and ricciardos out well thats shit .... hope vettel holds on now

thats it though mercedes looked incedible during testing 

we always have moto gp tonight so hey at least one of them is competitive

Another season has started.

ricciardo starting from the pits crap weekend for him hope he can at least get top 6

Really good seeing these euro machines tackling Bathurst.
Love the Bentley - its such a beast !
SVG train wreck at the end.
I'm no wingecup fan but glad the Marenello car won !

i was i was so happy that shane crashed and craig won

Anyone following the Bathurst 12 hour? 

Agree with the above comments. Worth watching to see Dan get second though \:d/

Dan raced really well and you are right. Was pretty dull.

And it was another crap race tbh barring that Dan got 2nd ! Bravo.
RB is improving whereas Ferrari is going backwards :(
Ok some parts of the race was ok, disappointing Nico just can't come back and fight back the prick.
Pole sitter,blows the start and it's over.
Hoefully the break helps to find his mojo !

Hamilton is next level.

Germany F1 on NOW :)

I didn't see quali can't comment.

Race was back to typical hungaring, pretty much prat wins first corner its over.
Boring race overall, yes good on Dan gaining 3rd, was not going to get any higher thats for sure unless the mb's suffered dnf's.
verstappen really pushing the boundaries on the amount you are allowed to move to defend your position. not only can you only move once, you are also not allowed to move in the braking zones, and vestappen was giving both those rules a nudge.
Kimi gave Max a lesson in how to defend earlier in the race, Max showed how not to do it, moving in breaking zones once the other guy has committed to the inside should have been penalised, the big lunge Kimi had into T1 could have easily been a big accident had he not been so quick to switch to the outside and run wide.

Max is brilliant but that defence was a bit over the top for P5, and his comments post race were less than respectful, if Kimi has a chance to make things hard for Max in the future when he will no doubt be a title contender he may regret his current stance.

I hate the British media solely for that fact ^^^^

For Button do get done, is harsh. The rules are stupid, but they are there. I'm with Button though, what do they determine to be a safety issue in these instances?

What's everyone's thoughts on the yellow flag in qualifying deal? From the post race press conference, Hamilton comes off as a jaded brat because Rosberg got away with it (and rightfully so since the track was cleared by the time he got to the scene)

Sky commentators really don't like criticising Hamilton :lol:

Onya Danny boy. 3rd place.

button copping a penalty for McLaren trying to fix his hydraulic problem show how farcical the radio rules are

Hungarian GP on for thse interested. Tight start.

No its not black and white - but lets just agree you see it one way I another.

What a motoGP race last night to watch.
Love it when its WET, on those 2 wheels with hardly any track footprint !.
These guys have BALLS when its like this, well not all, Jorge has lost the plot, now twice this season in the wet he's at the back of the grid, he showed this sign long ago in his career, lucky half the season doesn't have wet tracks otherwise he'd be gone.
Works for our Jack Miller though - the aussie Vermulan but better at his young age.
Dovi was flying on the wets and was leading easily from Rossi, Jack etc...
With the track showing a dry line Marquez makes the early call going in to get onto the slicked prepped bike, once tyres warmed up at one stage pulling 7sec faster than the front runners. Prior to that he had over shot a corner riding over the kitty litter at 10/10ths getting back on the track, most others would have binned it.
NicCarBel, you may know motogp riders make the call when to come in the pits or not.
This is what I mean.
Rossi, Miller, and 2 others still circulating on a drying track with wet tyres on, losing time like mad, pits boards saying "box" yet Rossi thought to gamble more than he could chew being they were in front at the time.
Made for exciting viewing, tension for the crews etcetc, Marquez making time like mad, Crutchlow coming up through the field as well.
The pack finally came in, Marquez flies past race in the bag - Miller hung in there longest on wets, nothing to lose but coming in even later he circulated really well, even over taking Rossi to finish 7th.
Redding was gutted, having got to 2nd late in the race Crutchlow came through fast so he hoped for 3rd but Dovi came back taking the last podium 2nd last corner or so.
What a race - F1 can't compete with this at present imo.

Well if you're saying you don't like the pit crew driving the car, you're in support of the radio embargo. Black and white.

Look, not really.
Organisers/FIA in this case need to get a grip that this type of rule for eg, being quite petty is not in spirit of the sport imo and AUFC added the rest, its just silly, today everything is on tap but in todays F1 you have a radio embargo, lol......
As mentioned sort out the tyre rulings.
Complication after complication.
I do like the Q1 Q2 Q3 system, would work even better allowing a bit more freedom no ? some team for a change may perform the impossible trying something different for right now everything is quite predictable.

Bingo. The only really new thing I like over recent years, is the Q1, Q2, Q3 qualifying system. I miss the old, old tyre rules (simply put, tyre company brings two compounds, teams have practice sessions to make a decision on which company to use for qualifying and the race, I believe 6 compounds for both sessions)

I don't like the radio restrictions because it in itself is contradictory in a sense. These teams spend silly amounts of money on telemetry, pit crew equipment, training procedures etc., but now they're not even allowed to talk to the driver to relay any of this data? :S

I say screw that. Instead of trying to manufacture excitement (DRS, having to use both compounds during a race, etc.), just let them go for it. Give them a handful of each compound tyres for each event and let them develop their own strategy with them. Bring back the option to refuel. Let teams talk to their drivers.

The thing is, if you're getting upset at the radio embargo rule, you're kind of contradicting why you don't like F1 any more that you started your post with.

Its been a given whats on today F1 car sooner or later moves into mass production for consumer cars, that I don't mind regards to new tech advances etcetc BUT the FIA need to consider what is best in the name of "racing" as the sport is meant to be that, racing on the track by man and machine.
Racing now is run by the Pit Crew Manager and their tech read outs - the driver is a mere pilot just as astronauts run by Nasa Control, and you get penalised for a stupid radio embargo rule lol......
FFS - whats next.

Yep, safety car start + VSC + the ridiculous restrictions in place on radio communication... this stuff is killing the sport.

I love Silverstone but is the worst F1 I've seen in a long, long time. I don't mind the radio rules too much actually though, but the race was just like grass growing. I was staying up to watch the Euro final so I just watched a replay for the opener at Melbourne. That was a good race despite the issues. as well.

Edited by Draupnir: 11/7/2016 11:25:32 AM

One of the worst British GP's I've seen.
Fancy being penalised due to Team Radio rulings - ffs FIA have made some stupid decisions over the years and this one is just another.
Tech, FIA rules and the sport moving ahead with todays world = F1 going as a spectacle and romance it once had getting worse and worse.

you bring up a very good point i honestly never thought of i forgot about car development

on the race, not in such a long time was i so excited for a race only to be so disappointed the moment it started charlie whiting is a bitch and should just retire

The pit lane chaos was fun though :lol: