F1 - yawn

[ewenm]

Oh look, all the overtaking is in the pitstops again. Dull, dull, dull.

[ewenm]

And things only happen when the adverts are on

[FourWheelDrift]

Don't watch it then.

[ewenm]

I live in hope that they will actually race though. I appreciate that it's a team event but I'm looking forward to when the drivers have more to do - hopefully it'll come.

[FourWheelDrift]

PS.....if you have Motors TV it's live BTCC from Silverstone today, 3rd race coming up at 4pm I think.

[ewenm]

Yes, been flicking back and forth. Cheers.

[Raify]

Fell asleep after 5th corner of first lap.

Did I miss anything?

[pikey]

Just watched the lot - first time watching an F1 in ages... very disappointing viewing. Even the commentators / team managers were saying it's impossible to pass anywhere but in the pits.

Hello? Have they completely missed the point of a race? F1 racing now seems to be little more than pit strategy.

;(

[Andy mac]

I have been a fan of F1 since the very early 90's, and it is getting worse. The problem is that they seem to be at odd with what to do to liven it up. The BTCC on the other hand is fantastic, and I watched that instead... Maybe the ballast idea would work??
Huff is becoming a bit of a star..watched him in the seat championship on bravo, and he is doing his stuff in btcc... very aggressive, and very talented... Hope he gets another drive at the end of the season.

[tvrforever]

Howvere it did include the funny interview quote of the year so far for me...

With the King of Spain asking Martin Brundle for his phone number....

How good must Mr Brundle feel? - quality....

[trackdemon]

ewenm said:

Oh look, all the overtaking is in the pitstops again. Dull, dull, dull.

OOOooohh dear, thats brave! Certain types on here will lambast you for expressing such views Pwig?

Unfortunately I suspect you are 100% correct - even listening to it on the radio was dull FFS!

[miniman]

It's difficult to get excited about it with James "Pit Strategy" Allen droning on the whole time. What a boring git he really is.

So, Schumacher has a problem and Ruebens gets both a dodgy pit stop ("forgot to bring the tyres out") and then just slows down. Dull dull dull.

[Frik]

miniman said:

It's difficult to get excited about it with James "Pit Strategy" Allen droning on the whole time. What a boring git he really is.

And talking bollox as usual: "Button's slow qualifier left the goal wide open for Schumacher, literally".

I'm sorry but I appear to have missed the mid-qualifying penalty shoot-out. Is this one of Bernie's idea to make it more interesting?

[D-Angle]

tvrforever said:

Howvere it did include the funny interview quote of the year so far for me... With the King of Spain asking Martin Brundle for his phone number....

One of the best commentator gaffs in the pits, when it took two chaps to get the fuel nozzle off the car:
"And you will have seen the mechanic pulling the fuel man off..."

[FunkyNige]

D-Angle said:

One of the best commentator gaffs in the pits, when it took two chaps to get the fuel nozzle off the car: "And you will have seen the mechanic pulling the fuel man off..."

Or in the qualifying - Schumacher ran wide at a corner and Martin B said "Did that affect his lap time? [split time comes up] Did it f-"

[JonRB]

Don't know which is more boring - the race or the inevitable discussion about it on PH afterwards ("It's crap", "no it isn't", etc., etc.)

[Andy mac]

So..you are in a discussion forum, in a section called Motorsport... This particular discussion revolved around how crap F1 has become... you can participate, or visit another section... I would imagine the topic title would give away the topic content, so its at this point you have to make that little choice as to whether to click it or not... If you do not agree, or these discussions bore you, then feel free to bugger off to another section of the forum that you do like... Goodbye....

[JonRB]

Andy mac said:

So..you are in a discussion forum, in a section called Motorsport... This particular discussion revolved around how crap F1 has become... you can participate, or visit another section... I would imagine the topic title would give away the topic content, so its at this point you have to make that little choice as to whether to click it or not... If you do not agree, or these discussions bore you, then feel free to bugger off to another section of the forum that you do like... Goodbye....

Yes, but we have this same topic every other bloody week.
Honestly, we may as well just post a new thread after every Grand Prix saying "please see the last GP thread" and have a moderator lock it and save Ted some filestore and bandwidth.

Do you actually have anything new to bring to the discussion or is it just going to be the same old broken record about how crap F1 is?

You say "feel free to bugger off to another section of the forum that you do like", so I say to you "feel free to bugger off to another form of motorsport that you do like".

[ewenm]

OK, so instead of being generic, I'll be specific. The track at Barcelona is not conducive to overtaking - all the teams admitted this. So what other tracks are there in Spain that would allow races to be won and lost on the track, not in the pits?

[Andy mac]

JonRB said:

You say "feel free to bugger off to another section of the forum that you do like", so I say to you "feel free to bugger off to another form of motorsport that you do like".

Erm... i did... hence my post about Huffy in the BTCC, which was an exciting race(s). You are aware I presume that watching more than one motorsport is allowed.