F1 season 2015

Comfortably Numb said:
I read that Lewis threw the 2nd place cap into Nico's lap, which is a bit 'in your face' in those circumstances. He threw it back, at him. He will have been furious with his mistake towards the end & cursing his bad luck with the safety car.
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Nothing in it when you see this cap throwing, rather than read about it.
 
Mikesphotaes said:
Nothing in it when you see this cap throwing, rather than read about it.
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Yep, looked like a couple of kids.

Personally I'm not convinced Hamilton knows any other way than having the hammer down He'll be going for it no doubt and not being too worried about Rosbergs feelings.
 
wibbly said:
Yep, looked like a couple of kids.

Personally I'm not convinced Hamilton knows any other way than having the hammer down He'll be going for it no doubt and not being too worried about Rosbergs feelings.
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Normally I would agree but he is going to get a direction check using the first corner incident as a leverage point to support Nico so they get a one two
He could sod off then let Nico by or he could frustrate the third man, probably Seb, but there is no milage in destroying Mercs plan of total domination
 
2015 FORMULA 1 GRAN PREMIO DE MÉXICO


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Mexico City
Lap length 4.438km (2.758 miles)
Race laps 69
Race distance 306.222km (190.278 miles)
Pole position Left-hand side of the track
Lap record* 1’16.788 (208.064 kph) by Nigel Mansell, 1992
Fastest lap 1’16.346 (209.268 kph) by Nigel Mansell, 1992

Schedule
Friday 30th October 2015
Mexican Grand Prix Free Practice 1: 10:00-11:30 (UK time: 16:00-17:30)
Mexican Grand Prix Free Practice 2: 14:00-15:30 (UK time: 20:00-21:30)
Saturday 31st October 2015
Mexican Grand Prix Free Practice 3: 10:00-11:00 (UK time: 16:00-17:00)
Mexican Grand Prix Qualifying: 13:00 (UK time: 19:00)
Sunday 1st November 2015
Mexican Grand Prix: 13:00 (UK time: 19:00)

Previous Winners
1992 United Kingdom Nigel Mansell Williams-Renault Hermanos Rodríguez
1991 Italy Riccardo Patrese Williams-Renault
1990 France Alain Prost Ferrari
1989 Brazil Ayrton Senna McLaren-Honda
1988 France Alain Prost McLaren-Honda
1987 United Kingdom Nigel Mansell Williams-Honda
1986 Austria Gerhard Berger Benetton-BMW

First lap of the new circuit
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-oh6aqLdaM


Mansell 1992
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTT5VL8NuEM


Facts and Figures from the last race

Lewis Hamilton has won the 2015 Formula One drivers’ championship with his victory in the United States Grand Prix

Hamilton clinched the title with three races to spare after leading home team mate Nico Rosberg in a Mercedes one-two at the Circuit of the Americas.

The 30-year-old has become the tenth driver in the history of the sport to win at least three drivers’ titles, joining the likes of his hero Ayrton Senna.

Hamilton is also the first British driver to successfully retain the title. He first won the championship in 2008 with McLaren and regained it last year after joining Mercedes.

Hamilton took the title with his 43rd career win, which moves him ahead of Sebastian Vettel as the most successful driver competing today in terms of race wins.

Coincidentally, Hamilton was the first F1 driver to clinch the championship in the USA since his team mate’s father Keke Rosberg in the Las Vegas Grand Prix which took place 33 years ago.

However he missed out on pole position again, meaning he can no longer equal Vettel’s record for most pole positions in a season. Having taken seven in a row earlier this year, he’s missed the last four since then.

Rosberg notched up his 19th pole position and also set the fastest lap of the race: the 13th of his career, putting him level with Jacky Ickx, Alan Jones and Riccardo Patrese.

Button took his best result of the season so far with sixth, but McLaren passed an unwelcome milestone as they are now in their longest ever win-less streak in terms of races. There have been 54 grands prix since Button took the team’s last win at Interlagos in the 2012 season finale.

