F1 season 2015

Dave1 said:
It's wrong, he did crash today (quite spectacularly with Button).
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HE didn't crash, he was just minding his own business when Jensen crashed into him!
 
Read the definition at the right hand side.
They reckon it wasn't a real crash, merely an assisted spin :)
 
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Dave1 said:
It's wrong, he did crash today (quite spectacularly with Button).
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No its right
Jenson has put his hands up to this one and earned himself 2 points on his license and a 5sec penalty
Nico says lewis held him up and ruined his race
Well Nico get used to it cos thats going to happen in your mind from now on, Lewis is in there and your beaten already
 
Mikesphotaes said:
HE didn't crash, he was just minding his own business when Jensen crashed into him!
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He's claiming he had brake problems, hence his pit entry cockup, spin etc. wonder if he braked earlier the Jensen expected. Fair play though he claimed full responsibility, which is more than a lot of other drivers do.
 
Byker28i said:
He's claiming he had brake problems, hence his pit entry cockup, spin etc. wonder if he braked earlier the Jensen expected. Fair play though he claimed full responsibility, which is more than a lot of other drivers do.
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They showed the 2014 pit entry of pastor when he approached too fast turned in and demolished his front end
Seemed to me a replay this year except he had learnt not to turn into the barriers
Brakes?? not sure
 
Motor racing is rapidly getting back to where it should be! Where it was in the Moss and Fangio days of the 1950s and where it was in the powerful late 1960s and again in the late 1980s! This weekend, I sat glued to my screen, watching the most wonderful, exciting, wheel-banging and close motor racing! And of course I don't mean the Chinese Grand Prix!

I've been transfixed by two days' sports car racing from Silverstone where you didn't know who was going to win until the last lap of the 4 hour and 6 hour races and where they actually, really raced wheel to wheel throughout those 10 hours! Sports car racing has traditionally been more significant than Formula 1, and as in previous ages, the WEC "Le Mans" cars can and do lap Silverstone as fast as mid-grid Formula 1 cars but do it for many more hours!

As Audi and Porsche duked it out, with the Audi having to lift off through the Becketts complex to avoid running into the slower cornering Porsche, or driving round the outside of it, time after time, only to have the Porsche charge past again along the next straight with what looked like an immediately available extra 200 hybrid bhp, the very wise commentator John Hindhaugh observed ... "Not so long ago, it was different! Now Formula 1 is all about tactics and preserving tyres while the WEC is a flat-out sprint between pit stops!"

By contrast the Chinese Grand Prix showed what an artificial spectacle is Formula One in 2015. There was lots of side-by-side "action" on screen as Ricciardo and Ericsson drove about twenty seven corners next to each other in about six overtaking sequences and Button and Maldonado did the same for a while but while it makes for superficially good TV, it was obviously that they were totally tyre limited and they were all cruising around saving rubber as if down the motorway! Otherwise we wouldn't see the cars able to go round on rails next to each other so politely and controlledly as they run different lines round hairpins!
 
Yves Geza said:
Motor racing is rapidly getting back to where it should be! Where it was in the Moss and Fangio days of the 1950s and where it was in the powerful late 1960s and again in the late 1980s! This weekend, I sat glued to my screen, watching the most wonderful, exciting, wheel-banging and close motor racing! And of course I don't mean the Chinese Grand Prix!

I've been transfixed by two days' sports car racing from Silverstone where you didn't know who was going to win until the last lap of the 4 hour and 6 hour races and where they actually, really raced wheel to wheel throughout those 10 hours! Sports car racing has traditionally been more significant than Formula 1, and as in previous ages, the WEC "Le Mans" cars can and do lap Silverstone as fast as mid-grid Formula 1 cars but do it for many more hours!

As Audi and Porsche duked it out, with the Audi having to lift off through the Becketts complex to avoid running into the slower cornering Porsche, or driving round the outside of it, time after time, only to have the Porsche charge past again along the next straight with what looked like an immediately available extra 200 hybrid bhp, the very wise commentator John Hindhaugh observed ... "Not so long ago, it was different! Now Formula 1 is all about tactics and preserving tyres while the WEC is a flat-out sprint between pit stops!"

