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2020 Formula 1 Season Thread
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Renault being sneaky and secretive. Kinda aggravating isn't it?
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Mercedes set to launch sometime today.
Renault being sneaky and secretive. Kinda aggravating isn't it?
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Mercedes set to launch sometime today.
Very little of what they race with gets launched! I wouldn’t be surprised if they have fake aero parts to fool the opposition.
Indeed.
With China effectively cancelled (there is no room for a reschedule) that means a one month break between Vietnam (assuming it goes off) and the Netherlands so it will be interesting to see how much the cars change between those two events since they will have both extra R&D time and they won't have to air-ship new parts so they can do more iterations.
Wasn’t too impressed by the livery initially but like the gradient from blue to black on the side pods and fin. Would’ve preferred the rear wing to be blue but still a nice update.
Alfa Romeo C39
wow!
Sorry for crappy quality of images from Alfa.
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And yes, that is snakeskin ...
wow!
Sorry for crappy quality of images from Alfa.
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And yes, that is snakeskin ...
Looks great, but they did a red one last year and still launched with standard Sauber white with the Alfa logo plastered onto the engine cover so I’m not holding my hopes high.
To be fair you won’t see much of it. Only Q1 then when all the other cars pass them a few times.
Shame really.
So, tomorrow (the 19th) is the start of the first test. Of course, we can't read too much into these as they are mainly shakedown tests and give a lot of false positives which evaporate by the time of the first race.
That all said, it's a bit of fun to try and predict things, so what are your thoughts on the next three days....will Williams show they have closed the gap, will Mercedes trip up and have problems (or just bluff)?? What about Ferrari?
That all said, it's a bit of fun to try and predict things, so what are your thoughts on the next three days....will Williams show they have closed the gap, will Mercedes trip up and have problems (or just bluff)?? What about Ferrari?
I stopped watching F1 at the end of 2018 but it’s always cool to see what the teams bring when the regs change. Some cool concepts on the cars this year 
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Looks like Mercedes is one upping the bunch again.
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The Dual Axis Steering in Mercedes-AMG's New F1 Car Is Legal But Mind-Blowing
It's the pinnacle of motor racing for a reason.
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Not easy to copy. Just what Mercedes needed. An advantage!Looks like Mercedes is one upping the bunch again.
The Dual Axis Steering in Mercedes-AMG's New F1 Car Is Legal But Mind-Blowing
It's the pinnacle of motor racing for a reason.
Found myself watching far too much testing these last few days and this did make it interesting. Well done Mercedes for some genuine innovation.
Hilarious when Sky commentators started talking about if this is something that would make it onto road cars!!
wow.
How much of an advantage does it give them?
It's really going to suck if they lap the entire field all season long.
How much of an advantage does it give them?
It's really going to suck if they lap the entire field all season long.
Best bit of innovation since the F-duct and exhaust blown diffusers I think - genuine out of the box thinking. Unsuprisingly banned for next year as no relevance at all to road cars and an developmental money black hole.
IMO, from what I've read on the development it would seen to me a best case would be a slight speed increase on long relatively straight sections. It is an interesting development, it is however, completely reliant on the drivers ability/skill to not only know when and when not to use it, but to what degree? If used improperly it actually has the potential to degrade performance very slightly.
It will be interesting to see. I'm sure Hamilton will pick up quickly.