Just to play Devils Avocado...

While they probably didn't care which of their drivers won, because either way they will still have the World Champion driving for them next year, but just think about this for a moment:

Which is better for potential sponsors (and current sponsors):

"We have four time World Champion, Lewis Hamilton, and the son of a World Champion."

or

"Both of our drivers are World Champions."

Not that I'm suggesting this is true, but it may benefit them from a team perspective.

One more thing: why didn't Bernie invite Britney to the GP?

Jenson taking over the start of Ted's Notebook Even though he was drunk Button was making more sense than some other pundits I could mention

But up to the last knockings, Hamilton was in with a shout of snatching Victory, so there was no way he was going to 'give up' which had he done so, many would have moaned about that too ! Anyway who would wantt to give up twinning / 1st place when you are in the winning position ! ?

She's been at every race, and just won the WDC

Although it was better than Sky's as Sky didn't even bother doing one.

Disappointing that for the third year running Sky haven't bothered with an end of season montage and instead played out a 'Best of bantz & LOLs 2016'. I guess it goes to show they're still aiming to appeal to the casual viewers more so than hardcore fans.

Bit disappointed too that whilst Hamilton was interviewed live by the full pundit lineup and played a triumphant montage of his achievement after his championship win last year, Rosberg had a short interview with only Damon played out on a delay. Seems unbefitting of the world champion given what Lewis received in the past.

They did, it's after the actual race show this year and not after paddock live finished. It was Tom Grennan singing a acoustic version of 'All Goes Wrong' in a dark studio and microphone with clips of various stuff that's happend during the season and the final race.

Here's Sky's end of year montage.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?a=&v=xwF...ature=youtu.be

Very upset to hear of the passing of McLaren's Peter Stayner on Ted's race notebook. I knew he was ill but had no idea it would be this sudden. Glad to see he's been given such lovely tributes on social media & motosrport websites, he was a really lovely guy. He is literally the reason I became a motosrport fan.

"Here's our highlights of the season" - none of them actually on-track related...

Sky - barely skimming over the surface of the sport.

Also - bit of a shame if they didn't ask Di Resta to "come on down" for the final group chat (he may well have been otherwise occupied anyway).

In the notebook Ted mentioned a paddock rumor suggesting that after the Spanish Gp Lewis told Mercedes that he didn't want to drive for them anymore & that he handed in his notice & quit the team which is why Pascal Wehrlein was brought in to do the post race test at the last minute. Brundle has asked Lewis about it & Lewis didn't deny it & Sky sources within the team have also allegedly confirmed that the story is true.

Here is the clip:
https://youtu.be/CHCY68VZUog

A dozen teams, twenty one races, thousands of hours of live TV and what did the result tell us? That Nico had fewer reliability issues than Lewis did.

So glad that there is such an unimaginably large amount of money in Formula one cos there sure as heck ain't much sport left there.

Btw, had to laugh at Coulthard's comment on the podium - "wider tyres, faster cars, louder engines, you're getting what you asked for"

Are we? Who asked? And if so how come the teams could barely work out what the new regs were?

To be fair those three things are going to be pretty good.

Numerous fan theories, people complaining on Twitter I presume. The teams will only agree on something if they believe it gives their team (and none of the others) an advantage over the rest.

Or the questionaire that was out earlier this year. Nico's girlfriend probably filled it in, while they were celebrating their wedding anniversary I guess! Don't forget folks, might have had to have been sacrificed due to extended coverage earlier but Senna vs Brundle tonight from 10. So nice to have a Finnish champion eh! What? German you say... Perkele!

I understand why the team would want a 1-2 and not have one of both of them taken out. Not surprised they would warn him, but a shame they tried to "instruct" him. Can't see them taking any action though other than a quiet word. If they had provided a reliable car, especially in Malaysia it would have been another Lewis championship. I know Lewis has a few bad starts and the Baku nightmare but Nico drove far worse in Monaco. Not sure if he will let Lewis go past if that happened again! At least it gave us a thrilling race, which otherwise would have been another boring precession......Looking forward to next year with Red Bull and Ferrari hopefully in the mix....

Wider cars running wider tyres may well look better but if there going to be good from a racing perspective is another matter.

I fear that we may see less close racing & less overtaking next year as the additional downforce is probably going to make it harder for the cars to follow each other closely & the increased overall grip is not only going to result in shorter braking distances which will make out-braking/overtaking more difficult but its also going to take us back to a time when the cars were less interesting to watch as they all looked like they were on rails.

One of the biggest complaints from fans in the early/mid 2000s was that the cars had so much grip that they were not that spectacular to watch as they looked like they were on rails & looked like they were easier to drive than they actually were. Yes those cars were the fastest in F1's history in terms of laptime & cornering speeds which was spectacular in a way, but overall watching those cars was rather dull as they had way too much grip overall which is what were going back to.


One of the thing i've really enjoyed since the 2014 rule changes is how much more the cars have been moving around more than they did for most of the previous 15 odd years. Watching drivers lighting up the rear's & getting a bit sideways under power or through a corner is far more fun to watch for me than a car that has so much grip that it looks like its on rails with no drama happening at all.

The cars we have now are terrible at following each other, definitely some of the worst I can remember, if it wasn't for DRS there would be hardly any overtaking. I don't think it can get any worse.

Do you think the cars are moving around that much? Maybe a little bit but I'm not thinking wow or anything when watching a race, I'd far rather have faster cars with tyres that don't have to be treated like eggshells for most of the race. I want these machines to be physical tests for drivers again, an aspect that has gone missing in recent years.

Makes food for thought doesn't it. It answers a few questions but then it asks way more aswell.
One thing i never will trust though, is 'Sky Sources'.
Funny thing is, McLaren's new team boss Zak Brown said he'd love Lewis to return to the team, saying "Never say never".

I'm not buying it. If it was true there would surely have been announcements about his exit, his replacement at Mercedes and which team he would be driving for next year if any.

Also, why would he have suddenly 'quit' after Spain. He took what happened there on himself (Rightly, he was at fault) but no way did he even minutely come across as wanting to quit or that he had some kind of attitude to make him want to quit.
Not to mention, you can't just 'quit' when you're in a multi-million dollar contract unless you're gonna pay to get out of it.
The second i head 'Sky Sources', i dropped any belief i may of had for the claims

Hope your right & I also hope that it gets good enough that we can start looking at ditching DRS which remains by biggest point of hate with modern F1.


I agree that it will be nice to see the cars be more of a physical challenge & that is actually an element that i'm quite excited to see play out through 2017.

With regards to the cars moving around, It is something that I notice quite a bit, Especially from the Onboards & super slow-mo shots. It's not really anything massive like full opposite lock or big drift's but you do see a lot more correction in the steering & a lot more little slides & power oversteer which are things i've always enjoyed watching.

It's also stuff like drivers having to manage there throttle application to not spin the rear's up or not get the back end moving. When you start having a lot more downforce/overall grip (Especially at the rear) stuff like that becomes a bit easier with less risk of things like wheelspin or bits of power oversteer.

Can you blame us? I thought it got pretty interesting! Way more than I was expecting from Abu Dhabi anyway!