Motorsport Off Topic Thread

deuse said:
F1 is boring now even with Hamilton winning his 6th WDC.
Crofty is getting on peoples nerves. The TV producer is rubbish...I could go on.
I don't pay to watch F1 ;)
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the other day I watched highlights of the 2003 Season, it looked fantastic. I can't remember it live other the carnage in Brazil, but there were more wet races, more winners, more strategy, more spins/mistakes, overtaking moves, and more teams that could fight.

After the first lap in Aus the two Ferraris were 6s ahead of the field. That kind of stuff just doesn't happen these days. BTW Ferrari still couldn't win that race ;)
 
englishpremier said:
the other day I watched highlights of the 2003 Season, it looked fantastic. I can't remember it live other the carnage in Brazil, but there were more wet races, more winners, more strategy, more spins/mistakes, overtaking moves, and more teams that could fight.

After the first lap in Aus the two Ferraris were 6s ahead of the field. That kind of stuff just doesn't happen these days. BTW Ferrari still couldn't win that race ;)
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Agree.

I was watching the senna\mansell days.
Seeing them drift a F1 car around corners to get the best exit was awesome :)
 
englishpremier said:
the other day I watched highlights of the 2003 Season, it looked fantastic. I can't remember it live other the carnage in Brazil, but there were more wet races, more winners, more strategy, more spins/mistakes, overtaking moves, and more teams that could fight.
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If you'd watched the 2002 or 2004 seasons you'd have struggled to make it a quarter of the way through. Two awful seasons with almost unrivalled dominance and polar opposites to 2003.

It's easy to watch excellent races and close seasons, but if you look at the period as a whole it can paint a very different picture.
 
timmeh said:
Penske reportedly in talks to buy Mercedes-AMG Formula 1 team

he must have some serious cash burning a hole in his pocket with his IndyCar and Indianapolis purchases recently
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Don't believe it at all. Utter nonsense story. Mercedes recently committed to staying in F1 until 2025. I highly doubt this is only as an Engine provider and do you think Hamilton would even consider signing on for a non-Mercedes team for another two or three years?
 
I don’t think that it is likely but I imagine that there is some substance to the rumours. Mercedes are not happy with the 2021 regs, although they did eventually agree, and the return of McLaren to Mercedes engines in 2021 keeps their options open if they want a competitive works team without being fully involved.
 
Not much chance of that. Anything naughty would have been pulled from the cars before CoTA. They're bolting the stable door after the horse legged it.
 
Odd they're doing the checks now. Surely it should have been done after the TDs were issued? All it's done is give Ferrari some time to get their system sorted, which they appear to have done since they're no longer on the pace.
 
413x said:
Also, is it just me, or has the f1 forum really died now f1 is only on sky Live?
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Pretty much.
Croft is a moron, such a moron that I don't want to watch it even though I can get it for free.
C4 coverage is flat, bland, and lacking any soul, due to Sky imposing the restrictions they have, not C4's fault at all.
Because of this my love for F1 is dwindling quickly, it'll perk up again next year but will surely die quicker than it has this year. Haven't even watched the last two races :rolleyes:
 
It's interesting that everyone bags on Crofty these days. If you go back to the start of this thread (early 2012) people used to love him on 5 live, and spent the time hating on James Allen and Legard.
 
It is since he adopted the house style of Sky, I.e. shouting in barely controlled artificial excitement at any event, no matter how insignificant.
 
The_Abyss said:
It is since he adopted the house style of Sky, I.e. shouting in barely controlled artificial excitement at any event, no matter how insignificant.
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CaptainRAVE said:
Crofty has become almost as bad, he shouts at everything and every race is going to become exciting in the last 5 laps.
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And he's slow to react to incidents, you see them happen and he notices about 5 seconds later. He can't pronounce drivers names properly, gets things wrong all the time, and just basically says stupid things, and as above makes a big deal out of nothing.

He's just a complete tit.
 
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