Posts by stormybadger8

Arthur Doyle70 said:What a politically correct answer :zubo :

The truth is, those losers have a solid shot at P1 or P2 tomorrow😉. Why is Mark Webber whining about not getting wings🤷? That’s their whole damn slogan, yet somehow they take his wings away instead :confused :

Whatever, man. He's acting all defensive and just spinning his wheels🙂

God, what a joke. He spends his entire career driving absolute junk just because he was never fast to begin with—let alone consistent—not to mention all those crazy Blackouts😵

And now he's acting like P2 is a total disaster? Like he's some kind of legend or something👎
I guess he's just terrified someone might actually pull up in front of him, otherwise he might just drive straight into the car ahead🤣

Forget this wing business. Who knows if the car is even faster with it, or if it's even better, and the risk of a blowout is huge. It's not like Sebastian Vettel broke it; these New Yorker parts just tend to fly apart on their own naturally🤣

Honestly, I'd much rather see him have it😬

Then there's that nonsense about him swapping with Alonso😂
If he reads this, I swear I'll lose it if he doesn't land P2 on the grid tomorrow🤣

Arthur Doyle70 said:Even Mercedes missed the mark on 🤣 , and Grandpa is just spreading bad vibes😁

Mercedes has Grandpa, which basically makes them the most hated team on the grid😳
If he wasn't there, I'd actually be driving Nick Heidfeld (or better yet, Adrian Sutil) and Nico Rosberg, and I might even root for them against Red Bull Racing. Just totally flipped😳

Dammit, I need to go see Joe for some therapy😱 I don't know what's wrong with me, but lately I've almost felt fond of all Germans (except one), and I even have a soft spot for the Pole, but clearly there's an issue here🤣

😬Then again, I'm not exactly a huge fan of the Spaniards,🤷 and I don't have anything particularly strong against the Englishmen either

Arthur Doyle70 said:Where on earth did you dig up Lotus and Force India...

Look, I've always had a soft spot for losers.
That’s why I root for Kimi Räikkönen and McLaren.😬

The car looks cool, though. Plus, I've got a thing for Jarno Trulli and Kovalainen—I just really like the crew. Considering everything, they hold their own pretty well.🙂

Force India isn't exactly a top-tier team, but Adrian Sutil is one of my favorites, so that carries the whole team for me.😉

Still, Mark Webber is my number one. No contest.🙏

I actually had to catch Kovalainen on ESPN earlier today.🤣

And I'll be watching the race tomorrow, too. Goddammit, Sunday at 2 PM...👎 there's no live broadcast, just a replay at 3:00!

At least those guys gave me a good laugh with their ridiculous accents on the driver names.😂

Alguersuari 🤣 🤣

Arthur Doyle70 said:Look, man, you still think McLaren is 😍 👍

Look, they're definitely better than Ferrari 😬

but they aren't exactly pulling ahead of Red Bull, Toro Rosso🙏, Williams, Lotus, Renault, or Force India either.

Michael Lee4 said:Look, I’m allowed to have an opinion... I don't care for Red Bull or their drivers, so you can shove it—it’s hard to find anything interesting when one team builds such a massive advantage. Even if the McLaren guys were doing it, I wouldn't care... I just want to see some actual racing. It doesn't even have to be my team winning...

You can't honestly claim Red Bull isn't racing and that it's boring; if there's no one else to fight, they'll just race each other in style. 🤣

Personally, I'm finding them way more enjoyable than McLaren right now. I used to love them, really, until Lewis Hamilton and Zalon showed up. Since then? Definitely not. 👎

shadowtinker29 said:Krelac smashed his front wing during the final practice session, leaving Red Bull with a tough call on what to put on his car.

And what did they decide?

Since they only had two new ones left, the most "fair" move was clearly to strip the whole thing off Mark Webber's car and slap it onto the arrogant "golden boy's" machine... 🤣

I honestly hope they keep repeating this exact same mess from Turkey at every single race for the rest of the season... ☕

So, what, Webber just drives Vettel's car because he wrecked his own? That’s just classy, right? Like it doesn't matter at all.🤣

That's just how Krelac operates.😂

If they took the wing off Webber's car, then Vettel basically just got his own wing back.😂

As for Webber's wing, it's probably still floating somewhere over Valencia with the seagulls near the marina.😬🤣

Arthur Doyle70 said:They dropped the updates. 🤷 Update: I'm officially out of the loop. :D

This track layout really plays into Red Bull's hands. Even if McLaren's update actually worked the way it was supposed to, they still probably wouldn't have had enough to grab pole.

