formula 1 maggots

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Originally Posted by PNWbrit

Terry Fullerton

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http://bringatrailer.com/2009/07/17/...cury-race-car/

Surely you've been to Pacific Raceways for the historics. Standing at turn nine before the straightaway (maybe it is turn 10) is incredible. Formula 5000 and Formula One cars under full acceleration, maybe battling for position, mere feet away. It is "fight or flight" adreneline rush inducing action. One year this guy shows up with this Mercury outboard, snowmobile driven low slung car. He was last in his category of course but all the drivers I talked to had great respect for this guy. He had "transmission" problems in the paddock. His car was parked in the bed of his 1974 Ford Camper Special and there were parts all over the tailgate. He was still more than happy to speak to me the spectator. That is where I learned about the drive system. As he worked on it.

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Originally Posted by wickstad

Surely you've been to Pacific Raceways for the historics. Standing at turn nine before the straightaway (maybe it is turn 10) is incredible. Formula 5000 and Formula One cars under full acceleration, maybe battling for position, mere feet away. It is "fight or flight" adreneline rush inducing action.

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Nope. Never been to Pacific Raceways probably won't bother. Was dragged around european race and rally courses since before I can even remember as a kid. The The biggest adreneline[sic] rush was probably sitting at a cafe table behind the armco barrier outside the Auberge des Hunaudieres on the pre-chicane mulsanne straight about midnight feeling the late 80s group C Jags, Mercs, Porsches etc roar past at 240mph ish and see their slipstream suck your beer up the side of your glass... unfuckingforgettable.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PFXHCp0ymt0

This is turn nine I believe. The cars seem to go right underneath you. To be fair I believe that that the formula 5000 lola has been setting record lap after record lap at this track while the elf tyrell chased it. I think the action has been slowing down since the economy took a dump in 2008 and they keep running these races on the forth (sic) of july which makes it harder for me to get down there.

So back to F1. Pirelli is going to stick to there guns that something at spa caused the tire issues. All I have is timing and scoring in real time (number of pitstops as well as tire choice also) so I could follow Vettel and Ferrari's one stop strategy and secretly root for Grosjean and I think Verstappen? To get around him at the end. But for him to sink like a stone suggested to me that he ran off. That is just what I thought at the time and now it has really blown up into a controversy as probably it should since Vettel and Ferrari were far from the life expectancy of the tire per pirelli. Pirelli is still going to bring medium and softs to Monza. Maybe they are correct and there was an anomoly (i have to watch my spelling nowadays) at Spa. I assume Vettel and Rosberg both lost the same tire. And congrats to Rosberg and Vivian(?).

Good explanation of the tire failures here.

Don't think it is entirely due to number of laps Vettel had run on them.

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Originally Posted by PNWbrit

Good explanation of the tire failures here.

Don't think it is entirely due to number of laps Vettel had run on them.

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Not sure if you've ever watched an episode of Columbo or not but all that sounds reasonable. I don't know enough about the '06 USA GP but doesn't the article's comparison to that case make it sound like Pirelli knew why Rosberg's RR went. They must have been holding their breath. It was exciting and I feel a little cheated. I still cannot get over Hamilton's dominance in sector two where the real left turn loading is.

Not sure if Monza (although a high speed track) has anywhere near the loading of the non-dominant rear tire. Maybe why Pirelli seems so confident. It is expected that the conclusions from there investgation will be revealed this weekend.

Saw a photo of Vettel's Ferarri today from Spa after he'd lost his right rear. The remaining tires looked horrendous. It is a testament to how good Vettel is that he could keep his lap times so consistent given the degradation of his tires especially in this day and age of degradation as part of the show.

His right front looked especially bad.

Nice showing this morning by the boys from Maranello, hoping they get a great start tomorrow. Go Iceman!

Seems to be no concrete answer for the tire failures. Pirelli suggesting increased pressure and less camber, [rolls eyes]

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Originally Posted by PNWbrit

Good explanation of the tire failures here.

Don't think it is entirely due to number of laps Vettel had run on them.

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Tyre drama again. Bridgestone helping Schumacher back in the day is case in point for not having tires be the war......love the equal game.......Pirelli should be out.

Who put Tom Brady in charge of Hamilton's tires?

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Originally Posted by PNWbrit

Who put Tom Brady in charge of Hamilton's tires?

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Loved the last laps drama of "PUSH PUSH PUSH don't ask" at the end. Nice to see Massa on the podium after Rosbergs' ride went up in flames. Kimi not quite getting the start. oh well.

So I'm eavesdropping on a conversation between a guy that I work with who knows a heck of alot about cars and a guy that I've known for ten years at least. Ten year guy says to knowledgable guy, "you know my nephew says that formula one technology from red bull has trickled in to my infinity g37x and he is a formula one driver."

My ears prick up but you all know how much tact I have. Of course I'm thinking that you just said your nephew is a formula one driver and that Infinity cars are driving around with formula one technology.

Turns out that his nephew is a now a formula one driver and an American at that. As far as Infinity using formula one technology in their road cars I think I would still call bs on that. But go Alexander Rossi!

F1 cars use four wheels, g37x uses four wheels

F1 has paddle shifters, g37x has paddle shifters.

Stuff like that.

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Originally Posted by XavierD

F1 cars use four wheels, g37x uses four wheels

F1 has paddle shifters, g37x has paddle shifters.

