[itepearce]

The track-refuelling combo has been lethal this weekend. All in all, the Donkey of the Race is the track itself.

With an special mention for De la Rosa´s grid girl, who puked on the grid and triggered one of the most funny/disgusting (as you prefer) comments in Spanish F1 broadcasting:

"They have to clean that, Pedro´s gonna lose a lot of grip running over that!"

Do you know why she puked? Didnt she like the hairy Spaniard

[Nzmoafzn]

Lee Mackenzie (or however you spell it) of the BBC pitlane team for asking the same bloody question over and over during the race in that uninterested tone of hers. Louise Goodman may have had her faults in the last ITV years, but at least she made the interview a bit more interesting.

[hoconnor6605]

In Sutil's defense, the replay showed it was Kubica who went offline avoiding Webber's plume of smoke and tagged Sutil in the process. The Donkey of the event is definitely FIA for allowing Hispania GP to run a shake down session in a race. Haven't they learnt anything from Massa's accident last year?

[tinetttstation]

Lee Mackenzie (or however you spell it) of the BBC pitlane team for asking the same bloody question over and over during the race in that uninterested tone of hers. Louise Goodman may have had her faults in the last ITV years, but at least she made the interview a bit more interesting.

I disagree. Louise seemed to take an almost pervese interest in the whole danger aspect of F1 and you can imagine her shoving a microphone in Felipe's face last year after he'd just taken a helmet full of spring asking him how he felt when staring possible death in the face.

Sure Lee McKenzie isn't that great but Louise Goodman was so bad you could almost feel the contempt the drivers had for her and you could certainly hear it in their answers to her.

[viiagrag]

I'm gonna try to find out who's the donkey of the season given some really simple rules.
You can find out here: www.f1fools.com
It's a really small project I wanted to develop and share with you guys. As you see, both the idea and the execution are extremelly simple and direct.
Karun Chandhok takes the lead right now

[paydayus]

to be fair how is he to know the track with so few laps

Nope, sorry. Karun screwed this one up badly. As much as I liked his performance in Qualifying, being less than 2 seconds off the pace in just 7 installation laps, this was a really bad mistake he should have avoided at all cost.

It's no argument to say he could not have known the bump was there. The whole point of driving on a circuit is, you FIND OUT how it lays out and where the limits are. To crash a car the team has been working SO hard to put together to even get to RUN, and then to lose all that mileage they desperately needed to accrue during the race is a major mistake.

No doubt he feels terrible about it, too. But it clearly makes him the Donkey.

[9wQlZkIj]

The FIA's tyre regulations get my vote.

[paydayus]

Do you know why she puked? Didnt she like the hairy Spaniard

She probably just realized he was twice her age...

[leyliana]

Lee Mackenzie (or however you spell it) of the BBC pitlane team for asking the same bloody question over and over during the race in that uninterested tone of hers. Louise Goodman may have had her faults in the last ITV years, but at least she made the interview a bit more interesting.

Did anyone catch when she asked Jean Alesi during Friday practice if he was in Bahrain to take part in the WDC meeting? She realized the mistake before she finished the question but poor old Jean sounded a bit emberassed.

[paydayus]

Did anyone catch when she asked Jean Alesi during Friday practice if he was in Bahrain to take part in the WDC meeting? She realized the mistake before she finished the question but poor old Jean sounded a bit emberassed.

He should have been FLATTERED!

[gortusbig]

Did anyone catch when she asked Jean Alesi during Friday practice if he was in Bahrain to take part in the WDC meeting? She realized the mistake before she finished the question but poor old Jean sounded a bit emberassed.

In fairness to Lee McKenzie (that's how you spell it ), it was Holly Samos who made that blunder.

[Nzmoafzn]

I disagree. Louise seemed to take an almost pervese interest in the whole danger aspect of F1 and you can imagine her shoving a microphone in Felipe's face last year after he'd just taken a helmet full of spring asking him how he felt when staring possible death in the face.

Sure Lee McKenzie isn't that great but Louise Goodman was so bad you could almost feel the contempt the drivers had for her and you could certainly hear it in their answers to her.

When Louise first started with the ITV broadcast, she was good. But I admit she became a joke later on though.

[Beriilosal]

The track-refuelling combo has been lethal this weekend. All in all, the Donkey of the Race is the track itself.

With an special mention for De la Rosa´s grid girl, who puked on the grid and triggered one of the most funny/disgusting (as you prefer) comments in Spanish F1 broadcasting:

"They have to clean that, Pedro´s gonna lose a lot of grip running over that!"

eeeew!

did not need to read that!

explains the sauber performance for both cars as Kobayashi was behind pedro on the grid and probably got affected as well. nasty!

[Beriilosal]

forgot:
Honorable donkey to the FIA live timing which was malfunctioning all weekend
and the world feed scoring graphics all weekend which seem to have taken a step back in both the looks and functionality. What happened to the cool knockout vertical graphic during qualifying of the past years. and the staggered position graphic was also more impractical

[tinetttstation]

When Louise first started with the ITV broadcast, she was good. But I admit she became a joke later on though.

As always performance should be analysed year on year and new blood should be brough in if needed. If as Leggard is doing now, you underperform then away you go

[gortusbig]

forgot:
Honorable donkey to the FIA live timing which was malfunctioning all weekend

That was a royal cock-up, wasn't it? They neglected to tell users that re-registration was necessary after the site update, then the whole thing was flaky with lots of errors both in connection and formatting.

...and the world feed scoring graphics all weekend which seem to have taken a step back in both the looks and functionality. What happened to the cool knockout vertical graphic during qualifying of the past years. and the staggered position graphic was also more impractical The font was a big improvement, and the white-on-black text was clear as a bell. However, the stupid sloping backgrounds looks awful, especially when the top 8 were staggered making the gaps harder to read straight down the column.

My personal bugbear is the tower of positions which appears down the left hand side - it's pushed right into the action for fear of alienating the handful of people who still watch on a 4:3 screen. Push it out of the safe area and they'd probably never know it was missing, while the rest of us get to see what's going on.

[MpNelQTU]

I'm gonna try to find out who's the donkey of the season given some really simple rules.
You can find out here: www.f1fools.com
It's a really small project I wanted to develop and share with you guys. As you see, both the idea and the execution are extremelly simple and direct.
Karun Chandhok takes the lead right now

Great!

[MpNelQTU]

And BTW, the "official" reason for the "unfortunate grid girl incident" was the heat and, according to some enlightened dudes, excessive and unnecessary clothing .

Now seriously, being there with that scorching sun hitting you in the back of your head for a while is anything but nice.

[Fegemiembendy]

My vote goes for FIA, again. The refuel ban makes the races even more boring, which in itself is a huge achievement.

Fully agree! With such idiotic rules it's difficult to have entertaining races.
Luckily I don't watch the races for the overtaking entertainment.

[Fegemiembendy]

no P1 no P2 no P3 just a run in Q1 i don't know how any can blame Chandhok.

Just wait and see, some people can post amazing things!