wasnt it resurfaced after that? |
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Post by Bartman on Oct 3, 2021 13:35:29 GMT
i wish that F1 drivers had the same balls as motogp riders to call out or complain, publicly, to race directors, circuits, organising bodies. http://instagr.am/p/CUhtR5nt6pN this post from aleix espargaro is funny, cheeky, and gets to the point of what riders have been saying - in the two and half years since last visiting COTA, the track surface has changed and it's shit. weather conditions, the lack of use for 18 months, NASCAR being the only major series to visit since autumn 2019 has wrecked the surface and making it dangerous for bikes to run. the paddock has no issue raising that. with how race direction has been in recent months, how fortunate the authorities are that F1 drivers are more interested in twitch than their own conditions... I remember the F1 drivers complaining about massive bumps a few years ago. Wasnt it resurfaced after that? american roads being fixed? absolutely not! COTA is a great circuit but the geology and the geography have done it zero favours. paired with an ownership lurching from financial disaster to financial disaster and a laissez-faire approach to their actual venue, there wasn't much chance. i wouldn't mind them staying at COTA but a return to indianapolis and/or laguna seca might be a shout for them. tonight's race will probably be great. like the paris-roubaix that i have on just now, it's as much because of the crazy surface rather than the sporting occasion itself being exciting. aleix is still at it... http://instagram.com/p/CUkRMqNN09k |
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Post by Bartman on Oct 3, 2021 18:32:16 GMT
2000 japanese grand prix - the race that broke 7 year old bartman's heart - on television right now. i don't care that the cars today are literally faster, these cars look fucking incredible and mindblowingly quick going through the esses, dunlop and degner curves. unbeliveable.
i miss williams' fuelman that wore the yellow petrobras overalls, in contrast to the blue/white bmw/compaq mechanics. snazzy.
when alesi's engine dropped it through the esses, i think, and marshalls ran on track (into traffic), it reminded me of how quaint super gt is that that probably would still happen and thankful that outside of japan this generally does not happen anymore.
still miss arrows to this day and the orange arrows were dynamite motors.
coming up for the greatest/most important pit stop and in/out laps of all time.
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Post by Bartman on Oct 3, 2021 18:38:53 GMT
absolutely crazy how hard hakkinen and schumacher pushed one another yet, to my immediate knowledge, never once collided with each other. hamilton/rosberg and hamilton/verstappen may be even more driven and intense mental rivalries but both have ended in disaster, same with prost/senna. schumacher and hakkinen had lots of tough, robust racing yet never collided.
indeed, schumacher never had contact with kimi nor alonso either. unsure what made these three different to hill and villenueve (and the entire grid 2010-2012), possibly a matter of respect? no matter what, 1998-2000, 2003 and 2006 were beautiful title fights.
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Post by forgotten in space on Oct 3, 2021 21:16:46 GMT
2000 japanese grand prix - the race that broke 7 year old bartman's heart - on television right now. i don't care that the cars today are literally faster, these cars look fucking incredible and mindblowingly quick going through the esses, dunlop and degner curves. unbeliveable.
i miss williams' fuelman that wore the yellow petrobras overalls, in contrast to the blue/white bmw/compaq mechanics. snazzy.
when alesi's engine dropped it through the esses, i think, and marshalls ran on track (into traffic), it reminded me of how quaint super gt is that that probably would still happen and thankful that outside of japan this generally does not happen anymore.
still miss arrows to this day and the orange arrows were dynamite motors.
coming up for the greatest/most important pit stop and in/out laps of all time.
On the TV? How? :o |
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Post by Bartman on Oct 3, 2021 22:17:29 GMT
2000 japanese grand prix - the race that broke 7 year old bartman's heart - on television right now. i don't care that the cars today are literally faster, these cars look fucking incredible and mindblowingly quick going through the esses, dunlop and degner curves. unbeliveable.
i miss williams' fuelman that wore the yellow petrobras overalls, in contrast to the blue/white bmw/compaq mechanics. snazzy.
when alesi's engine dropped it through the esses, i think, and marshalls ran on track (into traffic), it reminded me of how quaint super gt is that that probably would still happen and thankful that outside of japan this generally does not happen anymore.
still miss arrows to this day and the orange arrows were dynamite motors.
coming up for the greatest/most important pit stop and in/out laps of all time.
On the TV? How? :o
sky sports f1! occasionally they actually make use of the library and show old races. because this week was supposed to be the japanese grand prix, i suppose they kept their broadcast schedule as it was and are showing classic japanese grand prix! 2005 was on afterwards but i didn't want to get too excited before bed...
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Post by Bartman on Oct 3, 2021 22:19:22 GMT
confident that japan 2005 is comfortably within my top 5 favourite grand prix ever :p
depending on my mood, it's likely between that and belgium 2000 for my favourite race. i must have a thing for finns driving mclarens winning races in the dying laps and making italians very upset
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Post by Bartman on Oct 6, 2021 18:11:33 GMT
but it's absolutely essential that formula one doesn't change the engine regulations or "sustainability" changes in order for manufacturers to have "road car relevance".
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Post by Bartman on Oct 8, 2021 6:48:06 GMT
totally forgot that there was a grand prix this weekend lol
turkey, so it will be wonderful no doubt
we're deep into the run of races where hashtag we race as one is postponed - and as good as this title fight is, there's still too many races left at this point in the year 😡
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Post by forgotten in space on Oct 9, 2021 13:28:58 GMT
Fuck off, di Resta.
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