F1 Thread

Still but, imagine being a multi millionaire and your job is driving round the same 20 tracks year after year about 100+ times each adding in practice and qualifying.

Could be out on a yacht in the bahamas snorting lines off supermodels arses, champagne in the other hand and the rebs belting out lol

Seems a lot of travelling and quite a boring sport to take part in when you've got that much money.

 

It's like that rush movie. He's done it now. Why risk his life to do it again. He can quit happily live a very rich man and safe forever.

I predict he will be out of retirement within 2 years once he learns walking a dog and being a stay at home dad is actually *

 

Even if your interest was motors and racing the tracks are *, imagine driving round 30th lap "only 50 more laps to go", I could never concentrate and would have no interest.

With the money they have i'd rather buy a supercar and try and go round the globe faster than anyone had managed before or that with my own money than earn millions but circle the same tracks. Most of them have worked in the million pound cutting technology motors dozens of times, once youve done it 50 times does it really make any difference.

 

Just thinking there I suppose theres not much they can do about the tracks, if they built them so that it took 15 minutes to do a lap and so was less repetitive then * arent really going to go and watch a motor flying past you in the blink of an eye every 15 minutes.

 

Some people like that concept.....repeated laps, marathons etc. I know i did as a kid.

 

True, it's not for me though although I did watch F1 as a youngster but havent really seen it in 10+ year now.

I think the SPL is too repetitive playing the same teams 3/4/5/6 times a season but even then there is the odd different team, different players/managers, different circumstances. F1 is a guy in a motor lapping the exact same course as he's done unthinkable amounts of times before, like Lewis Hamilton must have lapped some of these courses 1,000 times before and it's not like they freshen it up by alternating things like 1 year they go round one way the next year the next and occasionally change bits I think they're the same every time. Groundhog day sport.

 

No all nighter playing F1 on the xbox at yours then!!!

 

That's completely irrelevant mgm, There's huge changes next year to the cars. if I was a betting man I'd put my money on Ricciardo and Red Bull.

As for Rosberg he can * off, if there ever was an undeserving F1 "world champion" it him

 

@Bunk Moreland Why do you think he was undeserving?

 

2017 will be the Hamilton procession with no competition within his team. Will be boring as * unless Red Bull pull something out of a hat with the new design.

 

He only won it due to Hamiltons technical problems for a start. Couple that with the fact he hit Hamilton twice during the season (plus most of the top 6 drivers on the grid). Then there's the constant whining (asking his team to give team orders in a championship deciding race) and Mercedes obvious aim to get him a championship. He's a below average driver at best in a fast car that got lucky.

 

Well the new regulations are geared towards aerodynamics and not engine power. I'm fairly confident that Red Bull will be the favourites. Also don't count out McLaren, their cornering speed this year has been up there with the best

 

As for 'undeserving', if Felipe Massa's engine hadn't of given up on him in Hungary three laps from the win Lewis Hamilton would be a two-time champion. If Niki Lauda hadn't been burnt to a crisp James Hunt wouldn't have been a champion.

 

You're talking of one off incidents. I'm talking about the whole F1 year

 

Thanks for the explanation, I only check up on the sport now and again so didn't know.

 

I've nothing against him personally, I'm not even a Hamilton fan but I just smell a rat with Rosberg and Mercedes this year. It's always been down to a German driver in a German car winning a World Championship and this year proved that big time, Rosberg was Mercedes priority. They refused to blame him for anything after being at fault for hitting Hamilton twice. And then the radio help giving him instructions when his gearbox was about to fail (the 10 second penalty didn't mak

There's been so many questionable things this year with Mercedes involving Hamilton and Rosberg , I just don't buy it. Mercedes wanted a German World Champion in a German car then Rosberg retires. I'm not even a Hamilton fan, far from it but it stinks.

 

You may be right, but there are changes every few years, and generally they dont affect things to such an extent that one manufacturer will benefit a lot more than the others.

Id be surprised if Mercedes are knocked off their perch next year.

 

Really? then How did Red Bull go from easy winners to also rans the first year turbo engines where introduced? Why in 2009 did Brawn GP win the drivers and constructors championships but their early rivals were Toyota. it makes a huge difference

 

Yes, occasionally one can point to a change which affects things, but it generally doesnt move teams dramatically up or down the order.

Unless i hear differently, i would bet Hamilton will still be hot favourite at the bookies for next year.....and that is usually a fair reflection of the chances of each participant.