F1 - 2011

I've been in that same camp ever since Seb made his appearance on TG and converted me into a fan. I was impressed with his demeanor, level of humility for an F1 star, and ability to laugh at himself (not to mention his prowess out on the TG track).

I considered picking up some official F1 Red Bull - Seb bling but damn, that stuff is pricy...

 

You ain't kidding. The wife been asking for some of that bling, also. I looked at the prices and straight up told her I don't love her that much. :cryin:

 

Hey I'm watching with amazement at the level Seb and Red Bull are playing at, hats off to them!!

 

I like how back in the day (not so far back, actually) steering wheels where actually wheel shaped.

 

And also how he keeps playing with some stick off to the right of the wheel, even when changing gear - so he must have had both an 'up' and a 'down' paddle shifter behind the left side of the wheel, eh? ut:

 

And he won that race too, even after being stopped that long, getting back to the pits to get another wing, and carrying on!

Then they took it away from him for going thru those barriers instead of turning around and re-entering the track where he'd gone off. Never mind that he would have been trying to enter the race against the flow of traffic and so on....

If you haven't seen the Senna movie that's out right now, find a way to do so....

Angib, the lever he's moving is either a brake bias or roll bar adjustment.....

And the reason so many modern cars can't make it back to the pits is that the wing gets caught under the bottom of the car, lifting the front end off the ground - then they simply have no steering or brakes.

 

I was attempting to joke - it's the gearshift.

Back then, it wasn't unknown for the driver to get a blister in his palm from changing gear at Monaco - with the seven-speed boxes they use today, a Monaco race requires 4300 gearchanges, so maybe in Senna's day with only six speeds that would have been only 3700 - an average of about one change every two seconds for two hours.

When I was a kid, they always told you to change hands at 100.... :blush2:

 

that whole video just sounded awesome..... ludicrous volume was a treat to the ears....

 

Just wow, thanks for the link!!!

....now tell me again how all today's electronic Nannies has improved the sport?

 

Clear as mud..

Why wouldn't they just fall back to the best time completed in qualifying and if a driver didn't have one, they would start from the pit lane?

 

It's interesting this year how starting from the back, or very low down the grid, doesn't seem to be a bad strategy as long as the driver has loads of new tyres left to use as a result.

It's a very un-racer-like thought but in some cases - and the high-wear Suzuka track may be one of them - it might even be a good points-scoring strategy.

"No, honestly, we really did have a hydraulics problem. Rosberg isn't a good enough actor for his storming-off tantrum not to be real", Ross Brawn didn't say.

 

As Vettel shoved Button almost off the track at the start of this Grand Price, Seb proved himself human after all, when he succumbed to one of the oldest of human weaknesses, greed. But after realizing the tires would wear much too quickly in any effort to outpace the very fast Button he settled comfortably into P3 for a front row seat, watching Button win the race with Alonso close behind. The podium finish was more than enough to secure a well deserved, second in a row F1 diver's championship for team Red Bull and the young Sebastian Vettel!

It was a bit astonishing after the race to see competitors such as Alonso and Button to be so resigned in their rolls, racing for second... Do they have something up their sleeve for next year, something that will end the domination?

It was a good race on a very nice circuit, the type of circuit others should build instead of the newer painted parking lots...

Congratulations to Red Bull and Vettel for winning the 2011 F1 world championship, well done!!

...and congratulations to Jenson Button for winning in Japan!!

 

It's interesting how the Big Macs have been improving all year, to the point that they're practically on par now with the RB's, but is it too little, too late? Or can they wrest the constructor's championship away from RB still?

 

The RB's would have to pretty much score nothing the rest of the season for the McLaren team to even have a shot. Currently RB has 518 points with the McLaren at 388.

I've not done the math but with 25 points for 1st and 18 for second if Button and Hamilton can fininsh 1-2 in the next few races with total failures by both Vettel and Webber then the McLarens can win.

But whats the chance that Seb and Mark will fail to finish in the points that many times in the next 4 races.

 

.......a very long shot indeed.