rF1, even with realfeel has better ffb than Assetto? Really?

You need to get a better wheel, because that to me is utter nonsense.

It has to be to do with set up that people aren't getting decent feedback. AC feels absolutely brilliant. The only cars that lack a bit of feedback tend to be GT3 cars and from my experience you need a bloody good set up to get them things to feel lively and enjoyable.

The Stig is there to serve an actual purpose - the lap time board. It stops people sayimng "well that lap was done by x driver and that was done by y driver". And Top Gear was about the three guys. Adding another face into the mix wouldn't work.

While the sacking may well be justified, the implications for the BBC are rather large. Not good for them at all.

Some of the Peugoet had me laughing out loud which I haven't done with Top Gear for a very long time.

The social media F1 grid would be sooo much better than the junk we have to endure with the actual grid.

If they extended the red tot he rear of the car then it could work. Strange looks half finished.

I imagine that's because most tracks which are created adhere to regulations. Fantasy tracks often have corners and sections which wouldn't be permitted hence feel 'different'.

I am sure however if someone did the Monaco had it never existed prior most would say it felt 'too fantasy'.

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Following the dreadful Bianchi crash in 2014, it occurred to me that there have been many examples of near misses in F1 over the last 40 years.

This crash is a classic example - if the car had not rotated a few degrees before hitting the armco, the result may have been catastrophic. I also thought the marshall should have signalled to Firman that the rear wing had failed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbn1q7u8Jds

It's a morbid topic I suppose, but lessons should be learned from a near-miss in my opinion.

How exactly would that be remotely possible?

You see Honda being able to come in a year behind and no just leap frog Renault and Ferrari, but Mercedes too?

Even with the Mercedes engine Mclaren struggled to beat Force India. they'd need a fair few more ponies to get anywhere near close to a championship charge.

Merc started on that motor in 2010. I doubt Honda have been at it that long.

I could make that argument funnily enough, but you know 'we' is a figure of speak. it's obviously to wind up Shotglass and his anti-UK rants. Your British you should be able to spot that a mile off.

F1 is still F1 at the end of the day.

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Well done for replying so politely to such an ignorant comment. Clearly an embittered fool typing nonsense, or perhaps just looking to stir things up.

Agreed about Nico, but I don't think he will ever be at the Hamilton/Ricciardo/Alonso level when it comes to wheel-to-wheel racing.

I think he is hurting because the great Mercedes build their F1 race cars in Brackley, England.

Also probably not the best year to say that given the nationalities of the F1, GP2, GP3, F2 and WEC champions.

We didn't let anyone else have a look in with regard to the Junior and Senior KF World Champs either.

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Well done for replying so politely to such an ignorant comment. Clearly an embittered fool typing nonsense, or perhaps just looking to stir things up.

Agreed about Nico, but I don't think he will ever be at the Hamilton/Ricciardo/Alonso level when it comes to wheel-to-wheel racing.

I think he is hurting because the great Mercedes build their F1 race cars in Brackley, England.

Rosberg going nuts put him in a position to win the championship, you've got it backwards.

his trick at Monaco won him 25 points. His stupidity at Spa netted him a few more.

No surprises about the championship. I think the final points tally was fairly representative in the end.

Only surprise of the season was how Vettel was so comprehensively beaten by Ricciardo.

If you remove the dodgy posts then the satirical ones don't have any context, so could be easy to misinterpreted. That's why you delete them.

Imagine some young lass coming on the forum and reading it? It's Scawan's forum, not the bloody law. Some of you guys need an IQ tranplant.

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Donate to charity or some actual worthy course, i.e be a smart human.

Donating to charity is exactly the same principle as this shizz..

Actually this is better because you can see the end result instead of financing some stupid retarded management board which are on the ground laughing about all donations.

But who cares about F1, it's pretty much dead.

Not all charities have management boards like that. Some are are quite obviously worthy, unlike Caterham creditors.

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The banks went to the public for a bail out! Are investors investing in banks? Yes they are!
They need to crowd fund because they are in administration........ADMINISTRATION. They have no money.
A few million in donations is not going to sway investors you are right but that's not what it's about.
If something is up for sale what do you do? You show it to people! Getting them to the grid is more about advertising the team to potential investors on international tv and media. It's about showing investors that there is a team ready to race.

Your last point regarding 2015 is abit worrying but the way I've always understood F1 is that the following years car is already being designed and built halfway through the current season. So who knows how far they got with it eh?

I think the proceeding 17 races demonstrated that already and they didn't attract any investors. Crowdfunding to do one race (and this whole Powell thing) only highlights that the team can't actually go racing. It proves it's not a sustainable business model.

Anyone can see this is just to guarantee the prize money so they can pay off creditors. It's really as simple as that. If someone is going to invest in the team it'd be irrelevant whether they were at the Abu Dhabi race. No investor is THAT stupid to invest and be influenced because of some dodgy crowdfunded race.

"Oh look I see this race team is doing some F1 GP at Abu Dhabi... well I fancy sinking 100 million on that" - does anyone really think anyone is THAT stupid?

Attracting investment? No one will touch Caterham with a barge pole. There's no possible ROI for anyone. Think about it for a second. They have gone to the PUBLIC to try and get money... the PUBLIC. If any investor was serious about buying into the team then why would they need to crowdfund it now. A few million donated by morons won't sway any serious person.

Even if they scrape enough funds to race next year surely they'd have to be designing and building the 2015 car NOW. They obviously aren't which guarantees next year they'll barely scrape the 107% rule

I feel sorry for anyone that has been fooled by this, it's an embarrassment.

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It's so hard to analyse that story without coming across as misogynistic.

...but she (and this statement would be equally true if she were a he) shouldn't be anywhere near an F1 practice session. It just goes to show what a joke F1 is. I see cheap karting arrive and drive championships with more credibility.

The money is so they can race, collect 10th in the Championship (off Marussia as they aren't finishing the season), get the prize money (£11m) and PAY OFF CREDITORS.

I can't believe how thick people are. 1.5 million pounds worth of pure idiocy. Donate to charity or some actual worthy course, i.e be a smart human.

No, the idea is to pay off creditors. Anyone who donates is a complete moron.