Singapore Grand Prix 2013, Marina Bay - Race 13/19

MooMoo444 said:
The crowd booing Vettel is good because it helps get the message across that people aren't happy with the state of F1 currently.
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Certainly gets a message across, a more potent one could be within the TV ratings, when long time fans can't be bothered to tune into the races on the BBC it doesn't speak well for them putting the money into a pay service like sky. For the big teams F1 is an advertisement. If people aren't tuning in then it isn't worth it. Will red bull carry on dumping more then most countries GDP into it just to advertise dentists mouth wash to a few hundred K people?
 
Alpherah said:
The webber incident? he put himself above the team and got away with it because of who he is.
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Before Malaysia the reason was his 'finger' celebration. Small minded idiots will use any excuse.

I hope he wins every race until the moronic fans give up and go back to watching football.
 
Race Result

Code: 
[b]Pos  Driver         Team                       Time[/b]
 1.  Vettel         Red Bull-Renault           
 2.  Alonso         Ferrari                              
 3.  Raikkonen      Lotus-Renault                        
 4.  Rosberg        Mercedes                             
 5.  Hamilton       Mercedes                             
 6.  Massa          Ferrari                              
 7.  Button         McLaren-Mercedes                     
 8.  Perez          McLaren-Mercedes                     
 9.  Hulkenberg     Sauber-Ferrari                       
10.  Sutil          Force India-Mercedes                 
11.  Maldonado      Williams-Renault                     
12.  Gutierrez      Sauber-Ferrari                       
13.  Bottas         Williams-Renault                     
14.  Vergne         Toro Rosso-Ferrari                   
15.  Webber         Red Bull-Renault                     
16.  van der Garde  Caterham-Renault                     
17.  Chilton        Marussia-Cosworth                    
18.  Bianchi        Marussia-Cosworth                    
19.  Pic            Caterham-Renault                     
DNF  Di Resta       Force India-Mercedes                 
DNF  Grosjean       Lotus-Renault                        
DNF  Ricciardo      Toro Rosso-Ferrari


Standings

Code: 
[b]Drivers:                      Constructors:             [/b]
 1.  Vettel        247        1.  Red Bull-Renault          377
 2.  Alonso        187        2.  Ferrari                   274
 3.  Hamilton      151        3.  Mercedes                  267
 4.  Raikkonen     149        4.  Lotus-Renault             206
 5.  Webber        130        5.  McLaren-Mercedes           76
 6.  Rosberg       116        6.  Force India-Mercedes       62
 7.  Massa          87        7.  Toro Rosso-Ferrari         31
 8.  Grosjean       57        8.  Sauber-Ferrari             19
 9.  Button         54        9.  Williams-Renault            1
10.  Di Resta       36       
11.  Sutil          26       
12.  Perez          22       
13.  Hulkenberg     19       
14.  Ricciardo      18       
15.  Vergne         13       
16.  Maldonado       1
 
dalin80 said:
Certainly gets a message across, a more potent one could be within the TV ratings, when long time fans can't be bothered to tune into the races on the BBC it doesn't speak well for them putting the money into a pay service like sky. For the big teams F1 is an advertisement. If people aren't tuning in then it isn't worth it. Will red bull carry on dumping more then most countries GDP into it just to advertise dentists mouth wash to a few hundred K people?
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If 200,000 less people watch F1 in the UK not one single sponsor will bat an eyelid. The UK audience are small fry. Developing countries are where market share and penetration is important. Bernie knows that Europe is where the main TV audience is but sponsors want to move into new, undeveloped markets.
 
FIA has showed footage of Webber running out onto the track to get to Alonso, 2 cars had to near enough stop to not hit him, another had to swerve according to twitter.
 
And Alonso's penalty is because 'he drove the car in a manner which could be deemed potentially dangerous to other drivers'

If you can get penalised for that, why did it take them so long to do anything about Maldonado and Grosjean?
 
Another repremand announced. This time it's for Lotus. Mechanic not wearing a helmet during a pitstop. That'll be the RenaultSport chap that had to top up the air in the engine, Ted pointed that out at the time.
 
F1 business model is now about getting paid for races, not tv viewers.
They get decent crowds and countries are queuing up for races.

Some of the teams would prefer more races than testing, because they get paid for racing whereas testing costs money.
 
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