2008 F1 Season

[Roy]

Cracker of a race though, pity Webber wasn't up there. Makes me wonder if he didn't bin it at the end of Q2, probably wouldn't have been in all the traffic as he was showing some pace, but ohwell.

Massa's beginning to prove a few people wrong, had quite a few passes and in trying conditions, is good to see.

Yeh Massa, along with Kubica he is my guy this year. When the chips have been down he has been good in traffic and confident, made a few msitakes but comes straight back. Last night was a great race for him and now equal 2nd in the championship as they head to tracks where Ferrari are at their best.

[dezz]

You are however in the very small minority, and I dare say there's only Hamilton fans that agree with you..

Yes I'm a Ferrari fan, but there's no doubt that LH and NR deserved to be penalised.

When it happened I thought, 5 grid positions at the next race, the FIA decided 10.

[m3gtr]

You are however in the very small minority, and I dare say there's only Hamilton fans that agree with you..

Oh come on man, LOL!

A small minority!? Only Hamilton fans that agree with me?? How did you come to that conclusion?

Honestly, in the spirit of avoiding a flamefest lets drop this here, yeah?

I dont mind if we dont agree on this - at the end of the day, Kubica took his maiden and BMW their first 1-2.

I remember reading this guy called Dr Lawrence on Pitpass and he has always said BMW will never win a race.

I bet he's eating his shorts right now, lol.

[ctjet]

all it took was for all the guys infront of them to crash out or suffer major setbacks

Edited June 9, 2008 by ctjet

[dezz]

all it took was far all the guys infront of them to crash out or suffer major setbacks

[m3gtr]

all it took was far all the guys infront of them to crash out or suffer major setbacks

Yep, but dats the way teh cookie crumblez.

Lucky Koobie!

I bet Nick is Effin pissed right now... sif he wouldnt be being denied BMW's and HIS first because of what may transpire into team orders...

I would have preferred for NH to get the win because we know it may have been his one and only chance...

Conspiracy anyone?

I like NH...he's mr Invisible until #SHAZZAM#, he appears on the podium like a regular little genie.

[ctjet]

he didnt deserve to be treated like that

if kubica is so good, let him get past on his own merit

letting him past must have been the most crushing moment of his BMW career

[Roy]

Yeh, Kubica could have paid him a bit ore credit. For a guythat gas qualified like an old lady he continues to show he is abou the best racer out there and probably the best in traffic management. Heikki could learn a lot from him.

[m3gtr]

he didnt deserve to be treated like that

if kubica is so good, let him get past on his own merit

letting him past must have been the most crushing moment of his BMW career

Thats alright./..hes got Rubes and DC to drown his sorrows with...

I wonder how NH feels being BMW's new bitch on teh block?

Shit, where the bazza when you need to start a shit fight?

Edited June 9, 2008 by m3gtr

[benm]

Hamilton's accident was quite amusing however im very disappointed that Webber did not managed a 4th or 5th but instead got no points at all. Rounds like this where a couple of top drivers crash out are the rounds that he really needs to capitalise on.

[jonn]

Quoted from the BBC website. Ron Dennis.....

"It's difficult for a driver to decide whether to focus on the lights or on the cars ahead in situations like that"

WTF

It's not difficult for the rest of us mate! The light was red and the cars were stationary.

[lingeringsoul]

Quoted from the BBC website. Ron Dennis.....

"It's difficult for a driver to decide whether to focus on the lights or on the cars ahead in situations like that"

what a load of crap, if thats the case, then f**k me side ways I must be the next Michael Schumacher because I can focus on lights and cars ahead AT THE SAME TIME!!!!!

if this was on the track then yes I'd have to agree, but since it's in pit lane then NOOOOOO

[dezz]

I guess Hamilton decided to focus on neither of them then ?

Maybe it's just silly old me, but if he focused on the cars he'd have seen them stopped in front of him well before he got there, and if he focused on the lights he would have known to stop without the assistance of a Ferrari rear end.

