The Official F1 2014 Thread: Hamilton is Champion!

Errkal wrote:

Ad7 wrote:jamcc how did you manage to turn a story about Sutil into one about Kimi?!

haha its a skill jamcc holds.

Kimi fans

Although thats the first thing that popped into my head too

Can't be strawberry floating up kimi's race and getting away with it

29 1/2 days to go. Damn.

has left Sky Sports F1.

Sounds like she's off to BT Sport to present the tennis.

Ohh, so that's why she wasn't on The F1 Show yesterday. No loss, though she did seen to get on with Ted quite well.

epic laps

The beginning of the end for the Sky Sports F1 channel:

In addition there are changes to who can or cannot view the F1 Channel. If you already subscribe to the HD Pack, then you will be unaffected. Any new customers will need to subscribe to the Sky Sports Pack.

http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/sky-rumo ... -soon.html

I'm predicting that the F1 channel will be scrapped in favor of a new motorsport channel. If you want to view the 2014 season then everybody will have to subscribe to the more expensive sports package. Sky are also in talks to secure the WRC rights.


Sutil confirmed for the Barcelona test. Disgusting.

Hopefully Force India won't be around for too long seeing as both owners are knee deep in the brown stuff with the Indian authorities.

We get the full sports package anyway so aren't affected.

The f1 channel is complete overkill though, reruns of crap old races and Steve Rider bumping up his pension.

SugarCubes wrote:Sky are also in talks to secure the WRC rights.

That's interesting. Sky was never going to have a huge impact on F1 globally - F1's too powerful, too well-established. Pricing structures and coverage quality aside, Sky has made no difference to the sport.

However, you could imagine Sky doing something good with the WRC. The sport has been on its knees for years, the Loeb domination hasn't helped at all, TBH. Maybe fresh broadcasting money could give the sport a boost.

Ad7 wrote:The f1 channel is complete overkill though, reruns of crap old races and Steve Rider bumping up his pension.

Maybe the WRC could be added in to create a motorsport channel. On second thoughts, I bet an branded F1 channel was what helped secure the contract.

Odd how Sky recently ditched the Indycar. The could have had a cracking motorsports channel.

This morning.

1 Vettel Red Bull 1m23.046s
2 Raikkonen Lotus 1m23.571s +0.525
3 Alonso Ferrari 1m23.626s +0.580
4 Maldonado Williams 1m23.733s +0.687
5 Ricciardo Toro Rosso 1m23.884s +0.838
6 Perez McLaren 1m24.124s +1.078
7 Di Resta Force India 1m24.144s +1.098
8 Rosberg Mercedes 1m24.520s +1.474
9 Gutierrez Sauber 1m25.136s +2.090
10 Pic Caterham 1m27.534s +4.488
11 Chilton Marussia 1m28.068s +5.022

I reckon Williams could be a dark horse this year.

Ad7 wrote:I reckon Williams could be a dark horse this year.

Hopefully. I hope Bottas does well.

jamcc wrote:

Ad7 wrote:I reckon Williams could be a dark horse this year.

Hopefully. I hope Bottas does well.

I hope he kicks the gooseberry fool out of Maldonado to show the ugly gooseberry fool he isn't as awesome as he thinks he is.

Barcelona day one times:
1. Rosberg, Mercedes, 1:22.616, 51 laps.
2. Raikkonen, Lotus, 1:22.623, 40 laps.
3. Alonso, Ferrari, 1:22.952 102 laps.
4. Vettel, Red Bull, 1:22.965, 52 laps
5. Maldonado, Williams, 1:23.733, 77 laps.
6. Ricciardo, Toro Rosso, 1:23.884, 65 laps.
7. Perez, McLaren, 1:24.124, 68 laps.
8. Di Resta, Force India, 1:24.144, 75 laps.
9. Gutierrez, Sauber, 1:25.124, 60 laps.
10. Chilton, Marussia, 1:26.747, 65 laps.
11. Pic, Caterham, 1:27.534, 49 laps.

Fernando Alonso on F138 wrote:"The feeling with the car was okay, as expected more or less," he said.

"It's a similar continuation of the Brazil car, let's say, so it's more or less the same feeling. I have the same seat, I have the same pedals, I have the same everything so when you jump in the car more or less the performance should be the same as Brazil.

SugarCubes wrote:The beginning of the end for the Sky Sports F1 channel:

In addition there are changes to who can or cannot view the F1 Channel. If you already subscribe to the HD Pack, then you will be unaffected. Any new customers will need to subscribe to the Sky Sports Pack.

http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/sky-rumo ... -soon.html

I'm predicting that the F1 channel will be scrapped in favor of a new motorsport channel. If you want to view the 2014 season then everybody will have to subscribe to the more expensive sports package. Sky are also in talks to secure the WRC rights.


Sutil confirmed for the Barcelona test. Disgusting.

Hopefully Force India won't be around for too long seeing as both owners are knee deep in the brown stuff with the Indian authorities.

I'm out when that happens, and just to spite them i'll drop down from the HD package, and just stream any content i wish to watch.

Anyone here seen the testing in 3D?

Anyone seen Alonso's comments from yesterday after the first day in Barca? He was saying that at the end of last season Ferrari were at the same level as Force India and behind Sauber and Lotus....

The guy is full of gooseberry fool.

Alolnso starting early.

I really, really want Massa to beat him this season. If he carries on his form from the end the last season, he can. I'm not sure if Alonso and Ferrari would let that happen though.