+++ The Official Italian (Monza) Grand Prix Thread 2015 +++

[JonRB]

"I remember touching Ayton Senna"
~~ Damon Hill

You heard it here first, folks.

[entropy]

2004sti said:

Does anyone know of any streams for this race? We're in France and can't seem to find anywhere that's showing it.

Have you tried Google? Some sites can detect adblock.

[entropy]

"Kimi can blow Lewis off"

[FourWheelDrift]

The Italian National anthem sung by Uno Directione

[Zoobeef]

I watched the quali here yesterday
http://www.realstreamunited.com/motor-sports-live-...

[JonRB]

Flav seems to have lost some weight; he now looks merely fat.

[threespires]

Brundle & Grid walkabout.
That was embarrassing, how rude he is to everybody & his question to people' What's happening'

I cringed watching him. Coulthard seems most reluctant to do the grid walkabout & Brundle is downright rude.

Switched off to write this. Rant over Back to prog now

[HarryW]

2004sti said:

Does anyone know of any streams for this race? We're in France and can't seem to find anywhere that's showing it.

Canal+ Sport was the only channel I've found it on in France before now.

[Asterix]

Kimi for the win!

Ah...

Edited by Asterix on Sunday 6th September 13:04

[ukaskew]

rscott said:

The team sent Verstappen out with only half the retainers fitted to the engine cover - they 'hoped' it would hold it. I don't think the penalty is pretty reasonable under those circumstances..

Indeed, given the sensitivity around head injuries at the moment for obvious reasons I'm surprised the punishment wasn't more severe given how much bodywork / bolts etc flew off, particularly as it wasn't a mistake but an intentional risk.

[Derek Smith]

A bit excited about this one. Let us hope it gets past the first chicane

[JonRB]

threespires said:

Brundle & Grid walkabout.
That was embarrassing, how rude he is to everybody & his question to people' What's happening'

I cringed watching him. Coulthard seems most reluctant to do the grid walkabout & Brundle is downright rude.

Switched off to write this. Rant over Back to prog now

I think the Grid Walk has had its day now. It was fresh and exciting when Brundle invented it and was using his personal friendships and contacts to get access that we'd not seen before.

Now that everyone is doing them and "grid walkers" are buzzing round drivers like flies round a turd, I find it all rather tedious. Trouble is, it's kind of expected now.

[nice1two]

Any idea what the cgi table and chair was all about

[Asterix]

nice1two said:

Any idea what the cgi table and chair was all about

Not a clue - it was rather random...

[VolvoT5]

fingers crossed both Ferraris can get ahead of Lewis at the start - probably the only chance of seeing a race today. Otherwise an easy cruise to victory for Lewis (reliability issues aside).

[Smollet]

JonRB said:

I think the Grid Walk has had its day now. It was fresh and exciting when Brundle invented it and was using his personal friendships and contacts to get access that we'd not seen before.

Now that everyone is doing them and "grid walkers" are buzzing round drivers like flies round a turd, I find it all rather tedious. Trouble is, it's kind of expected now.

Depends where it is. I find Monaco to be the worst as its full of pseuds trying to be genuine F1 fans for once a year whilst promoting their latest film, song etc

[g4ry13]

They used to have an old ferrari at Monza race (348, maybe 355)

Balls for kimi!

[JonRB]

I think a Kimi win might be out of the question now.

[fatboy69]

Kimi. WTF?

Lewis. Hammer time already.

[VolvoT5]

Poor Kimi