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After thinking that with the changes this years F1 would be as bad or worse than last years.............. what a great Bahrain F1 yesterday:worthy:

some proper racing:drive: if it carries on like that for the season, best F1 for a long time:worthy:

Was an awesome race,with plenty of overtaking not at least between hamilton and rosberg.

With a great win for hamilton...well deserved..

mercedes look in a different class so far but sure the others will catch up shortly

Looking forward to going to silverstone this year and seeing it again

Superb race wasn't it. Hamilton really showing his teammate that he's not going to me messed with, even on the slower tyres in the last stint.

Great performance from Force India too :10: I expect Paul Di Resta is kicking himself this season.....

Missed the race yesterday, but enjoyed the highlights this morning. Good to see some wheel to wheel action, and team mates being allowed to fight each other ;)

A boring start, but gets better and better

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...ix_Highlights/

Watched the highlights this morning. Really badly put together, no continuity, difficult to follow.

Still it was a great race. :)

Best race in years thought the gp2 was good but this was awesome

It's certainly shaken the whole thing up this year and yesterday's race has to be one of the best for a vey long time. Good to see Hamilton back to his old self but I'd love to see button come good this year too. Interesting too that they were only a few tenths off of last years pole and actually quicker through the speed traps. Who'd of thought a Prius could do that!!! :lol:

Watched the highlights last night. I got annoyed by them not covering more of the Lewis/Nico battle in the last 10laps. It was an edge of your seat special! Great skill from Hamilton to keep Rosberg behind on the better tyre at the end.
It was good to see just how much of an advantage the Merc's really have.
I personally got quite annoyed hearing about Ferrari and Renault moaning to the FIA about the engine advantage and trying to have restrictions put in place.. typical Ferrari... :S always moan about anyone that does better than them rather than try to improve what they have produced. It was also really good to see how well Daniel Recardo did against Vettel ;)

On everyone's recommendations I've just watched the highlights, first time I've sat down and watched that much F1 without wandering out of the room in boredom, let's hope it continues like this season.

Watched a bit of the Hamilton battle last night but soon turned off as it sounded like my tv was broke. All I could hear was commentators over excitement, and no car sounds.

A bit like an american youtube clip where they dub a heavy rock track over the sound of a lovely V8.......so annoying.

You can't please all of the people all of the time

i do miss the sound of the old cars but the last race was the best one i have seen in years bring on a great year of racing ,fingers crossed

very level headed comment he radioed too when was being held up

Ok so Monaco this weekend what are peoples predictions?

Personally Merc but I think Rosberg may nick this one, he seems more comfortable there and he really needs to get back in the the game. That said still want Lewis to win 8-)

Monaco can shake things up sometimes but the mercs only have to do their job in qually and thats that. As you said, a good chance for rosberg to close the gap. The red bulls may go well as they aren't relying on flat out speed, so I think they may pull a suprise or two.

As said Monaco can be a lottery, just needs one of the other drivers to get a clean lap & pole while the others get held up, once in front they don't have to be the fastest to stay in front

Monaco is all about where you qualify. So little overtaking I think it's the most boring of the races on the calendar. I'd still like to watch it live though. Rosberg should win this one

Hamilton for the win:yeah:

but who cares........we'll be at the ring:drive: watching last years out there in the pub in Adenau was :10:

Second that mate, looking forward to it 👍

It'll be interesting to see what the Red Bulls do as they are still considered the "handling car".

Fingers crossed for Hamilton.

I read a very interesting article on autosport today saying that the Renault powered teams could face grid penalties later on in the year. This is due to a 5 engine limit and apparently Vettel and Kobismashy have already been through 4 each :-o

Only quarter of a way through are they really going to last that long. Obviously they can use parts from those other engines but it then gets really complicated when Renault are bring upgrades and modifications all the time for it to all fit together.

Practice is looking good for Mercedes again. I do wonder where Ferrari are going to end up on Sunday?

Tickets just arrived this morning for silverstone, looking forward to hearing what they sound like in the flesh now???

I'm envious :doubleup:

I love silverstone. Usually go but got Le Mans this year instead. Never been to Le Mans so looking forward it.

I actually think they sound ok. Not as noisy which isn't necessarily a bad thing as they were pretty deafening.

at least we got the red bulls out their dominant stage - was getting a bit repetitive

With 22 cars on the grid at the same time surely they still gotta sound pretty special last time i went was 99 i think when schumacher broke his leg,hows times have changed the poor guy :(

Well done Rosberg on Pole. But should have been Hamilton's.......

There is an air of underhandedness about that lock up. Benefit of the doubt probably has to go in his favour.

We'll see if he's quick enough to stay there!

Rosberg will bottle it under pressure from hamilton and lewis will win....hopefully

I think you're probably right. Just hope he gives enough room!

Well i was wrong unfortunately lol predictable race in the end,but just watched the Indy 500 now that was a great race as it is every year

Yeah, shame.

Might have been different if Hamilton had been able to see for the whole race!

A client of mine's son races in Indy Car, but not on the ovals, only the circuits with bends going both ways! He had a nasty accident a few years back on an oval track. Races with Ed Carpenter, who prefers the oval, so a good combo!

Yeah I'm sure Lewis will bounce back in Canada

I take it you mean mike conway yes he did have a monster crash I think was at Indy they have some big kahunas to race on those ovals so no complimentary tickets for the Indy 500 from his dad then,deffo on my list of things to do is get to see the Indy 500 one day

Indeed it is Mike Conway.

Not been working with them long enough for any perquisites of that magnitude, sadly! :lol:

That is shame...maybe one day :doubleup:

A perfect race for Rosberg, sort of makes up for Lewis cheating in the last race

What did i miss there then? :?

He changed his race mode late on in the Spanish race against the orders given by the team.

In the grand scheme of things I reckon it made no difference.

What a Race in canada!!!!!

:agreed:

Very exciting last few laps :more:

Yeah, that was a cracker.

Felt bad for Lewis Hamilton, but was very pleased for Ricciardo. Fitting tribute to Jack Brabham!

Impressive effort from Rosberg too with a seemingly compromised car.

Also, big wallops always get the pulse racing!!

Really enjoyed that :agreed:

Great race. Chuffed for Ricardo. Always good to have a new winner

Good on jenson too :yeah:

Well done to Ricardo, Vettel didn't seem too happy about it :D

Feel really gutted for Hamilton 2x DNF's vs none for Nico....

The Crash had me out of my seat :o I was really worried for both drivers.

Was certainly a big stop for both drivers. Looked to me like Perez moved to the left just as Massa was trying to come down the side of him..... difficult one to call.

Going to be tough for Hamilton if Rosberg's reliability keeps him on the podium at every race. The power problem they had yesterday was very strange to happen at exactly the same time on both cars too. Surely if it was a stress/wear/heat issue it would happen at different times because the cars were being driven differently (e.g. Nico used a fair bit more fuel to cover the same distance as Lewis). Lewis's car would have been hotter following the other Merc etc.... Software bug?

Hamilton's only 22 points behind, so a streak of 3 wins will put him right next to Rosberg if Mercedes keep up the 1-2 results. A single win for Hamilton and a DNF for Rosberg will put Hamilton ahead...

... good to hear both Massa and Perez are OK. Perez has been given a penalty for causing the crash according to reports.

Hamilton right back in it now after a very entertaining race this weekend :) Shaping up to be a mighty battle between the two Mercs ....