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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Apr 22, 2018 17:43:12 GMT -5
He owns COTA. It was a boring race but he put on a clinic, as per usual. It's a shit track anyway.  Lorenzo who?  Austin has a wonderful and glorious first half of the track, but the double horseshoe, perennial chicane speed ruins the flow and much of the track. I'd much prefer a strong left hairpin/90-degreer cutting past those hairpins. How would you salvage COTA? It's unsalvageable. It's just too wide of a circuit. I'd bulldoze it and build something new. The topography is top notch though. |
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Post by Lommaren on Apr 29, 2018 8:37:47 GMT -5
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Apr 29, 2018 15:27:59 GMT -5
Lommaren Vettel fucked up on the restart man... It was a great race but I really really don't like Mercedes as a team. Too bad Kimi didn't win. Also, Red Bull could have scored podiums if not the win today as well if their strategies were smarter and the drivers weren't sabotaging their pace by racing each other like idiots the whole race. So dumb! Oh and Grosjean is completely useless! He mistakenly thought (or more likely) lied to the team and said Ericsson hit him from behind. He just made a rookie mistake under yellow. That must be really embarrassing and I can't see him continuing with that team or possibly even F1 after this year is done.
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Post by Lommaren on Apr 29, 2018 15:32:15 GMT -5
The whole issue 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 is that there shouldn't have been a safety car, they were stuck way off the race track Corrupt FIA as usual, only ever striving for Ferrari to lose. This IndyCar-ization of F1 is sickening. |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Apr 29, 2018 15:35:32 GMT -5
The whole issue 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 is that there shouldn't have been a safety car, they were stuck way off the race track Corrupt FIA as usual, only ever striving for Ferrari to lose. Yeah the SC was necessary. They didn't even clean up the track properly as can be seen by Bottas' unlucky tire puncture (but who knows what incident that debris was from). And then Grosjean caused quite a lengthy extension to the SC period by his total bonehead mistake. Man he's an idiot.  Vettel took a risk and paid the price. You can't blame outside factors on that. |
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Post by Lommaren on Apr 29, 2018 15:37:28 GMT -5
Baku is a track that should be OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF the calendar, it's unfair on restarts, it's prone to all sorts of crap on the track and they can't even get cars off the racetrack There was no need for a safety car, hence why Whiting ( ) waited for a full minute until he threw it the bastard. This was Vettel's race and we were robbed as usual. |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Apr 29, 2018 15:39:45 GMT -5
Whaaaat...Baku is an amazing and pretty unique track (to F1 at least). Love the long straights and fast corners. Much better than most tracks they go to these days. Don't worry Schlommo, Vettel will win the championship no problem...if he doesn't sabotage it like he did last year that is. |
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Post by Lommaren on Apr 29, 2018 15:41:14 GMT -5
Last year it was the FIA who sabotaged the championship and they're about to do it again |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Apr 29, 2018 15:44:10 GMT -5
Last year it was the FIA who sabotaged the championship and they're about to do it again Yeah...they're masters at it. I can't wait till Mercedes (the team at least) leaves F1. I wouldn't mind if they were just an engine manufacturer and supplied engines to teams though. But you know, back in the days of Ferrari domination, the FIA were nicknamed FIArrari.  |
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Post by Lommaren on Apr 29, 2018 15:50:55 GMT -5
Yeah...they're masters at it. I can't wait till Mercedes (the team at least) leaves F1. I wouldn't mind if they were just an engine manufacturer and supplied engines to teams though. But you know, back in the days of Ferrari domination, the FIA were nicknamed FIArrari. Until Todt switched chairs and actively started the sabotage campaign because of a beef with Di Montezemolo that he didn't get LdM's role... Still haven't forgotten the blatant steal of Alonso's 2012 championship when Red Bull were cleared to race twice after being caught with illegal cars after qualifying in Monaco and Germany |
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Post by Beercules on Apr 30, 2018 8:59:17 GMT -5
Just saw the highlights. Vettel fucked it up himself with that epic lock up. Too bad. Rotten luck for Bottas, leading to yet another Hamilton win What the bloody hell happened between the Red Bulls? Fuck sake. After Ricciardo's breathtaking performance in China, now this  Looks like Verstappen was cutting off Ricciardo while Ricciardo braked too late. Baku is an awesome track, always some thing exciting happening. |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on Apr 30, 2018 10:17:27 GMT -5
Just saw the highlights. Vettel fucked it up himself with that epic lock up. Too bad. Rotten luck for Bottas, leading to yet another Hamilton win What the bloody hell happened between the Red Bulls? Fuck sake. After Ricciardo's breathtaking performance in China, now this Looks like Verstappen was cutting off Ricciardo while Ricciardo braked too late. Baku is an awesome track, always some thing exciting happening. If Verstappen hadn't held up his teammate for so long Danny might have had a chance at the win. |
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Post by Beercules on Apr 30, 2018 10:33:13 GMT -5
Well the stewards put both drivers at fault, it looked like Verstappen was cutting off Ricciardo, while Ricciardo perhaps tried to make his move a bit too prematurely. Tricky one to pick. Shame really, it could've been a podium for the Aussie.
