[Closed] The new F1 season is upon us

Massa for sure

one sure
two sure
three sure
for sure

Typical celebrities shite for sure. 😆

It'll be interesting to see how the Mercs go with their next gen F duct before the rest do a catch up on it

I just pleased Kimi's back

anyone get sky just for F1? looked at it briefly but flinched at the £.

Ended up getting my dads sky id to watch on ipad 😉

I just pleased Kimi's back

+1

I loved his interview on Top Beer the other day, he gets a bad press for being boring but he's anything but!
On racing snowmobiles in the off season- 'I didnt really ask' and ' Its only a scar, i broke my wrist a little bit' 😆

I got Sky TV already and the F1 channel is free to Sky customers (you dont have to have Sky Football... sorry Sky Sports). So far it is mega in depth and you could bore yourself all day taking in facts, but on the whole im impressed- looks good once the racing starts and you'll be able to see practice, qualifying, everything! And GP2 and 3....

Vettel + good car = Vettel win

Vettel + bad car + Hamilton having his head screwed on = Hamilton win

Vettel + bad car + Hamilton losing the plot/bad car = Alonso win

All the above screwing up = Button win

The best driver in the team with the best car wins
As we know who the best driver is personally I cant wait to see who made the best car this year

I just want to find someone who will buy me Sky HD so i can watch it, otherwise its going to be a case of reading about the races on Planet F1.

It's all a bit close this year isn't it? Still reckon the red bulls are ahead by a (big ugly broken) nose though

TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR - Member

Vettel + good car = Vettel win

Vettel + bad car + Hamilton having his head screwed on = Hamilton win

Vettel + bad car + Hamilton losing the plot/bad car = Alonso win

All the above screwing up = Button win

this is probably the best punditory i've read, concise and to the point. you should be on the telly!

how to watch without sky?

Cheap satellite system
RTL German coverage
R5 live for the commentary

anyone get sky just for F1? looked at it briefly but flinched at the £.

Sort of, I refused to pay the money they wanted but my daughters surprised me yesterday by buying it for me 🙂

BBC for the highlights. Or BBC website for the race in 60 seconds which is about as much as I can do of this dreary durge these days.

so BBC will still be doing the race in 7mins in the iplayer?

I'm in KL next week for the race, so am super excited, for sure.

🙂

Not many people that I know get excited by a weekend in Kings Lynn. 😉

It's a great place to watch the race from. Less humid than Kuala Lumpur too

😉

A pilgrimage to the birthplace of the great Martin Brundle - what a true fan you are!

Was thinking that Sky HD coverage would make a better highlights show, what with super slow mo etc etc, not sure how it will be live.

There's a lot of red button stuff that I need to play with

Webber has a headcam this weekend that's giving an interesting perspective

That Ferrari and the Sauber are pig ugly beasts this year
The new nose height regs have't helped with design options but jeez, they need a bag over them

so BBC will still be doing the race in 7mins in the iplayer?

The BBC will have 2hrs of race highlight on Sunday and an hour of qualifying highlights on Saturday.

wouldnt it be a nice surprise if something like Force India walked away with it this year 🙂

Rain and first race in the new cars should be exciting.

RTL+R5L for me at 6am for sure! cost me 60quid in total for all the freesat channels too - bargain, oh yeah inc. a PVR recordable HD reciever! (B&Q half price kit and then bought extra LNB of ebay!)

I have sky f1 on virgin media, came free as have all the sports channels.

Only watched the first f1 programme and must say I was under whelmed. I have recorded practice so will watch it later

eArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR - Member
Vettel + good car = Vettel win

Vettel + bad car + Hamilton having his head screwed on = Hamilton win

Vettel + bad car + Hamilton losing the plot/bad car = Alonso win

All the above screwing up = Button win

😀

Probably not far off but I'd just say whoever of Vettel, Hamilton or Alonso has the best car will win.

BUT if McL, RB and Ferrari all had matched cars, so that it was a season like two years ago, I'd say that Button should be added to the list. Not always the quickest driver but one of the smartest IMO and with the new Pirelli tyres being much closer this year, tactics could play a larger role if the cars are closely matched.

Of course, you never know if Mercedes might be consistently up there (can't see it myself) or even that [s]Renault[/s]Lotus might be in the mix at times. Wishful thinking probably 🙂

Of course, you never know if Mercedes might be consistently up there (can't see it myself)

They look very fast indeed in practice

which was why I wrote 'consistently'. The general buzz is that their clever f-duct/DRS solution will be of major benefit in qualifying where you can use it at will but less so in the race (since you can only use it in the DRS zone once or twice a lap and only if you have a car in front) so they may well spend races going backwards from where they qualify. Plus other teams will replicate the solution soon enough (and even improve it - by all accounts Renault's F-duct was better than McL's by the end of the season it was introduced).

