ivan Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Hopefully that's made the title sufficiently clear for those who don't want to know yet. WOW!!! What a race. Plenty of action eh? Makes a nice change. What a result for Hamilton! Third on his debut and lead Alonso for much of the race. Not to mention leading the race itself twice - that lads going to go far. A bit more experience needed with the F1 backmarkers I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rik Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Don't normally make a point of watching F1 as it's pretty dull. But i might watch this one then if it's pretty good, and as it's the kick off for the new year. I did see a documentary about Hamilton the other night though, he looks like a natural born winner, extremely dedicated. He'll be champion one day for sure. Why the hell do three legged donkeys like Coulthard still have a drive? There must be loads of up and commers out there that are way more talented. it's the same with bikes though (moto gp), all the old crustys get shuffled around and you know damn well they aren't going to win anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil tt Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 It was a great race, thats because I surport Mclaren, but very impressed with Hamilton, I think there is a lot more to come:uk: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imi Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Why the hell do three legged donkeys like Coulthard still have a drive? There must be loads of up and commers out there that are way more talented. it's the same with bikes though (moto gp), all the old crustys get shuffled around and you know damn well they aren't going to win anything. Perhaps its due to the fact that he pulls in a lot of sponsorship...... Good race, With a reliable Ferrari that Kimi has, he will be winning a fair few races this year. And Mclaren have the best two driver combos on the circuit. Youth and Experience = fantastic. - I hope they win the drivers + constructors this year. What's up with poor Massa? Felt sorry for him being lapped by Kimi. MORE OVERTAKING REQUIRED IN F1..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian R Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 http://www.theprancinghorse.co.uk/news/newsfeatures/aeroupdates/bahrain2.jpg F1 spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil tt Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Nice spoiler, shame its red and belongs to a Ferrari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil tt Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 I have followed Coulthard for many years, I think he is still a very good driver, and given the right car would still win races. He also doesn't have to run into people, or drive them off the track to win, like some wa--ers that have left the sport:d Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian R Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 I have followed Coulthard for many years, I think he is still a very good driver, and given the right car would still win races. He also doesn't have to run into people, or drive them off the track to win, like some wa--ers that have left the sport:d Erm did you watch the race you may need to edit this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanM Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 but full marks to him he took responsibility for it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supradoopa Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Touring cars is the new F1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted March 18, 2007 Author Share Posted March 18, 2007 Yawn - just got up again. It was well worth staying up for. Must be the first F1 race I haven't felt drowsy through for years. Least said about DCs reckless lunge the better. He so nearly took Wurz's head off! As for full marks for owning up; he didn't really have much choice. It was blindingly obvious he was at fault. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colsoop Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 It was a good start to the year, shame now we have to wait 3 weeks for the next race Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil tt Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 I had had a few drinks but it did look like a resonable chance to over take:hide: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupraSkunk Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 great result for Lewis, and bad news for fluke 2 x world champ Alfonso as his rookie team mate is quicker than him haha Well done to Kimi, Kimi + Ferrari F2007 = 2007 World Champion, eat Kimi/Ferrari Dust Mclaren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesmark Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Dc's crash was not intentional he just came in far to hot. DC is probably the most technically brilliant F1 driver on the field and as mentioned before if in the right car then DC would still be a race winner. Bloody brilliant race, Renaults new driver Kovalainen needs to keep himself on the track running off all the time is Sato's role, fingers crossed Kovalainen can do better. Hamilton was brilliant if only it was not for back markers it would have been a close one for second. Good riddens to Schumacher with Kimi's race today it appears that Ferrari has a good car