Mercedes have upset Bernie = no screen time
Japanese Grand Prix 2015, Suzuka - Race 14/19
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Mercedes have upset Bernie = no screen time
Soldato
well said"Go a little slower"? How about if the lead driver brakes mid-corner? Think that would have been okay in Suzuka with the rest of the field coming through at high speed? Did you want to see a massive multi-car smash up? Or did you just forget that racing is about going fast?right back at you.
Yeah, why let any car move at all? Let's all have them race on separate days and just see who's fastest against the clock? That way they don't have to deal with the nasty business of actually using skill to get past any other driver.
What rubbish. It's like you've never heard of the many acrimonious rivalries between drivers all trying to win a races at the same time. You've lost all credibility by suggesting that drivers should just go a little slower to make it easier for people to overtake. I think at this point you're just trolling, so welcome to my ignore file.
Soldato
Wasn't much to show after lap 2, in general it was a very boring F1 race so they had to show more mid field 'battles'
Soldato
It was the same in qualifying. They only showed the Mercs when they had to.
"Go a little slower"? How about if the lead driver brakes mid-corner? Think that would have been okay in Suzuka with the rest of the field coming through at high speed? Did you want to see a massive multi-car smash up? Or did you just forget that racing is about going fast?
Do you have any racing experience? If you've got a driver on your outside (who has a chance of remaining there) you go into the corner a littler slower with the intention of being able to stay a little tighter so you've got the opportunity to leave a car's width should he be able to hang it out around the outside. I hardly meant slamming on the brakes mid-corner.
And you say I'm trolling?!
To you are the "good old days" are Senna vs Prost and Mansell? Villeneuve vs Pironi? Even back in the Villeneuve days you didn't force a peer onto the grass. You did it on most tracks and you end up with a situation like Fuji or Montjuïc Park with a car killing spectators (not saying that happened as I don't think either were caught on camera, and obviously there was on grass at Montjuic).
Villeneuve vs Arnoux at Dijon is the only recollection I have of a driver deliberately pushing another car over the kerbs back then and that was very much an exception to the rule.
I can never remember if it was Sterling Moss or Jackie Stewart (I think it was the former) who said in the 2000s that F1 has become too safe in the sense that drivers feel so secure that they take risks they never would have done in their day, as if you did them then there was a strong chance you would be injured or killed. Doing so now often has little recourse, but occasionally you do get reminded how dangerous F1 can still be - tragically Jules Bianchi died because he didn't slow down enough through a yellow zone.
Or you could, you know, just go a little slower and give some space.
You can't be serious?
Man of Honour
What's the point of showing a car out front with a 10 sec gap? Might as well focus on the actual battles on the track rather than a time trial.
Soldato
I think the BBC were having an issue with their website earlier, links work now (and did yesterday when I watched the 1986 British Grands Prix).
Soldato
What, allowing a driver space, as he does to every other driver he passes?
Have you bothered reading what else I posted?
I thought the overtake was perfectly fine. He could have given Rosberg more space on the exit as he had plenty of traction and such. But he was ahead and every right to hold his line which worked out for him and made sure there was no options of Rosberg going into turn 3.
Hamilton always pulls these moves where he leaves little to no space when he is overtaking/being overtaken. You wouldn't of seen it much due to how far ahead they are in terms of speed/traction so he doesn't need to squeeze anyone off the line as he can beat them under braking or mid corner.
Hamilton always pulls these moves where he leaves little to no space when he is overtaking/being overtaken. You wouldn't of seen it much due to how far ahead they are in terms of speed/traction so he doesn't need to squeeze anyone off the line as he can beat them under braking or mid corner.
Soldato
Soldato
Non of the links work.
Work ok here.
Autosport have done a whole Plus Subscribers only article on whether it was right for Hamilton to have overtaken. Just wtf, its a race!
Soldato
This is gay is going right on my ignore list. Some of the stuff in here is shocking. Go actually race karts then you know what unfair is when your being nudged down the straights and tapped in corners
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Hamilton was spot on with his move.
Regards Hamilton forcing Rosberg off the track, I believe whoever is in front and is on the racing line gets track position. It's up to them if they give space or not, if the car 'behind' wants to hang himself out over the side of the track that's his lookout. Correct me if I am wrong.