Guess we'll find out soon enough.

Vettel for the wc, imo. Mainly cos button and Hamilton will take to many points off each other

Vettel + good car = Vettel win

Vettel + bad car + Hamilton having his head screwed on = Hamilton win

Vettel + bad car + Hamilton losing the plot/bad car = Alonso win

All the above screwing up = Button win

That sounds about right. Hamilton made some admissions about himself. He hasn't blamed the car or team this time. This to me says his head is screwed on. Only Sunday will tell but if he finishes first its his season.

Ferrari are going to be nowhere to be seen.

Mercedes as before.

Kimi will have one podium then get signed for Mercedes for 2013 😉

That scenario only really works if the McLs are the fastest. if McL and RB are matched for pace (and Webber doesn't get in on the act again) then it makes no real difference as they'll be taking points off eachother.

I got Sky TV already and the F1 channel is free to Sky customers (you dont have to have Sky Football... sorry Sky Sports).

Scratch that idea- now that the races are upon us, Sky makes you pay for it 👿 and as i really dont want to pay a fiver for Sky football/ sports then BBC it is. I dont mind waiting a few hours to see it for free 😆
Hard to see anyone beating Vettel this year, id love to see Jensen take another title though!

Ferrari are on the back burner because they obviously used Lego to model their new car with.

All I want to see is Alsono being stuffed over by Schumacher, but I doubt it'll happen somehow, which is a great shame. Would be good to see Schuey win again.

Would be good to see Schuey ****ing cheat again.

FTFY

Yes, Schuey has been a massive cheaty, cheaty, cheat-cheat but I still prefer him to Alonso. A friend who knows a couple of people within the Renault team reports that Alonso was a really nice guy to know right up until he won his first title, whereupon he retreated into his own anus and stayed there. His dummy spitting exploits at McLaren did him no favours either.

Schuey may well have won championships under dubious circumstances, but at least he didn't spit his dummy out regularly.

bruneep - Member

anyone get sky just for F1? looked at it briefly but flinched at the £.

Ended up getting my dads sky id to watch on ipad

I phoned up to get connected but then when I heard the prices 😯

cheeky gits

It's cheaper to watch it at the pub

I'm away all weekend so I miss F1 in glorious HD and I also miss Milan-San Remo.

🙁

I'm not sure if Melbournes result will be a great predictor to the year ahead. Its different in character to most of the tracks that follow but it should give us an idea of which teams are struggling (Ferrari?) and which teams are punching above their weight (Force India, Lotus nee Renault).

As for Sky well I'm not paying any extra for it as I had Sky HD already, I'm not sure if I would have. They have an excellent commentary / punditry team but they have a tough act to follow the Beebs coverage was excellent in its final year. I hope they get the balance right between petrolhead geekiness (which i personally enjoy) and making it interesting enough for the more casual viewer without dumbing it down too much

anybody know if there will be any, ahem, 'unofficial' broadcasts on the web anywhere?

otherwise I will watch it on the beeb

I'm not sure if Melbournes result will be a great predictor to the year ahead. Its different in character to most of the tracks that follow but it should give us an idea of which teams are struggling (Ferrari?) and which teams are punching above their weight (Force India, Lotus nee Renault).

As for Sky well I'm not paying any extra for it as I had Sky HD already, I'm not sure if I would have. They have an excellent commentary / punditry team but they have a tough act to follow the Beebs coverage was excellent in its final year. I hope they get the balance right between petrolhead geekiness (which i personally enjoy) and making it interesting enough for the more casual viewer without dumbing it down too much

So far on sky I've watched the initial F1 show ( as mentioned) and practice session one. Totally underwhelmed and so far those of you who haven't got it you're not missing much imo.

Yes, Hill, Brundel, Croft, Davidson are good but the rest of the presenters and program content is, well, meh.

I'll reserve full judgement until I've see the race coverage (won't be watching it live)

[url= http://www.crash.net/f1/results/177649/1/australian_gp_melbourne_-_friday_free_practice_combined_times.html ]Free Practice Friday Australia[/url]

This actually fills me with joy- Button fastest, Schumacher third fastest and 'feeling good' and Vettel 12th 😯

I know its 'only' practice but its encouraging seeing as its everyone first time out in anger 😀

Brundel, Croft, Davidson and Pinkham are good I've yet to hear Damon Hill say a great deal, is he just there for show?

Doesn't look good for Massa...over 2secs behind his team mate.

It's only practice, and I think Massa beached his car in the damp so missed some of the faster conditions. But what are the odds on Massa being replaced by Kubica before the year's out.

