The OFFICIAL 2013 Formula 1 thread!

[z31maniac]

Michelin could be interesting.... tires that fall apart vs tires that explode,,, sounds entertaining.

I would love 2 tire manufacturers but it wont happen. It would run opposite of what the fia wants which is tires with high deg. If it were up to pirelli they could make tires that would perform and run consistently for the duration of a race. I for one would like to see the worlds most skilled/conditioned drivers pushing hard for an entire race instead of driving to a set lap time like we have now.

For once I agree 100% with red bulls dieter m

If they did that, there wouldn't be much point in watching the race.

Just watch Quali, read the news on Monday to see if anything happened. Go read Ferrari's Horse Whisperer article. Everyone is freaking out over one race.

[naplesE30]

^Keep in mind Ferrari isn't going to criticize a fellow Italian Co. (even though the heat belongs to the fia and Bernie)

I am against compound/constuction change in mid season for all the reasons Eric Boulier laid out. I just wish the fia had asked for normal more predictable tires to begin with. The fia was on cloud nine with the start to last year with teams taking a while to learn about the tires. Pirelli changed compounds again(and more aggressively) hoping to replicate the randomness to the start of the season last year but went a tad to far. Also the top teams knew more accurately what to expect which is why its the usual suspects are at the top with the exception of McLaren.

[mcr_driver]

Mercedes was fastest in practice again...Not surprising since that seems to be their thing for now but I wonder how their tire degredation will be come race day.

[thatphysicsguy]

you mean Mercedes?

[mcr_driver]

you mean Mercedes?

Yes, sorry I pulled a Hamilton

[Jand3rson]

Hey, Grosjean crashed in practice! WHO IN THE FRACK SAW THAT COMING. I can't imagine being that crane operator. Talk about end-of-your-life if something falls off that crane. God forbid you lose a tire off the race car and take out a $25k patio table set LOLOLOL.

God, I love Monaco... Best race of the season.

[mcr_driver]

+1 I've always liked the monaco GP over others. I wish I had access to watch F1 when they still ran the ring.

[mcr_driver]

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daft punk and lotus for monaco :excited:

[merrythomos]

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[Hick]

I watched this race on a Russian stream while in a hotel room in Meabashi Japan.

That said, good race. Too bad for Massa, not sure what that was about. Alonso had terrible pace. Surprised Perez was not handed a grid penalty. Too many failed passes on Alonso and Kimi. Those guys (RoGro included) never seem to learn.

Contacts to Nico. 3rd times a charm. I don't think he can fight for the championship

Edited due to autocorrect... sorry

[Jand3rson]

That said, good race. Too bad for Massa, not sure what that was about.

Looks to me like he just came down that stretch a little too hot, braked a little too late, and that was the end of it. He hit that second wall f-ing HARD, I was actually a little surprised to see him in just a neck brace.

My DVR didn't record past the red flag, I know Rosberg took it (good for him), I saw that Chilton was given a drive-through for the incident with Maldonado, that was a pretty brutal hit, too. Monaco always delivers, tho. Great race.

[mcr_driver]

I don't necessarily think Massa's at fault for that there are reports of rear suspension problems that probably didn't help matters.

Good race my DVR screwed me sideways as well I missed the last 20 laps. Congrats to rosberg but I find it so conveinent that he managed to win monaco excactly 30 years after his father did...Yes I am wearing my tin foil hat as well. Also impressed by Sutil making some nice passes in the hairpain over button and alonso. Really bummed about Raikkonen being hit by grosjean forcing him out of good point contention.

[unevolved]

Really bummed about Raikkonen being hit by grosjean forcing him out of good point contention.

Yeah, no kidding. Perez needs a stronger "CALM THE waffleswaffleswaffleswaffles DOWN" handed down to him to get him to stop trying shit like that. That's just bad driving.

[mcr_driver]

Also what do you guys thinking of the tire testing done by mercedes and ferrari? Mercedes got an extra 1,000KM's worth of testing with pirelli tires, supposedly ferrari got similar treatment.

[naplesE30]

^I thought perez drove fine until the KR incident which was terrible judgement. My opinion is that button is just pissed because perez isnt respecting him the way jb feels he should.

Sutil drove a great race and made some very good clean passes. Did LH slow down the field for rosberg at the first sc on purpose? It sure looked that way. Got to think the kid is going to make it 4 championships in a row after that race... He just always find a way to gap the points... Even in a race where he wasnt super strong he stretches his lead... I dont like him, but gotta admire the results. Even when he doesnt win he is always up in the points so as to minimize the damage.

I read a quote by brawn saying the fia cleared them to run the tire test before it was conducted and pirreli set up a blind test so merc did not know what tires they were running.... time will tell, but yeah I'd be miffed if I were their competition.