Well, the other categories are a bit more competitive, and it's a marquee thing.
They should never have put the chicanes in the back straight though. So what if a few Mercs ended up in the foliage?
Well, the other categories are a bit more competitive, and it's a marquee thing.
They should never have put the chicanes in the back straight though. So what if a few Mercs ended up in the foliage?
That sounds preposterous.
Le Mans is a marketing opportunity. Basically, "Look at hybrid. Look at the future!" Formerly it was, "Diesel's awesome, guys." They're kinda defeating the purpose of hybrid power by making them pit more than the competition. But it can smash the lap record so .... good?
EDIT: Di Resta out.
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Car people are the worst. Up there with dog people and golf people.
Worse than coffee people and vapists?
Did Alonso win the other race thing yet?
8 minutes left. Nakajima's bringing it home. Unless it breaks like 2016.
They all pale in comparison to people who like to 'travel'.
Dirt gives character or something.
I've developed a genuine hatred of sportsbike owners who decide to give it full taps on freeways.
The wanker to ok person ratio when it comes to sportsbikes approaches infinity.
My favorite being the kevlar vest wearing wankers with stretched out bikes parked outside the bar and doing some "stuntz" on the parking lot.
Tuning into F1 as its back in France.
Finding out the track is not Magny-Cours and it starts at 3:10 pm which is an hour delay compared to most European races
Why have they changed the start times from 1pm?
I haven't kept up to speed with everything going on in the background. But I imagine its because of dodgy viewing figures or because of the World Cup.
It's the World Cup, they're having a triple header over the next three weeks to avoid clashing with the final too. Comes from being owned by a media company.
That's a hell of a start.
Vettel should get a penalty for that. Yet more appalling driving from him.
Perfect justice would be Bottas doing him at the restart then the stewards hand him a drive-through.
Ferrari: evil. Etc, etc.
The races this year have mostly been absolutely dire. I miss the Hamilton - Rosberg rivalry.
There were some good ones at the start up until Baku, but the last few have been dreadful (as they tend to be in the middle part of the year, after the initial chaos and before everyone gives up on this year's car to focus on next).
I watched some highlights of an old F3000 race which had Nick Heidfeld and Juan Pablo Montoya lapping Christian Horner. I love motorsport at that level. They're all so green and reckless.
https://www.topgear.com/car-news/fut...ord-shreds-919
Watch the video. The coconuts on that man.
Fucking hell.
On Gran Turismo, the first section is mad difficult. He just breezes through there like its nothing. I know a time of under 7 minutes in road legal car is on another level, but is that a race car?
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That was fast alright. Amazing how the thing sticks.
Not only is it one of those, they said they removed basically all of the limiters and installed every bit of technology they wouldn't be allowed to use in the actual LMP1 specifications.
More power, more downforce.
It has had all of the racing restrictions taken off, but it is still an unrestricted version of something built to a particular set of restrictions, so I wonder what times you could set if you built something specifically to beat that track (and whether it would even be driveable).
Time to break out the DeltaWing boys
145 mph average speed.
That is some daft downforce. I would love Adrian Newey's Red Bull X2010 or whatever to come to live. Pity that's impossible as no human body can survive the G's.
I watched that Nurburgring lap, I kept thinking he was going to go airborne everytime he hit a peak. That is a mental car.
Missed the F1 due to the same reason everyone else did.
Imagine my shock and horror to see Grosjean qualify 6th and then promoted to 5th on the grid after a Vettel penalty.
He'll be halfway up an Alp by lap 5.
Shall we have a sweepstake on who he takes out in turn 1?
I swear Valtteri always pisses it at this circuit. Seem to remember Williams incompetence robbing him of a win here when he was quite young.
Didn't Massa used to be a specialist at certain tracks as well.
Massa was always fast in Turkey.
Looking at his pole posiitons, he had three at Interlagos and two at Istanbul. His last one was in Austria in 2014. Almost all his 16 poles came within a three year spell.
Been looking at some of the old Osterreichring layout. Tilke did a decent job with the redesign. The second corner's a proper dog, though. I dunno how they don't just halt on that hill.
What's bugging me atm is they're adding more and more DRS zones to every circuit. Why not tackle the aero effect instead rather than just artificially addressing it?
The people demand overtaking.
When people say they want overtaking, though, what they really mean is they want the THREAT of overtaking. NASCAR is an example of why loads of overtaking is bad.
There is also a bizarre school of thought that claims there used to be loads of overtaking in F1. There has never been loads of overtaking. What there used to be is mass mechanical failures, which mixed things up a bit more.
I'm not sure what you do to tackle the aero, though. You could simplify the hell out of the cars but then Adrian Newey's no longer needed. Plus top-end motorsport loves to feel at the forefront of technology.
EDIT: To add to Jimmy's point, we also had more start incidents. Engine blow-ups are still one of my favourite things.
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