Yeah I thought that too and how much better it was than Britney and Snoop ****s hangbags at dawn. Then again if the Red bull was a title winning car I don't think Vettel would be back slapping and be all smiles at getting beaten this year
Canadian Grand Prix 2014, Montréal - Race 7/19
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Yeah I thought that too and how much better it was than Britney and Snoop ****s hangbags at dawn. Then again if the Red bull was a title winning car I don't think Vettel would be back slapping and be all smiles at getting beaten this year
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Things we learned this weekend:
1) Sergio Perez is a top driver (when he isn't turning into a passing Williams).
2) Vettel couldn't win a race in which he started third and the two cars ahead of him had serious mechanical problems.
3) Max Chilton can, in fact, retire from a race.
4) Sauber is the unluckiest team in F1, Sutil having failed to score in a race where only ten people finished and he was one of them.
5) Karma is real and Pastor Maldonado is rebalancing his scale at a rate of knots in preparation for his winning the 2015 WDC.
1) Sergio Perez is a top driver (when he isn't turning into a passing Williams).
2) Vettel couldn't win a race in which he started third and the two cars ahead of him had serious mechanical problems.
3) Max Chilton can, in fact, retire from a race.
4) Sauber is the unluckiest team in F1, Sutil having failed to score in a race where only ten people finished and he was one of them.
5) Karma is real and Pastor Maldonado is rebalancing his scale at a rate of knots in preparation for his winning the 2015 WDC.
Lewis could win the next ten races (with Rosberg coming second), but if Rosberg wins and Lewis comes second in the penultimate race (or any race in the next 11) and then Lewis has a DNF in the final race and Rosberg wins....Rosberg would win the championship with Lewis winning 14 races to Rosberg's 4 (395 points to 386).
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Yeah as I said it's always been a tragic set of circumstances but people here only seem to care this year. When Kimi was plodding along picking up safe points without ever really pushing it everyone said he was 'back'. He wasn't he was just playing a nice safe game to decent points.
Lewis just has to hope Rosberg gets some DNF's or he won't be winning this championship now.
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DOuble points is a terrible idea, however, if there was a double points race or not, no one wants to see one guy beat another based purely on DNF's.
If Hamilton wins say 10 races, Rosberg, 5, but Rosberg wins the title ONLY due to Hamilton DNF's.... no one wants to see that. Same for any driver, if one driver utterly outdrives another throughout the season and gets more wins but loses due to terrible luck it's exceptionally hollow.
At this stage an even season would be if Rosberg gets 2 dnf's and Hamilton gets a 1st and 2nd in those two races, Hamilton would deservedly have a large points lead if that happened and both drivers would have had roughly speaking the same situation(ignoring Rosberg's antics and Monaco and Canada). If that was one DNF in a double points race, IF it came down to the last race of the season and Rosberg had still had no bad luck I would prefer to see Hamilton win it(on current level of who has driver best how often being maintained).
Soldato
I wouldn't backtrack because double points is plain stupid and unnecessary, regardless of who you want to win.
Soldato
Must be a Rosberg thing. Keke only won one race in 1982 when he won the title.
Don't count the retirements just yet. We're only just over a third of the way through the season and there's plenty of time for more; be it driver error or mechanical. I just hope it doesn't come down to the double-points last race deciding it... don't mind a one race shootout, but if it means a driver wins when in any other season he wouldn't have, there'll be uproar.
I did spot this and it was good to see. There have been some poor marshalling moments recently, but those guys were straight out in the line of fire of 170mph cars within seconds to see how the drivers were. Good on them!
The double points system could hand Lewis the WDC, cure cancer, eliminate world hunger and stop Flavio from ever appearing on TV again, and still be the most retarded idea ever.
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Completely forgot about the double points final race :/
That's put a stain on the season for me and we're not even half way yet..
That's put a stain on the season for me and we're not even half way yet..
People seem unable to accept that Rosberg can finish lower than 2nd. I will take bets that he finished 1 or more races lower than 2nd this year
Soldato
I was thinking the same thing.
People seem unable to accept that Rosberg can finish lower than 2nd. I will take bets that he finished 1 or more races lower than 2nd this year
Well barring any hiccups with their energy recovery system happening again, no other car can get close to the Mercs so Merc 1-2's are hardly that much of a wild assumption!!
Agreed 100%.
If I had to point the finger, it would be Perez.
But I don't like Stewards, so I'd prefer the 2 drivers sort this out in the garage.
I like things to be dealt with the old fashioned way - a bust up in the garage or on the trackside.
Stewards meddle far to much
People seem unable to accept that Rosberg can finish lower than 2nd. I will take bets that he finished 1 or more races lower than 2nd this year
Danny, I can understand if Merc were merely .3s/lap faster than rest. This would mean that on some tracks, the Mercs could get beat.
The issue is that right now, they seem to be around 0.5s-1s per lap faster.
This means that for a Merc to finish lower than 2nd (on merit), is very difficult.
So I understand where some people are coming from.
Do you honestly believe that Vettel is happy to see his team-mate win?
This is the guy who took away Webber's last and only chance of winning a race...in a season where Vettel won 13 races. He wouldnt even gift a race win to Webber, when Webber had the team order on his side.
This is a driver who was livid when he finished 2nd to Button in Canada a few years ago. This was after he was comfortably leading the WDC and had won 5 out of the last 6 GPs.
Unless Vettel has been lobotomised, I assure you, this guy is the most unhappy driver in the pit-lane and will not stop at anything to utterly dominate his team-mate.
So do you want to bet on that statement you made or not. I bet Rosberg finishes a race outside of the top 2 making your comment that he needed Rosberg to DNF false.
He will have a qualifying nightmare or two and things will go wrong. This isn't like 1988 when the whole car could be rebuilt after each session. People seem to have given up, done the maths and assumed Rosberg won't finish outside the top 2. Utter nonscense. Anyone really believe that I will take a bet, other than that you are just saying it trying jinx it or 'pigeon' it as they call in in Football arena
Man of Honour
Kinda reminds me of the time Schumacher hit Coulthard will lapping him. He marched down the pitlane and was obviously after some fisticuffs
You dont get good drama like that anymore