2014 Formula One

[Sideros]

I dunno, I've been the last two years, this year was nice not having to wear earmuffs and being able to talk to the people I was with. The new sounds are impressive in their own right and make it very distinctive. That clip on YouTube is the sounds on the straight- they should do a sound comparison on a corner... totally different experience.

[Mr Ree]

The difference between us (genuine car enthusiasts/motorsport fans) and a HUGE amount of people who attend GP's as an event, is that they dont understand/care about the technical side of the sport, and all they want is a car that literally flies past, and a sound that makes you shit your pants, not one that is quieter than a rowdy street car.

The thing with noise, is it gives you a greater feeling of speed, and this quiet generation of F1 PU, while still very impressive in regards to power/torque, visually look slower, and thats the thing that will stop people paying at the gates, and turning off their tvs half way through the races, once it all settles down.

There are far more of those ^ fans, than there are of us, and that will be the deciding factor on whether changes will be made to stop the casual fan walking away from the sport.

[Mr Ree]

So FP1 in 5 hours...

It will be very interesting to see how the cars pecking order moves, compared to Melbourne, given Sepang is such an aerodynamically important track. If you are fast here, you should be pretty solid all year long so it will form a far clearer picture than 2 weeks ago.

If the RBR can find reliability, and solve the fuel flow issues, I have no doubt that they can be at the pointy end, but will they calibrate the sensor to the recommendations given by the FIA, or will they ignore that and risk exclusion from 2, possibly 3 races, if they lose their appeal?

It will be an exciting battle for pole, thats for sure...

In other news ... GOOOO SVG...GOOOO DIXON

[Mr Ree]

A bit of a messy Qualifying session, especially when Sky TV $&#$% it all up as usual, they cant get anything right when it comes to giving their paying motorsport customers what they pay for.

It will be an interesting race, even more so if the standard tropical downpour happens as it did last night.

I hope Rosberg makes it two from two, with the other two spots being Kimi and Ricciardo

[loudstealthGT-Four]

A bit of a messy Qualifying session, especially when Sky TV $&#$% it all up as usual, they cant get anything right when it comes to giving their paying motorsport customers what they pay for.

It will be an interesting race, even more so if the standard tropical downpour happens as it did last night.

I hope Rosberg makes it two from two, with the other two spots being Kimi and Ricciardo

What was wrong with the coverage, they have a dedicated channel for the F1

[Mr Ree]

A bit of a messy Qualifying session, especially when Sky TV $&#$% it all up as usual, they cant get anything right when it comes to giving their paying motorsport customers what they pay for.

It will be an interesting race, even more so if the standard tropical downpour happens as it did last night.

I hope Rosberg makes it two from two, with the other two spots being Kimi and Ricciardo

What was wrong with the coverage, they have a dedicated channel for the F1

They cut qualifying short for all of their customers who get Sky through their vodafone/telstra clear account.

We havent got the channel that sky shifted the F1 across to last night, so missed the second half of it.

They need to remember that half their customers probably still have older set top boxes that cant get the extra channels, but motorsport is always the first to get bumped for anything else, so I shouldne be surprised.

Thank god we have the internet to get around problems like these though

[2jayzgte]

Sorry guys but for me this was another snooze fest up front and even back in the field a lack of wheel to wheel racing leaves me bringing a blanket and pillow so far when watching these races.

The sound of the cars to me is like a vaccum cleaner just haven't got my head around that as yet.

Saw them once mention when a car was coming out of the pits how you could hear a little tyre screech I laughed as they then went onto mention if this was last year we wouldn't have heard that at all man please bring back 18,000 rpm screaming V8's all day.

[Bazda]

The cars sound like they are from a computer game of some sort.

There def needs to be more action up the front of the field. It seems far too easy to Mercedes atm.

[DRFTIN]

missed most of qualifying because of that damn channel swap.
was out of town so manually booked everything on my sky, didnt notice they had switched to the other channel until i had deleted what i thought was something i didnt want to see
had the v8's to catch up on as well so ended up skipping out most of the boring f1 race

[d1 mule]

The race was a complete precession after the first 5 laps, the places were all but sorted from there.

I bet the stop/go man for Riccardo gets the boot, cost him a 4th and 10 grid spots at Bahrain. Maybe they gave him Webbers car...lol

[Sideros]

Loved the race, very happy with Mercs performance. Not too bad by Alonso either pity he couldn't get Vettel. Love what happened to Riccardo. Red Bull deserves all the bad luck in the world! Bring on Bahrain and anothe race lead start to finish by Mercedes

[2jayzgte]

Loved the race, very happy with Mercs performance. Not too bad by Alonso either pity he couldn't get Vettel. Love what happened to Riccardo. Red Bull deserves all the bad luck in the world! Bring on Bahrain and anothe race lead start to finish by Mercedes

I don't hate on RBR I didn't mind that they were flogging the opposition just mean't they were doing a better job then anyone else.

