Poll: Brazilian Grand Prix 2016, São Paulo - Race 20/21

[Alibaba99]

Just watched qualifying again. Rosberg has a really bad final sector which is actually really short.

Unless the -0.024 split was against Hamilton's first lap (which would make sense as they traded a tenth in the first and middle sectors), they were even going into that sector.

Lewis had already finished his lap, so the times would have been updated to reflect that one.

 

[el_dazza]

The vilification and hatred is strong.
Is it because you would support any british driver in hamilton's situation, or are you ardent hamilton supporters?

These threads become less interesting for the amount of crashes people are wishing upon the drivers.

Oh look, it's Hikari being dull again everyone!

It really isn't pleasant to have people wanting drivers to crash out though. It was rife when Vettel was winning because people didn't like it, now we've got the same because people want Hamilton to win.

Nothing wrong with supporting who you want, but wanting people to crash (which could obviously at any time cause injury/death) is pretty despicable.

It does seem like rain is very likely at some point, in which case Hamilton will probably win, Rosberg really isn't a good wet driver. To give Hamilton a sniff he needs to finish 4th or lower and with Ricciardo and Verstappen sniffing around it could be very interesting indeed.

 

[ci_newman]

I dont think people specifically want Rosberg to get hurt, but want a DNF to take the Championship decision down to the last race. Rosberg has had mechanical perfection this year, so a crash is more likely than retirement due to technical failure.

 

[Nick1881]

I'd like to see some rain, enough to cause changeable conditions and for Rosberg to lose out.

Weather forecasts showing light rain?

 

[el_dazza]

I'd like to see some rain, enough to cause changeable conditions and for Rosberg to lose out.

Weather forecasts showing light rain?

Depends which source you use. BBC says rain all day, AccuWeather says 40-60% chance during the race, Google says rain all day..

I think we'll get it at some point.

 

[Jester*]

It has ben raining all morning.

Conditions are very wet!

 

[Junglist]

Part of me would love for Nico to have a DNF this race but I know he will win.

Nico to be P1 by T1. Bet you £1

 

[MooMoo444]

Bet you £1

Calm down, no need to put your life's savings on it

 

[SoliD]

It has ben raining all morning.

Conditions are very wet!

Hopefully dries out a bit before the race so we don't get the tedium of a safety car.

 

[Duke]

It has ben raining all morning.

Conditions are very wet!

Epic keep us posted

 

[Junglist]

Calm down, no need to put your life's savings on it

I was actually about to call the bank to see if I could borrow the £1

 

[el_dazza]

It has ben raining all morning.

Conditions are very wet!

Are you there? Have a great time

 

[MissChief]

As long as it stays wet until at least the start of the race. Then starts to dry out. Then starts raining again.

 

[antijoke]

Oh great a wet race that means a safety car start then?

Yawnfest already.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Oh great a wet race that means a safety car start then?

Yawnfest already.

And a safety car for most of the race

 

[Jester*]

Epic keep us posted

Still constantly raining. Showing no signs of letting up at the moment.

Are you there? Have a great time

I work for FOM so I will be the poor schmuck having to go out and work in these conditions after it has all finished!

 

[this_is_gav]

Oh great a wet race that means a safety car start then?

Yawnfest already.

Thankfully next year they're going to try to do most wet starts without the safety car... which probably means the start will be delayed instead.

Still, better than coasting around behind the safety car using up laps.

 

[UTmaniac]

Bring on the retractable roofs for circuits, allowing them to control how wet the track gets.

 

[Destination]

Bring on the retractable roofs for circuits, allowing them to control how wet the track gets.

Aye or sent out a few monsters with massive deep tyres to throw all the water off the track prior to the start. No reason they couldn't change things a bit to have a wet support run prior to the cars taking to the track, rather than waiting for the GP train under superslow safety to clear a track a bit.

Surely merc or similar would delight to create such a vessel, and have it branded running around doing its thing before a wet race.

 

[drunkenmaster]

Personally don't think Rosberg actually has it in him to deliberately take someone out, in the same way that senna, prost, Schumacher etc.

That's without even considering what the likely outcome would be in this age of everyone complaining about any incident that happens.

He's made up excuses for various incidents, but he actually admitted to deliberately choosing the action which caused contact in Spa where he hit Hamilton.

But ignoring his awful excuses, he cheated to get pole at Monaco(there are probably more but Schumi is the only other guy I know who has done it), he drove Hamilton off the road in Spain this year and has done that(down a straight, different to end of a corner) previously as well, Bahrain a few years back he pushed two guys off track iirc.

He caused the collision between himself and Hamilton at Austria with dangerous and stupid driving where he was happy to cause a collision with Hamilton in attempting to maintain his lead and what 1-2 races later he did the same to Verstappen.

Rosberg is just about the only guy on track that hasn't just done it once, but has done it multiple times and is the one guy we know is capable of deliberately hitting another driver.