Vroom vroom vroom

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Mar 22, 2021 8:58 pm

I am genuinely looking forward to the new F1 season, that kicks off next Sundae.

That is all.

Post by **endar** » Mon Mar 22, 2021 9:30 pm

Ves

i suppose so. Something to watch on my bathday at least.

Hopefully McLaren and Aston Martin and others are more competitive and not The Mercedes Show

Also BTCC is back soon i think. BTCC is good.

Post by **dng** » Mon Mar 22, 2021 10:12 pm

Happy Birthday daren

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 12:05 am

I havenae watched the BTCC in years. I really must give it a whirl, this year.

re: F1

I'm hoping this season that Ferrari can get their act together, and deliver a car that can reach three figure speeds.

Post by **endar** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 12:31 am

that would be a miracle

or the fia doing its thing

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 2:23 pm

I saw that Renault are now 'Alpine', which just makes me think of the Talbot Alpine 'supercar'.

Post by **endar** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 5:35 pm

i'm pretty sure my grandad had a Talbot at some point.

Also the old Alpine is a lovely car, rally classic.

Post by **vom** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 6:12 pm

The first car I remember my dad having was a Talbot solara

I don't really know why I remember that

Post by **vom** » Tue Mar 23, 2021 6:12 pm

But nothing else from my youth

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 3:47 pm

daren wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 5:35 pm i'm pretty sure my grandad had a Talbot at some point.

Also the old Alpine is a lovely car, rally classic.

That is seriously gorgeoux.

Post by **dng** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 6:07 pm

It's got too many eyes

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 8:54 pm

You can never have too many eyes, David. And that applies equally to cars and... non-cars...

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Wed Mar 24, 2021 9:31 pm

Why didn't the Spyder ever have 8 eyes?

Post by **blombluss** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 1:37 am

That ^^^ reads like a joke setup line.

Post by **endar** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 4:47 am

I don't know, for I have never spyde

An Unicorn · Post by **An Unicorn** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 1:39 pm

daren wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 4:47 am I don't know, for I have never spyde

That's exactly what a spy would say!

Post by **richschnauzer** » Thu Mar 25, 2021 8:22 pm

beautiful.

https://twitter.com/BBCArchive/status/1 ... 83046?s=20

check out the first comment.

Post by **blombluss** » Fri Mar 26, 2021 1:51 am

I wonder if I dressed up as a granny*, whether I'd be allowed to play the WEC Le Mans arcade machine on freeplay?

*again

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Mar 28, 2021 2:26 pm

Prediction: Verstappen spins out on lap 1.

*collective sigh*

Hammy wins at a canter.

Post by **dng** » Sun Mar 28, 2021 3:34 pm

I'd rather Hamilton win for a seventeenth consecutive year than verstappen ever win the thing

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Mar 29, 2021 12:41 am

I'm glad to see that my prediction was yet again BANG ON THE MONEY!

The final 10 or so laps were, unlike Hamilton's tyres, thoroughly gripping.

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Mar 29, 2021 12:46 am

It was also good to see that Vettel has 'still got it', and by 'still got it', I, of course mean, crashing into the back of the car ahead of him, and then blaming the other driver. Never change, Seb!

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Mar 31, 2021 6:20 pm

The next race is in three-ish weeks time?!? Bah!

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Apr 18, 2021 11:40 pm

Good stuff to-day, I thought. I must admit that I chuckled a bit when Hamilton knackered his front wing into the barriers in a style not dissimilar to a flustered 90 year old driver in a supermarket car park.

Post by **endar** » Mon Apr 19, 2021 1:25 am

and still came back to get 2nd

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Apr 19, 2021 2:16 pm

Troo dat!

And what about poor Bottas, eh? He's just deflated like a large, happy Finnish balloon that has been repeatedly speared by those javelins that Finns enjoy throwing around.

