2013 Formula One Discussion

[Vlad-SRB]

Don't forget the LOLA Lambo...

[phil1993]

They still sound awesome. Especially when the sound is beneath you!

[donald29]

Some initial thoughts on the 2012 DVD, haven't watched it all.

Had a look at the Silverstone round. It's good....but there's no build up. It launches straight into 'Rain dominated the weekend and delayed qualifying but cleared for the race' - nothing from practice or qualifying. Straight into Petrov's engine failure. Struck me as odd... Also a shame there's no OB from Grosjean at Spa, had hoped for that. Onboard feature from Japan is pretty good - you can see how silly Grosjean's move was, Alonso's retirement was his own fault, Perez got swamped at T3, di Resta stalling and how Button/Massa gained hugely! Oh, and in Australia Ricciardo came so close to stacking it at T5 on Lap 1. Brazil onboard also shows how late Senna braked at T4 on Lap 1. I can't remember if every car has an onboard camera, but it's a bit of a shame they don't release more. After all, a review DVD is for the dedicated fan!

Watched the features

- Driver Profiles: Just info about each driver
- Winter Testing: A summary of winter testing, as if it was produced between the third test and Australia. Some good footage
- Lotus: Interviews with Bouiller, Raikkonen and Grosjean about Lotus and their aims
- Senna + Monaco: Bruno Senna talks about Ayrton and Monaco, it's quite nice.
- Team radio in F1: Simon Rennie, Dave Robson and Andrea Stella (who has an amazingly silky voice) discuss what they do and their relationships with Raikkonen, Button and Alonso. There's an interesting one when Button's screaming "He used DRS! He used DRS! In the yellow flag zone!" about Vettel in Spain, as well as Kimi's "I know what I'm doing so just be quiet" in Belgium.
- F1 in Slow Motion: Some slow motion shots; a really nice one of a Red Bull stop
- Goodbye Michael: Warning - starts with Eddie! But it then has Stefano + Brawn talking and then a montage of Michael's career.

All in all I'd say they're pretty good. I can't help but feel that the Winter testing bit should be at the start of the DVD (maybe it is, I haven't watched the main feature yet) and that they have a lot of footage that should be released from testing - when people want it! Overall, the 6 features (driver profiles don't really count) last about 45 minutes.

Thanks for that, will watch it sometime this week. In breaks from revision.

Any interesting new team radio? I read you hear Vettel protesting his penalties in Spain and Italy and Rocky trying to calm him down including 'I want no hand waving' in Spain.

[phil1993]

I'm watching it later, but that is there yes. In Spain, Vettel says "What else did you want me to see? I was awake, I told you yellow flag, that I could see it down the straight. It’s not my problem if I have DRS, I cannot lift up. We’re talking four tenths." Rocky replies with "Deep breath, stay focused. I don’t want any arm-waving or anything, OK!"

In Monza, Alonso says something like 'I am doing 330kph, it's enough no!' and Vettel says 'To race director. All of a sudden he was on the grass. I didn’t need to push him on the grass, I left enough room.'

[donald29]

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2013/01/06/2 ... us-vettel/

https://twitter.com/willbuxton/status/2 ... 3963497473

Is the F1 Fanatic review right? Is there no news round-up between races, or even pre-season? Apart from testing.

Sounds like Buxton may have recorded some news features, but they got sacrificed.

[phil1993]

There's nothing between races. At all. There's no footage from practice and qualifying either.

Oh, and Round 7 and finally the narration tells us that Sauber is easy on their tyres

[donald29]

Hmmm will wait and judge for myself, but going in with quite low expectations.

[phil1993]

For example, Silverstone had Alonso's practice crash, his amazing save in qualifying, the fantastic climax to qualifying, Hamilton's amazing slide and Senna's crash. Nothing. Straight into 'rain dominated the weekend and delayed qualifying but race day dawned dry'. Really? It's so annoying. Maria De Villota's accident is only just mentioned in passing. More behind the scenes would be nice as well.

[donald29]

Only just seen this... Relevant to F1 as Max Chilton's career has effectively shut down a touring car team. Ouch, guess who the favoured son is!

http://www.touringcartimes.com/article.php?id=8495

[phil1993]

Review of the 2012 DVD
http://www.f1zone.net/news/f1-2012-dvd- ... tel/17309/

[donald29]

Will post this here as the 2012 thread is locked.

Great photo of Grosjean driving across wet grass at Silverstone.



And on the review DVD, apparently there's more in between stuff on the blu-ray...

[Ferrariman60]

Will post this here as the 2012 thread is locked.

Great photo of Grosjean driving across wet grass at Silverstone.



And on the review DVD, apparently there's more in between stuff on the blu-ray...

Is that a picture of Grosjean not hitting anything?
Wow!

[gisss]

And on the review DVD, apparently there's more in between stuff on the blu-ray...

So what you mean is, on the bluray there is more footage, material?

[donald29]

Yeah.

[phil1993]

Bahrain in the news again
http://t.co/0taXqnQC