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Post by ang44 on Mar 15, 2015 10:04:01 GMT
Do they mean the podium with Arnie (it was the best ever...)? .. Sorry if I've missed something...Ive been having mi breakfast:-)
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Post by racechick on Mar 15, 2015 10:13:54 GMT
I'd assumed it was some post race press conference given by teams. But not really sure.
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Post by Hammer on Mar 15, 2015 11:58:12 GMT
No they mean the exchange between Rosberg and Vettel:
Sebastian Vettel poked fun at Nico Rosberg's suggestion he wants to see the field close up after Mercedes' dominant one-two at the Australian Grand Prix. Australia confirmed Mercedes has carried over a huge advantage from 2014, with Vettel 34 seconds adrift of Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg in third. In the post-race press conference Rosberg was asked for his opinion on the huge gap enjoyed by Mercedes. "I hope we can have a good fight," he replied. "That would be awesome. I think the next couple of races we're going to be leading the way for sure, and we're going to try and keep it that way, but we know it would be good if they can come a bit closer, as long as they don't come too close…" At that point, Vettel piped up from the other side of Lewis Hamilton. The exchange went as follows: Vettel: "Be honest, do you really hope so!? [Laughs] Seriously? Seriously, they finished 30 seconds ahead of us and you hope that's it going to be closer. So you hope you slow down, is that what you're saying?" Rosberg: "I hope you can give us a challenge because it's important for the sport and for the fans and I do think about the show. Half of me, or a part of me, thinks about the show because I want to give people a great time watching or on the track. So if you do come a bit closer, that would be awesome. Vettel: "That's fine. My first suggestion, if you don't mind, could be that your garage becomes public for Malaysia and everyone can have a look. Is that what you're suggesting? No, I'm joking." Rosberg: "You can come if you want. We can invite you." Vettel: "Thank you for the invite, I'll come. Engineer's room? Debrief, I'll be there." Rosberg looked far from amused with the comments from his fellow countryman and tried to get his own back later in the session when Vettel said it was disappointing to see his team-mate Kimi Raikkonen retire on lap 40. On hearing that, Rosberg replied: "You find it a shame that your team-mate didn't finish?" Referring to Rosberg's frosty rivalry with Lewis Hamilton last year, Vettel laughed and replied: "I don't how much you like each other but Kimi and myself we get along! So I think it is a shame ... At the moment where we are we want to make sure we catch you guys. To do that we need both of us so yes I honestly think so and I honestly didn't want to see the second car not finish today."
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Post by Hammer on Mar 15, 2015 12:00:10 GMT
Oh and Wolff tells the moron called Horner to "go fucking put his head down and work".
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has hit back at Red Bull's suggestion the FIA should step in to close the gap between the Silver Arrows and the rest of the field. Mercedes' F1 domination looks set to spill into a second year after Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg won the season-opening Australian Grand Prix by over 30 seconds on Sunday. The victory and Red Bull's troubles led Horner to call for some form of equalisation of performance, but Wolff's advice is for his rivals to buckle down and resolve the issues through hard work. "If you come into Formula One, try to beat each other and perform at the highest level and then you need equalisation after the first race - you cry out after the first race - that's not how we've done things in the past," he said. "I think just get your f***ing head down, work hard and try to sort it out. I didn't mean the F-word in relation to him [Horner]," he clarified. Asked if 2015 could become a season dictated by politics, Wolff added: "It is always a political season, it was last year and it is this year. There is this wall in Jerusalem that you can stand in front and complain, maybe the guys should go there." Wolff said the progress Ferrari has made over the winter is proof the gap can be overcome. "We've won the race with about half a minute to the Ferrari, and if you consider what jump they have made from last year to this year that is pretty impressive and it's just the first year. What we have seen from the GPS data is that the engine is really powerful and the car is really good. "I'm really happy because all of the objectives we have set ourselves we've achieved and the power unit was always the benchmark and now aerodynamically what we see on the track and in the data is that we seem to have a very good car in all types of corners. "But I think it's just a matter of time [before others catch up] because Ferrari have it all: they have all the resources, the right people, the right drivers and it's a matter of time until when they can reduce the gap. "Half a minute is not the world, it's not like we have lapped the whole field. Equally, Williams was very good today and Valtteri [Bottas] wasn't even in the race. It is just the first race of 20 in the season, so let's see what happens in Malaysia."
