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3 years 8 months for me :)Matthew77258 said:Open house party at yours then Mike? ;)
(I expect you'll be buying us all the plane tickets).
In other news, just remembered that I signed up here exactly 3 years ago!
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Pretty sure they were on full wets?APR193 said:
It was raining all day long. Moving the race forward would have made no difference to the fact it would have been a wet race. Also they were only on inters when the accident happened. Weather conditions weren't bad enough for a safety car/red flag, Jules just made a mistake, same as Sutil. Just very unlucky it was at the exact same part of the track as Sutil's car was being movedcouger1981 said:
They were still aquaplaning while doing 80 when they started the race behind the safety car, they should have moved the race forward.Britpoint said:Former F1 doc Gary Hartstein made a good point in one of his blogs: double-waved yellows were being shown in the danger zone. They mean "slow down and be prepared to stop". If Jules was going fast enough to aquaplane, he wasn't obeying that.
This is not a criticism of him in particular - none of the drivers slow down enough for double yellows, because if you're the only one who obeys them properly there's a huge disadvantage when nobody else does. As Hartstein says: human beings are on track and at risk in double yellow zones. Before we start looking at knee jerk safety reforms, get the drivers respecting the safety systems that already exist. Get them obeying the 'spirit' of the law ("how slow must I go to keep everyone safe?") rather than the letter ("how many tenths must I slow by to avoid punishment?").
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Just got my copies of Shadow of Mordor and Driveclub for the PS4, been seeing a lot of positive reviews about Driveclub since being released so will let you guys know what it like.
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This track in Baku Azerbaijan is used for the FIA GT championships so why not F1, wouldn't mind another Monaco style race.RevolvingPrawn said:Not to take the thread in a different direction, but no. No. No no no no no no no no no no no no.
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Go back to court Bernie, it's was nice when you weren't around.
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2014/10/07/azerbaijan-street-circuit-layout-2016-european-grand-prix-irevealed/
Why the European Grand Prix? The majority of Azerbaijan is bloody Asian!

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They were still aquaplaning while doing 80 when they started the race behind the safety car, they should have moved the race forward.Britpoint said:Former F1 doc Gary Hartstein made a good point in one of his blogs: double-waved yellows were being shown in the danger zone. They mean "slow down and be prepared to stop". If Jules was going fast enough to aquaplane, he wasn't obeying that.
This is not a criticism of him in particular - none of the drivers slow down enough for double yellows, because if you're the only one who obeys them properly there's a huge disadvantage when nobody else does. As Hartstein says: human beings are on track and at risk in double yellow zones. Before we start looking at knee jerk safety reforms, get the drivers respecting the safety systems that already exist. Get them obeying the 'spirit' of the law ("how slow must I go to keep everyone safe?") rather than the letter ("how many tenths must I slow by to avoid punishment?").
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Safety car did go out first then the Medical car.sjsharp2010 said:tbh the only way I can think of that would have prevented Bianchi's accident would have been to send the safety car out first to neutralise the field and then recovered Sutil's car given we knew Sutil was fine anyway. I think under these weather conditions in truth this should have been done anyway
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It's all about the safety of the driver not the look of the car.APR193 said:Closed cockpits would be the end of me watching F1. This years cars were bad enough
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There are talks about Closed cockpits
http://twitter.com/motor_racing/status/519396229533278208
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Only got 6 soccer people
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Looks like he is stable now but remains critical
http://twitter.com/TomWilkinsonF1/status/519115391487184897
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More hints for 4 ;)
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Come on Bianchi keep fighting!
Apparently some early reports of Bianchi breathing on his own is not true, it turns out he is on a Respirator :(
Skysports
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8 Elements
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Bianchi's operation is finished he is not on life support :)
http://twitter.com/F1grid/status/518758067534856192
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All drivers at the hospital, they might miss their flight out before the typhoon hits.
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Salo reporting it was a blow to the head from the impact :(
Edit: Hamilton defends Safety car decision
F1 times
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They made it to the hospital, Massa is amongst the people waiting for news.
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Reports are the Helicopter was able to fly but choose the Ambulance instead.
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Umm ok? A sour win for Hamilton because of Bianchi's incident and a grin on his face for winning the race, obviously any driver will take a win but this one was with a sad outcome.GoldenColt said:
I think it's quite disgusting from you to use this accident to find yet another reason to criticise Hamilton, but whatever tickles your fancy.couger1981 said:Sour win for Hamilton but always has a grin on his face regardless on how he won.
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There are reports that it was a side impact :(
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Problem was the recovery tractor took too long to get rid of the Sutil's car, the marshalls were saying to lift while the driver put it back down.
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How could Vettel be classified as 3rd when he pitted a lap or two before the safety car?
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