Quote from Taavi(EST) :

Trying it out for the 1st time now, thanks!

Edit: Just had my first race, and had a bit af an incident. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF_ss55TfNE . Can someone tell me who's fault is it (i'm in the blue car). It looked like he made a mistake to me so i moved in to pass, but i had just ~10 laps of practice, so i don't know the fastest line through the corners yet.

On paper probably more your fault. However, in reality the guy in front probably wouldn't have turned in so hard. He probably would have been aware of his mistake and been checking his mirrors. It's similar to the Marquez incident at Barcelona. But this is all about how a driver behaves in sims and reality. they aren't always the same.

So had I been the driver in front and turned in like that and you were there I might go to the stewards office to complain, but in reality I'd be more pissed off with myself for not checking my inside.

Quote from Rhygin :

While I am ranting, let me add that McLaren sucks, they have a big budget and are unable to field a consistently fast car. They have quick drivers that are looking bad because the team is not working at F1 standards.

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The car is good, however the team have a bizarre tendency to **** up. Bar several pitstop/strategy cock ups Hamilton would be leading the championship.

No one wants to host Eurovision. Costs too much, hence the dreadful acts

Schumacher is too old he should quit he's past it.... HAHAHA

Those were the days of high unreliability. It's designed to rule out any weird occurrences that might affect the overall championship. now the championship is a tight ship and the cars are uber reliable it's not needed any more.

Quote from sinbad :

I'd be surprised if it's purely down to arm pump.

Hopefully there are other things he wants to do in motor racing because it would be a real loss for the sport if he retired completely. Although probably one or two hardcore Rossi fans would still say he is an average rider that relies heavily on electronics.

http://twitter.com/#!/Official ... ic.twitter.com%2Fukl1I9Va

Just sayin'

Apparently V8 Supercars is something he wants to race after the test he did.

Quote from sinbad :

Good on him for not giving a toss about "legacy" and having the balls to be out there again. He's not ridiculously slow compared with Rosberg, who seems pretty good tbh so quite a hard act to follow. A few poor decisions and mechanical issues have turned average and acceptable into rubbish, but I still think he's good enough to put a few good races together this year.

+1

I think many on here misunderstand the mentality of racers like Schumacher. There are some freaks in the world who are obsessed by new challenges, and new goals. They reach one, they find another regardless of legacy. Legacy is for stat geeks. If Schumacher was worried about reputation he wouldn't continually go karting where he gets beaten on a more than regular basis, though in the last issue of F1 racing he pronounced how proud he was to finish 4th behind Bas Lammers

At 44 or whatever Schumacher is still racing in f1, and doing a reasonable job. A few bits here and there and he could easily win a race. That viewed on its own is an astonishing achievement of someone of his vintage.

Most classes in motorsport have veteran classes and +40 classes because the old guys can't keep up anymore ffs. Schumacher is STILL IN F1.

Dorma are talking about 15k rev limits etc... so that and CRT are the reasons.

Makes perfect sense. Lost passion for the sport because it's going in a direction he doesn't like. Fair play to the lad I say. Wish other riders/drivers had the same balls.

Saturday - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... NXOhg&feature=related
Sunday - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcrDnwfhNz4 (wins)
Monday - http://www.mobypicture.com/user/beitskevisser5/view/12759027

beitske won with a broken back (or cracked vertebrae). have to wonder how the doctors let her race. Missing a broken/cracked bone in the back. wow.

Quote from NSX_FReeDoM :

That guy sounds like a tool. Also he sounds like a 13 year old with all the "LOL" and ":P"

McLaren have denied it. Funny if it is true though.

https://twitter.com/#!/CraigLongdon_F1

Quite amusing. No reason to doubt this guy's authenticity from what I can gather. Appears to be the real deal.

That article was immediately discredited. Telegraph rarely post anything of interest regarding MotoGP and then suddenly Tom Cary has a worldwide exclusive. The entire Rossi team has said it's bollocks

I am just doing some research and I need to find out who are the Greggor Huttus/aliens of the UK sim racing scene? Haven't simmed in a while so I am a bit out of the loop with iRacing etc... Basically I need to find out what makes the best simmers so good.

