Formula One Freaks-this is it!

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  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,970
    Someday we'll go all the way (Ferrari)!... :smiley:
    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1&2 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / New Orleans 2025
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    This is from the post-race press conf:

    Q: (Ian Parkes – PA) Question to both Lewis and Nico. We’ve seen dominance in qualifying, dominance in the race today. Is this it for the season? A two-horse race between you two for the title or can you envisage any of your rivals making in-roads into your supremacy?
    LH: I think Nico was just explaining… I didn’t know, I didn’t see the times or anything but I think the Ferraris have taken a huge step forward. It’s clear they’ve made one of the biggest steps. So we definitely cannot back off because I’m sure they’re going to be pushing. And I anticipate we might have a good fight with them at some stage this year…

    Q: Nico?
    NR: I hope we can have a good fight. That would be awesome. I think the next couple of races we’re going to be leading the way for sure, and we’re going to try and keep it that way, but we know it would be good if they can come a bit closer, as long as they don’t come too close…
    SV: Be honest. Do you really hope so? Seriously? You finished 30 seconds ahead of us and you hope it’s going to be closer? So you hope you slow down? Is that what you’re saying?
    NR: I hope that you can give us a challenge! Because it’s important for the sport and for the fans. And I do think about the show. Half of me – or a part of me – thinks about the show because I want to give people a great time at home watching on TV or at the track. If you do come a bit closer, that would be awesome for everybody.
    SV: First suggestion, if you don’t mind, I think your garage becomes public for Malaysia and everyone can have a look. No? I’m joking.
    NR: You can come if you want, we can invite you…
    SV: OK, thank you for the invite, I’ll come.
    NR: Friday Malaysia, OK.
    SV: Engineers’ room? Debrief, I’ll be there.



    Q: (Vincent Marre – All Race Motorsport) Sebastian, among the races to come, which one do you feel will be the one that is easier for you, for Ferrari to catch up to the Mercedes? I think Malaysia will be difficult but what about Bahrain or Shanghai?
    SV: Easy, for us? I think if you look at the gap, nowhere is going to be easy. I think we have to focus on ourselves, make sure that what we learned this weekend we’re able to take into the next races. The most important thing now is that if we finish – we did finish right behind Mercedes today. We need to confirm that in the next race, that’s the priority number one, so we need to make sure that I was not just a one-off. We improve reliability. As I said, Kimi didn’t finish, which is a shame. We could have scored a lot more points today.
    NR: ... that you find it a shame that your teammate didn’t finish?
    SV: Yes. I don’t know how much you like each other but Kimi and myself we get along, so I think it is a shame.
    NR: I thought as a racing driver you might like it that you have a couple of points advantage over him now. I don’t want to get you off the foot there, sorry. Oops. Look at him, look at him go...
    SV: I can see your point. No, no. I can see that at the moment, where we are, we want to make sure we catch you guys and to do that we both need to score. Yes, I honestly think so and I honestly didn’t want to see the second car not finishing today.
    NR: Because I’m ready for it now, you caught me a bit off guard before but now I’m ready for it!
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,970
    What are they 15yos? :smile:
    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1&2 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / New Orleans 2025
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    I thought it was good to see some humour injected into the otherwise scripted responses :)
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,970
    "black" humour? :smile:
    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1&2 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / New Orleans 2025
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    edited March 2015
    I wouldn't say so. Just good natured ribbing.
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,134
    Its a long season blow. How far the mighty red bull have fallen.
  • Austicman
    Austicman Posts: 1,328
    Looks like no German GP. Bernie has said The Nurburgring want to much to stage it and Hockenhim reckon time has run out to step up and organise it.
    I can't go the library anymore, everyone STINKS!!
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    Good dig by Bob Fernley, of Force India, on Christian Horner and RBR.
    planetf1.com/driver/55667788/38044/Fernley-has-no-sympathy-for-Horner

    The German GP issue has been dragged over the coals since the 2014 race. It's a shame if there's no race, it's been a staple on the calender for a while.
  • eddiec
    eddiec Posts: 3,959
    Alonso must be in agony.
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    I dunno about Alonso, but that was awesome!
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,970
    Ferrari is back!
    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1&2 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / New Orleans 2025
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    Pap said:

    Ferrari is back!

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    Great drive from Kimi too, what rotten luck. Obviously conditions favoured Ferrari (hereafter referred to as "us" in true fan fashion) but it was great to see a victory against Merc without reliability being the reason why. And more importantly, 3 DNFs made this race so much better than the amateur-feel opener in Australia.
  • Austicman
    Austicman Posts: 1,328
    Cracking race! Great to see a competitive happy Seb so early in the year. RBR disappointing. The brake dust that was coming off them was horrifying. I cringed every time I saw it waiting for an ugly accident when they finally disintegrated.

    All in all though just an awesome race and result.
    I can't go the library anymore, everyone STINKS!!
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    That brake dust was coming off really early in the race too. They did well to manage it the whole race.

    I thought Alonso was going to score some points for the rivals but no such luck. Those boys have some work to do!
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,134
    Great race! Good to see a challenge to Mercedes. Honda has a long way to go, for sure.
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    Probably back to normal if the conditions in China are as expected, but it would be nice to see Merc not have it all their way the entire season.

    RBR and Renault are really at each other's throats.
  • eddiec
    eddiec Posts: 3,959
    I can't watch any interviews with Hamilton. The guy wears diamond earrings. And they're not even manly, they're like chick earrings. Now I keep focusing on these things and how ridiculous they look. I can almost deal with the arm length tattoos that pro athletes tend to have now but chick earrings? C'mon now.
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    So based on long-runs in free practice it looks like we may have a race on Sunday. Here's for hoping!
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    eddiec said:

    I can't watch any interviews with Hamilton. The guy wears diamond earrings. And they're not even manly, they're like chick earrings. Now I keep focusing on these things and how ridiculous they look. I can almost deal with the arm length tattoos that pro athletes tend to have now but chick earrings? C'mon now.

    Add some gold bling to that list haha!
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