Official F1/Motorsport thread

[Largo]

"Well we couldnt break 'the chain' could we, hope that was worth the wait" nice

[Mr_Skinny]

It seems that Ferrari & Red Bull are under investigation for having flexible rear wings, with both Toyotas already sent to the back of the grid for the same thing.

[Flabio]

Full version of the opening credits:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7969481.stm

Glad they've kept the original version of the tune. Too many of the classic BBC Sport tunes have had rubbish modern remixes done to them in the last few years.

Be interesting if it is Ferrari and Redbull penalised, seems they might've done that to negate the effects of not having the same fancy diffuser as the pole sitting teams.

I have to say I do love the look of the cars this year. I'm all for technical improvements but with all the barge boards and other aero crap that's crept in over the last few years it was starting to look more like the tarmac at an airshow than a formula 1 race.

Hamilton seems proper gutted doesn't he? Cars off the pace, and then it broke and dumped him to the back of the grid. We'll really get to see what he's made of now.

[Paulos G]

I think Hamilton's now 18th with the Toyotas having been stuck at the back of the grid.

According to Bernie there will be an additional three teams on the grid next year.

Note to self: remember to set alarm for 5:50am.

[PeteJ]

Remember clocks change tonight too, so it's basically 4:50am!

[Paulos G]

Oh bollocks! Thanks for the reminder though!!

[NW2013]

I think I'll wait for the repeat! It should be an interesting season as the rest of the teams play catch up with Brawn or Brawn et al get told they've broken the rules.

[Richard.John]

If you look at the ' 08 cars now, they are utterly hideous. That's my opinion anyway. Actually I think the Williams is the best looking, now that we have seen them running properly. A perfect colour scheme mated to a nice clean design FTW!

Interesting that Williams have withdrawn the protest for being 'not in the sport's interest'. Maybe their way of saying, two can play that (protest) game but it's damaging the credibility of F1, so wont proceed.

[Paulos G]

First cup of coffee downed. Brain starting to kick into gear.

BRING IT ON!

[ShadowDancer]

With ya Paulos...Coffee and pipe.

[Paulos G]

Two cups of coffee down now. Gotta get Mrs G a cuppa at 8:00 so I'll be having another one then. Battle for 5th, 6th and 7th looking interesting at the moment.

[Paulos G]

Just seen this (via Twitter):

#F1 Line of the night: they have received budget approval to deploy the safety car after much discussion

[Paulos G]

Third coffee is go! 20 laps to go and the podium still up for grabs.

[Paulos G]

OOOO0000000000000ooooooooooffffffffff!!! Safety car out with three laps to go.

->Open Spoiler<-

Button, Barrichello and Hamilton

in 1st, 2nd and 3rd. HAMAZE!

Edit: 3rd place actually

->Open Spoiler<-

Trulli

.

[ChrisF]

Congrats to

->Open Spoiler<-

Jensen and the Brawn

team!

How many coffees was that in total then Paulos? Just 2 here hehe