Formula 1 - 2016 Season

Just watched the F1 report and Jaime Alguersari (?) and Stoffel Vandoorne chime in with their opinion on Sky F1 blaming Nico and not Lewis.

Funny thing is even Lewis Hamilton makes an excuse for his team mate on the podium whilst being booed - advising that Nico may have had a brake issue. In my view all the more reason Nico should have been even more careful whilst braking... Instead he let his car plunge into Hamilton's... probably on purpose.
 
Tahir2 said:
Just watched the F1 report and Jaime Alguersari (?) and Stoffel Vandoorne chime in with their opinion on Sky F1 blaming Nico and not Lewis.

Funny thing is even Lewis Hamilton makes an excuse for his team mate on the podium whilst being booed - advising that Nico may have had a brake issue. In my view all the more reason Nico should have been even more careful whilst braking... Instead he let his car plunge into Hamilton's... probably on purpose.
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Nico never plunged into anything, Hamilton turned into him, even if you blame Nico for it.
 
Kaotik said:
Nico never plunged into anything, Hamilton turned into him, even if you blame Nico for it.
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Apparently not just him, but pretty much every other professional in F1 sports also blames Nico. Past drivers, analysts, race stewards, etc. Maybe it's not him and everyone else that is wrong but you?

Regards,
SB
 
Blaming Lewis Hamilton for that crash in Austria is like letting Michael Schumacher get away with "crashing out" in Monaco 2006 qualifying.
 
Silent_Buddha said:
Apparently not just him, but pretty much every other professional in F1 sports also blames Nico. Past drivers, analysts, race stewards, etc. Maybe it's not him and everyone else that is wrong but you?

Regards,
SB
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Step 1:
- Driver 1 drives almost straight
- Driver 2 drivers almost straight
Step 2:
- Driver 1 continues straight, going only slightly to right towards turn
- Driver 2 turns right, and hits Driver 1

Who hits who?

The blame game can be played to the end of the world, fact is Hamilton still had room to go deeper when he turned, and there's no rule against taking a corner really deep when you're on the inside. Now, if you take it deep enough to force the other guy off the track, that's against the rules, but Hamilton and others have gotten away with that without penalties several times, so apparently they're not enforcing that rule anymore.

I know many here and elsewhere would have completely different view on this if the drivers roles were reversed.
 
Maybe you would be happy for Hamilton to do a 3 point turn round the corner?

You clearly think they have the steering lock of a bus able to go round any corner with the wheels at 90 degrees from straight.

We know you are deluded so that is probably what you think.

So we have Nico and you who think this was Hamilton's fault and the rest of the world that don't.

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DJ12 said:
Maybe you would be happy for Hamilton to do a 3 point turn round the corner?

You clearly think they have the steering lock of a bus able to go round any corner with the wheels at 90 degrees from straight.

We know you are deluded so that is probably what you think.

So we have Nico and you who think this was Hamilton's fault and the rest of the world that don't.

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Quite a few others than just me & Nico.

Anyway, obviously I don't think they can do 90 degree sharp turns or anything like that, but that doesn't give anyone the right to ram into someone else. If Nicos line would have ended up in foring Hamilton to drive out, that would be legit reason for a penalty obviously, except that they apparently don't penalize for forcing someone off the track anymore despite the rules. But still, even if someone is possibly forcing you out from track, you can't just ram into him.
 
The accepted rule is if you are in front as hamilton was its your corner and the guy behind has a duty to avoid you. Not continue straight on with the intention of crashing into you which is blatantly what Rosberg did.

I know you have your agenda to throw out here, but in the privacy of your own home I'm pretty sure even you admit its Rosberg that was at fault and you are just upset that 1. He didn't kill Hamilton and 2. Hamilton won the race.

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DJ12 said:
The accepted rule is if you are in front as hamilton was its your corner and the guy behind has a duty to avoid you.
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The rulebook says if one is significantly on your side, you have to avoid him, no matter if you're in front or back. It doesn't give you right to ram into the other.
Not continue straight on with the intention of crashing into you which is blatantly what Rosberg did.
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Rosberg surely had no such intentions, possibly force him outside the track, or just give him barely enough room there on the outside while forcing him to slow to a crawl
 
No. He meant to hit him.

We don't know if Hamilton saw Rosberg, its believable that he didn't and Rosberg was in one of the many blind spots, we know however Rosberg saw Hamilton.

So Hamilton didn't know he was there so clearly didn't 'ram into' Rosberg. Seeing as you are insistent someone rammed into the other clearly its the guy that could see the other guy.

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Good news for Kimi fans - don't think Ferrari were interested in buying out anyone's contracts, eg. Perez. In 2018 a few drivers will be out of contract including Ricciardo and Hamilton. Unless Mercedes build a stinker next year with the rule changes can't see Hamilton jumping ship, and does Vettel have a veto? I don't see harmony in a team with two top drivers however it would be good to see who comes out on top.

Hamilton on pole in Silverstone, can he now make it 4 wins to equal Mansel's record at Silverstone...?
 
Well there you go Hamilton closes the gap to Rosberg. Redbull prove that they are ahead of Ferrari and edging closer to Mercedes. It looks like Verstappen is showing Riccardo a thing or two..

What do you think of the Rosberg messages, personally seemed fine to me as it was a terminal failure.
 
Maybe the first one was OK, but the avoiding seventh portion was probably in breach of the regulations as it was telling him how to drive.

The rules is stupid though as the cars are too complex. They should be able to tell them settings and anything that's going to break the car. Pretty sure the point of the rule was to stop them telling Rosberg how much faster than him Hamilton was going round each corner, not to create reliability problems.
 
I like the rules. The drivers should drive the car themselves. No excuse. Safety my ass!

Ham was super fast today. Well done. Now Ros has even more pressure...I think he can't handle it.
 
DJ12 said:
Maybe the first one was OK, but the avoiding seventh portion was probably in breach of the regulations as it was telling him how to drive.

The rules is stupid though as the cars are too complex. They should be able to tell them settings and anything that's going to break the car. Pretty sure the point of the rule was to stop them telling Rosberg how much faster than him Hamilton was going round each corner, not to create reliability problems.
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I also like the rule. In cases like this the driver should have to go into the pit where the engineers can then tell drivers how to "drive".
 
Oh, and Verstappen had a crazy good safe today, when he touched the curbs and the car wanted to break out.

I like Verstappen. Good driver!
 
Rosberg has a 10 second penalty and is demoted to 3rd. I have a feeling the rule will be scrapped. Horner and wolff both against it

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That rule definitely needs a rethink. Great race otherwise and a great atmosphere after the race too judging from the live coverage.

Highlights included Mark Webber grabbing an impromptu sandwich live on air and telling Button to, "this is my lunch, wait till you have to work for a living."

An other highlight; Hamilton praising the crowd for not booing only to do so when it came to Nico's interview on the podium... D'oh!!!
 
Mercedes have withdrawn their appeal after driver Nico Rosberg was penalised by 10 seconds during the British Grand Prix, which was won by Lewis Hamilton.
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Race stewards found Mercedes were allowed to give Rosberg instructions on the settings he needed to resolve the problem. But they should not have responded to his subsequent question on whether he should then change gear so the car went straight through seventh gear.
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http://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/36768573
 
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