F1 2014 Season

[JonnyAppleSeed]

Canada.... a corker    

Nico cutting the track ?..... looked a bit suspect :g:

2 cars getting ERS fails withing seconds of one another but still keep a competitive pace and caused a great chase

[OldBloke]

Canada.... a corker    

Nico cutting the track ?..... looked a bit suspect :g:

2 cars getting ERS fails withing seconds of one another but still keep a competitive pace and caused a great chase

Massa on Alonso ... sweeeeeet

27G crash apparently. Ouch!

#luckyoldrosberg

[Snokio]

Button did well, shame we didn't see any of it

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[OldBloke]

Button did well, shame we didn't see any of it

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Good point. Actually, the coverage was poor IMHO. The shot often cut away at completely the wrong time.

[TeaLeaf]

Good point. Actually, the coverage was poor IMHO. The shot often cut away at completely the wrong time.

Such as the moment Hamilton's rear brakes went and it started to overshoot the hairpin, it became obvious we were about to see Rosberg retake the lead.......until the camera cut away to something irrelevant. :doh:

Perez rightly penalised for the accident with Massa.

Tremendous overtake from Ricciardo into T1, how he managed to keep the car on the track and not miss T2 I do not know!    Popular winner too. #webbersaysthankyou

Rosberg, possibly one of the luckiest SOBs out there.   Both in terms of escaping a DNF and also in not getting penalised for his 'fastest lap' when he cut the corner at the last chicane when he was unable to defend (and stay on the track) against the Lewis overtake.   He also got a poor start & out-braked himself badly for T1 and ran Hamilton right off the road, which cost Lewis a bunch of time and bumped Hamilton back to third.  

Hamilton, possibly one of the unluckiest SOBs out there.  He was clearly the quicker car out there during the race and if reliability had not killed his race he would have had a comfortable lead by the end and taken another Canadian GP win.   Lewis also avoided two accidents today, both of which would have been caused by Rosberg: the T1 start incident and the ridiculous final chicane incident where Rosberg braked so late he would not even have had time to stop for the pits. :doh:

Loved the Massa drive, right up until the Perez 'moment'.

What happened to Button?   Where did all that last few laps pace come from? :blink:

Bad luck for Chilton, the stewards were a bit heavy-handed with him imo with a grid penalty which is difficult to justify for someone who has otherwise driven cleanly for the last 27 races.


Good race, nice winner, real poor weekend result for Lewis.   Rosberg must be sitting there selling the souls of future lives for this run of luck.

[Snokio]

I was really hoping for a Masa win to give williams a victory, super fast but not one of the greatest overtakers out there. Button could not get on with the supersofts hense slow performance in the first stint. Agreed also on the general coverage was poor (what was the cameraman even thinking panning out to the crowd like that?!?)

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[suicidal_monkey]

Entertaining race, unlucky for Lewis again, at least he wasn't moping around like he was after Monaco. Vettel was lucky to manage to avoid Massa/Perez. Great bit when the camera panned up towards the crowd, and the commentator started saying something like look at the excited... And then changed tack as the camera came to rest and you could see the crowd just sitting staring. Bring on the continued Hamilton fightback :-)

[TeaLeaf]

Here comes the Austrian Grand Prix at the sponsor=named 'Red Bull Ring' (previously called A1 Ring and originally as the Osterreiching).

Here's the old circuit and the new (unchanged since F1's last visit).   I still prefer the old one, the feeling of speed is amazing.

[Deminion]

So, who's at Silverstone this weekend? Watching Kamikaze-kimi

[OldBloke]

So, who's at Silverstone this weekend? Watching Kamikaze-kimi

Not me but soooo wish I was

[TeaLeaf]

Decided not to go this year and tbh glad I did not as the TV had some spectacular racing action.    

[spoiler=Silverstone F1 Grand Prix]I see Vettel still has a polarised view of the world, it was ok for him to force Lewis off the track and crash into him on lap 1, but when he's on the receiving end of it from Alonso he doesn't think it is either funny or legal.  

Thoroughly enjoyed the race though.

-Lewis was overdue some luck, one more DNF for Nico and it'll be all square in the luck department.
-Bottas did superbly and I'm thoroughly pleased for Williams to pull a podium out of an otherwise dire weekend.
-Alonso had a brilliant drive too to finish in the points.
-Mercedes pace was stunning.   Almost 3 seconds per lap quicker in the first stint when Nico & Lewis were racing. :blink:

Final thought:
Despite losing his entire race pace running in free practice due to mechanical failure on his car, Lewis was still demonstrably quicker than Nico and once he had the prime tyre on he was destroying Nico's pace and would have overtaken him anyway imo.[/spoiler]

[Snokio]

Im hoping that when McLaren get the Honda engine next year they will be more competitive with Mercedes (and co), Merc being a works team/engine ofc has given them full advantage this season and due to regulations will not be caught by any other team using the dame engine although Williams doing a fine job! Renault seems to be behind having only being able to use 80% power (IIRC). Good race today and driver of the day split between Alonso snd Botas

[TeaLeaf]

With Lotus rumoured to be moving to Mercedes engines, the Renault F1 engine program is becoming relatively expensive given how few engines they will be supplying.   Honda will be a nice injection of fresh blood and they have a tremendous track record in past F1.

[Snokio]

I dont think Mclaren will be the only team to use the Honda power unit, Im sure Honda will be keen for others to use it. I dont want to see too many teams using Merc units tbh

[TeaLeaf]

I think Honda said they weren't interested in supplying customer engines at least for the first few years?  Can't recall where I read it, but I think therefore I may be wrong!

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