again and it was not all Schumacher and his so called brilliance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan Posted March 18, 2007 Author Share Posted March 18, 2007 I think Tony L needs to persuade his boss to get a new driver or two though. "I was trying to get my earplug back in when I spun" is one of the worst excuses I've ever heard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil tt Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Its not in doubt that Ferrari have a good car, will have to wait and see if Kimi can turn it into a world championship( i do hope not) Mclaren have the better drivers IMO:d Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupraSkunk Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Good riddens to Schumacher with Kimi's race today it appears that Ferrari has a good car again and it was not all Schumacher and his so called brilliance. Many of Schumacher's wins in a Ferrari were in a car that was not the best, id really like to see any other driver finish 2nd in a race with their car stuck in 5th gear from the very first lap or say come back to 4th place despite being 74 seconds behind and last after a tyre blow out like Schumacher did because of his driving "brilliance"... anyone who really thinks most of Schumachers wins were because he had the best car are talking complete rubish and no nothing about what makes a great racing driver. This says it all...Michael Schumacher's currently held world records:p .Most championship titles: 7 .Most consecutive championship titles: 5 .Most race wins: 91 .Most consecutive race wins: 7 (in 2004 - European GP, Canadian GP, United States GP, French GP, British GP, German GP, Hungarian GP; record shared with Alberto Ascari) .Most race wins with one team: 72 with Ferrari .Most race wins at the same GP: 8 at the French Grand Prix (Magny-Cours) .Most different GPs (by country) won: 20 .Most time between first and last race wins: 14 years, 1 month and 2 days .Most second place finishes: 43 .Most podium finishes: 154 .Most consecutive podium finishes: 19 (from the 2001 United States Grand Prix, until the 2002 Japanese Grand Prix) .Most points finishes: 190 .Most laps leading: 4741 (with a total of 22,155 kilometers (13,758 miles) in 131 Grands Prix)[54] .Most pole positions: 68 .Most starts from first row: 108 .Most fastest laps: 76 .Most doubles (pole position and race win): 40 .Most hat-trick (pole position, race win and fastest lap): 22 .Most championship points: 1,369 .Most consecutive race finished without retirement: 24 (from the 2001 Hungarian Grand Prix, until the 2003 Malaysian Grand Prix) .Most championship points in a season for a vice-world champion: 121 (out of a maximum of 180) .Most Wins in a season for a vice-world champion: 7 (ties Alain Prost and Kimi Räikkönen) .Only racing driver ever, in any racing class, to win 5 times at Indianapolis Motor Speedway .Only racing driver ever, in any racing class, to win 5 times at Autodromo Nazionale Monza 2004: .Most race wins in a season: 13 (out of 18 races) .Most fastest laps in a season: 10 (out of 18 races; tied by Räikkönen in 2005) .Most championship points in a season: 148 (out of a maximum of 180) 2002: .Most podium finishes in a season: 17 (out of 17 races) The one major record Schumacher missed out on was the record for most Grands Prix competed in. His final race was his 250th so he finished 6 short of Riccardo Patrese's record of 256. Other records he did not break were the one's for most pole positions in a season, as held by Nigel Mansell (14), and for most consecutive pole positions, held by Ayrton Senna (8). However, the record for the highest winning strike rate, is held by Juan Manuel Fangio, with 24 wins from 51 starts (47.1%) to Schumacher's 36.4%. He was the youngest double World Champion when he won the championship in 1995 aged 26 years, 9 months and 19 days, but this record was beaten by Fernando Alonso in 2006, when he won his 2nd championship aged 25 years, 3 months and 24 days. With the exception of his debut year, 1991 where he only participated in 6 races, Schumacher never had a winless year in Formula One. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonB Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Blah blah blah Still a cock though isn't he? No question he was a brilliant driver, which makes it even more of a shame he felt the need to cheat... And DC the most technically brilliant driver? Come on, he's a good solid driver, always has been. He's not brilliant though, he just hasn't got that last bit needed to be an exceptional driver. A bit like Fisi, Button etc. Mind you, he did give F1 one of the funniest moments ever when he crashed in the pit lane. And I still remember watching him crash on the formation lap, that was pretty funny too! Very impressed with Hamilton, I think Alonso had him covered though, but he's not going to have it easy this year that's for sure! Looks like his Dad is going to be the new Button's Dad too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupraSkunk Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Still a cock though isn't he? No question he was a brilliant driver, which makes it even more of a shame he felt the need to cheat... And DC the most technically brilliant driver? Come on, he's a good solid driver, always has been. He's not brilliant though, he just hasn't got that last bit needed to be an exceptional driver. A bit