Formula One 2018 - General Thread

[Deleted member 113659]

If it is OK for you.

I know someone who became an Olympian swimmer, they were up at dawn each day for training from an early age and they would never have time to kick a football but they certainly did not come from a privileged background.I just do not see how it is any sort of useful point of reference.

I last kicked a ball aged around 10 as we did not play Football at school but for reasons lost in time we did just the once, The ball came to me whilst in our half so not knowing what I should do I hoofed it away and watched it sail over the opposition and land in the goal!

Point taken. However, if you’d have seen how bad some of them were maybe you’d understand my point.

Anyhow, apologies on my choice of wording. ‘My Bad’ as Da kidz say.

 

[Deleted member 113659]

Ooh err missus

You got a one track mind. (See what I did there? )

 

[DSM10000]

Point taken. However, if you’d have seen how bad some of them were maybe you’d understand my point.

Anyhow, apologies on my choice of wording. ‘My Bad’ as Da kidz say.

My kicking skills with a ball of any shape are virtually non existent My main role in Rugby was to provide brute force and ignorance


!No, please no, anything but that moronic Americanised way of apology

 

[moonloops]

You got a one track mind. (See what I did there? )

Silverbone

 

[moonloops]

You got a one track mind. (See what I did there? )

The Rascasse corner @ Monaco ?

 

[moonloops]

You got a one track mind. (See what I did there? )

The corkscrew at Laguna Seca ?

 

[Deleted member 113659]

The Rascasse corner @ Monaco ?

Getting a little tenuous now. Maybe quit while you’re P1

 

[Deleted member 131833]

So LH is on pole for the sixth year running at Silverstone and BBC news do not even report it

 

[artyman]

We have saturation coverage of Football, so no room for other sports, nothing about the Round The Island Race either!

I expect Lewis is a bit worried with two Ferrari's right behind him with his wingman a place behind, lets hope VB makes a flyer of a start to provide support

 

[WDB124066]

The lefties in the media don't like Motorsport so you will see a decline in mainstream reporting. It goes hand in hand with no more pit girls unfortunately.

Football is OK because they are spunky guys running around getting fit in front of the cameras. They like looking at that stuff, bit like volleyball is appreciated by men. I wonder if that will be next on the radar?

 

[Mactech]

I must be one of the last people in Britain to hear the results the football or Silverstone Quali
Yesterday spent helping my son at a Flattrack meeting in deepest Lincs. Racing did not finish until sunset. Then it was a long dash back home in the sanctuary of my helmet and earplugs, just failing to avoid turning into a pumpkin (!) An unscheduled pitstop to clean a fly coated visor meant it was after midnight.
So I knew neither result until today....but sounds like a close call at Silverstone!

 

[grober]

Interesting that Toto Wolfe chose to criticise Bottas for failing to beat the Ferraris rather than praise LH.

I can only assume this came from monitoring Bottas' car telemetry which may have indicated he was driving "conservatively" in comparison to Lewis in virtually the same car. With Ferrari now 10 points ahead in the constructors championship after last weeks 2 DNFs this brings the performance/grid position of Mercedes second car into sharper focus. Bottas performance is a personal reflection on Toto Wolff since Bottas is "his man" whom he introduced to both Williams and Mercedes F1 teams- I would offer that under the circumstances if he personally felt a bit "let down" he would be more entitled to comment than most?

 

[Deleted member 65149]

It was a flippant remark referring to the fact that many (not all) F1 drivers spent the majority of their childhood racing Karts and so less likely to be on a field kicking a ball around with their mates.

For example one of the drivers said he hadn’t kicked a football since he was 5-6 years old.

Is that ok?

Not wanting to get into an argument about this, but the only karting I did as a child was on home made death traps that we dragged to the top of hills and steered with string as we hurtled down. But I never kicked a football around with my mates nor with my dad nor with any of my six siblings. So despite living in a rented house and my parents being unable to afford a car, I must have been posh because we played cricket in the garden. The stumps painted on the coal shed wall were clearly a sign of affluence. But yes, compared to the millions of kids on the Indian subcontinent who play cricket every day on dusty unkempt ground before heading back to their genuinely poor families, we were posh.

 

[Mactech]

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[Deletedmember130310]

I can only assume this came from monitoring Bottas' car telemetry which may have indicated he was driving "conservatively" in comparison to Lewis in virtually the same car. With Ferrari now 10 points ahead in the constructors championship after last weeks 2 DNFs this brings the performance/grid position of Mercedes second car into sharper focus. Bottas performance is a personal reflection on Toto Wolff since Bottas is "his man" whom he introduced to both Williams and Mercedes F1 teams- I would offer that under the circumstances if he personally felt a bit "let down" he would be more entitled to comment than most?

I think it is becoming increasingly clear that MB want Bottas out at the end of the season...

 

[bob6600]

So LH is on pole for the sixth year running at Silverstone and BBC news do not even report it

I think he has 6 poles here but not consecutive

 

[Deleted member 131833]

I think he has 6 poles here but not consecutive

Yup, I got it wrong, 6 poles, 4 consecutively must have misread

 

[Deleted member 113659]

That was fab.

 

[Neiltodd]

Was an awful lot of whinging from Hamilton again during it!

 

[Deleted member 113659]

Was an awful lot of whinging from Hamilton again during it!

Aye. Shame Lewis didn’t want to talk to Martin in front of the fans.

Wonder if he’d have chatted if he’d won?