Floyd picked the top 3 correctly. Jammy bastard.
Floyd picked the top 3 correctly. Jammy bastard.
I'm 39th globally. Dunno how many people there are in it.
A push for the title awaits.
The scoring is a bit strange in that if you pick the top 3 correctly, you get 10pts for each driver prediction, and then a bonus 30pts for predicting the top 3, kinda double points for one prediction /seething.
Double points, this is the first race not the last one.
It's fucking Dubai all over again.
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aw damn i didn't realize you guys were playing this
it was only me and one other last year at the end if i recall lol
Well you should come here more often then, instead of shooting up schools and wearing fucking cowboy hats or whatever it is you yanks do.
also re: Haas, though i'm happy to see an American team score points if we're honest without the red flag they'd have finished at the end of the running order, given they were able to change their tyres and not lose 20 some odd seconds coming down pit lane.
i mean the rules are the rules i guess but still sort've weird they let you do that during red flags.
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Oh for fucks sake.
I might actually have to buy it now then.
I'll just give up on it altogether by then.
There will not be any sport on free-to-air TV, apart from stuff like cross country and women's rugby that is basically paying to get the exposure, in about ten years. Maybe sooner.
Definitely. I've already stopped following golf and rugby league altogether and I suspect football and F1 are going to be next.
I'll have to get back into snooker for a while, and the NFL should be OK as I survived following that for years without any live coverage whatsoever so I'm used to seeing nothing.
The BBC has 2 days of live golf this year. Even in my fairly recent memory it used to have 20 plus.
Every sport seems to make the same mistake thinking that raking money in and then distributing it downwards whilst cutting off their showcase events from the public's vision is the way to go. Even football is going to suffer a massive participation dip, I think, if it isn't already. As for F1, which only became a viable commercial product based on the mass appeal it established in the 1980s, it's probably curtains to be honest unless they change it or develop a proper internet pay per view service, which they won't.
The sport won't be worth watching in 2019.
Booking holidays for the Masters and Open used to be something to look forward to every year. Another one of the little pleasures chewed up.
You forget that we (youngish people who don't buy sports cars and expensive watches) are not the target audience of the bods who think they know what they're doing in F1. Of course those same bods have ushered in an era where everyone involved in running the sport in actively engaged in trying to dick each other over no matter the consequences (hi qualifying!) so make of that what you will.
You can always tell everything from the sponsors.
1992 Williams with Nigel and his tache:
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On there I can see cameras, fuel, ciggies, beer, and of course cars. I don't know what 'Bull' is.
Mercedes 2015:
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The fuel is still there but it's now Malaysian, and joined by expensive suits, office equipment, mobile devices, and apparently 'wireless technology systems'.
Joe Saward posted a great blog on the subject earlier.
My enjoyment of the sport has been dwindling as the years pass on. This will simply kill it dead. I honestly don't care either.
I finally caught up with this over the weekend.
Man did Ferrari fuck that tyre choice up, although I think Rosberg (at least) would probably still have got Vettel in the end.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/35934347
I wouldn't surprise me if, after he retires, we find out there was an underlying problem with Alonso. Pure speculation on my part but there have been a few little things over the last 3 or 4 years that make me wonder.
Do you mean mental or physical?
Physical, as I said it's total speculation but something has seemed a little off with him lately.
I think there's some kind of gypsy curse on his involvement with McLaren. Had a funny layoff thing at the start of last season after a low speed testing shunt if I recall.
Be interesting to see how Stoffel measures up to Jense stone cold. Within half a second would be immense.
Remember to get your predictions in on the predicty thing so you can carry on getting smashed by me. This time I've reversed it and gone Rosberg pole, Hamilton victory. Points for Kimi in 4th place, the useless moron.
Not sure how I feel about that. Pretty classless from Alonso, but then if I was him and someone dug me out like that, I'd probably have a go as well. I guess Herbert never proclaimed to the best ever, so that dig was a bit pointless. Presumably that wasn't live - if it wasn't Hebert should have just told him to fuck off.
Is it too late to join in? I must have missed it first time round.
You can always tell who the knobheads are among top sportsmen (it's a favourite of Virat Kohli) when they respond to criticism with things like 'You never played the game' or in this case 'I am a better driver than you'. It's completely irrelevant.
It actually says a lot for Herbert that he's prepared to front up and ask difficult questions that the corporate sycophants who infest sports coverage nowadays never would.
No idea, disco.
Herbert is pretty much a nobody as far as the sport goes, but Alonso is just being petty there and doing even more to show he's feeling the strain.
Alonso not acting like a classy gent? Whatever next. Herbert was decent but smashed his legs to pieces in a Jordan, kind of like the Kubica of the early 90's.
And still won three GPs, albeit all three of them were as a result of everyone else falling off the road.
I joined in after the first race, so you should be good to go.
A good showing for someone who had to be Schumi's team mate, which as we know carries the mother of all gypsy curses with it. Robert Doornbos is a nobody, Herbert has won GP's as well as Le Mans.
There. Fixed.
You know you could always dispute what I said rather than resorting to personal attacks.
Personal attacks? The fuck?
This whole forum is built on personal attacks, but you're hyper sensitive if you think that was one.
Your edit suggests I only think he was any good because he's British. What is that other than an implication of favouritism?
First qualifying I've actually watched - whoever came up with this format should be strung up from a lamp post.
New qualifying system not working?
Color me shocked.
Yup. Awful. The commentator mentioned that it takes 3:40 for a car to leave the pits, do the outlap, and finish a flying lap. It's simply too long to react to this 90 second shit.
No idea why Button didn't put another lap in then - it was clear he would be in the bottom 3 or 4.
According to Alexander Wurz it's basically impossible to add a quick second lap with these tyres, making this qualification format all the more nonsensical.
Really? That's shit.
Trust Hamilton to bottle queue three.
Twat.
Yup, they need to use the super soft to be competitive but you only really get one flying lap out of them so another run means a stop and an outlap etc.
I'm not sure whether it's more or less ridiculous than F1 being here in the first place.
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