That’s one more than the team’s 53-race win-less streak between James Hunt’s victory in the 1977 Japanese Grand Prix and John Watson’s in the 1981 British Grand Prix – albeit the latter was longer in terms of time. So was their gap between Ayrton Senna’s final win for them at Adelaide in 1993 and their next win courtesy of David Coulthard at Melbourne in 1997 – a 49-race interval.

Two teams celebrated happier milestones. Sauber marked their 400th race participation, including their 2006-2010 spell as BMW Sauber. They only started 397 of those races: the team did withdrew from the 1994 Monaco Grand Prix (after Karl Wendlinger’s crash in practice), the 2000 Brazilian Grand Prix (wing failures) and the 2005 United States Grand Prix (along with all the other Michelin runners).

Red Bull also marked their 200th start – and they were marking ‘starts’ rather than ‘appearances’. They have 201 if you include USA 2005.

Having taken a new Ferrari engine and incurred a grid penalty, Vettel took the 700th Ferrari-powered podium finish on Sunday. This also means Ferrari are now un-catchable in second place in the constructors’ championship.

Finally, while 9.08 million British television viewers watched Hamilton clinch his first world championship live on free-to-air television in 2008, just 1.7 million were watching live on pay TV in the UK.


Current Standings

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KevC said:
wers watched Hamilton clinch his first world championship live on free-to-air television in 2008, just 1.7 million were watching live on pay TV in the UK.
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Not very good but I'm sure they made more money from just 20% of us watching...
 
Roll on Mexico
There is going to be some wheezing and coughing from the ice at 2,200m above sea level
It appears cooling may be a problem
 
Well mexico started like i thought Lewis moving left at the start to block Seb
and it nearly finished like I thought with the exception of seb binin it
But the racer in Lewis will certainly be smarting, once Seb was out of the way it was game on and the team order took that chance away
Two races left and Lewisis bruised ego will keep Nic worried
It was not personel said Bottas hoho
 
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I wonder if we will ever find out about Lewis's tyres?
 
Well the team didn't tell Lewis so I doubt their going to tell us :-) It was probably the safest and fairest way as they had the gap at that point but I'm sure other drivers managed to complete as many laps as the mercs would have done had they stuck to plan a.
 
By bringing Lewis in secured 25 points for nico Keeping lewis out even if the safety car had not been deployed and Lewis's tyres were going off it would have been hard for Nico to catch and pass
Seb can still be second in the championship mathematically and 7 points is a lot too loose in one race
 
I think it was more a case that neither Nico or Lewis needed to pit really, just the team playing it safe and fair for both plus if the safety car hadn't come out and the mercs didn't pit the result was going to look embarrassing for the rest, bad enough for Seb being given the blue flags before binning it.
 
Would appear the big mouth Mateys***z will now accept an engine from a reliant
After bad mouthing everyone and saying they will leave F1 (which is probably the only way to save face ) he would accept a deal with Honda the most competative engine in the pits?? except McLaren wont let them
He dosnt seem to understand why all the others wont play with the bully down the lane
http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns32368.html
 
The merc team is obviously allowing its drivers to race but only if the outcome is what they want i.e Rosberg has to secure second place in the championship and somehow I dont think Lewis is quite on board with that Total domination by Mercedes thats the goal
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/34706265

Nice dig about nico's wind
 
Like it or not (personally, I don't, much!), F1 is a team sport and while the drivers are the visible stars, they're only the final links in the chain and still (only) employees at the end of the day. If the boss(es) want a particular result, they're entitled to arrange it, however much either driver dislikes the decision. IF LH had stayed out, defying the team's instructions and his tyres had given up, would he (LH) have been happy to shoulder all the blame?
 
