Ben_H

Bernie needs to be off the case. Bernie needs to not touch F1 anymore. He needs to let someone who actually has some form of long term vision for the sport start making decisions rather than calling for reverse grids and ballasts. In the year I've been following F1, I've yet to see anything from him that has been anything other than completely terrible.

I just watched the qualifying (before tuning into the new pre-race coverage we are getting here in Canada from Sky) and it was abysmal. Even engineers warned them that the new qualifying was going to be terrible and have nothing going on for the last 4 minutes. I think Vettel's face he made to the camera before going to the post-qualifying conference said it all.

Huh, so I found out today when I turned on my recording of FP2 that TSN in Canada is now partnered with Sky rather than going with Channel 4 like I thought they would (TSN used to have the BBC feed, which I quite liked). I'm not sure what to think. On the one hand, having Brundle for the races will be nice and I've always liked Ted. On the other hand, Damon Hill and Croft. Also, I'll miss Coulthard and Edwards, they were really good. I was kinda excited to see what Channel 4 would do, but I guess I don't get to see that. On the bright side, apparently we get a whole bunch of Sky's pre and post-race stuff now, which we never used to get.

I should probably start doing these. I'm finally getting to be not completely garbage at this game (I can finish long stages with RWD cars now yay!) so it'd be fun to see where I stack up.

The Channel 4 coverage team has been revealed. Some surprises. Some not-so-surprises. Ben Edwards and Coulthard will be the main commentators, a good move in my view as they were actually pretty great on the BBC together. On the bright side, Susie Wolff, Karun Chandhok and Mark Webber (YES. I really like Webber, I'm just finishing reading his autobiography right now. He seems like a cool dude) are going to be analysts of various types. For pundits, they're rotating a bunch of people including Lewis Hamilton's brother, Nicolas (who, if you aren't aware, is actually a BTCC driver himself despite having cerebral palsy and is quite knowledgeable. He is frequently seen in old races hanging out in the Mercedes or McLaren garage, wherever his brother was at), Alain Prost, Bruno Senna, Murray Walker (YESSSSSSS), and, erm, Eddie Jordan... Lee the BBC pitlane reporter will be their reporter, which is fine because she did a good job.

Here's the full story: http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/channel-4-reveals-formula-1-coverage-team-678051/

Probably Earthbound and Super Metroid. I already own a few of the other ones on Wii U so hopefully you can do some kind of crossbuy thing, but I doubt that would happen. I wouldn't have bought them on Wii U if I knew they were coming to 3DS because I'd way rather play them on 3DS.

E. Honda, who was my main in SFIV/SSFIV.

That new Ferrari must have done a lot of squats or something. The rear end of it is super tightly packed compared to last year. F1Fanatic has a really good comparison thingy for the new Ferrari if you are curious to see just how tightly packed it is.

Also, I hope Red Bull keep the matte finish for their new livery rather than make it shiny. It looks really slick with it matte.

And finally, Rossi deserved that last Manor spot in my view and it seems like a lot of people are saying as much. Haryanto better do a good job or I have a feeling a lot of people will be griping about him wasting space. Hopefully Rossi can get back in next year. He did pretty well last year given what he had to work with.

Here's a shitty Kimi Raikkonen themed non-Valentines themed Valentines poem:

Ferraris are red

The waved flags are blue

Get the Marussias out of the way

And don't tell me what to do

Holy crap really? Man I feel old now.

Rally Sweden's going on right now. It warmed up a bunch so they had to cancel some stages because there was no snow and the drivers are required to use studded tires (which is dangerous with gravel because the gravel rips out the studs, making the tire unusable on ice). The best stages right now are in Norway. Meeke's already basically out which is a bummer, and Latvala's driveshaft went on the first stage so he did the entire first day in rear wheel drive.

Also, everyone cheer for Craig Breen. He's a newer junior driver who is being given a chance by Citroen and he's doing great. He beat Ogier's time on the last stage of day one and when he found out he teared up and talked about how hard he worked and how he wanted to do well for everyone, including something he pointed to in his car. It turned out the thing he pointed to was a picture of his old co-driver who died in an crash in a rally in 2012 that Breen kept in the car.