Australian Grand Prix 2015, Melbourne - Race 1/19

Skeeter said:
You guys make me sick! Shes there because she's a tallented driver and deserves a chance!
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Give me a break. She's had three seasons in GP3 where her highest finish was 13th I believe. Based on merit, she has no business being near an F1 team and there are plenty of other drivers out there, both male & female, who are more deserving.

She's there for PR reasons and personally I think it's doing a massive disservice to all women in motorsport. Women already face an uphill battle in the top echelons of motorsport due to the ingrained prejudice of many and their perception that it's a "man's sport". For Lotus to do something so blatantly cynical harms the image of all women in motorsport and just portrays them as little more than eye candy in race overalls.
 
I'd imagine Williams are taking some solace from the fact that Red Bull look to have fallen back and thus may not be the thorn in their side they were last year. When Merc faltered last year, it was Red Bull who picked up the pieces, maybe this year Williams will be in that position.
 
Glaucus said:
Rofl, last year merc did not have a 1.4 second advantage, they have more than doubled the gap. their advantage last year wasn't even 0.7..
Which ever way you cut it, mercy have more than doubled their advantage, which makes you wrong.
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In what way have they doubled their advantage. Alonso in the fastest Ferrari qualified 1.6seconds behind Hamilton... Ferrari have closed the gap. Last year Ricciardo was only 3/10th's behind Hamilton... how is 1.4 double 0.3?

For the record Ferrari averaged qualifying around 1.5seconds behind Mercedes last year... again, where is the doubling?

But more importantly I've explained precisely what I meant and you're still wrong. I questioned YOUR REASONING for the conclusion, not the conclusion itself. I'm not sure how that is difficult to understand, and it's obvious from what I explained. You made a conclusion based on Ferrari's Q1 times, I said very simply and plainly that Ferrari didn't put in proper times and didn't push in the slightest on their softs in Q1.

I can say 6 times 6 is 36... because 6 is the colour yellow and yellow squared is purple and purple means 36. Gibberish, the result is still correct, the reasoning wrong. I question the reasoning and explained precisely why. I was both completely right in my assertion that Ferrari's Q1 wasn't representative and by no measure can you say Merc have doubled their advantage.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
No, not quite what I mean.
We shall see, but if this season quickly becomes a race for third, then it won't help the sport overall.
I will be watching for thise other cars, and hopefully enjoying it.
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Pretty much every season is like this.
And last year it was far from boring for win.
 
drunkenmaster said:
In what way have they doubled their advantage. Alonso in the fastest Ferrari qualified 1.6seconds behind Hamilton... Ferrari have closed the gap. Last year Ricciardo was only 3/10th's behind Hamilton... how is 1.4 double 0.3?

For the record Ferrari averaged qualifying around 1.5seconds behind Mercedes last year... again, where is the doubling?

But more importantly I've explained precisely what I meant and you're still wrong. I questioned YOUR REASONING for the conclusion, not the conclusion itself. I'm not sure how that is difficult to understand, and it's obvious from what I explained. You made a conclusion based on Ferrari's Q1 times, I said very simply and plainly that Ferrari didn't put in proper times and didn't push in the slightest on their softs in Q1.

I questioned your reasoning, not the conclusion and I was proved completely correct in that Ferrari were categorically closer in Q3 than Q1(unless you refuse to adjust for the different tires because you want to be silly).
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Rofl, I said nothing about Ferrari improving or not, you did. Mercedes have more than doubled the gap to the rest of the field. Its a pretty simple idea. You keep banging on about Ferrari, not me.
My resoning that the next car ifpn fp1, fp2 and in q3 are at least double the time behind mercy. Nope that reasoning is fine, again it is you who is wrong. You are the one who quoted me and got a hard on for Ferrari.
 
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Glaucus said:
Rofl, I said nothing about Ferrari, you did. Mercedes have more than doubled the gap to the rest of the field. Its a pretty simple idea. You keep banging on about Ferrari, not me.
My resoning that the next car ifpn fp1, fp2 and in q3 are at least double the time behind mercy. Nope that reasoning is fine, again it is you who is wrong. You are the one who quoted me and got a hard on for Ferrari.
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Yet Ferrari are obviously not a part of the field, likewise Merc DID NOT double their advantage to Ferrari.....

I keep talking about Ferrari because they were the closest team behind Merc in Q1, nothing more or less.

YOu keep making bold claims of which no numbers back you up and you keep ignoring the reasoning. You based a claim of doubling their advantage based on the gaps in Q1... which weren't representative, your reasoning was incorrect as the gap between Ferrari and Merc shrunk from Q1 to Q3.
 
drunkenmaster said:
Yet Ferrari are obviously not a part of the field, likewise Merc DID NOT double their advantage to Ferrari.....

I keep talking about Ferrari because they were the closest team behind Merc in Q1, nothing more or less.

YOu keep making bold claims of which no numbers back you up and you keep ignoring the reasoning. You based a claim of doubling their advantage based on the gaps in Q1... which weren't representative, your reasoning was incorrect as the gap between Ferrari and Merc shrunk from Q1 to Q3.
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I didn't day they doubled their advantage to that of Ferrari. So get that out if your hapead for a start.
And yes mercy have doubled their advantage to the field, which Ferrari is part off.
Last year over the course of the year they where three quarters if a second faster, now they are 1.4, close enough.

And no my assumption never was just based on q1, and plenty to back it up. But you ignore all the other sessions which show they are consistently further ahead than last year.
Even f1 fanatics have an article about how much faster they are this year.
Look at average advantage last year
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2014/12/12/mercedes-2014-dominance-outstripped-red-bulls-2010-3/
Now how much dud they beat the rest of the field by?

Now compare fp1 and fp2 gaols to last year, how much did they improve?


You're so but hurt that Ferrari are so far behind.
 
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al4x said:
Btw
Sky go is looking pretty good on plasma TV with Fibre broadband gotta say
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They seem to have finally sorted out the stream quality lately so it is decently HD. Previously the quality was awful.

Now if they could just fix the stupid Silverlight fullscreen issue.
 
al4x said:
Btw
Sky go is looking pretty good on plasma TV with Fibre broadband gotta say
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I ditched my Sky Sports Virgin Media package for this season and am paying for NowTV week passes each time there is a Sky-exclusive race.

I have to say I've been very impressed, the quality on the native app on my LG TV is excellent, virtually HD quality, and so far with everything I've watched of the F1 this weekend, plus a few live PL matches, there has been no buffering or quality drops.
 
Ms has effectively killed Silverlight (unfortunately still supporting it for a long time) and companies are still using it. sooner it dies properly the better.
 
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Rybo89 said:
O yeah.... I'm not as hardcore as you lot.

I'll do my usual wake up at 4.50am, go down stairs and fall straight back to sleep before the program even starts :p
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Just quoting my self.

Alarm went off at 4.50AM, i come down stairs, turned tv on and my laptop. Before my laptop even loaded up i was back in the land of nod :p

Just finished watching the recording. After fast forwarding all the boring crap.

Hammy :)
 
majnu said:
Boring because I expected those results, I hope the rest of the season isn't going to be as predictable.
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Its going to be like the year MS won the title by a mile and Honda was best of the rest a mile behind. Rosberg will be half the minor trouble he was last year. If last years Merc was probably the best car of all time this years might just put that to shame.

The only hope really is that rosberg won the first 3 races and hamilton had issues, to give the press something to whip a story/rivalry up about. Last year that saved it, this year it won't even be a contest.
 
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