Sports 🏎️ Official Formula 1 Thread

[Mr Baytchos]

Tough end to the race. Looking at some pictures online looks like he went right into and underneath the back of the tractor moving sutils car.

 

[Mr Baytchos]

http://video.gazzetta.it/bianchi-nuovo-video-schianto/535fe23e-4d62-11e4-b96f-b9e654d6aef0

Video if you want to see it. All I can say is holy shit he is lucky to be alive.

 

[Mook]

Fucking crazy

 

[Spivitz]

:eek4:
Holy shit that was insane!

 

[03GTGreen]

Wow

 

[IDAFC21]

Good god. That really coulda been a lot worse. Damn thats scary tho. Hope he makes a speedy and full recovery. You always think about that when they're moving cars off the track, especially in the wet.

 

[Mr Baytchos]

Well doesn't sound like a good outcome for Bianchi. This is what he suffered: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffuse_axonal_injury

90% of people never regain consciousness and those that do remain severely impaired. Tough loss of someone that looked to have a bright future in F1

 

[IDAFC21]

Yeah its not looking very good So sad

 

[IDAFC21]

Even tho everyone knew it for the last couple months, its finally official. Vettel signing on to ferrari for 3 years to partner kimi, and alonso is OUT. No announcement on where he'll end up yet...

Final race of the year this weekend!! I just hope both of those mercedes hold together so its a fair fight to the end. Could be quite the race.

 

[Pewter-Camaro]

Yup.. Double Dhabi this weekend. should be interesting.

 

[IDAFC21]

Yeah...im reserving my judgement on the double points until i see how it all goes down. honestly for rosberg and hamilton it shouldnt matter unless one of them has a REALLY bad race. But for some of the guys lower down in the points, this race could be huge for them, and their teams

 

[IDAFC21]

Wow. Even if rosberg wins the race this weekend, hamilton can come in 2nd and still take the championship. If you're rosberg, you HAVE to win this race, and just HOPE that something else happens to cause hamilton to finish 3rd or lower.

 

[IDAFC21]

Round 1 done. Was certainly an interesting weekend. With only FOUR powerplants available to the teams this season, Ricciardo had to change engines after FP1, and Magnussen blew up on the way to the GRID. I do like ferrari's pace so far, and I have to say it is the best looking car out there this year, for once, in a while. Williams pace continues to impress, and god damn, Sauber could be quite the contender this year as well for best of the rest. The torro rosso rookies also had some impressive drives as well. Mercedes is still in a league of their own however. And Mclaren-Honda.....have a lotta work to do. But i think that Buttons car even FINISHED the race was a huge victory for them this weekend.

 

[51wheelies]

love how red bull is crying now cause they arent dominating anymore. and now they are saying we will leave the sport if rules arent changed. Basically what i get from it is this, change the rules so we can win again or we are taking our ball and leaving the playground crying.
They seem to forget they dominated for 4 years and vettel set record after record at RBR.

 

[Mook]

I laughed while reading that the other day.

 

[Mr Baytchos]

I do get bored of the one team domination. Wish it was more of a battle between team's for the championship. Not just best of the rest.

 

[51wheelies]

I would love to see f1 go back to less aero down force and more mechanical, wider rear tires and maybe the titanium skid plates to make it exciting again. I miss the old days of f1 from the late 80's early 90's

 

[Mook]

I'd love for the cars to not sound like hopped up priuses.

 

[51wheelies]

that would be great too, they are to quite. i miss the old 19,000 rpm v-8's

 

[Stink Star]

Honestly the early 90s were the pinnacle of F1 technology. Cars today are just starting to get into the insane amount of suspension and computer advancement that they had back then. But people were going too fast and crashing horribly- something had to be done. Everything they do now is to slow the cars down while still keeping it exciting. They want the cars to still be on the edge, just not at such great speeds

 

[Mr Baytchos]

I will say that last race was great. Awesome watching the team's different strategies and I also enjoyed Hamilton getting pissy with his team already.

 

[Typhoon]

F1 has never been any better than is was from 2000-2005. If you guys could hear the V10 cars in person, you'd never care about the V8's or turbo 6's again.

 

[51wheelies]

went to the first race at indy when F1 came back to the states, i still get goosebumps at the sound those cars made.

as for the safety aspect of things its sad it took the events of Imola in 94 to shake F1 to its core for safety.

on a off topic questions have any of you seen the movie Senna? a must if you havent.

 

[IDAFC21]

Senna is fantastic. Watched it many times. Gets me every single time. First time I ever watched it I was on a flight. That was a big mistake

"1" is also pretty great. Really highlights how crazy dangerous the sport used to be, and how much great talent has been lost over the years.

 

[51wheelies]

I need to watch that!!! thanks for sharing ill keep my eyes open for a official release date.