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krushgroove posted:Lots of goons signed up to do driver & team bios: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18BeDKUTb0dRKDdVdtUo349RIq1so7ancp1kE9WpHpRU/edit?usp=sharing
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 15:05 |
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Why isn't the testing being covered on Sky anyway? Because Burnie hasn't sold them the rights to it I guess.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 15:05 |
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In snooker, the crowd can get earpieces so they can listen to the TV commentary while they watch. I'm sure F1 can come up with a similar thing. Google Glasses to view timing screens perhaps?
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 15:07 |
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The best they could come up with is some lovely LEDs. Just buy a screen.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 15:13 |
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Xisticide posted:This is Antony Hamilton's "invention" right? What is that supposed to display? It looks to be about the size of a tablet. What useful information will be displayed on such a thing, that cannot be better transmitted by some on-screen graphic? Or as someone said above, by just knowing driver helmets and the tyres? There aren't that many drivers, and there are only 6 different types of tyres, of which two you see very rarely.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 15:13 |
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Also, I can do a track maybe.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 15:15 |
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It's meant for positioning info mainly I think. So you can tell what position the car you are looking at is currently in.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 15:38 |
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Sky sports is reporting that the all conquering McLaren Honda has completed an eye watering 2 laps today.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 15:47 |
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Ghost of Mussolini posted:What is that supposed to display? I'm fairly sure its currently displaying what it is supposed to display. Can't you make out all that info quote:Hamilton is also developing a version for DTM (German touring cars), Indy Cars, Nascar, karting and motor bikes. ...Just a man from stevenage, who's family slept on couch, with a dumb idea.. and the hard work it took to make it happen. Dubs fucked around with this message at 15:52 on Nov 26, 2014 |
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HJB posted:In snooker, the crowd can get earpieces so they can listen to the TV commentary while they watch. I'm sure F1 can come up with a similar thing. Google Glasses to view timing screens perhaps? Members of the crowd used to be able to rent a miniature TV with headphones showing the FIA feed, onboards, commentary and live data, but the company who did it didn't want to pay Bernie enough to keep doing it.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 15:48 |
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1500quidporsche posted:Sky sports is reporting that the all conquering McLaren Honda has completed an eye watering 2 laps today. Remember how we were all crowing about Red Bull's terrible reliability in testing, and then they won 3 races and placed second in the championship?
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 15:50 |
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Tsaedje posted:Remember how we were all crowing about Red Bull's terrible reliability in testing, and then they won 3 races and placed second in the championship? They also completed 11 laps in the first two days of testing.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 15:51 |
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Tsaedje posted:Remember how we were all crowing about Red Bull's terrible reliability in testing, and then they won 3 races and placed second in the championship? Mclaren is gonna get caught cheating again?
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 15:51 |
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HJB posted:In snooker, the crowd can get earpieces so they can listen to the TV commentary while they watch. I'm sure F1 can come up with a similar thing. Google Glasses to view timing screens perhaps? I'm fairly sure you can already do that at Silverstone, they have their own radio station
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 16:18 |
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You can download the F1 app and get live FIA commentary. You can also set it up to only hear team radio messages. I was able to watch the race from the side of the track and also hear any broadcasted radio messages.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 16:50 |
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Tsaedje posted:Remember how we were all crowing about Red Bull's terrible reliability in testing, and then they won 3 races and placed second in the championship? Yeah but RB were probably cheating all year, plus had Are Dan/ADR
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 17:11 |
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krushgroove posted:If you guys actually want track bios then more goons will need to sign up, or some of you guys & gals will need to double up. If you only want to do one type of bio (e.g., you don't want to do a driver but want to do a team), post itt or PM me or something. Just a driver bio for me. Hamilton's display thing is supposed to indicate track position I think, which isn't that bad an idea by itself, but I thought it was going to be some kind of OLED on the rear wing endplates or something, not an obviously cobbled-on extra piece that looks exactly, as was pointed out already, like a giant 2 digit calculator.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 17:14 |
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Ghost of Mussolini posted:What is that supposed to display? It looks to be about the size of a tablet. What useful information will be displayed on such a thing, that cannot be better transmitted by some on-screen graphic? Or as someone said above, by just knowing driver helmets and the tyres? There aren't that many drivers, and there are only 6 different types of tyres, of which two you see very rarely. It's copying the panels that have been used in sportscar racing for several years now that let you know what position the car is in.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 17:21 |
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Vergne has now officially split with Torro Rosso: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/116949 It's interesting how different his and Ricciardo's careers have turned out since 2013, considering how close they were back then.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 17:21 |
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drgitlin posted:It's copying the panels that have been used in sportscar racing for several years now that let you know what position the car is in. This seems like much less of an issue in modern F1, where track order pretty much mirrors the running order.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 17:27 |
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RALF posted:Vergne has now officially split with Torro Rosso: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/116949 RB always takes the fastest qualifiers, which isn't suprising seeing how their top speed and overtaking is limited. Vergne isn't a good qualifier, although he deserves a seat somewhere still, as he's a fairly good racer. If not for the last race, I'd be saying for the love of god, get rid of Massa and put Button or Vergne in that Williams. Though it's still a good idea, I can't see Williams terminating Massa's contract as it is. Fo3 fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Nov 26, 2014 |
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Alain Post posted:This seems like much less of an issue in modern F1, where track order pretty much mirrors the running order.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 17:33 |
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Alain Post posted:This seems like much less of an issue in modern F1, where track order pretty much mirrors the running order. This is just a precursor to Jean Todt's Super GP2 dual-class F1 budget Red Bull-promoter-run travesty on the horizon.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 17:43 |
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1500quidporsche posted:Sky sports is reporting that the all conquering McLaren Honda has completed an eye watering 2 laps today. do you know what testing is for? i'll give you a hint: it's testing
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 17:49 |
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Yeah it's not great, but there are a lot of bugs that have to be sorted out with a new engine/battery hybrid system to fit into a car previously designed for a completely different system. Could have gone better but it's a shakedown run. Are the teams allowed to have a 'rolling road' setup at their factories, to simulate bumps and things with the engine running and wheels turning? Or does that even exist? Are they allowed a car dyno like some tuning & performance shops have?
