Sport The Formula 1 Thread

[marsh]

Watched Love the Beast at the weekend too. At the end they said he was going to rebuild the car. It's been a couple of years, so has he rebuilt it, or at least made a start on it?

I bloody hope so, but on his facebook page, despite the constant questions as to whether he will or won't he never mentions it. If I was him, I'd rebuild it then move on to doing something like Le Mans in a porka.

[layten]

Broadcast HD is generally 1080i, but I saw something during the week about how BBC is shifting a load of stuff to 1080p and all Freeview HD boxes are mandated to be able to handle the switch between i and p seamlessly, though it appears some TVs are having momentary sound dropouts or something. I don't know if that includes F1.

A bit more info. http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/news/bbc-hd-audio-dropouts-sony-201105201158.htm

[JohnC]

It would be Sony. Everything is going down the shitter for them lately.

[wev]

Has there ever been an F1 World Champion who hasn't won an F1 race at Monaco? I'm not strictly talking about in their championship year/s, just at soem point in their F1 careers.

[kiroquai]

Mansell and Hill spring to mind - both came close to winning at Monaco but both missed out. Piquet never won the Monaco Grand Prix either (he hated the circuit), ditto Alan Jones.

[myoozikk]

Vettel is WC but has never won at Monaco.

[Dudley]

Jacques too.

[Headache]

So what's the deal with free practice being on Thursday and not Friday here? Why have it early and then have a day's break before qualifying?

[kiroquai]

The first practice session has been red-flagged due to water seeping through the tarmac and puddling on the circuit on the pit straight

[JPR]

So what's the deal with free practice being on Thursday and not Friday here? Why have it early and then have a day's break before qualifying?

The practice would usually take place on the Thursday as it was Ascension day, so a public holiday anyway. Doesn't always fall on Ascension day now so I guess it's just a case of tradition now which I quite like, plus I doubt the teams will complain about an extra day in Monaco where they do lots of deals and use it to impress the sponsors.

[reani_]

I'd like to have one of those too

[myoozikk]

TELL ME THAT'S THE SECRET FANATEC WHEEL!!!!!!!!! :OMG: :OMG:

[kiroquai]

You can buy the seat from July 1st - it's called the Playseat RBR 1

Will set you back about £750 though! That wheel does look awesome, it's about time we had a 'proper' F1-wheel styled controller to buy.

[myoozikk]

it could be worth the divorce it would cause!!!

[kiroquai]

... just going to call the missus and tell her I'm off to the shops

Incidentally, the Senna film is currently being sold on Blu-Ray at Amazon.co.uk through various Amazon Marketplace dealers. It's the Japanese release (been out since March over there) but is region free and has English language audio.

Ordered

[JohnC]

It's the Italian release. So even they got it before here.

[kiroquai]

Ooh, I stand corrected! Cheers for pointing that out.

Amazing though, really. We seem to be amongst the last few countries to get a release!

[Sidewaysbob]

I'm waiting for the UK release so i can see a lap of monaco in super-dupper-big-o-vision

[kiroquai]

As much as I'd like to watch it in the cinema, I am going to watch it at home first I think. Might sound stupid but I remember Imola weekend like it was yesterday and it still gets to me every time I watch footage from that weekend. Figured it might be best for me to be left alone with my own thoughts the first time through.

[JPR]

As much as I'd like to watch it in the cinema, I am going to watch it at home first I think. Might sound stupid but I remember Imola weekend like it was yesterday and it still gets to me every time I watch footage from that weekend. Figured it might be best for me to be left alone with my own thoughts the first time through.

Have to say I'm sort of the same, the whole weekend and his death had quite an impact on me, that weekend is clearer in my head than last weekend. Still not totally sure if I even want to watch it.

[Wools]

FP2 on now, from the BBC text feed:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/9497040.stm

"Ferrari's Fernando Alonso was a happy chap after narrowly losing out to Sebastian Vettel's Red Bull in morning practice. One of the BBC cameraman tells me Alonso had a big grin when he climbed out of his Ferrari and that he then strode towards the camera before enthusiastically saying the word 'spaghetti' into the lens"

[JPR]

He'll be throwing the spaghetti at Massa after this free practice, so close to going into the back of him.

[makkuwata]

Fuck me it's warm here.

[JPR]

If here is Monaco then mark me down for jealous, must be fantastic.

Really is brilliant to watch the cars being thrown around the track, getting the rear out, Alonso is really having fun out there.

[wev]

Alonso's properly throwing it around not great for his tyres or times but great to watch.

[SharkyOB]

Fuck me it's warm here.

Time to take off that Christmas hat then.

[JPR]

So Ferrari looking good, Mclaren and Merc as well, looking like RBR might not get it all their own way. They where saying in the FP commentary the the tyres are holding up much better at Monaco so one stop could be a possibility, quali suddenly becomes all important again. Bring on Sunday, can't wait.

[kiroquai]

Felipe Massa, I might have given up on you ever taking the fight to Alonso at Ferrari and been downbeat about you since the start of the season, but my god seeing you drag that Ferrari by its balls around Monaco means you are forgiven.

Looks really close between the top 6 this weekend - here are the times from FP2. Hope Webber and maybe Schumi can also get involved!

1. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1m15.123s 42

2. Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1m15.228s + 0.105 33

3. Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1m15.321s + 0.198 44

4. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1m15.448s + 0.325 38

5. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1m15.667s + 0.544 46

6. Felipe Massa Ferrari 1m15.781s + 0.658 45

7. Michael Schumacher Mercedes 1m16.356s + 1.233 33

8. Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1m16.642s + 1.519 42

9. Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1m17.101s + 1.978 46

10. Nick Heidfeld Renault 1m17.126s + 2.003 38

11. Vitaly Petrov Renault 1m17.337s + 2.214 35

12. Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 1m17.541s + 2.418 47

13. Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 1m17.570s + 2.447 39

14. Sebastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m17.581s + 2.458 32

15. Pastor Maldonado Williams-Cosworth 1m17.633s + 2.510 49

16. Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1m17.706s + 2.583 37

17. Jaime Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1m17.789s + 2.666 43

18. Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Renault 1m18.266s + 3.143 50

19. Jarno Trulli Lotus-Renault 1m18.490s + 3.367 39

20. Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1m19.053s + 3.930 15

21. Jerome D'Ambrosio Virgin-Cosworth 1m19.185s + 4.062 40

22. Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 1m19.338s + 4.215 35

23. Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 1m22.066s + 6.943 33

[JPR]

They're about to show FP2 on the red button now as they skipped it earlier for the tennis.

[Cheeko]

I've given up on the practice times, it looks really close and the same for Q1 and Q2, then Q3 arrives and the Red Bulls have a clear gap, Hamilton gets suprisingly close but notably ahead of Button, Alonso is in the mix somewhere and Schumacher disappoints and is approximately 10th, beaten by Rosberg.