F1 season 2015

Oh and btw. Watch both ginetta junior races today won by a 14 year old girl!
Watch out for this girl in the future
http://sophiafloersch.com/
Pretty amazing how a 14 year old rookie could beat older more established drivers in her fourth ever car race at what is the fastest circuit in the UK requiring great car control just to keep the car on the track. A championship winning karter as well, if Red bull pick her up be interesting to see where she goes.
 
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Here you go @45bvtc it must be Vettel’s career highlight...
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btw… I did see him over take Massa …… oh, no, wait a minute!!…



 
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Audi have repeately distanced themselves from F1, But I suppose if they are getting a good deal from Dietrich Mateschitz to take over Torro Rosso and they supply engines to the sister team Red Bull then that may kill two birds with one stone. However you only have to look at what has happened to Honda and there engine program. And the way Ecclestone is talking he wants to go back to the 2.4 V8's as a cost cutting excercise.
Who is going to spend 10's of millions developing an engine that may only be used for 12 months.
There is a lot of risk in F1.
Karl.
 
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Great find, I particularly like the summary of Lotus. Just for JoJo
"The team with the most non-existent no-claims bonus on the grid return for another season having ditched the dreadful old misfiring engines from a Renault 25 that used to arrive in a broken box from France. With strong, reliable Mercedes power Lotus will have to find another way to avoid getting respectable results which brings us neatly to their drivers. Grosjean seems set to continue looking like a rural simpleton and driving like a man with strong talent but very poor eyesight, whilst Maldonado will give the impression that he has simply no idea what any of the controls do or where the track goes until, on about lap 12, he has an underwhelming accident of such predictability that they won’t even bother to show it on television leaving fans to spend the rest of the race wondering if he’s hit a wall or simply become so confused that he’s accidentally driven out of an access road and is currently scraping the E23 against the bollards outside a McDonald’s drive-through."
 
Great find, I particularly like the summary of Lotus. Just for JoJo
"The team with the most non-existent no-claims bonus on the grid return for another season having ditched the dreadful old misfiring engines from a Renault 25 that used to arrive in a broken box from France. With strong, reliable Mercedes power Lotus will have to find another way to avoid getting respectable results which brings us neatly to their drivers. Grosjean seems set to continue looking like a rural simpleton and driving like a man with strong talent but very poor eyesight, whilst Maldonado will give the impression that he has simply no idea what any of the controls do or where the track goes until, on about lap 12, he has an underwhelming accident of such predictability that they won’t even bother to show it on television leaving fans to spend the rest of the race wondering if he’s hit a wall or simply become so confused that he’s accidentally driven out of an access road and is currently scraping the E23 against the bollards outside a McDonald’s drive-through."

They will come good! Hopefully, before the last race! :D
 
looks like he decided to get his pen out and sign the damn thing after Rosberg won the last race; don't want Mercedes knocking him back down on price
 
Different story for me Bottas back in 17th, hopefully he doesn't get caught up in the first corner melee caused by Maldanado trying to get past 5 people on the first corner. Can't believe Williams are so slow.

Karl.
 
Hamilton, again, showing why he is World Champion. The rest of the pack are getting ever closer but he seems to have another level to go to when needed. Will be an interesting first 200 odd metres tomorrow.
 
What happened to Williams? Most boring race about to start and can't see them climbing to top positions.
 
Lol, I hope I not missed anything yet. :) x
 
What happened to Williams? Most boring race about to start and can't see them climbing to top positions.
apparently they didn't get their tyres switched on temperature wise!?! It's a bit warmer today, I expect Bottas to make up positions
 
What a **** up by mercedes. Hamilton is not going to be happy!
 
What an utter shambles.

LH deserved that win by a mile,and should have got just that.

I was going to watch this later....now I'm not sure.
 
Somebody needs to lose their job at Mercedes, It was ridiculous bringing Hamilton in. Track position is everything in Monaco you can be 3-4 seconds a lap slower and keep somebody behind you.
 
