Grand Prix thread Not606 2016 British Grand Prix Chat and Predictions

Interesting comments from Vettal about the wet Tyres.

http://www.planetf1.com/news/vettel-nobody-trusts-pirellis-extreme-wets/

 

Is your real name Andrew Benson?

 

Can't possibly imagine why Lewis would actually move to Ferrari, the Italian team are nowhere near being capable of providing him or anybody else with a championship winning car.

Me thinks, Ferrari will be waiting for a very very long time !!!!! in fact, I bet it will never ever happen.

 

Hasn't Hamilton signed up until 2017 with an option for another year?
Merc have always had one of the best power units in F1, and since the Hybrid Era, their's is head and shoulders above the rest.
Can't see that changing too much next year..

Paddy Lowe has already stated that they are well under way with their 2017 car.. wouldn't be surprised if they are already trialling 2017 bits on the current car.
Red Bull will be their nearest challanger's 2017 and I could see McHonda putting in a decent fight too, they have a decent car and with a better engine/PU they'll contend!
Ferrari, given their 2016 in season development track record so far, if not careful, could be 3rd/4th best next year!

 

Like Alonso and Vettel, it would be a money motivated move, which can be glossed over by saying he wants to make Ferrari great again, just as the others did.

Whether it will happen or not is another matter. Ferrari would then have to let Vettel go as they are not capable of running two competitive cars as history has shown.

 

Sure he'd jump at the change to jump into a Merc, esp. if they are still dominating, would also work well for Merc, German manufacture with a German winning the title for and with them.. Unlikely to happen with the current German in the Merc, given the head start Nico had is all but gone now... we all know that'll he'll bottle it again later on this year!

 

I guess, if Rosberg was not informed of the issues and advised accordingly he may well not have even finished in the points and buggered up the gearbox in the process.

Although I think the conversations were entirely spontaneous and not deliberately intended to be advantageous.

 

But surely the whole point was to stop coaching, not alerting the drivers that their car is about to go pop.

 

If it goes pop then that could ruin the "spectacle"
If the car can be saved, then I'm all for saving it, just don't tell them how best to drive it once saved!

 

Naaah. Not having it. I think it's utter cac.

 

I totally agree, I think my previous post is ambiguous and misleading.

 

It's just a silly rule for modern F1. The FIA trying to oversimplify a complex car, yearning for yesteryear perhaps.

 

The rule must have been implemented correctly as Miggins hasn't come on here yet to complain about it unfairly benefiting Hamilton .........

That's the yardstick I now use to determine whether stewards decisions are right or wrong these days.

 

I can't believe the safety car didn't get a penalty for turning in on Hamilton

 

Yesteryear !!!!!! bring it on.

 

I fear that Hamilton's celebration may have made his head explode in a scanners style fashion.

 

I disagree, Ferrari ran both Kimi and Massa as equals until one or the other was a better shot for the championship. Now weather Lewis or Vettal would move over for the other is a completely different story, but Ferrari have proved that they can and will run join number 1 drivers.