August 14, 20187 yr So this means a Ganassi or AA Indy ride with no McLaren entry I suppose? At least for 2019.
August 14, 20187 yr 39 minutes ago, Anton Chigurh said: So this means a Ganassi or AA Indy ride with no McLaren entry I suppose? At least for 2019. I dunno, I think there's some kind of thing happening with IndyCar and Zak Borwn tomorrow. Who knows...
August 14, 20187 yr Alonso not racing in F1 next year. https://www.mclaren.com/formula1/team/fernando-alonso/mclaren-confirms-fernando-alonso-decision/ DamnMcLaren just gets worse and worse. Fuck this Zak brown guy
August 14, 20187 yr 39 minutes ago, Updawg said: Damn McLaren just gets worse and worse. Fuck this Zak brown guy Not saying he's great, but Brown wanted Alonso to stay. Really though, Ron Dennis's Honda gamble is what put McLaren where it is.
August 14, 20187 yr Alonso could return to F1 if McLaren improves https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/138026/alonso-could-return-to-f1-if-mclaren-improves
August 14, 20187 yr Bummer, but not surprising. At least now I no longer have to give a rat's ass about McLaren and can go back to disliking them in my own Ferrari-centric way.
August 15, 20187 yr I just wonder what it would have been like if Alonso had been in the Mercedes the past six seasons. The chasm between the top three teams and the rest is just too great. Just for shits & giggles it'd be fun to see the top six drivers race in the bottom six cars, and vice versa.
August 15, 20187 yr Can you imagine the mess at Turn1 on pretty much any track, if the bottom 6 drivers were in the top 6 cars? Of course, I guess I'm assuming they'd actually make it through qualifying without wrecking out, which might be too much to assume, so...
August 16, 20187 yr 47 minutes ago, Hawndoh said: Sainz now has a multi year deal at Mclaren. Poor guy.
August 17, 20187 yr https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/hwylive/site/785/videos/images/181793/mp4/VET_Off_GER_Comms_v4_low_bitrate.mp4 Crazy audio from FOM production during Vettel's crash in Germany. So hectic.
August 21, 20187 yr https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1118332_gasly-to-join-verstappen-at-red-bull-racing-in-2019 Red Bull Racing late on Monday confirmed that Formula 1 rising star Pierre Gasly will join the team in 2019 as the replacement for Daniel Ricciardo, who is leaving to join Renault. Gasly currently drives for Red Bull feeder team Toro Rosso and his promotion to the top team was largely expected. He will race alongside current Red Bull driver Max Verstappen (shown below) in the new season. Gasly only joined the F1 circuit at the tail end of the 2017 season and in the short time he has scored three top-ten finishes, including an impressive fourth place in the 2018 Bahrain Grand Prix. We'll remind you that the results were achieved mostly running Honda power units. Gasly, like most F1 drivers on the grid, started out in karting before moving into the French F4 Championship in 2011. He then went on to Formula Renault 2.0, winning that title in 2013 and being promised to the Red Bull Junior Driver Program at the same time.
August 23, 20187 yr If this goes down, Freddy needs to retire now. I don’t want to see Stoffel get fucked.
August 23, 20187 yr Un.Fucking.Real.... Formula 1 could delay 2021 engine rule change https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/brawn-says-f1-may-delay-2021-engine-rule-change/3162650/
August 23, 20187 yr Well. Boom... It's interesting that Ted said it before Alonso and judging from his tone, he'd already heard about what Alonso as referring to. Remember that mini 'rant' Horner went on about Ricciardo after he left? I thought a lot at the time that it was very interesting that he'd talk so much about Alonso at that moment, and that there might be something going on. Looks like maybe that hunch was right. https://streamable.com/nrhzo
August 24, 20187 yr Racing Point Force India has been granted their Formula 1 entry by the FIA, but the team will start afresh as a new team this week and with zero points in the Formula 1 Constructors' Championship standings. When Lawrence Stroll and his consortium purchased Force India earlier this month, he took control of all the physical assets of the team, which included saving some 400 jobs. What this didn’t include, however, was the Formula 1 entry, which was owned by former title sponsor Sahara. This meant that, as the team turned up at the track for this weekend’s Belgium Grand Prix, there was a chance that Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon could be prevented from racing. Obviously something like that would be very embarrassing for the new investors, Formula 1 owners Liberty Media and the FIA, so an announcement late on Thursday that an entry as a new constructor had been granted seems as though common sense has prevailed. Read more: https://autoweek.com/article/formula-one/force-india-f1-team-stripped-all-constructors-championship-points-following#ixzz5P3DsQHLQ
August 25, 20187 yr Well that was interesting! Good job by whatever Force India is called now. Hamilton in the wet, again.
August 25, 20187 yr I'm tempted to break out the old desktop and turn a few laps around Spa in 1967 mode
August 26, 20187 yr Jesus. That was also what I was afraid of happening to Lewis with that Ferrari behind him at the start.
August 26, 20187 yr Ferrari is fast. Hamilton seems genuinely concerned, as he should be. Other than that, pretty boring race after the first corner carnage.
August 26, 20187 yr Bottas starts at the back, and climbs to the front, finishing only behind his car-mate, the other car-petitor, and maxstappen. Color me surprised. I think they should just start every race in the reverse order of the championship standing. At least it'll provide a bit more action.