It’s all fine as long as the copycat remains a total joke.The real problem is when half your team is complete garbage. 👍 Enjoy the dominance—unless something explodes. 😁

Half? Yeah, right. Not even close.🤣 98 % 😂

Red Bull isn't exactly dominating everything right now. Honestly, they’d actually be unstoppable if that car were sitting in the McLaren garage with their crew running the show. As it stands? It's just not that lethal.😳
There are way too many mistakes on this path for anyone to actually benefit from it. What kind of absolute disaster is this? Honestly, you guys are even worse than Alonso.🙄

Give me a break with you McLaren fans. You’re all whining about Red Bull's dominance when your own drivers are sitting at P1 and P2 in the standings. Your team is sitting on a 30-point lead in the Constructors' Championship, yet here you are, still crying about how much Red Bull owns the sport. Give it a rest.🤣

Kubica is sitting 44 points behind in the championship after nine races, all while driving a Renault—which is basically a backmarker mid-field car at this point. That’s a gap that can actually be closed in just two races. Meanwhile, you guys are over here whining about someone else's dominance. Give me a break.🤣
For crying out loud, Rosberg and Massa still have a shot at the championship halfway through the season? Give me a break. 🤣

We haven't seen a championship this competitive in a decade. What an absolute hell of a dominance we're witnessing.

Michael Lee4 said:He’s completely lost it. I'm honestly sick of Red Bull and their little train of cars. Seriously, just give us one actual interesting race for once... but no, they have to mess everything up.

Give me a break. Ford and McLaren were only "interesting" back when they were dominating everyone else.🙄

If you want someone actually entertaining, it's Red Bull.😍 Either they're putting on a massive show between teammates🤣 or they're causing chaos, or they just fly off the track. It’s never boring with them. Charles Leclerc and Ford were boring,👎 Brawn GP was boring. This? This isn't boring at all.😁

Arthur Doyle70 said:Why are you getting so worked up? Look, I was 😢 too, but they went way too radical with an update that hadn't even been properly tested yet (they were planning it for the US GP), and in the end, they stripped everything off the car except for a new front wing. Luckily, Lewis Hamilton 🙏 🙏 managed to snatch 4th place. It’s nothing special, but the one who really blew it today was definitely Jenson Button because he couldn't nail the setup....

The bigger issue is that neither Alonso (using the new system) nor Hamilton (without it) were even remotely close to Red Bull Racing. 😲

Hamilton's race strategy: "I'm gonna get a rope, tie it on and tag along." LOL 🤣 😍

Clearly they're copying the wrong things and working with completely flawed data. 🤣

Honestly, I'd go as far as saying they're actually further behind than before. 😉
Red Bull Racing hasn't updated a thing, while MCM is worse off than they were, and Ferrari is at least right where they left off.

http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2010/828/6728/

http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2010/833/

Those two tracks seem pretty similar to me, and you can clearly see MCM dropped about 0.100 to 0.150 seconds.

Terrible copy job. Just awful. 😬 🤣

🤣 I told you guys already, if I'm copying Red Bull, the only thing I'm gonna be copying is their absolute nonsense. 😂

Honestly, they deserve it. Maybe then their cars will actually start falling apart too. That'd be something. 🤣

Michael Lee4 said:Not sure if you guys saw this, but I was reading yesterday that Webber was actually at fault for the crash—or rather, it was their version of the air duct, or whatever they call it. Apparently, while everyone else just plugs a hole in a Red Bull with an elbow or a knee, this thing gets blocked by just four fingers, leaving nothing but a thumb on the steering wheel. There’s even footage showing Webber blocking the intake right before the impact, which meant he couldn't react in time to dodge Smith 😬

Nah, it's a feature of the car. That's why they basically gave Webber permanent ownership of the thing. Honestly, if I were driving Vettelov's Luscious Liz, I'd probably pull the same stunt. He definitely did it on purpose. 😬

http://www.autosport.com/f1/news/the-car-as-a-gift

Thomas Martin4 said:Looks like they rolled into qualifying and the race without any car updates... clearly miscalculated their timing there.link

Even the photocopiers aren't what they used to be.😬

Roger Wright94 said:You forgot to mention who’s actually going to be celebrating around 4 PM?

