F1 2016: The Rise of Nando

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

Minimum Verstappen

# ¿ Mar 18, 2016 03:52

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 07:13

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

This old short dude gets a lot of pussy!

# ¿ Mar 18, 2016 19:14

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

All the best drivers have problems with Sir Jackie because Sir Jackie don't take no poo poo (e.g. The Maldonado of his day, Senna)

# ¿ Mar 18, 2016 21:19

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

George Zimmer posted:

We will all be disappointed.

That's perfectly predictable though

# ¿ Mar 19, 2016 00:06

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

Notre Jacques, the only former Formula-E driver with LE BALLS to say it, says it

quote:

Jacques Villeneuve: Drivers afraid to race without halos should just quit

http://autoweek.com/article/formula-one/jacques-villeneuve-drivers-afraid-race-without-halos-should-just-quit

# ¿ Mar 19, 2016 01:04

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

be nice wicka posted:

then the gently caress are you posting in an F1 thread for if you supposedly don't watch or care about the sport

Look at this guy who doesn't know about the worst thread

# ¿ Mar 19, 2016 20:47

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

Doc Morbid posted:

Apparently, Bernie didn't agree with the proposed changes to the track (apparently related to the SBK races). Can't say I blame the old goblin lord in this case, though, because the plans that were floated around earlier were completely idiotic. Why yes let's just gut Curva Grande and put a chicane in the middle there, that'll work nicely. I somehow expect nothing to happen to the track and that they end up working out an arrangement with Bernie at the last moment.

What makes you think Bernie won't just drop Monza and Silverstone and Spa and add Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and Qatar, real countries because they can pay real prices for real F1 unlike fake countries like UK Belgium and Italy

# ¿ Mar 19, 2016 23:31

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

Alain Post posted:

I hope Max Vercrappen does not finish.

I just want Big Carlos to beat him because he's not ugly and because his dad is a cool racer

# ¿ Mar 20, 2016 05:28

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

If you want a good example of workable high tech formulas and race direction, ACO/Le Mans is it. They have some fantastically complicated rule system that allows the LMP teams to run wildly different designs with gas, diesel, turbo, NA, batteries, flywheels, and they all still end up within a few laps of each other after a day long race. And their virtual pit lane sector is a hell of a lot better idea than the virtual safety car in F1 that allows cars to be boring and slow while simultaneously still being unlimited in specific speed and dangerous in any given corner.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2016 18:19

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

I would think that crash would be another good argument in FAVOR of the halo things or something similar. Any time you roll and hit something it's just luck that it's not the driver's head catching the edge of an object.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2016 00:22

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

learnincurve posted:

Not really, they already have a great deal of protection and it's what saved nando today, they call it a roll hoop but it's not quite the right term. The airbox and raised areas, which this year were made higher, are designed to take the impact, protect the driver's head and make the car flip in a controlled/known way.

Not that I would know about these things but the idea of "making the car flip in a known way" seems really dubious to me and even if you make it flip in a known way you don't know quite what it's going to hit or at what angle. What if it had rolled upside down in such a way that Our Fernando, Peace Be Upon Him, scraped his head sideways across a wall or armco or tire barrier? Or into a catch fence like Wheldon. Depending on the hit, that would seem to be potentially serious. The fact that the roll hoop is there only protects the driver if it hits a large perfectly flat object with no corners.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2016 02:08

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

Having watched it a lot and done it myself, falling off a bike is fairly harmless as long as you don't hit anything besides the ground and nothing besides the ground hits you. As long as you have big runoffs on the appropriate turns, the biggest danger is a highside or someone running you over.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2016 14:55

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

http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/jos-verstappen-says-max-s-aggression-positive-681384/

quote:

Jos Verstappen says Max's "aggression" positive

Presented without comment

# ¿ Mar 21, 2016 17:43

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

So at what age will we stop excusing whiny hissy fit tantrums? I guess retirement age cause Fernando and Super Seb were doing it last year or the year before.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2016 23:04

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

keevo posted:

That's a perfectly legitimate question and set of answers to be fair

# ¿ Mar 22, 2016 02:05

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

Vettel is a four time fizzy drink champion though so we can cut him some slack

# ¿ Mar 22, 2016 13:40

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

Someone should tell him to be nice

# ¿ Mar 22, 2016 14:22

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

Alain Post posted:

They've already decided on Max as their next darling.

