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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2010 18:34:45 GMT
Is it all over yet?  Good!  Downside is that it kept all the vroom-vroom merchants quiet for a while!  Now they will be back, treating buseses like F1 cars - in their dreams! ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2010 18:40:06 GMT
Is it all over yet? Good! Downside is that it kept all the vroom-vroom merchants quiet for a while! Now they will be back, treating buseses like F1 cars - in their dreams! ;D ;D ;D Only if they reached up to 150mph then will be talking Lol.. ;D but I have seen a bus article that had reached up to 364MPH, half the speed of what Boeing 747 can do... news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20012985-71.htmlUnless we can stick a few bridgestone tyres on a DLA and sharpen the brakes a lil tad.. Then put it in McLaren Livery and stick all of it's sponsors on, 17774 would enjoy that muchly.. Hmmm |
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Post by Paul on Nov 14, 2010 18:54:27 GMT
Thank goodness that 3 year old didnt win!!!!! ;D Yep but a 4 year old with a big head did! Despite having only lead the championship once or twice throughout the year. But guess it is only today that really matters when it comes to be being in the lead. Actually, he only took the lead in the championship once this season; today To be fair to the kid he's been untouchable at the back end of the season. He's won three of the last four and would have won in Korea had his engine not gone kaboom. He made plenty of mistakes along the way but on the balance of the season, I think the right man probably won - he was the fastest man in the fastest car Alonso once again showed what a pathetic little specimen he is; gesturing towards Petrov was entirely unnecessary and showed what a poor loser the man is. I'm thankful that Ferrari's cheating in Hockenheim didn't prove decisive Mark Webber? The logical explanation is that he pulled a Massa and blew his best ever chance at the title. But there's part of me that suspects, as far as Red Bull are concerned, the right Red Bull driver won. Webber's tail off in form just doesn't correlate with his stunning performances earlier in the season, especially when one considers just how strong Vettel has been. I hope there have been no dark discussions at Red Bull, but there's that part of me that won't dismiss it out of hand Still, 2010 is now over. F1's greatest ever season? I'm saying yes |
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Post by john on Nov 14, 2010 18:57:58 GMT
Wow, I've just found out something VERY interesting and probably makes me very boring!!
This is the final standing had last seasons points totals been used for races
Vettel - 104
Hamilton - 103
Alonso - 101
Webber - 94
Button - 87
More important, the same situation would have occured with the 4 drivers in it at the end, but it would have looked like this
Alonso - 99
Hamilton - 95
Vettel - 94
Webber - 93
Button - 81
Just goes to show how little, or alot, one change can make a difference to an outcome. However, it also shows just how tight this season was in comparison to others!!
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Post by ajw on Nov 14, 2010 19:46:23 GMT
Actually, he only took the lead in the championship once this season; today Think he lead for 1 weekend around the middle of the season, if I recall leading up to Silverstone. |
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Post by Paul on Nov 14, 2010 20:00:18 GMT
Actually, he only took the lead in the championship once this season; today Think he lead for 1 weekend around the middle of the season, if I recall leading up to Silverstone. Afraid not Alonso led after Bahrain and Australia, Massa took over in Malaysia and then Button in China. Button held on through Spain, then Webber took over in Monaco. At this point, Webber and Vettel were tied on points, but Webber's Monaco GP win officially put him in first place and Vettel in second place. Webber stayed in front after Turkey then Hamilton took over after Canada. Hamilton stayed on top through Valencia, Britain and Germany before Webber got back on top in Hungary. Hamilton retook the lead after Belgium but Webber came back for Italy, Singapore and Japan. Alonso retook the lead in Korea and stayed on top right until a few hours when Vettel hit the top on his own, for the first time this season You have to give credit to the lad. Clearly someone gave him a good talking to after Spa because he's really been on it at the back end of the season. I always said that once he cuts out the mistakes he probably won't be stopped. And if Webber does remain with Red Bull next season I rather fear he'll be blown away if Vettel stays as focused as he has appeared over the past few races |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2010 21:33:25 GMT