[Duncan]

wow this has been an interesting day in the old f1 thread And I disagree with soooo many things.

first - not team orders, nothing needed to be said. no way is a teammate going to stay in the way of the other driver if they are on an extra stop strategy. nothing dodgy there, if heidfeld had tried to hold him he may have ended up with both of them loosing. BMW hedged their bets to get a win and both strategies showed very similar results. good on them even though I dont like that arrogant kraut thiessen.

secondly - kimi at monaco. just bad luck. its not like he wanted to throw away the points. when you are racing sometimes you f**k it.

finally - louise and pitlanegate. I'm the first to say I get the shits with the snot nosed bastard.....but this was a really simple mistake. He was on cold tyres, doing 100 (way too fast to be safe) and something totally unexpected happened while he was distracted. and as i'm sure the RTA will tell us you travel 16m/ second at 100. He would have been doing the whole reprogram the car via the steering wheel thing and not paying any attention to the track until he was expecting to be out of pit lane.

consider that their pit lane speed limit is the same as the aus open highway limit. they are not going slow at all.

[dezz]

Yeah, but a road car doesn't have the ability to slow down and stop at the rate of a 600kg F1 car...

Not 100% on the figures, but 0-100-0 in about 6 seconds I think...

[wolverine]

100km/h = 27 m/s

no wonder he had the prang, things happen quickly when you are thinking about your victory speech.

[dezz]

and yet both Kimi and Kubica managed to pull up before the line. Astonishing.

[Beer Baron]

I'm here boys! been steering clear of the thread as I taped the race and just watched it now.

Firstly, Well done Kubie! Nice work you sexy hunk of polish man glory. He has been threatening a win for a while now and it's quite fitting that he did it at the track where he nearly killed himself just 1 year ago. He really is one of the best in the field and I think he has a great racing style, and a good attitude to go with it.

Well done to DC too. He always seems to capitalise on races with abnormal condition and/or leaders crashing out. Not bad for an old bloke.

Very dissapointed with webber. I sincerely hope he had a problem of some kind because he should have been up there in front of DC. I missed some sections of the race but webber must have had a problem, or really bad strategy and timing because he was looking good to do a 'bradbury' and score some good points in the wake of the carnage. Very poor that he finished second last out of all the cars that finished.

As for Adams boyfriend louise. what can I say? I remember fondly all your talk about Kimi's racing accident and called it a 'noob move' and 'noob mistake' well personally I reckon if you looked up either of those descriptions in the dictionary you would see a picture of hamilton running up the back of a stationary ferrari. It was a really rookie mistake. I would even say piss weak. and even more lame that he took kimi out with him (though very convenient for louise). I haven't read all the news but from the above posts it sounds like he's getting penalised for it? I'm not sure how I feel about that, i'll get back to you on that one.

Anyway, forget that rubbish. GO KUBICA!!! and well done DC you old sly dog you...

[lingeringsoul]

Hamilton said: "I was trying to be cautious. I looked at the red light and I looked back and they'd stopped.

"There were two cars side by side. If they'd been in a line I would have seen it a bit faster."

Raikkonen was not impressed.

"I saw a red light and chose to stop, someone else saw a red light and chose not to," he said.

curtesy of onestopstrategy.com

oh dear - I'll hazard a guess that , had they been in a line, he would've obliterated both of the cars

[m3gtr]

As for Adams boyfriend louise. what can I say? I remember fondly all your talk about Kimi's racing accident and called it a 'noob move' and 'noob mistake' well personally I reckon if you looked up either of those descriptions in the dictionary you would see a picture of hamilton running up the back of a stationary ferrari.

lol, blow me richard - you wish you were my boyfriend!

If we looked up Beer Baron wed find a pic of you and teh Koob gettin jiggy wid it.

Edited June 9, 2008 by m3gtr