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Jul 6, 2014 | 10:32 PM

#461

ianl

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From: The Beautiful South

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Originally Posted by s2k_Nut

.....his pit crew are always slower than Rosberg's he needs to sort this out too, these kind of things can be critical during races.

As suggested above, there is only one pit crew, the some blokes service both cars.

Sky for me as well (though I often record the bbc coverage to watch later). Brundle's move to Sky made me do something I never thought I'd do - put money in Murdoch's pocket.

Disappointed JB didn't make it to the podium, but I think he wrung every ounce of performance out of the car today.

Jul 6, 2014 | 11:47 PM

#462

andy2000

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Vettel passed Alonso right in front of us. Highlight of the day. Its absolutely undescribable the noise from the crowd at a British winner at Silverstone. What a day to introduce my nephew to live F1 :-)

Looking forward to watching the full coverage tonight.

Jul 7, 2014 | 02:41 AM

#463

soulcrew

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great drive from bottas and another solid performance from ricciardo

Jul 7, 2014 | 02:44 AM

#464

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I suspect Massa would have been on the podium, which is a shame.

Jul 7, 2014 | 02:45 AM

#465

lower

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Originally Posted by MB

Agree on the pit stops, and it was good to hear Hamilton say 'don't worry about the pit stop guys, will do a better one next time' or could be translated to 'you ****** muppets, sort it out'

I heard it different. I heard it as 'i'm worried about the pitstops, lets make the next one a better one'.

There was speculation from the BBC team that Hamilton wasn't going to stop again and it was a radio bluff.

Jul 7, 2014 | 03:29 AM

#466

ianl

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As an aside, did anyone else notice the swathes of empty seats at yesterdays race?

Jul 7, 2014 | 03:38 AM

#467

andy2000

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Woodcote was pretty packed but looked like a lot of room at Luffield left.
It was down on 2011 and 2012 according to the press.

Anything to do with the ticket price maybe ?

And do they really expect people to pay £6 for a lanyard with a plastic wallet at the end. Sadly people do, I saw it happen. :-(

Jul 7, 2014 | 03:38 AM

#468

lovegroova

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Originally Posted by ianl

As an aside, did anyone else notice the swathes of empty seats at yesterdays race?

Yes, although there were apparently 120,000 people there. I guess the new track layout has meant an increased capacity, but that's tempered by the extortionate ticket prices.

They've removed lots of interesting stuff from the free Live Timing web page as well (just coloured dots rather than sector times), as well as the number of pitstops made. All that's now in the phone and tablet apps which you have to pay for. The money grubbing continues...