F1 Thread

[G]

Her book is due out Monday. It's called 'life is a gift'!

Tragic.

[RichC]

It really is.

[Gaz]

Very tragic, she suffered a horrific injury a year and a half ago and now this

Feel for her family at this time

[Daniel 7]

Without being too morbid - was it natural causes or suicide?

[G]

Given the title of her book it would be weird if it was the latter but that was also my first thought.

They haven't given any info on the cause though.

[Daniel 7]

Thats why I was thinking it might have been.

[Chazza]

Died as a result of the injuries she suffered last year.

[Gaz]

Cardiac Arrest apparently due to a detachment of brain mass is what I read this morning, this article doesn't go into as much detail

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/24505702

Won't post any spoilers for Qualifying yet in case people haven't seen it yet

[Daniel 7]

Safe to non spoil again now I reckon

Vettel - amazing again, no KERS and only just behind Webber. Hamilton did well, interesting that he's emphatically beating Rosberg in qualifying the further the season goes on.

I'm looking forward to next season. Highlights for me from here on in I think, this season has lost its interest.

[RichC]

good drive from Vettel but you have to question why they stuck Webber on a 3 stop strategy when leading the race, surely it'd have been better to react to Grosjean and Vettel.

The sport is getting very, very dull again

[Daniel 7]

This one wasn't as bad as the last one, it did keep the interest throughout though. The front 3 were excellent, Grosjean probably cost Webber the race with some excellent defensive driving, but its just another example of how good Vettel is. He managed his way to the win and pulled off a great passing move.

Ferrari are ****ed. I listened to an interesting podcast that put it that Ferrari are reverting to type and the 1998 - 2007 years were a blip in a generally uncompetitive existence. Getting Raikkonen isn't the answer, the problem is the car and their lack of performance. Alonso has been masking their ineptitude for years.

[RichC]

He's a very good driver but a lot of credit needs to go to the car and also his racing team, they continually get the race strategy right for him.

Ferrari much like McLaren IMO need an overhaul, the drivers as you've said aren't the problem it's the team that's putting the car together; Alonso has got so much more out of that car than really he should have, of course there is also the move back to the 2012 tires are a factor which have hurt both them and the Mercs and benefitted Red Bull but they still had to take advantage of it.

This to be fair also IMO shows how time and again how good they are at improving a car through the season.

[Daniel 7]

He drives to instruction, granted, but he is also hugely tactically aware. He's the outstanding talent on the grid atm, he has the mix of car and ability. Look at the points gap to Webber. If that was the difference between Hamilton and Rosberg everyone would be trumpeting about how amazing Hamilton is.

Everyone seems to have a real hard time giving Vettel credit. He's phenomenal.

[RichC]

He's a very good driver, nothing about not giving him credit but he has the best car and the best race team who have clearly stuck all their time and effort into Vettel over Webber which is probably down to talent and age on his side.

As I've said several times it would be interesting to see him in a car that wasn't the best or to be the catalyst to building a car from scratch a la Alonso.

So for the umpteenth time he's a very good driver but there are more factors to it than just his skill behind the wheel which isn't being questioned.

[G]

Whether its fair or not he'll never get top status until he moves to another team and drives them onto success. To be fair to him though,2011 and this year he's had the best car by far,not sure the same could be said for 2010 and 2012.