Motors The Bit-Tech Formula 1 2014 Thread - Season Complete

Now that was a Race.

 

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I'd understand all of Rosbergs moaning to let Hamilton past if he was right on Hamiltons arse, but he never got close enough to try an overtake anyway.

 

Stunning.

Completely agree with Hamilton's decision not to move over for Rosberg. With the threat of rain and doubts about the longevity of his tyres, I wouldn't compromise my race either.

 

Rosberg was never close enough to even attempt a pass. When he asked him to move over he was 1.6 seconds behind thats alot of time to give up just to let your team m8 passed. First time you have really heard Nico whine about something was funny to here.

If Merc had pitted Rosberg 2-3 laps earlier he probably would of won the race anyway such was his pace advantage over the field.

Vettal and bottas both got caught out badly by the safety car in some respect but Vettal also got super lucky later in the race to still be racing as he was inches from that barrier.

Was one of the better races of the season so far and nice to see Alonso get it on the podium. Still seems like F1 needs a safety car or something to make the race entertaining the Merc pace is crazy even in the wet.

 

Great race. Despite the grey clouds it was hot out there. Rosberg was never looked like he has the speed to overtake Hamilton let alone anyone else near the end. Great to see Ricciardo do well, also great to see Lewis have a great race from the pit lane!

I think Lewis took exactly the right approach - if Rosberg could get an overtake them fine, Lewis wouldn't crash into him. He certainly shouldn't have slowed down to let him pass though and I'm glad he didn't.

Shame to see that McLaren timed the pit stops badly otherwise Jenson could have had a good race! Still p10 isn't too bad for him these days.

Great race,great atmosphere at the track.

 

WOW! I am glad I watched that.

Between Lewis's charge up the field, Ricciardo's late (and great) moves, a Ferrari on the podium, and Rosberg being the loser this time around, I don't think this could have gone any better.

Not sure who's commentary we get here (all the races from the same guys, Coulthard is one of the commentators - i THINK it's BBC), but they had pitlane interviews when Lewis' message to move over (the second one) played.
Lewis apparently responded with "I won't slow down for Nico. If he tries to pass me, he can do that." Right call, and his result shows this.
As he also said afterwards: He's on a different strategy, but in the same race.

Dan is always great to see on the podium. The guy just seem so happy all the time.
Fernando looked and sounded happy as well.
Lewis seemed a bit ho-hum, but what with his team telling him to slow down - this is understandable. Essentially, he must feel that had he listened to his team, he would have lost further ground in the championship. Not a nice feeling, I'd imagine.

Another surprise was Checo holding up his hands and going "Yup - that was me screwing the pooch". I mean it would have been hard to blame anyone else for that, but still, I was surprised by that. And no - I don't like Checo, but this made him more likeable.

Edit: An observation I made were the empty stands... So much space there...

 

I agree that he was never quite close enough, but I'm pretty sure Rosberg was less than a second behind Hamilton when he was asking why he wasn't being let through (both times) - he dropped back to around 1.6 seconds after it became apparent he wasn't getting through, presumably to save his tyres.

Yep Coulthard is with the BBC F1 team - although, it wasn't live on the BBC - I watched the sky coverage online.

I didn't see Checo admit it was his fault - When he got out of the car and he put his hand up, I go the impression he was waving to the crowd or saying I'm OK. Unless I missed an interview somewhere.

I don't like Checo either - he's reckless and stupid. He looked impressive charging through the field a couple of seasons ago, when he had nothing to lose - but seemingly only did well because the other drivers would yield rather than wreck their race. He didn't change at McLaren and hasn't at Force India. I still don't like him, he's just a Pastor-Lite IMO.

Williams made a mess of their race. They both finished in the points, but they lost so much time changing to the harder compound, they must have lost more than a pit stop. McLaren made a hash of it too - you could hear JB's race engineer trying to convince him it was a good decision to go to inters. He actually lied to him, saying that the top four went to inters (unless I heard it wrong).

It was good to see Alonso get something for his troubles and Kimi looked like he cared for a change, and he put in a very good performance.

Vettel must be getting sick of Ricciardo outclassing him - he's 43 points behind him now.

 

0.8s is the closest he was. At the end of the DRS zone. Which means he was few car lengths behind. Which means Hamilton would have to slow down and lose about 3 or 4 seconds to let Rosberg pass him, to let his biggest competitor finish in front of him.

Yeah right, show me any driver doing that in his case.

 

0.7 was the closest iirc, not that it matters, he wasn't consistently close enough and Lewis was justified in his decision.

What driver is going to listen to team orders that will disadvantage him whilst fighting for the WDC?

 

It was in a pitlane interview where he admitted that. "100% my fault" I believe was the phrasing he used.

 

Pitlane interview for checo.

Merc have said this morning that they made the wrong call ordering Lewis out of the way. Was on there twitter account this morning.

They gonna have a sit down and change some aspects of there orginal rules it would seem.

 

From the BBC gossip column:

Yeah, Riiiight.

 

I see Bernie is looking to buy his way out of jail time:

BBC Link

Is anyone surprised?

 

So he's trying to pay a large sum of money to one of the parties in order to get out of a *bribery* case?

That's classic

 

I think the nico call to let him pass was trying to push lewis into a pit stop. they told nico that lewis was a pit stop ahead. lewis was on old tyres that he was nursing at the end, and nico was using new tyres to pressure him into stopping.
its all about mind games in Mercedes at the minute, the team wont sacrifice one driver to let the other win the championship, and both drivers will not let the other beat them, its going to end in tears

 

Albert Park, Melbourne to host Oz GP until at least 2020

 

Yep - $100,000,000 to make it go away . Must be nice to have money, assuming the poisonous little ****** gets away with it.

 

It would seem he is about to, the Germans aren't even calling it an admission of guilt so they can't even throw him out of F1.

Although, given that it's the pirahna club I'm sure you could quite easily spin this into a defacto admission of guilt. Nobody pays $100m to end a case they know they're going to win.

 

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