The F1 Thread 2012 Season

Four races, four different winners, four different constructors, 8 different podium winners.

I'm loving how in 2012 the fastest cars in qualy aren't necessarily the fastest in the race. Case in point Kimi.
 
Jenson with a cracked exhaust now, the car is fecked
 
Im assuming most of them will be packing up and on a flight this evening, at least thats what I hope for.
 
pauldyson1uk said:
dont think its that quick , I know that there are a few flight into East Midlands this week , first one is Tuesday and another on Thursday , must take a far while to dismantle an F1 pit and hospitality.
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You'd be surprised. When I went to Monza we watched the podium presentation and then walked around a lap of the track, coming back into the paddock area before the entry to parabolica, by the time we'd got round there the teams were loading the cars into wagons and a big queue of lorries leaving the circuit. They don't feck about, it's like a pit stop effort.
 
Just finished watching the race, pleased for Seb and it was a very entertaining race but I'm a bit gutted for Kimi, right up to the last round of stops I thought he was going to do it :(
 
R_Kelly said:
You'd be surprised. When I went to Monza we watched the podium presentation and then walked around a lap of the track, coming back into the paddock area before the entry to parabolica, by the time we'd got round there the teams were loading the cars into wagons and a big queue of lorries leaving the circuit. They don't feck about, it's like a pit stop effort.
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WOW that fast , lets hope they get out ASAP ,I dont think any of them will want to be hanging around.
 
pauldyson1uk said:
WOW that fast , lets hope they get out ASAP ,I dont think any of them will want to be hanging around.
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Definitely mate.

As an aside, as the teams were working packing all the shit up in Monza, Kimi rode past us on his chopper in a t-shirt and shorts :lol:
 
pauldyson1uk said:
dont think its that quick , I know that there are a few flight into East Midlands this week , first one is Tuesday and another on Thursday , must take a far while to dismantle an F1 pit and hospitality.
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I think they can dismantle and move on quickly, I mean look at the turnaround time when they go from Spain to Monaco, a lot of teams mostly leave the evening after a grand prix as normal anyway so hopefully they will be all out by tomorrow morning at the latest.
 
Great to see the drivers finally speaking out against Pirelli and their chewing gum tyres. This isn't F1 anymore, its about tyre management and that just isn't what it should be about. I want to see 24 of the best drivers in the world slugging it out lap after lap, not tip toeing around tyres falling to pieces the minute they are punished.

Now that's not to say go back to the extreme endurance of the Bridgestones but it cannot be that difficult to make a tyre that performs equally across say 20 laps stints and allow the drivers to actually push their cars to the limits. Schumacher has likened todays racing to driving behind a safety car, I mean thats a pretty big statement to make from someone who knows what hes talking about.

So yeah I hope more drivers speak out and force the issue.
 
Leg-End said:
Great to see the drivers finally speaking out against Pirelli and their chewing gum tyres. This isn't F1 anymore, its about tyre management and that just isn't what it should be about. I want to see 24 of the best drivers in the world slugging it out lap after lap, not tip toeing around tyres falling to pieces the minute they are punished.

Now that's not to say go back to the extreme endurance of the Bridgestones but it cannot be that difficult to make a tyre that performs equally across say 20 laps stints and allow the drivers to actually push their cars to the limits. Schumacher has likened todays racing to driving behind a safety car, I mean thats a pretty big statement to make from someone who knows what hes talking about.

So yeah I hope more drivers speak out and force the issue.
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Tyres from circa 2006 were fantastic for this. Not as if drivers couldn't look after them either. If you remember Michael in his pomp, one of his best assets was to preserve his tyres, and then go out and set 2 really good laps before they fell off the cliff.

The soft tyres were good for 20 laps on most tracks and the hards for 30.
 
The tyres are ridiculous, the way Kimi went from 2nd to 10th in the space of a lap in Malaysia because his tyres gave up was just mental.

Whilst we're at it with gripes about the sport; I still HATE that bloody DRS. It's shit.
 
DRS was just a simple way of excluding yet another piece of innovation (the f-duct) so basically everyone could have it without compromise. KERS I actually do like because its a tactical thing, you can actually have a chance at defending your position with it rather than just having the car behind press his DRS button and fly past.

I can't help but think F1 has taken 1 step forward and 2 steps back because they did the right thing by getting rid of the blown diffusers only to demand/allow Pirelli to make seemingly worse tyres. The fact they are now driving to a delta time on their wheels is crazy, I can't believe its come to that.

That's also not to forget the tyres effectively ruining quali sessions because cars are too scared to use up their allocation to improve their times. I think as the season goes on we might see more and more drivers only doing 1 run in Q3 to save tyres.
 
Yea KERS is ok now that everyone has it, it was shit in '09 when only three teams (iirc) were running it. I think I'd have less hatred for DRS if it was open in the race the same as quali, use it whenever you want. There'd be less straight line drive-by 'overtakes' but it'd take more skill to get it right and people opening it too soon coming out of the corners would spice shit up.

That said, the best thing to do would just be to scrap it altogether.
 
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