Official F1/Motorsport thread

[VR46]

Meant to post this days ago, tickets are available to F1 test days at Silverstone in June if anyone is interested..

http://www.silverstone.co.uk/php/rm_f1test_june.html

[Alastair]

I just bought some this afternoon, going on the Wednesday

15 quid for the test day versus 99 quid for the race day, sounds a bargain, hope there is lots of action and I can get in/near the pits.

[ChrisF]

Seems like BBC are considering Richard Hammond for their face of F1.

[NW2013]

They obviously don't watch their own programmes do they. He's always saying F1 is boring! Still he seems to be a bit of a sell out so I'm sure he'll do it if offered enough cash. He'd probably do a decent job.

[Alastair]

Seems Hamilton went fastest in the practice sessions this morning.

Watch DC's crash at about 2 mins through the highlights of practice one:

http://www.itv-f1.com/VideoHighlights.aspx

The wheels aint supposed to do that!!
90% chance of rain during tomorrows quali

[toythatkills]

Wow, I can't believe he destroyed his car like that just from driving over a rumble strip. After the incident with Massa last week it seems like quite a problem, that car looks way too fragile

[Roddie]

When I was watching it live, they showed plenty of replays of it, I could believe how 2 wheels just snapped off as he drove over the kerb!

[Bort]

Seems like BBC are considering Richard Hammond for their face of F1.

Erg.

I didn't know what time the Malaysian was on live so here we go!

Malaysian Grand Prix on ITV

Live qualifying Saturday 22 March 0515-0720 ITV1

Qualifying re-run Saturday 22 March 1340-1510 ITV1

Live race Sunday 23 March 0615-0900 ITV1

Race re-run Sunday 23 March 1445-1730 ITV1

Highlights Monday 24 March 0020-0120 ITV1

Highlights re-run Monday 24 March 1800-1900 ITV4

[Roddie]

Hmm, 0515 and 0615, I don't know whether to try and have an early night and get up to watch them, or just stay up.

[On The Edge of Insanity]

Its 6:00 and 7:00 for the actual starts; I think it falls squarely into the get up rather than stay up zone.

[Roddie]

But I tend to go to bed at about 5am anyway. Might head out tonight and/or tomorrow night in which case I could just stay up when I get back home. I'll see how it goes, I kinda forgot about the hourish of pre-event coverage.

[On The Edge of Insanity]

You definitely don't want to get your timings wrong; the pre-race rubbish is enough to send most sane people back to sleep.

[Dazzyman]

Im glad F1 is going back to BBC. They used to do it very well. Yes times moved on and car cams etc.. got better but the old Murray (before he started making mistakes all the time) and BBC with F1 was fantastic. I also liked it when it moved to ITV and Dracula and Tony used to be in the studio box at a race having people interviewed up their (like Bernie, Buttons dad and on). Since they both got kicked into touch for no charisma Steve and I ate all the pies while driving a F1 car Mark coverage that way is non existent. We hardly see them and they just stand outside Mclarens pit as yes men.

I also find the commentary totally biased to what it used to be. Its just all Mclaren, why cant we get another team spoken to. Why do they insist on not going anywhere near Hamilton before a race (live) when other drivers endure it all the time. I really used to have time for Brundle, really liked the bloke but for me he just seems to becoming more snardy as times gone on. He has alot of ties with Mclaren anyway with being involved with Coulthards career etc.. but the last year he seems to be all Mclarens biased and thats it. Where is the old Martin what would fight to get down the grid to interview them? I noticed on the last race he didnt even bother going any further than the 8th person on the grid. He ran past Mclarens guys, never bothered to go near the man that has won CART over and over and never bothered to speak to him or tried to at least wind Kimi up for being low down. Lewis was coming down the pits and he never went near him. I think he has been surpassed as well for commentating, just in general his lack of passion seems to have gone.

In a word the pre race has gone crap and be glad for it to switch. Its no wonder its getting pulled from ITV anyway, Bernie got sick of em cutting it short or even not showing some of them on ITV due to corrie (get sick of watching a race and not seeing the guys on podium) and Ive noticed qual a fair few times being shoved to ITV2 which is wrong.

Whether hamster likes F1 or not I think he would be great for it, even if he just presents it. Lets face it he has to know more about it then chuffing Steve Ryder. Fingers crossed for BBC HD

[Roddie]

You definitely don't want to get your timings wrong; the pre-race rubbish is enough to send most sane people back to sleep.

Noted!

[Largo]

Fingers crossed for fleetwood mac the chain as the intro music again