FORMULA 1 2018 ROLEX AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX: RACE *** SPOILERS ***

Vulgar posts, personal attacks, driving away other members, restarting asinine disputes, and taunting the moderators. 1-month ban.

1-month thread ban from this and the Lewis Hamilton thread. Racial tensions are no joking matter and it will be a loss of access to the whole site next time if you poke at this subject again.

Regards,
Andrew.

 

Rabbits?

 

We learned recently of a derogatory racial term in the Lewis Hamilton thread. It was addressed and we need to move on - if some won't leave it alone then there will be increasingly aggressive moderation until they do or they may earn a permanent exclusion.

No further discussion of rabbits is necessary in the thread. If anyone has any questions, contact me privately.

All the best,
Andrew.

 

Surely the following post is taunting as well then? This is the whole toil situation all over again. We have a few members who do nothing but do pro Lewis postings, purely to get a reaction out of the others. If the above is ban worthy, the following is too.

 

Normal race banter. If that was the standard for taunting, everyone posting in the F1 forum would be permabanned.

All the best,
Andrew.

 

Considering his recent postings I disagree but will leave it at that, see if his ability for sensible discussions can improve.

If not, can see myself spending less and less time here.

 

Fixed!

 

Have you seen all the constant fiddling drivers do with the buttons and switches on the wheels? It's nuts. They need to get rid of all that crap.

What happened to the ban on constant radio coaching?

 

Hilarious! A few more for the Fchatters you can use

 

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Drivers haven’t mattered in many years now imho. Tech run amok.

 

Tech was important but if you win or lose a race because you didn't push the right button, something is wrong.

 

I agree. They need to get rid of all these software variations. Pick one for the race and drive already.

 

Yes.....making the race details even more inacessible isn't helping.

 

Honestly I never heard that before. Weird.

 

That plus they collect SOOOOO much data they don't know where to store it.....storage space.


Big data: How one F1 team creates more information than it can handle.

https://www.racefans.net/2018/02/14/big-data-how-one-f1-team-creates-more-information-than-it-can-handle/

 

But Seb was gracious in victory and acknowledged it was lucky. LH looked like he was in shock. Sometimes the fastest car doesn’t always win....

 

Stupid things

1) ESPN -- come on guys. You can't even turn the sound on??? It's called the MUTE button!
2) Halo -- you can't see the drivers and you can't see the track from the overhead view. Might as well put them in closed cockpits now. Meaningless.
3) They have cameras all over the cars -- but never showed them. So, what good are they?
4) Winning and losing by software glitches? LAME. This is not racing. It's Donkey Kong. Why even have drivers. Computers can drive faster.
5) Grid kids? Why bother?
6) Kimi complaining he was told to move up and support Vettel -- Umm... Kimi: WHO pays your SALARY?
7) McLaren bragging it finished 5th? Hey guys -- did you forget Haas cleaned your clocks all weekend?
8) "Fans" booing Hamilton? Low class.
9) Ferrari "winning"? Yah sort of. At least Vettel and Kimi know they are behind. Maybe waaay behind.
10) Honda with yet another engine fail? Geez guys --- get your act together!

Sure, I'm happy Vettel won. But F1 has it's problems.

 

Luck is part of every victory in F1. Has been since the first race. Bad luck can be as simple as being in the wrong place at the wrong time, getting taken out by another car through no fault of your own. Good luck can be having a safety car come out at the perfect time for you and the worst time for the guy behind you.

If Ferrari wasn't fast enough, it wouldn't have been able to take advantage of its good luck and make it stick. If Mercedes was faster it would have been able to repass Ferrari.

The biggest positive for me, undone by bad pit work, was the showing of Haas and their drivers. I'm looking forward to seeing what they do in the next race. Every car that was running behind them...including Red Bull, Renault, McLaren and all the others got two free positions because of Haas' bad luck.

The Sky coverage certainly felt different from NBC...now ESPN needs to give us a decent post race show as well.

All in all it was a pleasant surprise and a very good race...in my opinion.

 

^Sky has a post race. ESPN thinks we would rather see some talk show about a basketball team in 2006 instead.

 

Forza Seb! Won on luck today, but that's racing. Ferrari has a very hard uphill struggle ahead to have a chance to win the titles. One of the big factors is that Hambone no longer has a teammate who can seriously challenge him and get in his head. So he only really has to beat the slower teams.

 

Great points-and this is why I'm having more enthusiasm with MotoGP as a series than F1 which has allowed itself to become a farce. (At least Honda is alive and well in MotoGP)...

 

True, but he also no longer has a car that can overtake anyone at will. See also Bottas' slow climb from P15.

HAM still faster today but even he had to turn down the engine modes and save fuel/engine life/tires at the end. That big push he did after going wide was not representative of a sustainable pace. Nobody can say, like we used to, that he was just managing the gap. Maybe Seb was though ;-)

 

It appears ESPN has merely signed on to simply broadcast the Sky coverage here in the U.S. with no commitment to providing a broadcast team. As soon as the interviews were completed ESPN left Sky to go onto the next show. There was no wrap-up coverage summarizing the race including, drivers and team point standings because no one from ESPN has been assigned to cover F1.

 

Contrary to what the MB boyz are swearing in public, I think there is indeed a Party Mode that is not compatible for repeated use during the race considering the 3 engine limit for the season.

Seb did everything he could today and it worked out. But that will be of little comfort going forward. Looks like Bottas won't be able to help his teammate very much, so at least that's a weakness.