Nod said:
If the boss(es) want a particular result, they're entitled to arrange it, . IF LH had stayed out, defying the team's instructions and his tyres had given up, would he (LH) have been happy to shoulder all the blame?
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Flavio Briatore comes to mind and on the second point had lewis's tyres given up so what he cant be a two times champion in one year and Nico would have got the 25 points The danger was he would have won and Nico would have got 18 points
I wonder if this is what Toto and Lauda have fallen out about (if rumour is true of course)
 
Of course, team tactics are nothing new. Even back in the '20s, Bentley ran the Blower cars as hares for the Mercedeses (what IS the plural of Mercedes? I know it's derived from a girl's name but I'm not sure of the correct pluralisation!) and (?) Alfas to chase until they (Blowers and chasers) broke down, leaving the slightly slower but more reliable Speed Sixes to carry on to win. Maybe Mercedes could turn LH's car up a notch and keep him on the faster tyres until he ran out of gas, possibly tempting any of the other teams to try to keep up, leaving NR on a "real" strategy to win... As far as FB is concerned, I reckon he should have been warned off the course (so to speak) after arranging a deliberate crash. I also think that giving FA and PdlR immunity over the dodgy dossier affair was wrong but I'm not the FIA!
 
Expecting an announcement from RB(s***) that they have a NEW engine supplier - Infiniti, neglecting to tell those who don't already know that Infiniti is part of Renault/Nissan and the engine is really a Renault one with Infiniti rocker covers fitted. (Effectively!) ;)
 
This should put them on until VW Audi realise that hybred is the way to get them a good reputation and out of the mire they are in
When you think about it VW and RB are not far apart ethically
 
FTW!!!
 
2015 FORMULA 1 GRANDE PRÊMIO PETROBRAS DO BRASIL


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Interlagos
Lap length 4.309km (2.677 miles)
Race laps 71
Race distance 305.909km (190.083 miles)
Pole position Right-hand side of the track
Lap record* 1’11.473 (217.039 kph) by Juan Pablo Montoya, 2004
Fastest lap 1’09.822 (222.171 kph) by Rubens Barrichello, 2004
Maximum speed 310kph (192.625 mph)
DRS zone/s (race) Pit straight and Reta Oposta straight
Distance from grid to turn one 190m

Schedule
Friday 13th November 2015
Brazilian Grand Prix Free Practice 1: 10:00-11:30 (UK time: 12:00-13:30)
Brazilian Grand Prix Free Practice 2: 14:00-15:30 (UK time: 16:00-17:30)
Saturday 14th November 2015
Brazilian Grand Prix Free Practice 3: 11:00-12:00 (UK time: 13:00-14:00)
Brazilian Grand Prix Qualifying: 14:00 (UK time: 16:00)
Sunday 15th November 2015
Brazilian Grand Prix: 14:00 (UK time: 16:00)

Previous Winners
2014 Germany Nico Rosberg Mercedes Interlagos
2013 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault
2012 United Kingdom Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes
2011 Australia Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault
2010 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault
2009 Australia Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault
2008 Brazil Felipe Massa Ferrari
2007 Finland Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari
2006 Brazil Felipe Massa Ferrari
2005 Colombia Juan Pablo Montoya McLaren-Mercedes
2004 Colombia Juan Pablo Montoya Williams-BMW
2003 Italy Giancarlo Fisichella Jordan-Ford
2002 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari
2001 United Kingdom David Coulthard McLaren-Mercedes
2000 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari

Jenson Button 2012 onboard
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bsmiezYNuc


2013 first few laps multishot
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_umojREJw4


Facts and Figures from the last race

Nico Rosberg took his fifth pole position of the year in Mexico but converted it into victory for just the second time this season. He also took the fastest lap, giving him the first ‘hat-trick’ of his career so far.

Rosberg’s 12th career victory which is an interesting milestone for the son of 1982 world champion Keke Rosberg. He now has as many wins as 1980 world champion Alan Jones, Carlos Reutemann and Mario Andretti. These were his father’s predecessor and first two team mates at Williams in his championship-winning year.

