September 13, 20187 yr Reporter: "Will you help Vettel to win the championship this year?" Kimi: "I can only drive one car, obviously . . ." Ouch.
September 13, 20187 yr Alonso admits Daytona 500 has "appeal" https://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/daytona-500-has-appeal-says-alonso/3175984/
September 13, 20187 yr 4 hours ago, wood said: Reporter: "Will you help Vettel to win the championship this year?" Kimi: "I can only drive one car, obviously . . ." Ouch. But true.
September 15, 20187 yr That was a hell of a lap by Lewis on their worst track. They seem to have found something.
September 15, 20187 yr That was a hell of a lap by Lewis on their worst track. They seem to have found something. That was really impressive. That guy can flat out drive. Tomorrow should be a good race. Hopefully, it will put the nail in Vettles coffin.
September 16, 20187 yr Yeah I do suspect some sandbagging, or maybe they just took a flyer on something in the setup there at the end. I also think they've figgered something out re: their rear tire temps.
September 16, 20187 yr The video boards for the winning car to park on after the race are really really cool.Perez is a (not surprising) hothead, and WTF was Sirotkin doing all race? A rolling (and purposely weaving) chicane almost the entire time.
September 16, 20187 yr Yeah, that parc ferme little podium for the car was sweet. Trophy looked nice too.
September 16, 20187 yr Fucking Ocon ... puts his car in an impossible spot, then cries when it doesn't work out for him. And Grosjean contributed to that as well, cutting the corner for no reason and taking away Ocon's inside option. Haas cars seem to have a nasty habit of that.
September 16, 20187 yr It also gets a little tiresome the way the angle of the 'oppressive heat & humidity' is constantly overhyped in this race. It was hotter and more humid today in Austin during the middle of a fucking downpour than it was in Singapore. Mid-80s, even with the 70% humidity Singapore had today, is a fucking Chamber of Commerce day in Austin.
September 16, 20187 yr Mid 80’s and 70% is a normal day in October in Austin.Ocon was fine. Perez turned into him. They showed a break down of it somewhere.
September 16, 20187 yr 18 minutes ago, Goofyboy said: Mid 80’s and 70% is a normal day in October in Austin. Ocon was fine. Perez turned into him. They showed a break down of it somewhere. Re: the weather, yep. And it's a typical day all year long in Singapore, where it rarely gets warmer than about 91-92. If they had a race here anytime from mid-June to early September, some people would be losing their minds. Re: Ocon, yeah, he didn't technically cause the accident, and Grosjean took away his inside line with the ridiculous but predictable (for Haas drivers) cut of T1, but Ocon seems to have an unfortunate tendency of putting his car in positions where there's no reasonable expectation that it's gonna work out for him, and then crying when that's what happens. No matter who in that line he'd have been next to, that was never going to end well with him trying to go around the outside of a fast single-file corner, with a disappearing gap to the wall trackside.
September 18, 20187 yr Just finished Singapore, turned out boring as fuck.Still think this race is too long and Monza is too short. This race is more laps and has longer lap times than Monza. They should all target 1:35 to 1:40.Also, I'm older than Kimi Raikkonen and Scott Dixon. But Dixon looks 10 years older than me, so I've got that going for me, which is nice.
September 18, 20187 yr 28 minutes ago, elfenix said: Just finished Singapore, turned out boring as fuck. Still think this race is too long and Monza is too short. This race is more laps and has longer lap times than Monza. They should all target 1:35 to 1:40. Yeah they were talking about that during the race. I dunno how they end up like this. I thought they generally tried to make the races last about the same amount of time, but this disparity makes it seem like they don't. Either Crofty or Brundle was saying he thought they should just make every race 90 minutes + 1 lap. Not sure I like not knowing how many laps there would be though. I don't see what would be so hard about dividing 90 or 100 minutes by the projected lap time and then just setting the number of laps that way.
September 18, 20187 yr Yeah they were talking about that during the race. I dunno how they end up like this. I thought they generally tried to make the races last about the same amount of time, but this disparity makes it seem like they don't. Either Crofty or Brundle was saying he thought they should just make every race 90 minutes + 1 lap. Not sure I like not knowing how many laps there would be though. I don't see what would be so hard about dividing 90 or 100 minutes by the projected lap time and then just setting the number of laps that way.They currently do it by the number of complete laps that exceeds 305km, except in Monaco where it’s 260km. The distance makes it constant. I understand the time benefit of doing it the other way, but I don’t think it’s a big deal for a few races per year. Mostly they’re an hour and a half ish.
