Canadian Grand Prix 2013, Montréal - Race 7/19

englishpremier said:
Disgraceful! They joined FP1 half of the way through the session. BBC is shocking.
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A meaningless practice session on near prime-time TV. That is shocking. This is to F1 what a training session and warm-up is to a football team - meaningless (unless you utterly trash the car in FP3).

It's not as if you couldn't view it all online or anything.

It was only a little over 2 decades ago that you couldn't even watch the entire race live, even with it being on the BBC. If you're being elitist and pedantic, it was only 4 years ago that you couldn't watch the entire race when it was on ITV.

Frankly I'm grateful the BBC has given F1 the extensive coverage it has since 2009 (though obviously less grateful they subsequently sold half of the races to Sky)
 
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Seems like Alonso is happy with his car. I'd still be surprised if he can out qualify the two Mercedes tomorrow though.
 
ThestigGT999 said:
yh F1 is back after a 4 week break

I have ignored Monaco on purpose
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OK, I'll bite. Monaco is the best challenge for a driver. While it may not always be great racing for an average fan, it's a great race if you can appreciate just how close to the margins the drivers are pushing. OK, so they won't driving at 100% for all of the laps in the 2013 race, but it's still a huge skill to drive within centimetres of the barrier in the race and glance the barriers in qualifying.

It's why I like Singapore so much - while it doesn't have even a smidge of the romance of Monaco, it offers a great challenge to the drivers.

If you can't appreciate F1 cars at Monaco, perhaps you should just stick to amatuer club racing or watching the local Burberry-wearers pulling handbrake turns in the local Tesco car park.


(Annoyingly I can't find the epic camera footage of Alesi glancing every barrier from 1994/1995 which finally, as a 14 year old, convinced me I could never as much as I dreamed, ever be an F1 driver)
 
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this_is_gav said:
If you can't appreciate F1 cars at Monaco, perhaps you should just stick to amatuer club racing or watching the local Burberry-wearers pulling handbrake turns in the local Tesco car park.
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As much as some of your points are decent, that one's just ludicrous. Just because somebody doesn't enjoy watchign Monaco, they're not allowed to enjoy any of the remaining 18 (or however many) races!? :confused:
 
El_Watcher said:
lol at Paul Hembrey being told by the lawyers not to go to the team principals press conference. ;)
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Seems sensible to me, considering his company are now involved in an investigation. First thing that happens to the head of any organisation when they are under investigation is to not talk to the press. They have already made up enough junk about the situation.
 
This conference is silly.

Question about testing.
Brawn - You will get your answer at the tribunal.
Everyone else - Nothing to add.

Question about gaining an advantage from testing.
Horner - You will gain an advantage
Brawn - You will get your answer at the tribunal.
Everyone else - Nothing to add.

Next question about testing.
Brawn - You will get your answer at the tribunal.
Everyone else - Nothing to add.

After ten questions about testing, we have learnt nothing new about testing.

Just ask some sodding questions about Canada ffs. :confused::mad:

edit: After 5 million questions about testing, we have learnt nothing new about testing.
 
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