Grand Prix Rejects

shinji wrote:

Klon wrote:

Sublime_FA11C wrote:As for appetite for nose-cone destruction, i'm as eager to get my stupid F1 fix as ever, and silghtly annoyed with the opinions of Bernie's mental state, Bahrainian affairs, fears over protestors and what might happen that are right now bogarting several threads.

You tell me. As you might guess from my first post, this thread was supposed to have none of this all, but look how that worked out.

Well, that was always going to impossible. This is without doubt one of the biggest scandals in the past decade of F1 - up there with Indy '05 at the moment, and if anything undesirable happens over the next couple of days it will change Formula One forever.

So please forgive people if they feel, as I do, that there are in fact more important things than, as Vettel said, 'tyre temperatures, cars'.

Frankly, I'm seriously considering my support of this 'sport'.

DanielPT wrote: Focusing on the sport might look like denial, issue avoidance and forgetting the people of Bahrain, but it is not. It is just what we always do and why we are here.

DanielPT wrote:

Ubik wrote:Well, as threatened, http://www.formula1.com/ is 'experiencing difficulties'.

EDIT: Okay....it was a minute ago, honest!

It's giving connection timed out. I guess it suits them for this weekend.

shinji wrote:

DanielPT wrote: Focusing on the sport might look like denial, issue avoidance and forgetting the people of Bahrain, but it is not. It is just what we always do and why we are here.

It may be what we always do, but F1 isn't always big news outside the sports pages, let alone for all the wrong reasons.

DanielPT wrote:if nothing happens, only we, the hardcore fans, will speak about it after this season.

CoopsII wrote:

DanielPT wrote:if nothing happens, only we, the hardcore fans, will speak about it after this season.

I think that might be wishful thinking. Also, nobody is stopping other members discussing things like tyres or times, but if those posts are by and large being ignored perhaps it just reflects how many people feel about the Other Issues.

Ubik wrote:Well, as threatened, http://www.formula1.com/ is 'experiencing difficulties'.

EDIT: Okay....it was a minute ago, honest!

Anonymous wrote:Anonymous Press Release – Operation Bahrain
Thursday – April 19, 2012 7:00 PM ET USA
Anonymous has watched with growing alarm the incredible human rights abuses of the Bahrain regime. We have watched this tyrannical government tear gas it’s own people literally to death, with over 30 fatalities so far. We have watched as thousands of innocent protesters and activists have been jailed. We have suffered with our dear friend @AngryArabiya on Twitter as she watches her father slowly die of a hunger strike in prison to protest the atrocities committed by the regime of this “king” of Bahrain. We have witnessed doctors and nurses imprisoned for simply treating the wounded protesters that your security forces have brutalized. And finally we have suffered in outrage the ignorance and out right lies of mainstream media regarding what is REALLY happening in Bahrain.
1) This is NOT a Shia uprising against a Sunni government. It is a popular and peaceful revolt against the medieval concept of absolute monarchy. It is a movement that spans all strata and sectors of society, and all religions in Bahrain. It is a movement that demands only freedom, justice – and democracy.
2) This government is not quelling violent protests, it is brutally and violently crushing peaceful dissent.
3) This government is NOT legitimate. It is a tyrannical, barbaric – and human rights violating dictatorship. And ANYONE doing business with this regime have the blood of Bahrain’s Freedom Martyrs on their hands.
For over a year now, we have as a global movement concentrated our efforts in Libya and Syria, leaving Anonymous Bahrain to to defend their fellow citizens in cyber space. This will no longer be the case. As of tomorrow, Friday – April 20, 2012 the entire global Anonymous will begin to take up the cause of the Bahrain Revolution. The King of Bahrain be warned, we are about to unleash the worst shitstorm you have ever seen – and your time as dictator is over. We will help your people remove you from power, and we will see you tried in the Hague for your many crimes against humanity.
The occasion of Anonymous re-launching Operation Bahrain will be this despicable Grand Prix Formula One race to be held in Bahrain tomorrow through the 22nd of April. Mr. Eccelstone, you are either one evil mother bathplug to hold your race in support of this regime (The Kings family are actually investors and make direct profit) – or else you have been lied to and are ignorant of the atrocities committed by these tyrants. In either case, beginning tomorrow – and lasting for the duration of your race we are going to bathplug educate you on the truth in a way you can not ignore.
Beginning tomorrow, and lasting for the duration of this race – Anonymous will turn your web site (www.formula1.com) into a smoking crater in cyber space. We will also jam your phone lines, bomb your E-Mail inboxes – and wreck anything else of yours we can find on the internet. You can god damn well expect us. And to anyone in the world who watches this race, either in person or on television – you also have the blood of the Bahrain Freedom Martyrs on your hands. Turn your face away from this abominable entertainment, and join us online to defend the brave protesters fighting for their freedom in Bahrain.
Finally, we join with Anonymous Bahrain in asking that all the drivers in this race protest this evil regime by refusing to cross the start line at the beginning of the race. Internet Freedom Fighters around the globe, join us this weekend and fight for freedom and justice in Bahrain: irc.voxanon.net #OpBahrain
We Are Anonymous – We Are Everywhere – We Are Legion – We Never Forget – We Never Forgive – EXPECT US SIGNED — Anonymous

RealRacingRoots wrote:Interesting....

Klon wrote: If there's anything wrong with our generation it's the fact that we have managed to make ourselves believe that our laziness achieves something.

RealRacingRoots wrote:

Klon wrote: If there's anything wrong with our generation it's the fact that we have managed to make ourselves believe that our laziness achieves something.

The Kony campaign in 10 seconds.

IceG wrote:This could be the end for Bernie, he said trying to find a silver lining in this mess.

the Masked Lapwing wrote:Nice work Kovy

It's always funny when it happens to Schumacher.

Wizzie wrote:Vergne can't qualify if his life depended on it. And now he's missed the weigh bridge as well

eurobrun wrote:According to Crofty Vergne has outqualified Ricciardo 3-0

the Masked Lapwing wrote:

Wizzie wrote:Vergne can't qualify if his life depended on it. And now he's missed the weigh bridge as well

I have a nasty feeling that Ricciardo could be the next Trulli - he's destroying Vergne in quali, but in race trim Vergne has been way better.

Mister Fungus wrote:Is this the first time one of the "new" teams outqualified the existing one on merit (vergne on the same tyres, not schumi)?

Wizzie wrote:

IceG wrote:This could be the end for Bernie, he said trying to find a silver lining in this mess.

The problem is there's nobody on the face of the Earth that's capable of running the commercial side of the sport, no matter how questionable his antics are. Unless Dr Baker hurries the hell up and marries one of the Ecclestone daughters.

GwilymJJames wrote:Lots of speculation on Twitter that we're seeing a lot less of Force India than would be expected...

GwilymJJames wrote:Lots of speculation on Twitter that we're seeing a lot less of Force India than would be expected...

the Masked Lapwing wrote:One STR out in Q1, the other makes Q3. Makes my theory seem better now