THE OFFICIAL FORMULA 1 THREAD 2006

True. I can't fucking stand all the praise and love Button gets here. He's second rate, won't win a championship, but may win the odd race if he's lucky.

I'm liking Super Aguri already, F1 needs it's comedy team. They should have the Benny Hill music playing in the background when it comes to their pit stops.

I've got a feeling Raikonnen's the new Stirling Moss - I doubt he's ever going to win a championship. For this year though, same as I say every year - Schumacher. Car's good - needs work but will get better and I imagine he's going to be retiring soon-ish so he's definetly going to have at least one more championship before he goes.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Have to disagree. Good on 'im. F1's boring as hell these days because no one (other than Schumacher) causes any controversy.
He tried to take out Damon Hill a few times, had the odd accident with the likes of Coulthard & Hakkinen and then there was Jerez '97 where he drove into Villienueve, not to mention the behind the scenes tactics ot Ferrari. So what?
Senna had his fair share of controversies too, no one seems to mention him taking out his team-mate or punching Eddie Irvine. There's been plenty other examples of this sort of thing throughout the history of F1 but these days everyone expects things to be 'by the book' and so on. The amount of team tactics and intentional blocking during the old style qualli sessions (the hour long format) happened all the time.
So what if he parked on the track? He didn't damage the car, yellow flags were out, no danger to anyone else. Deliberatley or not, it did seem like there was some understeer into the corner, he just seemed to exageratte it a bit more than neccecsary. The whole thing's been blown out of all proportion anyway purely because it was Schumacher who did it. Would anyone give a shit if Sato tried it? No.

Anyway, Silverstone now and my money's on Alonso. The Renault is just far superior to anything else, Raikonnen's qualified well but his reliability leaves a lot to be desired, Schumacher for second place, Massa or Fisi third. It'd be nice to Barricello get some points, just the BAR's seem to be lacking any real race pace.

There's nowhere I can't reach.