Grand Prix Rejects

CarlosFerreira

van der Garde for the win, as soon as Canada. Get ready.

CarlosFerreira

This is where my strategy of not changing the drivers comes into its own. I just take the good with the bad (usually the bad. On the shin) and soldier on. One of my best scores ever, with Alonso and Button bringing home the bacon, and Hulkenberg and Bottas lost in no man's land.

CarlosFerreira

honorary mention to Bottas. Nothing against the nomination per se, but why is this? I can't recall seeing Bottas the entire race, to be honest. Bottas finished behind Maldonado and Hulkenberg, both of whom had penalties. Fair enough. It's just that I didn't even realise he was racing at any point. ...

CarlosFerreira

giraurd wrote:honorary mention to Bottas.

Nothing against the nomination per se, but why is this? I can't recall seeing Bottas the entire race, to be honest.

CarlosFerreira

CoopsII wrote:1 - Gutierrez. FINALLY displayed some potential with Fastest Lap.
2 - Charles Pic. In your face Marussia!

What he said. Yeah!

CarlosFerreira

Not much to choose after Mercedes, really. Honourable mention for Williams - the update cycle left them further behind than before.

CarlosFerreira

What happened to the Red Bulls? Either Vettel's car had something broken, or they set it up to protect the left rear tyre and ended up creating too much understeer. I don't think I saw Vettel hit a single apex in the couple of times we saw on-board shot of his race. Going by the messages that were ...

CarlosFerreira

Really nice race, with enough strategy variety and good competition all round. What happened to the Red Bulls? Either Vettel's car had something broken, or they set it up to protect the left rear tyre and ended up creating too much understeer. I don't think I saw Vettel hit a single apex in the coup...

CarlosFerreira

Let's all call a stop at the GP weekend madness and take a moment to be sweet-and-sour happy for Maria de Villota, who is back in the paddock this weekend, for the first time since her accident : Although looking in the picture of health in Barcelona this weekend, her recovery is still being monitor...

CarlosFerreira

Hum, since the we're talking WSBK - here's a shot of Chaz Davies' BMW, which he might have dropped dropped during qualifying in Monza, yesterday. http://superbikeplanet.com/image/archive/chazmonza.jpg As far as I can tell Chaz himself is OK, but he might have required a fresh change of underwear.

CarlosFerreira

Onxy Wrecked wrote:Now van der Garde has a Sauber behind him. I guess van der Garde is a great qualifier and that's about it.

Good to see Caterham's update from Bahrain seems to be working - but what is Charles Pic doing?!

CarlosFerreira

In which I bite my own words, having read Enoch's "Key to Kimi" article...

Formula One is better off WITH Kimi Raikkonen.

CarlosFerreira

Whilst it has to be said that, to a certain extent, Red Bull's complaints about the tyres earlier in the season were somewhat self serving, these sorts of events are probably going to force Pirelli's hand and push them towards making changes to the structure of the tyres. It would cause considerabl...

CarlosFerreira

Yeah, Smith hasn't really set the world on fire so far this year, but he's getting used to the machinery and building his confidence. The fall in Qatar won't have helped in that respect, but I expect to see a steady improvement over the year until he's regularly managing 6th/7th placed finishes aro...

CarlosFerreira

Mind you, it could be a worse weekend for Pirelli given that Di Resta has just had a rear tyre failure that looks identical to the tyre failures that Hamilton and Massa had in Bahrain (the tread of the tyre peeling away in the centre). Notably, it was exactly the same compound that failed as in Bah...

CarlosFerreira

Oh, and Crutchlow seems to be on the way to get the boot from Yamaha . Crutchlow said he was informed of the interest in Espargaro by Tech 3 team owner Herve Poncharal. “He told me that Yamaha are potentially going to sign Pol and [Tech 3] will have to take him for the first year,” the BBC quotes Cr...

CarlosFerreira

Good ol' Kevin Schwantz has a take on the Marquez-Lorenzo Jerez incident - and it's an interesting one. Read the whole thing, he goes into some detail about who had trouble with the bike where. But here's the gist of it: It looks to me that Marquez was in, and doing a pretty good job of keeping the ...

CarlosFerreira

MotoGP no longer on Free-To-Air TV from 2014 in the UK. This has made me really mad. Yet again the BBC clearly can't be bothered with sport and have left the vast majority of UK viewers without a free option of viewing MotoGP. Damn. It. [insert rant about TV License here] BUT! At least I have BT Br...

CarlosFerreira

When you guys stop arguing, we'll be more than happy to give you Stoner back. I'm starting to get sick and tired of all the coverage he's getting in the V8s so far this year and the fact that he's basically been gifted the best car in the Dunlop Series field, while the likes of Jack Perkins have to...

CarlosFerreira

Back to MotoGP... Soup's unearthed this naughty video of a certain J. Lorenzo, Esq. putting the hurt on Joan Olivé . Giorgio Lorenzo xD I do remember Olivé, from 2001, he got the same break Pedrosa got, didn't he? He is the same generation as Pedrosa and Lorenzo, but never had much success. There w...

CarlosFerreira

Now, to be fair to the team, it sounds as if Nick Chester, who has been confirmed as Allison's replacement, is a quite capable individual in his own right (he has 12 years worth of experience with the team), but I am just wondering whether the effect of having a reasonably high turnover of senior s...

