Formula 1 2018 - No Women Edition

[Disco]

Grid Penalties: The Sport returns to our screens next month, here's all the shit you have to memorise to enjoy it correctly. But who will win, and how will Ferrari hand it to them?


Teams & Drivers:

Mercedes (Mercedes)
- Lewis Hamilton (c)
- Valtteri Bottas

Ferrari (Ferrari)
- Sebastian Vettel
- Kimi Raikkonen

Red Bull (Renault)
- Daniel Ricciardo
- Max Verstappen

Force India (Mercedes)
- Sergio Perez
- Esteban Ocon

Williams (Mercedes)
- Lance Stroll
- Sergey Sirotkin

Renault (Renault)
- Nico Hulkenberg
- Carlos Sainz

Toro Rosso (Honda)
- Pierre Gasly
- Brendon Hartley

Haas (Ferrari)
- Romain Grosjean
- Kevin Magnussen

McLaren (Renault)
- Fernando Alonso
- Stoffel Vandoorne

Sauber (Ferrari)
- Marcus Ericsson
Charles Leclerc


Race Schedule:

25 March - Melbourne, Australia
8 April - Sakhir, Bahrain
15 April - Shanghai, China
29 April - Baku, Azerbaijan
13 May - Barcelona, Spain
27 May - Monaco, Monaco
10 June - Montreal, Canada
24 June - Le Castellet, France
1 July - Spielberg, Austria
8 July - Silverstone, Great Britain
22 July - Hockenheim, Germany
29 July - Budapest, Hungary
26 August - Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium
2 September - Monza, Italy
16 September - Singapore, Singapore
30 September - Sochi, Russia
7 October - Suzuka, Japan
21 October - Austin, USA
28 October - Mexico City, Mexico
11 November - Sao Paulo, Brazil
25 November - Yas Marina, Abu Dhabi


Liveries:

Mercedes

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Ferrari

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Red Bull

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Force India

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Williams

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Renault

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Toro Rosso

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Haas

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McLaren

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Sauber

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[Giggles]

Nice job, but your pictures don't work.

[Disco]

Yes they do.

[Giggles]

I'm getting grey rectangles for all except Mansell. Might be an ISP thing blocking the site from my end.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Three engines, unlucky Red Bull.

Predictions:
Hamilton easy title (maybe his last, he'll ceebs it in the end)
Ocon to smash 'Checo' and get the Merc drive
Alonso to come implausibly high in the championship (let's say 5th) and win Le Mans
Williams to waste a probably decent car with shit drivers
Leclerc to bodybag Ericsson
Kimi to have a mare and get dropped for Luca Badoer

[Giggles]

What happens after the 3 engines? Public flogging and disqualification?

[Disco]

No no, a blanket of grey rectangles is what you should (and will) be seeing.

[Baz]

Don't forget the 1PM races now start at 2PM.

[Giggles]

Then they're not the 1PM races.

[Disco]

[Shindig]

McLaren Renault sounds like a match made in an unlicensed videogame.

[Jimmy Floyd]

As long as it's not as shit as McLaren Peugeot from 1994 they'll be alright.

[Pleb]

What's up with the 2pm starts then?

[Disco]

You have to love that photo selection.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Is this the moment when sportscars finally realises that it is a boring load of old toss? Only time will tell.

[Disco]

They're the ultimate proof that motorsport needs to be relevant for manufacturers (ie shut about quiet engines you dickheads) because nobody is doing WEC for the publicity or viewing figures.

[Lewis]

The Toyotas blowing up at Le Mans again would be the lollest thing in motorsport since... Blank. Probably when they got busted with that cheat turbo in rally.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It would be better if they binned off the prototypes and made some sort of super GT formula. I'm amazed even Toyota are fussed about running LMP1s.

[Disco]

Isn't that basically touring cars?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I mean more like the things that tool around in the 3rd highest class at Le Mans.

[Disco]

The baffle paint job.

[Gray Fox]

I'm glad they've done that. There was far too much colour on the previous one.

[Disco]

It's not the real livery, it's designed to stop other teams copying parts of the design.

[Giggles]

It should be the real one.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Cars with scramble paint jobs tend to be absolute dogs, I find.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The Sauber-Alfa looks nice, which I suppose was inevitable.

[Shindig]

It almost looks like a Super Agurri which is all I can hope for.

[Disco]

McLaren are progressing in their quest to become Minardi by the looks of their new car.

Opening post is updated with pics of the released cars.

[Pepe]

Wtf is that McLaren?

[Gray Fox]

It looks a different colour in every picture I see.

They at least have to be commended for not doing the boring white/black/silver crap the rest of the field seem to have done.

[Disco]

I'm pleased that the numbers (and I think there will be names/initials too) are more prominent this year, but equally displeased with all the shit everyone seems to be dumping onto the sidepods. Reminds me of this horrible thing:

[Pleb]

Is this the nineties again?

[Serj]

I like the new McLaren. I'd probably have preferred a slightly darker hue of orange, but it's still one of the better liveries of the last couple of years.

[-james-]

God the 'halo' is awful. There won't ever be an attractive F1 car again if they stick about.

[Disco]

It doesn't look great but I struggle to muster much of an argument against them on looks alone.

[Giggles]

I didn't even notice it on that car til it was mentioned. It's fine.

[Lewis]

It doesn't look like it could stand up to the sort of impacts that you might want protection there for, such as slamming into the bottom of a tractor at eighty miles an hour, so what is the case for it?

[Disco]

I didn't even notice it on that car til it was mentioned. It's fine.

For something which should be so obvious it's amazing how many pictures I look at and don't even notice it.

[Giggles]

It doesn't look like it could stand up to the sort of impacts that you might want protection there for, such as slamming into the bottom of a tractor at eighty miles an hour, so what is the case for it?

Things like what happened Massa I presume.

[Lewis]

Was that the spring? A partial windscreen would make more sense for that sort of thing.

[Disco]

It's a bit odd, it seems to be a protection against problems in other formula. Henry Surtees (wheel) and Justin Wilson (discarded big mac presumably) were both killed by being lumped in the head by something. But you're not wrong, it wouldn't have helped Massa or Senna or any of the other people (mainly marshalls) who've been hit by stuff recently.

[Lewis]

I like those little scales on the McLaren. I bet they provide all sorts of MARGINAL GAINS to be rendered irrelevant by shite internals.

[Shindig]

BBC seemed to make a big deal out the car being orange. Ignoring the fact it was orange last year.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If the Renault goes then I'd expect podiums for McLaren. There's no intrinsic reason, Adrian Newey aside, why they should have a worse package than the Red Bull.

[Giggles]

Podiums is severely pushing it.

[Disco]

If the Renault goes then I'd expect podiums for McLaren. There's no intrinsic reason, Adrian Newey aside, why they should have a worse package than the Red Bull.

The thought of Alonso stuffing it up some Red Bulls is

How times change.

[Magic]

WSBK Philip Island in the AM on Sat.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The thought of Alonso stuffing it up some Red Bulls is

How times change.

He is such a great driver that if he can qualify it even top 8 regularly he will surely troll his way to podiums.

[Pepe]

They should just go for a cockpit and be done with it.

[Magic]

Susie Wolff leaked.

http://thefappeningblog.com/susie-wo...ing-10-photos/