2016 Formula 1 Season Thread

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What a grandstand finish to a race. Great result for Hamilton, but not for Mercedes.
When you have two drivers both going for the same championship, neither are going to give an inch.
Roseberg clearly knew if Hamilton got past he had no hope. Where if the collided it's pot luck as to who comes off worse.
I'm glad the stewards and all the pundits see it the same way as me, Hamilton left plenty of room. Nico did not.

Anyway good result for Button and for Manor.

So Hamilton on home soil next week. I think the advantage is his. Certainly a better championship than last year. Going to go to the wire this year IMO.
 
Disappointing to see Nico let off with what looked like an almost deliberate collision with Lewis. Unlike any of their other collisions, this one looked like Nico tried to push Lewis far off the track. There's no place for that in racing IMO.

Exciting race though and good to see Hamilton recover from the team strategy blunder earlier in the race. He seems to get inside Nico's head easily when chasing him down on track and forces him into a mistake. Great to watch a good battle.

Verstappen had an awesome race I thought too.
 
I'll confess that I much, much prefer the European races, where they actually look like they are driving on Formula One circuits - rather than some of the Asian and Middle East tracks where it looks like they are driving through deserted parking garages. Granted, the Red Bull Ring isn't quite the same as the classic Osterreichring - but its good enough.

Personally, I saw Hamilton's appearance on the podium; and the race in total; as a bit of a metaphor for the disaster of Brexit. The loud booing of Hamilton as he was being interviewed was disappointing. But then the whole Mercedes team is a bit of a metaphor. Nominally German; but really British-engineered, and financed by a crap-ton of Asian oil money. And it all seems at risk of coming apart because the players can't help but keep stepping on each others toes.
 
I love the A1 ring. Mostly agreed on the Euro tracks. I don't like Silverstone that much, which is next.

I wish that one or two of the other teams would find the HP and win once in a while.

Fingers crossed Williams F1 will be one of them.

I think Nico tried to take them both out. Hobbs, or Matchett, pointed out that it would be better for Nico if they both didn't finish. I think he, obviously, knew that too. I hate that type of tactic but wished it had worked so someone else would have won.

IMHO, the Sprint Cup race, Coca Cola 400 @daytona, was a better race even though
eventual winner
Keselowski led the majority of the time.
 
pachyderm said:
I love the A1 ring. Mostly agreed on the Euro tracks. I don't like Silverstone that much, which is next.

I wish that one or two of the other teams would find the HP and win once in a while.

Fingers crossed Williams F1 will be one of them.

I think Nico tried to take them both out. Hobbs, or Matchett, pointed out that it would be better for Nico if they both didn't finish. I think he, obviously, knew that too. I hate that type of tactic but wished it had worked so someone else would have won.

IMHO, the Sprint Cup race, Coca Cola 400 @daytona, was a better race even though
eventual winner
Keselowski led the majority of the time.
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The best for the sport, IMHO, would be if Honda could get themselves sorted out and then get their power unit in a couple of other teams' cars. Four working engine manufacturers would be best for the sport.

Agreed as well a stronger McLaren, Williams would be excellent for the sport.
 
AustinIllini said:
The best for the sport, IMHO, would be if Honda could get themselves sorted out and then get their power unit in a couple of other teams' cars. Four working engine manufacturers would be best for the sport.

Agreed as well a stronger McLaren, Williams would be excellent for the sport.
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oh yeah.

Are you going to the USGP this year?
 
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OllyW said:
Why do you think F1 has dropped the USGP? It's on the calendar for Fri 21 – Sun 23 October and a contract is also in place for next season.
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wha...?

ok. somewhere it seems i'd heard we'd lost our race. looks like we did host last year as well... losing my mind? i guess so.
 
AustinIllini said:
I'll be there, but I don't know how many more years we'll get.
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I think it will stay on the calendar simply because of the amount of people in the US that Bernie wants to be fans.
I'd be more worried about some of the European races disappearing. Like last year when Germany was cancelled.
One things for sure, they can't keep adding races. When I watched as a kid, I believe there were 12. Now we race March-November. If there's no off season, how are they supposed to develop next years car?
 
Apple fanboy said:
I think it will stay on the calendar simply because of the amount of people in the US that Bernie wants to be fans.
I'd be more worried about some of the European races disappearing. Like last year when Germany was cancelled.
One things for sure, they can't keep adding races. When I watched as a kid, I believe there were 12. Now we race March-November. If there's no off season, how are they supposed to develop next years car?
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No need for German Gp since they ruined Hockenheim.
 
They could easily add dates if they got rid of the August break and/or reduced the several 3-week breaks to 2 weeks. F1 generally I think has too much downtime.
 
randian said:
They could easily add dates if they got rid of the August break and/or reduced the several 3-week breaks to 2 weeks. F1 generally I think has too much downtime.
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But if there is more races, it gets to the point when qualifying on Saturday and races on Sunday really eat into your weekend.
There gets a point when there are people switching off because they have other things to do.
Or a wife who really doesn't like F1!
 
I'm past the point of worrying how many races there are these days. I've seen 2 races this year and caught 1 highlights show despite recording every race. Family life has eaten into my passion and for the first time in 28 years of following F1, I am out of touch on most things.
 
The-Real-Deal82 said:
I'm past the point of worrying how many races there are these days. I've seen 2 races this year and caught 1 highlights show despite recording every race. Family life has eaten into my passion and for the first time in 28 years of following F1, I am out of touch on most things.
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That's the problem. If life gets in the way and you miss half the races, you get to the point where you don't know what's going on and you skip the rest.
 
Apple fanboy said:
I think (the USGP) will stay on the calendar simply because of the amount of people in the US that Bernie wants to be fans.
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Bernie doesn't care about the fans, he cares about the hosting fees. If another venue offers him more money than what COTA is offering, that venue will get the USGP's date and the USGP will be gone. And realistically, COTA is hard-pressed to pay the sanctioning fee now that the State of Texas has reduced the amount of money they get each year (they desperately needed the full $25 million and projections are they'll get half that now).
 
Exactly. Bernie has made no secret of the fact bums on seats means absolutely nothing. Money talks and that is it. If this wasn't the case he wouldn't have supported the drive to reduce the amount of people watching on television in most of Europe. I still can't fathom why that makes economical sense?
 
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