Chilton? Understandable, he's already tearing up the IndyCar race finisher lists

# ¿ Mar 22, 2016 15:21

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

F1 2016: Which do you prefer, FIA or ISIS?

# ¿ Mar 22, 2016 19:41

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

MattD1zzl3 posted:

I hope his heart fails tonight

You know, hope is a mistake. If you can't fix what's broken, you'll, uh... you'll go insane.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2016 12:17

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

Norns posted:

This.
Also gently caress US F1 coverage, commercials during a race are poo poo.

Would you rather have commentators that suck? Everything is a trade off.

# ¿ Mar 24, 2016 17:16

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

Endymion FRS MK1 posted:

Count me in as preferring the NBCSN commentator dream team.

If they had Bruno it would be dream

# ¿ Mar 25, 2016 00:57

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

I met one of Hefe's brethren recently, a Venezuelan French Canadian. He didn't complain about toilet paper because they have lots of it in Canada, even French Canada.

# ¿ Mar 25, 2016 19:45

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

Look at this whiner (whinger?) whining (whinging?) about F1! A man for the worst thread if ever there was one. Fedoras off to this man.

https://formerf1doc.wordpress.com/2016/03/26/its-not-you-its-me/

# ¿ Mar 26, 2016 18:27

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

I would think the biggest problem F1 has is that hosting a race is a massive financial disaster for literally everyone who does it. This cannot be a sustainable sport. Yet they never even hint at addressing this issue. It's just tires and aero.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2016 19:37

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

Something something about Alonso's career http://www.motorsport.com/general/video/main-gallery/race-car-lost-at-sebring-ends-up-on-public-road-47644/

# ¿ Mar 27, 2016 15:36

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

http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12525/10220991/las-vegas-has-f1-contract-reveals-bernie-ecclestone

quote:

F1 has agreed a deal to race in Las Vegas, according to Bernie Ecclestone

The race we deserve.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2016 17:14

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

I've been to both and I would only prefer Jersey because it's closer to here.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2016 18:29

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

One of my favorite Sky Bernie moments was when Ted asked him about what the Monza owners had to do to keep the race, whether they just needed to bring a checkbook and pen to the contract meetings. Bernie answered "No I have pens." If you're going to live under the murderous jackboot of a satanic tyrant, it's nice for him to have a sense of humor at least.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2016 20:39

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

Serious question: why hasn't someone called Gene Haas "Boss Haas" yet?

# ¿ Mar 29, 2016 23:22

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

Your granddad is the worst granddad.

# ¿ Mar 30, 2016 02:11

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

Yeah I quite enjoy Formula E because stupid poo poo like that happens all the time. It doesn't mean that the fastest and most reliable driver/car doesn't still win the championship. At least with a sample size of 1 so far anyway.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2016 07:58

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

Will it be driven by Tay?

# ¿ Mar 31, 2016 12:24

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

Human Grand Prix posted:

I was kinda unimpressed by Barnard's initial reason (he didn't want to run a linkage from the front to the rear of the car anymore).

I thought he said it was because he wanted to make the cockpits smaller for aero and the shifter was taking up space.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2016 15:50

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

Couple years ago when Marquez got into MotoGP and Lorenzo was having trouble keeping him back, Lorenzo crashed and broke his collar bone and got a titanium plate installed, then raced a couple weeks later and crashed again and bent the titanium plate. And the championship still went up to the last race between those two guys that year.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2016 19:03

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

Esteban Pastored Fernando pretty good last time. Esteban for the new Pastor.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2016 23:44

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

learnincurve posted:

It became a really horrible and forced "thing" last year, to the point that Ted actually asked Arrivabene how they were getting hold of mozzarella in Russia.

Ted horrible forced and awkward with unfunny jokes? Surely not, Sky

# ¿ Apr 1, 2016 13:38

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

nsaP posted:

I'm about to ignore a few posters and wicka isn't one of them.

Sounds like somebody can't handle the worst thread. Maybe you should try NASCAR?

runoverbobby posted:

If you know what I mean fellas

# ¿ Apr 1, 2016 21:00

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

Chuck Yeager and Niki Lauda did their job with cracked ribs. Alonso ain't poo poo.

# ¿ Apr 1, 2016 23:19

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 07:13

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

poty posted:

The Channel 4 F1 intro features Claire Williams and is good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvkMg60wMc8

That was pretty cool, in addition to being good

# ¿ Apr 2, 2016 01:42

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