Paul Barrass replied to the forum topic F1 fantasy leagues in the group F1
I also fail miserably to predict anything with the Castrol GP predictor as part of my pre race schedule.
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Just one comment. In the Lewis article, he mentions about meeting people and making a difference, and I have been to goodwood once and met him and Jensen, and Lewis (from the current crop) was so much...
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Over 100 prizes to win in the F1 Fanatic...
kudos on the comp’ @keithcollantine, great site, and lot’s of respect to the work that has went into it.
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Marussia’s hopes invested in two rookie...
I agree, up to a point. This all depends on weighting of positions, rather than anything else. If team (a) constantly come 17th and 18th, and team (b) constantly come 19th and 20th in a field of 20...
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Marussia’s hopes invested in two rookie...
slap my maths. Alonso would not have been champion last year using the old system, but it would have been even closer than it already was (1 point, I think!)
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Marussia’s hopes invested in two rookie...
What about Bottas? I think he’ gonna pull a few surprises.
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Will F1′s UK audience recover from its...
In answer to the question, eh no. It’s going to get worse. My Nana (Grandmother) and Granda (Grandfather), three uncles and two aunt’s used to watch F1 religiously, and in fact it was the family time...
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Will F1′s UK audience recover from its...
This is not factually acurate. Although highly secret, the concensus of informed observers have suggested around the 53% mark of TV monies going to the teams in one form or another. (I particularly...
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, FIA confirms 2013 calendar cut to 19 races
@prisoner-monkeys has the nose on this one. I’m very surprised that more hasn’t been made of it. The hotline is down, the dmz is being hardened, and the potential for extreme devestation is worse in...
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Will F1′s UK audience recover from its...
@keithcollantine and yourself Gavyn make some interesting comments. But I am fairly certain that some of them are flawed. Viewing figures are not necessary to generate revenue, except for advertising...
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Will F1′s UK audience recover from its...
Paltry perhaps :-) It’s a great word, but hardly used so kudos on the vocabulary, if not on the spelling…..
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Will F1′s UK audience recover from its...
Ahh. My personal favourite subject :-) My final post to this thread (I promise) is a link to an article from Bloomberg and quotes Bob Bernley of Force India. A lot of my personal headaches with the...
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Will F1′s UK audience recover from its...
Damn that posted when I hit return. Anyway, the interesting figures are thus: 699 million dollars from a 1.5 billion pot are distributed to the teams from CVC. CVC have made an estimated 3 billion...
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Whitmarsh: “One of the hardest days” for...
What a hilarious start to the season. And by hilarious I mean ironic. The RBR looks incredibly planted, and the McLaren looks worse than the Ferrari last year, and suddenly the mercedes looks second or...
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Whitmarsh: “One of the hardest days” for...
Sorry. on my laptop, and I occasionally knock the trackpad and then hit enter which posts early… The upshot to the above of course, being that the design process is more comittee led with different...
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Whitmarsh: “One of the hardest days” for...
:-) Excellent. I love a Byrne fan. I think he doesn’t get the recognition he deserves generally. Everyone knows Newey, and Brawn, and even Sam Michael’s name is probably more well known amongst F1 fans...
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Whitmarsh: “One of the hardest days” for...
LoL. Or perhaps just bring a pile of metal and carbon fibre and wiring. Whitmarsh: “This pile of metal and carbon fibre may not be as quick as last year’s car, but it is something we can improve for...
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Whitmarsh: “One of the hardest days” for...
@nickfrog, you never know. The joke at the time was that if Mansell’s moustache somehow made him a half a second quicker, than his two eye moustaches must make him a full second quicker overall….....
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Whitmarsh: “One of the hardest days” for...
thanks @ivano. I’m guessing you are italian/have italian heritage and can speak/read Italian. That’s got to be a good thing for an F1 fan to have… :-)
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Whitmarsh: “One of the hardest days” for...
Lot’s of interesting comments, and I admit here to being a massive Lewis fan, and not much of a Button lover, but there does seem to be a leaning toward saying Hamilton is such a big loss relevant to...
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Australian GP qualifying postponed to Sunday
American football, Rugby, baseball and perhaps cricket are all more inherently dangerous than current F1 racing. On what basis do you make this assumption? I agree that all of those sports offer more […]
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Australian GP qualifying postponed to Sunday
Why not split the season into four phases. Europe | Asia | Europe | Americas This would give multiple advantages. Firstly, European testing would be more directly relevant for the start of season...
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Vettel and Webber lock out front row in...
I don’t know if I should be massively impressed by the lap, or or concerned for the rest of the season (with respects to a walkover by Seb). The only silver lining for non-Seb fans, and for impartial...
