I'm slowly working my way round the threads deleting the abuse. I'm also recording who's posts I'm having to delete so see if theres any stand out members who like dishing out abuse so there's a warning to some of you. I'm also on a computer most of tomorrow so I think its time to draw a less lenient line. As for an extra mod, it may help but members respecting each other would all but remove the need for any mods (bar spam attacks). I'm happy to be a mod, I enjoying trying to make this forum grow and become a better place, but it saddens me to see it at times like these. On a side note I have tweaked the house rules and I will personally being enforcing them to the letter tomorrow, sadly
I am glad we have moved on, but I cannot still help but thinking we need at least 1 more mod. I would suggest Cosicave. He is an exceptional poster, who never gets into fights and arguments with anyone really. But AG, BLS and El Bando.. Keep up the good work!!
This is an awesome forum, can't get anything like this anywhere else, what more do you need, we have inter-forum challenges ,polls and nice debates popping up from time to time, this forum (f1) covers everything over a weekend..
Although I raised the concern in a new post - I accept MODS cannot be watching all hours of the day !!! I also want to go on record praising the 3 who do a great job most of the time. They have also introduced and encouraged wider use by the members. I just wanted to frighten off posters who move towards personal attacks as soon as opinions conflict with theirs. The final step is to have them banned - with limited numbers of sins. Most of us contribute new information, speculation, engineering know-how, long experience - sometimes fun. I wouldn't want the forum to become a boring list of repetitive 'I think xxxx is easily the faster, YYYY is crap'
The unsung Driver of the day I think was Kobayashi, Not getting into Q2 and ending up 9th The Strategy is usually what Perez does but Koba has shown him how its done
As there is now a seperate thread to discuss the forum I think its best this thread is returned to the German GP. Having recapped the race Sutils result really was a good one, a solid drive for solid points. Hamilton is still the stand out driver of the day for me and its great to see him and Alonso battling it out hard but fairly again. two outstanding drivers to chase down Vettel. Whilst we are talking about chasing down Vettel Planet-F1 is reporting this: understandable at the moment, but never say never hey Jenson!
Brundle's blog is now up F1 tide turning against Red Bull towards McLaren & Ferrari Always an interesting read
It's funny but true. Last year Alonso wanted Massa to take points off his rivals and he didn't do it. This year I believe his best finish is 5th, which is pathetic considering Alonso has 5 podiums in the same car. Okay, he deserved 4th in Germany - but that still wouldn't be good enough for a podium. Alonso will be laughed at if he publicly says "I can still win the title but I need my teammate to take points off Red Bull" - It's a contradiction! This is why I keep saying Massa is at serious risk of being replaced and his potential replacement will not be Bianchi/Perez or other inexperienced drivers: Ferrari need a strong second driver with the ability to take points from Ferrari's rivals and consistently finish in strong positions. That's why I'm convinced that Ferrari will sign someone like Webber or Rosberg (unless they are unavailable, in which case Massa has a good chance of keeping his seat, providing Ferrari don't have additional contingency plans (like Sutil, Kobayashi, Glock possibly)).
--- Budapest this weekend will be very telling for both Red Bull and the 2011-style wild action and overtaking. It's a track where Red Bull excelled last year, and where passing is notoriously difficult. I am looking forward to observing Vettel. I suspect we may see him at his very best. ---
Domenicali says Ferrari’s German GP performance was even more encouraging given that the team has edged towards a wet set-up. “Of course we were expecting rain. I don’t know if the others we were really setting up the cars for dry conditions. We took some compromises because we thought it was raining conditions. It’s even better to see with this kind of compromise the car was quite competitive. I think no one would have thought about a dry race today, to be honest.” http://adamcooperf1.com/2011/07/25/stefano-domenicali-the-performance-is-where-it-should-be/
Alonso must also have been told to ease of at a couple of stages to conserve fuel..... Maybe his overall performance was restricted?
He said in his post race interview he didn't have to back off to save fuel. Not sure whether it was true or not as he only had about half a lap of fuel left by the end. The race edit might give us some extra radio traffic but I'm sure a low fuel warning would have been played live?
It shows the difference in mentality between mclaren and ferrari. When hamilton was running low. he was told to back off, and save fuel. Ferrari basically told fernando to get on with trying to win the race. That takes guts, and i admire them for doing it.
