F1 2019 (Not the game) Spoiler-All

Okay, apparently Hamilton has a 30 place grid penalty for Spa. So does that mean he is going to start 9 spaces behind the last car, just start in last place, or have to split them between multiple races?

EverythingsTentative wrote:

Okay, apparently Hamilton has a 30 place grid penalty for Spa. So does that mean he is going to start 9 spaces behind the last car, just start in last place, or have to split them between multiple races?

If it's like McLaren's ridiculous 2 million grid place penalty (approx.) last season, it just means he starts at the back.

Yeh, you can never start lower than last place, the alternative would be starting from the pit lane (to avoid first corner messiness).

I think what they did was change Lewis' engine after most sessions of the weekend so he now has 3 new engines to use (could be wrong but think I heard that on the coverage). Which seems like an intelligent way of doing it.

Would be nice if Verstappen can get past Rosberg as he will be on the softer tyre at the start, like Ricciardo did in China. Would then lead to an interesting race. Otherwise suspect Rosberg will drive off into the distance.

Hi, I'm a noob, so apologies if this is well-covered elsewhere!

Let's say I wanted to get into watching F1. I'm in the US. Where do I go to watch it? I'm assuming some channel carries it, but will I need to pay a billion dollars to get that channel? I have DirecTV with a pretty beefy channel lineup now. If not on TV, are there internet options? TV would be better so I can just set the DVR and go.

Chaz wrote:

Hi, I'm a noob, so apologies if this is well-covered elsewhere!

Let's say I wanted to get into watching F1. I'm in the US. Where do I go to watch it? I'm assuming some channel carries it, but will I need to pay a billion dollars to get that channel? I have DirecTV with a pretty beefy channel lineup now. If not on TV, are there internet options? TV would be better so I can just set the DVR and go.

It is aired on NBCSN, you should probably have that. I have it on the cheapest package on PSVue.

If you do have NBCSN, you can log into their website with your DiretTV log in and the races are posted there. You can watch them live and they are available for streaming later. I'm not sure how long they are left up. Be careful if you are watching the race late. Their website is terrible and will spoil the race for you.

Ooooh, fantastic. Thanks!

I hope that means at least consistent rules from race to race.

Formula 1 must target the appeal of Pokemon Go, Button believes

Button showed journalists in the Singapore paddock footage he had filmed of a large crowd playing the Pokemon game on Wednesday evening.

"This was last night in the shopping mall, all these people all walking one way. Why? Pokemon," he said.

"There must've been 2000 people all walking to one spot, through the shopping mall and across the road, because there's a Pokemon there.

"I don't even know what you do with them. I don't understand. Do you win money? Do you get presents or chocolate?

"I mean, come on, is Formula 1 not more interesting than that? It should be. I think it is.

"If they can get that many people interested in trying to flick something at a yellow dot that isn't really there, I think we can make Formula 1 better [followed] than it is."

I'm going to miss him next year.

If they really want to "improve the show" of F1, can I suggest to Liberty Media that they make all the cars look like this:

IMAGE(http://i.imgur.com/YYZYU4t.jpg)

2017 spec: jet engines for everyone.

Great win for Ricciardo, brilliant defending against Verstappen to earn it. Verstappen duly punished with a shoey.

Lewis Hamilton is in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...

Look where I am.

Super jelly.

I'm so pissed right now. I checked the TV to see what time the race starts. It said 7 pm. I thought that was a little late, but considering it's west of me and I don't know what local time racers ever start I thought it seemed right. I go about my day normally. So, around 4pm I go to Facebook and look at that, the race is over and it's gets spoiled for me. I get pissed and throw my phone. I still decide to catch the race at 7. I sit down fire up NBCSN, says the race is on, they show 3 mins of race highlights and that's it. WTF? How are they not even airing the US race? I am so mad. I was excited to actually get to watch a race live. At this point I don't care unless someone tells me it was a spectacular race.

