MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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#pirellishocker!!
No idea what's going on with these tyres, but it's hardly a good advert for Pirelli!
Third one now!
da fuq??
Safety car....
Sharp kerbs?
I wonder whats going on behind the scenes! A lot of people flapping?
Never seen owt like it!! Carnage.
What can they do though - leave them out and another one goes and someone gets hurt not good.
Stopping the race - not good.
Rock / hard place for Charlie et al.
Cheers
Danny B
Sharp kerbs?
I'd imagine the front wheel would be affected too.
safety car going to lead them to kwik fit?
Sharp kerbs?
Shit tyres?
shades of Indianapolis 2005, but at least Michelin realised in advance
I'd imagine the front wheel would be affected too.
Is there not more stress on the rear tyres?
farcical
shades of Indianapolis 2005, but at least Michelin realised in advance
Indeed. And at least there was more than one tyre so some people could race.
Reprofiled kerbs apparently, and talk that the inside face isn't as well finished as the rest so cutting kerbs too much possibly runs tyre over exposed aggregate. Sure there will be some forensic examination after the race.
Here's the pic of Vettels tyre...lucky boy
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Another lap and it looks like Sebbie's tyre would have gone also. Loved that shot of Newey head in hands...
Cheers
Danny B
And good to see all the drivers heading the advice to stay off the kerbs!
No more exploding tyres since they stopped using the kerbs
Commentary just insinuated that they'd increased pressures by a couple of PSI
....and changed tyres to higher pressures.
Finger boy out
Vettle ir out
AND THE CROWD GOES WILD!!!
Ooooo, Sebbie...
My gran can park better than that!
AND THE CROWD GOES WILD!!!
As he trips over his front wing 🙂
Another tyre goes pop
it's shambolic
Go webber 😯
Go Webber!
Would love him to win
can anyone explain the Vettel hatred? Or is it just people being ****s?
F1 exciting shocker 😆
legend - Member
can anyone explain the Vettel hatred? Or is it just people being ****?
No hatred on my part, find the guy very amiable, I just want a close championship, and for the last few years that means not supporting vettel
WHAT A RACE
Clearly what F1 needs is tyre delaminations every weekend. Well maybe that and to race at Silverstone every weekend - it does reliably produce more exciting races than most other circuits.
No hatred on my part, find the guy very amiable, I just want a close championship, and for the last few years that means not supporting vettel
Ditto
Its not hatred. I just don't like him as a sportsman. I admire his achievements, I just think he's a conniving little sod beneath the amiable facade and therefore, two faced. Kimi, webber and others were/are blatant in their ambition, honest about how they intend to go about things. Vettel is duplicitous and it's not a quality which endears him to me.
lolz at the guy who just fell over the armco 😆
can anyone explain the Vettel hatred?
Well he doesn't exactly endear himself to people does he? "I would do it again"
Interesting juxtaposition:
Commentator: "What a weekend Nico's had - his 28th birthday and now a win. He's had his cake and now he can eat it"
/pan and zoom in on Rosberg's missus....
aracer - Member
Well he doesn't exactly endear himself to people does he? "I would do it again"
how many of the best have made that sort of comment though? I'd guess all of them at some point.
Although, I suppose some may be remembered fondly, but not necessarily popular at the time (we just didn't realised due to lack of intarnetz?)?
legend - as I say, others say that kind of thing without the bullshit to the contrary around it.
It's the way he says it. The greats have generally managed to say such things without sounding like quite such a nob. To be fair, he's not the first successful German driver to be an arrogant arse.
Ooh, cheeky - DC just used the tyre issue as an excuse to get RB to comment on the secret tyre test 🙂
Perhaps Pirelli should give the affected teams a free tyre test with their newer compounds...
Aracer - arrogant or sure of his ability to win 7 titles? 😉
Pook, I see where you're coming from however I think all that stuff is blown way out of proportion. Also trying to remember what all the others were like at his age. LH was looking at a career in hip-hop and Kimi was either drink or refusing to utter more than 2 words iirc 😉
Sniffpetrol has a good view of the tyre thing.
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Gary Anderson: "We have heard a lot today about Turn 4 and we have come to have look at what could be causing these punctures. Looking at the part inside the kerb, it is green to match the grass but it is actually concrete. The cars go over the section and the sidewall of the tyre could be getting caught on a sharp part of the kerb, it is about the height we saw the tyre getting cut and coming off."
Rosberg under investigation for not slowing under yellow flag conditions?!
Webber drove well but considering that LH was at the back of the pack he drove a blinder to get back to 4th - the last 6 laps were brilliant.
Rosberg keeps the win - only got a reprimand instead of a time penalty.
Would have been a shame if they had demoted him - reckon he's really showing how capable he is against Hamilton at the moment - his arrival is keeping Nico on his toes.