Post by **endar** » Mon Apr 19, 2021 2:39 pm

Couple of idiots really

I think it was Ted who said they should both consider themselves lucky to be alive, after what happened in that same place in 94

Post by **endar** » Mon Apr 19, 2021 5:35 pm

https://www.gpfans.com/en/articles/6393 ... UWFVq--jzg

Perhaps someone can explain this to me

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Apr 19, 2021 11:55 pm

daren wrote: ↑Mon Apr 19, 2021 5:35 pm https://www.gpfans.com/en/articles/6393 ... UWFVq--jzg

Perhaps someone can explain this to me

Hey, no worries!

*reads article*

Umm... erm... well... LOOK OVER THERE!

*legs it in the other direction*

Post by **dng** » Tue Apr 20, 2021 12:06 am

excellent. hooray for formula 1

Post by **blombluss** » Mon May 24, 2021 12:57 am

So Leclerc doesn't start the race, and a knackered wheel screw knackers up Bottas's chances... a helluva race!

Post by **dng** » Mon May 24, 2021 1:31 am

More exciting every year

Post by **blombluss** » Mon May 24, 2021 6:19 pm

They'd be more passing opportunities if the race was staged entirely on Peter Hook's 1990s New Order side project.

Post by **blombluss** » Tue May 25, 2021 2:29 pm

Joe Saward's Max Mosley obituary is a decent read for fans of the sport: https://joesaward.wordpress.com/2021/05 ... 1940-2021/

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Jun 07, 2021 1:25 am

Oh no Lewis, you klutz!

Also, those Pirelli tyres... Jeez!

Post by **blombluss** » Sat Jul 17, 2021 12:21 am

So Friday was qualifying for the sprint race that'll decide the positions for the main race?

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Oh, okay, then.

Post by **dng** » Sat Jul 17, 2021 3:18 pm

i don't really understand the point of this

Post by **dng** » Sat Jul 17, 2021 3:18 pm

f1 i mean etc etc

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Jul 18, 2021 12:36 am

Ha!

I thought the sprint race was... okay... and an interesting experiment, I guess.

It just felt like watching the first 30 minutes of a film, and by that point, you've usually got a decent idea of whether the movie is for you, or in this case, which positions the drivers under race conditions are going to finish in.

Post by **blombluss** » Sun Jul 18, 2021 7:34 pm

What the hell do I know, eh?

I thought Hamilton was rather more at fault than Verstappen for the crash, but Verstappen just expected Hamilton to back out, which is what he's generally been doing. It was a scary and worrying crash, but Verstappen pulls that crap all the time, so if one of the other drivers decides not to back out, then they both have a problem. He needs to realise this. He could've also let his car drift wide rather than going for the apex, but oh no, he couldn't do that, could he?

I don't think Horner with his comments covered himself in glory, either.

It was a shame Leclerc didn't win, but Hamilton, who did seem rather shook up by the crash, did really well to snatch first place from him at the end.

Post by **dng** » Mon Jul 19, 2021 1:58 am

Max Verstappen is a great big nob

Post by **blombluss** » Mon Jul 19, 2021 7:32 pm

Well, yes. Even by F1 standards of general nobbery.

Post by **endar** » Sun Aug 01, 2021 3:32 pm

Lovely stuff

lovely ocon

Post by **endar** » Sun Aug 01, 2021 10:03 pm

and then they ruin it all in classic fia fashion

Post by **dng** » Sun Aug 01, 2021 10:11 pm

Post by **dng** » Sun Aug 01, 2021 10:12 pm

i assume half a litre of fuel mysteriously evaporated around about the time vettel wore his rainbow t-shirt on the podium

Post by **endar** » Sun Aug 01, 2021 10:27 pm

i was thinking similar

Post by **blombluss** » Tue Aug 03, 2021 6:18 pm

Hammy taking to the grid on his lonesome for the restart was both weird and amusing.

Post by **blombluss** » Wed Aug 18, 2021 12:39 am

Ugh, the next race is at Spa, isn't it? And the Spa CEO was gunned down by her husband, after he found her in bed with another woman. Who he then killed, before turning the gun on himself. Jeez!

Post by **endar** » Wed Aug 18, 2021 3:08 am

jesus