Verstappen has a habit of stuffing it up for himself and other drivers in overtaking situations (see China!!!!) while Ricciardo's overtaking is "if I didn't see it I wouldn't have believed it".
One of those incidents which you have to watch 50 times to come to a conclusion.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2018 12:26:20 GMT -5
Last year it was the FIA who sabotaged the championship and they're about to do it again Yeah...they're masters at it. I can't wait till Mercedes (the team at least) leaves F1. I wouldn't mind if they were just an engine manufacturer and supplied engines to teams though. But you know, back in the days of Ferrari domination, the FIA were nicknamed FIArrari. Ferrari International Assistance. |
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Post by Lommaren on Apr 30, 2018 13:00:39 GMT -5
Ferrari International Assistance. In 2018 they're just MAFIA; where the "M" stands for Mercedes. |
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Post by Lommaren on May 1, 2018 7:09:50 GMT -5
RIP Ayrton Senna.
24 years... unbelieveable. I'm too young to recall him, but I came in just a few years after. Back in those days, drivers were still brave, circuits tough to tame and cars really hard to drive.
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on May 1, 2018 15:19:28 GMT -5
RIP Ayrton Senna. 24 years... unbelieveable. I'm too young to recall him, but I came in just a few years after. Back in those days, drivers were still brave, circuits tough to tame and cars really hard to drive. Those were the days. Also, the 1980s (and of course 1970s) were amazing as well. 1982 was a really strange year. Obviously Villeneuve's death is always going to overshadow everything else that year, but his teammate Didier Pironi would definitely have won the championship had he finished the season out. Keke Rosberg really lucked into the championship. Just looking at the stats you can see how unique that year was. The old Kyalami is one of the best tracks to have existed: And Silverstone when it had fast corners (not a good track these days): |
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Post by Lommaren on May 1, 2018 15:30:19 GMT -5
Setting up Mr Candle for the rest of the evening  🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿Gerhard Berger onboard full-race winning the Portuguese Grand Prix in a Ferrari in 1989. Apparently only viewable on Youtube, not embedded... |
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Post by 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 on May 6, 2018 0:31:54 GMT -5
Setting up Mr Candle for the rest of the evening 🖕🏿Mörön🖕🏿 Gerhard Berger onboard full-race winning the Portuguese Grand Prix in a Ferrari in 1989. Apparently only viewable on Youtube, not embedded... One of my favourite drivers right there. I saw him at Motegi last November at the Honda museum. And here's a video...just shows how awesome F1 used to be. The pit sequence is amazing with how many people there were and no speed limit...  That Benetton had such a nice handling chassis and despite not having the best straight-line speed, the Ford V8 had so much torque it was very good at circuits like Monaco, Estoril, Adelaide, and Hungaroring so it really was quite competitive overall even at high speed tracks such as Monza as you can see. Love the sound too. |
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Post by Lommaren on May 6, 2018 7:46:35 GMT -5
Pedrosa would've needed to get heavily penalized for that + 10 on the grid or something That was really, really bad. He really lacks race awareness at times, he needs to back off prior to the bang. Amazed he was let go of that. Social media of course blaming Lorenzo for everything under the sun, but Pedrosa should know that there's no room for three riders in that spot. World class performance from Márquez either way, had the race completely in the bag no matter who crashed behind him in spite of not even finding an ideal top-end setting all weekend long, just having to rely on endurance pace. |
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Looks like Verstappen was cutting off Ricciardo while Ricciardo braked too late. 
