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Formula 1 2011: Round 19 - Brazilian Grand Prix

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    #62
    Ghost Train
    Registered Users Posts: 30,070 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    ScrubsfanChris wrote: »
    F1 forum is gone "temporary fault" :(

    Just as they were getting to talk to Button and Wnitmarsh, pity. Looks like that was the end of the live BBC coverage for this year


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    #63
    mickdw
    Registered Users Posts: 23,285 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    poor way to sign off for bbc.
    Is coultard hanging around for next year? It appears so from how they were talking


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    #64
    rua1972
    Registered Users Posts: 171 ✭✭rua1972


    mickdw wrote: »
    poor way to sign off for bbc.
    Is coultard hanging around for next year? It appears so from how they were talking

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/sporteditors/2011/11/bbc_formula_1_an_update.html

    Here you can find more about next years coverage.


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    #65
    lord lucan
    Registered Users Posts: 9,575 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    rua1972 wrote: »
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/sporteditors/2011/11/bbc_formula_1_an_update.html

    Here you can find more about next years coverage.

    The comments beneath that article give an excellent idea of how angry a lot of British F1 fans feel about the new arrangement.


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    #66
    ScrubsfanChris
    Registered Users Posts: 8,599 ✭✭✭ScrubsfanChris


    Tweet from @jakehumphreyf1:
    That was a rather dramatic way to say goodbye wasn't it!! Power cut in the whole TV compound took out every broadcaster...

    ...but you still got over an hour of fun(EJ on fire!). I'd like to say thanks so much for watching 2011 with the BBC. Keep doing do in 2012.

    He also mentioned that the forum (in full) will be up on iplayer later with a proper send off..


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    #67
    Seannew1
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    Disappointing that the coverage cut out earlier........was forced to sit through an hour of x factor sh*te because of that....anyway decent enough race,delighted to see Webber win,he's had awful luck this yr in a few races and it's taken him a while to adjust to the pirelli tyres,anyway hopefully this will give him a good confidence boost into winter testing


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    #68
    Ghost Train
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    Button really had a great year, good improvement from last year, very solid. Pity competition with Vettel wasn't closer, maybe next year.


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    #69
    Cookie_Monster
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    Why do Red Bull insist on BS nonsense like the gearbox comments rather than just telling Vettel to let Webber past? He clearly had no issues with the box or would not have been able to stay so far ahead of everyone else.


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    #70
    Abi
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    Ghost Train wrote: »
    Button really had a great year, good improvement from last year, very solid. Pity competition with Vettel wasn't closer, maybe next year.

    He did well this year, looking forward to seeing him in action next year.


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    #71
    Myrddin
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    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    Why do Red Bull insist on BS nonsense like the gearbox comments rather than just telling Vettel to let Webber past? He clearly had no issues with the box or would not have been able to stay so far ahead of everyone else.

    If it was prearranged, I'd imagine Webber would have wanted it to at least look real, rather than take a charity win. It didn't quite work that way though, in my opinion it was gifted to him. You could see by his comments & body language at the end that he was happy etc, but not ecstatic at breaking a season long dry spell.


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    #72
    De Hipster
    Registered Users Posts: 1,160 ✭✭✭De Hipster


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    Why do Red Bull insist on BS nonsense like the gearbox comments rather than just telling Vettel to let Webber past? He clearly had no issues with the box or would not have been able to stay so far ahead of everyone else.

    In my mind it would have been touching on damaging for the team morale to ask the most talented driver F1 has seen in recent yearss to move over for an underachieving teammate...they went with more of a:

    Dear Mark, please accept with our (in)sincere best wishes your first win in over a season, as you couldn't achieve one on your own steam. Yours Seb, Chris & the team.

    They were making it VERY clear that team & first driver were doing him a favour ...even after his continued moaning about team committment etc.


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    #73
    Dusty87
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,920 ✭✭✭Dusty87


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    Why do Red Bull insist on BS nonsense like the gearbox comments rather than just telling Vettel to let Webber past? He clearly had no issues with the box or would not have been able to stay so far ahead of everyone else.


    Is it not against the rules now to move over for a team-mate tofurther his position, after the Ferrari thing a few years ago? They're are not going to make it obvious.


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    #74
    Myrddin
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    Dusty87 wrote: »
    Is it not against the rules now to move over for a team-mate tofurther his position, after the Ferrari thing a few years ago? They're are not going to make it obvious.

    Team orders are allowed now, they were reintroduced this season. Webber wouldn't have wanted it to look obvious, maybe it would have been bad PR for Vettel & the team also?


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