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[tunnie]

Love F1, not missed a race in 20 years, never record it always watch it live, no matter what time it is on. Some dont like it but its personal choice. Good to the BTCC is back on today aswell, by the time i get to bed tonight will have spent 7 hours watching motor racing, no better way to spend a sunday 

sunday is the only day in two weeks i get the remote!!!!! she knows better than to not allow me the F1 and BTCC  rest of the time you can keep the telly dear!!
especially now that men and motors has disappeard thought it was going to be a real cracker of a race, but button changed his tyres to early and suffered later on, laughed when schuey said in the interview
that he thinks he is nearly at his best again, saw him at hereth and an safely say he was very rusty then and i dont see much improvement so far!!! thought webber would have put up a better fight,
We have got a bet on here between me, peter dlaumling(german) Paco,Miguel,Jesus, (spanish) that if an english or british driver wins the championship then they must hold a all night barbeque with free drinks, for us , if alonso wins then i supply the barbie for them and if a german wins then  they supply for him!! sounds complicated but it should be good!! gives us three different nationalities to cheer/abuse/shout at!!

Sounds like fun!  8-)

[Mr Skrunts]

Watched the race twice, Both live and replay, fell asleep twice so dont know if it rained, or any incidents in the last 10 laps or even the result as yet.  :-/

[tunnie]

i reckon they should put sprinkler system on the track, and turn it on at random intervals!

[Omegatoy]

Love F1, not missed a race in 20 years, never record it always watch it live, no matter what time it is on. Some dont like it but its personal choice. Good to the BTCC is back on today aswell, by the time i get to bed tonight will have spent 7 hours watching motor racing, no better way to spend a sunday 

sunday is the only day in two weeks i get the remote!!!!! she knows better than to not allow me the F1 and BTCC  rest of the time you can keep the telly dear!!
especially now that men and motors has disappeard thought it was going to be a real cracker of a race, but button changed his tyres to early and suffered later on, laughed when schuey said in the interview
that he thinks he is nearly at his best again, saw him at hereth and an safely say he was very rusty then and i dont see much improvement so far!!! thought webber would have put up a better fight,
We have got a bet on here between me, peter dlaumling(german) Paco,Miguel,Jesus, (spanish) that if an english or british driver wins the championship then they must hold a all night barbeque with free drinks, for us , if alonso wins then i supply the barbie for them and if a german wins then  they supply for him!! sounds complicated but it should be good!! gives us three different nationalities to cheer/abuse/shout at!!

Sounds like fun!  8-)

yeah it will be, all of us go out buggie and quad biking over the mountains together, always end up at a bar in the middle of nowhere then the least pissed driver has to lead us home!!!
sunds good fun? well it is till you realise we only go on mountain tracks and rivers and all of them look the bloody same, no matter where in the country you are, ended up at Loja the othr week which is a 40 min drive by road!!! and that was after we had been up at the windmill farm just to look!!!also visited A marble quary which was amazing!!!

[tunnie]

Love F1, not missed a race in 20 years, never record it always watch it live, no matter what time it is on. Some dont like it but its personal choice. Good to the BTCC is back on today aswell, by the time i get to bed tonight will have spent 7 hours watching motor racing, no better way to spend a sunday 

sunday is the only day in two weeks i get the remote!!!!! she knows better than to not allow me the F1 and BTCC  rest of the time you can keep the telly dear!!
especially now that men and motors has disappeard thought it was going to be a real cracker of a race, but button changed his tyres to early and suffered later on, laughed when schuey said in the interview
that he thinks he is nearly at his best again, saw him at hereth and an safely say he was very rusty then and i dont see much improvement so far!!! thought webber would have put up a better fight,
We have got a bet on here between me, peter dlaumling(german) Paco,Miguel,Jesus, (spanish) that if an english or british driver wins the championship then they must hold a all night barbeque with free drinks, for us , if alonso wins then i supply the barbie for them and if a german wins then  they supply for him!! sounds complicated but it should be good!! gives us three different nationalities to cheer/abuse/shout at!!

Sounds like fun!  8-)

yeah it will be, all of us go out buggie and quad biking over the mountains together, always end up at a bar in the middle of nowhere then the least pissed driver has to lead us home!!!
sunds good fun? well it is till you realise we only go on mountain tracks and rivers and all of them look the bloody same, no matter where in the country you are, ended up at Loja the othr week which is a 40 min drive by road!!! and that was after we had been up at the windmill farm just to look!!!also visited A marble quary which was amazing!!!

