No worries...it's hilarious that is actually him ,well for me anyway
F1 2022 Season
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Maybe you've followed it longer than me - mid-90s. I don't think the American owners have been good for the sport, I think Drive to Survive isn't good for the sport, I think the fake sprint races aren't good for the sport. However all that being said, I think the actual motor-racing is far from being a farce. I think that's sour grapes talking.
What actual motor-racing? There was no race. It was one lap artificially created for drama. It was a show.
can u explain this ?Posts like these keep the WWE alive.
Hate fake sports? Cry more
You have to be kidding? We don't even know if there will be races at the races. When was that ever the case before a season?
What's there to explain? One of the most loved GP's on the calendar was "won" after driving 2 laps behind the safety car!? And F1 acts as if it didn't even happen or isn't a precedent that devalues all GP wins and statistics if it's counted and repeated.
Oh that's what you mean. Yeh that 2 lap parade was a farce. To give points there was a joke. For there to be no actual racing wasn't anyone's fault though. Just bad weather. And that can happen any season. Not sure why you make it seem like rain cancelling actual racing is some new phenomenon
Calling that a race is someones fault though. It's not like that was the first time they had bad weather in 72 years.
Rain is the norm at Spa.
He's certainly got that sense of humour and a strong enough ego to go for it - so i'm not surprised.
I thought when I first heard about it, it was somebody just having some fun hence why they spelled his name incorrectly.
It was for Charity so hopefully he donates it to somebody who really wants it.
Wait surely you don't think that they should have ran that race. And surely you're not using past races in the rain as reason to not cancel a race due to weather... I mean let's go race nordschleife track in the rain while we're at it .
What happens with football matches that are called off? It really isn't difficult.
Back in my day we played in blizzards. Hard men we were
Yep, same. It seems some don't understand the importance of the sport having integrity and genuine competition.
I mean there is an entire different school of thought in "drive to the condition".
I get that that isn't viable with todays tires, they'd just be swimming, which is a joke in itself for the most capable cars with literally thousands of pounds of downforce... However calling what they did there a race was the worst possible action to take for the spectators and sport. Again, it devalues every other win if that was the equivalent of a win. People used to care about stuff like this.
Now it's last lap drama they care about. Alright, fine by me. But that's not a sport. That's entertainment.
It's literally impossible to drive as there's no visibility. I'm sorry that's a dangerous and wreckless decision to go ahead with that race given the conditions. It's not even about the tyres grip. it's just impossible to see.
That's a joke when people are going 200+ kmh on the autobahn in the same rain without any radio to tell them what's infront of them (nor flags or stewards or anything). F1 spray more because of F1's formula, not because of some unwritten rule that fast cars spray more. People go 200+ on the autobahn in the same rain every day. Le Mans carries on too.
But none of that matters. If you can't hold a race, don't have a race. They didn't.
They had a parade. It's them calling it a race and counting it as race and telling the world we ran that race when everyone saw what happend that is the unforgivable bit.
Edit: It´s even more of a joke once one realises that the most dangerous spot of Spa, the spot someone died not too long ago, is blindsided anyway, no matter the weather. Somehow that's not enough to cancel races though.
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it’s really not that for me. i don’t care that lewis didn’t win his 8th. i’m by no means a great fan of max as i don’t like the way he comes across but i would have been more annoyed with max winning if he blew hamilton away and lapped him at the final race. and even if that was the case, it’s months later now. it would have faded. i’m not angry liverpool won the league the other year still but it annoyed me at the time.
same as that middlesborough player slapping the ball down to score the other day. annoys me when i think about it but it doesn’t impact my every waking moment. but imagine that handball deciding a title race or winning a final? that would leave a sour taste as a united fan. but even with that handball you can interpret the rules in a way that the goal is perfectly legitimate. the rule is wrong but at least it was applied correctly. that didn’t happen at the final race. the rules and protocols were flat out ignored/changed, whether you liked the rule in the first place or not. i follow f1 as a sport. you need some rules and regulations that can’t be broken. you can sweat the little stuff and interpret somethings but not the major things.
i’m just in the mindset that f1 for me is now the same as friendly internationals/league of nations or whatever it is called now. one off spectacles that can still be enjoyed but they don’t mean anything at the end of the day. i haven’t seen fia or f1 in general do anything that makes me feel confident it can’t and won’t happen again. feck wasting my weekends on that.
Agreed. 100%.
Aren't Red Bull unveiling their car today?
Also, can we try and avoid the Max vs Lewis 'fanboy' shit, at least until the season starts?
Also, can we try and avoid the Max vs Lewis 'fanboy' shit, at least until the season starts?
i like their masi boost button on the steering wheel. it emits a high pitched whining noise to race control whenever max feels he needs a boost in the race and will save wheatley the time having to do it.
looking forward to seeing what mercedes have up their sleeve now or if red bull have stolen a march on them.
looking forward to seeing what mercedes have up their sleeve now or if red bull have stolen a march on them.
Yeah so far it's been a lot of talk about Oracle being the new title sponsor etc.
"Checo obviously had a fantastic first season with the team"
Did he?
Did he?
They really are circle jerking themselves at the moment"Checo obviously had a fantastic first season with the team"
Did he?
, just show us the car and feck offSo declares the Hamilton fanboy.
Erm, not really no."Checo obviously had a fantastic first season with the team"
Did he?
There were some great moments though.
You must have HATED Fergie?
Seeking refuge from the cat punting thread I saw this one being active...only to find the same fanboi shit as 2 months ago and the season hasn't even started. Caf is great these days innit..
Awful lighting for their photos tbh, you can barely make out any detail - perhaps on purpose.
why does this look like the f1 prototype in red bull livery.
There's more detail in the video
what a waste of time that was, spend 30 mins milking yourself only to release a fake car
no cos my boi hamilton was wrecking all the salty noobz.
no. it was shit. i dipped in and out of f1, except for the rosberg season, catching the odd race that interested me or if i had nothing better to do. i agree anyone dominating any sport is crap but for me that wasn’t the way to end it.
i’ll probably go back to watching it like that again this season or trying to just enjoy the races as isolated spectacles.
"Checo obviously had a fantastic first season with the team"
Did he?
They would probably still say that if he DNF'd every race of the season but still pulled off that hold up that nuked Hamiltons 19 second lead.