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Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

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What I'm getting from that is that online car launches are for small outfits that wouldn't be able to get people to show up to an IRL event, like Haas, Sauber, and Red Bull.

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Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

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learnincurve posted:

Turns out Formula E's driverless cars are very ugly and don't work. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39027477

quote:

"One of the cars was trying to perform a manoeuvre, and it went really full-throttle and took the corner quite sharply and caught the edge of the barrier," Roborace's chief marketing officer Justin Cooke told the BBC.

It sounds to me like they work exactly as well as an F1 driver.

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

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The little kid in me says "Wait, does the fin turn back and forth when the car turns because that would be tight as hell"

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Apr 18, 2008

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wicka posted:

The most amazing thing about this fan edit is that the previously random white stripe under the sidepod is now black and blends in perfectly with the floor.



Now if I can backseat graphic design this even further, flip what's orange and what's white and you have a decent-looking car.

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

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Literally looks like a can of Red Bull.

It's alright.

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Apr 18, 2008

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The new Haas looks okay, but I'd really love to see the team go full American throwback and make the car poo poo-brown like a '70s Buick.

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

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I hope that nose hole's worth it for aero because it looks really dumb.

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Apr 18, 2008

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The RB is back to the pits by the way after stopping on track.

Also the McLaren is in the garage with an oil problem they say will take hours to investigate, rip mklaren

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Apr 18, 2008

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Theophany posted:

I'm fine with the latter part, but I'd like to see some genuinely fast lap times having been fed this 3-5 seconds a lap quicker story.

Yeah, same. I wonder if they're just holding back until they get more data.

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

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The new Haas doesn't look bad on the track, to be honest.

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Apr 18, 2008

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learnincurve posted:

You jinxed them :(

Aw, poo poo.

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

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I'm an American so I can't be racist against Finns: that recovery was alright so I'm optimistic about Bottas.

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Apr 18, 2008

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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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Apr 18, 2008

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track day bro! posted:

So he's going to win a race?

He's going to win two races.

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Apr 18, 2008

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Tony Montana posted:

People don't hate Ferrari. The English hate Ferrari. So Sky TV, all their ex-WDCs.. this thread.. basically anywhere you find English F1 fans you'll find the Ferrari hate.

For a long time Ferrari was the only team on the grid that didn't call itself English. Certainly the only team at the pointy end of the competition.

Now the English have nothing, they have no engine so their great teams now beg for scraps from Renault and the McLaren is orange.

Vettel was always shat on by the English fans, often for little more than being German.

It's straight up racism baked into 'tradition' so people just roll with it. I think at one point there was a protest from English teams about Ferrari talking Italian over the radio because they couldn't understand it.

Make no mistake, this is as old as F1 and there are some very deep 'chips on shoulders'.

That's basically it. I'm not trying to spark an argument or rag on English folk, but as an Italian Ferrari fan I can tell you that's how I feel about it. It runs very deep!

edit: oh of course, Americans that follow English into the sport (because Anglosphere) sort of pick it up along the way like it's just known F1 stuff.

Actually as an American I'm happy to be immune to anti-Italian racism, guidos have been white here since like the 50s or 60s.

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

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:smith:

Oh well.

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Apr 18, 2008

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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

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Apr 18, 2008

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Dubs posted:

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

Brits? Yeah, a bunch of them.

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Apr 18, 2008

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Der Kyhe posted:

They should just make the Honda F1 engine a separate brand called Honnyet.

Took me a while.

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Apr 18, 2008

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Human Grand Prix posted:

The movie is fantastic and Verhoven threw the book in the garbage after reading it iirc.

He didn't actually finish reading it, is what I read

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

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I don't hate Max, but my heart will always belong to Dan.

Khablam posted:

RIP Matt at last.

Also:

This is kinda sexy in the right conditions.

When it's sitting still I just imagine that nose making little sniffing noises like an animal.

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

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brb crying

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Apr 18, 2008

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quote:

Why a chilli next to "Carlo55ainz"? Well, that's Sainz's nickname.

