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marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos
Mercedes is going to show up with sidepods twice as thicc as Ferrari's and take pole by a second and a half.

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marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos
After all these years, will Sir Lewis be able to handle driving an also-ran of a car? Could make for some tense radio exchanges and Instagram sabbaticals.

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos
Papaya Bois prove fraudulent, Ferrari the real deal. Who would have guessed?

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos

DevCore posted:

I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt after covid. There's undoubtedly lingering fatigue/weakness and he's underperforming a small (but significant in F1) amount.

Wow, so he has had covid since before there was covid.

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos
2022 is the season to wash the taint of Max's "championship" off the sport with the help of a dirty WDC/WCC combo for Ferrari.

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos

Boco_T posted:


also, holy loving poo poo
https://imgur.com/p31Rtkf

:eek: Brutal

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos
Checlol

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos
Great start to the season.

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos

Guenther 100% took over posting duties for this one.

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos

Panic! At The Tesco posted:

I've always been a massive ferrari fan personally

Same #VivaEnzo #EspressoFerrari

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos
When's the "dynamic pricing" supposed to kick in for the fantasy league?

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos
How many preseason Papayaphiles have jumped ship for Ferrari like grubby rats? I know I have, though just for long enough to see Charlos and co. deny Max a real WDC.

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos
Danny Ric peaked as Max's wingman.

And good to see that the Miami GP is well on its way to being as worthwhile as Monaco.

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos
If a missile hits the track during the race, do they see if they can get away with a virtual safety car or go straight to the real deal?

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos
So they're basically firing missiles at Lance, those bastards.

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos

Bring back Bernie:

Ecclestone greenlights 2017 F1 race at Lime Rock


quote:

In a release received Monday from Lime Rock Park, the track has announced plans to host a Formula One event. The release is as follows:

In a surprise announcement, F1 major domo Bernie Ecclestone told reporters that he's made a deal with Lime Rock Park owner Skip Barber to bring the F1 circus to Connecticut's 1.5-mile, nine-turn road course, starting in 2017. A date has not been set, and the FIA World Council must still approve the expanded schedule, “But that's simply a formality,” Ecclestone said.

BY AUTOWEEK STAFF
MAR 31, 2013

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos

refleks posted:

There's a human rights issue and then just straight-up... danger.

"Heeey guys, if we race, we might paint a target on the entire track, and we as drivers might not be an easy target while racing around, but everyone else is stationary at the track including our teams, mechanics, families and fans... maybe we just don't drive".

Helmut Marko: "If you are used to living in Mexico City, it is not much safer there."

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos

Mokotow posted:

Oof my butt and back hurt from watching that Norris onboard

That has got to be brutal to put up with over a whole race.

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos
This kid might not be all that good.

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos
Finally, the battle between Sir Lewis Hamilton and Lance Stroll the world has been waiting for.

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos

Solkanar512 posted:

This track was a shitshow last season and it’s a shitshow now. I really hope folks start speaking out once they leave the country.

JFC that the bolded is necessary.

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos
McLaren might be more of a disappointment relative to preseason expectations than Mercedes.

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos
Wow at Checo.

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos
Where's the Checo pole onboard?

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos

Feels Villeneuve posted:

I think not being a safety expert is even more reason not to post about how he is dead for sure from massive internal bleeding

Somebody said (verbatim quote) "The worry with an impact like this is internal bleeding."

That hardly seems worth getting worked up about, and it's certainly a far cry from your characterization of it.

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos
Sainz really Checoed the start there, should never have let Max by.

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos

net work error posted:

Just realized next race is in Melbourne and will be at 1AM on the east coast of the US.
The correct Australian thing to do would be to stay up late with many beers and watch the F1 right?

Yeah, just make sure you're drinking Foster's. Australians lovvvvvvvvve Foster's and don't ever let them tell you otherwise.

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos

Lucasar posted:

The VSC freezes the gap in distance

What? No, it doesn't. That wouldn't make sense.

At best, it roughly maintains the time deltas (gaps) between cars. In practice, some drivers benefit from it and some get screwed.

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos

Khablam posted:

This was legit hilarious, especially when it showed Max and Chale'sclerk on screen and crofty started babbling that he's "much closer there".

Hi crofty,

If you're 100m behind a car and travelling at 100m/s, you are 1 second behind the car. If both cars slow to 25m/s at the same time, the distance will remain roughly equal and you will be 4 seconds behind the car.
That's not how the VSC works, so the distance is not preserved, even under ideal conditions.

Cars are basically required to stay above a minimum mini-sector time that is about 30% slower then the corresponding time for an average race lap. Given two cars, the leading car always begins accelerating or braking to hit this number time_delta seconds before the trailing one.

When the VSC is working a intended, this produces the same effect we are all so familiar with in races, where the distance between two cars separated by a set time delta expands and contracts depending on where they are on the track: Accelerating out of a corner onto a straight, the lead car pulls away, widening the gap, until the trailing car matches its speed, at which time the distance stabilizes. The lead car begins braking for the next corner sooner, which makes the distance between them decrease, even while the time difference stays steady.

This same thing is happening with both green-flag racing and the VSC. It happens in a lumpier, less natural way with the VSC because of the 50-meter time sampling, oddities concerning just how many and which marshall's sectors the drivers actually have to post qualifying times for, and other issues

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos

Xakura posted:

None of this matters? You're just describing corners and straights.

Right. Corners and straights are ultimately why the VSC does not preserve the distance between cars. People who think the VSC preserves the distances between cars (or is meant to) misunderstand how the VSC works and have probably not thought about the implications of their position.

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos
F1 2022: Everybody Loves the Scud

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos
That looks fine. They were always gonna care more about working in Vegas atmosphere than the quality of the layout, and that could be worse.

Edit: SI article, courtesy of Reddit.

marshalljim fucked around with this message at 03:47 on Mar 31, 2022

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos
Experts say Mick is not out of the woods yet:

quote:

Car accidents frequently cause delayed pain, delayed symptoms, and delayed injuries. Following a crash, you need to be vigilant about monitoring yourself for pain over the next several weeks... Car accident pain, symptoms, and injuries can manifest hours, days, or even weeks after the crash.

On the one hand, we have the advice of trained, board-certified surgeons. On the other, uninformed snark courtesy of goons who never leave Mom's basement. Make the right choice, Mick.

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos

Delayed splenic rupture. Makes you cringe just thinking about it, right?

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos
Casio's Alpha Tauri model is one of the least offensive F1 watches I've seen. In the grand tradition of motorsports-inspired watches, it does still look quite tacky, but there have been and are far worse:

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos

Charles Leclerc posted:

I mean this is SA so it's on brand at least

Yeah, in that no one has used or thought about Gentoo Linux since about 2003.

learnincurve posted:

why does it have all those words all over it?

Dunno, but that definitely adds to the ugliness. I think maybe people who watch motorsports tend to have bad taste.

marshalljim fucked around with this message at 20:06 on Apr 6, 2022

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos
Tifauxi tip #2009: Cheering for Ferrari isn't just about wanting Max to fail. The more enthusiastic you are in your support for the Scuderia this year, the more credibility you will have when making GBS threads on them when they start sucking again (next year).

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos

Residency Evil posted:

Is this finally the weekend where Our Lewis Rises?

and drops and rises and drops and rises and drops andrisesanddropsandrisesanddrops...

Particularly coming into Turn 9, apparently.

marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos
This is going to be an interesting qualifying session.

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marshalljim
Mar 6, 2013

yospos
So unlike him

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