*** The official Formula One 2015-16 off season thread ***

[CraigyMc]

Adam Ansel said:

CraigyMc said:

I've not heard that of him before. Elaborate?

Everything that goes well in the team he takes credit for. Everything that goes badly he blames on others.
All the time.

As far as I'm concerned, he's not unique in doing that, but I at least understand what you're talking about now.

[MissChief]

Can anyone set a series link on the F1 on Sky? On first and second practice I'm only getting the option for record once? I haven't tried the actual race yet. I have SkyQ if that makes a difference.

[numtumfutunch]

MissChief said:

Can anyone set a series link on the F1 on Sky? On first and second practice I'm only getting the option for record once? I haven't tried the actual race yet. I have SkyQ if that makes a difference.

Normal plain vanilla Sky here and I gave up on series linking F1 at the first attempt

It links easily enough but then proceeds to record every single show from the whole F1 weekend, absolutely the works
Now I just record qualy and the race - as long as I remember........

[RobGT81]

Sounds like Hamilton lost at the casino!

[Munter]

I wonder if he just had a "Do you know who I am? Nah mate, and take your pissy attitude outside" moment.

[jammy_basturd]

He's also just given them a huge amount of advertising!

[Leroy902]

jammy_basturd said:

He's also just given them a huge amount of advertising!

They say all publicity is good publicity, but I'd make an exception here, I don't think the advertisement will do them any favours.

[Vocal Minority]

Honestly - I don't think it will make much difference either way.

[HTP99]

He was probably dressed like Huggy Bear and was laughed out of the establishment; these Kiwi's just don't understand fashion!

[gibbon]

Would make me more likely to go there.

[Otispunkmeyer]

gibbon said:

Would make me more likely to go there.

Indeed, exactly the same as Bieber and Sankey's was it? Tosspot Biebs used the good old do you know who I am spiel and was roundly put down by a manc bouncer with "I don't care who you are mate, you look like a gimp" (I hope thats what he said anyway). Sankey's later tweeted that they had indeed refused Bieber because "He shuffles on stage and they can't be having that in Sankey's".

Top stuff.

Edited by Otispunkmeyer on Monday 14th March 17:00

Edited by Otispunkmeyer on Monday 14th March 17:03

[DanielSan]

Munter said:

I wonder if he just had a "Do you know who I am? Nah mate, and take your pissy attitude outside" moment.

That doesn't seem an unlikely scenario.

[pits]

Just their border security working well then if they stopped him and Beiber get in
https://youtu.be/isC32ev4Lw4

[CraigyMc]

Rather a lot of anti-Hamilton sentiment on here.

Have any of the posters on here met him?

[Leithen]

CraigyMc said:

Rather a lot of anti-Hamilton sentiment on here.

Have any of the posters on here met him?

Don't be so silly. This is an internet forum. Any personal interaction with the subject of character assassination would be entirely inappropriate.

[Munter]

CraigyMc said:

Rather a lot of anti-Hamilton sentiment on here.

Have any of the posters on here met him?

Yes. Briefly. He congratulated me on 3rd place, shook my hand, and vanished as fast as practically possible within the bounds of his promotional contract.

[ClockworkCupcake]

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm feeling pretty much no excitement for this weekend's race, or the season in general. Which is odd as I've been a F1 fan for around 28 years and seldom miss a race.

[suffolk009]

^^^ Yup. F1 specific anhedonia.

[McAndy]

There are enough unknowns to keep me interested in the first race. I usually find enough unpredictability until the European circuits are visited to keep me entertained.

[ClockworkCupcake]

McAndy said:

There are enough unknowns to keep me interested in the first race. I usually find enough unpredictability until the European circuits are visited to keep me entertained.

Well, that's the thing; usually I am exactly the same. It's just for some reason I'm not feeling it.

In fact, yesterday it was a case of "oh! Is this the first race of the season this weekend? I guess I'd better watch that then" which is rather atypical for me. Normally I'd be counting down the weeks then days.