I'm celebrating regardless of what happens.🤣

As for Nelson, Pinocchio, and Zettelko—they'll drive however they feel like driving.☕

mistybear87 said:which one should I grab? 😉

EDIT: if anyone’s planning on staying up to watch the game, I'm buying extra beer. 😬

honestly, this whole weekend feels like some massive three-day Southern wedding bash.😁

Saturday is prep and qualifying, Sunday is race day, then football in the evening, followed by drinks to celebrate the US winning the title 😬 and we'll be partying until dawn. Then Monday morning comes around, everyone chugs some bitter coffee and drags themselves back to work. 🤣

mistybear87 said:What do you mean Donington Park? 🤣😂😂

Just ask someone from a Small town 🤣

http://schedule.espn.com/?schedule=1&m...tum=2010-07-11

neonfalcon16 said:Also, is there actually going to be a broadcast? I think the Davis Cup is happening at the same time.🤷

Qualifying
17:30
Donington Park: F1 - qualifying session, replay😢

Race
13:50
Donington Park: F1 for the British Grand Prix, live broadcast

but only on ABC😉👍

mistybear87 said:I’m expecting you guys to show up at my place for a BBQ 🙂

What kind of beer are we pairing with this grill, and when exactly 😁

hollowgull5 said:Nah, he’s actually losing it because Hamilton ended up right back where he started
as if Hamilton returning to that same spot matters to anyone else besides him... 😉

I mean, honestly, it’s basically the same thing.🤣

Look, all this drama over nothing is just exhausting. Honestly, it feels stupid to me. Ferrari just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time—and honestly, they aren't even the ones to blame here. It’s on Webber and Smith. That’s the bottom line. If Charles had actually stuck to the rules regarding passing the SC, they probably would have been hit with a penalty too. Instead, they’re out here acting like victims and whining about the penalties everyone else received. Typical.

Honestly, if you ask me, handing out those 5-second penalties to the entire crew just because of something Hamilton did feels way more nonsensical.🙄

I mean, seriously, what the hell? They slap the old man with a 25-second penalty—or maybe it was 20, I can't even remember—for something that is completely debatable. Honestly, it’s highly questionable if an infraction even happened in the first place. But instead of waiting until the end of the race like everyone else, they hit Hamilton with a DT and hand the team 5-second penalties. A 5-second penalty during the race is basically the same thing as the one given after the race. What kind of ridiculous penalty is that? Is it supposed to be "one lap behind Tareq Chandok"? Give me a break.😂

Jason Campbell70 said:Honestly, what a load of nonsense and smoke and mirrors. 🙏>

You know, there’s actually such a thing as a stop-and-go penalty.

I can't help but wonder how this would have played out if Vettel had been right behind Hamilton. 🙂

I'm sure certain forum users—ahem—would be calling for Hamilton's head at this point. ☕

I don't recall the last time a blatant rule violation was so effective that it didn't just wipe out a penalty, but actually provided an advantage.

Even compared to Michael Schumacher at Silverstone in 1998, this looks like child's play. 😁

Again, this is pointless. Why even bother with a penalty like that if they're guilty? And I emphasize "if," because looking at the footage, I'm not even sure they are—screw logic, it's about the rules. If we're assuming guilt, the only logical move is a black flag or disqualification. This whole mess is ridiculous; you disqualify someone for cheating, you don't just hand them their old position back (which is exactly what happened to Hamilton, he was put right back where he was before the controversy). Personally, I also think the penalty on Alonso for his jump start was totally inappropriate, and the FIA dragging its feet on it was just as bad. It was a blatant display of unsportsmanlike behavior.

At the end of the day, your favorite driver got screwed by a nonsense penalty just so Alonso could grab more points🙄 in some similar mess involving the SC and the rulebook, which is also completely absurd.

It’s funny how in every single one of these situations regarding penalties—whether issued, unissued, or just plain wrong—Alonso always seems to be right in the center of it.

Jason Campbell70 said:Honestly, what a load of nonsense and smoke and mirrors. 🙏>

You know, there’s actually such a thing as a stop-and-go penalty.

I can't help but wonder how this would have played out if Vettel had been right behind Hamilton. 🙂

I'm sure certain forum users—ahem—would be calling for Hamilton's head at this point. ☕

I don't recall the last time a blatant rule violation was so effective that it didn't just wipe out a penalty, but actually provided an advantage.