Pole position number 20 puts Rosberg level with Damon Hill. This was Rosberg’s fourth pole position in a row – he’ll set a new personal best if he taken another in the next race at Interlagos.

Rosberg’s win means Lewis Hamilton can no longer equal the record for most victories in a season this year. However the tenth one-two for Mercedes means they can beat their own record from last year if they repeat the result in the final two rounds.

Had the Mercedes drivers enjoyed perfect reliability in the races this year, the drivers’ championship would probably still be open. Assuming Rosberg had finished third at Monza, Hamilton had beaten him to fourth at Singapore and Rosberg had stayed ahead at Sochi, Hamilton would have a 40-point lead with two races remaining.

It was a dreadful race for Ferrari: for the first time since the 2006 Australian Grand Prix neither of their drivers were classified, and for the first time since the 2009 Australian Grand Prix neither was still running at the end.

Kimi Raikkonen’s fifth no-score of the year means he is now likely to end the season with less than half of his team mate’s points tally. This will be the fifth year in a row this has happened at Ferrari, continuing a trend which began when Felipe Massa was at the team.

Despite posting his first non-classification of the year, Sebastian Vettel has still covered the most racing laps of any driver this year, and is the first to pass one thousand. The Lotus pair have the least of any drivers who have entered every race: Pastor Maldonado 707 and Romain Grosjean 732.

McLaren’s miserable season continued as Jenson Button amassed a record 70-place grid penalty after moving onto his 12th power unit components of the season – three times more than the original allocation of four per driver (later increased to five for newcomers Honda).

McLaren drivers have now received a total of 285 places of grid penalties over the course of the year. The other nine teams combined have had 336, including zero for Mercedes and Williams.

Along with his team mate Fernando Alonso and Raikkonen, Button was one of three world champions occupying the last three-places on the grid. The first three retirements in the race were also all champions: Alonso, Raikkonen and Vettel.

Nico Hulkenberg joined Raikkonen on his second reprimand of the year, leaving both at risk of a ten-place grid penalty if they pick up a third.

Vettel, Hamilton, Rosberg, Alonso and Ricciardo have won the last 54 races
This is the longest period of five drivers winning; Piquet, Senna, Prost, Mansell and Berger won the 53 races between Brazil 1986 and USA 1989


Current Standings

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Nobody got much to say about that race ?
Verstappan making seriously good overtakes
Lot of coverage for Maldanardo?????
Merc gets 1 2 in championship and constructers title
Thats about as exciting as it got
 
fuzzyedges said:
Nobody got much to say about that race ?
Verstappan making seriously good overtakes
Lot of coverage for Maldanardo?????
Merc gets 1 2 in championship and constructers title
Thats about as exciting as it got
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Yawnfest. Young Max continues to impress. Shame he won't be driving a Mercedes next year.
 
Now that Rosberg has #2 sewn up perhaps Mercedes will remove Hamilton's leash and allow him to actually race against Rosberg again.

I'm of the opinion that there must have been a team order for the last 2 races in Rosberg's favour which would explain Hamilton's subdued demeanour and less aggressive driving manner.
 
Dave1 said:
Now that Rosberg has #2 sewn up perhaps Mercedes will remove Hamilton's leash and allow him to actually race against Rosberg again.

I'm of the opinion that there must have been a team order for the last 2 races in Rosberg's favour which would explain Hamilton's subdued demeanour and less aggressive driving manner.
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A basis to the comment "the team is being warm to Nico"
It must have been hard to come second at a track he really wanted to win at
But aboo daboo could be a yabadabadoo one can only hope
 
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As for Brazil race, apart from the Max fella, it was supremely boring!
 
So Red Bull set one record...

Red Bull has become the first F1 team to spend over £200m in a single season

The F1 team's latest accounts, which cover the year ending 31 December 2014, the first year of the new formula, reveal that spending increased by £7.4m to a record £203.6m ($310m), the most ever spent by an F1 team in a single season.
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http://www.pitpass.com/55220/Red-Bull-sets-new-F1-record
 
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