Murderous Tyrants Grand Prix of Bahrain...

StefMeister · PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 4:48 pm

Not sure it was Minardi as FOM never took over most the races untill 2007. In 2004/2005 FOM were only doing 6 races (Melbourne, Sepang, Bahrain, China in 2004 + Indy, Montreal in 2005) & we often saw a lot of Minardi early in practice back then. We also had single lap qualifying back then so erasing a team off TV for the weekend would have been impossible.

Maybe it was Super-Aguri in on eof there last races, Maybe Arrows in 2002 when they intentionally qualified outside the 107% rule at Magny-Cours?.

I certainly can't think of any race weekend (Until today) over the past 10 years or so where we havn't seen a team at all in at least Qualifying/Race coverage.

Ian-S · PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 4:50 pm

Honda....? Toyota....?

StefMeister · PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 4:56 pm

https://twitter.com/#!/alanbaldwinf1

Quote:

Had a chat with Bernie about Force India's invisibility on TV today. Insisted it was not deliberate.

Mr E: "It was simple. They (the TV editors) are interested in who is going to be on pole. Nobody cares if someone is ninth or 11th"

Gaara · PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 4:57 pm

Look at all that bullshit.

Rubmifer · PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:03 pm

StefMeister wrote:

https://twitter.com/#!/alanbaldwinf1

Quote:

Had a chat with Bernie about Force India's invisibility on TV today. Insisted it was not deliberate.

Mr E: "It was simple. They (the TV editors) are interested in who is going to be on pole. Nobody cares if someone is ninth or 11th"

[youtubeidiot]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9xRhwmHBBE[/youtubeidiot]

RtN · PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:08 pm

StefMeister wrote:

https://twitter.com/#!/alanbaldwinf1

Quote:

Had a chat with Bernie about Force India's invisibility on TV today. Insisted it was not deliberate.

Mr E: "It was simple. They (the TV editors) are interested in who is going to be on pole. Nobody cares if someone is ninth or 11th"

Horse.

Shit.

Both Force Indias went out first in Q1 and Q2 but the director was "for some reason" more entertained by the quiet Marussia garage.

phil1993 · PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:11 pm

If it was Sauber or the perennially boring Toro Rosso then he has a point.

As it is the team that pulled out, causing Bernie/FIA/Bahrain bad publicity then it is no coincidence.

Force India was not shown throughout FP3, Q1, Q2 and Q3. Not once.

EAS · PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:13 pm

StefMeister wrote:

https://twitter.com/#!/alanbaldwinf1

Quote:

Had a chat with Bernie about Force India's invisibility on TV today. Insisted it was not deliberate.

Mr E: "It was simple. They (the TV editors) are interested in who is going to be on pole. Nobody cares if someone is ninth or 11th"

Surely Charles Pic had a good chance to achieve the pole today.

ryan86 · PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:15 pm

He was my Pic for pole.

phil1993 · PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:21 pm

Brilliant response from Di Resta; "I have seen some stuff on Twitter but I was sat in the car driving. So I saw my car"

acopip · PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:21 pm

ryan86 wrote:

He was my Pic for pole.

[youtubeidiot]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zXDo4dL7SU[/youtubeidiot]

Fergo · PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:21 pm

My favourite post from atlas.

Quote:

I once watched in the paddock as Bernard donned a top hat and walked under a snakes belly, today is a new low, petty minded twat.

phil1993 · PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:34 pm

The Crown Prince went to Damon Hill, "Hello Sir, are you happy here? do you feel safe now?" :lol:

Nick Daman ‏ @rcracing Reply Retweeted Favorite · Open
When I worked for FOM it was well known that the punishment for stepping out of line was a TV Blackout ...... #F1 #Forceindia

hedgey666 · PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:37 pm

Wouldn't be the first time the FIA had pretended a team didn't exist when they were angry at them - there isn't a single mention at all of the Andrea Moda team at any point in the 1992 Season Review, not even at the start when every single other team and driver is mentioned.

But yeah, I hope some protesters get their hands on the poison-dwarf at some point before the circus leaves this hellhole.

minardi85 · **Joined:** Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:04 pm **Posts:** 4

Well, my predictions will fail again. I thought, Rosberg would be strong like in the free practice session but Finger boy came from nowhere!

It will be interesting how good the Red Bull will be in the race. I guess, one of the McLaren drivers will pass Vettel and will win the race. After the two, Webber or the 2nd McLaren driver will finish on 3rd. But who knows?!? My predictions failed so far this season. :yuk:

One word about Michael Schumacher: Now he is the unlucky boy and not his teammate.

kals · PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 6:16 pm

phil1993 wrote:

Force India was not shown throughout FP3, Q1, Q2 and Q3. Not once.

Well that's not true. We got a good but fleeting view of Paul di Resta in Q3 when onboard with Mark Webber

Echti · PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 6:38 pm

phil1993 wrote:

Nick Daman ‏ @rcracing Reply Retweeted Favorite · Open
When I worked for FOM it was well known that the punishment for stepping out of line was a TV Blackout ...... #F1 #Forceindia

When Nick Daman worked for FOM their pictures were only seen by a relatively small number of people. And nobody gave a damn back then anyway.

RtN · PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 6:40 pm

phil1993 wrote:

The Crown Prince went to Damon Hill, "Hello Sir, are you happy here? do you feel safe now?" :lol:

If the Bahrainis on Atlas are to be believed, the Crown Prince is one of the good guys, leader of the reformist branch of the monarchy. But he's out-powered by his brothers and his father. So I can imagine he's pretty fed up with all of this as well.

phil1993 · PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 6:45 pm

He seems like the normal guy to be honest, you can see it in the interviews he conducts.

Meanwhile, Hague has phoned his counterpart in Bahrain to 'express concerns'.

acopip · PostPosted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 7:08 pm

minardi85 wrote:

Well, my predictions will fail again. I thought, Rosberg would be strong like in the free practice session but Finger boy came from nowhere!

It will be interesting how good the Red Bull will be in the race. I guess, one of the McLaren drivers will pass Vettel and will win the race. After the two, Webber or the 2nd McLaren driver will finish on 3rd. But who knows?!? My predictions failed so far this season. :yuk:

One word about Michael Schumacher: Now he is the unlucky boy and not his teammate.

welcome minardi85 :thumbsup:

I think this is gonna be an interesting race...
Rosberg and Alonso saved tires... just put on 3 (ROS) and 2 (ALO) laps, I could imagine Fernando ending up in the Top 5 and Nico on podium.
Michael will score some points, but I bet Button for the win. He set 5 laps, Lewis 6 and Vettel's racepace won't be good enough I believe...
But just let us hope that it will be a clean race in relation to the protesters. :thumbsup:

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