monaco qualifying question

Did Rosberg do it deliberately? I think yes because I cant think of any other reason why he reversed straight at Lewis instead of waiting till the road was clear. Even if he had gone down the escape road accidentally there wouldnt have been flags if he had stayed where he stopped but by reversing at the track knowing his teammate was behind him guarenteed yellow fllags and the pole.

 

I've watched it already, but some on here will be waiting for the BBC coverage later. Perhaps this should be edited/deleted? Nowt darn for spoiling other folks viewing.


I thought it was bad (the incident) by the way. And the celebration.

 

how long does paint take to dry

that's F1 as far as I am concerned.... why not just get a scalextric and jam the controllers then sit and watch that for a few hours... just the same really.

 

I wouldnt think that anyone wanting to avoid the result would choose to open a thread about the qualifying and I was careful not to put anything spoilery in the title.

I agree that the celebration was out of order and he was a coward for running away from lewis when he was going into the garage

 

Re: how long does paint take to dry

He will get team orders to let Hamilton pass him during the race.

 

Fair point.

And yes, Rosberg is a lovely person.

Prost/Senna all over again.

Tomorrow will be fun. Hope Lewis shunts him off.

 

I get the feeling Lewis might be inclined to give him a nudge before they reach turn one. We'll find out, when on the grid, if he's pointing his Merc at Rosberg's.

Love it. Bring it on.

 

Hamilton making mountains out of mole-hills there. Very strange attitude to take.

Nothing like Prost and Senna.

 

I think it's very reminiscent of Prost/Senna. It will only become more so, as the season progresses.

As for Lewis, I think he was right to react how he did, considering the way Rosberg celebrated the pole he 'won' like he'd won the actual title, right in front of Hamilton. I think that got to Lewis more than the incident itself.

It all adds to the drama, and I'm glad. Would be a dull event otherwise.

As it is, I think starting on pole tomorrow might be disadvantageous. If Mercedes continue their split strategy policy, Lewis will be on the softer tyre in the final stint and will have enough to get past Nico. Unless he does him off the grid.

Can't wait.

 

The stewards can look at telemetry these days so Hamilton could potentially lose more than a short term gain from taking his championship rival out.

 

I don't really Whitey because deep down they are the best of friends and have been since they were kids. Alonso v Hamilton in 2007 was more reminiscent in my view (but again, not really). If however Hamilton takes Rosberg off at the first corner tomorrow (Suzuka 90' style) I'll stand corrected.

I think it would be surprising how little the drivers know about the events happening around them during a session. Rosberg may well have assumed that Hamilton got his lap in anyway and as Rosberg said, "it was a hell of a banker [lap]". It's not like Lewis hasn't celebrated in front of him before is it. Also, after understanding the situation, Rosberg later said in an interview that it's not the way he would like to get pole.

I'm all for drama though

 

You know how I love the BBC so much? Now they only cover certain races, supposedly the main ones - Monaco has been the showpiece race for generations, and they aren't showing it live? What the actual? Not my favourite race at all although it was the first one I ever watched years ago so it got me into it.

Now this doesn't affect me personally as I never watch their coverage (commentary team is shocking since Brundle left) but I would like one of the few sports I love to get maximum exposure, and it doesn't because the BBC basically gave it away so they could show more minority middle class sport. When they won it back from ITV I thought, "great, no more adverts", because you could guarantee on ITV as soon as they came back from a break something crucial would have happened, but then they went and gave it away to Sky whilst they still had a contract for the full season.

Now don't be fooled into thinking this saved the BBC money - the pictures you see of the race and build-up are a live feed from FOM, they simply speak over the top of it, but when they show "highlights only" they still have presenters and a production team on location.

 

Shocking isn't it. At the time I thought it was something to do with the BBC budgeting for the Olympics. Also, Bernie charges quite a lot for exclusive access to the FOM feed. It's all to do with the price/competition of the contracts I believe and Sky simply had more money.

 

The BBC's contract actually included 2013 though but they just said to Sky "have it", even the F1 teams weren't happy about it at the start of last year as all the sponsors worked on the fact that the BBC had so many viewers in the UK and Sky would do well to get half as many for the races they were covering exclusively.

I just don't see where the BBC saved any money unless Brundle was on some mega contract, they've sent presenters and cameras to every race and even the highlights are done in such a way as if it's a live race.

Then again, most of the BBCs output is repeats these days, it seems the British public is so dim they can't remember that the prime time programme they are watching is actually something they've seen before in 2011.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/10143663/Almost-two-thirds-of-BBC-programmes-are-repeats.html