F1 2016: The Rise of Nando

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EoRaptor: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy

Riso posted:

Lewis never had to drive absolute garbage cars while Nando put a Minardi into the points.

I'd love a set of off-season races where all the drivers drove all of last years cars from different teams in timed sessions with identical settings/options drawn from the ones used by the team driver(s) from the previous season.

I think it would be hugely revealing about how much is driver and how much is car.

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MZ: Apr 21, 2004; Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

EoRaptor posted:

I'd love a set of off-season races where all the drivers drove all of last years cars from different teams in timed sessions with identical settings/options drawn from the ones used by the team driver(s) from the previous season.

I think it would be hugely revealing about how much is driver and how much is car.

This is way too complicated. Just stick them all in the same reasonably priced car and get them to do a full race weekend.

# ? Oct 4, 2016 18:01

MattD1zzl3: Oct 26, 2007; Can't post for 4 years!

EoRaptor posted:

I'd love a set of off-season races where all the drivers drove all of last years cars from different teams in timed sessions with identical settings/options drawn from the ones used by the team driver(s) from the previous season.

I think it would be hugely revealing about how much is driver and how much is car.

Off season races in general are something i'd like to see a lot more of. Especially if the in-season rules were relaxed for testing, or somehow allowed young drivers to get more mileage.

Cactrot posted:

We stole that one back, it's called Indigenous People's day around here.

gently caress Columbus.

Sorry, i cant hear you over the sound of all the native corpses. Deus Vult!

# ? Oct 4, 2016 18:21

Human Grand Prix: Jan 24, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

Riso posted:

Lewis never had to drive absolute garbage cars while Nando put a Minardi into the points.

In the old system too.

# ? Oct 4, 2016 19:13

wicka: Jun 28, 2007

Riso posted:

Lewis never had to drive absolute garbage cars while Nando put a Minardi into the points.

lewis drove at mclaren for six years

# ? Oct 4, 2016 19:18

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester: Oct 3, 2000

wicka posted:

lewis drove at mclaren for six years

Yeah but Lewis went through their driver program didn't he? He was kinda married to them. Nando on the other hand CHOSE to jump into the shittiest car in F1. Nando has balls of steel.

Also I want Nico to WDC up because his dad was awesome but he's clearly not awesome. I feel bad for the guy, throw him a bone or something.

# ? Oct 4, 2016 19:21

F1DriverQuidenBerg: Jan 19, 2014

The closest you could get to calling a car he drove bad would be the MP4-24 and that really wasn't terrible in the grand scheme of things.

# ? Oct 4, 2016 19:22

wicka: Jun 28, 2007

Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:

Also I want Nico to WDC up because his dad was awesome but he's clearly not awesome. I feel bad for the guy, throw him a bone or something.

if you're saying we should interpret a potential nico WDC as a second WDC for keke then i am absolutely down with that

# ? Oct 4, 2016 19:50

F1DriverQuidenBerg: Jan 19, 2014

I've loving been screaming that for months now.

This is for Keke.

# ? Oct 4, 2016 19:59

Kilonum: Sep 30, 2002; You know where you are? You're in the suburbs, baby. You're gonna drive.

Just washed the top three posters in this thread through a markov generator (will do it again for the top 10 at the end of the season)

Wicka (800 posts)

quote:

mercedes kept a lot differently. they've both done a lot of people who can't build engines." in 2014
ban riso-to-forums telemetry
most of them go near the sidepod area traditionally reserved for the title, but neither is anyone else, and at best it adds nothing to improve the racing? just one? anybody? this should even be a safety improvement. you are acting like rn. jesus.
i'm like 99% sure i've seen video of alonso's crash
I'm really sorry about all the way down the straights. with active aero you don't want to be to say this time?
they're drivers, not engineers. this childish rule change has provably done nothing but ruin drivers' races for no real reason.
F1's leicester city
"disconnected view of reality" aka not an insane personOK sure thanks
alonso leaving ferrari is starting to run out of their control. banning ALL chatter still maintains this problem. the solution to any problem you've fabricated in your mind."make F1 great again" isn't a debate, you misread the article.http://www.autosport.com/news/repor...on-topend-speed
completely off topic, but if they're really going back to the internet, only the inherent corruption in FOM has meant they've kept making their money through traditional broadcast means just a waste of breath.that's fair. i think that, for the demo run

1500quidporsche (1416 posts)

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McLaren could realistically finish higher than the Mercs without blowing up and he knew what he did in that engine is worse than North Korea in my opinion. The front end of every minor aspect of the day throwing large sums of cash to put any effort in.
I honestly want him to the glory years of Mercedes-Reich over another shitcrappen win.
Massa needs a race ban is in trouble.
Hell link the 2017 regulations which state this.
I'm almost certain something was lost in translation and he's referencing the power down. The turbo lag and just build a mercedes like engine from the tail end of 97. There are a number two driver compared to last year.
Is this true? I've never heard this before.
The only way you're going to be a rolling test and troubleshooting the new KIA/Hyundai n-word performance Formula One team.
I'd be furious if I was serious about doing it a while back but the higher you rev the engine becomes. I mean they would've won if it was an easy loophole, but I also don't think he gets a penalty at this point is beyond me. He loving just dive bombs people, it's not somebody who posts in here like F-e otherwise it won't stay active enough.
My understanding is that keeping costs down? At that point you have to watch the whole ten yards in one race and then weaving about like a good champion"-poo poo people actually say at the end of that beyond mandating minimum cooling requirements for the young demographic make me mad. Anybody can record clips of rustling leaves over 9 months then assemble them on a weekly basis six months away and they're going to run with much less leave my bed other than being a full goon on. I think it was ever going to be on par with Mercedes next race.
My issue is closed."*Twenty million new posts debating the issue*

learnincurve (1607 posts)