As he explained to F1Racing last year:

"So I was out with my friends and they maybe had a couple of drinks more than they should have. They call me Charlie sometimes and then it went from Charlie to Charlies and it ended up with Chilli, and since then everyone has called me Chilli in my circle of friends."

It's great banter.

Is "Chilli 5ainz" going to be probatable?

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

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If Lewis is Dennis Rodman, when will he co-star in a movie with JCVD?

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Apr 18, 2008

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Brainwrong posted:

He is absolutely going to get hit with some sort of sex scandal. American women love suing men for looking at their tits or getting their arses touched.

Before I go anywhere else with this, isn't Stroll Canadian?

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Apr 18, 2008

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HJB posted:

Yep, see that's already a self-made scandal.

Oh my God, he's the Ted Cruz of F1

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Apr 18, 2008

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Brainwrong posted:

I'm English. That makes him American.

I have Canadian relatives and they are yet to convince me, after 30-odd years, that they aren't just Americans who live in a pretty, snow covered part of north America

Right, glad we got that out of the way. What makes you think Lance would get in trouble if he started acting like an SVU villain? It doesn't seem to matter for our President.

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Apr 18, 2008

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Tsaedje posted:

Have we got an official rivals.com punTM for him yet? Gonna suggest Glans Stool

His name is already a pun.

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

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I hope every team is good, tbh. I want to see 4-5 teams within reach of the podium on a consistent basis. I'll be :smith: by the end of the season if it's just Mercedes walking away with it.

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Apr 18, 2008

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Theophany posted:



For some reason I find this image rather unsettling. Like the way they're all dressed in black as if for his funeral, forgetting that Bernard Ecclestone is immortal.

Being Bernie Ecclestone

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Apr 18, 2008

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HJB posted:

https://twitter.com/redbullracing/status/839821140122021889

I'm glad things start up for real this month because my brain is beginning to seep out of my ears

So are his, by the look of things.

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Apr 18, 2008

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keevo posted:

So Toro Rosso and Haas are definitely beating McLaren this year, right?

Seems that way. Haas could be a top-five team the way things are going.

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Apr 18, 2008

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TurboDrizzle posted:

Cleveland is both the most half-assed road course of all time, (even las vegas parking lot took more effort) and one that somehow... works.


Im biased as gently caress because i grew up 10 minutes away, but i'd love to see it do something again post-champcar.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lGp4yXkAyo&t=22s

Seems very considerate of them to give the drivers so much runoff area.

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Apr 18, 2008

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GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:

Changing GP2 to F2 makes me wish F1 has a relegation system so that we could send McLaren down

This is how racing works in Motorsport Manager and it's cool

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

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Phony Montana

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

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When Liberty makes changes to the way F1 operates, do they call the new rules the Statutes of Liberty?

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Apr 18, 2008

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1500quidporsche posted:

I'm ready for Super Seb's Stunning Scud Speed

sehr schnell

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Apr 18, 2008

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If NASCAR races on road courses I think it's only fair for F1 to do an oval race or two. Maybe they can move the German GP to that oval track in Lausitz that CART used.

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Apr 18, 2008

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The most telling line from that article is:

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I was going to do a 1m19.5s before I went off. I was eight tenths up on that lap on the ultra-softs.

I was gonna be great! You'll see!

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Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

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Ross Brawn wants F1 to be more like FOOTBAWL:

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Liberty's involvement in several American sports has prompted comparisons between F1's business model and other major entities, and Brawn hinted that the most successful teams could learn from the benefits that were felt when payments were evened up in the NFL.

"There was a time in American football where there was quite a heavily distorted reward system and the top two teams got the majority of the money and the rest struggled," he added.

"The top two teams sacrificed their position in order to have an equitable solution.

"When it became much more successful because there was a [competitive] spread, those two teams surpassed what they were getting before because the sport became so much more successful.

"Is there a lesson for us there? It's a great example of the balance of sport and commercialism. The new owners [of F1] and my fellow directors come from that culture.

"It's not about razzmatazz and all the rest of it, it's about lifting the whole business. Can we do that? It's going to be a big challenge, but we can try."
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/brawn-doesn-t-want-mexican-standoff-with-f1-teams-884059/

sure, let's do it

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