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I don't even feel like pasting what Horner said, it was so stupid I couldn't believe how much of a sore loser a TP can be.
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Post by racechick on Mar 15, 2015 13:11:05 GMT
Toto's great in these situations. He says it like it is but manages not to make it sound too mean and nasty, even when employing the F word. Whilst Horner whines like a mardy kid. Thanks for those reports Hammer. I wondered what was going on when I heard that Nico had invited Vettel into the Merc garage. Sounds like vettel won the war of words there and Nico was tying himself in knots a bit. I was in a houseful, watched the race ok but didn't get all the after stuff. Too much yaketty yak going on! What was Lewis doing during this exchange? Was it in the podium? If so Lewis was still daxzzled by Arnie. LOL?
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Post by CookinFlat6 on Mar 15, 2015 22:54:56 GMT
Nico is intelligent but not the brightest candle on the tree. He shoulda replied by saying 'yes I think you guys should be closer, unless you are dangling your balls in the pool, that would be checkmate to the cheeky kraut'
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Post by racechick on Mar 20, 2015 21:52:40 GMT
Nico is intelligent but not the brightest candle on the tree. He shoulda replied by saying 'yes I think you guys should be closer, unless you are dangling your balls in the pool, that would be checkmate to the cheeky kraut' Intelligent, yes. Emotionally intelligent no.
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Post by racechick on Mar 20, 2015 21:54:28 GMT
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Post by CookinFlat6 on Mar 20, 2015 22:16:40 GMT
Nico is intelligent but not the brightest candle on the tree. He shoulda replied by saying 'yes I think you guys should be closer, unless you are dangling your balls in the pool, that would be checkmate to the cheeky kraut' Intelligent, yes. Emotionally intelligent no. Intelligence as measured by IQ is a completely flawed metric because its only a part of the numerous competencies that dictate success or effectiveness. Emotional or social intellignce, or creative intelligence has to be also high to make someone a genius. 100 guys could have all the convergent linear problem solving ability in the world and come short of the final solution that requires th other side of the equation - the holistic or 'leap of faith' or social intelligence or whatever label is trendy. Always comes around to the same thing - the street smarts, awareness - i.e the ability to do more than merely solve linear problems but to see wider implications and connections and outcomes. Nico really lags behind here, I see no evidence of any ability to think on his feet or adapt or take inspire leaps of faith. Infact I would go as far as saying Nico is the ultimate airhead bimbo type, as evidenced by his constant mea culpas and haplessness in the face of fluid and rapidly changing situational flux. The real reason that the boffin or absent minded professor high IQ scorer is not always the team leader. i.e there is a difference between being the boss and being the leader And ofcourse Nico would have had fawning nincompoops blowing roses up his arse his whole life further deepening his bimboism
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Post by Hammer on Mar 21, 2015 1:16:56 GMT
See, Nico should've stopped at the first vid and kept the situation slightly tense heading into the next GP, but he had to open his big mouth and the second vid is difficult to watch because it gets kinda awkward. In Vettel's favour.
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Post by Wß on Mar 21, 2015 11:49:52 GMT
Yeah, outside the car, Vettel is a witty likeable guy with a sharp tongue.
