F1 2012 Season Thread
 

Brilliant. Pretend you give a shit this year guys. Raikonnen is back! Ross Brawn already has something potentially illegal on the car! Sky has two hot presenters! (and I'm not talking about that silver fox Damon Hill :naughty: )

Come on, humour me.

This belongs in the Discussion Forum.

No, it effin does not.

Unfortunately I won't share you enthusiasm because I haven't got Sky but I'm looking forward for the BBC coverage with the young version of Murray Walker commentating Ben Edwards......I hope Vettel won't win nearly every race like last season.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO KIMI :'(

Well shit

Really not enjoying seeing that McLaren pace, but at least Mercedes look a bit quick.

That smile on Grosjean's face isn't coming off all day. Awesome shit.

I do wish they'd do something about cars not coming out for Q3, would have laughed to see Riccardo get in front of the Red Bulls.

I was shocked with Grosjean ending up 3rd, nice stuff, Mercedes looks competitive, what the hell happened to Ferrari?

Ferrari had some exhaust system at the first test where they weren't bad, but the system wasn't reliable at all so they've taken it off to tweak it. They'll be back up there I reckon, this won't be like Kimi's final season with them.

I'm leaving Sky soon :( - But for now I'm loving the channel and SkyGo for Android. Awesome stuff. Love it.

It's going to be tight for these fly away races, real season starts when Europe comes and the form book will get shaken up.

Cannot wait for the GP tmo.

Loving the Sky F1 channel myself. Going to cancel sports since you get it with the HD pack anyway as I only seem to watch Raw on it and the football down the pub instead.

Looking forward to catching some GP2 races as well since the F1 channel is showing them.

Yeah not a massive fan of F1 but the channel Sky have made for it has been interesting.

Anyone watching it on BBC? sucks being a freeview bitch.

I'm such an addict I watched the BBC version too.

Only thing BBC now has as an advantage is Jake Humphrey, especially him diving in on Kimi. Everything else is better on Sky apart from Natalie Pinkman's interviewing style.

Dunno, like Jake as a presenter. Better than the souless ginger bloke Sky seem to have.

Kind of hate my sleeping pattern during the long haul races. Was in bed by about 6ish last night and now wide awake at 2am.

When he covers MOTD/fiddles kids on set/Olympics he comes across as a prick and I have no idea why he's more "natural" on F1 or something.

Can't actually trust ex-kids TV presenters that aren't Andi Peters or Phillip Schofield.

Fuck that Sky presenter and his whole family too. I dont mind BBC as much, but have always preferred Star Sports/ESPN while in India for 1 very good reason:

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So pumped for this more than usual. Lack of Red Bull domination seems delicious. Predicting a Button, Hamilton, Schumacher podium, but would love it if it was Schumcher, Rosberg, Gorsjean.

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All-star line-up of Aaron Eckhart and Harry Kewell in the Red Bull garage.

Grosjean's out :'( Great start for the Mercs though until Vettel got up Rosberg with a sweet, sweet move. Can't begrudge that.

Great race, just a shame that the Mercedes couldn't keep up in the race.

Glad Vettel didn't win, happy with Button winning, will watch the highlights later on. Jake Humphrey is alright as a presenterand his bromance with Coulthard, can't stand Eddie Jordan though(when I was a at Jordan we did this/that) but he's a legend. Rather Lee McKenzie than the women on Sky.

Good race that, loved the last lap.

As a Williams fan I well gutted with Maldonaldo, he had a smashing race......

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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo

Roll on Malaysia.

FUCK Button.

If a McLaren has to win, I'm always glad when it's Button.

And then Wrestlemania... Then the race after that....

My weekend sleeping pattern is going to be FUCKED.

Yours? I got the races at 1 am, 3 am and so on :'(

Malaysia bitches. Just watching my recorded practice. It's only Friday, but that McLaren still looks mighty :'(

Them McLarens do it again. Kimi was super fast and made a mistake on his lap :(

will this be like 1988? McLarens dominating the season?

God I hope not. Don't see it either, Red Bull aren't going to take it lying down and Mercedes are already up there.

Damn I loved that race. Just wish Checo could have not gone wide and beat Alonso though.

nice finish, wish Perez won it, he gave Alonso a hell of a fight.

If it was a Toro Rosso gaining on a Red Bull, would Red Bull be able to <s>bully</s> team order the shit outta that maneuver?

Probably.

Sky F1 have been showing the review of the year 2011 and at one of the races, Jaime Alguersuari blocked Vettel slightly when both of them were on a flying qualifying lap and it showed footage of Helmut Marko having a go at Jamie for it. Heaven forbid he sets the fastest time he can.

