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[Zeknurn]

Surely that's getting closer to having the garage drive the car, which is what they've been trying to avoid with the radio bans.

It's not that different from how teams program where to harvest and deploy ERS power.

 

[DBT85]

Surely that's getting closer to having the garage drive the car, which is what they've been trying to avoid with the radio bans.

Drivers don't control the suspension in their cars.

Active suspension means you can run consistently with an exact ride height, allowing excellent ground effect aero and raising cornering speeds. It doesn't help if your driver is a potato and can't handle the car at those speeds.

The reason it was banned was that a) teams were petrified of the cost and b) if something goes wrong you could very suddenly lose a ton of downforce in a corner and smash into a wall.



The higher speed cornering is something I'm looking forward to for next season with the bigger tyres and different aero. It will hopefully help further lift the great drivers away from the good. Cocking up your first apex on a series of corners will hamper you for all of them, the faster you go the bigger the margin of error.

I do however find it hilarious that for years the FIA has tried to lower cornering speeds by restricting aero and using narrower tyres and putting grooves in them, only to change its mind after all and bolt on more downforce, wider tyres and no grooves!

 

[scorcher59]

It's interesting that when technologies are implemented with the goal of increasing cornering speeds they're are so good that then they ban them (ground effect and active aero)
Going back to the FW15C, what about two-way telemetry?

 

[DBT85]

It's interesting that when technologies are implemented with the goal of increasing cornering speeds they're are so good that then they ban them (ground effect and active aero)
Going back to the FW15C, what about two-way telemetry?

The active suspension was pre programmed to anticipate the conditions of the track. It even had a way of raising the rear end up to aid overtaking by reducing the drag from the diffuser and so increasing speeds. I don't think it was manipulated during the race?

No way they'll bring back 2 way telemetry.

 

[ramparter]

Best Williams was this

 

[JadedWriter]

Maldonado would probably love to drive this.

 

[DBT85]

Toto having a go at Max for banging weels with Nico

"You could say that Max should have got a penalty for banging the wheels with the championship leader in Turn One and pushing him off the track," said Wolff. "I think maybe the penalty he got at the end was a penalty for all the driving.

"As refreshing as it is and as ruthless as the great ones are, if you race the championship leader three races down to the end, wheel banging, this is not what should happen."

A race is a race.

Maldonado would probably love to drive this.

Everyone should want to. Thing was a beast.

 

[JadedWriter]

Everyone should want to. Thing was a beast.

I mostly meant it as a Latin American x Hydraulics joke. I heard the active suspension cars were monsters on track.

 

[Lach]

New Alt+F1

 

[mclem]

There's an hour-long interview with Ross Brawn on Radio 5Live tonight at 21:00 GMT. Might be interesting, particularly if he's asked about the F1 boss job.

 

[Mastah]

Shocking news, Bottas and Stroll confirmed at Williams for 2017:

http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/williams-announces-bottas-and-stroll-as-2017-line-up-846271/

 

[xrnzaaas]

awkward....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgqV2Dbkk_c

 

[Zeknurn]

Vettel called Verstappen a bastard not cunt like everyone reported.

L69 – FER to Vettel: 3 laps to go.
L69 – Vettel: Move! Move, for fucks sake!
L69 – FER to Vettel: He has been informed. He has to move.
L69 – Vettel: He's a bastard, that's what he is.

And Ricciardo is still the best.

L71+1 – RB to Ricciardo: Nice job on that mate.
L71+1 – Ricciardo: Yeah, but what about all these guys outbraking themselves at the first chicane? I mean Lewis at the start and Max the same. Put a fucking wall there and they won’t do it. That's bullshit guys. Fucking kindergarten stuff.
L71+1 – RB to Ricciardo: Ok mate, understood. You did a very, very good job today. Pace was excellent. As I said, we are speaking to Charlie.

 

[DrM]

Article on AMuS about Lance Stroll's private testing program to get used to F1.Google Translated

Short summary : Stroll's dad invested around 80 million dollars to organize a private test sessions with 2014 Williams F1 Car, with a crew of 25 mechanics on six different racetracks around the globe.

Well, that is a way if your dad has 2.5+ billion dollars in his pocket

 

[Zaru]

Short summary : Stroll's dad invested around 80 million dollars to organize a private test sessions with 2014 Williams F1 Car, with a crew of 25 mechanics on six different racetracks around the globe.

Well, that is a way if your dad has 2.5+ billion dollars in his pocket

I wonder how much that experience will be worth with next year's huge reg changes.

 

[Zeknurn]

Article on AMuS about Lance Stroll's private testing program to get used to F1.Google Translated

Short summary : Stroll's dad invested around 80 million dollars to organize a private test sessions with 2014 Williams F1 Car, with a crew of 25 mechanics on six different racetracks around the globe.

Well, that is a way if your dad has 2.5+ billion dollars in his pocket

All the training in the world won't help if your kid is the next Maldonado.

 

[Aiii]

Unless he's driving like Max or even Sainz in his first season at Williams, he'll never be able to rid himself of that billionaire baby stigma. He's like F1's Kardashian. Maybe Lewis will try and date him.

 

[bobnowhere]

This was, what, 23 years ago?

