British Grand Prix 2014, Silverstone - Race 9/19

To be honest I had £360 tax back from HMRC and had already won £350 when Man City won the league, so I felt a bit flush.

Biggest moment came when Vet hit Ham on lap 1 :eek:

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I'm with Lauder on this one. It shouldn't have taken that long to fix a barrier also.


Mercedes team boss Niki Lauda has criticised the decision to red flag the British Grand Prix following Kimi Raikkonen's crash on the first lap.
The race was suspended for one hour while a safety barrier was repaired.

"It's all crazy," Lauda said. "To stop the race for one hour because one of the barriers is damaged is ridiculous."

The incident occurred when Ferrari driver Raikkonen appeared to lose control of his car and hit the barriers before spinning across the track where he collided with Williams' Felipe Massa.
Both drivers were forced to retire, with Raikkonen taken to the circuit medical centre, but Lauda was critical of the decision to suspend the race.

"Formula 1 is over-regulated," he added. "They are never going to hit [the barrier] again. They take care of every little detail and a lot of people will switch the television off."

The last time a Formula 1 race was red flagged on the first lap was at the 2000 Monaco Grand Prix, where Pedro de la Rosa collided with Jenson Button.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/28186376
 
Just got in from Silverstone

What a great weekend but today was just brilliant, Nico was due some bad luck and it came on the right day for the fans. The atmosphere was terrific.

Lewis had Nico before the problem reared imo. Still sat a luffield we saw so much action such as the Alonso Vettell battle and so on.

Mercs were in a race of there own total domination more so than the red bull years of past. I wonder how long they will have the edge over their competitors?

went to the pits on the track after and im not a huge Button fan but he literally appeared for 5 seconds and left. Many people very disappointed given he was asking people to wear shirts on behalf of his father and so on (which many did)

amazing weekend with good support races too

With reference to the barrier, it was fairly well mangled so not sure how they fixed it but no doubt it was hard to get of?

What a move from Mclaren this really was for Lewis.


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majnu said:
I'm with Lauder on this one. It shouldn't have taken that long to fix a barrier also.
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Sorry but I find that opinion utterly vapid and facile. That's the opinion btw, not you personally. Reason being that safety in F1 has to take priority in decisions made during a race. Once you subjugate safety in order to speed things up for the fans, you're negating potential fatal or even serious injury which could occur as a consequence. I saw Lauder's point about how improbable it would be for another driver to crash at that same point, but that is actually missing the point. What if the barrier wasn't repaired and another driver did hit it and someone died as a result ? Then what ? F1 needs to be cautious. If that means we all wait for an hour then big deal. Better that than someone die.
 
Jono8 said:
Rosberg still needs one more :)
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Yep, two DNFs for Lewis and only one for Nico yet Lewis is still within 4 points.

Plus, as I said earlier, Rosberg still hasn't beaten Lewis in a straight and fair fight in my opinion.

They both have strengths and flaws. Lewis is the faster but is emotionally fragile at times. Nico is more methodical and strategic at times but comes across as cocky.
 
To say the barrier didn't need repairing is dumb... The minute you start lowering your standards with regard to safety is the time when stuff that is 'never going to happen' suddenly does happen... I know it seems like a case of 'health and safety gone mad' but I don't think anyone would argue that the decline in deaths associated with F1 is a bad thing. I wonder if Lauda would have been happy to make such a call had he been in the position of responsibility?
 
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