The Official German GP Thread 2014 *******Spoilers*****

The Official German GP Thread 2014 *******Spoilers*****

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PompeyM3

1,847 posts

206 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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Be interesting to see what the attendance figures will be for this weekend. Given they have a current German F1 champion and now another German driver and team leading the championships.
Anyone know what the figures were for Silverstone ? It seemed packed when I was there, but I did notice some empty seats when re- watching the race on TV.

Edited by PompeyM3 on Saturday 19th July 12:12

Mojocvh

16,837 posts

263 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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VolvoT5 said:
Sky coverage is starting to get on my tits now as it is rapidly becoming the Lewis Hamilton show. Lewis farts and they spend 3 hours analysing it.
Yep quite tiring.

Jasandjules

69,948 posts

230 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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VolvoT5 said:
Sky coverage is starting to get on my tits now as it is rapidly becoming the Lewis Hamilton show. Lewis farts and they spend 3 hours analysing it.
I quite appreciate the extra time they give to British Drivers - I suspect Lewis gets more than Button and Max because he is more in a position to win the WDC. Isn't that a good thing? A British driver getting supported ?!

VolvoT5

4,155 posts

175 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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Jasandjules said:
I quite appreciate the extra time they give to British Drivers - I suspect Lewis gets more than Button and Max because he is more in a position to win the WDC. Isn't that a good thing? A British driver getting supported ?!
I don't resent the support for the British drivers, it is to be expected really. However after a certain point it just gets repetitive, silly and boring. There is just too time spent on speculation and analysis of irrelevant trivia when it comes to Hamilton.

I'm just completely sick of Hamilton, Hamilton, Hamilton from the moment the show starts until the end.

I will admit I am possibly sightly bias against Lewis though? If Button were doing well and getting the same coverage I would still find it irritating but perhaps not to the same extent.

Daz68

3,374 posts

211 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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Mojocvh said:
VolvoT5 said:
Sky coverage is starting to get on my tits now as it is rapidly becoming the Lewis Hamilton show. Lewis farts and they spend 3 hours analysing it.
Yep quite tiring.
Agree too. The bloke has no personality and is very childish. His driving however is very good. Not knocking covering a British driver but it is getting a bit much now.

Crafty_

13,297 posts

201 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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There aren't any other stories to cover, so its the default position to support a British driver.

Plus this weekend is a "Mercedes special", they did one on Red Bull a while back IIRC.

RogerVulva

1,130 posts

191 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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Woo Lewis big one!!!!

LandR

6,249 posts

255 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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Hamilton into the tyres!

Sir Bagalot

6,486 posts

182 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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Lewis. Whoops!

PhillipM

6,524 posts

190 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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Oops. End of qualy for hamilton

JonRB

74,622 posts

273 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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Uh oh. That's going to ruin Lewis' weekend.

Spawn

586 posts

197 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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Another failure. Great.

g4ry13

17,045 posts

256 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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The speed of the impact looked like brake failure but looking at the replay it isn't so clear.

JonRB

74,622 posts

273 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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In years gone by, he'd have been able to get straight into the T-car for the next session.

BrabusMog

20,184 posts

187 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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Hard to tell what's happened there.

MGJohn

10,203 posts

184 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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Mojocvh said:
VolvoT5 said:
Sky coverage is starting to get on my tits now as it is rapidly becoming the Lewis Hamilton show. Lewis farts and they spend 3 hours analysing it.
Yep quite tiring.
Now that's excessive flatulence.

paulrockliffe

15,722 posts

228 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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Looked quite similar to the spin at the other race, rear end let go.

FourWheelDrift

88,560 posts

285 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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I think the rear tyre's locking and smoke was because the tyre was no longer rotating but going sideways.

NRS

22,212 posts

202 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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Daz68 said:
Agree too. The bloke has no personality and is very childish. His driving however is very good. Not knocking covering a British driver but it is getting a bit much now.
Surely the fact he is annoying and childish shows he has a personality - just some people don't like it. It's because he's not just a grey driver no one notices.

Not good for Hamilton, but it helps on my Castrol GP prediction - had him down as the person to gain most places!

llewop

3,594 posts

212 months

Saturday 19th July 2014
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The marshals seem slow to get to the cars to me - that's the third stop/accident I've seen through FP and quali and it seems ages before they approach the car. Kobayachi even ran to the marshal post to get a fire extinguisher and got back to the car before any marshals!