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OK....I must have missed this, but how are Ferrari and Mercedes able to get away w/o having the "probe" on the front of the car?

 

Just finished watching quali on dvr. It was awesome and some results were absolutely unexpected. Can't wait for the race!

 

Yep the turbos are back, and me thinks the sympathy for RB can now end.....

 

Ooops...bad Red Bull...[emoji33]

 

Nice race I enjoyed it. Haven't seen that many dnf's for a long time.

I think Williams may have a good year. Bottas had a great drive today & without his wall kissing he may well have been higher placed.

Loved seeing the so called lap dog of Vettal trounce him in quali & the race.

 

Wonder what would have happened if Jensen had caught up with Magnussen? Sounds like the team was preparing to let them both drive for the podium spot.

 

Anyone else notice that these wheels were not the ones that were actually in the car this weekend......

 

Well them's the rules, as stupid as they seem to us normal folks. I feel sorry for Ricciardo he drove a great race along with a stellar qauli. Not sorry for Red Bull, did they not read the stupid rules?

 

Not completely, but it's a primary component of my enjoyment of the sport. F1 engines should sound loud, nasty, and the start of the race should resemble the sound of a very large beehive, not the murmur of a bunch of elderly women playing bridge I'll take the factory sound of the 458 Italia any day over the muted sound of Ferrari's F14T. Couple that with the draconian fuel restrictions this year and i am so bummed.

The team actually told Magnussen to turn down the wick with 5 laps to go to ensure he would have adequate fuel to turn it back to full rich with 3 laps to go. He might have caught Ricardo and made a play for second if he kept his foot in it the entire time.

It's just not F1 racing to me anymore...the movie Rush, that is F1, IMO. The best drivers driving as fast as they can for the entire race with no artificial impediments to hold them back. I know F1 has been adding rules over the years that sanitizes the racing, sometimes to make it safer, sometimes for who knows what reason. And I know there must be progress and the good ole F1 days weren't without issues. I just think they went entirely too far in 2014.

I have been an ardent fan for 21 years(started watching the year before the greatest there ever was died in San Marino), and I just feel no excitement for this season. Sure I am going to watch, and I'm sure there will be some interesting developments especially with the driver and team results turned upside down, but it does not hold the interest that it always has for me. And it's the only form of racing I watch.

Three F1 friends of mine pinged me after it was over and all said the same thing...no need to spend the money for Austin this year....I agree.

 

Gotta disagree with you, friend. This race has got me stoked for the season.

 

Eloquently said!

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For myself, I would also add that I'm an unapologetic geek, and like the new tech, and the demands it places on the drivers. That my ancestral countryman Kevin Magnusssen was given instructions on fuel management and yet ended up somewhere (rules fiddling notwithstanding) on the podium is just fine with me.

Nikki Lauda played the numbers, he wasn't a balls to the wall driver, and yet we all respect him. As much as I admire James Hunt and the heroic men who preceded him, the scientific drivers who manage the most from their machines are closer to my heart. I'm in it for the technology. To think that a car can go 200 some miles on less than 40 some gallons of gas at 150+ miles per hour is just fantastic!

I get off on the tech. The minutia, the politics, and the arguing. This is my baseball. Raw power has its place, and I appreciate that too, but finesse wins my heart.

 

Or at least it looked like that, so that's what you assumed.

In the 'it was so good then' olden days, probably the majority of drivers were nursing car problems to the finish, like broken exhausts, but with no ship-to-shore radio, no-one knew until after the race.

And you need to look back to the previous turbo era to see really awful races, where an otherwise-slow car that accelerated quickly could hold up a train of faster cars for the whole race.

 

I agree with your comments on the changes adding some unpredictability to this season. I was totally expecting so see every Renault powered car spontaneously combust on the track based on all the comments coming from testing (at least the one I wanted to the most, basically did)!

I like the sound of the cars because I feel it lets you here more of what is going on with them. I can't remember who it was, but at one point you could actually hear someone locking their breaks up.

 

I remember Renualt's when they were sold here. Seems that heritage has made its way to the top level at F1.

I still will enjoy F1, but find some of the rules quite perplexing. Maybe they could have the cars play a cool V12 soundtrack while harvesting kinetic energy. They just don't sound very good to me. I do love the way the new rules are making the cars harder to drive. The cream will rise to the top as they say.