Italian Grand Prix 2015, Monza - Race 12/19

Irish_Tom said:
wow, 1.5 seconds ahead of the rest of the field.

I know it's only FP1, fuel loads blah blah blah but it seems Merc just keep increasing their dominance.
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Wouldn't be surprised, they've spent all their remaining tokens this weekend so it'd make sense to see them improve....

But as has been said - practice is practice.
 
smr said:
Or speed him up? Might be an extra incentive to show someone he loves that Daddy is a world champion?
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Hmm....not sure about that I don't think he will ever be a World Champion , ....plus Mrs Rosberg might have her own ideas about whats gonna happen next lol, as there is a child to think of now ...plus in the last two years he seems to have aged a lot...lots of stress no doubt .
 
Good to see Rosberg keeping things a little more competitive in P2, and also to see Ferrari right behind (although not too close) for the home fans.

15 laps for Jenson over both sessions. Hopeless once again from McLaren and Honda.
 
foster grant said:
Hmm....not sure about that I don't think he will ever be a World Champion , ....plus Mrs Rosberg might have her own ideas about whats gonna happen next lol, as there is a child to think of now ...plus in the last two years he seems to have aged a lot...lots of stress no doubt .
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Britney, aged a lot? Must have missed that.
 
foster grant said:
Terminal will you have any piccies that you might be posting at some point at all ? :) lol
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I will. Mainly just to show how I haven't used Burst or 4K mode on my camera before. The main difference from my normal attempts to capture pictures of moving things is that I get 5 times as many blurred shots per press of the button.

The McLaren Hondas sound awful up close, like a knackered 2CV on slash-cut dragster exhausts...
 
I'm kind of getting over f1. I watched spa last weekend on iplayer.

Lots of things have killed it for me. None of the reasons are Mercedes dominance.

Personal reasons
Sky
Drs dependency
Cost cutting that is required but means if you get it wrong at the start, that's it for 1-2 years.
 
Good quality Renault engine as usual. Ricciardo has a new engine in today gets about half a lap round then it blows up!!

Got to swap it out for an old one now before qualifying.

Really doesn't help F1 when 1/2 the engine manufacturers on the grid are just in a shambolic state with their product.
 
Watching the build-up on Sky atm.

Two hottest topics of recent couple of races seem to be tyre failures and track limits yet the two aren't being talked about together when they're clearly related.

Enforce track limits ffs!
 
Glaucus said:
Is it me or has driver mood changed about closed cockpit. They seem reluctantly for it now.
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I think they realise it's now inevitable to either have closed cockpits or some kind of additional protection, regardless of whether it's "in the spirit" of F1 or single-seaters in general.

In addition to the single-seater incidents we've had recently, just take a look at McNish's huge crash at Le Mans in 2011. LMP1 made closed cockpits mandatory and you have to ask whether he'd have walked away from that in the older, open-cockpit Audi.
 
That BRM is beautiful.

In 40 years, will we look back on any of the current generation of F1 cars and comment on how beautiful they were? No chance.
 
Glaucus said:
Is it me or has driver mood changed about closed cockpit. They seem reluctantly for it now.
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I think it's a case of one or two incidents is a freak, but now three have happened (and who's to know whether Bianchi's injuries would have been less severe or different) and we've had another two close calls (Coulthard/Wurz and Grosjean/Alonso) and let's not forget Chilton was hit in the head by a tyre too, and it's starting to get a bit too frequent to be considered a freak - it's a genuine risk.

I get where Hulkenberg is coming from though. If you make the sport more safe the drivers will take more risks due to the lower chance of being injured, but then you'll get more "freak" accidents which can either harm a driver, marshal or spectator. I can't remember if it was Jackie Stewart or Sterling Moss who in the 2000s said that F1 was "getting too safe" because drivers will end up taking more chances and having bigger and bigger accidents.

The likes of Villeneuve's accident at Melbourne or the pile-up at Monza, both killing a marshal, wouldn't have happened 20 years earlier because it would have been the drivers injured or killed. We had the two flips in the 90s of course (Patrese and Fittipaldi), but they were still rare and one was just a clear miscommunication. (Diniz's flip at the Nurburgring in 1999 doesn't really count as that was just a knock-on effect of Hill breaking down).

The same applies to Bianchi's crash. It wasn't a freak accident - the chances of him hitting the tractor weren't great, but the track has history of exactly that same incident, the light was fading, the standing water was increasing on that corner, yet still the drivers, Bianchi sadly included, continued to drive through there at a merely diminished speed. That wouldn't have happened in the 80s or earlier when the drivers knew safety was a regular issue. That said I'm still furious that Whiting did nothing to take the choice away from the drivers in that situation.

All that said, despite so many instances of drivers being hit in the head by a flying object in such a short space of time, in the cases of Massa, Surtees and Wilson it was just terribly bad luck. Before Massa and Surtees I can't recall any such instances causing a severe problem since Alan Stacey was killed after he hit a bird at Spa in 1960. Senna was killed by his wheel and suspension of course, but that was rather different.
 
OldCoals said:
Engine penalty for Rosberg.
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Nope. The engine he has in is only the 3rd engine of the year. Plus he hasn't left the pits for Qualifying so not in Parc Ferme conditions.

Engine change required for Rosberg.

I believe they only had 2 of the new spec engines. 1 for each car, so Rosberg should be going back to the older spec. Most likely a new 'old spec' engine as they have only used 2 each in the previous 11 races which is amazing really.

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Huh... Going back to the Spa engine. Merc's engines this year are remarkable. 2 of the biggest engine use circuits on an old engine. Damn.
 
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