By contrast the Chinese Grand Prix showed what an artificial spectacle is Formula One in 2015. There was lots of side-by-side "action" on screen as Ricciardo and Ericsson drove about twenty seven corners next to each other in about six overtaking sequences and Button and Maldonado did the same for a while but while it makes for superficially good TV, it was obviously that they were totally tyre limited and they were all cruising around saving rubber as if down the motorway! Otherwise we wouldn't see the cars able to go round on rails next to each other so politely and controlledly as they run different lines round hairpins!
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Damed if you do. Few seasons ago the tyres could last half a whole race and that made racing extremely boring
 
I was at the WEC today and it was fantastic - in race pace the Audi was 3s off Hamilton's fastest race lap last year despite the car being 200kg+ heavier. They are bloody amazing cars.
 
Anyone see Marquez qualifing on his GP motorbike? Gearbox broke coming down the start/finish straight so he propped it against the pit wall, jumped over, sprinted back to the pits for the spare bike, all with 3 minutes of qualifying left. Set fastest lap and got pole!
 
Guess who won competition

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Wasn't it Webber that called Nico Britney when at Williams, when he was winging like a girl?

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My favourite part was the marshals trying their hardest to get the toro rosso through the gate whilst all the mechanics were watching and cringing probably haha... And Webber really doesn't like ze Germans does he hahahaha, that is funny though
 
More power for the McLaren unit for Bahrain. So, maybe they might be mid-field by the end of the season?

McLaren will up the power of its Honda engine again this weekend in Bahrain before introducing a new-spec power unit at the Spanish Grand Prix.

McLaren has not qualified higher than the penultimate row of the grid this year, but has closed on the gap to the front of the grid at each round since the season-opener in Australia. It has been running its Honda power unit detuned to try to ensure reliability, but it is now confident it can up the power again in Bahrain this weekend.
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http://www.espn.co.uk/f1/story/_/id/12687805/honda-power-bahrain-ahead-new-spec-engine-spain
 
2015 FORMULA 1 GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX


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Sakhir
Lap length 5.412km (3.363 miles)
Race laps 57
Race distance 308.238km (191.53 miles)
Pole position Left-hand side of the track
Lap record* 1’31.447 (213.055 kph) by Pedro de la Rosa, 2005
Fastest lap 1’29.527 (217.624 kph) by Mark Webber, 2005
Maximum speed 314kph (195.11 mph)
DRS zone/s (race) Pit straight and third straight
Distance from grid to turn one 265m

Schedule
Friday 17th April 2015
Bahrain Grand Prix Free Practice 1: 14:00-15:30 (UK time: 12:00-13:30)
Bahrain Grand Prix Free Practice 2: 18:00-19:30 (UK time: 16:00-17:30)
Saturday 18th April 2015
Bahrain Grand Prix Free Practice 3: 15:00-16:00 (UK time: 13:00-14:00)
Bahrain Grand Prix Qualifying: 18:00 (UK time: 16:00)
Sunday 19th April 2015
Bahrain Grand Prix: 18:00 (UK time: 16:00)

Previous Winners
2014 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
2013 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault
2012 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault
2011 Cancelled
2010 Spain Fernando Alonso Ferrari
2009 United Kingdom Jenson Button Brawn-Mercedes
2008 Brazil Felipe Massa Ferrari
2007 Brazil Felipe Massa Ferrari
2006 Spain Fernando Alonso Renault
2005 Spain Fernando Alonso Renault
2004 Germany Michael Schumacher

Ricciardo on board 2014
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feQRcNtfrsE


4 driver comparison on board 2014
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU8qV7ycxls


Facts and Figures from the last race
Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg and Sebastian Vettel have appeared on all of the first three podiums of the 2015 season. That is the first time such an occurrence has happened at the start of a Formula 1 season.

Vettel is the second Ferrari driver in history to have finished his first three races for the Scuderia on the podium – the other being his current team mate Kimi Raikkonen who, like Vettel, took one win and two third place finishes in his first three races for Ferrari in 2007.

Lewis Hamilton’s second win of the season was also his fourth in China, making him comfortably the most successful driver at the Shanghai International Circuit. It was another dominant performance from the Mercedes driver, who recorded his second hat trick (pole, win, fastest lap) of the 2015 season (the other being Australia) and the seventh of his career.

Hamilton’s win was also his tenth consecutive podium appearance, stretching back to Monza last year, which is the fifth-longest run in the sport’s history. Hamilton needs one more podium in Bahrain to equal Sebastian Vettel’s personal record of 11 consecutive podiums – which he has achieved twice – but will need to appear on every podium up to the Singapore Grand Prix if he is to break Michael Schumacher’s all-time record streak of 19.

