He clearly has some money behind him.
He clearly has some money behind him.
K-Mag
All we need is for Haas to give us a new livery and we can forget this 12-month Uralkali shit show ever happened.
I still think it's a bit shit how Mazepin's career has come to a dead stop because of this.
Especially when he would have ended it himself had he been allowed to drive this season.
Did not the the Magnussen news coming but good for him.
Brazilian journos were speculating Fittipaldi couldn’t get his sponsorship money together, but I suspect that was just a cover for him being inexperienced and bang average and Haas didn’t want to commit to that again.
The real shame is Piastri not sneaking in. I suppose he's probably the successor to Fernando unless he hangs on like the bastard he is.
Watching testing like a true nerd and the porpoising looks nasty.
Also the Merc has had some serious lipo since Barcelona and has completely lost its sidepods.
Last edited by Ben; 10-03-2022 at 07:26 AM.
McLaren seem to have the hang of it and I reckon other teams will follow suit. I think what they are struggling with is how to optimize the whole thing, as you are giving away overall performance to solve porpoising so it's a bit of a balance in the end. I wouldn't be surprised if some lesser version of it remains by design.
Yeah it seems to be pretty easy. But designers don't give a fuck about driver's spines so if it costs them a tenth they'll push back.
So it seems like Mercedes decided to break out Lucille.
I wonder if Red Bull are also hiding something up their sleeve.
They made a good point on commentary that it might not be a case of the top teams "hiding things" but a product of the new regulations where they get much less wind tunnel time than say, Haas.
The Merc looks amazing, a hearty lol if they're off the front again.
Last edited by Disco; 10-03-2022 at 01:41 PM.
Ross Brawn bowling around saying they didn't expect this interpretation of the regulations is poacher turned gamekeeper if ever I saw it.
Horner and his 'no official comment' means he must be absolutely seething.
What's new? Even when they won the fucking WDC he couldn't hold himself back for one night to have a dig at Merc.
Alfa Romeo should automatically win the constructors for being the only ones to paint the wheel hubs. Ferrari last for those horrible black trousers.
These cars handle like buses through the slow corners because the Venturi tunnels don't operate at such low speeds so there's zero downforce.
Lots of understeer and little lock ups.
And the constant belly flops.
For the first time I find myself in the 'more noisy engines' camp but only so we don't have to hear them scraping along the ground down every straight.
The bumps are weird, it's like they're doing the 110m hurdles down the straights. When was it last so, the 70s?
It's the ground effect detaching/reattaching so that would be about right.
I find all this sandbagging very tiresome.
I get it, and I guess it has always been a thing to an extent, but it's just too much now. When the Brawn came out of nowhere they did it in testing, no?
It almost feels like there is an art to nobbling your car whilst still being able to test the things you want so you don't accidentally go too fast. Like it has felt that the past few years have seen teams trying to deliberately make their wash more 'unfollowable' on purpose. It's just shit.
Be pretty funny if Merc roll out an entirely different sidepod concept next week and this one is just another decoy. Either that or this car is a right dog which would also be good, as long as Red Bull are also shit.
I don't think Brawn had any idea they would be as fast as they were and the sand bags well and truly came out once they realised.
Brawn had to get sponsors in quick so making themselves look shit was counterproductive for them.
Like the good old days of Eddie Jordan and Renault doing glory runs to tap up sponsors.
Coviddiardo confirmed, lucky that there's no travel required before the first race so he should be back in time.
Unless he dies.
Mclaren don't have a reserve driver so they'll look pretty silly if that happens.
Haas rolling in well clear of the field in their extra hour just shows the sandbagging has gone too far.
Unless they're trying to do the Brawn thing and attract sponsors, but, in that case, no one is going to believe they are in any way competitive due to said feared sandbagging.
Broken.
Drive to Survive is back tonight and I already love how much the Horner heavy episode will wind people up.
Does it show him making love with Ginger Spice? If not, then things could always be worse.
Not far off.
Maybe they will in the last episode
First episode wasn’t great but it rarely is.
Honestly, the reliability problems coming up in testing could make for a mad few races.
I like how they took the time to tell us it's good to start the race in front of everyone else.
Will Buxton does my fucking head in.Originally Posted by Disco
There seemed to be a lot of bits like that where they were telling the dummies how it worked. Reminded me of when BBC used to show the superbowl. Have they always done that?
I mean, we aren’t the target audience. It’s to bring in new fans, especially American, and by all accounts it’s done exactly that over there. I’m not even sure if I’ll finish this series.
From what I’ve read, you’ll all stop by episode 5 anyway. I hadn’t even realised it was all up. Got so used to things being uploaded one episode at a time at this stage.
Had a dream last night that the Merc bowled in with some sort of low 1.20 lap [I know, I need to get out more] but it looks like they might actually be going for the lolz at the other end of the spectrum.
The pre-season Ferrari wankathon is in full swing again I see, perhaps they'll actually deliver this time.
There’s not a hope of them somehow discovering how to be competent.
Norris and Russell repeatedly sabotaging each other's runs at the end there was a bit.
Red Bull turned it on today.
Sounding like a third US GP is coming (Vegas)...
Yeah, I won't hold my breath on that one. Florida, New York, etc.
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote