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I always found it weird how many people bought into the Honda engine being a complete dog at the end of their tenure with Mclaren. The first year or two was rough but there was pretty clear signs emerging from that point forward that the engine wasn’t really holding the Mclaren back.
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Alpine are going to get repeatedly beaten by Alpha Tauri, I have no idea why they bothered getting Alonso back. Maybe they are hoping to do a repeat of 2012 when Kimi went back to Lotus.
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I used to think it was like 95% Honda's fault until Bahrain 2018 - that's when I, and I imagine a lot of other people, started to realize that McLaren (specifically Boullier) were completely full of poo poo WRT to their car. The 2018 McLaren was a complete dog - Vandoorne scored even less points than he did in 2017. You hear about the idiotic restrictions McLaren put on Honda with packaging, Honda being blamed for McLaren's transmission not being able to bolt to the engine (which makes 0 sense - McLaren designed it!!). I think the reason why Alonso lost a lot of goodwill in general was because of that season in particular, and the embarrassing DNQ at Indy. "Now we can fight" (for 15th place) even if he was having smoke blown up his rear end by Bouillier who made those ridiculous "best chassis - we would win with any other engine" statements. Say what you will about Zak Brown ,he was smart to cut Bouiller and release Alonso. I actually like the team now. Frond fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Jan 11, 2021 |
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McLaren? They own, OP.
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Thanks Ants posted:McLaren? They own, OP. 
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I’m pretty sure Liberty was involved in getting Alonso back to some extent because he has the only decently interesting narrative in F1 in the past decade that can still be placed on the grid. They need something to make people turn over and watch this dogshit at this point. I don’t think it’s going to work. Like Frond said Alonso lost all his goodwill among anyone with common sense at this point, nobody wants to hear the third go round of this giant baby having a nuclear meltdown because the car isn’t the absolute best one on the grid and requires some development.
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net work error posted:With Cyril gone maybe Red Bull will get one of their engines again Isn't it really late in the day to be swapping engine manufacturer? How close to the season start did Brawn get the Mercedes deal agreed?
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net work error posted:With Cyril gone maybe Red Bull will get one of their engines again Now I've created a great conspiracy in my head that Horner went over Abetiboul's head and told Renault that he'd be happy to take their engine as long as Abetiboul got fired.
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Thanks Ants posted:Isn't it really late in the day to be swapping engine manufacturer? How close to the season start did Brawn get the Mercedes deal agreed? I mean what else are they going to do rebuild the Honda units from last year?
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I guess it's more likely than them taking over the Honda IP and becoming an engine developer themselves
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the corona quid posted:Even if they buy the Honda engines, who is going to assemble them? KTM I guess? Wasn't there some rumour that they'd rebadge them as Mugen and they would be the ones fitting them out?
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Wasn't there some rumour that they'd rebadge them as Mugen and they would be the ones fitting them out? The whole thing raises more questions than answers for me.
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renault was always on the verge of loving off imo, this alpine stuff is proof that they will stay? the idiots of sky f1 will still call them renault so who cares
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the corona quid posted:I always found it weird how many people bought into the Honda engine being a complete dog at the end of their tenure with Mclaren. The first year or two was rough but there was pretty clear signs emerging from that point forward that the engine wasn’t really holding the Mclaren back. Continuing to employ Stoffel Vandoorne was the biggest red flag IMO
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Zeta Acosta posted:renault was always on the verge of loving off imo, this alpine stuff is proof that they will stay? All Peen
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Thanks Ants posted:McLaren? They own, OP. Checks out.
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https://twitter.com/SkySportsF1/status/1348583447258869761?s=20 Keep it up F1.
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"clear mistake" "have dealt with this and will continue to deal with this" - Harvey Weinstein's production company, 2005
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"Yes, bring someone up to the pinnacle of the sport so that they can 'grow up' is a good idea," thought Guenther, an idiot, a complete moron
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Look like a bunch of loving wankers out there
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hass should get the gently caress out of this sport. totally useless team
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If your business needs to promote nonces to survive, your business needs to loving die.
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I think nonce is specifically a pedophile where marzipan is what I think the brits call a run of the mill sex pest
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CancerCakes posted:I'm reading the Newey book at the moment and enjoying it. Any reccs for something to read after? The Mechanic's Tale also Aussie Grit while watching the vettel-hockenheim.gif in a loop tuo fucked around with this message at 09:32 on Jan 12, 2021 |
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the corona quid posted:I don’t even get why Alpine is being spun into a brand tbh. It was a niche sports car model from 30 years ago, nobody is loving asking for french sports cars in 2021, we just want our loving normal lives back not more bizarre poo poo we can’t deal with. Hasn’t Alpine had a grand total of like 1 model that has likely been outsold by the Bugatti Chiron since it was reborn 6 years ago or whenever it was?
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ROFLBOT posted:Hasn’t Alpine had a grand total of like 1 model that has likely been outsold by the Bugatti Chiron since it was reborn 6 years ago or whenever it was? it's a very nice blue
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ethanol posted:They’ll rename it back to Renault if they start winning again until then they are now loser team Alpine so, Alpine is here for the long haul
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in unrelated news i downloaded the f1 2020 game for my ps5. it's more difficult than mario kart but not by a lot.
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Dictator. posted:in unrelated news i downloaded the f1 2020 game for my ps5. it's more difficult than mario kart but not by a lot. It's a lot of fun. Do you have a wheel and pedals, or are you using a controller?
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lol if you don't play it with a 2000 eur cast iron simracing setup feeding all the telemetry real time to a seperate data aquisition VM running on unraid, to study it while eating rice out of an AI controlled rice cooker.
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tuo posted:lol if you don't play it with a 2000 eur cast iron simracing setup feeding all the telemetry real time to a seperate data aquisition VM running on unraid, to study it while eating rice out of an AI controlled rice cooker. Find the body of one of last years cars, then build a full hydraulic system to tilt it as you drive.
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Cessna posted:Find the body of one of last years cars, then build a full hydraulic system to tilt it as you drive. I never 3d printed an outer shell based on some released cad data from an actual f1 car from a recent bankrupt team for my own simrig to make it look nice and cancelled the project after like 200 hours of constant printing. NEVER!!!
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Cessna posted:It's a lot of fun. Do you have a wheel and pedals, or are you using a controller? Just a controller for now..
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tuo posted:lol if you don't play it with a 2000 eur cast iron simracing setup feeding all the telemetry real time to a seperate data aquisition VM running on unraid, to study it while eating rice out of an AI controlled rice cooker. 2000 euro? thats poverty spec, you need quad sli 3090's or why are you even bothering
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