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Thread: Formula 1 2017: sponsored by Chase Carey's tache

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    Lewis Hamilton would be into Stirling Moss territory without the wonders of modern technology.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    I'd dispute that title.

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    Sir Stirling is the obvious one. One of the Brabhams (David?) was bald, presumably still is. Robert Kubica was leaping and vaulting toward baldness when he left F1 so I'd assume he's there by now.

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    Aren't they all a bit bald due to the constant head gear wearing? Like golfers?

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    I also wonder if Lauda should count, he definitely lost his hair after all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Disco View Post
    Sir Stirling is the obvious one. One of the Brabhams (David?) was bald, presumably still is. Robert Kubica was leaping and vaulting toward baldness when he left F1 so I'd assume he's there by now.
    Believe it or not Kubica still has hair, but I'm pretty sure he's gone into a local barbers, taken a few of the clippings and superglued it to his head.

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    I've been googling F1 drivers for a good twenty minutes and there's nary a slaphead to be found, this is starting to get worrying.

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    Kubica's held his hairline well. I saw his arm for the first time a few months back. Yikes. No wonder he lacks power in it. I can think of one bald motorcyclist and it's Bradley Smith. He went at 20.

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    Well, Johnny Herbert and Jacques Lafitte have made strong entries but there's a very clear top three in the F1 best baldie championship.

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    Quality stuff. Late career Denny Hulme is the best I could come up with.

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    That;s a strong entry, clearly still driving too and believe me those are rare.

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    Going beyond Formula 1, what about Pierre Levegh of Le Mans Disaster (and almost winning the race single-handed during a previous attempt) 'fame'? By the looks of him that crash was deliberate.

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    Caught up to Aragon. Mir's a class act. Hope he does well with KTM next season. I like Fenati as well but it's clear his big sweeping riding style murders his chances in a dry race. Morbidelli should be safe in a straight fight between him and Luthi. In the top flight, I hope more for Dovi than I expect. Marquez has really fought for this and would've been comfy if it wasn't for his engine farting at Silverstone. Hopefully Sam Lowes does okay in Moto2 next season. He hasn't been able to stay on the thing in 2017. I don't know how long Bradley Smith's got left in the class, either.

    Jonathan Rea became the first man in history to win the Superbike World Championship three times on the trot, breaking the points total record on the way. He's only five wins off Fogarty's record.

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    Why are you posting it in this boring thread? Lowes is on Luthi's bike so he has no excuses.

    Did you see Sofuoglu's insanity?

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    I only keep up with Superbikes due to BBC articles. I was never 100% up on it when I had Eurosport. I'll always give Superbikes / Supersport guys the benefit of the doubt when they transition to MotoGP. Cal Crutchlow and Chris Vermuelen are the only guys I can think of that have made something of it.

    Australia watched now. Damn it.

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    Well, turns out Hamilton tearing through the field is fun to watch. Pity he fell short of the podium. I also caught wind of MotoGP's finale. I had started watching it but the stream was pulled a couple of laps into Moto3. I'll not spoil it in case Disco or somebody is playing catch up.

    Checking out the 2018 grid and I've noticed Morbidelli and Luthi are teammates. Oof. Tito Rabat's back, too. Fenati and Mir battling it out in Moto2 would be interesting, as would Mir having Alex Marquez as a teammate. KTM could be deadly if they carry their late form into next year. Lastly, can someone explain to me how Niccolo Antonelli has a ride for next year? 29 retirements or failures to start in five years in Moto3. He crashes everywhere.

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    I'm guessing we all saw this last week - Ted Kravitz showing a picture on his phone to camera when "MSY Mob" sends him a message


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    Carlos Ghosn watching the race next to Alain Prost, they're assembling a proper team of villains over there.

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    I thought these E cars were supposed to have those windscreens this year.

    EDIT: Scratch that, they're still racing in the Gen 1 car.

    The incoming one has it.


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    Speaking of electric vehicles, MotoE gets unveiled tomorrow. They're going to slot that in along with the Moto3 and Moto2 lot on Sundays. I might pay Dorna their blood money. Electric bikes sound cool as fuck.

    EDIT: Debuting in 2019 at five of the European races. 18 bikes with some branding across MotoGP, Moto2 and Moto3. It sounds like they're all racing identical bikes.

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    How the fuck do you actually watch Formula E? It always seems bananas and I miss it but I literally have no idea how to watch it in the UK. Is it on TV? Is it online? Is there free / public highlights access?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Clunge View Post
    How the fuck do you actually watch Formula E? It always seems bananas and I miss it but I literally have no idea how to watch it in the UK. Is it on TV? Is it online? Is there free / public highlights access?
    It used to be online for free but now if your country has a TV deal it'll be geo blocked. 3e show it here and I think I recall Channel 5 having the UK rights.

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    Channel 5, Spike (whatever the fuck that is), and Eurosport apparently.

    http://www.fiaformulae.com/en/championship/tv-schedule/

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    I'm sure I was watching it on Twitter the other day, but that might just have been free practice.

    It's absolute dross anyway. I know the tech is important, but what's the point of watching silent cars driving slowly around small tracks.

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    Street circuits and close racing. I'd take a drop in speed for that.

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    It's ok, I've enjoyed most of the races I've watched. The main drawback for me is that the tracks are normally god awful stop start street affairs laid out for maximum crowd engagement (no bad thing but shouldn't be the only consideration) rather than being a good track to race around.

    Like all good things there's a Reddit page dedicated to providing free streams, the races normally pop up on there.

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    I am a fan of 'Jev'. He should be racing in something better than that, ideally a 26 car (or vaguely merit based) F1 grid.

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    The man is a dreamboat, can you imagine him and Grosjean in a team together?

    It's an interesting grid on the whole. Half of it reads like Helmut Marko's missed call list then there's Nicolas Prost (who is one of the most dangerous drivers I;ve seen in any discipline), Nelson Piquet Jr (LOL) and a host of names that were fast for five minutes in GP2/3 (someone save Esteban Gutierrez a seat he'll be here soon).

    Oh and walking yawn Nick Heidfeld.

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    I've always thought Nick Heidfeld is still driven by bitterness about not getting that McLaren seat whenever it was. I can only find one race win, in any series, on the poor bugger's record since he was in Formula 3000 nineteen years ago.

    Still, there's always this:

    In 2016, in an academic paper that reported a mathematical modeling study that assessed the relative influence of driver and machine, Heidfeld was ranked the 23rd best Formula One driver of all time.

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    The Nico Hulkenberg of the early to mid 2000's.

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    I thought he was going to be the guy to win for BMW Sauber.

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