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Johnson: Thanks very much .... well done son.
![]() ![]() He'll round it off with a rendition of 'Whole lotta Rosie'!! She's got the jack |
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![]() ![]() ![]() It was terrible. The production/director should be sacked. Totally spoilt it for me. If they never go back to Bahrain, it will be too soon!! |
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It's no longer local broadcasters producing the feeds, it's totally FOM's fault. They produce the coverage for all the races apart from Monaco
I've known them show Seb Vettel leading a race by half a minute and seeing him lap by lap by lap in isolation. FOM are not doing themselves any favours. |
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I didn't know that, however if that's the case were they trying to hack the viewer off by not showing the lead cars.
I've known them show Seb Vettel leading a race by half a minute and seeing him lap by lap by lap in isolation. FOM are not doing themselves any favours. |
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good race but awful TV coverage
those mercs have this in the bag. 2 secs a lap after the restart could do a mclaren 88? |
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Ferrari are a mess. They look like they did in the early and mid 90s, with their design team not having any clue what they're doing.
Red Bull, Williams and FI are all ahead of them. May I add what a sterling job FI have done this season so far. ![]() And wouldn't you credit it...I missed the race because I was travelling back home after visiting friends thinking "it's ok, Merc will just cruise it and won't let them race". I had to stop to go to the toilet, and while sitting on the porcelain throne, check the auto sport live feed on my phone; that had to be the most thrilling crap that I have ever had! Must have been some race to watch. |
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Interesting race.
No two ways about it; that was a kick up the arse for Rosberg to be beaten by Hamilton on the slower tyre. Maldonado proving, once again, that he's a complete numpty and, somehow, only getting a five place grid penalty for his muppetry while Ricciardo got a ten place penalty for a dodgy pitstop. Not sure that's sending quite the correct message. |
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Maldanado also had a run in with JEV at the start, the latter was not happy with him *at all* on the radio.
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Worth watching the highlights then?
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Worth watching the highlights then?
The race was a little disjointed, IMO, with an awful lot of passes due to differing strategies and the TV coverage wasn't brilliant so the BBC highlights show might actually make for more cohesive viewing than the race, itself. |
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What a race! My hearts still recovering from the last ten laps. Great job Lewis
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What a race! My hearts still recovering from the last ten laps. Great job Lewis
![]() what the hell were FOM on ? appalling.....before they have switched to winner who has no competitors and left an exciting fight for 2nd etc.....yes there was stuff there too but we could have been replayed them....the time they do have a fight at p1 they leave it.....atrocious...
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What a race! My hearts still recovering from the last ten laps. Great job Lewis
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Brilliant race showing that F1 2014 can be exciting. Lots of wheel to wheel racing and over-taking outside of the DRS zones. LH & NR showing that having a team dominating doesn't mean it will be boring. Really enjoyed Ricciardo sticking it to Vettel as well. I would love to know if Vettel really had any issues (did his DRS fault really cost him) or was he just beaten fair and square? Are we seeing at last that without team orders to protect him Vettel is vulnerable to his team-mate? One thing is for sure, the RB is probably the best chassis on the grid, just woefully under-powered and that isn't going to change this season. I expect the RB to pick up a couple of wins on the technical circuits (Barcelona might suit them very well) but over the length of the season they're going to struggle.
Chuffed for Perez, especially as I picked him for 3rd! |
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Well I never an exciting well worth watching race with some great driving up front and down the field and a great win for Hamilton and thankfully Merc allowed their drivers to really race each other. Hopefully this is the sign of things to come and not just down to the track, if so all they need now is to sort out the sound those engines make.
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What a race! My hearts still recovering from the last ten laps. Great job Lewis
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I hope this doesn't give Bernie Eccleston an idea to bring out the safety car with ten laps remaining at every race, or just for the last race of the season!
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Yesterday reminded me a bit of Schumie and Mansell at Monaco in '92 where Mansell on new tyres couldn't pass Schumacher and provided a classic end to the race proving, like yesterday, that it isn't the number of passes that counts but the fight.
Unfortunately I don't share the optimism others have for a good season of racing, not at the front anyway. like someone else said, it's 88 all over again, or maybe even more so with a Merc whitewash of wins. |
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Should be interesting to see who gets 3rd place should the Mercs run away.
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Bottom AKA Bottas will no doubt.
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Perez could do it though. He's got just as good a car as Bottas I think.
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Me too shame we had to watch him win via a countdown timer rather than on camera(
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It seems that Mercedes is the best team (by far) . The problem in my humble opinion is that this car is more than 1 second faster than others, and that in F1 is a world.
Last season was RB with a car more than 2 seconds faster, and all of us remember how boring it was. It's true that this is only the beggining of the season, but with such a difference, this season might be as boring as last. And it's a pity, because if we look at the cars behind Mercedes, we can see several very good fights: FI, Williams, McLaren, Ferrari and RB.On the other hand, now we'll see the real level of Vettel with a not dominant car. However, he already has 4 championships in his pocket. |
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Wasn't it Senna?
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Bet the BBC are kicking themselves that they didn't have this one live.
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![]() ![]() ![]() It was terrible. The production/director should be sacked. Totally spoilt it for me. If they never go back to Bahrain, it will be too soon!! I guess it is determined by whatever sponsor pays Bernie the most amount of money for the most coverage. |
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cant say i like these celebrity interviews at the end
But, the alternative is having more obscure racing drivers do the podium interviews; they can't keep having Niki Lauda, Jackie Stewart, David Coulthard and Eddie Jordan doing the them. They will have to start using executives and pit crew, when they run out. If that blithering idiot Clarkson turns up though, I shall probably kick my television set to death.
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what the hell were FOM on ?