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F1 season start - Austria

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  • #32
    Tea drinker
    Registered Users Posts: 2,818 ✭✭✭Tea drinker


    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    Agreed, he made far too many mistakes in his later years. He should have retired 5 years earlier.
    Maybe you are right about retiring but he wasn't performing brain surgery, his mistakes had little consequence and were mostly humorous.


  • #33
    Inquitus
    Registered Users Posts: 13,729 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    Redbull protest rejected:

    https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/53285413


  • #34
    H3llR4iser
    Registered Users Posts: 4,027 ✭✭✭H3llR4iser


    Rodney Bathgate wrote: »
    Agreed, he made far too many mistakes in his later years. He should have retired 5 years earlier.


    In all fairness, I've watched a lot of races from the 70s and 80s "in absentia", and he did the same mistakes even then - sometimes egregious, like mistaking anything vaguely red/orange on track for a Ferrari. I, watching a Youtube compressed video made of a degraded tape from the 1970s, recorded off of a 240i signal of questionable quality, could see it was NOT a Ferrari...


  • #35
    Faugheen
    Site Banned Posts: 12,341 ✭✭✭✭Faugheen


    Inquitus wrote: »
    Redbull protest rejected:

    https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/53285413

    I was thinking this was ridiculous. Every man and his mother knew Mercedes were going to use this system from as far back as pre-season testing, yet Red Bull wait until now to kick up about it.

    Chancers being chancers. If they had any genuine concerns they would have flagged it during pre-season testing.


  • #36
    duploelabs
    Registered Users Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭duploelabs


    H3llR4iser wrote: »
    In all fairness, I've watched a lot of races from the 70s and 80s "in absentia", and he did the same mistakes even then - sometimes egregious, like mistaking anything vaguely red/orange on track for a Ferrari. I, watching a Youtube compressed video made of a degraded tape from the 1970s, recorded off of a 240i signal of questionable quality, could see it was NOT a Ferrari...

    Irregardless of his mistakes, I'd take Murray's enthusiasm over the 'top lad banter' that exists today with the current crop of commentators


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  • #37
    SureYWouldntYa
    Registered Users Posts: 7,723 ✭✭✭SureYWouldntYa


    Wonder now will we really see Ferrari down the field, or if they were sandbagging all along

    Red Bull being a bit coy hopefully means Max will be up and around the Mercs later on


  • #38
    skipper_G
    Registered Users Posts: 14,614 ✭✭✭✭skipper_G


    Red flag in FP3 as Latifi bins it into the barriers. Not the start he needed on his first qualifying day


  • #39
    Dont be at yourself
    Registered Users Posts: 10,571 ✭✭✭✭Dont be at yourself


    Grid predictions? I’ll go:

    1. HAM
    2. BOT
    3. VER
    4. PER
    5. LEC
    6. VET
    7. ALB
    8. SAI
    9. STR
    10. RIC


  • #40
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 13,423 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Is Quali at 2 or 3?


  • #41
    jammiedodgers
    Registered Users Posts: 1,402 ✭✭✭jammiedodgers


    2 I think


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  • #42
    eviltimeban
    Registered Users Posts: 5,087 ✭✭✭eviltimeban


    Carroller16 wrote: »
    Unpopular Opinion.

    Murray Walker is/was overrated.

    I never said he was one thing or another, under or over rated. He was just Murray Walker, and was the "voice of F1" for generations of people. For many, his voice on the TV was synonymous with Sunday afternoons.

    Sure he made mistakes, and he had Brundle there to help him in the later years. But that was the point - we'd see a Ferrari go off and immediately think "was that Schumacher???" and Murray would vocalise that until he was corrected by Brundle or saw himself that it was, actually, Irvine. :)

    Anyway back on topic. Mercedes running away with it, yawn. This is worse than the Vettel / Red Bull years as at least that went down to the wire most of the time.


  • #43
    BikeRacer
    Registered Users Posts: 471 ✭✭BikeRacer


    antodeco wrote: »
    Is Quali at 2 or 3?

    Starts in 5 mins


  • #44
    Top Dog
    Registered Users Posts: 4,160 ✭✭✭Top Dog


    Faugheen wrote: »
    I was thinking this was ridiculous. Every man and his mother knew Mercedes were going to use this system from as far back as pre-season testing, yet Red Bull wait until now to kick up about it.

    Chancers being chancers. If they had any genuine concerns they would have flagged it during pre-season testing.
    I don't think they were able to lodge a complaint until it was an actual race weekend.


  • #45
    Jordan 199
    Registered Users Posts: 11,630 ✭✭✭✭Jordan 199


    The Alpha Tauri is beautiful.


  • #46
    BikeRacer
    Registered Users Posts: 471 ✭✭BikeRacer


    Russell almost into Q2. Williams making progress, great stuff.


  • #47
    skipper_G
    Registered Users Posts: 14,614 ✭✭✭✭skipper_G


    Russell out, but smashed his rookie teammate and faster than both Alfa Romeos


  • #48
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    They go on about the environment, they should look at the waste of tyre rubber at the end of Q1 there.


  • #49
    Harika
    Registered Users Posts: 4,409 ✭✭✭Harika


    Q2 will be a nailbiter, teams are so close together.


  • #50
    weekaizer
    Registered Users Posts: 613 ✭✭✭weekaizer


    Harika wrote: »
    Q2 will be a nailbiter, teams are so close together.

    Except when merc turn on their engine everyone else is close together.


  • #51
    Faugheen
    Site Banned Posts: 12,341 ✭✭✭✭Faugheen


    That’s a tremendous effort from Russell.


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  • #52
    GarIT
    Registered Users Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    I knew Latifi was bad but didn't think it could be that embarrassing. Half a second a lap slower than Kubica would have done, unbelievable.


  • #53
    Jordan 199
    Registered Users Posts: 11,630 ✭✭✭✭Jordan 199


    The glossy black paint on the Mercedes will be a fingerprint magnet. I hate glossy black.


  • #54
    Inquitus
    Registered Users Posts: 13,729 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    Someone on reddit made this, made me chuckle!

    https://streamable.com/8owgz4


  • #55
    BikeRacer
    Registered Users Posts: 471 ✭✭BikeRacer


    Ferrari could be in trouble here.


  • #56
    weekaizer
    Registered Users Posts: 613 ✭✭✭weekaizer


    Vettel out


  • #57
    skipper_G
    Registered Users Posts: 14,614 ✭✭✭✭skipper_G


    Ferrari 10th and 11th :D

    Hilarious


  • #58
    Charlie-Bravo
    Registered Users Posts: 5,618 ✭✭✭Charlie-Bravo


    Ferrari not at the races at all this weekend. Come on Albon!! Looking forward to the midfield shoot out in Q3.

    -. . ...- . .-. / --. --- -. -. .- / --. .. ...- . / -.-- --- ..- / ..- .--.



  • #59
    Inquitus
    Registered Users Posts: 13,729 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    Ferrari are even worse than I thought, shockingly bad. Hard to see them putting the world to rights in one fell swoop at Hungary, likely the whole season is a writeoff for them!


  • #60
    Jordan 199
    Registered Users Posts: 11,630 ✭✭✭✭Jordan 199


    Ferrari will need to bring their upgrade package to Silverstone.


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  • #61
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Jesus Christ Ferrari are a shambles altogether. Good showing for McLaren. Hopefully Verstappen can do something starting with the Mediums.


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