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fxh , you down at the race this weekend?
I feel another season of Mercedes dominance.
Us yanks have a team on the grid too.
Its all corporate freebies except for Joe Average in a fucking stupid baseball cap, long baggy cargo shorts. (white) sneakers and a T shirt with writing on it.
I don't know anyone here who even glances at it.
They took over a inner city parkland and recreation area and made it into a bitumen monstrosity to cater to a corrupt multi- millionaire who somehow manages to get about a $20M taxpayer subsidy off the state government to run the boys game.
Its a fucking scandal and about as interesting as watching rich boys broom broom their cars around in circles making a lot of noise.
Anyone I know who lives near it leaves town for the weekend. I do know some people, in the macho industries who have to take "clients" to it - they tell me anyone who pays for tickets is either a fool or has to work at an ordinary job for a living. Its all corporate freebies except for Joe Average in a fucking stupid baseball cap, long baggy cargo shorts. white sneakers and a T shirt with writing on it.
Other than that - no I don't know much about it.
Those new F1 drivers get paid a lot of money for driving robots on wheels.
With the new chassis, wider tracks with massive safety zones the risk level is practically zero.
Back in the olden days, the drivers were aware that they risked their lives, yet they gave everything to win.
Don't get me wrong, I don't want the F1 to become some sort of Ben Hur style race (although I'm sure that would be much more interesting), but right now the few times the top drivers meet on the track is at the start and behind the safety car.
Which is why fewer and fewer people want to cough up the money for the outrageously expensive tickets.
I'm also pretty sure that Mercedes paid Bernie a lot of money to make rule changes in their favour.
There's no way that a company/ team that sucked for years can have a brand new car that is so much faster than anybody's else's unless they had a little head start.
And why does a F1 car have to be fuel efficient? To save the environment? The teams ship/ fly so much equipment around the world, that 100 litres of fuel extra per car and weekend hardly matter.
A perfect description of the look of the male motor sport fan in the Western world.
I don't mind the extra safety measures. What I do mind are the enormous costs of the F1 circus (a term often used on German TV), which favour the big teams with corporate money. The F1 these days is basically battled out (again) between Ferrari and Mercedes, both team and engine wise. For the smaller teams it has been tough, since they cannot compete with the big teams' budgets of hundreds of millions per year. Since they hardly make it into the points they also don't get a fair share of the TV rights.
Bernie wants so much money for the F1 rights, that the owners of the F1 approved tracks in Germany can't pay it. They tried by raising the ticket prices, but that backfired because fewer people showed up. Charging about a weeks net wage per person for a weekend is not really attractive. Especially when all the F1 fans can do is this every now and again:
F1 is not driving in a circle. That's the yank version.
I haven't watched in awhile. Mercedes is dominant? Didn't seem like it when Schumacher unretired. No one thought Red Bull was dominant? Or before that McLaren?
Those new F1 drivers get paid a lot of money for driving robots on wheels.
With the new chassis, wider tracks with massive safety zones the risk level is practically zero.
Back in the olden days, the drivers were aware that they risked their lives, yet they gave everything to win.
Don't get me wrong, I don't want the F1 to become some sort of Ben Hur style race (although I'm sure that would be much more interesting), but right now the few times the top drivers meet on the track is at the start and behind the safety car.
Which is why fewer and fewer people want to cough up the money for the outrageously expensive tickets.
I'm also pretty sure that Mercedes paid Bernie a lot of money to make rule changes in their favour.
There's no way that a company/ team that sucked for years can have a brand new car that is so much faster than anybody's else's unless they had a little head start.
And why does a F1 car have to be fuel efficient? To save the environment? The teams ship/ fly so much equipment around the world, that 100 litres of fuel extra per car and weekend hardly matter.
They get paid a hell of a lot more than the engineers who design the cars, that's for sure.
A perfect description of the look of the male motor sport fan in the Western world.
As an an old McLaren fan, I really hope they have their engines sorted this year.
Nico Rosberg took his third straight win of 2016
"Hamilton will express his confidence at being able to erode Rosberg's points lead and will expect his awful luck of the first three races to turnaround - but the fact remains that no driver who has won the first three races of a season has failed to go on to claim the World Championship."
I didn't check for a few weeks and it's almost preordained.
Rosberg versus Hamilton
On the main website, it says the Mercedes boss was furious. I reckon this will be the last year these two will be paired up for Mercedes.
I thought Jenson Button was retiring but he is taking a "break" - whatever that is. I'm not sure he's going to come back like Kimi did. I still think that one wonder season he had was all because of Brawn and the car.
Rosberg wins. Can't say I followed this season much. Someone not Sebastian Vettel is at the top.
Cmon Fwiffo, you cannot really be a Vettel fan?
Race was actually really good today. I didn't watch much of season either to be honest
According to the BBC, Hamilton was playing the dick and going against team orders to speed up instead of trying to drive slow and get someone to pass Rosberg to try and win the championship himself
Of course the same could be said about Schumacher.
However, I didn't want to see another Lewis Hamilton coronation. I haven't been impressed with him since his dust up with Alonso in Bahrain.
So true. I didn't know anybody was still following F1 or even spending precious hours to watch a race.Sorry, but F1 stopped being F1 since 1994. Same thing with rally after the group B.
We watch it with the adverts creeping in now, which is a new invention I would be glad to do without as all F1 where I am is on paid cable channels.
Not sure if it's still on BBC across the pond.
I think so, but not positive.
So Nico up and retiring was a shock. Interested to see how the seat gets filled.
He is not a muslim migrantSebastian Vettel doesn't pull in German crowds?