As mentioned its to much follow the leader and the cars just don't sound like F-1 as we knew it.

[Sideros]

I don't hate on RBR I didn't mind that they were flogging the opposition just mean't they were doing a better job then anyone else.

Sorry guys but for me this was another snooze fest up front and even back in the field a lack of wheel to wheel racing leaves me bringing a blanket and pillow so far when watching these races.

Hypocritical much? That's what was happening when RBR was in front, except far worse than it is this year...

[2jayzgte]

I don't hate on RBR I didn't mind that they were flogging the opposition just mean't they were doing a better job then anyone else.

Sorry guys but for me this was another snooze fest up front and even back in the field a lack of wheel to wheel racing leaves me bringing a blanket and pillow so far when watching these races.

Hypocritical much? That's what was happening when RBR was in front, except far worse than it is this year...

How have I criticized Mercedes though??

Even though RBR were flogging everyone back then at least there was some decent racing go on behind them across the board.

From what I have seen in the 1st 2 races this year its follow the leader across the board pretty much.

[Sideros]

Oh I didn't say you had directly, just the way it looked with those two statements together.

Yes this is rather dull right through the field, however I think once the other teams have a couple more races to develop their kit things should pick up.

[2jayzgte]

I found this pretty funny by Ferrari lol..Here's a clue Ferrari do a better job in the off season and save the moaning.

http://nz.sports.yahoo.com/motorsport/n ... i-critics/

[Mr Ree]

I wonder how the first Bahrain night race will affect the proceedings? Even though it will be easier on the tyres, and the intake charge cooling, I expect it will still be a balancing act for the teams who are still struggling with cooling their PU efficiently.

The track will play into Mercedes hands without a doubt, being the circuit is nearly all big straights. I wonder if any of the chasing pack have managed to ship out any new bits and pieces for this race...

In other news, Mitch Evans will be running for his new GP2 team (Russian Time) this weekend, and based of his performances during all pres season testing, the driver/car/team combo has alot more pace than the Arden team he drove for last season. Heres hoping he can finally get some good luck behind him and really stamp his mark on the championship this year

V8 Supercars are on too, so go SVG

[2jayzgte]

I wonder how the first Bahrain night race will affect the proceedings? Even though it will be easier on the tyres, and the intake charge cooling, I expect it will still be a balancing act for the teams who are still struggling with cooling their PU efficiently.

The track will play into Mercedes hands without a doubt, being the circuit is nearly all big straights. I wonder if any of the chasing pack have managed to ship out any new bits and pieces for this race...

In other news, Mitch Evans will be running for his new GP2 team (Russian Time) this weekend, and based of his performances during all pres season testing, the driver/car/team combo has alot more pace than the Arden team he drove for last season. Heres hoping he can finally get some good luck behind him and really stamp his mark on the championship this year

V8 Supercars are on too, so go SVG

Tell you what I like SVG's raw speed but for me young Scotty impresses the hell out of me.I love his work ethic and his off the cuff give it the jandal brings a smile from ear to ear.

[Sideros]

I found this pretty funny by Ferrari lol..Here's a clue Ferrari do a better job in the off season and save the moaning.

http://nz.sports.yahoo.com/motorsport/n ... i-critics/

Grr I HATE how when you click on links they don't open in new page, stupidest idea ever! /rant

Yeah pretty funny, I read an article on Planet F1 about that. He's right through, of course, the winner never complains!

Apparently Kimi has had a whole lot of updates, only assume Alonso has as well. No doubt RedBull will be pulling out all the stops to get new bits there to test during FP sessions.

[Mr Ree]

I wonder how the first Bahrain night race will affect the proceedings? Even though it will be easier on the tyres, and the intake charge cooling, I expect it will still be a balancing act for the teams who are still struggling with cooling their PU efficiently.

The track will play into Mercedes hands without a doubt, being the circuit is nearly all big straights. I wonder if any of the chasing pack have managed to ship out any new bits and pieces for this race...

In other news, Mitch Evans will be running for his new GP2 team (Russian Time) this weekend, and based of his performances during all pres season testing, the driver/car/team combo has alot more pace than the Arden team he drove for last season. Heres hoping he can finally get some good luck behind him and really stamp his mark on the championship this year

V8 Supercars are on too, so go SVG

Tell you what I like SVG's raw speed but for me young Scotty impresses the hell out of me.I love his work ethic and his off the cuff give it the jandal brings a smile from ear to ear.

Indeed, Scotty is awesome too. I should just say, go the kiwi boys, as they are all doing so well at the moment.

I have always loved Shanes attacking style, he is so exciting to watch because you know that if he even gets a sniff, hes throwing it up the inside, or outside as he loves to do