The world champion has also now led 12 consecutive races from Hungary last year, the joint fifth-longest run of all time. Once again, Hamilton needs to lead just one lap in Bahrain to match Sebastian Vettel’s longest run. Hamilton has now also led 1,956 laps in his career, jumping Sir Jackie Stewart and Jim Clark to sixth on the all-time list.

After Max Verstappen’s Renault engine decided to spontaneously ground to a halt along the pit straight in the closing laps of Sunday’s race, the Chinese Grand Prix became the seventh race in F1 history to have finished under the Safety Car.

Fernando Alonso also saw the chequered flag in a McLaren on Sunday for the first time since the 2007 Brazilian Grand Prix. It was only the second time the double world champion had finished a race in 12th position – the first being on his Formula 1 debut in Australia 2001.

Pastor Maldonado remains the only driver yet to finish a race this season aside from Kevin Magnussen.


Current Standings

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PaulF said:
Interesting stat at the bottom of that article which speaks volumes:
'Ignoring Hamilton's DNFs in Australia, Canada and Belgium last season, Rosberg has beaten his team-mate on track in just three of the last 22 races.'
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And to add to that if those stats include Monaco we all know how Nico got in front there.
 
Seb is a lucky boy he has escaped a grid penalty possably for the sake of the show
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns30596.html
You can hear those doubts pecking in the head of Rosberg now he has a rejuvinated Kimi up his exhaust pipe and a Seb in his way
 
Should be interesting this afternoon. The Ferrari's race pace looked good on Friday but Merc reckon they have made changes to rectify.
 
PaulF said:
Should be interesting this afternoon. The Ferrari's race pace looked good on Friday but Merc reckon they have made changes to rectify.
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Re programmed Nico?
 
Think he needs a complete ctrl-alt-del reset :-) nothing else seems to be working so far.
 
EJ needs to go back to his old wigs, this one really does look like a wig.
 
Credit where it's due, Nico did well today, not sure if he would have held on to second without the brake issue but some aggressive overtakes. Lewis is really looking the part now.
 
Probably the ideal finish for Lewis, Kimi with the least points of the top 4 drivers coming 2nd, Rosberg being beaten into 3rd (so fewer points and another psychological smack on the nose) and his nearest rival Vettel only 5th.

Standings after today:

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Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 93
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Nico Rosberg Mercedes 66
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Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 65
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Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 42
 
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Yep, I was thinking this morning that the best probable result for Lewis would be 1 Lewis, 2 Kimi, 3 Nico 4 Seb with Seb trying a bit too hard the result was slightly better. Early days though.
 
Did Kimi have a little dig at alonso on the podium chat, 'now the whole team are working together..."
 
Byker28i said:
Did Kimi have a little dig at alonso on the podium chat, 'now the whole team are working together..."
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Might have been at a few more heads that rolled as well as team builder Alonso
 
Don't think Kimi is that political really, he can't be bothered :) I like Kimi, he just says what he feels.
 
Yves Geza said:
I've been transfixed by two days' sports car racing from Silverstone where you didn't know who was going to win until the last lap of the 4 hour and 6 hour races and where they actually, really raced wheel to wheel throughout those 10 hours! Sports car racing has traditionally been more significant than Formula 1, and as in previous ages, the WEC "Le Mans" cars can and do lap Silverstone as fast as mid-grid Formula 1 cars but do it for many more hours!
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I was there on the Sunday, it was an excellent race :D I've been to the 6h/1000km a couple of times before, and Le Mans once as well. Sportscar racing is having something of a renaissance at the moment, there was a really good crowd in, to the extent that it was nearly impossible to find seating in the grandstand opposite the pit lane for the start, and there were crowds of people everywhere. In 2008 the story was very different, event though it was a very pleasant September day and the championship deciding round (with a major upset as it turned out when Minsassian crashed the car and lost the championsip for Peugeot), the place seemed deserted.

The only downside of John Hindlaugh doing the TV commentary nowadays is that he wasn't on the Radio Le Mans feed broadcast on Silverstone's FM frequency (not that the rest of the team aren't very good too).

Hoping to go to Le Mans again in 2016, but I have a trip to Monza to plan for this September first - I still like F1, although prefer screaming naturally aspirated engines in single seaters, and Monza is such a wonderful track I want to see F1 cars there before Bernie knocks it on the head because Outer Mongolia or Timbuktu has offered him more money.
 
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