General Sports Thread

Still trying to work out if that was aimed at me or Lewis !

 

Hahaha, I think our sporting British hero outdoes the whole site put together on the ego front!

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/41117556

Jamie Murray (and partner Soares) now sole GB interest in US Open.

And as an aside, Serena Williams has had a baby girl.

 

Congrats to Serena.

 

Slightly confused that Charles Leclerc is starting 7th at Monday this afternoon.

 

In other news, it's pissing with rain at Monza, so that might liven things up a bit for F1 qualifying.

 

Go to 22 mins 22 secs ( ish ) .

 

From the BBC .


Particle accelerator turn on = rain in Monza
Here's an obscure bit of scientific-F1 tittle-tattle.

The last wet qualifying session in Monza was in 2008, when Sebastian Vettel took a shock pole for Toro Rosso en route to an even more shocking win a day later.

That race weekend was held in the week the Large Hadron Collider was turned on deep underground in Geneva. Quite a few people were concerned what the LHC would do to the - well - world, once it was up and running, and the extreme weather and black-as-night skies in Monza that week led one or two people in the paddock to wonder if their worst fears were about to be realised.

As it turned out, the world was not rent asunder by the LHC, so that's nice.

Anyway, yesterday a not dissimilar machine was switched on for the first time deep underground in Germany- the XFEL. This is a powerful X-ray machine housed in a 3.4km-long tunnel complex some 40m beneath Hamburg and the nearby town of Schenefeld.

AND NOW IT'S RAINING IN MONZA AGAIN!

COINCIDENCE?

 

Yes.

 

FFS !

 

Dear Diana , the moon was bright , I loved you , no ****e !

 

Going to be more boring now they've waited too long on the rain.

 

Great lap from Lewis to take pole, and Lance Stroll takes second!!!?

Anyone bored, the F2 race about to start in the gloom and rain should be great,

 

For a moment there, I thought you said Lance Stroll took second!

 

He will start second due to the Red Bulls penalties , he qualified 4th .

 

Leclerc seventh to second in the first lap.

 

Bonkers race. Rowland came from 13th to 3rd until his wheel fell off, causing a safety car. De Vries then pushed Leclerc into the barriers on the last lap like a loony, meaning we ended up with an Italian 1-2 in Monza.

Brilliant.

 

Well, if he's not starting until Monday he hasn't got much chance...

 

Hahaha, autocorrect doesn't like Monza!

 

Jamie Murray through in the US Open in mixed doubles (with Hingis) and mens' doubles (with Soares).