This was the sports car course so they aren't using the banking at top speed and they had treaded tires. I've not watched ARCA before (it seemingly being the fourth tier) so they may do it all the time for all I know.
This was the sports car course so they aren't using the banking at top speed and they had treaded tires. I've not watched ARCA before (it seemingly being the fourth tier) so they may do it all the time for all I know.
had it rained yesterday they actually had wets to put on the cars. My buddy was there and we were praying but because there was lightning they just red flagged the race
He invited me to go but i'm still too shook of COVID tbh.
I had no idea Pierre Gasly lived on Merseyside.
Has there been any mention of Leglerg bowling about without his seatbelts on? How has that not garnered a penalty of some kind? I know why, but still, how many regs do you have to ignore?
You should get 50 extra championship points for driving without a seat belt. If you win and drive without your helmet, just award the man the title from now
It's not a great look for F1 if wee Charlie ends up in bits all over the road due to not wearing a seatbelt, even if it is only his own safety that's being jeopardised, so it really should be a pretty severe penalty.
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Not sure what this is or why it exists, but yeah, batted Heikki. Guessing they've simulated Prost on a bicycle or something?
Those fucking AWS 'stats' they put up during the race are garbage so I wouldn't set too much store by this. Although lol at the startling news that those three are the fastest drivers, and fuck Alain Prost I guess.
It's very much not just his own safety either.Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
As in if he flies out and body checks a marshal?
That or loses control of the car and ploughs into someone, I know your views on bikes but there was a perfect example this weekend of how dangerous an out of control vehicle could be. Plus the optics of having one of your young shavers rattled to bits or Villeneuving through the gravel would not be great.
He drives a red car though so your views are invalid, it was perfectly safe.
I was thinking more of who his manager is and who that managers father is and what he does for a job.
Isn't there like a bit they put on over the driver's shoulders they have to take on and off to get out of the car?
That plus the hans device i mean idk?
A Hans device works in conjunction with the belts. No belts, the Hans device doesn't do anything.
Yea that makes sense, I had both thought that the HANS worked independently and also that the straps that went onto the helmet were the important bits and it worked purely off leverage otherwise.
Super Hans.
Love to mate love to but this is all mine and I want them, so.
Its just a game.
Jesus fuckin Christ how could that even be fun
Some of those downshifts sound like he's run over a cat.
Yeah, he's banging on the limiter too much.
Williams have been sold to a US investment company. Can't believe they've actually pulled the trigger on this when they've always been so adamant about not selling the family business. I can only assume they were broke and they had no more options.
Wonder if Claire keeps her job.
Not sure Claire is the problem to be honest, and it was probably inevitable in order to keep them running. They just don't have the revenue that most of the other teams have.
I thought Claire came across terribly in the Netflix series. For a senior leader, she was a bumbling, indecisive, mumbling mess. Not sure what she is like on the technical side.
F1 binwoman territory.
Yeah, I'm not sure she actually is the problem but she's the ultimately the face of the team at their absolute worst. I was wondering about Frank as well. Is he involved at all anymore?
Not in the day to day stuff I don't think.
Setting it up would have been beyond me, I'll admit, but I reckon I could run a Formula 1 team about as well as Frank Williams used to.
Nah, I feel like the business side went to shit for many once the cigarette money was off the table.
Frank was brilliant at cadging money off people, and pretty shite at making sporting decisions. Their on-track success correlated more or less directly with the influence of Patrick Head (and Adrian Newey).
For the last ten years they've had the worst of both worlds.
In spite of him binning off his World Champions every chance he got.
Losing Hill, Newey and Renault inside about a year and replacing them with Frentzen, Mecachrome and whoever was the death knell.
The Mechachromes / Playlifes / Supertechs were re-badged Renault engines from the previous year. I've decided to see who picked up where Newey left off. They had a renaissance with the BMW partnership and we're alright in 2014.
Patrick Head stayed on as Technical director. Geoff Willis was the new New..ey and Chief Designer was Gavin Fischer. It appears Fischer got the promotion as Newey's understudy and he stayed in the role until 2005. Geoff Willis now works at Mercedes after stints with Red Bull and HRT as Technical Director. He left Williams in 2001 to join BAR and left them in 2007. All three of them were at Leyton House before Williams grabbed them.
Hang on, this wiki is bollocks. Antonia Terzi did the aero on the 2003 Williams and was with them as early as 2001. She also designed this.
Give it up, Fernando. You'll never be as good as Takuma Sato.
I shouldn't but I take a small joy in Fernando not doing shit in the 500 for some reason.
I think it's the manner he's gone about the triple crown. He walked into a Le Mans team that had everything stacked in their favour to win. It didn't feel earned which is bizarre to say about a 24 hour endurance race. He turns up for Indy but won't put the graft in for a full season.
Trying to force the triple crown is no good. There's a reason only two or so blokes have ever done it.
I got giddy for a second when I saw Montoya had a Le Mans appearance under his belt. 3rd .... in class in 2018.
Turkey returns which i always liked. Really fast wide open circuit with that crazy turn eight. Vettel used to open the DRS thing mid corner in the red bull.
I hope one or two of these end up staying on as part of their quest for 25 races, rather than 4 new races in the US or whatever their master plan no doubt is.
The fabled turn 8 in Turkey will be easy flat out in these cars.
I just want them to do the Miami one tbh.
Will a Miami circuit not end just just like the other street circuits, a la Valencia and Monaco.. basically extremely boring with zero overtakes.
Or are they actually planning on building a proper track?
EDIT: Just had a quick look, it looks like it's a semi-street circuit, which might be a bit better.
I'm not gonna lie to you buddy I just want to have a Formula 1 grand prix in what constitutes as my proverbial home, buy a fuckton of MIAMI GRAND PRIX t-shirts, and mingle with the instagram models.
Mind you the "Miami" in which they're doing this is actually like 45 minutes from the downtown Miami you might have seen for example on television or otherwise. For example the Formula E race they had was in actual downtown Miami.
Where the Miami Dolphins stadium is, and the areas surrounding it, they actually own a great deal of land including parking lots and the roads surrounding them... so they probably could come up with a pretty interesting track (though I'm not great at translating these things from track layouts) as opposed to trying to crowbar a race out of already laid out city streets.
But this actually looks pretty wild to me, these two really long straight aways... that long sweeping turn looking thing..
Ferrari P14 and P15 in first practice, honestly. This is one of the funniest seasons in years.
Make a point of watching Vettels interviews too, off the reservation at every opportunity.
Vettel PBing every sector on his way to 20th, 2 tenths off the Alfa. Oh dear.
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