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  • F1 2017 (Bound to contain spoilers!)
  • the-muffin-man
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    Live Indycar practice for anyone who’s interested…

    bigdaddy
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    Good shout, cheers for the link

    the-muffin-man
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    I’m not sure if Alonso is running today or not.

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    bigdaddy
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    Well, that’s the dullest motorsport session ever! Hardly any commentary and 1 car at a time doing a couple of laps….

    bigdaddy
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    Ooh, I’ve stuck it out and fernando is out there… feels like one of our own Stick it to em fernando!

    slowoldman
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    Crikey those Indy cars are ugly. Here are a couple of proper ones:

    bluearsedfly
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    Cracking race. Would have loved to see Kimi and Bottas in the mix too.

    Not sure I like it all friendly at the top, I used to love the awkwardness between Hamilton and Rosberg in the post race press conferences. I need someone to booooo again.

    Although I’ll be doing that if Vettel keeps doing his pointy finger routine.

    legend
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    slowoldman – Member
    Crikey those Indy cars are ugly. Here are a couple of proper ones:

    Safety rules badly uglyfied them. Seems odd that the Americans would let it happen

    shermer75
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    Not sure I like it all friendly at the top

    It’s unlikely to last! 🙂

    the-muffin-man
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    Next years aerokit should make them look a lot better…

    https://www.motorsport.com/indycar/news/q-a-with-team-owner-sam-schmidt-on-2018-indycar-888527/

    So what’s the cheapest way to get BT Sport to watch the Indy 500!?

    eddiebaby
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    Go to a pub with BT.

    Tom-B
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    Just realised that I’m top of the starting fantasy league. Boom!

    the-muffin-man
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    Go to a pub with BT.

    In a pub for 3 to 4 hours on my own* – I’ll be pissed, bored and grumpy by the end of it! 😯

    shermer75
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    I’d be Dopey, Sneezy and Bashful

    the-muffin-man
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    The TV aerials are getting bigger!…

    igm
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    That’s not TV. It’s DAB. They’re all listening to Planet Rock.

    slowoldman
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    Reception is a bit dodgy in built up areas like Monaco.

    igm
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    Actually in Monaco they’ll be tuned to the traffic reports.

    thepurist
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    Actually in Monaco they’ll be tuned to the traffic reports.

    “reports coming in of a broken down car in the tunnel, eyewitness say a fair haired English man was seen running away from his orange car while laughing hysterically ”

    PJM1974
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    “reports coming in of a broken down car in the tunnel, eyewitness say a fair haired English man was seen running away from his orange car while laughing hysterically ”

    Hahahahaha!

    I’m reasonably confident that if JB did seventy laps of Monaco on his triathlon bike, he’d finish in a higher position than he would in that McLaren.

    [edit]

    seventy twenty.

    the-muffin-man
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    Not going to get much better for McLaren – copied from SkyF1 site…

    Are McLaren-Honda’s woes this season set to continue? Well according to Sky F1’s Martin Brundle, Honda’s big engine upgrade has been cancelled as it’s reliability has not improved.

    The Woking-based team are the only team yet to score a point this season and have been severely handicapped by the unreliability and lack of power in the Honda power unit.

    Already this season, Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne have recorded did not starts while Alonso has finished only one race, last time out in Spain, and Vandoorne has already taken grid penalties for exceeding the four penalty-free changes on parts of the power unit.

    Honda had said they were hoping to have an upgraded engine by the middle of the season, with next month’s Canadian GP reported as a possible target, but Brundle claims that is now not happening.

    “I head yesterday that the big upgrade that Honda had coming is not working and has been cancelled,” Brundle said after Practice One for the Monaco GP.

    retro83
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    FFS Honda!

    Unrelated but I saw that the teams are modifying the jack point as a result of the Billy Monger crash. Wonder if that’ll present any issues on race day?

    retro83
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    Has that been taken off Sky’s site t-m-m ? Can’t see it

    nickc
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    Great for Button this weekend what ever happens really. Paid to drive a car at the best F1 location, no-one expects anything of you at all, so even bringing the car home means you look like a hero.

    Wave to the crowd, collect paycheck. 😆

    the-muffin-man
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    retro83
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    the-muffin-man – Member
    It’s in the Gossip column retro83…

    http://www.skysports.com/f1/live-blog/30104/10034948/f1-gossip-column

    thanks

    chrismac
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    Great for Button this weekend what ever happens really. Paid to drive a car at the best F1 location, no-one expects anything of you at all, so even bringing the car home means you look like a hero.

    Wave to the crowd, collect paycheck.

    Getting beaten by his team mate would be embarrassing given how good a driver he thinks he is

    the-muffin-man
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    Stroll has crashed! 😀

    retro83
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    ffs 😆

    retro83
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    “People still drive like ****s, nothing’s changed”

    -Button

    PJM1974
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    Lance Stroll is the new Pastor Maldonado, except that at eighteen, he’s got years of stuffing his car into things ahead of him.

    I’m willing to bet that Stroll’s Monaco outing will only last sufficiently long for him to say “Vroooom! Cack!” when the lights go green on Sunday.

    retro83
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    PJM1974 – Member
    Lance Stroll is the new Pastor Maldonado, except that at eighteen, he’s got years of stuffing his car into things ahead of him.

    Except for one thing – Maldonado was quick!

    shermer75
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    Stroll and Palmer’s efforts are so poor that I’ve ended up swapping them for Wehrlein on my fantasy team- even though it’s a Sauber using one of last years engines lol

    PJM1974
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    Every year there’s always one driver who earns every penny for their sponsors because they invariably throw it into something. We’ve had such illustrious names as De Cesaris, Martini, Diniz, Inoue, Schumacher (Ralf) etc.

    Stroll is in stratospheric company here, given that his father bought him a team plus highly respected engineer to get him through F2, I suspect that if Stroll’s sponsors can be persuaded to add their logos upside down on the car then Williams will be quids in.

    nickc
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    Getting beaten by his team mate would be embarrassing given how good a driver he thinks he is

    well, he’s not driven the car before and Stoffel is what, 0.035secs and one place ahead of him after one practice session. It’s not looking good for SV is it? 😆

    and if I was an ex-FI champ, I think I’d be bold enough to call myself a “good” driver, wouldn’t you?

    bamboo
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    I think JB must have shunned chrismac’s advances in the past, as he only ever pops up on the f1 threads to slag JB off

    shermer75
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    Getting beaten by his team mate would be embarrassing given how good a driver he thinks he is

    If you are in any doubt about how competent a driver JB is then it is worth taking a look at his record against Hamilton when they were team mates at McLaren, it is very impressive! 🙂

    igm
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    JB is presumably doing a rain dance for the weekend.

    retro83
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    I was looking at JB’s tyre selection, is there any chance he could do a 1 stop or is the deg too high?

    jamesy01
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    I was looking at JB’s tyre selection, is there any chance he could do a 1 stop or is the deg too high?

    Its Monaco…everyone does a one stop with long first stint unless unforeseen circumstances dictate otherwise.

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