Stuff like that.

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Wish I knew more about the g37x. Course we had a first birthday at my house a couple weekends ago. I said to my neice "That's your hyundai out there?" She's like yeah, "but it does not hold up to my old integra." I'm like ,"what year integra!?" "1991". So I'm remembering the formula one/integra ads from the day. Meanwhile there is a 1991 nsx sitting in my driveway!

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Originally Posted by wickstad

As far as Infinity using formula one technology in their road cars I think I would still call bs on that. But go Alexander Rossi!

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Not completely out of the scope of reality given the fact that the current team is "Infiniti Red Bull Racing". When Vettel won his four championships he was with Red Bull-Renault. Renault has been is a partnership with Nissan since the end of the 90s as well.

Infiniti has drive by wire, just like F1 [and the Cummins turbo diesel in my Ram].


What's with the zombie walking on the track?

Verstappen had quite the drive.

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Originally Posted by wickstad

Verstappen had quite the drive.

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Regarding not obeying team orders to swap places with Sainz:

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Verstappen added his father Jos would not have been happy if he had given up his place, saying: "He told me if I had let him past he would have kicked me in the nuts!"

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^^^New FIA tech rules?

A few things stood out from the first video. The displacement of the engines was crazy as were the crappy wheels and roads plus the fact that they were going 90 miles an hour.

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Originally Posted by XavierD

F1 cars use four wheels, g37x uses four wheels

F1 has paddle shifters, g37x has paddle shifters.

Stuff like that.

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They both have Infiniti written on them somewhere.

Aston Martin has confirmed that its name is returning to Formula 1 this season, having agreed a technology partnership with Red Bull.

As reported earlier by Motorsport.com, the British sportscar manufacturer has ended months of speculation about a potential involvement in grand prix racing by securing a deal with Red Bull to become an innovation partner.

The agreement will see the Red Bull RB12 carry the Aston Martin logo in the upcoming campaign.

"This is a very exciting project for everyone at Red Bull Racing," said Red Bull boss Christian Horner. "Through this innovation partnership, the iconic Aston Martin logo will return to grand prix racing for the first time since 1960."

Aston Martin had originally been linked to the Milton Keynes-based team last July as part of a wider plan that may have involved Mercedes engines.

But with Red Bull's hopes of pulling off a Mercedes switch having failed, the talks faded away and instead Aston Martin focused its efforts on Force India.

Those plans – which may have involved a sponsorship partnership with Johnnie Walker – did not come to fruition.

However, on the eve of the 2016 season, Aston Martin announced that a wider partnership had been agreed with Red Bull.

This will involve collaboration between Red Bull and Aston Martin chiefs to create an Adrian Newey-penned 'hyper-car' - the AM-RB 001, described as "a fusion of art and technology".

"It’s an incredible project and also realises a dream and vision long held by Adrian to design a road car," Horner added. "We are very much looking forward to what I’m certain will be a successful partnership."

What does this bring to F1 besides a decal and lots of money? Are they building a chassie? New engine? James Bond razor wheel lugs? No point having an ejector seat in a single seater.

translation is "we tried to pay for advertising on the Force India car but it didn't work out so we are paying to put our sticker on the Redbull car instead".

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Originally Posted by hutash

What does this bring to F1 besides a decal and lots of money? Are they building a chassie? New engine? James Bond razor wheel lugs? No point having an ejector seat in a single seater.

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Aston Martin and Mercedes have a road car engine deal going already.. Aston badged Merc PU in Red Bull next year?..

Sounds as if they ran away very quickly from Force India.. Vijay Mallya is going to be very lucky to stay out of jail this year.. let alone still run an F1 team.

I don't think he gave him enough room...

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=...DB&FORM=VRDGAR

It should buff out.

That was nearly very bad... good race.. Ferrari kind of screwed themselves with tire choice at race start though.. nice job Hass/Grosjean.

Watching the race was exciting. If I had DVRed it I might not have watched had I seen the usual Merc 1,2 Ferrari 3 results beforehand. Kimi just seems to have rotten luck.

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/onesport/cps...alonso_epa.jpg

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/onesport/cps...02_sdfgdfg.jpg

Another interesting race.. Vettel might have given Rosberg some problems if he'd completed the formation lap...

And this....

http://cdn-8.motorsport.com/images/a...ero-screen.jpg

Probably about time something like this was done. Especially having dodged a bullet with the Alonso crash in Australia.

Not to mention Massa's bolt to the head.

"But it's just not open cockpit racing." Let's face it, safety is still lagging tradition.

26 years ago today we lost the great one.

RIP

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Originally Posted by scottyb

26 years ago today we lost the great one.

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Verstappen gets promoted, Kvyat gets the boot.

http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/max-ve...-f1-1774902554

I think Verstappen will do well on the headline team.

Brutal.... Kvyat's become a damn fine racing driver... but keeping Verstappen in the RB family is probably worth demoting him.."have the #1 team seat now if you sign this multi year contact".

It'll give them (and everyone else) an interesting comparison with all four drivers Verstappen, Ricciardo, Sainz and Kvyat.

Makes Kimi staying another year at Ferrari seem likely.

Good analysis here > http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/241...ted-kravitz-qa

I wonder if Kvyat's last couple of "incidents" with Vettel were a factor? The first one, I agree, was not his fault, but the two in Russia certainly were. His attitude about them might have also been a factor.