2014 Russian Grand Prix Thread

[steveaki13]

But Da Boss hates Fred, until Beiber and Britney team up on him. Not forgetting Slash who can slash away at Felipe Baby and the iceman.

Beat you too it Taz. Although I had forgotten K Mag

The Boss and Nico are really going at it hammer and tongs!

K-Mag, Fred, and Jense with pretty good quali sim laps.

[Tazio]

Practice 3 ladies!

[Tazio]

K Mag brings out a red flag1

[steveaki13]

Have not really enjoyed the track through practice. It seems bland to me.

I keep hearing commentators saying how close the walls are and what a challenge it is. Really though the walls are on the straights where the challenge is small.

at the corners huge tarmac run offs make it fairly easy in my eyes.

It seems as though putting some walls along straights makes it a tricky street circuit

Also a lot of run off, which no penalty for mistakes. Not even sleeping policeman.



It will not be a circuit I am eager to stay on the calender for years and years. Even if the race is good.

[Tazio]

Agree Steve, I'm unimpressed, and underwhelmed!

[Koz]

The wall seems to blocking view of the cars in some shots. Makes me think concentration camp or rather a gulag.

[journeyman racer]

All year I'd been saying there was a long way to go, regarding the title standings. But now is the first time I feel a title could slip away for Rosberg, who is second. Everything seems to be going Hamilton's way. Rosberg has to take the jam out of Hamilton's donut tomorrow. But you sense Hamilton is feeling pretty good about himself atm. I wonder if Bottas's presence may become more prominent during the race, adding an x-factor in the title race?

[Zico]

All year I'd been saying there was a long way to go, regarding the title standings. But now is the first time I feel a title could slip away for Rosberg, who is second. Everything seems to be going Hamilton's way. Rosberg has to take the jam out of Hamilton's donut tomorrow. But you sense Hamilton is feeling pretty good about himself atm. I wonder if Bottas's presence may become more prominent during the race, adding an x-factor in the title race?

Rosberg is solid, consistant and probably less hard on the car mechanically so for me the title is likely to be one decided by attrition and looks like it could go either way. Yes, Hamilton may be looking more settled, comfortable and quick in these recent races but this could quickly be turned on its head with reliability issues... then we have the double pointer final race in Abu Dhabi.


It will be a travesty if either of them miss out on the WDC due to issues in Abu Dhabi, it makes the WDC even more of a lottery and devalues it massively... the concept disgusts me to the extent I'll be tempted to turn off the TV for the final race in protest. Anyone else also feel this way?

[dj_bytedisaster]

It will be a travesty if either of them miss out on the WDC due to issues in Abu Dhabi, it makes the WDC even more of a lottery and devalues it massively... the concept disgusts me to the extent I'll be tempted to turn off the TV for the final race in protest. Anyone else also feel this way?

The whole WDC is a travesty anyway, not only because of the potential interference through Abu Double, but also because of Mercedes' meddling in the aftermath of Spa. When was it the last time that a team demanded that a driver has to chuck a race win (which Rosberg did at Monza) for what was essentially a racing incident that the Stewards did not consider worthy of a penalty, not even a reprimand.

[Zico]

The whole WDC is a travesty anyway, not only because of the potential interference through Abu Double, but also because of Mercedes' meddling in the aftermath of Spa. When was it the last time that a team demanded that a driver has to chuck a race win (which Rosberg did at Monza) for what was essentially a racing incident that the Stewards did not consider worthy of a penalty, not even a reprimand.

I understand why you might feel a bit bumhurt but unless you have any proof to support your claims Im afraid thats just a conspiracy theory and yours alone. You are a very knowledgable forum poster but you let youself down by coming out with stuff like this.
What reason did he give after the race? To me it looked like he either outbraked himself due to pressure from Hamilton or due to a changing dynamics brake balance issue. If you were Rosberg and told to let Hamilton win, would you do it in such a way as to make yourself look a tad amateurish or would you make it so blatent that people would be in no doubt that it was a free gift? It would certainly be the latter for me!

If you ignore the facts Rosberg poor defence at Suzuka looked more that way but Im of the opinion that he had taken way too much out his tyres at that point, was a sitting duck, and just got it completely wrong when Hamilton pounced.