The Official 2016 Hungarian Grand Prix Thread **Spoilers**

[deadslow]

NJK44 said:

sandman77 said:

You do surprise me.

I, on the other hand, would like to see them race each other without penalties involved.

Normally, I'd like them to race, knowing full well that Lewis would beat Nico in a fair fight 9/10 times.

However, considering Nico is incompetent at defending and racecraft in general, I don't want that fool anywhere near the guy I support, in case he takes him out again.

[anonymous-user]

NJK44 said:

sandman77 said:

You do surprise me.

I, on the other hand, would like to see them race each other without penalties involved.

Normally, I'd like them to race, knowing full well that Lewis would beat Nico in a fair fight 9/10 times.

However, considering Nico is incompetent at defending and racecraft in general, I don't want that fool anywhere near the guy I support, in case he takes him out again.

Wouldn't worry about it, the guy you support is capable of crashing into anyone, as we all know.

[VladD]

REALIST123 said:

NJK44 said:

sandman77 said:

You do surprise me.

I, on the other hand, would like to see them race each other without penalties involved.

Normally, I'd like them to race, knowing full well that Lewis would beat Nico in a fair fight 9/10 times.

However, considering Nico is incompetent at defending and racecraft in general, I don't want that fool anywhere near the guy I support, in case he takes him out again.

Wouldn't worry about it, the guy you support is capable of crashing into anyone, as we all know.

Shall we get the mods to move this to the handbags forum?

[NJK44]

REALIST123 said:

Wouldn't worry about it, the guy you support is capable of crashing into anyone, as we all know.

Anyone is capable of hitting anyone. Nico seems keen it on it lately though.

[Derek Smith]

Normally these sorts of comments don't arrive until about an hour and a half after the race.

Is Twitter down?

[cgt2]

Press conference. Max is very chilled talking to the press while NR still manages to come across as a bit of an entitled d**k, see 28:30. A forced smile is very easy to see whereas Max comes across as genuinely friendly and enthusiastic. Let's hope this attitude doesn't change in years ahead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InIUsp52MeE

Edited by cgt2 on Thursday 21st July 16:28

[deadslow]

cgt2 said:

Press conference. Max is very chilled talking to the press while NR still manages to come across as a bit of an entitled d**k, see 28:30. A forced smile is very easy to see whereas Max comes across as genuinely friendly and enthusiastic. Let's hope this attitude doesn't change in years ahead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InIUsp52MeE

Edited by cgt2 on Thursday 21st July 16:28

They've all got a warm and engaging personality until the title in 'on'.

[Mr_Thyroid]

cgt2 said:

Press conference. Max is very chilled talking to the press while NR still manages to come across as a bit of an entitled d**k, see 28:30. A forced smile is very easy to see whereas Max comes across as genuinely friendly and enthusiastic. Let's hope this attitude doesn't change in years ahead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InIUsp52MeE

Edited by cgt2 on Thursday 21st July 16:28

I think you're projecting your opinion onto Rosberg. Seemed fair enough to me - the whole line of questioning was very awkward.

[cgt2]

Mr_Thyroid said:

I think you're projecting your opinion onto Rosberg. Seemed fair enough to me - the whole line of questioning was very awkward.

Possibly so but I do find his manner quite abrasive and unfriendly. He often shows this in these press conferences. The others seemed to react in a friendly manner to what I thought was a good question.

[NJK44]

cgt2 said:

Possibly so but I do find his manner quite abrasive and unfriendly. He often shows this in these press conferences. The others seemed to react in a friendly manner to what I thought was a good question.

As opposed to Lewis who sits on his phone and doesn't give a f**k?

[NJK44]

"From now on, any driver informed about a critical problem on his car will be forced to come into the pits in order for the situation to be sorted."

For f**k sake..

[M3ax]

Nico would do well to realise his nemesis is max rather than Lewis. His focus is misdirected.

[HustleRussell]

motorsport.com said:

From now on, if a team warns a driver that there is a problem with the car it must include an instruction that forces the driver to come into the pits for necessary repairs.

This will automatically result in a hefty time penalty that would discourage any team using a potential safety issue for performance benefits.

The new FIA note says that a permitted message is: "Indication of a problem with the car, any message of this sort must include an irreversible instruction to enter the pits to rectify the problem or to retire the car."

A newly-worded part referencing what is allowed states: "Instructions to select driver defaults, this must be for the sole purpose of mitigating loss of function of a sensor, actuator or controller whose degradation or failure was not detected and handled by the onboard software.