Quote from BlueFlame :

Oh, I see that's why you now all of a sudden begrudge Pirelli tyres, because Herr Schumacher said so.

Brundle's blog on Sky

"On the journey home I was talking with two F1 drivers, a world champion and a multiple race winner, and they had very similar concerns to Michael in that they can't push the cars anywhere near their limits. 'Physically my granny could drive the race' quipped one to underline how far away from the limits they are."

So it's not just Schumacher, its other drivers too. I suspect those two drivers are Hamilton and Webber. Rosberg also had concerns too.

Quote from tristancliffe :

We could watch kiddies in frames with lawnmower engines at 10mph instead.

...looks like Schumacher didn't get the memo.

Quote from BlueFlame :

Do you not understand that they are driving on the limit ALL the time? The limit of the tyres? Tyre management is important. In the old days tyres played more into overtakes than driver skill. That's what made it exciting.

At least some drivers had the option to push, not push, somewhere in between. Now we have one-size-fits-all and it's shite.

I want to sit in a room with you guys as you watch F1 because I want to witness someone getting excited by this mess they call 'racing'.

Quote from BlueFlame :

People see DRS as a gimmick and a garenteed overtake but it's not, and that's why it's welcome in F1 IMO.

Yeah, and WWE is real fighting.

Quote from BlueFlame :

Well you haven't been watching hard enough. DRS basically allows faster cars to pass the slower ones, meaning a race result is more competitive (IE the fastest guy isn't getting boxed in by Massa and can't attack the leader).

DRS is fakery, but given than in both China and Bahrain we've seen overtaking outside of the DRS zone, I think they've got the DRS system nailed. DRS doesn't help a driver overtake if he's not faster anyway, he still has to get within DRS range and he still has to pull away after the overtake.

It's not like every pass is due to the DRS and the same two drivers swap positions in the DRS zone every lap as you make it sound.

I've been watching less and less F1 now, so it isn't bothering me so much. DRS, whichever you rap it, is bollocks.

I completely understand and appreciate the concept, like I can completely understand and appreciate why some popstars will mime during a routine. It achieves a result which on the whole the masses will be satisfied with.

But for me I want to see professional drivers go toe to toe without any outside engineering, and luckily I can find that somewhere else.

Quote from samjh :

Suzuka 2010 and 2011. Fuji in 2008. Singapore is usually pretty good.

With DRS and Pirelli tyres, most tracks are capable of producing good races, but those I've mentioned were good even without them.

I haven't seen a good race for a long time. I've seen a lot of fake bollocks, but nothing truly 'good' or with actual depth and dynamic.

Growing the fan-base doesn't rely on going to historic tracks, as you only 'discover' the historic tracks once you become a 'fan'. By that point you're already sold into the whole thing.

Bahrain, justified or not, has done more damage to growing F1's fanbase than alternating with spa will ever do.

When I think of F1 now, I think of the emperor's new clothes. People are just starting to see F1 for what it really is.

Quote from Chrisuu01 :

What happened to a thread which is for posting funny pictures?

9gag ****ed it all up

Quote from sinbad :

I'm pretty sure every driver "needs a car in which certain conditions are met".

I think he's being reasonable in that article. Clearly he feels that the rule changes were targeted at their stronger points, and it's possible someone from RBR told him so. He says it's no excuse too, so what's the problem.

I think some of the hysteria (not so much here, but in other places) surrounds the fact many were saying Vettel was some sort of god, and shock horror, give him an ordinary car and suddenly he's just like everyone else. Its not so much against Vettel as it is against the people that said Vettel was godlike... and I mean in the media.

it's very hard to gauge F1 nowadays anyway. Full of publicity stunts and pay drivers. Who knows who's good, who isn't. At 200k a year for KF3 and then up to 2m to GP2 it's a money game from start to finish

They'll put her in a car on a Friday if they believe it brings in enough publicity. That's showbusiness