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2019 Formula 1 Season Thread
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Love the Rebellion team
Shows how long I have been watching motor racing. When I first saw the #3 Rebellion down the straight, I saw "MARLBORO" and not "MATMUT" and I was like "France allows tobacco advertising on motorsports again?".
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Yeah I feel bad for the #7, but if they had won, would that have ensured the #8 won the WEC title by coming in second? Because that was what was most-important to Toyota.
Nah, the #8 was going to win the title finishing second. They eventually won by 41 points. Finishing second to the #7 would've won by about 19 points.
GTA-Am was probably my highlight. The private Ford GT was great to watch.
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So Ferrari decided today not to appeal the 5 Sec penalty. That says it all in my opinion. We must already remember that the stewards have information that we are not privy too. Like different camera angles and telemetry from the cars. I always thought the decision was the right interpretation of the rules which is what the stewards are there for.
They can’t appeal, one rule states you can whilst another states you can’t, and it was plain to see what happened, the stewards were clearly wrong in this case.
Ferrari have officially lodged a "right to review" the penalty, which is the legal maximum they’re allowed to request.
That, indeed, does say it all.
That, indeed, does say it all.
I get to hear plenty.... which I won’t repeat, Toto is one back stabbing cheat though.
Another thing is viewing figures have dropped 60%... what they are doing is not going to help boost that back up.
It’s becoming a sad sport, and no matter what anyone says it’s a hell of a far cry from the great days of Prost, Hill, Mansell... at least they raced... or were allowed to.
Leave the dirty politics off the track, let them just race and I think they should ban team orders to an extent too.
Team orders have always existed. Banning them just leaves the team to come up with their own secret codes.
So do you work in F1 at some capacity?
We used to have a member on here that worked with Red Bull.
I did work with Arrows at Leafield years ago on a brief project. I have friends who work within F1 (Mercedes, and Red Bull). A good friend of mine was a telemetry analyst for Marussia but now works for JLR. I try and get insider stuff out of them but get very little other than personality stories. Ross Brawn was supposed to be a nasty piece of work according to my friend who worked as an aerodynamicist for Merc. It’s rare I get any technical gossip due to their NDA’s.
Oh no, I walk the dog and often bump into a chap who’s really into F1 and his son works for Red Bull F1, he still doesn’t give everything away though.
But for me the dirty politics are one thing, it’s the stupid rules or not allowing them to race on the track that gets me annoyed..
And as for the politics, you can see them at play in plain view, look at the score boards, the racing, F1 really is a race of two classes now when they are ‘meant’ to all be in the same class. The top teams very very very clearly show otherwise. Because they are lapping other cars after only 19 laps...
But with any luck the changes to the funding and budgets will help fix it, well in part I hope.
All the bosses are like that. Wolff is getting it because his team is winning. Grumpy Spice was getting it when he was winning. Ron Dennis was getting it when he was winning. Flavio was a complete arse. They all are - it's how they got where they are. I don't hold it against Wolff because they'd have all done it.
One of our biggest customers was on the same trading estate as RBR. That’s about as close as I got!
One of my colleagues was working at the Red Arrows bass when Lewis was there for a fluff piece before British Grand Prix a few years back. He got to sit in a Mercedes for a picture.
One of my colleagues was working at the Red Arrows bass when Lewis was there for a fluff piece before British Grand Prix a few years back. He got to sit in a Mercedes for a picture.
I did a tiny bit of Simulation work back in the day for Team Lotus (that's the Tony Fernandes one, which eventually became Caterham F1 - not the Raikkonen Lotus/Renault one) but that's all I've done with F1. I did a fair bit of work for Champ Car World Series the year before it was swallowed by IndyCar, but the majority of my stuff was either sportscar related or publically released games. Was lucky enough to attend Daytona 24, Long Beach GP, Le Mans, Donington 6 Hours as staff/media/whatever.
https://www.espn.co.uk/f1/story/_/id/27022863/ferrari-feels-overwhelming-new-evidence-vettel-case
Very good possibility of moving to a Secondary Review IMO.
https://www.espn.co.uk/f1/story/_/id/27022863/ferrari-feels-overwhelming-new-evidence-vettel-case
Very good possibility of moving to a Secondary Review IMO.
Looks like it was rejected already.. that was quick.
Mercedes dominating so far. Lando has had a good start so far, would be cool to see him get a top 5 on Sunday.
Thanks for the update. Yes, looking like another snooze fest. Thank goodness for IMSA and although I still pinch myself when saying it, Indy Cars.
LeClerc at least within spitting distance of Hamilton and Bottas, Verstappen a full second back in 4th and Vettel nowhere (7th and almost 1.5 seconds back).
So unless LeClerc can jump the two Mercedes, looks like another win for the Silver Arrows.
So unless LeClerc can jump the two Mercedes, looks like another win for the Silver Arrows.
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But great result for Norris. Love to see a McLaren on the podium. Not likely I know, but still he was very close.
Lewis looks like it’s his race to lose.
Vettel is looking increasingly like a guy who can’t get a weekend right. He should have been third or fourth in that car. But 7th is a shocker.