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Young Lewis going to clear up this year?

I personally think that now he's shown his hand with last season, there's going to be a whole lot of drivers doing a whole lot to put him back in his box... I reckon 3rd will be about his best result.

I reckon I can't really summon up any real interest in it. Only watched one race on TV last season and that was as boring as as shopping.


Think I might do something exciting like polishing my dustbin or something

I've not really noticed any of the hype that was all over the place last time..?
I didnt actually realise it was upon us already 'til earlier. I guess the public forgets too soon, the amazing speed with which he burst upon the scene, or maybe.. well, it's not really news is it.

No doubt it'll all kickstart off again tomorrow...

Im on duty, so im not liable to be watching it.

I enjoy watching him cut egos down to size. He'll still kick ass this season.

Yep, he reminds me of M Schumacher when he was young.

The only boring thing about that race was Hamilton's Schumacher-like performance as far as I was concerned.

lack of traction control sorted the men from the boys though.

I saw bits of it. Pile up first bend.. leader running away with it.. few more pile ups, a few cases of overcooking it..

Christ! Couldve been WSB

Maybe they should all drive the safety car in a race, it lloked as if it was out there for about 20 laps.

Plus of course ITV seem to spend 3/4 of the race playing adverts

Samray wrote:The only boring thing about that race was Hamilton's Schumacher-like performance as far as I was concerned.

Honestly? Interesting as I was bored after the first 5 or so laps. I used to watch every race from the senna/prost years but cant get interested in it now , i think its the rules.

They add more and more to try and make it exiting and/or cut costs but if it takes that much then something is wrong at a base level I think. Either that or bike racing has raised my expectations?

I was watching the pre race coverage just before going to the beach

The commentators were pretty blunt about the chance of an overtake ever happening in F1 and in so many words tied it all down to pit stops, now we all know that, but one of the drivers (dunno which one) made a point I never really considered before.

Paraphrasing "..... what do you expect? the fastest cars from qualifying go at the front, the slowest at the back. Why would there be any passing!...."

Takes me back to the old banger racing days, when they put the fastest guys at the back, now there's an idea.