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daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
So I signed up for Fantasy, have no idea how the scoring works or what these chips and transfers are, and will probably lose horribly this week because I have Kmag and Ocon in my lineup.

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daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
What I learned yesterday:

1) RedBull can run any tire combo that they want and pull away from the field at will.
2) Mercedes totally missed the target on their design and will probably stop development of the 2023 car early to focus on 2024
3) Whoever Lance's Dad hired to design the car really knows what he's doing.
4) The teams are starting to figure out how to counter the aero changes that were put into the rules last year that made the racing better.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
Toto really hosed up with his criticism of the car, as those comments he made are going to be very demoralizing for his team.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

Zeta Acosta posted:

what the gently caress is going on in ferrari

Bino's guys are jumping ship.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
Welcome to my virtual Podcast, where I will discuss in depth the status of all the F1 teams. Spotify has signed me for eleventy billion dollars for this exclusive content.

Red Bull - Will win 20 races this year and be boring
Aston Martin - Their superior driver lineup will allow them to stay ahead of Mercedes all season
Mercedes - Imploding due to poor leadership. Look for Binnoto to replace Toto next year.
Ferrari - Strategy errors won't matter because their car is poo poo due to design errors.
Alfa Romeo - No one really cares about this team so whatever.
Alpine - What happens when you combine French owners and French drivers
Williams - F1 finally has an American driver. Too bad Americans don't care about back markers
Alpha Tauri - Nick looks Awesome! Yuki looks like a bust
Haas - Gene will sell because they suck again
McLaren - It's a shame to watch this awfull team waste Lando's career.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
People play online games that don't have chest detection? That seems like a bad idea and a lovely developer

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

What a nice sendoff for Latifi at the end.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

That is the dumbest nonsense clickbait I've read since the rumors about Binotto getting fired

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
Just watching Drive to survive now. This episode where Mick keeps crashing is spot on. Gunther talking trash about him to Gene is even better.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
Lance > Lewis

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
Redbull is going to be supplied by Ford engines when the next formula comes along (or partner) . What ever they decide to do, they are going to be midfield at best. Can't wait to see Max sign with Ferrari.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

harperdc posted:

No, Red Bull is developing their own engine, it’ll be badged as Ford. They’ve been poaching a lot of people - some from Honda, many from Mercedes - and building up the engine factory.

The exact same engine could have wound up badged as a Porsche if Porsche hadn’t insisted on having equal equity in the full Red Bull F1 setup, both the race team and the power train side.

So this is a Ford advertising campaign? How lame is that?

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

Personal Lucubrant posted:

I have gently caress all to do this weekend, and a bunch of dumbass ideas I've amalgamated from an array of idiots across the internet. Perhaps some from this very thread! Would you like to read some?

> Only one practice session, but with points awarded.
> Qualifying on Friday with points awarded.
> Sprint race on Saturday to set GP grid order, and points awarded.
> GP on Sunday with reversed grid order.
> Points awarded for Driver of the Day.
> Constructors championship points for fastest pitstop.
> More points awarded for other arbitrary bullshit because slack-jawed dipshits like big numbers. More points!
> Fan Boost like Formula E, but it gives 1 free DRS activation anywhere on track.
> Let teams choose any of the current tire compounds instead of just the 3 Pirelli picks for the weekend.
> Or, gently caress choices, and just mandate 1 rain and 2 slick compounds like IndyCar.
> 36 GP weekends a year. More races = more points, win/win! Because gently caress work/life balance I guess.
> Karts at Monaco.
> Competition cautions.
> A Bristol dirt race, gently caress it.

Mostly taking the piss. How about some stupid ideas about qualifying?

> A "one-shot" sort of qualifying session, but only 1 team on track at once.
> Each team has 8 minutes total for both drivers to put in their best times. (~2 hour broadcast maybe?)
> Qualifying order randomized for round 1.
> Qualifying order in subsequent rounds goes in order of constructor's championship standing.

Would it be cool to see each team with an opportunity for clean air and their drivers taking turns towing each other? That might just result in every team getting their own row of the grid. Maybe reduce the time limit to ~5 minutes to only allow enough time to set up 1 car for a tow on a hot lap? Also some drama if competitive teammates refuse to cooperate. Maybe just 1 car at once with a 3-4 minute time limit to avoid towing strategy/drama altogether?

Aside from weird weather shenanigans, qualifying later in the session on a more developed track is usually better, right? For round 1 the order could be random, or the previous season's constructor rank or something. Points leaders qualifying first might give lower ranked drivers/teams an opportunity to shake up the starting grid a little.