"It will be the responsibility of any team giving any such instruction to satisfy the FIA technical delegate that this was the case and that any new setting chosen in this way did not enhance the performance of the car beyond that prior to the loss of function (see Article 8.2.4 of the Technical Regulations)."

Rules on information about car damage have also been tightened up, with teams now only allowed to tell drivers about broken 'bodywork' rather than other components.

Another change is that the FIA radio restrictions will now only count when the car is out of the pitlane, rather than simply out of the garage as had been in place before.

This in theory means that if drivers are coming down the pitlane with a critical problem then they can receive instructions to fix the issue without the need to go into the garage.

fk's sake. Rules within rules within rules.

[Z3MCJez]

cgt2 said:

Press conference. Max is very chilled talking to the press while NR still manages to come across as a bit of an entitled d**k, see 28:30. A forced smile is very easy to see whereas Max comes across as genuinely friendly and enthusiastic. Let's hope this attitude doesn't change in years ahead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InIUsp52MeE

Edited by cgt2 on Thursday 21st July 16:28

I think Nico's problem is he speaks with no heart or passion. Everything is answered as if he's trying not to fall into a trap. But as a result, we don't get to hear what he actually thinks - we get robot Nico. Lewis can be an idiot at times. But at least he's an idiot that speaks his mind.

On to this weekend. I see it being a weak weekend for Mercedes but one in which Lewis is top 3 while Nico is not. I think Danny Ric will demonstrate he's not going to be pushed around by Verstappen and those two, with Lewis, will be the podium. Seems to be quite a bit about on the net with people talking about how great it is to go to Hungary. I remember the early races - they were all borefests. It helped when they modified the track a bit, but the 1980s races were horrible here - it wasn't always better.

Jez

[AstonB]

Z3MCJez said:

I think Nico's problem is he speaks with no heart or passion. Everything is answered as if he's trying not to fall into a trap. But as a result, we don't get to hear what he actually thinks - we get robot Nico. Lewis can be an idiot at times. But at least he's an idiot that speaks his mind.

On to this weekend. I see it being a weak weekend for Mercedes but one in which Lewis is top 3 while Nico is not. I think Danny Ric will demonstrate he's not going to be pushed around by Verstappen and those two, with Lewis, will be the podium. Seems to be quite a bit about on the net with people talking about how great it is to go to Hungary. I remember the early races - they were all borefests. It helped when they modified the track a bit, but the 1980s races were horrible here - it wasn't always better.

Jez

I think Nico's problem is hes a class A c*nt.

[suffolk009]

I had an interesting chat last week with a friend, who has a friend who works for Merc F1. Apparently NR is well liked at the factory amongst the staff.

[rdjohn]

I am a Lewis fan as far as the racing goes, but I suspect this interview reflects the real Nico.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jul/18/nico...

[VolvoT5]

Z3MCJez said:

I think Nico's problem is he speaks with no heart or passion. Everything is answered as if he's trying not to fall into a trap. But as a result, we don't get to hear what he actually thinks - we get robot Nico. Lewis can be an idiot at times. But at least he's an idiot that speaks his mind.

I don't blame Nico for being defensive and robotic at all. Rosberg has to watch what he is saying as he is facing a media that is often British based and largely pro-Hamilton, any remarks he makes (or any driver for that matter) are often taken out of context and twisted to fit a tabloid style of journalism that seems to have crept into F1 in recent years. So it is much more simple for him to put on a plastic smile and answer every question with well tried cliches that really do not inform the fans of much........ of course this leads to frustration from the journalists so that any slip up he makes and every micro expression that doesn't fit with what he is saying is turned into a huge deal, creating a bit of a negative feedback circle as he clams up even more next time around.

Rosberg seems like a reasonable enough guy to me. His main problem is that while he is a brilliant racing driver and would beat much of the rest of the field he is not quite at Hamilton's level... and he knows it as does everyone else, but of course he can't admit that in the media... that is the elephant in the room IMO.

Edited by VolvoT5 on Friday 22 July 08:08

[Vaud]

Nico has re-signed for 2 years.

[kambites]

To me, Rosberg comes across as the more likeable and, well, normal of the two of them which is perhaps his problem in a way. He seems to lack the unwavering self-belief that top-flight F1 drivers need to bounce back from the problems that they inevitably all have occasionally.