EverythingsTentative wrote:

I'm so pissed right now. I checked the TV to see what time the race starts. It said 7 pm. I thought that was a little late, but considering it's west of me and I don't know what local time racers ever start I thought it seemed right. I go about my day normally. So, around 4pm I go to Facebook and look at that, the race is over and it's gets spoiled for me. I get pissed and throw my phone. I still decide to catch the race at 7. I sit down fire up NBCSN, says the race is on, they show 3 mins of race highlights and that's it. WTF? How are they not even airing the US race? I am so mad. I was excited to actually get to watch a race live. At this point I don't care unless someone tells me it was a spectacular race.

It was on vanilla NBC for this race, I think. Sorry.

It wasn't a spectacular race. Unless Hamilton actually getting off the line well for once qualifies as spectacular.

It was interesting watching the coverage focus way more on the Haas cars, even when they weren't doing anything particularly interesting. Wouldn't be NBC if they didn't try and keep the focus on the Americans. I get that they're trying to bring in more American viewers, but I'm kind of insulted that they think the best way to do that is to basically try and say "look, there's an American team! It's not all foreigners with funny names!"

EverythingsTentative wrote:

I'm so pissed right now. I checked the TV to see what time the race starts. It said 7 pm. I thought that was a little late, but considering it's west of me and I don't know what local time racers ever start I thought it seemed right. I go about my day normally. So, around 4pm I go to Facebook and look at that, the race is over and it's gets spoiled for me. I get pissed and throw my phone. I still decide to catch the race at 7. I sit down fire up NBCSN, says the race is on, they show 3 mins of race highlights and that's it. WTF? How are they not even airing the US race? I am so mad. I was excited to actually get to watch a race live. At this point I don't care unless someone tells me it was a spectacular race.

I had something similar. The race was scheduled for 4pm Pacific on MSNSN, which I also thought was late given Austin is on Central time and it's not a night race. Tuned in to MSNSN at 4pm and they're showing a NASCAR highlights/summary show. Right in the middle is a short piece on the F1 race and they spoil the results.

I guess since it was on vanilla NBC they felt that was OK, but how the F am I supposed to know it was on NBC and not MSNSN? I guess I could set my DVR to look for Formula 1 on ANY CHANNEL AT ANY TIME and only record first run shows. But, I'd prefer if they used MSNSN as the primary channel and then run a re-broadcast on NBC if you want to pick up more viewers. Then at least there's some consistency.

Signed,
Old man yelling at clouds

ButtonMasher wrote:
EverythingsTentative wrote:

I'm so pissed right now. I checked the TV to see what time the race starts. It said 7 pm. I thought that was a little late, but considering it's west of me and I don't know what local time racers ever start I thought it seemed right. I go about my day normally. So, around 4pm I go to Facebook and look at that, the race is over and it's gets spoiled for me. I get pissed and throw my phone. I still decide to catch the race at 7. I sit down fire up NBCSN, says the race is on, they show 3 mins of race highlights and that's it. WTF? How are they not even airing the US race? I am so mad. I was excited to actually get to watch a race live. At this point I don't care unless someone tells me it was a spectacular race.

I had something similar. The race was scheduled for 4pm Pacific on MSNSN, which I also thought was late given Austin is on Central time and it's not a night race. Tuned in to MSNSN at 4pm and they're showing a NASCAR highlights/summary show. Right in the middle is a short piece on the F1 race and they spoil the results.

I guess since it was on vanilla NBC they felt that was OK, but how the F am I supposed to know it was on NBC and not MSNSN? I guess I could set my DVR to look for Formula 1 on ANY CHANNEL AT ANY TIME and only record first run shows. But, I'd prefer if they used MSNSN as the primary channel and then run a re-broadcast on NBC if you want to pick up more viewers. Then at least there's some consistency.

Signed,
Old man yelling at clouds

They should have done something. Since they didn't even actually air the race on NBCSN they should have removed it from the guide. Then I would have known to look elsewhere. I'm sure we are not the only ones this happened to. They lost some ever precious live viewers because of the mess. I'm still mad.

Weird. My DirecTV DVR learned within about two weeks of manually setting up recordings that I watch F1. It now automatically records all the practices, qualifying, and the race, all with an extra hour on the end just in case. It even picked up yesterday's switch to NBC just fine. Switch to DirecTV is the answer, I guess.