Is it all over yet? Good! Downside is that it kept all the vroom-vroom merchants quiet for a while! Now they will be back, treating buseses like F1 cars - in their dreams! ;D ;D ;D Only if they reached up to 150mph then will be talking Lol.. ;D but I have seen a bus article that had reached up to 364MPH, half the speed of what Boeing 747 can do... news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20012985-71.htmlUnless we can stick a few bridgestone tyres on a DLA and sharpen the brakes a lil tad.. Then put it in McLaren Livery and stick all of it's sponsors on, 17774 would enjoy that muchly.. Hmmm I have never come across a 747 that can achieve mach 1 (728 mph approx) without causing severe structural damage to the airframe!  Certainly cannot be done in level flight! |
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Post by ajw on Nov 15, 2010 5:50:22 GMT
Only if they reached up to 150mph then will be talking Lol.. ;D but I have seen a bus article that had reached up to 364MPH, half the speed of what Boeing 747 can do... news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20012985-71.htmlUnless we can stick a few bridgestone tyres on a DLA and sharpen the brakes a lil tad.. Then put it in McLaren Livery and stick all of it's sponsors on, 17774 would enjoy that muchly.. Hmmm I have never come across a 747 that can achieve mach 1 (728 mph approx) without causing severe structural damage to the airframe! Certainly cannot be done in level flight! Depends on weather you are talking airspeed or ground speed. I have been on a 747 that had a ground speed of about 1200km/h for a good part of the trip from Singapore to Melbourne. If I recall the block time was close to 6 hours. Reason for it was a massive massive tail wind across Australia. |
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Post by Trident on Nov 15, 2010 16:25:06 GMT
Is it all over yet? Good! Downside is that it kept all the vroom-vroom merchants quiet for a while! Now they will be back, treating buseses like F1 cars - in their dreams! ;D ;D ;D Only if they reached up to 150mph then will be talking Lol.. ;D but I have seen a bus article that had reached up to 364MPH, half the speed of what Boeing 747 can do... news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20012985-71.htmlUnless we can stick a few bridgestone tyres on a DLA and sharpen the brakes a lil tad.. Then put it in McLaren Livery and stick all of it's sponsors on, 17774 would enjoy that muchly.. Hmmm Only to see it fail ;D |
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Post by Trident on Nov 15, 2010 16:38:39 GMT
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Post by RM5chris on Nov 16, 2010 19:50:33 GMT
I think it is a bit unfair to single out Vettel as a big head, I think all of the drivers are at times very self centered, arrogant, selfish and big headed - I think all of those attributes come with the job description of being an F1 Driver....
Whilst I support Lewis Hamilton and McLaren and would have preferred to have seen Webber take the title, I will say this for Vettel:-
For a big head, it was nice to see and hear his emotion at winning, it was nice over the season to see a driver that would regularly speak to Martin Brundle on the Grid (unlike others...) prior to the race start (as he did going into this final round) and again spoke to the BBC1 F1 team again upon his return to the garage amidst all the mayhem (looked like Eddie Jordan was gonna get a couple of black eyes from the other press) on the red button F1 Forum after the race.
What was ironic was that as part of the celebrations at the garage, they were playing AC/DC tunes - to the awesome 'TNT' Vettel even remarked ''AC/DC say it all'' - playing an Australian band to celebrate with - a dig at Webber?
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Post by Trident on Nov 16, 2010 20:48:17 GMT
Oh yeah, i forgot.This thread can surely be renamed 'Formula One (2010)- Season Ended' ;D ;D
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2010 23:04:09 GMT
Oh yeah, i forgot.This thread can surely be renamed 'Formula One (2010)- Season Ended' ;D ;D Unless within in March I can rename it Formula One 2011- The Beginning... ;D If thats ok with the stewards... aka Staff of the forum... ;D |
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Post by Trident on Nov 19, 2010 16:28:35 GMT
Oh yeah, i forgot.This thread can surely be renamed 'Formula One (2010)- Season Ended' ;D ;D Unless within in March I can rename it Formula One 2011- The Beginning... ;D If thats ok with the stewards... aka Staff of the forum... ;D Hopefully they will give you a drive thru' penalty ;D ;D |
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Post by Trident on Nov 26, 2010 18:07:00 GMT
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