Speaking of Toro Rosso though, mad props to Jean Eric Vergne for staying out on inters when the rain was that bad before the red flag.

Keep seeing comments online about how disrespecting Vettel was when talking about Nico Rosberg. What did Vettel do?

Also, just noticed that post on the last page. :heart: kimi

Can't find anything he said about Rosberg. He called Karthikeyan an idiot though.

HELLLLOOOOOOOOO LADIES
 

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:naughty::naughty::naughty:

Lol that is awesome

Tomorrow is going to be interesting, well chuffed when Vettel failed to qualify in the top 10, made my morning.

Fucking Mercedes front wing :foc:

Still pretty cool to see Schumi on the front row though :heart: :'(

Oh man, they both got away great as well.

I'm going to be more tense and jumpy on this race than I was last race with Perez.

Schumi out :'(

At least Brundell cheered me up. "Schumacher's out! I've not been this disappointed since Shrek 2"

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:'(

Yo Keke I did it. What a race. Nice to see it live on BBC.

Amazing race! Real nail biter with all that drama for 2nd place. Poor Kimi :(

Schumi out Q1. Just broke my remote control.

Kimi did it again :mad:

Vettel on pole? that means a Vettel win tomorrow.

Depends on tire wear.

Yeah, McLaren were talking like it could be a 4 stop race for some teams. Slightly biased, but still going with Rosberg just because of how well those tyres were on the car last race.

Schumacher has a 5 place grid penalty for a new gearbox too....

Fuckity.

Ridiculous amounts of overtaking going on :y:

Lewis and his pit stops :lol:

Looks like Lotus has decided to play it safe to get 2nd and 3rd. Can't blame them but kinda disappointed.

Boy, that one car is a heck of an athlete.

What?

What a qualifying, poor Maldonaldo.

I miss one qualifying and fucking Pastor Maldonado makes it to the front row ahead of Alonso :nono:

Yay Maldonaldo and haha Hamilton, would be an interesting race tomorrow. a long awaited Williams win would be awesome.

The interviews with McLaren after the session were hilarious.

"We have no idea what the technical fault is". Hiding the truth.

Maldonado holding his own in the race, but I am still counting on a Spanish win here.

Just as I read that, Maldanado gets the undercut and leads Alonso :heart:

Yes I see that, Shaun Hasney :mad:

lol at Schumi putting all the blame on Senna though. TOTALLY UNLIKE HIM!

"Getting KK'ed" now means something in the real world which has nothing to do with Kane Knight.

Slow Maldanado stop though. Hopefully the undercut will see him through again.

A botched Williams pit stop reduces the gap in half

"Major nose jobs for the Red Bulls" is now my favourite quote from the race.

Jesus, this is going to be like Perez. Maldanado needs to make those tyres last.

Kimi gets to decide who wins the race.

If Lotus are right, Kimi will win. They reckon Ferrari and Williams will both have to stop again.

That was an old message though. I doubt they will stop.

Alonso's tyres are dead, but probably not enough time for Kimi to catch him. Looking awesome for Maldanado with a lap to go :heart:

Vettel has been on an awesome charge on this last phase too

Great props to Maldonado and Alonso.

lol shit Kimi was within 0.6 seconds of Alonso

Yaaaaayyyyy! what a win, great to see a Williams win again.

Venezuela has an alright anthem, wouldn't mind seeing him winning another couple.

Aye, a decent anthem, hope he wins another race. I wonder what will happen when Senna wins.

Maldanado's missus saying no comment about how she keeps Pastor relaxed.

I would bang Claire Williams...

She had a pretty hot accent if I do say so myself.

Kimi once more showing his master talking skills in the press conference.

It's not gone perfect for Williams. There's a fire in their garage right now.

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Holy crap, it was a KERS explosion. No-one knows if anyone was hurt yet.

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EDIT: 4 Williams team members and 1 Force India being airlifted to hospital.

Edit 2: Hekki saying Caterham have a guy with burns and a guy with a broken wrist.

Sky Sports F1 has Monaco GP's from random years all day today. It's going to be a great day.

I get far too giddy for MONACO BABY YEAH every year. The race can sometimes be dull, but qualifying is sexy as hell.

Looking like it may rain today and tomorrow according to the F1 website though. That should make things even tastier.

Rain on a street circuit = super slow and boring racing

I was not expecting a red flag this early.

Lotus not retaining its pace from free practice. The poor team just can't seem to win.

Holy shit.. Both Lotus somehow went into Q3. Massa of all people on provisional P1 :cool: