Pick the Podium: F-1 - Grand Prix Du Canada, Belle Isle, 2016

[Retroram52]

Beautiful move by Rosberg to overtake Raikkonen for fifth.

 

[Retroram52]

Vettel missed the chacane. Is he in trouble?

 

[Retroram52]

Vettel has to pit soon.

 

[Retroram52]

NBCSports with their gay agenda bullshit is covering the jihad attack in Orlando on their sports channel. I am watching this race on the spanish channel. What a joke.

 

[Retroram52]

Rosberg is all over Verstappen for 4th.

 

[Retroram52]

Rosberg has tried twice to get by Verstappen and Verstappen has closed the both times.

 

[Retroram52]

Four laps to go and Rosberg is not going to get by Verstappen. Looks like VFL has the complete podium.

 

[Retroram52]

Rosberg spins on the last lap. Unbelievable. Looks like Hamilton takes it followed by Vettel and Botas for third. Well done VFL!

 

[VFL1995]

1. Hamilton
2. Vettel
3. Bottas

Nailed it lol

 

[Retroram52]

Yep, VFL. You came in late but you'll move up fast with this call.

 

[IndyAndy]

Here's how we did:

VFL1995: 10 points - picked all three steps of the podium correctly.
Hank Kingsley: 8 points - picked Hamilton to win & Vettel for 2nd.
Retroram52, forty_three & IndyAndy: 6 points each - picked Hamilton to win; got Vettel out of position.

Season Totals so far:

forty_three: 29 points
Retroram52: 26 points
Indyandy: 26 points
Hank Kingsley: 24 points
VFL1995: 12 points

Next Up: Baku, next weekend.

 

[Retroram52]

43 still holds onto the lead but Indy and I are a comin' Lol. VFL made a huge jump and Hank came through pretty decently.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

My best weekend.

Most importantly, Lewis is on song.

 

[forty_three]

Vettel missed the chacane. Is he in trouble?

I wonder, I haven't seen any word on punishment. He blew it twice and missed the re-entry pylon both times. I will be keeping my eyes peeled for additional sanctions.

Rosberg is all over Verstappen for 4th.

I almost nailed that prediction too Max scares me out there. I don't know how both of those cars didn't wind up in a heap after that battle. Only Rosberg choked, I guess. But on the one Rosberg blew, Max did move twice. Additional sanctions there I'd bet.

Ricciardo has to be going completely insane. His luck is apocalyptically bad, and his team isn't helping him. He got a decent start and had to check up for Rosberg just barging back onto the track. Then Max is told not to hold him up and refuses to let him pass. He winds up behind Kimi after his pit stop, he was faster than the Ferrari and shredded his tires trying to get around. THEN they fucked up another tire swap.

If Max had just let him by, he'd have been just behind Bottas after the first stops.

Lewis only 9 behind in the championship now. And Rosberg making mistakes.

 

[forty_three]

We miss so much with the US coverage.

 

[Retroram52]

Yea 43. The telecasts basically keep the U.S. in the dark unless of course the race is in Texas.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

We miss so much with the US coverage.

We had a 1 hour pre-race, the race and a 1 hour post race up here.

Got to see the seagull thing...

As for Vettel not going past the bollard, if you jump the curb, apparently you don't have to. IF you drive stright through and don't touch the curb you do have to go left of the bollard.

 

[forty_three]

I downloaded the Monaco broadcast from Sky and it was infinitely better also. All the way down to actually pronouncing the last turn name correctly. It's not Anthony "no-gaze". It's Antony Noges (No-jez). You know. French.

I've always liked Leigh Diffey and Steve Matchett. I can take or leave Hobbs and his "clag" and Buxton is great. But man, when you watch what they get to see in the UK you realize just how much we're not getting.

The Sky Broadcast of Monaco spent like 5 minutes on Kvyat's pre-race issues getting his car out of pit lane speed limit mode. I watched the NBCSN broadcast stem to stern and had no idea he couldn't get his car going.

Might not be able to watch NBCSN anymore. Will probably just wait to download Sky or Channel 4 UK broadcast.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

I downloaded the Monaco broadcast from Sky and it was infinitely better also. All the way down to actually pronouncing the last turn name correctly. It's not Anthony "no-gaze". It's Antony Noges (No-jez). You know. French.

I've always liked Leigh Diffey and Steve Matchett. I can take or leave Hobbs and his "clag" and Buxton is great. But man, when you watch what they get to see in the UK you realize just how much we're not getting.

The Sky Broadcast of Monaco spent like 5 minutes on Kvyat's pre-race issues getting his car out of pit lane speed limit mode. I watched the NBCSN broadcast stem to stern and had no idea he couldn't get his car going.

Might not be able to watch NBCSN anymore. Will probably just wait to download Sky or Channel 4 UK broadcast.

that's the beauty of up here. We used to get the BBC feed, now we get the Sky feed.