To be clear, I think the current qualifying format is fine, and there's no reason to change it. My ideas are probably r-worded because I started following F1 in 2019 after binge-watching the first season of DTS.

Like I said, I have gently caress all to do today. Literally just killing time. Like, murdering it, and desecrating the corpse.

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You forgot "Have a ping-pong ball lottery for what type of tires the teams are allocated." You could even add a fan vote to give one team a bonus set.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

Thanks Ants posted:

Yeah three races in the USA is a bit much

It's not actually. Three races in the Middle East would be a lot though.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
It was plenty of passing on the track, The problem is that the cars can't follow each other like they could last year. It's going to be a poo poo season

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

ethanol posted:

remember when new cars was supposed to make the racing closer

Engineers always figure out how to make the Aero better for the car at the expense of all the other cars. The FIA would have to come up with some wind tunnel dirty air metric in order to stop it.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
Max is either the best driver ever, or Checo really sucks. Unless Christian Horner is sabotaging Checo's car.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

Alaois posted:

as the only american in the thread who didn't start watching F1 because of DTS, does the first season talk about Marcus Ericsson at all considering it was his last year in F1 or was he as anonymous on it as he was for most of his F1 career

This American went to Watkins Glen F1 races before Netflix existed. (Also before The internet and touch tone phones existed, but we won't go there)

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

Sudden Loud Noise posted:

I love how absolutely terrible Ferrari is. They all take turns and find new ways to screw up every single race. Besides Alonso being awesome, it is legitimately the most exciting thing about this season.

I've been watching F1 for decades, and I can't recall a stretch of years when a well funded team like Ferrari constantly shot themselves in the foot over and over like this.

daslog fucked around with this message at 11:07 on Jun 18, 2023

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

Aphex- posted:

I genuinely don't understand why they don't just put a gently caress load of gravel where the track limits are and let the drivers figure it out themselves.

The problem is that the penalty is only 5 seconds after a bunch of warnings, so when the teams run the numbers the risk of going exceeding track limits is worth it. The answer is to reduce the number of warnings and up the penalty to 30 seconds. No team is going to risk going outside the lines with that harsh of a penalty.

Edit: A 30 second penalty would also provide lots of comedy from the team radios. Toto would lose his mind when Lewis goes off twice...

daslog fucked around with this message at 13:01 on Jul 3, 2023

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

smackfu posted:

According to the latest rulings, it’s supposed to be:
1-3) warning
4) black and white flag
5) 5-second penalty
6) 10-second penalty
7) stop-and-go?

That’s pretty harsh, if actually enforced.

Here is how it should be

1-2) warning
4) black and white flag
5) 30 - second penalty
6) Gunther loses his poo poo during a live interview.
7) Back to 1.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

Sunk Dunk posted:

e: better picture



China isn't happening

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

Dictator. posted:

Why does the fia remain so braindead with putting Canada in the middle of all the European races? Just switch it with Emilia-Romagna

There are two good months of weather in Canada, June and September. The rest of the Summer months feature 120% humidity. October through May has all kinds of unpredictable weather.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
Very happy to see Lando and Oscar doing so well.

LOL at Ferrari strategy once again. It's the comedy show that gets renewed every year.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
Must be a British thing. I'm a George fan!

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
Are there betting odds for who the next red bull driver will be? A quick Google didn't turn up much

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

I miss that engine sound so much. Also, gently caress track limits.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
Max probably broke Perez today.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
Hor Rumor is that Charles is going to sign a five year extension with Ferrari. Don't do it! Why ruin your career like that?

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
Logan1:patriot:

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari


:downsbravo:

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

Charles Leclerc posted:

Does anybody have any hot tips on what to say when questioned in jury selection to get out of it? I've been called up for what is presumably a serious trial as it's Crown court and I really cannot be hosed to listen to some parasite lawyer try to get some waste of oxygen off the hook and spend a month or more socialising with 11 brainwrongs for 8 hours of the day.

I want to make a big thing of the Madden Challenge or maybe go off on a rant about how long it takes to cook grits, but I don't think they'll get the reference. I also don't think the judge will be a modern day Foghorn Leghorn.

If he wasn't guilty then he wouldn't have been arrested.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
Watching qualifying on DVR. Lance stroll sucks

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

Pragmatica posted:

on it, i am giving you IK to hand them out. 1 sec


edit:



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daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

SwiViwS posted:

Paul de Vries 0 points

Yea not sure what happened there. I thought he was supposed to be not poo poo?

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