2011 F1 Thread

[wolverine]

Vettel should have been another 10 seconds further up the road when Jenson was released but he was driving very conservatively so perhaps the comment wasn't far off the mark.

[sh@un]

Astonishing drive by Button

Heidfeld's stack was hilarious, with the drifting all the way down the escape road just missing the barricades

[Duncan]

haha agreed....I thought he was going to clock a wall or 3 for sure.

good drive from webber today. And great to see vettel throw it away

[hrd-hr30]

Schuey's back!!!

And great to see Schuey and Webber racing hard and clean, including into turn 1 where Hamo felt he had to punt the ther guy rather then give him space...Webber and Schuey and Button made this a GP worth staying up for

yes, until he was robbed of the podium, and we were robbed of the battle yet again, by the ludicrously easy DRS free passes. And not only do they get the free pass, they also get DRS down the next straight to romp away with it. DRS - gayer than aids

I'd say Button had the pace to get him without DRS, but Webber mad eit very obvious he had no answer for Schuey without DRS, both before he had DRS at his disposal and after the DRS walk-over. Even then Weber could't pull away from Schuey despite having a far better car.

point made though - those guys were only faster because of their cars, not the drivers. Least deserving podium ever in history.

Edited June 13, 2011 by hrd-hr30

[dezz]

The double DRS zone didn't work because there was no secondary detection zone...They needed to have a second detection zone right after the first chicane, so that the car that had just been passed could use the DRS if they managed to stay within 1sec after being passed on the back straight.

Allowing the car that's just made the pass to open his wing just means he's pretty much guaranteed to hold the position, unless the car that was passed on the back straight was within 1sec of a car in front of him as well...

The 2 zones/detection points should've been completely independent of each other

[hrd-hr30]

the double DRS zone worked exactly as intended/designed. the whole point of DRS is not to encourage racing, its to ensure there's passing so noone can criticise F1 in the media about the lack of overtaking like they used to.

[dezz]

Then it's a case of even people in the F1 world not understanding how it was setup at Montreal, as they were talking about the double DRS allowing the passed car a chance to fight to gain the lost position back

[ctjet]

pivotal move of the race!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MhrExzbkDM

[dezz]

fat f**k fell over under his own weight...Then couldn't even get back to his feet because of it lol

[-Jimmy-]

Haha, sounds like a lot happened after I went to sleep (about 25laps in, still under saftey car).

Definitely downloading when I get home from work.

Can't wait to see the post race interview.

[gts-4 dreamer]

fell asleep at some point in the red flag but probably drifted off a few times under the safety car. I want kobayashi's autograph, hiedfeld for the most part was pretty stellar and about jb and hamo, all hamo, jb took his 1 defensive turn in, hamo was the idiot who didn't get out of the throttle. If the roles were reversed I'm positive hamo would have shut the door, hamo gets away with to much shit from his popularity in the media.

I have to admit, I wooped the shit up when vetel stepped the back out, nice recovery but half seemed to do it almost on purpose or maybe he was tired, seemed like a seriously uncharacteristic mistake from a quick dude, maybe he just really didn't have the confidence in the wet?

Either way, I wanted to watch jb win. Not enough visuals of his misses, maybe some wet top action with the champagne spraying her or something.

[hrd-hr30]

I've seen fish more sure-footed than that marshall flooping about on the ground!

[wolverine]

After watching it again today you can see that Vettel swept wide on the same corner the second last lap with JB keeping well away from the edge of the dry line. Next time around he was a whisker wider and that's all folks.

I agree with Dezz if there should be a second activation point for DRS.

[hrd-hr30]

I agree with Dezz if there should be a second activation point for DRS.

I think that's the way the whole world was expecting it to work - the car that got passed in the first DRS zone would get a go in the 2nd zone. Not the car that just passed him! what were they thinking?

but the fundamental problem with DRS is it takes the sport out of the racing. Its just a free uncontested pass, irrespective of the stupid second zone

[-Jimmy-]

Where is the best place to download the coverage?

[ctjet]

Dont bother, just watch the highlights package

Watching the Alonso spin is worth a few views for the lulz. Between him and Louie they just dont know when to say when

[-oliveR]

Where is the best place to download the coverage?

Should be on channel 10 tonight for people who missed it

Or... Get a TV that can record. I recorded it after the red flag, glad I did because it went on for another 3 hours :\ Would have slept at work.

Jensen =

At one point he was last, stopped 6 times, had a drive through and still won. Legend.

[benm]

Great driving by Button, Vettel did absolutely everything right all the pit stops was fast when he needed to be but just made a mistake on the last sector to lose the race.

[Angus Smart]

If i had photoshops i'd attach beached bro from nz to this..

And then something about lewis and his nuts

Good race maybe.. lost 80 bucks after winning it with the tool on pole.. f**kin prick f**kin up near the end.

[stR33ter]

Missed replay and don't have tv that records

Where can I download race

Went to bed after they said more heavy rain coming

Bastards