Motorsports Thread

[SpokeyDokey]

Toto Wolf has said that it looks like Red Bull are going to win every race this year and that it's going to be very boring !
I think it's time for some back markers to ignore blue flags and to wander into their path .

Toto didn't say it was boring when they were winning year after year.

 

[Illaveago]

Toto didn't say it was boring when they were winning year after year.

They didn't win every race and there was competition between the team members. Perez seems to be a number 2 driver and doesn't even challenge as much as Bottas did .

 

[Alex321]

Toto didn't say it was boring when they were winning year after year.

They were never so dominant that they won every race.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

They didn't win every race and there was competition between the team members. Perez seems to be a number 2 driver and doesn't even challenge as much as Bottas did .

They were never so dominant that they won every race.

I know they didn't win every race but it was still a boring 'done deal' at the start of every season year after year.

At the end of the day it's up to Toto & Co to quit griping and get their act together.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

At the end of the day it's up to Toto & Co to quit griping and get their act together.

But they all now think that's part of the game, they don't complain directly to the FIA they make media statements which they hope the FIA act upon, then when they do they can say it was nothing to do with them. All very petty schoolboy games, just like all sport where big money is involved, for there to be winners there has also go to be losers, unfortunately the small penis brigade don't like it.

I have always liked RB & the way they have gone about things, they always seemed to go about things a little different & they should be applauded for what they have achieved, but Horner's gloating is starting to grate, but then again he's only giving back what Wolfe gave him for many years.

 

[icowden]

Toto Wolf has said that it looks like Red Bull are going to win every race this year and that it's going to be very boring !

I think that might be him being pessimistic. Even Red Bull have stated that they aren't sure how well the car will adapt to other tracks and that Bahrain was ideally suited to their car. If they easily win at Saudi, Australia and Baku then his concerns might be justified.

 

[FishFright]

I'd just like to remind everyone that there's be one F1 race and at a track with an usual surface .

 

[Deleted member 26715]

a track with an usual surface .

Tarmac?

 

[Jenkins]

I'd just like to remind everyone that there's be one F1 race and at a track with an usual surface .

BRISCA F1 on shale?

 

[Jenkins]

Or is it Formula 1 on water?

(love that the website is f1h2o.com)

 

[Tom B]

I haven't been able to get into Formula E. Too many street circuits and odd Super Mario rules for my liking. "Vote to give your favourite driver extra power!", "Drive over the hotspot for a speed boost!". Natch.

Exactly that, too contrived.

At the end of the day it's up to Toto & Co to quit griping and get their act together.

I blame the Netflix and Sky Era of incessant waffle and over analysis by essentially laypeople who are have 90mins to fill so labour every point and talk around in circles. Just like football where everman in the pub, work canteen, on the bus has a bloody exsquirt opinion on how Manchester Wanderers should pay their game and manage their team, knowing the intricacies of every players way. They then espouse their views as gospel.

/RANT

 

[FishFright]

Erm.. Unusual for by F1 standards, there is very little asphalt at the surface leaving the granite chips prominent which makes it very abrasive . The was done so sand didn't make racing there problematic.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

BRISCA F1 on shale?

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I love F1 stocks haven't been for years, was trying to orchestrate a visit to Kings Lynn at Easter but not sure I've pulled it off as I screwed the cottage dates up, instead of only being 15 minutes away we're over an hour away on the day we go down.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Exactly that, too contrived.



I blame the Netflix and Sky Era of incessant waffle and over analysis by essentially laypeople who are have 90mins to fill so labour every point and talk around in circles. Just like football where everman in the pub, work canteen, on the bus has a bloody exsquirt opinion on how Manchester Wanderers should pay their game and manage their team, knowing the intricacies of every players way. They then espouse their views as gospel.

/RANT

It's the nature of various grades of Fandom - from Hardcore to Peripheral. Nothing wrong with wide-ranging viewpoints.

For myself, I've dipped in and out of F1 for 40-45 years. Sometimes I can really get into it for a few seasons and then I simply get bored with it and it fades away.

 

[Jody]

Quite appt given the 18" of snow we've had since yesterday