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Quoting notaxonrotax (Thread starter): I wish us all an exciting year. |
Quoting CPH-R (Reply 2): Sadly it appears already, that the excitement is going to revolve around the secondary places in the races. Mercedes are once again looking very ominous |
Quoting notaxonrotax (Reply 3): We shall see....maybe VET can make them more miserable than we think. |
Quoting notaxonrotax (Thread starter): New qualifying system this year.....which did NOT bring the excitement some predicted...at least, yesterday. The results were also not very surprising. |
Quoting stealthz (Reply 1): Hell, Red Bull didn't even buff the "paint" |
Quoting CPH-R (Reply 4): To say that the final few minutes of qualifying was a farce would be quite the understatement. |
Quoting moo (Reply 5): Well, that qualifying was as I thought - rubbish. |
Quoting scbriml (Reply 6): I'd go as far as saying the new qualifying format was a complete disaster. |
Quoting moo (Reply 5): Rosberg looks like he hasnt brought that edge he had over Hamilton the last couple of races last year |
Quoting scbriml (Reply 8): On the qualifying debacle, it sounds like the teams are having a meeting about it on Sunday. I really, really hope they don't adopt Ecclestone's barmy 'reverse grid' bollocks. Why should the winner of the previous race be penalised at the next? Everyone should start each race weekend with a clean slate. |
Quoting moo (Reply 9): Mercedes got it right, and they are winning as a result - if you arent winning, you didnt get it right, and thats your fault, why should Mercedes be punished? |
Quoting photopilot (Reply 11): Could you imagine the same thing happening in the world of business? Imagine Apple develops a particular feature for this year's model then you tell every other manufacturer (Samsung, LG, etc) that they cannot change or develop their product until next year's model. That's insanity, which is right where F1 is today. |
Quoting photopilot (Reply 7): Well add my name to the list of millions worldwide who found the new Qualifying format a complete travesty of what motor RACING is supposed to be!!! |
Quoting grozzy (Reply 17): That crash happened right in front of me. Amazing they both walked away. |
Quoting MadameConcorde (Reply 19): I believe if the car had a halo Alonso could not have gotten out of the car. |
Quote: Jenson Button says McLaren team-mate Fernando Alonso's Australian Grand Prix crash should not be used as evidence against the cockpit halo set to be introduced in Formula 1 in 2017. |
Quoting B747forever (Reply 16): What a great start of the first 2016 GP. Vettel is on fire! |
Quoting scbriml (Reply 20): Quote: Jenson Button says McLaren team-mate Fernando Alonso's Australian Grand Prix crash should not be used as evidence against the cockpit halo set to be introduced in Formula 1 in 2017. Looking at the design fitted to the Ferrari, it doesn't look to impede egress from the car at all. |
Quoting MadameConcorde (Reply 22): We all have the right to different opinions. |
Quoting MadameConcorde (Reply 22): I have been watching racing for many years. I write from what I remember. |
Quoting CPH-R (Reply 21): Very much a case of 'what could have been', had Ferrari not bungled that pitstop. |
Quoting sudden (Reply 24): And Button has actually been in F1, driving F1 cars, for 15 years so your opinion carry little to no weight. |
Quoting scbriml (Reply 23): Quoting MadameConcorde (Reply 22): We all have the right to different opinions. Indeed. But forgive me if I value the opinion of a current F1 driver and WDC winner more. |
Quoting MadameConcorde (Reply 27): Moot point. This wasn't even Alonso's worst crash. Interlagos Brasil GP 2003 |
Quoting notaxonrotax (Reply 3): maybe VET can make them more miserable than we think. |
Quoting scbriml (Reply 6): I love their matt look! |
Quoting scbriml (Reply 8): Hamilton had won the WDC and eased off a few percentage points while Rosberg had nothing to lose and no pressure, so he improved a few percentage points. The result was Rosberg able to beat Hamilton on track. |
Quoting photopilot (Reply 11): That's all well and good, but when F1 specifically bans in-season testing, development, engine tokens, etc, etc, than what you have is a constructor making a guess on what he's going to develop, and like the lottery if you win fine, but if you lose, you're stuck for many years ahead. That is what's happening now. |