I love quad bikes, only tried them a few times. Looks i need to visit Spain  8-)

[Omegatoy]

note my avatar!!! thats a 700cc injected raptor, which is looking a bit dazed after being hit head on by an out of control buggie!!!!had sore wrist and damaged thumb but it all ok now, quads are very addictive but they can bite you easily!!always been a m.cycle fan al me life till i started riding quad out here, its much more fun!! and me licence is safe!!!

[albitz]

Three minor points of interest imo
1. Very glad to see that young Rosberg is still driving rings around "the greatest driver ever" - he obviously isnt allowed to cheat in an illegal car anymore.
2. The young Russian in the Renault who refused to be intimidated by Hamilton in the Mclaren.
3. How did Hamilton get away with only a warning when he blatantly weaved the whole length of the straight to keep the Russian lad behind him. :-/

[Mr Skrunts]

Three minor points of interest imo
1. Very glad to see that young Rosberg is still driving rings around "the greatest driver ever" - he obviously isnt allowed to cheat in an illegal car anymore.
2. The young Russian in the Renault who refused to be intimidated by Hamilton in the Mclaren.
3. How did Hamilton get away with only a warning when he blatantly weaved the whole length of the straight to keep the Russian lad behind him. :-/

martin brundle didnt see it as blatent weaving so maybe the warning was enough.

[albitz]

Banjax - I have been watching F1 for well over 30 years. I have not a shred of doubt that in the last 15 years it has gone downhill to the point where it is a shadow of what it once was.

This is when it was motor racing.And they were driving cars which, if you hit something hard you may well die, as tragically Villenueve did in the end. 
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl2tIFxSEGA[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siY994lShWE&feature=fvw[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSU1IXrICso&NR=1[/media]

[Mr Skrunts]

2nd vid had some classic moves on it, I love when they anr rubbing wheels '180 down the main straight.

[Martin_1962]

Three minor points of interest imo
1. Very glad to see that young Rosberg is still driving rings around "the greatest driver ever" - he obviously isnt allowed to cheat in an illegal car anymore.
2. The young Russian in the Renault who refused to be intimidated by Hamilton in the Mclaren.
3. How did Hamilton get away with only a warning when he blatantly weaved the whole length of the straight to keep the Russian lad behind him. :-/

martin brundle didnt see it as blatent weaving so maybe the warning was enough.

Afterwards LH went off into the distance.

[albitz]

I dont dispute that Martin, but Im pretty sure the rules say you can move offline once and only once. Iirc he moved 4 times. I reckon Skruntie should watch it back again and report back his thoughts.

[Martin_1962]

I dont dispute that Martin, but Im pretty sure the rules say you can move offline once and only once. Iirc he moved 4 times. I reckon Skruntie should watch it back again and report back his thoughts.

If it had been the other way round there would have been an issue, they let it go as LH was a lot quicker. Since it was a British driver we think great rather than have a go, but then if it was any of the top drivers vs any of the slowies I would think OK, now prove the stewards right.

[Mr Skrunts]

I dont dispute that Martin, but Im pretty sure the rules say you can move offline once and only once. Iirc he moved 4 times. I reckon Skruntie should watch it back again and report back his thoughts.

I wasnt commenting on what I thought, i was replying regards what martin brundle said.  adding to that they gave him a warning and not a timed pit stop warning.  TBH I thought the movent rules were based to cutting people up in the bends.

[Banjax]

Banjax - I have been watching F1 for well over 30 years. I have not a shred of doubt that in the last 15 years it has gone downhill to the point where it is a shadow of what it once was.

This is when it was motor racing.And they were driving cars which, if you hit something hard you may well die, as tragically Villenueve did in the end. 
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl2tIFxSEGA[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siY994lShWE&feature=fvw[/media]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSU1IXrICso&NR=1[/media]

great footage Albs - thanks for that  ,  but we are in a different era and there were boring processions in the 70's and 80's too, I think it's natural to hark back to an imagined "golden era" but todays drivers are just as skillful - yes the cars are much safer (thankfully) but that doesn't diminish the skill,  my one criticism nowadays is the stultifying banality of driver interviews, you rarely see them without some corporate PR mandarin hovering in the background with a clipboard, ready to move in the moment a driver says anything remotely controversial/interesting

as for the skill - every era has a handful of amazing talents - Fangio, Clark, Moss, Stewart, Lauda, Villeneuve, Piquet, Prost, Senna, Schumacher, Alonso any of whom would be quick in any car with any set of regulations - what F1 has always been is the pinnacle of driving talent married to the pinnacle of racing technology - and any era you look at has great battles and thrilling races....along with some dull ones that are quickly forgotten  8-)

ps I loved Villeneuve too