Rich Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 Oh Crashtor. Oh Kimi :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 While boo to Vettel, I am happy to see that there is going to be at least a few competitive GPs going forward, I hope some of the other teams narrow the gap too. Seeing Williams get involved and make it a 3 team competition would be lovely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieG Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 Max. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FestiveJack Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 Man, looking to Ferrari to provide a competitive season to Mercedes is like getting the old bad guy to help against the new bad guy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonM Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 Max. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainiac Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 Just caught up with the race, having somehow avoided getting the result all morning. Vettel got his tactics spot on, while Hamilton paid the price for needlessly using up a fresh set of medium tyres during qualifying. Kimi did a remarkable job to come home in 4th too, considering he started in 11th and then picked up a puncture on Lap 1. Hugely impressed with Max Verstapen too, so far he's living up to the hype. I still think Mercedes will dominate the season, but it's good to see a 'different' winner today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonM Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 Kimi was truly something else during the race. He had a bad start, got a puncture right after passing the pit-lane going into lap 2 so he had to drive an entire lap without a back tyre putting him dead last even behind the mobile chicane of Merhi, and with downforce issues he still overtakes everyone else to finish 4th behind Vettel and the Mercs. McLaren on the other hand are heartbreakingly suffering, and not even Alonso can get legendary drives out of the underpowered car. Oh, and Red Bull are being outpaced by their development team who are fielding two rookies including one that can't legally drive yet who set the track alight with aggressive yet intelligent and clean driving to bring home the first points of his career and becoming the youngest point scorer ever. And whilst I'm not jumping onto the ''Max VerSenna" bandwagon, kid had shown all the chops of being able to drive a car despite claims of his age/experience making him a liability. Not even looking at Ferrari/Merc, this is going to be an interesting season at the least between the rest of the pack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 (edited) Mclaren were closer to Force India than I would have expected. One thing about them as a team is that they do develop their car well. I think it'll be next year when we see them back at the front though. Edited March 30, 2015 by Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieG Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 Lewis Hamilton has signed a new contract. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted April 1, 2015 Report Share Posted April 1, 2015 On McLaren, it's the same every year to an extent. They develop a new car and it takes until the European part of the season before they become competitive :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katsuya Posted April 6, 2015 Report Share Posted April 6, 2015 On McLaren, it's the same every year to an extent. They develop a new car and it takes until the European part of the season before they become competitive :/ Most notable in 2009, when they and Ferrari both come good way, way too late with their KERS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJB Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 So, Hamilton wins ahead of Rosberg, Vettel and Raikkonen. Nico is fuming about Lewis 'backing him up'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieG Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 Max. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Lineker Posted April 12, 2015 Author Admin Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 The Mercedes Cold War is back on. Yaayyy. McLaren's Jenson Button has been given a Formula 1 licence points penalty and demoted to 14th place in the Chinese Grand Prix for his collision with Lotus driver Pastor Maldonado. A five-second penalty dropped Button - who called the incident a "misjudgement" - from 13th to 14th behind Carlos Sainz Jr in the race results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazz Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 I'm not sure how you can accuse someone of holding you up when he then blasts you by half a second a lap when he needs to. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonM Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 I'm not sure how you can accuse someone of holding you up when he then blasts you by half a second a lap when he needs to. Doesn't that just reinforce Nico's claims? Lewis was tanking his drive to force Nico into either a battle with the Ferrari's, or to get into the dirty air of Hamilton's own car. Hamilton was taking it easy, granted he's the leader and he can do whatever he wants, but in doing so he was hurting the team effort by causing his teammate to get into trouble and potentially cost the team points. Hamilton can wave it off as ''I was preserving tyres, protecting the car'', but it's just a dickish tactic to fuck with your teammate. But naturally with those claims you'll rustle the jimmies of British racing fans, because Hamilton is their golden boy against the onslaught of stinky mainland europeans trying to take away their sport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDK Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 I'm not sure how you can accuse someone of holding you up when he then blasts you by half a second a lap when he needs to. Doesn't that just reinforce Nico's claims? Lewis was tanking his drive to force Nico into either a battle with the Ferrari's, or to get into the dirty air of Hamilton's own car. Hamilton was taking it easy, granted he's the leader and he can do whatever he wants, but in doing so he was hurting the team effort by causing his teammate to get into trouble and potentially cost the team points. Hamilton can wave it off as ''I was preserving tyres, protecting the car'', but it's just a dickish tactic to fuck with your teammate. But naturally with those claims you'll rustle the jimmies of British racing fans, because Hamilton is their golden boy against the onslaught of stinky mainland europeans trying to take away their sport. I couldn't have said it better myself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJB Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 Hamilton did nothing wrong. Rosberg was never in real trouble, Vettel was always 1.5s behind. If he was on Nico's gearbox, I might be a tad more sympathetic. However all Nico then had to do was back off during the corners and get good exits onto the straights because Vettel's top speed wasn't high enough to pass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDK Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 Bloody Krauts, right? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katsuya Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 Here's the thing: if Mercedes didn't believe Lewis was doing it on purpose, then they wouldn't have told him to go quicker. Simple as. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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