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 17:59 |
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be nice wicka posted:do you know what testing is for? Still, I'm not expecting this engine to set the world on fire. Maybe it will set the car on fire.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 18:00 |
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Honda should shoehorn the engine into one of the Super Formula cars and let one of their Japanese drivers have a crack at it.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 18:01 |
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I do know back in the day Williams built a chassis solely for Nakajima to drive in Japan, I think testing should be allowed if the driver in question does not participate in any GPs.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 18:03 |
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Human Grand Prix posted:Still, I'm not expecting this engine to set the world on fire. Maybe it will set the car on fire. Well it is a Honda engine pretend I posted a youtube compilation of BAR engines exploding like every race in 2003-5 E: this'll do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vphJVgjYPI
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 18:03 |
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A shame too because in power terms they were probably class of the field.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 18:05 |
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be nice wicka posted:do you know what testing is for? Doing few laps is bad for testing, since you don't do enough to gather data. Obviously, you're gonna have breakdowns or other difficulties, but unless you're specifically testing for "How does the <thing> react to the car only doing very few laps?", it's not good.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 18:11 |
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krushgroove posted:Yeah it's not great, but there are a lot of bugs that have to be sorted out with a new engine/battery hybrid system to fit into a car previously designed for a completely different system. Could have gone better but it's a shakedown run. I believe they have some sort of testing rig the engine and hybrid stuff is bolted into that can simulate bumps and stuff like that. Dont know the exact rules but I do believe the teams are barred from performing rolling road tests and stuff like that.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 18:14 |
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I thought have haven't done much running because they're having problems with their car's data. Not much point running a car around and getting inaccurate information.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 18:15 |
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Skarsnik posted:And where there's only one race going on at once, not different series And increasingly fewer cars on track as teams drop like flies.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 18:16 |
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Tsaedje posted:I thought have haven't done much running because they're having problems with their car's data. Not much point running a car around and getting inaccurate information. That never stopped Ferrari when they couldn't correlate wind tunnel data in 2012.
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1500quidporsche posted:Sky sports is reporting that the all conquering McLaren Honda has completed an eye watering 2 laps today. Renault were doing that in March and still won 3 races, 2 laps in a test hack in November isn't good but it doesn't mean a lot. 1500quidporsche posted:They also completed 11 laps in the first two days of testing. Those 2 days were months later though.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 18:27 |
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Serperoth posted:Doing few laps is bad for testing, since you don't do enough to gather data. Obviously, you're gonna have breakdowns or other difficulties, but unless you're specifically testing for "How does the <thing> react to the car only doing very few laps?", it's not good. lots of things can be tested that don't require the car to be in motion
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 19:07 |
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Dudley posted:Renault were doing that in March and still won 3 races, 2 laps in a test hack in November isn't good but it doesn't mean a lot. Not saying they're doomed but its not a good sign either. Red bull won those 3 races off the strength of their chassis and aero and despite the testing setbacks.
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# ? Nov 26, 2014 19:29 |
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Sashimi posted:This year's McLaren was bad, but at least it was consistently finishing in the points. Well, Jenson's was. krushgroove posted:Lots of goons signed up to do driver & team bios: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18BeDKUTb0dRKDdVdtUo349RIq1so7ancp1kE9WpHpRU/edit?usp=sharing I'm down for doing a bio for a driver/team/track/anything. Except Bernie. gently caress Bernie.
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1500quidporsche posted:Have to go with Rosberg. Came into this season expecting Hamilton to mushroom stamp him but he somehow got under his skin and kept in it until the last race. Races for me where Rosberg did better than Hamilton based on merit: Austria Germany Brazil Everything else he either got beaten, or Hamilton had reliability problems, or he got lucky (Monaco). It really was the reliability difference (Abu Dhabi bought them even on race reliability, but Lewis still had 2x qualifying car failures that put him way down the grid) that made the season close. And without double points, Hamilton would have only needed to finish 6th or higher in the last race. In a car that is so dominant that there really is no excuse for not coming at least 2nd to your teammate, it's not that impressive that the WDC came down to the last race. Lets look at some stats- Pole to win conversion rate (excluding reliability, they're one a-piece on that): Rosberg: 33% Hamilton: 100% Wheel to wheel racing: Rosberg: 0% Hamilton: 100% Luck/Cheating Rosberg: 100% Hamilton: 0% Number of dogs: Rosberg: Who gives a poo poo? None probably. Hamilton: 2 awesome ones. I'm only being semi-facetious here. Rosberg did not impress me on track this year. Alonso, Bottas, Button, Ricciardo and poo poo, probably Massa all could have done better in that car. Go back and watch Hungary. Watch Rosberg turn a 10 second lead into a 4th place by virtue of being utterly unable to overtake when needed. Hamilton didn't exactly have a great race either but still managed to finish ahead of Rosberg on track, and it's entirely down to Hamilton's round-the-outside overtaking move on Vergne that Rosberg couldn't/wouldn't have attempted. That's why he lost the WDC. NtotheTC fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Nov 26, 2014 |
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