live on Channel 4. Great start by Vettel, overtaking Hamilton on the first corner. Hamilton got it back on lap six in a great move. Now he seems much faster, could turn into a boring race. Looks like a very good circuit though, lots of overtaking opportunities and full speed series of corners. C4 commentary team - Coulthard, Webber and Jordan - all a bit sniffy about the American razzmatazz in introducing drivers etc. Get over it, F1 has a lot to do to make up ground in the US from the fiasco in Indianapolis in 2005.
Hamilton just came out of pit stop by the skin of his teeth ahead of Vettel but is now pulling away, as you say it looks like an easy win from here unless there's engine problems...
Main interest is racing in the pack and whether Vettel’s car will let him down again to give Hamilton the championship. Verstappen v Raikonnen most intesterting bit, but the youngster has quite a bit of catching up to do. Alonso retired, can only be a matter of time before he quits F1 to concentrate on IndyCar and Le Mans. Shame, a great driver in a crap vehicle.
F1 is a borefest for me recently. Used to love it but now it's more interesting watching the qualifying as whoever gets P1 tends to win the race. Added to that, Hamilton is an intellectual dwarf. He is so far up his own arse he can barely walk. In other words he is a ****tard and a narcissist.
He is a sensational driver though, incredibly quick, and given that this is his job, his personality is fairly irrelevant. Senna was, in my opinion, a very selfish **** as well, but an astounding driver. I’d don’t think there are any nice blokes in F1, at least not at the top of the sport. Incredible egos are required to do this stuff.
I could do Hamiltons job AND I wouldn't be such a sour **** in the process. Piece of piss! I do more miles in my company smoker in a year than that **** will do in a lifetime on a race track. Tax avoiding **** for brains.
Only caught the last 30 mins or so, but although Hamilton won, Mad Max was the race driver of the day, especially given his 17th place start. Now a 5 sec penalty - what crap. Starting in 1996 I travelled up to Montreal for 12 years straight for the Canadian F1 GP, taking in the full 3 day event including support races - inside of the hairpin was my preferred spot, a cheap Bronze grandstand, with great views and big screen, at around $200 for the weekend. Close exit to the Metro station too for a fast getaway on Sunday rushing to the airport for a return flight.
Spectators want to see exciting overtaking, sadly the stewards don't. Vettel was deliberately let through to 2nd and then slowed down to allow Raikonnen to use DRS to hold Verstappen off, but that doesn't get penalised. F1 is sometimes it's own worst enemy...
Every season we say they have to sort this **** out. Perhaps next year...... All 4 wheels over the white line. As Coulthard says the rule isn’t consistently applied, plenty of other places on the track where this is done with impunity.
I believe that was 2011 and I was not in attendance - I went every year 1996 - 2008, but race was cancelled for 2009 season in Oct 2008 due to contract issues, and I never went back. I had already purchased my discounted accomodations for 2009 race weekend too and initially they didn't want to refund me. Back then if you had a good seat in a grandstand, as I did on the inside of the hairpin (GS 34) you had first dibs on the same seat each year and that was great.
The last year I had any interest in f1 was the year Jenson won the championship in a Braun (who'd think an electric shaver could be so fast) because it was a surprise, since then it's been boring with one team domination. If you want proper racing by real men whop are allowed to start races in the rain (how can you have "the best drivers in the world in the best cars" not allowed to start a race because the track's wet?) Motogp is the place to be.