August 26, 20187 yr pretty dull for 43.5 laps. Vettel at least had a legit on track pass for what was essentially the win on the first lap. Ericsson and Hartley had a slightly interesting exchange for a few laps where they swapped with DRS. Max passing the Force India cars was pretty good, all of Bottas's overtakes were boring wave-bys.
August 26, 20187 yr The was a masterful drive by Vettel. That car was fast. I just hope he is not kicking himself in the ass at the end of the season due to that terrible turn of events at Hockenheim.
August 27, 20187 yr Horner with the line of the day: Just heard Lewis moan about Ferrari now I've nearly got my violin out
August 27, 20187 yr Then there Charlie Whiting... Whiting says that Hamilton couldn't know what Ferrari is doing, while confirming that the FIA is up to speed. "I'm quite amused by it really," he said. "Because we know quite a lot about the Ferrari car, and there is no way that Lewis would know anything about the Ferrari car."
August 27, 20187 yr 4 minutes ago, crackamacgowski said: That was scary. It really hit ya when you saw the tire marks on the halo.
August 27, 20187 yr Yep, gonna have to eat crow on the halo. I think we'll get to enjoy a talented, young driver for many more years thanks to that safety addition. Crazy.
August 27, 20187 yr Halo wasn't the only solution to protect the drivers, but I'm certainly glad it was there to do so yesterday. Fred and Ricciardo should just stop showing up on race day. I wouldn't blame them one bit. Some really bad luck for both of them this year.
August 27, 20187 yr On 8/26/2018 at 10:24 AM, Goofyboy said: Ferrari is fast. Hamilton seems genuinely concerned, as he should be. Other than that, pretty boring race after the first corner carnage. Yeah I was watching it delayed late last night. Very boring race. Man, Nico really dropkicked Alonso a mile, but he doesn't hjave a history of stupid mistakes, so I think calling for him to be banned as some are doing is pretty over the top.
August 27, 20187 yr 4 hours ago, crackamacgowski said: Yep, gonna have to eat crow on the halo. I think we'll get to enjoy a talented, young driver for many more years thanks to that safety addition. Crazy. Yep, and LeClerc is basically the next Bianci to Ferrari. Can you imagine if he'd gotten hurt or killed like that? Terrible.
August 27, 20187 yr 53 minutes ago, utee94 said: Halo wasn't the only solution to protect the drivers, but I'm certainly glad it was there to do so yesterday. Fred and Ricciardo should just stop showing up on race day. I wouldn't blame them one bit. Some really bad luck for both of them this year. They might as well paint targets on their cars. Re: the Halo, I haven't been its biggest fan. I think it's a compromise, but I also think it's already saved more than one driver from very serious harm.
August 27, 20187 yr 7 minutes ago, wood said: Yeah I was watching it delayed late last night. Very boring race. Man, Nico really dropkicked Alonso a mile, but he doesn't hjave a history of stupid mistakes, so I think calling for him to be banned as some are doing is pretty over the top. I didn't watch any of the post-race, did they ever determine if his brakes failed or something? It just seemed way too fast and obvious to be a driver mistake.
August 27, 20187 yr Hulkenberg admitted that it was his mistake to the stewards. He should have points on his license in my opinion.
August 27, 20187 yr I didn't watch any of the post-race, did they ever determine if his brakes failed or something? It just seemed way too fast and obvious to be a driver mistake. He admitted to it, yeah. You could see him trying to regain control on the onboard, but it was way too late.
August 27, 20187 yr 6 minutes ago, utee94 said: I didn't watch any of the post-race, did they ever determine if his brakes failed or something? It just seemed way too fast and obvious to be a driver mistake. Hulk said he just got it wrong.
August 27, 20187 yr 51 minutes ago, wood said: Watching this, I have no doubt the halo saved LeClerc's life... Jesus, that right front tire would have crush his head.
August 27, 20187 yr 28 minutes ago, Anton Chigurh said: The tire wouldn’t have hit him, but the end of the wing might have. It was pretty damn close. Did you see during the race when they showed the rubber on the halo? It was on the front stalk, and the right wing of the halo. “I have never been a fan of the halo but I have to say that I was very happy to have it over my head today,” tweeted Leclerc. The 2016 F1 champion Nico Rosberg said on Twitter: “We can end the Halo discussion now. It will save lives. #thanksFIA”. Well said. https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/features/2018/8/winners-and-losers--belgian-grand-prix-edition.html There is a picture there in that link.
August 27, 20187 yr It was pretty damn close. Did you see during the race when they showed the rubber on the halo? It was on the front stalk, and the right wing of the halo. “I have never been a fan of the halo but I have to say that I was very happy to have it over my head today,” tweeted Leclerc. The 2016 F1 champion Nico Rosberg said on Twitter: “We can end the Halo discussion now. It will save lives. #thanksFIA”. Well said. https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/features/2018/8/winners-and-losers--belgian-grand-prix-edition.html There is a picture there in that link. Oh yeah, it’s just that the way the car was spinning I think it would have gone right in front of him. But even so, the wing probably hits him anyway and in the end it doesn’t matter what would have happened because the halo prevented it.
August 27, 20187 yr Here’s the video from the 360 camera on LeClerc’s car. Since it’s a wide angle it makes it look even faster but damn it really happens so fast. https://mobile.twitter.com/F1/status/1034015162640945158/video/1
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