Brundel, Croft, Davidson and Pinkham are good I've yet to hear Damon Hill say a great deal, is he just there for show?

My only criticism of the presenting line up is the token "eye candy" that Sky seem to feel they need to tack on to there presenting line ups.

However if Georgie Thompson turns out to have been a devoted follower of F1 for years and the new Sky broadcast deal is her opportunity to demostrate her breadth of knowledge then I'll beg forgiveness.

I'm not really interested in who gets to be WC
I want to see races won by racing not managed pole to flag events, I want to see changeable conditions, incidents, controversy

last year we had Montreal, Silverstone, Spa, Monza, Suzuka, Shanghai and more

More of the same, I don't care who wins

My only criticism of the presenting line up is the token "eye candy"...

Some very archaic attitudes to women are deeply, deeply entrenched in F1...I can't be along in finding it cringeworthy.

Certainly some of the drivers' quips to female interviers don't come across well, would be nice if some female drivers had enough sponsorship support for race seats in F1, maybe we'd see a change in attitudes?

Some very archaic attitudes to women are deeply, deeply entrenched in F1...I can't be along in finding it cringeworthy.

Yeah the pit board babes are [i]just[/i] about tolerable. The phalanx of female flesh that lines the path to the podium at most races is a step too far.

Still its all part of the "glamour" of F1

The phalanx of female flesh that lines the path to the podium at most races is a step too far.

Just close your eyes for 2 minutes, I'll keep mine wide open 😀

Yeah the pit board babes are just about
tolerable. The phalanx of female flesh that lines
the path to the podium at most races is a step
too far.

I'd argue the other way round if ranking them but there you go.

For sure.....

As its Australian Danni and Kyle will be there being interveiwed with their norks hanging out.

Lost interest half way through last year,so unless it gets a bit more exciting this time I'll be giving it a miss........ 😕

Ah the corridor of clunge

Anybody up and watching?

Of Course!

Oh dear Kimi!

Good, thought I was on my own!

Alonso out now?

Sky go app fail, here 👿

If you can VPN to an Aussie server, you should be able to get it streaming here: http://tensport.com.au/motorsport-live-streaming.htm

Surprised they've not been fined for driving in the bike lane 😈

The Prancing Horse isn't prancing 🙂

watching on PC, listing to 5live, made the school boy mistake of putting the TV on to watch it on bbc1......ddddoooohhhh

Well that was exciting, Grosjean was a surprise

That'll do 🙂

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I have no idea why I dislike Ferarri so much, but this morning was lovely!

I have no idea why I dislike Ferarri so much, but this morning was lovely!

Ditto

I have no idea why I dislike Ferarri so much, but this morning was lovely!

I dislike them due to the fact they made F1 boring in the 80's/90's. Not their fault really, but it's why I dislike MS as well.

Good to see two Brits in British cars on pole. Hopefully they don't spank into each other on the first corner!

aghhhhhhh i want to watch, bloody bbc, they can come fish their license fee out of my an-s

Looks like Mercedes may be protested for infringing the regs 😆 Ross and Shitenacker up to their old tricks 😆

[i]I dislike them due to the fact they made F1 boring in the 80's/90's. Not their fault really, but it's why I dislike MS as well.[/i]

hmm, they were not great in the 80's or till the late 90's tbh!

well done to the mclarens - looks like they have built a very good car.

I dislike them due to the fact they made F1 boring in the 80's/90's.

Shirley you mean 2000-2005? They were very entertaining in the 80s and (at least) early 90s, breaking down every 5 minutes 😉

Now, I like my post. But then, I like mashiehood's post too...

But which one is better? There's only one way to find out...

I dislike them due to the fact they made F1 boring in the 80's/90's. Not their fault really, but it's why I dislike MS as well

?

The 80's & 90's were (generally) dominated by Williams & McLaren

Before 2000 Ferrari hadnt won a championship since 1979, IIRC

Edit: far to slow

Indeed. Wrong decade but the reasoning still stands.

I think for me the schadenfreude surrounding Ferrari probably more stems from their apparent belief that F1 wouldn't exist (or at least be popular) anymore if it were not for them...

[i]I think for me the schadenfreude surrounding Ferrari probably more stems from their apparent belief that F1 wouldn't exist (or at least be popular) anymore if it were not for them...[/i]

and i think there is an element of truth in that, Formula 1 and Ferrari co-exist, i think Formula 1 would be poorer without Ferrari and Ferrari would be hurt by not being in F1.

I'm rather excited about Grosjean, a fellow cyclist

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When it was announced sky had the tv rights, i said to myself no way will i pay to watch a sport i love, but have found myself up early this morning and looking like a lost dog with no F1 to watch.....

Paying for Sky must be akin to announcing you love riding a road bike on here and feel really happy in lycra.....