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im just getting into f1
after watchin the senna doc it made me love this sport
Hey man, it's never too late!im just getting into f1
after watchin the senna doc it made me love this sport
New Star Sports commentary.
New Star Sports commentary.
Unfortunately, I didn't start following until AFTER Senna died... for me, it was about this era...
that... and the whole "Silver Arrows" aspect of McLaren as well as the McLaren F1 did it for me. It didn't help that Schumi took out Villeneuve at the end of the '97 season.
So I guess you can imagine my devastation when Kimi switched to, of all teams, Ferrari!
Similar situation right now, though I don't hate Mercedes... they (esp Lewis) do look very strong.
I never liked Slater cuz I felt he, at times, got some of his commentary wrong... I've heard him say stuff that make certain situations sound worse than it really was... for example, if a car slowed down during quali, he'd be quick to say something like "Oh no, has he got a problem!?", but in reality, if you paid a bit more attention, you would have noticed that the driver was probably giving himself a bigger gap to the car in front so he could start his flying lap. I've also heard him say "when is this car going to have his pit-stop?", when in reality, the driver made his stop 5 laps ago. All in the details. The guy knows his racing history no doubt, so maybe that's more his area?too bad for Steveactually i kinda like him, have to give props to him tho. he eats, sleeps and breath racing and def know his F1 stuff. he put the credibility in their coverage with STAR. they had a lot of people on the commentary before that barely knows F1 or just starting to know the sport just because their part of Star anchors
even up until now, Paula, Steve D and Sanjiv says generic stuff, same exact stuff that you see online. they just go on air and say things like caual viewer
I actually started watching F1 that very same year, when Schumacher took out Villenueve. I got more into F1 because of a random video game on N64 called F1 World Grand Prix. I thought the concept of using tyre/aero and team strategy, in addition to all the crazy tech they have in F1 was cool and I became a big fan of Hakkinen/Mclaren. I don't know how to feel about this upcoming year, though. I think im just going to pull for both AMG and Mclaren
^ That Chinese dude with the pony-tail and the beard? LOL
FIA acts as mice cause problems in Melbourne
16/03/2013
Mat Coch writes:
It appears that mice - similar to the one pictured - have got in to the Race Control systems in Albert Park and nibbled at some of the wires.
FIA race director Charlie Whiting has therefore sent a note to teams stating that a number of the standard features and alerts usually under race controls finger are not working.
The full statement reads:
"Due to reliability problems with the telemetry link between race control and the cars we will be disabling this with immediate effect. The consequences for the race will be as follows;
1: None of the red, yellow or blue cockpit lights will work.
2: At the start of the race DRS will be automatically enabled once each car as crossed the Line to complete two laps.
3: There will be no automatic blue flag messages on the Official Messaging System. We will do our best to give as much information from race control as we can, however, it will be even more important that teams do what they can to ensure their drivers respect blue flags.
4: If the safety car is deployed Safety Car Model will have to be selected manually by the driver immediately after he sees either the SC light panels or SC boards being held out by marshals.
5: If the safety car is deployed a message saying "DRS DISABLED" will be displayed, we will however be unable to actually disable it. Therefore, from this point, drivers must not use DRS until the message "DRS ENABLED" is shown two laps after the safety car returns to the pits (due to the layout of the track the "DRS ENABLED" message will be sent when every car has reached the end of the second activation zone before turn 3).
6: If yellow flags or lights are displayed in a DRS activation zone "DRS DISABLED" will be displayed, from this point drivers must not use DRS in the yellow zone until the message "DRS ENABLED" appears.
7: In conditions of poor visibility a message saying "DRS DISABLED" may be displayed, we will however be unable to actually disable it. Therefore, from this point, drivers must not use DRS until the message "DRS ENABLED" is shown.
In order to allow your drivers to get a chance to acquaint themselves with some of these features we will be running a further test after P3 in exactly the same way as we did after P1 and P2.