Imagine if they hadn't banned it where the technology would be now! Though no one would be able to afford one.

 

[DD]

List of the worst F1 circuits.

What do you guys think about this list?

 

[SCHUEY F1]

Excited to have a Canadian in F1 again. Look forward to blindly defending him.

 

[RaySpencer]

Excited to have a Canadian in F1 again. Look forward to blindly defending him.

Haha, yup!

 

[xrnzaaas]

List of the worst F1 circuits.

What do you guys think about this list?

Pretty solid list. I'd add curent version of Hockenheimring.

 

[Zaru]

Well pretty much any circuit that is just a series of boring straights with very few turns deserves to be in there. But holy shit at that Las Vegas circuit.

 

[Aiii]

Next year, Max Verstappen will no longer be the youngest driver on the grid. That's just weird.

 

[Zaru]

Next year, Max Verstappen will no longer be the youngest driver on the grid. That's just weird.

Youngest driver to lose the youngest driver status.
Kid just keeps collecting records.

 

[Psychotext]

 

[Aiii]

Horner gives a tour of their now "Hall of Fame" at the RB Factory: https://www.facebook.com/redbullracing/videos/1198606916852462/

 

[dubc35]

List of the worst F1 circuits.

What do you guys think about this list?

First Phoenix circuit is definitely a penis.

Excited to have a Canadian in F1 again. Look forward to blindly defending him.

Great, now there will be a Mexican (maybe two) and a Canadian in F1 but no Americans. Ugh lol. It appears Rossi's window has passed. Who's out next shot? Ferrucci?

 

[DD]

Pretty solid list. I'd add curent version of Hockenheimring.

Hmm, I'm not a fan of Hockenheimring, but there's some worse tracks currently.

First Phoenix circuit is definitely a penis.

And Vegas is a melting 'E'.

 

[PowerTaxi]

Las Vegas looks like a track that was based on someone asking "How many fingers am I holding up?" and building the answer.

 

[NOKYARD]

Las Vegas looks like a track that was based on someone asking "How many fingers am I holding up?" and building the answer.

I watched those races. All the corners looked exactly the same. Confusing as fuck.

 

[Chris R]

Sochi won't be on the Calendar for 2018, book it

Moscow race instead, pairing with the World Cup

 

[DD]

Sochi won't be on the Calendar for 2018, book it

Moscow race instead, pairing with the World Cup

Oh my God, not at Moscow Raceway, ffs! That circuit manages to be even worse than Sochi.

 

[Fruitster]

Hockenheim should be on that list. It was a great track before it was butchered by tilke.

 

[Chris R]

Oh my God, not at Moscow Raceway, ffs! That circuit manages to be even worse than Sochi.

I'd expect some new street circuit.

 

[DrM]

Hockenheim should be on that list. It was a great track before it was butchered by tilke.

That was a pure murder of the racetrack. Current Hockenheim is abysmal.

 

[DBT85]

This was, what, 23 years ago?

Imagine if they hadn't banned it where the technology would be now! Though no one would be able to afford one.

Yep. The pinnacle of the technical side of the sport. Would love to see how that compares to one of the current Mercs or one of the winning RBRs.

 

[Shaneus]

And Ricciardo is still the best.

It is bullshit though. Good to see Danny has a bit of that Webber spark!

 

[Zeknurn]

Lance "The Roll" Stroll in 2010.

 

[Chuck]

awkward....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgqV2Dbkk_c

What's the awkwardness? I thought it was a cute little interview.

 

[xrnzaaas]

What's the awkwardness? I thought it was a cute little interview.

Yeah it was, but in the past they weren't exactly good friends.

 

[Line_HTX]

"Retribution's seen better days. Guess we all have."

 

[Tempy]

Inside RoboRace ep2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNErAQm7YLg

I feel like we're far away from having an actual RoboRace.

 

[Myoclonic Jerk]

Yeah it was, but in the past they weren't exactly good friends.

Nor enemies. Kimi was just Kimi, Montoya didn't understand him well and thought he was rude to him

Montoya's problem was with Ron.

 

[Terbinator]

"Retribution's seen better days. Guess we all have."

God.

 

[DD]

Nor enemies. Kimi was just Kimi, Montoya didn't understand him well and thought he was rude to him

Probably due to cultural differences. One is a hot blooded latin and the other is the Ice-fuckin-man-son.

And Ron isn't the warmest guy neither.

 

[Jezbollah]

Nor enemies. Kimi was just Kimi, Montoya didn't understand him well and thought he was rude to him

Montoya's problem was with Ron.

Yeah, thats the impression I get - Montoya has pretty much been the same character all the way through F1, but the atmosphere at McLaren when he and Kimi were team mates was by all accounts pretty toxic.

But as it always goes, F1 drivers get a lot more chilled out and relaxed when they're out of F1. Time is also a great healer.

 

[Waldo Lydecker]

Seeing Stroll causing all those very big crashes in F3 like a blind guy makes me think people will see and re-evaluate Max next year as a much more positive, mature driver if Stroll keeps driving like that.

 

[Wax Free Vanilla]

Petronas leaving Mercedes and F1 at the end of the season? 😎

 

[DrM]

Petronas leaving Mercedes and F1 at the end of the season? 😎

Won't happen until end of next season if it happens