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Vettel and Webber lock out front row in...
I don’t know what to think about this. I think it’s very, very odd that he’s back in F1 at all when you consider who was involved and how it panned out.
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Rate the race: 2013 Malaysian Grand Prix
I’ve awarded this race an 8, because of the team orders, and the absolute polarisation it has shown. The juxtaposition of the RBR and Merc’ orders, with one being followed and one not is exactly the...
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Rate the race: 2013 Malaysian Grand Prix
Actually, I’m going to re-iterate one of my former points for people talking about team orders. What get’s me is that in this race, they seem intrinsically linked to tyre performance (With mercedes,...
View ArticlePaul Barrass replied to the forum topic Webber to leave Red Bull, says Bild...
In all honesty, who would expect him to? I was surprised to see him there this year….
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Sepang conditions masked Lotus pace –...
RE: Comment of the day, and some people saying the team is more than just Newey. I agree completely, that it is a team effort, but Newey is the differing factor. He is also no longer, if he ever was,...
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Sepang conditions masked Lotus pace –...
@bernard That’s exactly the points I was making, but kudos on the quotes. I can never be bothered to go and track them down. :-) It’s one of the best posts I’ve ever read. many thanks.
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Horner: Vettel and Webber have a “healthy...
@bendana I’ve just burst out laughing at this in work.
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Horner: Vettel and Webber have a “healthy...
I think Christian Horner (and Martin Whitmarsh also) are the worst team principals I’ve ever known in some ways. I can only assume that they have a very appeasing public face, whereas behind closed...
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, FIA wades into tyre row with safety ruling
Maldonado won’t be bringing in money for long methinks, as that was almost certainly a presidential order, and there is no guarantee that will be renewed.
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, FIA wades into tyre row with safety ruling
I had to wade in, as I am sick of all of these allegorical comparisons with football, where people are saying you can’t change the goal size, or the size of the pitch, etc. but find them all to be...
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Newey crashes on formation lap in...
He’s done this many times now. He totalled a classic GT40 a few years back, which is equally amusing and sad :-( Now having said that, I have heard he is pretty quick, but when he hasn’t been out for...
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Caption Competition 34: Raikkonen and Vettel
Seb: “Have you heard all of the latest driver rumours?” Kimi: “No. I was having a ****.”
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Caption Competition 35: Fernando Alonso
Fernando: “Sun Tzu says: ‘Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.’” Lady: “Well Montezemolo says ‘When drivers say stupid things, they have to test...
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Caption Competition 34: Raikkonen and Vettel
Seb: “Have you heard all of the latest driver rumours?” Kimi: “No. I was having a s&*t.”
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Caption Competition 34: Raikkonen and Vettel
also. sorry for the swear on the first post. I’m bad.
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, F1 owners ordered to hand over sale...
Aldo Costa wasn’t actually sacked. It was mutual consent to leave, and as he turned up at Mercedes pretty quickly, I think he was probably leaving for the “silver dollar”(1). Also, this years...
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Sutil has ‘lost respect’ for Hamilton
I’m sorry. What!!! Hamilton has many faults like all of us, and he has shown them in the public eye many times. 2011 was pretty much full of them, however what a ridiculous remark from Sutil. The guy...
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Sutil has ‘lost respect’ for Hamilton
Adrian Sutil, the closest thing to an F1 murderer we’ll likely ever know. Anyone defending him should go and look at Eric Lux’ neck and re-iterate the known facts of the incident: Lux and co were...
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Sutil has ‘lost respect’ for Hamilton
Yes, I was a little inflaming with the first comment. I didn’t mean to imply he was scum, instead I just wanted to note just how close Eric Lux was to death. Literally scant millimetres/centimetres at...
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Sutil has ‘lost respect’ for Hamilton
@bascb Yes, I was a little inflaming with the first comment. I didn’t mean to imply he was scum, instead I just wanted to note just how close Eric Lux was to death. Literally scant...
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Hamilton glad F1 “still has danger factor”
All of the comments about danger from Motorsports-men and ‘women and their fans always forget Equestrianism. In terms of amateur and professional deaths per participant, you’re more likely to die...
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Hamilton glad F1 “still has danger factor”
lol. As a follow up, some studies indicate that horse-riding fatalities and life threatening injuries resulting in an ambulance attendance were greater than for all other sport combined in 2010. Pfft....
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Using Twitter? Don’t follow these F1 fakes
Not entirely sure if this will be allowed, as I’m not sure if it’s a direct advertisement or not, but my blog is almost 100% comedy, with the added bonus of predicting exactly who would move where on...
View ArticlePaul Barrass commented on the post, Caption Competition 68: Sebastian Vettel
“Pastor was about here at the time.””
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