The Official 2015 Canadian Grand Prix thread **SPOILERS**

[MG CHRIS]

Mr_Thyroid said:

Back to the actual race in question......

Should Hulkenberg have crashed in Vettel? I think he had every right to - Vettel had put his car into a very dangerous position that relied on Hulk's cooperation in order for the pass to work. By spinning instead of sticking in there and probably crashing did he make himself look weak - an asset for a small team who will bring the car home instead of a top runner who will do the absolute maximum to get the big bucks?

Very much like the sainted senna used to do and he was praised for it. But as its vettel just another point to rubbish him with.

[Mr_Thyroid]

MG CHRIS said:

....But as its vettel just another point to rubbish him with.

I don't know what you mean here..... can you expand please?

[lbc]

mollytherocker said:

I will be watching the 24 heures de mans this weekend.

What is the point in watching cars that will not win for 24 hours?

[JonRB]

lbc said:

mollytherocker said:

I will be watching the 24 heures de mans this weekend.

What is the point in watching cars that will not win for 24 hours?

What is the point of watching any motorsport? Why not just wait until the race has finished and then simply read the result?

[lbc]

JonRB said:

lbc said:

mollytherocker said:

I will be watching the 24 heures de mans this weekend.

What is the point in watching cars that will not win for 24 hours?

What is the point of watching any motorsport? Why not just wait until the race has finished and then simply read the result?

1)Entertainment
2) A 24 hour race is not entertainment, which is why I only read the results at the end.

[mollytherocker]

Gaz. said:

mollytherocker said:

I will be watching the 24 heures de mans this weekend.

Anybody with me?

I shall tape it and watch it as and when I can, if it takes a month then so be it, as like most WEC events it makes for crap TV.

Then you are missing something VERY special. It has to be live. You have to sit on your sofa, bleary eyed with Sky on, a lap top and an I Pad showing lap times and in car live footage etc.

Its more than a motor race. I did about 16 hours last year, including watching the first few hours on my phone secretly at a wedding!

You get it, or you dont. Feel free to not get it.

PS - switch from alcohol to coffee at about 3am....

Edited by mollytherocker on Tuesday 9th June 22:51

[Vaud]

Gaz. said:

I'm sure it is, but I am not devoting an entire weekend to watching the bloody telly. I honesty would feel thoroughly deserving of a crappiest husband & father of the year trophy. A 2 hour F1 race at 1pm ballses up a Sunday enough as it is and I'm sure I'm not alone preferring the early Eastern races or the evening Western ones as 1pm BST is a really crap time slot.

Before I became a father it was not too tricky as my wife also follows f1, but we'd still record some and go for a nice walk and then watch it later.

Now? Unless mini-Vaud is napping then I'll watch it delayed.

[ewenm]

Vaud said:

Gaz. said:

I'm sure it is, but I am not devoting an entire weekend to watching the bloody telly. I honesty would feel thoroughly deserving of a crappiest husband & father of the year trophy. A 2 hour F1 race at 1pm ballses up a Sunday enough as it is and I'm sure I'm not alone preferring the early Eastern races or the evening Western ones as 1pm BST is a really crap time slot.

Before I became a father it was not too tricky as my wife also follows f1, but we'd still record some and go for a nice walk and then watch it later.

Now? Unless mini-Vaud is napping then I'll watch it delayed.

Same here. Watching sport in general is delayed until the little one is asleep.

[Vaud]

Though I have mini Vaud in training. She loves the YouTube "racing in slow motion" so step by step...

[ewenm]

[007 VXR]

ewenm said:

Vaud said:

Gaz. said:

I'm sure it is, but I am not devoting an entire weekend to watching the bloody telly. I honesty would feel thoroughly deserving of a crappiest husband & father of the year trophy. A 2 hour F1 race at 1pm ballses up a Sunday enough as it is and I'm sure I'm not alone preferring the early Eastern races or the evening Western ones as 1pm BST is a really crap time slot.

Before I became a father it was not too tricky as my wife also follows f1, but we'd still record some and go for a nice walk and then watch it later.

Now? Unless mini-Vaud is napping then I'll watch it delayed.

Same here. Watching sport in general is delayed until the little one is asleep.

Iam very lucky then as MRS 007 and my 7 year old are big F1 fans, So we watch it as a family

[ewenm]

007 VXR said:

I am very lucky then as MRS 007 and my 7 year old are big F1 fans, So we watch it as a family

We might get to that, at the moment my 4yo gets bored.

[007 VXR]

ewenm said:

007 VXR said:

I am very lucky then as MRS 007 and my 7 year old are big F1 fans, So we watch it as a family

We might get to that, at the moment my 4yo gets bored.

Start them young, Took my boy to Le Mans at 3 and the Hungarian GP at 4

[ewenm]

007 VXR said:

ewenm said:

007 VXR said:

I am very lucky then as MRS 007 and my 7 year old are big F1 fans, So we watch it as a family

We might get to that, at the moment my 4yo gets bored.

Start them young, Took my boy to Le Mans at 3 and the Hungarian GP at 4

It's interesting, one of my daughter's friends (5yo) is obsessive about F1. Maybe it's a boy/girl thing as she's had plenty of exposure to cars and motorsport but just isn't that interested, whereas her friend (male) has had less and is very keen on F1.

She does keep asking me when she can do her next running race though (Junior parkrun)

[funkyrobot]

Trying to get my little girl into motor racing. I always attempt to point it out to her when she's sat on my knee and it's on in the background.

She's only 40 weeks old at the moment, but she's getting there.

[Vaud]

funkyrobot said:

Trying to get my little girl into motor racing. I always attempt to point it out to her when she's sat on my knee and it's on in the background.

She's only 40 weeks old at the moment, but she's getting there.

Try the "Racing in slow motion" stuff on youtube - mine loved it at that age - it's short enough for them to concentrate on and enough stimulation and scene changes that they seem to like...

[funkyrobot]

Vaud said:

Try the "Racing in slow motion" stuff on youtube - mine loved it at that age - it's short enough for them to concentrate on and enough stimulation and scene changes that they seem to like...

Thanks. I'll take a look.

[007 VXR]

funkyrobot said:

Trying to get my little girl into motor racing. I always attempt to point it out to her when she's sat on my knee and it's on in the background.

She's only 40 weeks old at the moment, but she's getting there.

Help me that My Mrs is a PH, and i got my Monaro just before my boy was born, then started modding it and going to car show all the time, and i only live 20 min from Brands Hatch, So hes grown up around cars and events. Also he was a big fan off "cars" the Disney film from about 2 years old

[Dr Z]

F1Fanatic have published the team radio transcripts.

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2015/06/10/2015-canadia...

Makes for interesting reading. Seems like they felt the same as me, regarding the help given to Hamilton. All excused due to the race engineer having a bereavement, apparently.

[Zoobeef]

They need to design a tyre which gets better the more you use it.

Bit of encouragement for them to drive hard then