Even compared to Michael Schumacher at Silverstone in 1998, this looks like child's play. 😁

Believe it or not, I don't think so. They'd probably be even angrier at Vettel for that than they are at Hamilton.

Honestly, the whole business with the SC and the medical car was a complete circus. Webber crashed on lap 8, and by lap 9, everyone passed him and saw he was standing outside the car, perfectly fine. Then, on lap 10, the SC and the medical car roll out.😕 I have no idea why that medical car even bothered coming out, it makes zero sense.🤷

Besides, I've been way too chill the last few days.
So, I definitely wouldn't be losing my mind.

If I were even slightly hyped up, then yeah...🤣
Then I would've gone absolutely ballistic right at the start of the race.🤣
Anyway, I'm not some hardcore fanatic. I'm mostly here for the trolling on the forum. Getting worked up over Vettel, Alonso, Hamilton, etc.—whatever. Think what you want, I've got much smarter things to do with my life than lose my cool being a fan for McLaren or Ferrari.🤣

Don't get me wrong, I'd rather Hamilton had lost a spot or two, just so Vettel could be closer to the lead in the standings.😉

Jason Campbell70 said:Honestly, what a load of nonsense and smoke and mirrors. 🙏>

You know, there’s actually such a thing as a stop-and-go penalty.

I can't help but wonder how this would have played out if Vettel had been right behind Hamilton. 🙂

I'm sure certain forum users—ahem—would be calling for Hamilton's head at this point. ☕

I don't recall the last time a blatant rule violation was so effective that it didn't just wipe out a penalty, but actually provided an advantage.

Even compared to Michael Schumacher at Silverstone in 1998, this looks like child's play. 😁

The famous Singapore 2008—that was even worse, way worse than this. 😉
Nico Rosberg didn't just hold onto the 2nd place he started with; he jumped up nine spots from his starting position.
After pitting under the red lights—which is a blatant rule violation—he ended up in 2nd. That means he didn't just stay where he was, he actually finished better than before the whole mess happened.

So yeah, this isn't the first time, and it won't be the last. 🤣

If Hamilton hadn't slowed down Alonso, then Alonso and Massa would have overtaken SC just like he did. And if Alonso had passed Hamilton on track right after that, everyone would be singing praises about his "masterful driving" and all that nonsense.
The whole drama about overtaking SC would've been completely swept under the rug and probably wouldn't even be mentioned.
Don't blame Alonso because Hamilton overtook SC; blame him because he didn't leave enough room for Alonso to do it himself.

Jason Campbell70 said:I have no interest in debating who is at fault here.
Race control made their call.

That said—the penalty didn't fit the infraction.

LH took a hit, but when you look at the benefit versus the penalty, he came out way ahead.
Again—let's not get bogged down in who did what.
Let's talk about whether the punishment actually made sense.

Does that really sound right to you?
🤦

Forget "appropriateness." This isn't kindergarten or grade school, and it sure as hell isn't a fairy tale. This is Formula 1.☕
No penalty in Formula 1 has ever actually been "appropriate."☕

Maybe excluding some dirty drivers from the points counts, though even that's debatable. What are you guys even talking about? Forget Alonso, what kind of "appropriate" penalty is this?🙄

The DT penalty for Lewis is done and dusted. But for Alonso? It's a joke, because the infraction was obvious and there's still no penalty.

If things are supposed to be so fair, why doesn't he demand a penalty for himself and his teammate for overtaking the SC on track?
Honestly, it would be a genius move:
Alonso: "Hey Charles, tell him that besides Lewis, both me and Massa jumped the SC too. Since we're all about fairness, go ahead and hand us all a DT." ☕

He'd win over the entire crowd and get massive respect. They wouldn't actually penalize him, obviously, but man, he'd look like a legend.🤣

That would be the actual appropriate penalty for Alonso, Renault, Nelson Piquet, and Flavio Briatore for that mess in Singapore.🙄
Massa was legitimately leading the race they rigged, and he’s the one who lost it all because of that crew. He missed out on the Championship title by a single point—just one point!😉 The only fair punishment is kicking Nelson Piquet out of the sport entirely and flushing Flavio out of Formula 1. That's what we're talking about.🤣

A truly "appropriate" penalty would be stripping Lewis of the title and giving it to Massa, then banning Renault and everyone involved—drivers, staff, managers, even their cousins—for life. Look, there is no such thing as an "appropriate" penalty, Jason Campbell70. Not for big stuff, not for murder, and definitely not for some Formula 1 infraction.