Formula One World Championship

worst race ever. watching paint dry is more exciting

At least it was attritional, as it should be, none of this 20 finishers crap of recent years.

Shame only 17 made it to the grid in the first place though...

Hamilton v Rosberg then, this year.

Sounds familiar.

Vettel wins in Malaysia for Ferrari

FMD. Lewis will no doubt be whingeing about something.

Raikkonen bloody good too. Got to laugh at Alonso's misfortune. Gone from a bad car to a worse one. Red Bull worse than Red Bull B.

HAMILTON wins again in Bahrain

That's 3 out of 4; it's going to be a long season for his competitors (and viewers).

Sounds like Red Bull are getting pissed off with Renault. Their crapola engines are only good for boat anchors it seems.

Rosberg on pole in Spain, out-qualifying Hamilton.

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qualifiers at Silverstone:

1 Hamilton
2 Rosberg
3 daylight
4 the field

... long season


At least Williams is up there again, qualifying in 3 and 4

Jesus!

Did anyone see this F3 crash, for which Mehri has been banned for a couple of races?

LINK

Latifi is lucky to be alive after that.

Oh dear, Jules Bianchi has succumbed to the injuries he sustained after that horror crash in Japan last year.

RIP.

Sadly, we all saw the pictures at the time and all feared the worst.

Poor chap. I read his dad quoted the other day, saying they were no longer optimistic about his recovery, and figured it was just a matter of time.

Sad.

So, Suzuka is on in a few hours ... Hamilton seems likely to wrap up the championship; probably just a formality but maybe something could change that.

It's been a strange season ... not enough interest, with Mercedes utterly dominant.

Dello wrote:Sadly, we all saw the pictures at the time and all feared the worst.

Poor chap. I read his dad quoted the other day, saying they were no longer optimistic about his recovery, and figured it was just a matter of time.

Sad.

It always was. I'm amazed he lived as long as that (thought he'd be DOA) but I guess it's a tribute to medical technology. And the helmet for ensuring there was actually a head left to keep alive.

RIP.

Well done Lewis.

As many world championships as Senna.

MEanwhile, did everyone see Rossi and Marquez?

Rossi shd be charged by the plod for life endangerment

JGK wrote:Well done Lewis.

As many world championships as Senna.

MEanwhile, did everyone see Rossi and Marquez?

Well done to him and congratulations but nowhere near Senna as I'm sure everyone agrees. Nor Prost.

I got hold of many old full F1 seasons a while ago and have been watching a race every so often. Even accounting for the pink glasses it was better back then, and for some of them I wasn't even born so it's hardly nostalgia. There were some truly useless cars but even so, you never knew who would win each race, and they managed to overtake without all this artificial DRS bollocks. Even at Monaco of all places. And even the continuing revival of Williams isn't enough to keep me interested this season. I don't understand this modern cult-of-personality driver-only obsession, but Hamilton has it somehow despite being quite unlikeable in my opinion. Maybe it's just blind nationalism. Wouldn't surprise me; he is English.

Pretty cynical of Rossi. They've been at each other all season but that hardly justifies it

The Rosberg/Hamilton feud is hilarious. Well done to Lewis, but there's no such thing these days as a gentlemanly, sporting F1 championship winner, Nico.

This Saturday sprint is a bit gimmicky isn't it?

JGK wrote:This Saturday sprint is a bit gimmicky isn't it?

Can’t see it being anything other than a procession, with no mandatory pit stops and nobody wanting to risk crashing or taking a penalty.

there's bugger all overtaking in a full F1 race, let alone a shortened version.

beamer wrote:

JGK wrote:This Saturday sprint is a bit gimmicky isn't it?

Can’t see it being anything other than a procession, with no mandatory pit stops and nobody wanting to risk crashing or taking a penalty.

Are the WC points at stake?

Actually that sprint was quite fun. You get back markers who DGAF if they spin out and contenders worries about their grid position, resulting in Alonso passing 6 cars on the first lap!

Daniel Ricciardo wins in Monza.

It has been a few years since his previous victory!