The Official F1 Thread

It’s the Le Mans 24hr race this weekend. Full coverage on Eurosport. (Doesn’t get a mention on the BBC.)
Not always the most riveting of races to watch, but it does have it’s moments.

No I saw it was on, but haven’t watched it yet.

I tried but the sound of the motors reminded me of watching radio control cars. For that reason I could never take it seriously and gave up.

I never watch before any game begins so avoid the tedium of expert prediction and more often than not watch rugger, cricket and tennis with the volume control at zero!

I share your thoughts about F1 though.

I’ll watch some football matches all the way through, if I am at a loss for anything else to do.
Or if it’s a team I like to watch.
I still record them first though. I can’t stand listening to the various “experts” and “pundits”, giving their
opinions of how a game or race is likely to pan out.

If Hamilton is going to win virtually every Grand Prix this year, It doesn’t take an expert to predict
that viewing figures will take a nose dive.

That’s an intriguing take on watching sport. Unless it’s only the result which is of interest surely the point about a sporting competition of any sort is how it evolves. The swings and roundabouts of the competitive process. I agree that if the sport is of little interest then watching it in full is probably of little value.

So do we have a broken Axel?

I do find it amusing that some people “fast forward” F1 races, I mean really? .

I’ve done that for the last few years. You can cut out all of the pre-race waffle too.
Watch the first dozen or so laps, to sort out who has survived the inevitable collisions, and who
is likely to be at the front for the next 50 odd laps. Then watch at 12x speed,
stopping if there are any incidents. Then back to normal speed for the last couple of laps.

I find watching a whole race at normal speed, too brain numbing.

The above also works for watching England play football. You can watch a whole game in
about 20mins 🙂

Also, I used to be a fan of Nico Rosberg, but after the first three races he’s turned into a total knob. Which is a shame, because he is good, very good indeed, good enough to beat Lewis, but he’s in the wrong frame of mind and he’s doing himself no favours by being a moron.

Formula E is utter sh*te. A decal peels off the car and flops onto the track, it causes the safety car to be deployed. Very dull, and the noise of the cars is enough to make a saint commit to most disturbing crimes.

I do find it amusing that some people “fast forward” F1 races, I mean really? Since when was Formula 1 about overtaking only, what about the strategies, and what race were you watching? In China the front four guys weren’t doing too much overtaking but the racing (yes, racing isn’t just overtaking) was interesting in terms of strategies. From 5th place backwards there was plenty of overtaking from the Red Bulls, Saubers, Toro Rossos, Williams, Lotus’, Force Indias and even the utter crap McLarens.

Australia was a bit, meh. Malaysia was fantastic, China wasn’t as dramatic as Malaysia but there was more going on in the middle of the field.

No I saw it was on, but haven’t watched it yet.

Or Touring cars> Anyone had a look at formula E? It was on one of the Sky channels at Easter but I sadly didn’t watch it as I had to be up for work at 3 the next morning.

I watched it but fast forwarded through most of it. Boring circuit and pretty Processional Racing

Much prefer the WRC….

One of the problems is they are all the same. I was watching one of the older races and no two cars looked like each other in shape and size. I would prefer that they were given a basic tyre size, engine CC and Budget to spend and then told to build the best they can, but i would have to add the safety features must all adhere to those already in use…. I would get rid of all this you must use this for this, it must fit in this box etc.

He is probably wondering why there has been a drop in viewing figures.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/formulaone/article-2934850/Formula-One-suffers-global-drop-TV-figures-five-cent-fans-turn-Britain-despite-Lewis-Hamilton-s-title-win.html

This is despite them creating non-stories to try and get people watching.

If this is the real OFFICIAL F1 thread, how much is Bernie Ecclestone making off it?

Doesn’t look as though the OP is!!:D Not really but pleased to see the Mercedes stranglehold broken in wherever it was a couple of weeks ago, but back to old routine this weekend. I lost most of the interest I had years ago when the sport became all about vast sums of money and minute tweeks of the car to make all the difference. The skill or lack of it of the driver now seems to be a secondary factor.

Anyone still watching the F1 races ?

I’ve lost all enthusiasm for it this season. I didn’t even bother to record, or watch the highlights
of the Chinese race.

it is a possibility as the car obviously isn’t as good as the mercs still as Riccardo would of been able to stay with them but couldn’t

Good try Axel – but unconvincing!;)

well not really maybe he has just learnt how to handle the car better because it could just be that he wasn’t use to how it handled or something which was making him slower