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Post by racechick on Mar 21, 2015 20:33:13 GMT
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Post by CookinFlat6 on Mar 21, 2015 20:50:24 GMT
The fault there lies entirely with CVC - Bernie - FOM. The Germans proposed a profit/loss share deal with FOM to stage the race and FOM didnt even respond. If Monaco can host the race without fees, then why not a couple more historic tracks? Why cant FOM partner with the circuit or subsidise it? Th only reason is that if they do that then they will kill their revenue model as everyone will refuse to pay etc etc. Ridiculous to make that kind of profit and not run a couple of loss leader circuit that have historic importance. And by rejecting Mercs offer its obvious FOM are scared rightly of effective handing over F1 to Merc, because if Merc fund and control a historic track, then the reason Bernie is there starts to disappear. If Merc were to control a few tracks it would have everything required to breakaway and have its own top flight race series. The deals Bernie cut with the circuits and the TV is how he has kept the whole thing together, If Merc control circuits thy could supply engines and chassis to any new team, cut a tv rights deal and Bernie is left with a few basket case teams with expensive engines and development costs.
Merc are so clever and so on top of everything its not even funny
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Post by racechick on Mar 21, 2015 21:06:45 GMT
Ok, vested interest aside( I'm Sure that could be managed!) i think Merc would do a waaaay better job than Bernie. Bernie has just sooo overstepped the mark. If historical tracks are lost because of his greed then F1 looses something it can't recapture. To treat things like history of the sport, passion and heritage with the disdain that Bernie does is to play a very dangerous game.
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Post by RyRy on Mar 22, 2015 0:00:21 GMT
Merc are by far the biggest "racing" team, probably followed by Williams, Sauber, Manor/Marussia and Force India
Red Bull are red bull, they get involved in every sport for the sole reason of Red Bull promotion, just look at some events they give out thousands of pounds worth of Red Bull drinks to get people drinking their stuff, so they are solely in it for Business.
Ferrari used to be all about racing but they've switched to all about business, the same goes for McLaren.
Mercedes are more willing to let their drivers race... they've got a good team behind them with a few ex racers making decisions.
CVC & Bernie are idiots, keeping way too much money for themselves, the sport is way too much of a business rather than a sport. I'd love to see Mercedes take a few tracks and make their own sport, they have a solid and stable company backing them so they have enough money to make it work.
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Post by CookinFlat6 on Mar 22, 2015 0:20:20 GMT
Yup, its very telling that CVC/Bernie would rather drop one of the oldest GPs rather than let someone else run it. The breakaway attempts, all torpedoed by Ferrari and Red Bull centered around finding enough meaningfull tracks not handcuffed to Bernie. So Bernie would threaten the circuits about breaching their contracts by even talking about rebelling. And ofcourse the TV deal is a function of meaningful circuits to race around and the teams to race around them
So bernie would rather lose the German GP than risk losing a penny from FOM pocket, and at the same time would rather lose the GP rather than have Merc pay for it out of its own pocket - because its scared of Merc doing the job for them. On the other hand they were happy with Red Bull introducing a 'new' circuit. So if Hockenheim goes bust and Merc revive it and then introduce it to the schedule what would bernie say?
I suspect it would start with F an end with F
Scumbag caravan dwelling bloodsucker
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Post by Hammer on Mar 29, 2015 10:55:15 GMT
If Ferrari keep this up for even 2-3 more races, how long before Mercedes tell Nico to relax his ambitious ambitions and be Lewis' rear gunner?
While Kimi screws around getting punctures and driving for fun, Vettel will have Schumacher-esque support and Mercedes is under threat of not being able to defend their title if Nico is buzzing around in Lewis' ears and stealing points.
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Post by Wß on Mar 30, 2015 15:29:44 GMT
They're not there yet. Red Bull won three races last year. Ferrari's goal is two.
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Post by racechick on Apr 8, 2015 6:39:29 GMT
Paddy Lowe's birthday today. :-)
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Post by Wß on Apr 10, 2015 0:44:38 GMT
Merc with some very interesting details on their China front wing. China is really harsh on front tires, specifically the front left. If it's too cool you get graining, if it's too hot you get rapid degradation. The temps in China are not an issue this weekend but this is clearly Merc doing what they said they'd be doing, not resting on their laurels. This looks changed enough to be a wing design they thought they'd be able to bring when they got done with the flyaway races. Malaysia looks like it changed their mind.
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