like Fisi, Button etc. Mind you, he did give F1 one of the funniest moments ever when he crashed in the pit lane. And I still remember watching him crash on the formation lap, that was pretty funny too! Very impressed with Hamilton, I think Alonso had him covered though, but he's not going to have it easy this year that's for sure! Looks like his Dad is going to be the new Button's Dad too... Yeah not many people like him especially in the UK cos of the hole German/English thing but i've met him and he is infact a very nice guy who does a hell of a lot for charity and road safety MS charity. In 2005, Schumacher donated US$10 million to charity for the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake in a charity show on the German television network ZDF. It was later announced that the bodyguard of Schumacher's two sons, Burkhard Cramer, had died while on holiday in Phuket, Thailand. In fact, his donation surpassed that of any other sportsperson, most sports leagues, many worldwide corporations and even some countries. Combining his hobby of football with charity, Schumacher has participated in several friendly games together with other Formula One drivers to raise money for charity. Road safety awareness. In 1997, the FIA tasked Schumacher to promote road safety as part of his punishment conditions for the incident in Jerez. Although initially short term, he is still an active advocate of road safety, and an iconic supporter of the FIA's initiatives to promote road safety around the world. Along with Max Mosley, he was a keynote speaker at the launch and official signing of the European Road Safety Charter in Dublin on 6 April 2004. He also participated in the global launch of the FIA's Think Before You Drive campaign at the 2005 Spanish Grand Prix along with then Ferrari team-mate Rubens Barrichello. In 2005 Schumacher agreed to join the high level Commission for Global Road Safety, headed by former NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, as the representative for Germany. The Commission’s report, Make Roads Safe, published in June 2006, argued for urgent international action to tackle the 1 million annual road deaths in developing countries around the world. Schumacher has subsequently supported the Make Roads Safe campaign, led by the FIA Foundation, which is calling on G8 countries and the UN to recognise global road deaths as a major global health issue on the scale of Malaria and TB. Special ambassador to UNESCO. Schumacher is a special ambassador to UNESCO and has donated US$3 million to the organization. He has funded projects for the construction of a school in Senegal, a clinic in Sarajevo and a centre for street children in Peru. He has even taken the rare step of visiting Sarajevo to see how his funding has benefited child victims of war. For his contribution, he was named a UNESCO Champion For Sport by its Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura in 2002. And as for a cheat the only time in the 16 years of watching him that i will agree he "cheated" was by trying to take out JV, but hey even the great Senna did that more than once and yet there is never any mention of this, the other times Schumi was called a cheat ie... Hill 94, Monaco 06, i do not agree with..Hill was a fool for trying to dive down the inside in 94 and all Schumacher did was stay on the racing line like he had every right to do, Alan Prost also Shares this view and as for Monaco 06 no way was that deliberate he was allready on pole and would never risk the car for the race by deliberately faking an accident, and in any case you can clearly see him lock up the left front tyre as he entered the corner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 :blahblah: Still a cock though isn't he? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupraSkunk Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 Still a cock though isn't he? No....which is more than i can say for some. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelfill Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 Yeah not many people like him especially in the UK cos of the hole German/English thing WTF ? Don't go there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SupraSkunk Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 WTF ? Don't go there Im not going anywhere! all im saying is for eg... most of my narrow minded english friends say that they hate him cos he's German, nothing to do with his driving or cheating but just cos he's german and i think thats probabaly the same for a lot of other British people. Anyway i dont want to upset anyone on here, i just wish people would give propper factual information for not liking Schumi rather than just "he's a cock" or "he was only good because of the car" and all the other bs that i keep hearing...but hey im a fan, i like him and i dont think he's a cock, if you hate him thats fine as well thats up to you just dont expect me to agree with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil tt Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 It amazes me that people can become blinkered, you only have to go back to Monaco 2006, to see the lenghts some people will go to, and cheat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I though this was the begining of the pit lane honest:search: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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