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Definite shambles. Close up of one of (I assume) the pit guys looked like he was getting an absolute roasting....
 
Somebody needs to lose their job at Mercedes, It was ridiculous bringing Hamilton in. Track position is everything in Monaco you can be 3-4 seconds a lap slower and keep somebody behind you.

Definite shambles. Close up of one of (I assume) the pit guys looked like he was getting an absolute roasting....

Absolutely.

At that rate,even with his lead gone after the safety car,he could probably have held the lead on bald tyres.

It's not Rosberg's fault of course,but LH must be spitting nails.
 
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Actually thought Lewis dealt with it reasonably well on the podium. I think that aspect of his game has improved after the trials of last season. I think he'll come back stronger in Canada in a couple of weeks, just hope they don't have a repeat of last years issues there.
 
The worst case if he didn't pit, he would have lost one place. Absolutely shocking decision.
 
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Bring what you've got: first to do 200-miles or 2-hours wins...

And for the Vettel can't overtake; well neither can Lewis it seems even with a NEW set of super-soft tyres (2-seconds a lap faster) against 2-slower cars with very old/worn soft tyres.

Ban radios, said that before.

I'm still laughing, as are Sebastian and Nico

Loved the way Lewis smacked that 3rd place signpost on the way in, going to play that again and again....

Ribs am urtin....
 
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Monaco is not an overtaking track. As has been said its all about track position. Easiest track on the calendar to make your car 'big'! Think the incident with Verstrappen showed very bluntly. He had a much faster car yet made an error of judgement. Lewis is one of the best place takers ever, if he couldn't pass Vettel then no one can.
 
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What a team of plonkers! sack the Strategist and be done with it.

"...we win & lose together..."? I don't hear Nico utter those words when he loses.

I seem to remember a race at Monaco years ago that saw Mansell pitting late for tyres in a superior Williams! He was 3-4 seconds a lap faster than Senna and caught him in no time, but he couldn't get past for the win. so I knew this one was lost when he came out of the pits in 3rd.

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Ridiculous mistake by Mercedes
 
2nd time Hamilton's cocked up at Monaco mind; he parked behind Rosberg a couple of years ago only to say several months later it was his mistake; lets see where this goes in a couple of months time - emotions are way too high :tearsofjoy: for the remains of the day...

Spooky how he's gone and done it again...:whistle2:
 
What a disappointing finish for Hamilton, the team messed up big-time !!!

Beautiful venue and the weather held out for them but Hamiltons face on the podium looked storming!!!
 
For sure Hamiton will be feeling better today, and better still tomorrow; he'll have his feet up by now in his Monaco home and thinking about a nice Provencal lunch by the poolside and hopefully realising that it's only a motor race and the money's already in the bank

Hamilton could have ignored the radio (BAN radios) as he's done before when it suited him and not the team so win as a team and lose as a team and that's what does it for me

I watched the race live on Sky and then the highlights on BBC (I can be very sad too) and was surprised at the differing views offered by both channels

The one remaining constant for me is how Verstappen got out and walked away from that Torro Rosso but I guess it'll be much of the same computing and engineering that got him and ALL of the others there in the first place: like I said, win as a team and lose as a team


Just found this on Crash.net: “I saw on the screens that the team was out and thought that Nico had pitted. Obviously, I couldn't see the guys behind and I thought that they were pitting so, when the team said to stay out, I said that the tyres were going to drop in temperature. I was assuming that these guys would be on options [for the remaining laps] and I was on the harder tyre, so they said to pit. With that thinking, I came in with full confidence that the others had done the same...”

Oooops...

Enjoy the day, fans...
 
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Worth every penny! :racer:

Gotta be you being funny Jojo as with Hamilton living in Monaco as a Monegasque and not paying UK National Insurance and or TAX you can't be serious about 'he's worth every penny' unless you really meant Euro or Dollar or Yen maybe but you can't be serious about a 'penny'
 

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