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Another article with rather more probables and considerings http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/r...nish-gp-733475/
Nice to see how our dads post check any article on motorsport.com related to the grid. Come on ocon do your job.
For fucks sake Brundle, Lewis could see he was bag of dicks.
So long as I could get it back down again because he hadn't been in the hope that they took the data starting from the pits.
The best part has always been a hell of a second massive tirade against internet conspiracy theorists. http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/m...eorists-732713/I'm not sure if this is some A game Ronspeak here, he started with "we are telling you it's not the European way.Football is far more than 0.2 seconds per lap.http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/m...per-lap-790152/
Oh Ferrari
Brundle trying to look forward to getting up at Monza is a respected artist in Australia among a certain speed and lap time records have to quit F1 if test plan not agreed on was our prime minister's father, and in a mode which is what makes Todt so drat hypocritical now. Ferrari owned the sport totally unrelated to this one.
Ted tried to use it coming out of everything and tell Red Bull and Renault had a get out of thin air. Pirelli need at least Nico will have so many clauses in the grandstands are going for him. I'd say if anyone will let them heal on their own, not because of your bosses who won a WDC with the most awkward grid walk could not give a gently caress if it's not F1's fault. A big issue for me and the works teams are still developing the crash structure and helmets.edit: jet fighter style canopy is going to gently caress off.
You know that Greece has defaulted again and managed to go into another SAS thread and say "OK this red bull internal meaning is awesome.
I hope you are a bunch of lunatics when it flips back. .

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F1DriverQuidenBerg: Jan 19, 2014

I need a new job jfc.

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wicka: Jun 28, 2007

Panic Defense posted:

Just washed the top three posters in this thread through a markov generator (will do it again for the top 10 at the end of the season)

Wicka (800 posts)

1500quidporsche (1416 posts)

learnincurve (1607 posts)

"ban riso-to-forums telemetry" i don't remember posting this but it's p funny. no offense riso, i must've been melting down at the time (see left).

also what the heck is a markov generator

# ? Oct 4, 2016 20:18

ImplicitAssembler: Jan 24, 2013

Panic Defense posted:

Just washed the top three posters in this thread through a markov generator (will do it again for the top 10 at the end of the season)

learnincurve (1607 posts)

I can't tell the difference??

# ? Oct 4, 2016 20:38

Norns: Nov 21, 2011; Senior Shitposting Strategist

ImplicitAssembler posted:

I can't tell the difference??

# ? Oct 4, 2016 20:41

Riso: Oct 11, 2008; by merry exmarx

wicka posted:

"ban riso-to-forums telemetry" i don't remember posting this but it's p funny. no offense riso, i must've been melting down at the time (see left).

Just take your pills wicka.

# ? Oct 4, 2016 21:16

GramCracker: Oct 8, 2005; beauty by stroll

ImplicitAssembler posted:

I can't tell the difference??

# ? Oct 4, 2016 21:43

F1DriverQuidenBerg: Jan 19, 2014

wicka posted:

also what the heck is a markov generator

It's how Joes Award writes his blog.

# ? Oct 4, 2016 21:47

learnincurve: May 15, 2014; Smoosh

ImplicitAssembler and norns posted:

I can't tell the difference??

I hope you are a bunch of lunatics when it flips back

# ? Oct 4, 2016 22:48

JFairfax: Oct 23, 2008; by FactsAreUseless

MZ posted:

This is way too complicated. Just stick them all in the same reasonably priced car and get them to do a full race weekend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZfXr1eESMs

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wicka: Jun 28, 2007

Riso posted:

Just take your pills wicka.

my automopills?

# ? Oct 4, 2016 23:01

wicka: Jun 28, 2007

https://twitter.com/ChrisMedlandF1/status/783312608711548928

# ? Oct 4, 2016 23:14

learnincurve: May 15, 2014; Smoosh

I now hate Kvyat and Nasr the least.

# ? Oct 4, 2016 23:18

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

Both Lewis and Nico's choices are horrific.

# ? Oct 4, 2016 23:49

HJB: Feb 16, 2011; I can't get enough of are Dan

I don't know what I love more, how diplomatic they all were, or that some couldn't think of three songs to name

# ? Oct 4, 2016 23:56

You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

Man that's dad rock central there except for Lewis and Are Dan

# ? Oct 4, 2016 23:58

Norns: Nov 21, 2011; Senior Shitposting Strategist

learnincurve posted:

I hope you are a bunch of lunatics when it flips back

All my lovely posts are kinda like white noise anyway

# ? Oct 4, 2016 23:58

HJB: Feb 16, 2011; I can't get enough of are Dan

Drivers pick their favourite driving songs for Suzuka

Everyone: Uhhh... Turning Japanese?

# ? Oct 5, 2016 00:00

GOOD TIMES ON METH: Mar 17, 2006; Fun Shoe

HJB posted:

Drivers pick their favourite driving songs for Suzuka

Everyone: Uhhh... Turning Japanese?

I bet there is at least one driver who is real into anime

# ? Oct 5, 2016 00:05

Khablam: Mar 29, 2012

HJB posted:

Drivers pick their favourite driving songs for Suzuka

That's pretty easy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCwpypclOYA

# ? Oct 5, 2016 00:23

dreesemonkey: May 14, 2008; Pillbug

EoRaptor posted:

Lewis is very narcissistic, and that turns a bunch of people off. He also externalizes a lot of problems he is at least partially responsible for, which is also kind of offensive.

Narcissism sure, but I think the root cause is severe insecurity.

# ? Oct 5, 2016 00:35