Formula 1 World Championship 2016

[Bigbazz]

Man, seeing this thread is the one reason why I miss not having cable anymore .. but to be more accurate, before even that, I missed SPEED Channel actually covering anything but "NASCAR NATION" 24/7, all day, every day. Sigh.

Not one to advocate piracy, but every single one of the races is available for download within hours of showing, usually the Sky UK broadcast (Damon Hill, Martin Brundle, Johnny Herbert).

I tried to watch the Indy 500 yesterday too on BT Sport (think it was just ESPN broadcast), its absolutely crazy how many ad breaks they take, quite annoying.

[laffling]

Yea i can't stand watching NBC's F1 so i just watch Henno's stream which is always Sky.

[Ariselea]

A buddy of mine was there, posting pictures with Vettel and Alonso just to rub it in, from what I gather it's quite affordable (I suppose if you set aside travelling costs) and he's been a few times, I've still yet to go to a GP. I'd love to go Monaco, beautiful place and the track is incredible.

I figure if I'm in Monaco, I have to be on the yachts and the casino, all weekend. I don't think that's going to fall into my bracket of "affordable" haha.

I have pay TV and the F1 is always live but sometimes free-to-air has it live (only for the Melbourne and the European tracks cause that falls around ~10pm).
When the season started this year, though, the sports channels were doing this whole ad campaign about how "We're a Fox-sporting nation. All games live and ad break free!"
Yea, about lap 10 into Melbourne the ads started rolling in. Not in the usual way. They'd minimize the footage, mute the sound, then do a picture-in-picture style ad about how I should buy an affordable washing machine ...
Thankfully that stopped. Way too many complaints.

[Ariselea]

And P1 is underway in Montreal! With more engine upgrades going out, will be nice to hopefully see a bit of a change up.

[Vestig3]

This was def one of the best and closest qualifications ive seen in a long time.

[Bigbazz]

Vettel sounded really disapointed even though he was super close to the Mercedes and had a great lap, I hear we might be getting rain for the race later so hopefully it can spice things up a bit.

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Super start by Vettel. Christ.

[laffling]

What is with the Mercs and terrible starts this year?

[Vestig3]

Dunno but Im not sure if Vettel can pull it to the end i think after this they will go for Soft but im not sure if they can finish the race with that.

[laffling]

Yea that stop from them was really weird

Pit fuck up again for Ric.

[Vestig3]

Question can Hamilton finish the race 44 laps on his softs!

[laffling]

Hasn't Vettel locked up bad before when chasing the Mercs recently?

I think Vettel gave up on this race after that huge lock up.

[Vestig3]

Nah even after the lock up he couldnt get close but im kinda suprised Lewis is finishing it with 44 rounds on his tires.

[laffling]

LOL Nico is he cracking?

[Vestig3]

Ferrari blew it with that first stop and gave the win away.

[laffling]

Yea it was such a weird stop to do that early in the race and for super softs at that.

[Vestig3]

I think they where hoping that they could catch more ground with the supersofts but ended up not catching that much just a 4-5 seconds, But tbh im done with those 1 stop strategies they should do 2-3.

[laffling]

Yea its kind of stupid when ultras and softs last 40+ laps.

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

Yea its kind of stupid when ultras and softs last 40+ laps.

Yeah, I was thinking the US would be lasting for 5-7 laps, but give you a speed difference of -3 seconds per lap compared to the H. Then SS would be 6-13 laps and -2 seconds per lap compared to the H. S would be longer still and give maybe -1 compared to the hard tyre, and then you have the hard tyre.

And then they go and run it for 50 laps in Monaco and 40 in Montréal...

[laffling]

The sun is gonna be a problem tomorrow just like today.