September 21, 20187 yr Dan Gurney and Jim Hall were the guys that got me interested in racing back in the day. This is really cool to see Sir Jackie turn a lap in Gurney's F1 Eagle. This is my favorite look for an F1 car
September 21, 20187 yr 1 hour ago, Shoxthemonkey said: Dan Gurney and Jim Hall were the guys that got me interested in racing back in the day. This is really cool to see Sir Jackie turn a lap in Gurney's F1 Eagle. This is my favorite look for an F1 car Goodyear technician Bert Baldwin monitors tyre deformation while sitting astride Dan Gurney's Eagle-Climax Mk1 during the 1966 pre-season tests at Goodwood
September 21, 20187 yr 3 hours ago, Shoxthemonkey said: Dan Gurney and Jim Hall were the guys that got me interested in racing back in the day. This is really cool to see Sir Jackie turn a lap in Gurney's F1 Eagle. This is my favorite look for an F1 car Me & my boy met Jim Hall out at COTA a couple years back. He had one of his Chaparrals on display and was the nicest guy. We talked with him for about half an hour and heard lots of good stories about him & Gurney. I honestly didn't know about his F1 driving history at the time, and he never mentioned it. He seemed more proud of his work with the cars than as a driver. Very cool, humble guy. Edited September 21, 20187 yr by wood
September 21, 20187 yr In '63 or '64 I was assigned to find an article in Time or Look or Life magazine and write a report for a 7th grade English class. I found an article about the Chaparral and Hall and I was hooked. It was really hard to follow motorsports back then but I scoured the library for everything I could find. And then Rick Mears uncle moved into a house three doors down the block and brought his dirt track cars to the neighborhood. Pissed a bunch of folks off with the noise but I loved it. Been a fan ever since. I really wish Indy could get back to being a yearly laboratory for speed and get away from the spec shit. I used to get really excited to see what was going to show up. I would have loved to meet Jim Hall.
September 21, 20187 yr if i'm ever in midland again i'd love to hit up the chaparral museum. didn't have time last time. it's really amazing that probably the most revolutionary race car of all time came out of the middle of nowhere in texas.
September 27, 20187 yr Fernando Alonso was asked how he would change the Sochi ciruit. He drew an oval...
September 27, 20187 yr Chance to win free USGP tickets here: https://t.co/WdAOHkxr30Thanks. I plan on winning.
September 28, 20187 yr Author Been behind on the DVR lately and have been able to mostly avoid spoilers so I haven't been able to follow the thread for a while, but just wanted to drop by to share the fact that just a few minutes ago, I saw a panhandler in Chicago wearing a Haas F1 sweatshirt. Wasn't quite sure what to make of it.
September 29, 20187 yr 1 hour ago, Prepuce of Doom said: Been behind on the DVR lately and have been able to mostly avoid spoilers so I haven't been able to follow the thread for a while, but just wanted to drop by to share the fact that just a few minutes ago, I saw a panhandler in Chicago wearing a Haas F1 sweatshirt. Wasn't quite sure what to make of it. That was just Gunther Steiner.
September 29, 20187 yr I think Ferrari's window of opportunity this year has closed. They blew it too many times when they had the advantage and now I think Merc has come back and is likely to lock down both championships down the home stretch.
October 1, 20187 yr On 9/29/2018 at 10:15 AM, Hawndoh said: I think Ferrari's window of opportunity this year has closed. They blew it too many times when they had the advantage and now I think Merc has come back and is likely to lock down both championships down the home stretch. I think it started to go to shit when Vettel screwed up at Hockenheim
October 1, 20187 yr I hate the feed director so much. Ham and Max in a fight but let's look at the backs of pair of dictators in suits and some crowds. Bad enough that they didn't cut to Max until lap 3, should have cut to Max at turn 3.
October 1, 20187 yr It's kind of astounding the hyper couldn't do 10 or 11 laps on a car light on fuel. Wanted to see what Max could have done with it, really disappointed the ultras were meh.
October 1, 20187 yr It's kind of astounding the hyper couldn't do 10 or 11 laps on a car light on fuel. Wanted to see what Max could have done with it, really disappointed the ultras were meh.It could have, but I think they just played it safe and turned it down a bit.
October 1, 20187 yr 12 hours ago, Anton Chigurh said: It could have, but I think they just played it safe and turned it down a bit. Agree, I think they had accepted their placement at that point. Schedule out for USGP, the two support races are F3 Americas Series, and FIA Formula 4. http://www.circuitoftheamericas.com/f1/schedule
October 2, 20187 yr 6 hours ago, wood said: LOL at Otmar re: Magnussen: "...true to form". Love hearing his interviews. Yeah during the race Ocon (I think it was Ocon) got around KMag at the start and later during the Sky pit wall interview he said "I'm surprised KMag didn't run into him." He doesn't give a fuck. Love seeing an American in such a high position.
October 2, 20187 yr On 9/30/2018 at 2:31 PM, crackamacgowski said: Better than last year’s but how the result transpired was #ultralame.
October 4, 20187 yr Well this would be interesting... https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/139137/f1-drivers-want-risk-of-drs-through-130r
October 4, 20187 yr Ted Kravitz goes behind the scenes at Sky Sports F1 at the 2013 Korean GP https://streamable.com/rtxk1
October 4, 20187 yr 15 minutes ago, utee94 said: Well this would be interesting... https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/139137/f1-drivers-want-risk-of-drs-through-130r Yep. Kinda get where they're coming from though. 130R isn't the same now as it was back when Alonso blew past Schumi. That was some seriously white-knuckle shit...
October 4, 20187 yr 5 minutes ago, Anton Chigurh said: I believe 130R hasn’t changed since 2003. Cars are different, though. Right. That's what I mean, the turn/car combo isn't the same challenge it was then. They can easily handle it now.
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