The Official Canadian Formula 1 GP **Spoilers***

[vescaegg]

Kamui 'I can hold my own damn umbrella!'

[Fire99]

heebeegeetee said:

Stap me I yearn for the old days, when men were men and weren't scared of the rain and knew how to race and knew what mirrors were for.

Well it's very unfortunate for F1 when we've had MotoGP in soaked conditions, IOM TT with stone walls etc etc and here we have F1.. Billion pound sport halted by a puddle.

[skinny]

what's MB talking about - under the red flag in monaco, the backmarkers did not get to drive round and unlap themselves...

[diddly69]

Kamui FTW!

[PhillipM]

Munter said:

No. The racing line is the single car width (give or take a foot or so), that is the fastest line for a car to take around the circuit. It's not the whole width of the track. That's just . It's probably the dumbest thing I think I've seen typed into a GP thread as a serious comment.

Not half as dumb as your intepretation.
Does, or does not, the racing line sweep from the outside on turn in, to the inside of the track on the apex, to the outside on the exit?
Yes?

Right, so ANY overtake is going to be into a 'narrowing wedge' as you lot like to phrase it.
As you seem to think anyone driving into one of the wedges is fair game to be sideswiped on, then any overtake at all is a stupid thing to do is it?

Jesus. I weep for the future of motorsports. We're going to end up where overtaking is banned unless you can do it in the middle of a straight, using kers and DRS, and have to have the overtake completed before the braking area to make sure your not heading for that narrowing gap.
Oh, and as you can sideswipe on the racing line, it can only be on straights where the entry and exit corners go the same direction, otherwise the guy in front is quite fine to push you into the wall halfway along, of course...

[davepoth]

The critical bit about the JB/LH incident is, as I see it, that Jenson made a move to the left before LH was alongside, and held that line. Exactly what he's allowed to do.

[Mikey G]

Why is there a mechanic frantically drying a rear wing?...

[Adrian W]

So this is Formula 1 the pinnicle of motor sport.


How in club racing it's go now or withdraw

[woof]

this won't start for another 45-60mins. What time is it there at the moment ?

[garrykiller]

that track is fecking wet! its completely flooded! even those wet tyres cant clear that!

[Gun]

CivicMan said:

JB's line pic 1 compared with usual line pic 2

If you look at the track Button is clearly on the dry line. It was a racing incident, Hamilton went for a gap that was rapidly closing as Button probably couldn't see behind him properly, move on people.

[jonny142]

Whats with the hard rubbing on that lotus wing ?

[BBS-LM]

[E21_Ross]

just out of question, why do they use wood on the floor of the cars, and not something like carbon fibre?

st "race" so far huh!!

[anonymous-user]

Dave200 said:

Rewatch it. You will notice two things which completely contradict your ramblings:
1. He wasn't "20mm" from the wall.
2. He was on the dry line.

My point was he was further over than before. Whatever, I can't change your mind so I'm done talking about it.

[PowerStation]

Would fking love to see some of the armchair experts drive an F1 car in these conditions.

[skener]

Night Runner said:

I predict Kobayashi doing one of two things:

1- Getting a podium.

2- Causing a huuuuge crash while banzai-ing a corner.


Hope its #1

number 2 then DiResta for the win :P

[MonkeyHanger]

Mikey G said:

Why is there a mechanic frantically drying a rear wing?...

Obviously he doesn't like wet flaps.

[optimax sniffer]

Fernando off for an ice cream. ala kimi?

[Aused]

mp3manager said:

He seems to have given up his F1 career and only be interested in being 'the man' in front of his homies. MW should ban his homies and all other distractions from the garage.

+1 It's only a matter of time before they're shooting a rap video in his garage during a race, maybe Ham will do a cameo rap break over the radio