***The Official 2021 Formula 1 season thread***

NR8 · Postby **NR8** » March 20th, 2016, 12:47 am

Australian GP about to start :smile:

bgh · Postby **bgh** » March 20th, 2016, 12:57 am

Lights out in 30min... let's go!!!

bgh · Postby **bgh** » March 20th, 2016, 2:55 am

Did you all see Alonzo crash?

bgh · Postby **bgh** » March 20th, 2016, 2:56 am

And another Mercedes 1-2. ..

bgh · Postby **bgh** » March 20th, 2016, 3:00 am

And Grosjean did well for the Haas team... 6th on debut

bgh · Postby **bgh** » March 20th, 2016, 3:41 am

Alonzo's crash....

https://youtu.be/hm46AwQpFQ8

teems1 · Postby **teems1** » March 20th, 2016, 3:47 pm

I dunno about the new qualifying format.

It seems they fixed the issue of limited tires with a free set but then implement a weird knockout rule.

This ended up with 4 mins of dead time in Q3. They need to scrap this qualifying format asap.

Morpheus · Postby **Morpheus** » March 20th, 2016, 5:09 pm

Lucky to be alive....

Sanctifier · Postby **Sanctifier** » March 20th, 2016, 6:50 pm

^ ^ ^ THIS!... Thank God everything worked out okay.
Even one of the BEST can make a deadly mistake... even at this level.

Congrats to Rosberg, Grosjean & Hass. Well done!

Postby **Monk BANzai** » March 20th, 2016, 9:32 pm

wonder if he cudve extracted himself with those new Halos they wanna implement....

Kimi flaming out....

Postby **Monk BANzai** » March 21st, 2016, 1:37 am

more....

BRZ · Postby **BRZ** » March 21st, 2016, 7:12 am

Thankfully Alonzo walked away from that, Ferrari looks much stronger this year, although AGAIN as we saw yesterday even with DRS enabled the Ferrari still could not pass the Mercedes, so obviously the mercs are more powerful that everyone else AGAIN........... so it will be of no surprise if they dominate again in 2016.

teems1 · Postby **teems1** » March 21st, 2016, 10:02 am

BRZ wrote:Thankfully Alonzo walked away from that, Ferrari looks much stronger this year, although AGAIN as we saw yesterday even with DRS enabled the Ferrari still could not pass the Mercedes, so obviously the mercs are more powerful that everyone else AGAIN........... so it will be of no surprise if they dominate again in 2016.

It was predicted from the first day of testing in Barcelona.

The Merc engines were able to run more laps in 1 week of testing than the entire season of F1. Might as well hand them the constructor's trophy now.

NSlater · Postby **NSlater** » May 15th, 2016, 10:06 am

No Mercedes, no problem
Verstappen won, much more exciting race than usual.

janfar · Postby **janfar** » May 16th, 2016, 4:30 am

Very nice race. Verstappen kept a really level head to hold off Kimi. Although if it was Seb he may not have stood a chance. Nice the see the RB's up in the fight again.

Them merc boys making the off track situation a lot more interesting.

BRZ · Postby **BRZ** » May 16th, 2016, 7:58 am

Congrats to the youngster and Redbull.

Nice to see some fresh blood on the podium

teems1 · Postby **teems1** » May 16th, 2016, 9:04 am

NSlater wrote:No Mercedes, no problem
Verstappen won, much more exciting race than usual.

To be a fly on the wall in the Merc post race meeting. Niki probably ripped Lewis a new one.

Both drivers were aggressive, but Lewis knew that door was closing and should have backed off.

teems1 · Postby **teems1** » May 16th, 2016, 9:08 am

Decision from the FIA

Makes sense I guess. Both wrong and right as it happened so fast. I still feed for Nico though.

janfar · Postby **janfar** » May 29th, 2016, 1:56 am

Looks likes it will be a good race tomorrow. Epic flying lap from RBTH and Ricciardo. They taking it to Merc now. And he gets to start on Super Softs while everyone else will be on Ultra Softs.

Verstappen tagged the barrier and crashed... starting from the pit lane with the back up chassis.... but... he could modify the feck out of his car since they will be expecting rain...

This is going to be a very good race.

kamakazi · Postby **kamakazi** » May 29th, 2016, 1:52 pm

I feel sorry for Riccardo.... Knowing what could have been if his tyres were ready in the pits.

NR8 · Postby **NR8** » May 29th, 2016, 7:10 pm

Yep really bad luck for Daniel Ricciardo but great entertaining race overall. Looking forward to more of the same with both Ferrari and Red Bull now challenging the Mercs.

Rory Phoulorie · Postby **Rory Phoulorie** » May 29th, 2016, 11:42 pm

Race was typical Monaco extreme bore-fest. Last good race there was in 1992. I went and made myself breakfast during the race not worrying whether I would miss any action.

WSBK is where exciting racing has been at for the last good few years.

kamakazi · Postby **kamakazi** » May 30th, 2016, 1:18 am

Rory Phoulorie wrote:Race was typical Monaco extreme bore-fest. Last good race there was in 1992. I went and made myself breakfast during the race not worrying whether I would miss any action.

WSBK is where exciting racing has been at for the last good few years.

Would humbly disagree... If it was dry.... it would have been boring.... But because it was wet... That changes a lot
There were at least 4 crashes and enough tyre options to confuse most people. If rain had come down heavier in the closing laps.... Would have been the icing on the cake

teems1 · Postby **teems1** » May 30th, 2016, 1:46 am

Monaco is a procession even with weather woes.

If the track weren't so storied and historical I would cut it from the calendar.

janfar · Postby **janfar** » July 10th, 2016, 1:56 pm

Nice race today. A few little scraps, especially with Rosberg and Verstappen. Not as exciting as Austria but not as boring as Monaco.

Rosberg penalized for getting radio instructions on how to not destroy his gear box so now his second place becomes 3rd place.

Postby **Monk BANzai** » July 10th, 2016, 3:46 pm

yup... Austria has been the best race by far for me for the year....Verstappen tho!

http://www.formula1.com/en/latest/headl ... stone.html

Pity..all these niggles about "aiding the driver"....

janfar · Postby **janfar** » July 11th, 2016, 7:37 am

I agree with less radio support to a point. With the cars being so technical its almost impossible to not give assistance over the radio. Like Lewis said, their are over 20 bottons with 20 modes and in each mode their are over 20 settings. How can anyone expect to remember than while drive at 200kph against other drivers.

Man just give them one of the old V12 engines with 0 electronic aids or monitors and let them run... stop only if on fire or something falls out.

kamakazi · Postby **kamakazi** » July 23rd, 2016, 3:40 pm

janfar wrote:I agree with less radio support to a point. With the cars being so technical its almost impossible to not give assistance over the radio. Like Lewis said, their are over 20 bottons with 20 modes and in each mode their are over 20 settings. How can anyone expect to remember than while drive at 200kph against other drivers.

Man just give them one of the old V12 engines with 0 electronic aids or monitors and let them run... stop only if on fire or something falls out.

They will run out of fuel...[SMILING FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH]
Yeah...I find it sad that the engineers can't aid their driver. It is sometimes difficult to identify who you are racing with for position when drivers are on different strategies. Also at the end of the day the drivers still have to pull off the move on track. It's very easy for an engineer to tell their driver to push... Buy of they are already on the limit there isn't much more to give