Formula LibreOriginally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Formula Libre
And Sepang.
Season finale at Summit Point, West Virginia's premier Motorsports destination.
Fun fact: there is a high powered weapons/explosives facility on site. Team owners could execute underperforming drivers on the spot.
Non-championship round at Thermal.
Easy red flag. Someone inform Briatore.
If you thought last weeks times were dodgy, good luck to whoever attempts to watch Sprint quali, Quali, sprint and the race this weekend. Tactical naps a plenty
Sprint qualifying for the Chinese Grand Prix (round 2 of 24). Truly the peak of motorsport.
Turn 1/2/3 here is a war crime, amazing to think Tilke remains a free man.
I like China, the start is like Hungary on steroids. That and Malaysia were probably his best work.
Malaysia and the Red Bull Ring are good'ns. And Turkey, maybe.
He's not having Austria, Turkey I will allow.
Sure, it was a rebuild. Does the get the current Hockenheim?
He can have the blame if that's what you mean, Austria was already fine.
Just looking at his list, there's very few winners.
I'm undecided on COTA. On the one hand it is quintessential ameri-sport in that it goes on for so long you can't tell one bit apart from another but they did have the foresight to make a big hill to get at least some change in elevation. I never understood why they don't do that more often, how hard is it to pile some stuff up for a couple corners? Harder to put a hotel on a hill I suppose.
Turkey was great track. The COVID revisits showed it would have serious potential with these boats too.
But it's not a street circuit, so get that shit out of here.
Fresh tarmac Turkey was a glorious clusterfuck.
He also keeps trying to recreate that fast series of left handers that are corners but not quite in his other work, to much failure.
He loves a right angle, too.
I quite like Bahrain. Sacrilege I know. Turns 9, 10 and 11 are good corners.
Yeah, I thought Bahrain wasn't too bad. Terrible when they used the wanky infield and the 'oval' layout.
The only half decent murderdrome but as you say it needs to be the proper layout.
Eddie Jordan has died. No more flamboyant outfits turning up on the grid.
One of the biggest legends in F1 history, in the banter sense of legend. Sums up what the sport used to be about before it became Hornerised.
I'm sure Lewis has a few he'll try to sneak past Ferrari.
That new FIA rule wasn’t directed at McLaren as they passed the tests. Red Bull and Ferrari fans in tatters
Always nice to see Horny put one in his own net.
I'm only now finding out Eddie Jordan was bald.
Jordan the last team to actually come through the feeder system into F1? If someone did that now and won races it would be the biggest story ever, the fact Jordan did it on 50p and a Bertrand Gachot lawsuit is even more impressive.
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There used to be some excitement and viewership over here back in those Benson days.
Stewart's outfit was doing F3000 before becoming a GP team. At least I think that's how that happened. Campos tried to make the jump in 2010 but couldn't get the money together.
The Bertrand Gachot/taxi incident is both amazing and also basically the origin story for all of modern F1. EJ knew he was innocent but had a business incentive to kick him out of the car so said 'Sorry, mate' and failed to defend him, resulting in Mike Shoemaker jumping in for Spa and the rest is history.
If Gachot never has fight with the taxi driver, then Schumacher probably only enters F1 the following year, probably with a worse team than Benetton, and probably rises to the top in a completely different fashion, maybe even via the Sauber-Mercedes 1993 entry and then on to McLaren. Then you don't have the Ferrari dream team, Hakkinen probably doesn't win any titles, and so on.
Imagine if he winds up in Karl Wendlinger's seat, takes the Monaco crash and exits the sport.
That's surely Perez in a Lawson costume.
I think the car is pretty bad. Clearly Verstappen is just that good that he can drive around its problems. Even still he only got to 5th and was way off Washed Up Hamilton.
It's a complete dog. Probably the 7th or 8th best car on the grid. Also a complete dog which is built purely for Verstappen.
Get in there Lewis.
It’s the 3rd fastest car that is built purely for Verstappen. He’s good but he’s not that good.
McLaren letting the wee boys enjoy their day out in the sprint before lolling past them all in the proper stuff
Lewis giggling on the radio when they told him he was pole .
If Red Bull put someone who could drive in their second seat the results would improve immeasurably. A radical tactic that seems to have escaped them.
I think Colapinto's going to be back in a seat at some point this season.
Doohan was keeping it warm for him before he even sat in it, media bods have been filming his intros/idents this week.
Ghost car comparison of Verstappen and Hamilton's laps.
One of those pieces of technology I'm surprised hasn't been done sooner.
Mario Kart.
I love stuff like that.
Basically the Red Bull is (comparatively) crap out of the corners but Verstappen is so good he (nearly) makes it all back on the brakes.
Lewis finally found the K1 button.
Verstappen's downshifts into the sector 3 hairpin are just beautiful.
Also seems Williams have been sent up to the stewards.
The scrutineers asked for camera footage of their wings while on track to check how much they flexed and they haven't provided it.
It's someone like them that could get unfairly penalised for this flexing stuff. They came out with the new standards on Monday which isn't enough time to design, lay up, finish, and transport new elements even for the biggest of teams. Someone like Mclaren or Red Bull have the resources to have developed versions for both the spirit and letter of the law, probably not the case for most of the rest who may (very reasonably) have simply assumed passing the tests would be enough. Last time this happened they gave teams (cough Red Bull cough) multiple races to put it right, seems a bit bullshit to give them basically no time on this occasion.
I'd read that like they've been pulled for failing to comply with a request from the stewards rather than anything else so far.
The request was for footage from some of the on board cameras that have to be physically retrieved, one of the things they do is monitor the rear wing flex. It may be completely unrelated but the short turnaround is still unfair on the smaller teams.
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