EverythingsTentative wrote:

They should have done something. Since they didn't even actually air the race on NBCSN they should have removed it from the guide. Then I would have known to look elsewhere. I'm sure we are not the only ones this happened to. They lost some ever precious live viewers because of the mess. I'm still mad. :mad:

They did eventually show the race on MSNSN, but it was delayed about 30-45 minutes from when the guide indicated start time.

Chaz wrote:

Weird. My DirecTV DVR learned within about two weeks of manually setting up recordings that I watch F1. It now automatically records all the practices, qualifying, and the race, all with an extra hour on the end just in case. It even picked up yesterday's switch to NBC just fine. Switch to DirecTV is the answer, I guess.

I could do this with my Frontier [formerly FiOS] DVR by telling it to record any new programs on any channel with 'Formula 1' in the title. It doesn't learn automatically, though, so I'll be changing that today.

Yeah, F1 is broadcast on any one of the five TSN stations here, so I have my PVR set up for most of them (with three hours extra—hard lesson learned a year or two ago).

And sure enough, while the USGP quali was on one of the TSNs I have set up, the race was not. I only noticed around 11am Sunday morning when I checked the F1 website to see what time the race would be, saw that it was to be noon PT, and noticed the red light wasn't on the PVR so it wasn't recording the pre-race. So I caught that in time.

Personal highlights were Verstappen's troubles in the context of "I'm not here to finish fourth", Alonso's last two laps, and another shoey.

Dammit, did Danny make them do the shoey? I knew I shouldn't have turned it off early, but I needed to get to bed, and didn't think one was coming.

Chaz wrote:

Dammit, did Danny make them do the shoey? I knew I shouldn't have turned it off early, but I needed to get to bed, and didn't think one was coming. :(

He had a can of Red Bull ready for teetotaler Gerard Butler to drink. Butler later signed the shoe.

Gerard Butler Chugs A Boot Full Of Red Bull In Possible Nastiest 'Shoey' Yet

Is Rosberg just playing it safe and doing the bare minimum to get the championship or is Hamilton really on a roll right now?

EverythingsTentative wrote:

Is Rosberg just playing it safe and doing the bare minimum to get the championship or is Hamilton really on a roll right now?

I really highly doubt that Rosberg would not be trying right now when he can lock down the championship

Rosberg definitely wants to crush Hamilton as soon as possible. Hamilton is such a great driver that he could definitely win both of the remaining races. Rosberg also has old engines while Hamilton took a bunch of penalties to give himself extra engines. Those extra engines could be the difference in the Drivers Championship.

Regardless of the results of this year I'm hoping that the changes coming next season don't result in the same dominance for a single team like Mercedes has had for the last few years.

If Hamilton wins at the Yas Marina Circuit, Rosberg must finish third or better to seal his maiden championship.

If Hamilton crosses the line in second place, Rosberg needs to be sixth or better. If the German finishes seventh the two drivers would be tied on points, but Hamilton would clinch the title by virtue of having scored more third places. They have both won on nine occasions this season, and would have also scored the same number of second places (four).

If Hamilton finishes third, then eighth place or better for Rosberg will be enough to win the title.

If Hamilton is fourth in Abu Dhabi, Rosberg will require just one point (10th) to be crowned champion. If Rosberg fails to score they would be tied on points, but on this scenario he would win the title having finished second four times compared to Hamilton’s three.

Should Hamilton cross the line only in fifth, Rosberg will win the title regardless of where he finishes.

Pretty confusing, eh? Now I'm sure all the die-hard F1 anoraks can follow that, but I think if F1 wants to get new fans on board who can be excited about and understand the sport, they have to make things easier to follow. So listen to this great new idea for the last round I just thought up which will definitely catch on: double points.

I know they are trying to make it sound like all these different possibilities could play out, but all it needs to say is Rosberg 2016 Champion. How many times has Rosberg finished outside of the podium this year?

DOUBLE DHABI

EverythingsTentative wrote:

I know they are trying to make it sound like all these different possibilities could play out, but all it needs to say is Rosberg 2016 Champion. How many times has Rosberg finished outside of the podium this year?

This is a correct statement.