The Official Malaysian GP Thread 2012***SPOILERS***
Discussion
Eric Mc said:
Is this the BBC thread or the Sky thread? 
The spoilers bit indicates that it's the most up to date thread. Hence spoilers. If you wish to watch it some time later, then contribute later, or expect spoilers. It's really not that hard to grasp.
Football fans have been doing it for years, and correct me if I'm wrong, but that seems to do ok.
I think Hamilton will win followed by Vettle and JB
Mercedes seem to be the one lap wonders, and will fizzle out, Alonso will drag the donkey up mid table, and Kimi and Senna to score good points.
Both McLaren and Mercedes have good top speeds so they'll be favourites for pole. Merc have tyre life issues so their race pace will suffer while McLaren will dominate, and RBR will eventually surpass Merc for a podium. Lotus to be a hidden danger, as will be Alonso.
Q:
HAM
BUT
MSC
WEB
VET
ROS
R:
BUT
HAM
VET
WEB
RAI
ALO
Q:
HAM
BUT
MSC
WEB
VET
ROS
R:
BUT
HAM
VET
WEB
RAI
ALO
groomi said:
Could be a Merc on pole... 
could be a good call - but it doesn't look like they have totally overcome their tyre shreading tendancy from last year, so likely to fade in the race, leaving it a shootout between McLaren and Red Bull.Unknown quantity is Lotus- Grosjean didn't last long enough in Aus to see what pace he had on Sunday (and had a shocking start anyway) & although Kimi progressed through the field, doesn't indicate how he'd have done if he'd run at the front from the start.
Then there is the enigma of Ferrari......
_Batty_ said:
The spoilers bit indicates that it's the most up to date thread. Hence spoilers.
If you wish to watch it some time later, then contribute later, or expect spoilers. It's really not that hard to grasp.
Football fans have been doing it for years, and correct me if I'm wrong, but that seems to do ok.
I think Hamilton will win followed by Vettle and JB
Mercedes seem to be the one lap wonders, and will fizzle out, Alonso will drag the donkey up mid table, and Kimi and Senna to score good points.
I was joking (hence teh smiley).If you wish to watch it some time later, then contribute later, or expect spoilers. It's really not that hard to grasp.
Football fans have been doing it for years, and correct me if I'm wrong, but that seems to do ok.
I think Hamilton will win followed by Vettle and JB
Mercedes seem to be the one lap wonders, and will fizzle out, Alonso will drag the donkey up mid table, and Kimi and Senna to score good points.
After the experience of the Australian GP I can now see that my suggestion of seprarate threads a few days ago is not valid. The opportunity to watch the race live is tehre for everybody (for the moment anyway).
Life Saab Itch said:
Eric Mc said:
I was joking (hence teh smiley).
After the experience of the Australian GP I can now see that my suggestion of seprarate threads a few days ago is not valid. The opportunity to watch the race live is tehre for everybody (for the moment anyway).
Did you stream it Eric?After the experience of the Australian GP I can now see that my suggestion of seprarate threads a few days ago is not valid. The opportunity to watch the race live is tehre for everybody (for the moment anyway).
It seems that there are quite a few ways of being able to see the races live online. Whether they will all stay accessable in the UK remains to be seen.
I was reading a similar thread on another forum where an F1 enthusiast was casually chatting to a Sky represntative at one of those "sign-up" booths that you get in shopping centres. He asked the Sky rep how sales of the Sky F1 channel were going and the response he got from the rep was "Grim".
It remains to be seen if the channel works out for Sky although, in my opinion, whether it does or not is irrelevant. Murdoch is playing one of his "long games" here and I fully expect that this is a "toe in the water" move which will lead to a much bigger involvement with - perhaps even control of - F1 in its entirety.
DanDC5 said:
How will they be classing the sales of the channel though? If it's subscribers to just that channel then I can't see it having big numbers, but as a large portion of Sky customers already have Sports/HD or both there's only a few people left to subscribe to the it.
I am sure the short term business model rests on new customers coming to Sky rather than just offering an increased service to existing customers - especially if the offering of the new F1 service is given away for free to existing HD customers or at modest rates to non HD Sky customers.The long term business model may be very different with the organisation budgeting for serious losses now but massive profits through greater involvement in F1 later.
I think this one is going to be another Button victory. Hamilton never seem to go that well here and will use his tyres up a lot faster than Button. The Mercs will be fast in Quali and then fade in the race due to tire wear issues. I can't see Redbull being quick enough for the win. Renault could spring a surprise.
It will be an interesting race!
It will be an interesting race!
Eric Mc said:
I was joking (hence teh smiley).
After the experience of the Australian GP I can now see that my suggestion of seprarate threads a few days ago is not valid. The opportunity to watch the race live is tehre for everybody (for the moment anyway).
Apologies Eric After the experience of the Australian GP I can now see that my suggestion of seprarate threads a few days ago is not valid. The opportunity to watch the race live is tehre for everybody (for the moment anyway).
I would put decent odds on a Mercedes on pole.
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