F1 Offseason 16/17 Thread: It was worth it for Keke.

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Norns: Nov 21, 2011; Senior Shitposting Strategist

geonetix posted:

We'll never know as Charlie won't green flag in the rain

gently caress those starts so much.

# ? Mar 3, 2017 21:08

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# ? May 9, 2024 19:06

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

Human Grand Prix posted:

British people: The Ultimate Fucktards?

According to the Will Of The People (ie, a very small majority meaning 100%), yes.

# ? Mar 3, 2017 21:33

GramCracker: Oct 8, 2005; beauty by stroll

1500quidporsche posted:

Is the rest of SAS even remotely close to the posting style of this thread? I posted in a baseball thread once and people started crying because I called a relief pitcher a bum.

Honestly, this thread has ruined me. I now talk in similar form as we do in here when discussing sports within the outside world. Referring to players as binmen, etc and talking poo poo for no reason. People don't know what to make of that.

# ? Mar 3, 2017 22:06

GramCracker: Oct 8, 2005; beauty by stroll

wicka posted:

Your NASCAR thread posts are cool and good, who the gently caress likes eight laps of caution?

Hot Take: NASCAR is poo poo and stupid. :colbert:

*edit: Should be noted, I am American

# ? Mar 3, 2017 22:07

Myrddin_Emrys: Mar 27, 2007; by Hand Knit

GramCracker posted:

Honestly, this thread has ruined me. I now talk in similar form as we do in here when discussing sports within the outside world. Referring to players as binmen, etc and talking poo poo for no reason. People don't know what to make of that.

I dont underatand this. Internet=laughs, real life=serious business

# ? Mar 3, 2017 22:11

GramCracker: Oct 8, 2005; beauty by stroll

Myrddin_Emrys posted:

I dont underatand this. Internet=laughs, real life=serious business

I blur the lines because I'm edgy like that.

# ? Mar 3, 2017 22:16

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

GramCracker posted:

Honestly, this thread has ruined me. I now talk in similar form as we do in here when discussing sports within the outside world. Referring to players as binmen, etc and talking poo poo for no reason. People don't know what to make of that.

The internet makes you stupid

# ? Mar 3, 2017 22:17

Feels Villeneuve: Oct 7, 2007; Setter is Better.

Human Grand Prix posted:

British people: The Ultimate Fucktards?

# ? Mar 3, 2017 22:18

Feels Villeneuve: Oct 7, 2007; Setter is Better.

I wish I cared enough about NASCAR to be angry at it again.

# ? Mar 3, 2017 22:18

wicka: Jun 28, 2007

Alain Post posted:

I wish I cared enough about NASCAR to be angry at it again.

Eventually Junior will retire and I'll be all out of care.

# ? Mar 3, 2017 22:22

djssniper: Jan 10, 2003

Myrddin_Emrys posted:

I dont underatand this. Internet=laughs, real life=serious business

And yet you still don't understand

# ? Mar 3, 2017 22:25

F1DriverQuidenBerg: Jan 19, 2014

GramCracker posted:

Honestly, this thread has ruined me. I now talk in similar form as we do in here when discussing sports within the outside world. Referring to players as binmen, etc and talking poo poo for no reason. People don't know what to make of that.

My parents were poor as poo poo growing up so I spent my summers in butt gently caress nowhere with my grandparents and my grandfather yelling at the TV calling every second player of the Blue Jays a bum or a drunk at the television every single day. I don't know any other way to talk about sports.

# ? Mar 3, 2017 22:27

djssniper: Jan 10, 2003

1500quidporsche posted:

My parents were poor as poo poo growing up so I spent my summers in butt gently caress nowhere with my grandparents and my grandfather yelling at the TV calling every second player of the Blue Jays a bum or a drunk at the television every single day. I don't know any other way to talk about sports.

I had to make do with a lovely old B&W TV to watch F1, it had a dial and a coat hanger aerial, all my grandparents were dead, lucky you

# ? Mar 3, 2017 22:56

GramCracker: Oct 8, 2005; beauty by stroll

MattD1zzl3 posted:

The internet makes you stupid

This thread has worked wonders for my brain cells. I can't say y'all never gave me nothing.

# ? Mar 3, 2017 23:21

Powershift: Nov 23, 2009

GramCracker posted:

This thread has worked wonders for my brain cells. I can't say y'all never gave me nothing.

It's like a brain massage with a claw hammer.

# ? Mar 3, 2017 23:31

GramCracker: Oct 8, 2005; beauty by stroll

F1 2017: It's like a brain massage with a claw hammer

# ? Mar 3, 2017 23:52

BubbaGrace: Jul 14, 2006

JFairfax posted:

hahah I had not seen this before

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6P-_OiflbI

marvelous

Look at Mansel with his flat brim bent upwards 30 years before it would become cool. What a hipster.

# ? Mar 4, 2017 03:15

Dubs: Mar 6, 2007; Stroll Own Zone.
Disregard Stroll outside zone.

He is known as a good and cool guy, but you what they say about british people

# ? Mar 4, 2017 04:36

Wirth1000: May 12, 2010; #essereFerrari

quote:

The Japanese manufacturer had a tough time at Barcelona this week, suffering an issue with its oil tank design on the first day but then, more seriously, having a failure on day two.

