Was actually a very good race with lots of overtaking throughout the midfield. Of course we only need to look at the viewing figures to see Germans only enjoy watching sport they win without being challenged.
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man,at least we have something in common,Im a Lewis fan tooTANK91 said:I thought i would bump this up for the final race. I cannot wait im so nervous as a Hamilton fan he deserves it imo he as had the most unreliability and is still ahead has 10 wins to 5.
Scenario's are
Rosberg wins, Hamilton must be 2nd.
Rosberg 2nd, Hamilton no lower than 6th
I hope Hamilton plays it safe the car is so much faster than the rest they should dail the engine down and get to the finish. So annoying the double points for this race, Hamilton could be champion with 5th place instead which is alot more margin for error.
TANK91 said:I thought i would bump this up for the final race. I cannot wait im so nervous as a Hamilton fan he deserves it imo he as had the most unreliability and is still ahead has 10 wins to 5.
Scenario's are
Rosberg wins, Hamilton must be 2nd.
Rosberg 2nd, Hamilton no lower than 6th
I hope Hamilton plays it safe the car is so much faster than the rest they should dail the engine down and get to the finish. So annoying the double points for this race, Hamilton could be champion with 5th place instead which is alot more margin for error.
ILovecycling said:man,at least we have something in common,Im a Lewis fan too
will be nervous too on sunday,fingers crossed
good old days
Swifty's Cakes said:I think the double points issue is a bit of a red herring. If Hamilton finishes the race he wont be lower than second as those Mercedes cars are a country mile ahead of anything else on the track in perfromance terms. The only issue is reliability and if Hamilton fails to finish then Roseberg would take the championship with a win regardless of the scoring system.
Thats true,right from the start.Pricey_sky said:A little disappointing that reliability ruined Rosberg's race but let's face it, Lewis had his measure there and is a deserved world champion. 11 wins v 5 wins does not lie and the best man won.
Credit to Rosberg for his very classy reaction, his attitude in defeat really impressed me.
Looking forward to another tough battle next season and hopefully Hamilton becomes a triple world champion! with Mercedes holding all the aces when it comes to engine power it will take a massive effort from the other teams to catch up.
Pricey_sky said:Lewis had his measure there and is a deserved world champion. 11 wins v 5 wins does not lie and the best car(s) won.
ChewbaccaD said:F1 cars are the most technologically advanced, fastest, most beautiful cars in racing...
ChewbaccaD said:... and the racing is as boring as watching two flies f*&k.
FoxxyBrown1111 said:Corrected for you.
I guess you agree with it since only 2 teams collected wins in a 19-race-season. Even worse; 16 of those 19 races were won by one team.
Conclusion: It basically was a 2-men-championship. That means there was a 50% chance for either Hamilton or Rosberg to be crowned in the end. The mere act of stepping into the F-1-Mercedes assured that.
I am sure a Boeing-747-Pilot would also have made it to either being the champ or runner-up (if he would have been put into one of the two F-1-Mercedes-cars)... Nothing special.
FoxxyBrown1111 said:For comparison, had a quick look at the other major open wheel auto racing competition:
IndyCarSeries 2014:
Indeed the best driver won there: Will Power (with 3 GP wins).
Some stats; 11 (!!) different drivers won in the 18-Race-Season.
7 different teams won a race...
Actually it was a full blown competition (like it should be) where talent actually mattered...
search said:you do not seem to follow Indy Car too closely.
search said:The opposite is the case, it's down to luck for a large part of it, especially on the street circuits, not to talent. Many of those races are ridiculous and they are won by those who are lucky with the yellow and don't get crashed out.
search said:It makes the races entertaining in a way, and it's true that there is less difference between the cars, and therefor there's also a bigger variety of possible winners - but the racing itself is far far worse than in F1
TANK91 said:Hamilton take's BBC SPOTY. What a year for him he really is my fav sportsman. Hope he get's number 3 next year. And to the poster above i agree, one man i think could hack F1 is Will Power. He may have took along time to get his title but he as the raw speed on non ovals by a big way. Can you imagine Dixon and Helio on F1 tracks.
FoxxyBrown1111 said:That myth was wide spread even back in the day. Yet I remember seeing 3-wide and even 4-wide runs, inches apart from the wall and opponents going 300 km/h...
search said:well, I was talking about road and street races up there - the ones on the oval are still great of course, but there are only 5 or 6 all season (6 out of 18 races on Ovals this year) - contrary to 15 years ago when there were mainly oval races.
the ones (2 or 3 a season) on road circuits (permanent race tracks - no Laguna Seca anymore btw) are usually plain boring as overtakes only can happen due to different fuel loads and tyre wear, and as mentioned above, on the street circuits you often have the pace car leading for field for half of the race (or even more, sometimes), because the good old "Yellow brings Yellow" still applies
I like IndyCar a lot, don't understand me wrong, I am following it for more than 15 years now (some years more than others), but the tendency to move to street circuits mainly is a very bad development.
and I never said there was a lucky champion by the way. I was talking about the amount of different race winners, and the reasons for it
search said:the ones (2 or 3 a season) on road circuits (permanent race tracks - no Laguna Seca anymore btw) are usually plain boring as overtakes only can happen due to different fuel loads and tyre wear
FoxxyBrown1111 said:While you started to follow the US circuit, that was the time I pretty much stopped to follow because they split into IRL and Cart.
search said:I don't know exactly when it was, back then when it was live on Eurosport, must have been late 90's or something like that. I remember Castroneves always suffering from mechanical problems in his first year, and also the Greg Moore incident for example, so it must have been around ~1998 or so.
search said:And I think regarding the quality of wheel to wheel races on regular tracks, the F1 just has the upper hand over IndyCar, and there are also less stupid mistakes to be seen.
search said:As I said, those races can still be entertaining in a way, in Mid-Ohio (if I remember correctly) for example, Dixon won from last because he made his last stop early, and immediately afterwards a yellow came out. In IndyCar you can't go to the pits immediately but have to wait until everyone is lined up behind the safety car, which means Dixon was 1st afterwards. I would call that "luck" for example, if that yellow had come out 5 laps earlier (before his stop) or later (after the others stopped) he still would have finished ~20th. But then, it became interesting because of the fact that no one knew if he'd be able to make it to the end or not with the fuel load he had.
search said:I don't know exactly why they have moved away from the Ovals, it already happened before Wheldon's accident - I think it has more to do with trying to be different to Nascar, which usually attracts way more spectators and viewer figures on tv than IndyCar.
FoxxyBrown1111 said:Yes. As I earlier said, the talent level might be deeper at the F-1. But it doesn´t matter when only the car and people sitting in front of the computers decide the outcome of races.
FoxxyBrown1111 said:And top level Indy drivers can make it in the F-1. The talent at the top is as good there as in the F-1. Only that we don´t know who are the best F-1 drivers.