The F1 Thread 2012 Season

I didn't watch qualifying yesterday. What happened to the Mercedes cars? Both of them did not make it to Q3. Are they struggling for speed or handling this weekend? They just can't seem to get their cars running good, can they?
 
On Schumachers last flying lap Maldonado went off on a bit of dirt ahead of him and he had to ease off when he went through the dust but I don't think he would have got through to Q1 anyway. They're saying the track just doesn't suit them so they'll be hoping for rain today and they could be in luck, I heard there might be thunderstorms
 
Hope not, would hate for Hamilton to have more bad luck potentially.

PLEASE STOP THIS CARTOON, it's so shit.
 
That McLaren cartoon makes me cringe in horror, storms are due at some point today apparently :drool:
 
Hah, amusingly I quite like those McLaren cartoons. Harmless fun is how I see them.

Learn to enjoy them ye humourless bastards ;)
 
Also, lots of sources saying that rain is unlikely during the race. Like at Silverstone, it'll probably bucket it down just after the race has finished.

I remember I was at the Canadian Grand Prix three years ago (when McLaren got the one-two, with Alonso third), and they were predicting storms all weekend. As it turned out, Saturday and Sunday were glorious sunshine, really hot and summery weather, and everyone was wondering how they could have got it so wrong - they said there'd be rain and there wasn't, nothing like it.

What most people don't see, of course, is the fact that on Monday it bucketed it down all fecking day. Miserable day. So it wasn't that the teams got the wrong forecast in that they totally fecked it up and couldn't have predicted it more inaccurately, but that they were out by twenty hours or so. The rain was coming, just later than they said.

The same thing happened at Silverstone (when it rained after the race had finished), and probably last week too.
 
I would say that Hamilton has a good chance here today however Grosjean is right behind him who as we all know is far too aggressive off the line and tends to cause more accidents than anyone else, so Hamilton may not survive the first corner...
 
apart from the odd exception, Sky's coverage of F1 is dreadful.

Natalie in the pit lane needs a right good old cnut punt. She just asks the exact same generic question each time, "What do you hope to do today" and then rarely ever attempts a follow up question after that. Useless cnut.
 
I agree, to be honest the only person I like is Brundell.
I hope Sky learn and do better next year

I have to say though I would give it to her, they need to replace the entire presenting team apart from Brundle.
 
I like Croft.

The commentary team are certainly better than Coulthard and the other twerp over on the BBC.