Formula 1 2014: Round 9 - British Grand Prix

Peanut Butter Jelly

37.1 on the hards. Wow.

CFlat

Rosberg has a problem

Max_Charger

G'WAN LEWIS!

Peanut Butter Jelly

We have a title fight on our hands people. Rosberg is OUT!

Grim.

crofty is ****in dire lol

youreadthat

Rosberg getting bad luck? Now I've seen everything.

christy c

What goes around comes around

Peanut Butter Jelly

Rosberg could use this Mercedes for the offroading

SnowDrifts

Oh great. Now we will have to listen to how everything British is great. In fairness, Hamilton was due some good fortune his way.

Autosport

Oh poor Rosberg but Woohooo for Lewis

CFlat

SnowDrifts wrote: »

Oh great. Now we will have to listen to how everything British is great. In fairness, Hamilton was due some good fortune his way.

I agree butdon't count your chickens yet. Don't forget that race where they both had the exact same problem at the exact same time.

Peanut Butter Jelly

Alonso with the new overtake of the race.

Grim.

the two lads on sky still going on about the reds being faster forgetting about Rosberg's gearbox

andyman

CFlat wrote: »

I agree butdon't count your chickens yet. Don't forget that race where they both had the exact same problem at the exact same time.

Rosbergs had gearbox issues all race. Nothing similar for Hamilton, yet anyway.

CFlat

andyman wrote: »

Rosbergs had gearbox issues all race. Nothing similar for Hamilton, yet anyway.

Yea you're right but I suppose my point was more like, don't open the champagne just yet.

Autosport

Vettel and Alonso goin to be good for the rest of the race

Peanut Butter Jelly

And Vettel is already whining. There was nothing wrong with Alonso's move.

Peanut Butter Jelly

The words toys and pram come to mind.

weekaizer

Oh shut up vettel !

Grim.

great pass and battle

SnowDrifts

Grim. wrote: »

great pass and battle

But spoiled a bit by Seb's bitching.

CFlat

Great bit of racing from Al and Seb.

Grim.

SnowDrifts wrote: »

But spoiled a bit by Seb's bitching.

nando's whingeing balancing it out though :P

Peanut Butter Jelly

I don't think Button will be on the podium. He'll get close though.

Grim.

comon jenson

CFlat

Delighted for Lewis and Williams.

_rebelkid

0.8. Jenson was only 0.8 off a podium. Gutted.

TherapyBoy

Up the Dubs!

Likely to be a Boardsie flying the Dublin flag at the podium?

Mike Litoris

Deadly, Championship battle back on! Delighted for Williams. Would have been fighting for victory only for qualy. Ricciardo solid as ever and a great battle for 4th. Only caught the last 20 laps, had to work, it looked a bit mad. Cant wait to watch the highlights later.

youreadthat

Lewis is right about that trophy.

_rebelkid

youreadthat

Did they give that out after?

_rebelkid

youreadthat wrote: »

Did they give that out after?

Yeah. Santander paid a sh*tload of money to change the trophy, but the BRDC and the RAC wouldn't have left it go by without the Gold Trophy.

dloob

Mike Litoris wrote: »

Deadly, Championship battle back on! Delighted for Williams. Would have been fighting for victory only for qualy. Ricciardo solid as ever and a great battle for 4th. Only caught the last 20 laps, had to work, it looked a bit mad. Cant wait to watch the highlights later.

I don't think Williams could have fought for the win today, they were still a few secs a lap slower than the Mercs at full pelt

_rebelkid

First time in 50 years that the Gold Trophy hasn't been presented on the podium. Huge backfire for Santander.

Myrddin

What a race, delighted for Lewis. Game on. Some stellar drives today by quite a few drivers, Botas was superb!

Ghost Train

the red trophies looked pretty stupid

nice to see one or two donuts at the end

good result to even up the championship

hope lewis doesnt get a run of results now and get too far ahead of Rosberg, would be good if they can keep up with each other

Arthur Beesley

Grim. wrote: »

nando's whingeing balancing it out though :P

Good call - seems to be overlooked by the Alonzo loving Vettel haters.

Let's not forget Alonzo was warned about going off track, surprised he wasn't penalised for continuing to do it.

Myrddin

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

Let's not forget Alonzo was warned about going off track

Both were warned, were the not? Why the need to take sides, regardless of which driver you prefer it was brilliant to watch & I credit the two of them for providing a brilliant battle.

_rebelkid

3 Place Grid Drop in Germany for Gutierrez.

Arthur Beesley

Myrddin wrote: »

Both were warned, were the not? Why the need to take sides, regardless of which driver you prefer it was brilliant to watch & I credit the two of them for providing a brilliant battle.

Fair point - but read the earlier posts, specific mention of Vettel wingeing, no mention of Alonzo doing the same.

Myrddin

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

Fair point - but read the earlier posts, specific mention of Vettel wingeing, no mention of Alonzo doing the same.

You'll get fans on both sides I suppose, it's only natural. Amazing duel between the two today though, I would hope that by now those arguments that Vettel wasn't a good 'wheel to wheel racer' are well & truly dispelled by now. He's having a rough time at the mo though, I must admit I didn't expect Ricciardo to hit the ground running as he did.

SnowDrifts

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

Fair point - but read the earlier posts, specific mention of Vettel wingeing, no mention of Alonzo doing the same.

If you are referring to me... whilst watching live, I listened to all of Vettel's whinging and there wasn't a peep out of Alonso. I then posted here. Immediately after I posted, they broadcasted Alonso's whinging. Had I got the chance to post a few minutes later it would have read...

"Great racing but I wish the 2 of them would shut up with the whinging and bitching"

Frank Bullitt

Good race, Kimi looks to be a 50/50 for this weeks test, looked an awful smash.

Good racing throughout the field, Bottas was savage and one to watch. Alonso did a good job to, and gets extra points for making Vettel moan.

Glad the championship is back on as well, a retirement always whips things up.

Zcott

Apparently Rosberg's gearbox was a bit older than Lewis's, hence the failing. Hopefully that won't happen again to either of them.

Arthur Beesley

Gintonious wrote: »

Alonso did a good job to, and gets extra points for making Vettel moan.

And Vettel gets extra points for passing Alonso, but the difference is these are real points...rather than imaginary ones.

dloob

I don't remember a driver being shown the black and white flag for their driving before.
Anyone know when the last one was?

Frankie Lee

dloob wrote: »

I don't remember a driver being shown the black and white flag for their driving before.
Anyone know when the last one was?

I used to get them all the time in Formula 1 97 back in the day but that was more for driving like Maldonado.

_rebelkid

Wow.

Gillespy

F1 got away with it today. Kimi spinning across the track, quite easily could have been t boned by Massa and Chillton's car being hit by a stray tyre. Both must be high on the list of things drivers dread the most.