2011 F1 Thread

[Angus Smart]

Doubtfull. Its only there to stop you driving a car thats too low I don't think you can be penalised for damage.

I just realized it is a season bet.

[Beer Baron]

pretty boring race overall. highlights were petrov in 3rd. well done. and like the others said, I wish the kube was in there. petrov is good no doubt about it, but the kube is a vodka swilling, potato eating, polish F1 god!

duncan, leave webber alone, yeah he had a shit race and basically just no pace, but that's par for the course for him at his home gp. whatever it is he just can't get it together at home. he's beaten vettel enough times, and been within a bees dick of him enough to prove that he's as good a driver as vettel is on their good days. on his bad days he's a bit ordinary but everyone has them. vettel included.

perez's effort was pretty interesting. 1 stop in a race where most of the front runners needed 3 is mighty impressive. if he can do that every race he'll keep making up spots. melbourne is known to be fairly low wear though as the surface is not very abrasive.

rubens 'move' if you can call it that was shithouse. he had no chance of making a pass there. shame it cost rosberg his race.

webber probably would have had alonso if not for his pit stuff up. yeah he was a bit slow on his first outlap, but his second outlap was fastest lap of the race to that point, without kers he didn't have much chance of getting alonso. even with the DRS. you could see he'd be closing on alonso down the straight but with alonso on kers he could never get close enough to make a move.

[ctjet]

I think the DRS, while the rules are still a bit mickey mouse, does have a lot of scope for improvement.

I can see on tracks like Spa, china, Monza etc.. it really will make all the difference. Melbourne is a bit hard to judge because of the short zone it was allocated for use.

Redbull really is going to have to up their top speed if they are going to keep the more slippery cars off their back on the long straights. Not having KERS is really going to hurt them

[Nee-san]

I think we're all wise enough to know that Melbourne is a bit of anomaly in terms of the rest of the season, look to the euro rounds particularly Spain as a give away for who has the fastest car.

[Whiplash]

[Ant97GTR]

Gold ad....

[wolverine]

The F1 car irons out a lot of the bends at Bathurst, coming down the mountain didn't look that tough at the speeds JB was running on the day.

[Nee-san]

That clip was so much better for not having Vettel in it

[Galois]

Hahaha awesome clip!

And fantastic footage of bathurst, the McLaren just tore up the mountain like it was a piddling little hill.

Vettel sure knows how to win a race from pole huh? He's not so good when he has to fight for it.

Hopefully they sort out the drs soon, it just wasn't enough. I've been saying for years that what they need to do is get rid of all that fancy downforce, straight wings front and back. Then we'd see some real overtaking, not this overtaking-during-pitstops business that is necessary if you're only 1.5s faster than the car in front.

[raZ1911]

useles farken coveridge, commercial, 5 seconds talk, lets take another commercial... POS I want bbc coverage.

Is there no adds with foxtel and Austar or is there still all the bs?

[Beer Baron]

love the on board button bathurst lap. would love to see craig's lap too. not a bad effort. yeah with the corner speeds they can carry it really does straighten up a lot of the corners and it shortens the braking zones massively to make it much more flowing than it is in a touring car where you are a lot more stop start. it was a very conservative lap though, he was a long way from the apex of most corners sticking safely to the middle of the track. would love to see one really attack it hard using all the track.

[Galois]

Is there no adds with foxtel and Austar or is there still all the bs?

No f1 on pay TV. Channel 10 bought all the rights to it so that they can make us wait till 11:30pm for the race, even though it was scheduled for 11:00pm, and regardless of when it actually aired. They actually promised to give the sport the viewing it deserved when they bought the rights, so much for that.

That lap is so awesome, I'm not sure what I like more, the insane speeds of the f1 car, the fact it smashed the record despite being on rev limiter for most of conrod, or that that's what it looks like when button just takes it easy!

[iamhe77]

love the on board button bathurst lap. would love to see craig's lap too. not a bad effort. yeah with the corner speeds they can carry it really does straighten up a lot of the corners and it shortens the braking zones massively to make it much more flowing than it is in a touring car where you are a lot more stop start. it was a very conservative lap though, he was a long way from the apex of most corners sticking safely to the middle of the track. would love to see one really attack it hard using all the track.

Whilst he certainly wasn't attacking, he did use up a lot of the track... the camera with in the left side of the front wing.

Wouldn't mind seeing an F1 race at The Mountain, although there seem to be far less overtaking points.

DRS on the straights could make for some fun though

[boiracer]

No f1 on pay TV. Channel 10 bought all the rights to it so that they can make us wait till 11:30pm for the race, even though it was scheduled for 11:00pm, and regardless of when it actually aired. They actually promised to give the sport the viewing it deserved when they bought the rights, so much for that.

i hate pay TV....why pay for TV that you get adds on anyways? im sure last yr all the races were done live (or very close to) and replayed on the following monday evening. thats enough i though. they've come a long way since the 10:30pm 4:3 screenings with no qually days.

[ssxRicho]

Both great clips, does anyone know the top speed of the car down conrod?

[Galois]

i hate pay TV....why pay for TV that you get adds on anyways? im sure last yr all the races were done live (or very close to) and replayed on the following monday evening. thats enough i though. they've come a long way since the 10:30pm 4:3 screenings with no qually days.

Ahh yeah, I was talking about non-digital sorry. One HD has improved it dramatically

[FineLine]

pretty boring race overall. his race.

In all seriousness Richard what f1 race isnt bat shit boring these days.

What is there to like about a motor race where the majority of the passing is done in pit lane and the rest of the race is nothing short of a procession.

I prefer the FIA gt racing by a wide margin, Its live on fox now and they race damn hard. Plenty of ex F1 jocks driving in it too.

[Roy]

So news is that Marko is reporting that Mark had a chassis problem and the car is in for a full strip and rebuild before Malaysia. It seems analysis of the data has revealed a fault. Not sure it means Mark will march out and beat Vettel in Malaysia....but it helps explain why Mark struggled with the car on the weekend

[Duncan]

So news is that Marko is reporting that Mark had a chassis problem and the car is in for a full strip and rebuild before Malaysia. It seems analysis of the data has revealed a fault. Not sure it means Mark will march out and beat Vettel in Malaysia....but it helps explain why Mark struggled with the car on the weekend

wow....do you think they found a hack in the chasis somewhere?

[Duncan]

maybe Mark borke his collar bone just before the race and forgot to mention?