Bobby Balboa

@bobby-balboa Yes, and it was nothing to do with the cars (which were actually re-used in later years in Auto GP), but with the series’ terrible governance.

@bobby-balboa what crowd? lol.

@bobby-balboa I think he’s done that a couple of times that said he didn’t get to the pit stall, so you could argue that the measurements were still valid, that one where he didn’t turn off the engine mid quali […]

@bobby-balboa LOL.

@bobby-balboa ”yes they did.” – Care to provide any valid evidence on that. Mercedes weren’t any more aware of which type of engine would be used after the N/A V8s than the other manufacturers long before the […]

@bobby-balboa ”If Aston are serious (I have my doubts) then they need to get the jump & start developing as soon as possible like Mercedes did when the hybrid engines were on the horizon.” – They can’t start […]

@bobby-balboa They should have said to the FIA ” allow testing or no butter tyres ” Instead they choose to play with fire and got hurt .

@bobby-balboa That is actually a good suggestion, @keithcollantine can we have the names of who voted whom, when all of us do disclose it in the comments. I don’t think anybody would oppose this idea. In this way […]

@bobby-balboa comments like that are useless. Just nonsense.

@juan-fanger no, I absolutely promise you I meant every word of that comment. I care more about the sport than my driver.

@bobby-balboa I watch F1 because I enjoy seeing the fastest track cars in the world with […]

@bobby-balboa, I agree that the DRS spoilt several good battles but I gave it a one point above average “6” purely because the tyres were largely irrelevant and I saw very little of the “delta” driving you mention […]

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I honestly don’t know what you were watching if you thought that they had to drive to a delta time.

Example #1: Paul Di Resta
Started near the rear of the grid, and made only 1 pitstop, all […]

@bobby-balboa @alfa145 We’ve seen the best and worst of Maldonado at Monaco.

He won three times at Monaco before reaching F1 (in 2006, 2007 and 2009). He had a strong run in a poor car on his F1 debut in 2011 […]

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I voted 8/10 too. However..DRS may have made it look easy to pass…but as Martin Brundle said, the camera angle into turn one doesnt show what a mean task is to pass there.

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Autosport live commentators were impressed by Lewis 27 laps stint on options on Friday.

I think Vettel mentioned in the post quali interviews that they were almost certain to start on the mediums, yes @bobby-balboa. But they do have the option available for them.

@bobby-balboa I agree, this rule hardly makes any sense with the sort of speed and degradation difference between Pirelli tyre compounds we’ve now.

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+1
They have thrown away a top 3’ish starting position so they could start on the Mediums. They basically have to follow through with that strategy and hope that it works. Even if they aren’t […]

Thanks for clarifying that @bobby-balboa. I still wish to yourself and I had together the power to change the world (that would include controlling F1 starting times).

good points there @bobby-balboa

I don’t think the few hours difference make much difference. If you’re a hardcore F1 fan and you’ll get up at 5am to watch a qualifying session (like I did this morning) then […]