I'd say better because 1) I can get it in HD 2) At least half the ads were run with a left side of the screen feed and leader board
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I'd say better because 1) I can get it in HD 2) At least half the ads were run with a left side of the screen feed and leader board
Great Race.
Kimi was verbose.
"Leave me alone, I know what I'm doing"
Still the best quote ever in F1
99% sure I will be at Montreal for Q and race, but will miss P. Looking forward to my first F1 race.
'Muricans and their car racing:biggrin:
Everyone knows greyhounds are da shitz.
Kimi did it with 2 pits stops, almost everyone else took 3. Did anyone see the super soft tires coming off the cars that pitted around lap 6? Chewed up bad.
Cannucks are good race fans. Passionate. Earplugs mandatory for F1.Quote:
Originally Posted by hutash
^^^Definitely, so don't so much hear an 18,000rpm engine as feel it tingle your balls:)
Conditioning is key.Quote:
Originally Posted by hutash
Rest your forehead on cam cover of your own car.
While someone revs engine to the red line.
It was better. No Vob Barsha.Quote:
Originally Posted by hutash
I rather enjoyed the 2 Red Bull drivers going at it in the final laps of the Malaysia GP. It seemed like the best racing the whole day.
I bet you watch daytime soap operas as well. Not much of a battle when team orders tell you to back off, and one doesn't. This is starting to look like NASCAR.
Formula 1. The worlds most expensive parade.
Did you watch the race? Webber didn't wave him by. They were going at it.
Weber tried to block him because team orders said to shut it down. Same situation as Mercedes, but Nico listened to Ross Braun. Seb basically just said Fuck you to Christian Horner.
Stupid thing to do really. Had they touched wheels, they both could have been out of the race, and lost all those points in the constructors championship. The race was over as far as the team owners were concerned. Sure it is fun to watch team mates battle it out, but it is not wise strategically at that point in the race.
Well I guess That didn't last long.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobby Finstock
He won't be there for China, Diffy will be back.
Moto GP anyone?
Great race on Sunday.
Lorenzo just left everyone in the rear view mirror...
Will be interesting to see how Honda responds to this...
I wonder how close Rossi would have got to him without that big moment early in the race at turn 1(?) He had huge pace even having to fight through traffic. He looked like a man reborn. But Lorenzo is just something else at the moment though.Quote:
Originally Posted by rspacher
Could be an epic season.
Be awesome if Crutchlow could pull off a surprise result at some point.
Crutchlow is due...
If he keeps on going like this...he's got to break through this year...
I wonder how much Lorenzo had in reserve if Rossi had been close enough to battle for position...
Without Stoner helping develop the Honda, will they be able to keep up...
Need more races to see how everyone responds...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdkIFrMY_v0
This looks like it's going be really, really good.
Another good finish by Kimi even with front wing damage. Chatty today also, funny when the announcer came back to him saying "Kimi is chatty today"
Another classic Kimi... "What the hell does he think his is doing".
Fun race today. Good cars, good driving, and good strategy.
Tire management may win, or lose, the championships.
I am definitely going to the Montreal GP, TR to follow.
It looks like a lot of parity between the top drivers & teams. It was awesome during the last few laps when Vettel was chasing down Hamilton on the soft tires before they got chewed up only a few turns before the finish line. It kind of sucks that tires are such a big factor this year. What good are the soft tires if they only last a few laps?
It is not the tires, but the tire management that is such a big factor. Everybody has the same tires, so it actually evens things out. The top teams have the same issues as the bottom teams. It all comes down to how you use them. Red Bull chose a tire stratigy that was one lap off, oh well.
It is a problem when F1 drivers are being instructed no to race for position but to conserve tires. Many of the F1 drivers have commented on this being not what they want to have to do. After six or seven laps on soft tires in China an F1 car would lap slower than a GP2 car.Quote:
Originally Posted by hutash
Conversely FIA World Endurance Championship opener at Silverstone was raced flat out flag to flag.
Something is very wrong.
True, but it applies to all drivers and teams, so it is fair across the field, unlike say aerodynamics which goes to the team with the bigggest budget. To a certain degree, same can be said for the driver, the best driver goes to the team most able to pay him. Tires, on the other hand are the same for all the teams. In that respect Merussia(sp?) is on equal footing as Red Bull. That said, I agree the softs were a shitty tire for Sundays race.
It is not just the tires preventing teams from racing flag to flag. The engines and gearboxes are also preserved by slowing the cars to certain lap times. With F1 it almost has to be done or you would almost never see any close racing.
I think the limits (or actually required lifespans of engines//gearboxes) are a completely different issue to the current tires which completely dominate the racing. They were introduced to limit expenditure as much as anything and to try and prevent manufacturers being priced out of the sport. They don't prevent the teams racing flag to flag at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cross
The Pirelli tires were designed to "spice up" the racing... the problem is that they didn't adequately define what "spice up" meant and threw in too many other spices at same time - DRS zones and re-introducing KERS.
eh? take Malaysia where Webber dialed back his engine with the magic dial back button - to extend it's life - and coast on in.Quote:
Originally Posted by PNWbrit
Team orders to dial the engine back was not only to preserve engine/trans, but to prevent the kind of silliness the two are known for. Had they raced head to head, touched and both crashed out the constructors money (which is huge and what they actually race for) could be gone. It was more a common sense decision then to preserve equipment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh Conway
The multi21 instruction to both red Bull drivers was that they weren't to race each other over closing stages of race... perhaps combined with fuel shortage problem that Webber may have had. As far as I've read. I don't think there was any particular concern about engine life was there? If they hadn't have had the engine life rules, I have no doubt that the team would have given the same "bring home the 1-2 finish as safely and slowly as you can" instruction.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh Conway
But later in the season they'd have instructed Webber to hand over the lead?
If there's no concern why'd he switch to a detuned engine mapping? There's 8 engines a season/driver allowed; makes sense to conserve at the beginning.Quote:
Originally Posted by PNWbrit
Which is independent, somewhat, to me of the team orders.
The analysis I've read was that Webber was short of fuel to run hard to finish, Vettel had lost track position due to timing of his (last?) pit stop and that there was prior team order that they wouldn't race each other following last stop. Hence the multi 21 order.
I don't think that engine life particularly had much of anything to do with it, other than if they weren't racing each other or anyone else they'd turn the mapping down.
You could actually perhaps argue that if the engines were free and therefore less reliable in the development race for power and more revs, weaker transmissions etc. that such turn it down and coast to the finish orders might be even more common? It'll be happening next year for sure with new engine format and inevitable unreliability.
Red Bull has Gill Jones (female) go up to accept the 4th podium spot in Bahrain? Awesome. Equally good is the general distaste for rose water all around.
Interesting artice for the 2/4/'13 issue of The New Yorker about Adrian Newey, "Aerodynamicist" for the Red Bull team and an interesting cat. No idea if it's been posted before, sorry.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2...a_fact_mcgrath
Germany's Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reported on Wednesday that Ecclestone had been charged with two financial offences by the prosecutor's office in Munich following a two-year investigation into his involvement with Gribkowsky.
I guess Bernie will be missing the German GP this year (again).
The Kimi to Red Bull rumors bum me out.
I don't know about that.... it might be the only way we'll ever really find out how good Vettel actually is?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobby Finstock
Anyway more interesting to me is that earlier this week it seemed a distinct possibility that there might not even be a Red Bull team next year.