Paid Members JNLister Posted November 29, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted November 29, 2011 You can rely on the Telegraph to bring you unbiased coverage of F1 broadcasting, unsullied by pressure to please advertisers: Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 What massive, massive cunts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Monkee Posted November 30, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted November 30, 2011 He didn't give a shit really. Crashed a lot early on, lost interest and didn't even bother turning up to a couple of rounds this year that he was supposed to drive in. He was only there in the first place because he couldn't get a seat in a top F1 team, and his Red Bull sponsorship enabled him a free drive in the WRC. As far as I know, it was only ever a temporary thing. Â Has hasn't really done much in rallying this year because he's been driving in NASCAR. That didn't go very well either when, during one race, his drinks bottle failed and the car was over-heating under him. All he did was piss and moan on the radio that he was thirsty and his feet were on fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members martyngnr Posted November 30, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted November 30, 2011 Should be exciting next season with so many ex-World Champions on the grid. Â I not so sure Renault will be so keen to allow Raikonnen to swan off and take part in Rallying though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergio Bellend Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 Should be exciting next season with so many ex-World Champions on the grid. Â I not so sure Renault will be so keen to allow Raikonnen to swan off and take part in Rallying though. Â He didn't really want to do rallying in the first place, so I can't see why he'd still do it now he's back in F1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 So why DID he go and do it then? Did Ferrari drop him in favour of Alonso, and he left in a sulk? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members martyngnr Posted November 30, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted November 30, 2011 He raced in the Lapland Rally in early 2009 and (I think) at least one of the stages in the WRC during the actual Formula 1 season. It's fair to say Rallying is at the very least a hobby of his. Â Renault should ban him from going anywhere near a rally car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergio Bellend Posted November 30, 2011 Share Posted November 30, 2011 So why DID he go and do it then? Did Ferrari drop him in favour of Alonso, and he left in a sulk? Â He couldn't get a drive in a top team for 2010, so with his Red Bull sponsorship grabbed a drive in a works Citroen in the WRC instead. He obviously fancied rallying at the time, but it certainly never lived up to his expectations, and he quickly lost interest, crashing in most rounds and not re-starting when he had the opportunity. Â I'm surprised he came back for 2011, as I believe the original intention was for him to take Webber's seat at Red Bull this past season, but that never worked out with how well Webber performed in 2010. That stuck him in the WRC where by now he REALLY didn't give a shit, and didn't bother turning up for a couple of rounds he was registered for. Hence now he is just looking for any decent opportunity in F1 so has gone for a very middle-of-the-road Lotus Renault team. Â He raced in the Lapland Rally in early 2009 and (I think) at least one of the stages in the WRC during the actual Formula 1 season. It's fair to say Rallying is at the very least a hobby of his. Â Renault should ban him from going anywhere near a rally car. Â Rallying was an interest/hobby of his. But now he has actually done it, I don't think it matters whether he has been told not to drive rallies because I doubt he'll go anywhere near it anytime soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Monkee Posted November 30, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted November 30, 2011 He couldn't get a drive in a top team for 2010, so with his Red Bull sponsorship grabbed a drive in a works Citroen in the WRC instead. He obviously fancied rallying at the time, but it certainly never lived up to his expectations, and he quickly lost interest, crashing in most rounds and not re-starting when he had the opportunity. Â That's wrong actually. He was contracted to Ferrari for another year but he didn't want to be there and they didn't want him so they bought him out. He got a hefty sum, hence why he's been fannying around since he left F1, and Alonso came in to replace him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergio Bellend Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 Sky have announced their F1 presenting team for next year...  Presenter: Simon Lazenby  Commentators: David Croft, Martin Brundle (qualifying and races) and Anthony Davidson (practice sessions)  Reporters: Ted Kravitz and Natalie Pinkham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted December 7, 2011 Share Posted December 7, 2011 Ouch. Â So the Beeb lose Brundle, but also Ted Kravitz who's excellent, and David Croft who could conceivably have replaced Brundle for the BBC. Â Martin Brundle must have scored a sweet deal - I imagine he must be one of the highest paid sports commentators in the world now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LariatTom Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 Quite a bit has happened in the last few weeks. Both Toro Rosso drivers are out after proving themselves to "not be race-winners", Kimi's back in at Lotus with Grosjean and we've only got two seats left up for grabs. It's anyone's guess as to who gets the Williams seat with it supposedly being between Rubens, Senna and Sutil. HRT no doubt goes to the highest bidder.  So as things, this is our grid for 2012...  <-- click on 'spoiler' to show/hide the spoiler   1. Sebastian Vettel 2. Mark Webber  3. Jenson Button 4. Lewis Hamilton  5. Fernando Alonso 6. Felipe Massa  7. Michael Schumacher 8. Nico Rosberg  9. Kimi Raikkonen 10. Roman Grosjean  11. Paul di Resta 12. Nico Hulkenberg  14. Kamui Kobayashi 15. Sergio Perez  16. Daniel Ricciardo 17. Jean-Eric Vergne  18. Pastor Maldonado 19. TBC  20. Heikki Kovalainen 21. Jarno Trulli  22. Pedro de la Rosa 23. TBA  24. Timo Glock 25. Charles Pic  [close spoiler] ");document.close(); Both of Spain's races look to potentially be under threat as Valencia seeks to renegotiate its race deal after revealing they've been losing far too much money on the race (and sending a worldwide audience to sleep at the same time). The Catalunya track then revealed today that they're looking at reconsidering their race due to the economic climate in Spain at the moment. If they're both struggling as much as they are, I can perhaps see them coming to an arrangement to alternate between venues like we have in Germany with the Ring and Hockenheim.  Bahrain looks like it's at risk of being cancelled again with human rights groups asking the teams to boycott the race. The country still isn't stable and I wouldn't be surprised if we're not racing there again this year.  Anyone looking at trying to go to a race in 2012? If all goes well, I'll be heading to Hockenheim as it's another excuse to go to Germany for me. I just need to teach my brother some basic German so I don't spend the entire trip playing translator. Might go to one of the Renault World Series events too. They're not running in the UK this year for a couple of reasons, but there are plenty of other rounds that I might check out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 How is Massa still at Ferrari? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LariatTom Posted January 9, 2012 Share Posted January 9, 2012 How is Massa still at Ferrari?To be honest, he's lucky to still have that drive for this season. A large part of it comes down to the fact that there's no one on the market who is suitable to replace him and be a solid number 2 driver at Ferrari. Anyone that Ferrari have said they're interested in is under contract with the exception of Kubica, who is still unproven as to whether he'll ever return. 2013 looks like that'll be when there's a major shake-up of the driver market with Webber and Massa looking likely to move on freeing up two top seats and well over half a dozen drivers potentially fighting for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Monkee Posted January 11, 2012 Paid Members Share Posted January 11, 2012 Anyone caught this Lewis Hamilton in GQ fashion shoot today? Quite a bit of backlash going on on Twitter as to how much of a bellend he looks and how this is meant to promote F1 in the US. Â I've always thought he was a dickhead and this just reinforces my belief. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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