To further compound Honda's problems, the engine did not appear to deliver the performance step hoped for.

There were even suggestions that, for reliability reasons, it was having to run in a state that produced less power than it had in 2016.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/128350

Holy gently caress.

# ? Mar 4, 2017 06:54

Pirate Radar: Apr 18, 2008; You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

Oh well.

# ? Mar 4, 2017 06:56

Human Grand Prix: Jan 24, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

Eh. Expected.

# ? Mar 4, 2017 07:07

Pirate Radar: Apr 18, 2008; You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

quote:

Formula 1�s newly-installed sporting boss Ross Brawn says he�d like to see the unpopular and unintended consequences of the new-for-2017 aerodynamic rules �ironed out� over time.

Speaking to Formula1.com in a video interview in Barcelona this week, Brawn admitted he�d like to see the cars' appearance to be �more pure� � while also admiring the performance jump they had made over the previous generation of machinery.

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/f1-chief-brawn-aims-to-iron-out-shark-fin-and-t-wing-designs-879468/

We must protect the purity of our essence

# ? Mar 4, 2017 07:11

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

Wirth1000 posted:

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/128350

Holy gently caress.

Jesus, has Honda got ex-British Leyland engineers working on that motor?

# ? Mar 4, 2017 07:16

EoRaptor: Sep 13, 2003; by Fluffdaddy

Pirate Radar posted:

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/f1-chief-brawn-aims-to-iron-out-shark-fin-and-t-wing-designs-879468/

We must protect the purity of our essence

Eh, I'm very supportive of the noises Brawn is making. Rule making up until this point has been 'set an arbitrary standard -> react negatively to every innovation -> end up with incomprehensible clusterfuck'. Brawn is trying to fix that whole process, which will be hard work, both asking FIA to give up power and asking the teams to not back stab each other off the track.

I might disagree with some things (I don't mind the shark fins and think they could be good sponsor space), but I'd rather see good rules that achieve good racing than try to aim for a fancy result.

# ? Mar 4, 2017 07:29

Full Collapse: Dec 4, 2002

I won't be sad when DRS is gone.

# ? Mar 4, 2017 07:55

learnincurve: May 15, 2014; Smoosh

There need to be more catch all design rules based on safety and nothing else. "If you have to glue aero poo poo all over your chassis then it can't be in danger of falling off, be used as boadicea/wacky racers style weapon, or launch your car into flight if you hit the kerb or rear end someone"

# ? Mar 4, 2017 08:28

Dubs: Mar 6, 2007; Stroll Own Zone.
Disregard Stroll outside zone.

Wirth1000 posted:

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/128350

Holy gently caress.

EB said something about running test engines, and not race engines (because they both broke) earlier in the week

# ? Mar 4, 2017 08:51

learnincurve: May 15, 2014; Smoosh

1 million mercs just got recalled because the starter motor keeps catching on fire.

# ? Mar 4, 2017 09:28

Pablo Bluth: Sep 7, 2007; I've made a huge mistake.

You Am I posted:

Jesus, has Honda got ex-British Leyland engineers working on that motor?

That might actually improve things. Instead Honda are insisting that it' a Honda Made-In-Japan engine and so only Honda engineers from Japan may have input in to the Made-in-Japan Honda engine and under no circumstance must the Made-in-Japan Honda engine be sullied by using gaijin knowledge that would stop it being a pure Made-in-Japan Honda engine.

# ? Mar 4, 2017 10:32

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

learnincurve posted:

1 million mercs just got recalled because the starter motor keeps catching on fire.

Benz saves all their good engineers for the racing. Honda does the opposite.

# ? Mar 4, 2017 14:23

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

learnincurve posted:

1 million mercs just got recalled because the starter motor keeps catching on fire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXmvrs5o6Ig

# ? Mar 4, 2017 14:26

Dubs: Mar 6, 2007; Stroll Own Zone.
Disregard Stroll outside zone.

learnincurve posted:

1 million mercs just got recalled because the starter motor keeps catching on fire.

were a certain ah.. group of people driving them at the time

# ? Mar 4, 2017 14:55

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

I had a dream last night that a mechanic accidentally replaced the oil in my car with hot vegetable soup I think because I read that McLaren article. Thanks a lot Honda!!!

# ? Mar 4, 2017 15:34

F1DriverQuidenBerg: Jan 19, 2014

You Am I posted:

Jesus, has Honda got ex-British Leyland engineers working on that motor?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover_800_Series

# ? Mar 4, 2017 16:08

Wirth1000: May 12, 2010; #essereFerrari

GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:

I had a dream last night that a mechanic accidentally replaced the oil in my car with hot vegetable soup I think because I read that McLaren article. Thanks a lot Honda!!!

Was the mechanic 1960s Ron Dennis?

# ? Mar 4, 2017 17:18

F1DriverQuidenBerg: Jan 19, 2014

I imagine Ron Dennis the mechanic being like the mechanic on Seinfeld that just goes mental if you don't follow the every step of the factory service manual.

# ? Mar 4, 2017 17:31

wicka: Jun 28, 2007

1500quidporsche posted:

I imagine Ron Dennis the mechanic being like the mechanic on Seinfeld that just goes mental if you don't follow the every step of the factory service manual.

Puddy?

# ? Mar 4, 2017 17:35