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1500quidporsche posted:This is a cool and good idea. Yes! Bring back the real Race of Champions at Brands Hatch.
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Jamsque posted:Yes! Bring back the real Race of Champions at Brands Hatch. If they bring it back it's going to be some horseshit city track in the middle east somewhere.
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Schlesische posted:If they bring it back it's going to be some horseshit city track in the middle east somewhere. Not now Bernie is gone  I would imagine it would be held at brands hatch or Imola, that way if the format they are testing turns out to be rubbish then the fans wont mind so much.
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wicka posted:I know I sound like a broken record but I want to know what the hell they're doing with that floor. Nobody else is hiding anything that obvious. The McLaren could be a very good car as it does look clean but not simple and its definitely hiding some dodgy things. Its the same as last season, they may have had the best car on the track its just it was attached to a really poo poo engine. The problem is they have a engine manufacturer who doesn't seem to know how to build engines, so they are hosed - unless Honda mysteriously turn this around in a few weeks.
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Mclaren makes supercar engines, honda makes lawnmowers. why even involve honda.
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Powershift posted:Mclaren makes supercar engines, honda makes lawnmowers. why even involve honda. It's a logistics and resources game.
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Decent interview with Brawn discussing his role https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz6FB-buuRQ Pablo Bluth fucked around with this message at 09:11 on Mar 1, 2017 |
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Mar 1, 2017 09:03
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Honda fund the team
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http://www.autosport.com/live/commentary/id/2509377/formula-1-testing-2017-barcelona-f1-test-day-three I don't know why they are doing it but MCLRN just sent Alonso out when there is a red flag out.
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he was hoping to bianchi his way out the team EDIT: this is the best ive seen the mccclarn look https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C50cj-AWgAEWrQb.jpg Dubs fucked around with this message at 09:41 on Mar 1, 2017 |
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Lol FIA have been inspecting suspension systems and one team has been told to change it already, it's not red bull because they haven't been inspected yet.
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Dubs posted:EDIT: this is the best ive seen the mccclarn look I was wondering when McLaren changed over to Renault, I hadn't realised things were going that bad!
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Mar 1, 2017 10:27
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Season is already over Bottas has set a time of 1:19.705 on ultrasofts. Given Merc were probably still sandbagging a bit, and its Bottas driving it, then its game over already.
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Mar 1, 2017 12:23
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With things looking closer in the midfield I'm optimistic for some good racing in the middle of the pack there. Shame about McLaren.
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Just for comparison last years best testing time was - 1:22.810, which was done by Vettel as Merc usually heavily sandbag testing. Merc, Ferrari, Redbull, Williams, Sauber and Renault have all set times faster than that today - most of them over a second faster. The cars this year are shockingly quick and probably the fastest F1 cars ever once they stop sandbagging.
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Mar 1, 2017 12:39
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learnincurve posted:Not now Bernie is gone You will never get a modern F1 race at brands ever.
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https://twitter.com/RenaultSportF1/status/836902592680701952 Nice use of Windows 98. Bottas is still more than a second off Massa's ultimate fastest though - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_de_Barcelona-Catalunya#Absolute_fastest_lap
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track day bro! posted:You will never get a modern F1 race at brands ever. Not a championship race no, but there is leeway for non-chapionship, it's just that Bernie was always a little tit about it. There is also the option of testing a new format with old cars which opens up even more tracks they are allowed to run at.
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ukle posted:Just for comparison last years best testing time was - 1:22.810, which was done by Vettel as Merc usually heavily sandbag testing. Unfortunately, we won't get to see that because drivers will all be coasting through corners and turning down revs to save fuel for 60% of the race.
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CratSock posted:Unfortunately, we won't get to see that because drivers will all be coasting through corners and turning down revs to save fuel for 60% of the race. Fuel saving has been a non-issue since the second season of the V6 formula, have they tweaked fuel flow and consumption regs this year to bring it back into play?
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learnincurve posted:Not a championship race no, but there is leeway for non-chapionship, it's just that Bernie was always a little tit about it. There is also the option of testing a new format with old cars which opens up even more tracks they are allowed to run at. 1) It's a FIA grade 2 circuit 2) The pits are loving tiny, you would never get all the modern F1 crap in even using the peripheral areas 3) There is nowhere near enough runoff for F1 standards 4) You couldn't extend runoff in some areas due to it being next to peoples houses very near the GP part of the course 5) The GP section is only limited to a few days in the year due to its location and noise restrictions 6) I doubt Johnathan Palmer/MSV want to wank off ££££ just for a non-championship race which would include significant remodeling of the track. 7) It would grind a large part of the M25/Kent/outer London to a standstill The BTCC final last year had me queuing on the slip road on the M25 pretty much all the way into the circuit for an hour and a half. This is about a 10 minute drive if you go there for a track day (bro) so I'd bet F1 there would be even worse.
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MattD1zzl3 posted:Thats it. They need to drop the fuel flow restriction and turn up the boost if this is the case. There is no reason we shouldnt have 1300 horsepower f1 cars. This. There's literally NO reason these cars shouldn't be at 1300hp in race trim. Who are we kidding with the fuel flow restriction in F1? Nothing about this series is "green" VelociBacon posted:It's a logistics and resources game. Partnership synergy optimization, I believe you mean.
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The fuel flow restrictions are dumb because you'd still be producing "green"-adjacent technology so long as refueling isn't allowed. There is a finite amount of fuel in the cars and teams will always want to generate as much power as possible from that.
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I quite like the fuel flow limit, 90% of the interesting poo poo on these engines have come from that. It's an interesting engineering problem that is genuinely relevant to cars.
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It brings an aspect of the sport of I have no care about at all. Fuel mixtures and teams getting better performance based on the fuel they use. It's silly.
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Stroll appears to be in way over his head with these cars.
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1500quidporsche posted:Stroll appears to be in way over his head with these cars. That's because he isn't The Chosen One.
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1500quidporsche posted:Stroll appears to be in way over his head with these cars. He's not #blessed
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1500quidporsche posted:Stroll appears to be in way over his head with these cars. I love it. Maybe F1 will be motivated to stop putting children in seats.
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Norns posted:I love it. His daddy's money would buy him a seat regardless of his age
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Maldonado 2.0
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Tsaedje posted:His daddy's money would buy him a seat regardless of his age Yeah but another year or four in junior series really wouldn't have hurt.
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He went for a long Stroll through a short gravel trap.
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Lance Droll.
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Hot take: Lance Stroll isn't very good
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I thought his dad spent a bajillion dollars buying an ex Williams car for F1 seat time? Tsk tsk.
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McLaren Honda split being weighed up? http://www.planetf1.com/news/mclaren-considering-honda-split-report/
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djssniper posted:McLaren Honda split being weighed up? Nonsense. As I said yesterday, that company's biggest loving asset is the Honda contract. Why would you tear that up unless Honda was giving you a gently caress load of cash to do so?
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Theophany posted:Maldonado 2.0 So he's going to win a race?
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George Zimmer posted:Lance Droll. Lance LOL
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