F1 Fanatic

Loved the COTD. A lot of the criticism of Lewis makes me uncomfortable because it seems racial in nature. Note I didn’t say racist, and I’m not claiming people who don’t like him are racist, but as the COTD […]

Interesting… I live c. An hour from Le Mans, so it has definitely crossed my mind to go (problem is more finding someone amongst my friends to go with me). I don’t follow anything except F1, but I’ve heard great […]

Well, I got pole right… Otherwise fairly dire performance!

I didn’t think he sounded like a little girl at all, I thought he sounded completely contemptuous of Webber, and probably dislike that more than him actually going for the win in the end.

Going to one driver per team doesn’t make sense in light of cost-cutting initiatives.

One thing that might work in seb’s favour is that everyone in Red Bull has said the agreement applied to the running order after the last pit stops. Given how close together they came out, I could see why Seb […]

@optimaximal thanks, yeah I think I listened to that, but I can’t remember the details! Presumably linked to in a way that requires the mechanic to physically trigger the light, right (I.e. not automatically […]

Yeah, just watched it again, the gun is still on the tyre when Jenson is dropped and takes off. So it could only be that guy’s fault if he simultaneously hit a button on the gun or something? I’m not quite sure […]

Yeah, that’s what it looked like to me too, that they dropped the rear first. I think they have the lights though, so maybe it was that he accidentally hit his button saying he was done or whatever, rather than […]

Plus, while I don’t have any more insight into intra-team dynamics than anyone else here,I’m constantly reading that Jenson really made McLaren his own, not just this year, but for at least the previous season. […]

@hellotraverse @david-a – I’m not saying there’s an exact correspondence between the situations with either the car or Lewis and Jenson’s skill levels. I just don’t think it’s fair, especially at this stage of the […]

That’s not really fair – look at 2009.

@red-andy Blamed McLaren instead (for Webber, who usually starts so well…)

Thanks for that, although I’m up late with a cold and almost coughed up a lung at a few of the lines (especially Grosjean resembling a rural simpleton and the line about Ricciardo never stopping smiling)!

FWIW (and not to detract from your puns), I laughed more at the admission of defeat over Rosberg-related wordplay than the rest :)

@prisoner-monkeys I commented above before reading this, but I totally agree.

I don’t feel they spend *that* much time on it (BBC/Sky). I’m firmly of the view that the more you know about F1,the more you can appreciate it’s not just “cars going round and round”. No, you don’t need to […]

I reluctantly concur…