CarlosFerreira

When you guys stop arguing, we'll be more than happy to give you Stoner back. I'm starting to get sick and tired of all the coverage he's getting in the V8s so far this year and the fact that he's basically been gifted the best car in the Dunlop Series field, while the likes of Jack Perkins have to...

CarlosFerreira

Now, to be fair to the team, it sounds as if Nick Chester, who has been confirmed as Allison's replacement, is a quite capable individual in his own right (he has 12 years worth of experience with the team), but I am just wondering whether the effect of having a reasonably high turnover of senior s...

CarlosFerreira

When you guys stop arguing, we'll be more than happy to give you Stoner back. I'm starting to get sick and tired of all the coverage he's getting in the V8s so far this year and the fact that he's basically been gifted the best car in the Dunlop Series field, while the likes of Jack Perkins have to...

CarlosFerreira

FMecha wrote:Whole Spanish Press reacts on Marquez-Lorenzo incident

Discuss.

As amusing as the Spanish press commenting on the headlines of British papers after a Hamilton-Button clash.

CarlosFerreira

Stoner is good at extracting the maximum out of a bike that has been neutralised by electronics, I'll give him that, but as a biker myself, I respect those who've proven that they can master a bike with knackered tyres and few aids, and still set fastest laps at the end of the race. And that's Ross...

CarlosFerreira

As for the move being a statement of intent, isn't it the case that Marquez did a few similar moves in Moto2 in previous years (and was at one point penalised for it, although the penalty was overturned on appeal)? Perhaps it's his way or making a statement on track, but it wouldn't take much for h...

CarlosFerreira

Todays battle between Marquez and Lorenzo gave me flashbacks of both Welkom 2002 and Jerez 2005. The good old Jerez last corner "f*** you" pass. Doohan on Criville circa 1992 (3/4/5?), Rossi on Gibernau, and how many more there will be. It's interesting to see that Lorenzo didn't try to d...

CarlosFerreira

Nicky Hayden qualified that Ducati less than a second from pole. The Ducati is coming on, people! Hayden qualified the Duke on the front row last season with the same gap to Lorenzo's pole as his 7th place this season (as mentioned by jocke1) ... how does that work? I frankly didn't look up the num...

CarlosFerreira

Nicky Hayden qualified that Ducati less than a second from pole. The Ducati is coming on, people!

CarlosFerreira

Shizuka wrote:Espargaro is quickly aspiring to be one of the riders of the year...

He's going really well. The CRT's have new, class-specific tyres that are supposed to be better than the MotoGP's, but he seems to be the only one making the best of them.

CarlosFerreira

AndreaModa wrote:I found it very hard to follow watching the BBC highlights. Having half the laps stripped out made it pretty confusing.

I found the same. It was all people passing left, right and centre, lots of shouting and tyre changes, and very little sense of understanding what was going on.

CarlosFerreira

I'm not a fan of Rossi, have never been, but even I am enthused by his return to Yamaha. I loved his grit in Qatar, and was mildly disapointed by his performance in Austin. Well, it turns out that he had a broken brake disk ! “This is a difficult track for us. We expected to do better, but I had a l...

CarlosFerreira

Last time McLaren ended a season as sixth, or worse constructor, was 1981 ! Can we have this conversation in November when it might actually be relevant? I agree with this. And I also remember a time, not long ago, when Stefano Domenicalli couldn't step out of his house without a British journalist...

CarlosFerreira

DanielPT wrote:The Bad

Lowest Scorer: FullaNeutrals (CarlosFerreira) - 376 points

Yet another amazing showing. With a team composed of Hulkenberg, Bottas, Button and Alonso's stupid rear wing flappy thing, the sky is the limit.

CarlosFerreira

He won in his second race. That says everything, really. Marquez has outraced Pedrosa in both, and looks like he could be a real contender. I think Lorenzo will ultimately win the Championship this year, but Marquez will run with him. I was very impressed by Marq both races: aggressive but fair and...

CarlosFerreira

Marquez! Crashed in FP3, but still got pole. Chose an awkward rear tyre for the race, and was still the undisputed winner. And he won against the strongest oposition out there: nobody fell off ahead of Marquez, nobody made mistakes; there was no rain, no fog, no Martian invasion. No, it was all abou...

CarlosFerreira

roblomas52 wrote:Proof that Pic has more than a rejectful godfather then
(Eric Bernard) if you didn't know but a suspect you already did

I have a degree of hope for Pic's future in F1. I hope he gets a break further up the grid.

CarlosFerreira

I'm struggling on this one. Don't want to give it to Gutierrez, despite the fact that he was really slow and beaten by Pic, simply because he was given ROTR last time around (in one of the few times I can remember Jenoch being unfair). Can't give it to Van der Garde either because he didn't get the ...

CarlosFerreira

jackanderton wrote:1. Pic - finished ahead of a fully funded F1 car on merit, and trounced Marussia
2. Di Resta - a great drive, the sort that suits his conservative style, but he still made a couple of good moves stick

Nothing to add to this gentleman's votes and comments. Took the words right out of my mouth.

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