F1

[Bazile]

Cracking race - plenty of action all through the field .

Great to see the silver cars being allowed to race each other - could have gone horribly wrong

Force India on the podium - that's like a win for the privateers'

[mushroom25]

didn't get to see it - bbc having promised they'd be showing the races as family-friendly teatime highlights have now consigned the coverage to the graveyard of late sunday evenings.

:-(

[chrissa1]

It was at 10 in the evening on BBC2, mushroom. Hardly the graveyard shift.
It was a cracking race, just like the old days.

[Bazile]

Have you tried the red button ? - that's where i watched it yesterday

[Frank97]

Was a good race wasn't it.

[New Judge]

Yes once again the BBC has ceased to cover a major sporting series. It intrigues me that they can find the funds to send 65 or more people up North (all staying in very agreeable accommodation at about £300 per night) to film some sheep giving birth but they cannot find a decent slot for the recorded highlights of F1 that they are left with having only paid to cover about half the races live.

[WELSHYORKIE]

So much more exciting than watching Vettel, Vettel, Vettel and Vettel from last years calendar. Well done FIA for the exciting changes. Will we see CO2 emission caps for cars before long, I wonder?

[Frank97]

Anyone else secretly enjoying Vettel not doing so well this year?

[Bazile]

Indeed NJ - not to mention the shedloads of folding spent on the
'beautiful game'

[WELSHYORKIE]

Frank97 - yep, me! No more finger gestures, no more 'Yes, that's what I'm talking about' comments - that'll do me nicely, thank you

[Frank97]

Good man. ;)

[snags]

I wouldn't write off Vettel just yet (Riccardio is getting good results in the same car). Once Renault sort their engine issues - which they will - expect to see him challenging the Mercs.

Ferrari on the other hand...

[WELSHYORKIE]

This weeks race was exciting - the wheel to wheel stuff all F1 fans should be craving for - the cars were getting so close to each other that it had me on the edge of my seat for the whole of the highlights programme - fantastic stuff - more please.....

[WELSHYORKIE]

I hope Renault sort their engines out - my new Merc will have a Renault engine in it!!

[ChillDoubt]

It was a superb race and no doubt went a long way to re-igniting interest in what has become something of a bore-fest.

Proper wheel to wheel action (from just about every team to be fair, not just the silver arrows) with no quarter given or expected, team mates throughout the paddock having their own personal battles, it was a fantastic advert for F1. Kudos to Perez too, he drove a great race.

Hopefully the teams and drivers will maintain the same edict, I've no doubt Hamilton and Rosberg will.

[snags]

''it was a fantastic advert for F1''

Yes it was. And Maldonado (yet again) is a fantastic advert for not having Pay Drivers... what an asrehole.

[ChillDoubt]

Yes it was. And Maldonado (yet again) is a fantastic advert for not having Pay Drivers... what an asrehole.
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Absolutely. That guy is a mobile car crash just waiting to happen, in literally every race.
It was heart in the mouth stuff not seeing Gutierrez move for quite some time in the cockpit, he's a lucky bloke.
I know he (Maldonado) got the 10 second stop-go, will he suffer loss of grid loss at the next race too?
If not, he bloody ought to!

[snags]

5 place grid drop for china and 3 points on his Super Licence.

[ChillDoubt]

LOL, ta for the info snags.
He ought to start from the pit lane, he's such a plank.

[snags]

He shouldn't 'start' at all... and should also receive a one race ban, much like Grosjean received after his nonsense at Spa in 2012.