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Lewis Hamilton won the British Grand Prix at Silverstone from pole position, mastering difficult weather conditions and fighting back after a difficult start. Rosberg similarly fought back to second with Vettel completing the podium thanks to a perfectly timed switch to intermediate tyres.
It may be because I started watching F1 in that era, but we had absolutly epic races back then. Wet racing now would be impossible under those conditions.J0rd4n wrote:Suzuka was still a pretty good race last year, for me anyway, watching Hamilton school Rosberg in wet weather driving was fun.Andres125sx wrote:Add to that the useless Pirelli wet tyres, and if it rains a red flag is almost a certainty.ChrisF1 wrote:I don't expect a wet race, in fact I often wonder if we'll ever see proper wet racing again anyway as Charlie has been overly cautious for a few years now, with the Bianchi crash only adding to it.
As much as I love wet races, I still prefer watching a race, so not sure if I want to see rain or not....
Not sure why I went looking for London. Anyway, it looks like a dry weekend now acc. to Accuweather and Sunday at a lower temp than the rest of the days.Just_a_fan wrote:No, not that close to London.
Forecast is looking like Friday and possibly Saturday might be rain affected. Sunday will, I think, depend on Saturday. If we get thunderstorms on Saturday as looks possible then Sunday more likely to be dry. If it stays hot and humid through to Sunday then heavy showers or thunderstorms are more likely during the race. If it does rain on Sunday then it could be a safety car period because it'll probably be very heavy.
I live a few miles from the circuit.
Dayum.. those Bridgestone wets were good!AnthonyG wrote:
It may be because I started watching F1 in that era, but we had absolutly epic races back then. Wet racing now would be impossible under those conditions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-JSBhi2iAU
The year after, we even had a world champion due to his performance in wet races. Now his races would be flagged prematurely and he'd probably wouldn't have been a (double) WDC.
Indeed, those cars have a lot of aerodynamic componnets which made them quite ugly.BanMeToo wrote:Lots of downforce wasn't hurting either
Traction control + too easy to drive = rubbish, didn't you hear what F1 needs [-o< ? Plus another downforce/tyres myth from the perfect nostalgia past as if 2015 ones didn't teach people anything. BTW random sliding on water is not great racing for me.PlatinumZealot wrote:Dayum.. those Bridgestone wets were good!AnthonyG wrote:
It may be because I started watching F1 in that era, but we had absolutly epic races back then. Wet racing now would be impossible under those conditions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-JSBhi2iAU
The year after, we even had a world champion due to his performance in wet races. Now his races would be flagged prematurely and he'd probably wouldn't have been a (double) WDC.
You speak like they will have a retirement. So far they've looked bulletproof, and considering their focus in pre-season testing was reliability, I don't expect them to.Emmcee wrote:Iam hoping for one if not both mercs to have there first retirement so we can have a half decent race.
J0rd4n wrote:You speak like they will have a retirement. So far they've looked bulletproof, and considering their focus in pre-season testing was reliability, I don't expect them to.Emmcee wrote:Iam hoping for one if not both mercs to have there first retirement so we can have a half decent race.
Very unlikely, but the law of averages would probably have them retire at least once the whole year. Otherwise, they'd be the first ever to complete every racing lap of the year. The closest anyone's come is complete all but one of the laps (Kimi Raikkonen in 2012 - he got lapped because of his skirmish with the exit road in BrazilJ0rd4n wrote:You speak like they will have a retirement. So far they've looked bulletproof, and considering their focus in pre-season testing was reliability, I don't expect them to.Emmcee wrote:Iam hoping for one if not both mercs to have there first retirement so we can have a half decent race.