Quoting scbriml (Reply 20): It would look like Ferrari threw away a possible race win by putting Vettel on the super-softs after the red flag. |
Quoting scbriml (Reply 20): Max Verstappen needs to calm down a bit. After he refused team orders to give a place to Sainz last season, did he really expect Sainz to jump out of his way? |
Quoting NAV30 (Reply 29): As a chartered surveyor/town planner, I was part of the team that set up the 'Australian Grand Prix.' We all owed a great deal to the local residents, most of whom realised from the first that such an event would very much help the local economy, and cooperated. |
Quoting NAV30 (Reply 29): I hope everyone else enjoyed it. |
Quoting ZKOJQ (Reply 31): - Hamilton said that Rosberg hit him on the first corner....Rosberg was ahead of him at the time. I wonder how many if Sky will now add that to their intro. |
Quoting ZKOJQ (Reply 31): - Interesting that with Toro Rosso's new Ferrari engine, they seem to have moved well ahead of their sister team in terms of performance. They even managed to keep Hamilton's Mercedes at bay for quite a few laps. |
Quoting ZKOJQ (Reply 31): - On the Renaults, it's really hard to see the car's number and thus distinguish KMAG from Palmer. |
Quoting ZKOJQ (Reply 31): Hamilton doesn't appear to me to be the kind of person who would just let his team mate win. |
Quoting moo (Reply 32): Look at the horizontal bar on top of the air intake above the driver - for one of the teams two drivers the bar is florescent yellow and for the other driver it is not. This is consistent through the season and teams. Much easier to tell rather than looking at the number. |
Quoting ZKOJQ (Reply 31): An interesting article on the topic of Verstappen: |
Quoting ZKOJQ (Reply 31): He needs to calm down a lot! That race showed that he seems to be becoming a real diva. |
Quoting notaxonrotax (Reply 34): Haha, not this discussion again! |
Quoting moo (Reply 35): Nah, we had the one where changing helmet designs were banned for "identification purposes", which is a load of bollocks |
Quoting notaxonrotax (Reply 36): I imagine you do agree that the starting numbers should be easy to read, right? |
Quoting moo (Reply 37): Are driver numbers a required identifier? |
Quoting photopilot (Reply 7): I've got news for the flacks that run F1 (that's you Bernie E). |
Quoting MadameConcorde (Reply 41): Melbourne’s farcical elimination qualifying is back on for Bahrain |
Quoting moo (Reply 37): Are driver numbers a required identifier? |
Quoting photopilot (Reply 42): I'd love to see the teams/drivers protest this nonsense by nobody coming out for Q1 at all. Then what does F! and Bernie do? Eliminate nobody.... or forced elimination by points, etc. Show what a farce this whole mess really is. |
Quoting photopilot (Reply 42): WTF are they thinking? |
Quote: Instead, teams were presented with two options: - to retain the rules used in Melbourne that proved so unpopular; - or stick with the elimination format for the first two sessions of qualifying but with an extra minute's duration, followed by a final qualifying session run as it had been in 2015. As neither had been discussed by the teams in advance, agreement was not reached. |
Quoting NAV30 (Reply 29): As a chartered surveyor/town planner, I was part of the team that set up the 'Australian Grand Prix.' |
Quoting notaxonrotax (Reply 46): this highly artificial track without any real exciting corners |
Quoting NAV30 (Reply 47): Don't know what you mean by 'highly artificial,' |
Quoting moo (Reply 32): This was always expected, but Torro Rosso will fall off through the season because they will remain on the 2015 spec engine, which they cannot upgrade. |
Quoting moo (Reply 32): Look at the horizontal bar on top of the air intake above the driver - for one of the teams two drivers the bar is florescent yellow and for the other driver it is not. This is consistent through the season and teams. |
Quoting moo (Reply 32): Much easier to tell rather than looking at the number. |
Quoting scbriml (Reply 33): Absolutely - I wasn't suggesting he 'let' Rosberg win, just that his performance level understandably dipped slightly after he'd won the WDC. |
Quoting scbriml (Reply 33): Aside from his awful start, Hamilton easily looked the fastest driver all weekend, so I think he's back to his best for the new season. |
Quoting notaxonrotax (Reply 34): Yes, he was treated a tad unfair perhaps by his team; but no reason to kick off like that. |
Quoting notaxonrotax (Reply 34): Not really about Verstappen though...... |