xrnzaaas
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Expected. By the way it's kinda of funny that Ferrari can hastily (over)react and fire someone important from the team when the car isn't good enough, but they don't do any changes to their driver lineup.
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Expected. By the way it's kinda of funny that Ferrari can hastily (over)react and fire someone important from the team when the car isn't good enough, but they don't do any changes to their driver lineup.
KillerMan91
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2001: Great
2002: Was beaten by Couldhard by some points but still pretty good season in new team and with unreliable car.
2003: Great. Second in championships
2004. Car was shit but he drive well
2005: Great. Second in championships
2006: Car was shit but still beat his teammate handily so I guess good
2007: Champion so great
2008: Got beaten by teammate but still was in championship race until spa. I guess we can put this in bad category still.
2009: Shit car. Started to drive way better after Massa got injured for some reason. Managed to even win a race with bad car. Weird season. Not bad or great.
2010: -
2011: -
2012: Great comeback. Third in championships
2013. Another good year in lotus and trashing his teammate
2014: Shit
2015: Shit
2016: Was pretty even with Vettel so I don't think this year can be labeled as bad
2017. So far pretty bad but he has also lost decent amount of points without his own fault.
From my (biased) ranking I would say he retires before he has enough bad seasons lol.
Booooooooooooooo
Bwoah.
I think this is fine. Kimi has shown that he can stay up there with the current grid, so why should he be shunted out of Ferrari, especially since he has been explicitly told to hang back behind Vettel?
FrankCanada97
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I found some rare fan footage of CART's infamous 2002 Australia race. For some context, CART ran on a street circuit in Gold Coast. Heavy rain was falling during the warm up laps and the race director opted for a single file rolling start. What followed could be described as CART's Spa 1997 start.
Broadcast view:
https://youtu.be/GkGX3WluFlw?t=5m6s
Thankfully everyone came out okay despite the numerous potential cockpit intrusions. One of the drivers interviewed said that he got launched into a barrel roll, but the broadcast cameras never caught this. This fan footage captured the crash including the barrel roll.
Fan footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS5Y-vkn1DI
The race was red flagged and restarted for a shortened 50 laps. Unfortunately, 42 laps were run under the safety car. The best part is, the last driver who plowed into the crash ended up winning the race.
Broadcast view:
https://youtu.be/GkGX3WluFlw?t=5m6s
Thankfully everyone came out okay despite the numerous potential cockpit intrusions. One of the drivers interviewed said that he got launched into a barrel roll, but the broadcast cameras never caught this. This fan footage captured the crash including the barrel roll.
Fan footage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS5Y-vkn1DI
The race was red flagged and restarted for a shortened 50 laps. Unfortunately, 42 laps were run under the safety car. The best part is, the last driver who plowed into the crash ended up winning the race.
Whoa, hadn't seen this before; scary crash.
The Stoff confirmed at McLaren for 2018.
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/mclaren-confirms-vandoorne-for-2018-season-943706/
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/mclaren-confirms-vandoorne-for-2018-season-943706/
Wax post if ur ok
Good. I think after that slow start (some is a result of lack of km's due to the Honda rocket launcher) he finally started to show that potential in the last races.
captainraincoat
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keeping that seat warm for Riccardo
dl77
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If the rumours are true, Ilmor having been brought in this season by Honda to help with their engines has seen the team lift away from the bottom of the barrel. With that and Stoffel staying on despite not being anywhere near a match for Alonso it does make it seem more likely that Fernando will still be at McLaren next year.
dl77
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Makes sense, they're clearly going to keep Vettel for at least one more year so they may as well keep a fairly solid number two in there for now.
If worst comes to worst and Vettel leaves at the end of 2018 they can get hold of the likes of Verstappen and keep Kimi in there as a steady pair of hands who's familiar with the team but not someone who's any longer good enough to consistently compete against the AAA drivers.
HehehehehehehahahahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAhahahahahahahahaha......... But seriously, I'd like to see him next year in a car that won't have the engine detonate. Also, if those rumours are true, Honda would be wise to keep a partnership with Ilmor as they simply can't be trusted on their own to make an engine for this formula.
Merhi back in F2 temporarily - http://www.gpupdate.net/en/gp2-news/357235/de-vries-deletraz-swap-seats-in-formula-2/
ElectronicOldMen
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So Norris & Vandoorne for 2018?
2019 maybe.
FrankCanada97
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Racing Engineering have underperformed this year, but that is probably down to their driver lineup. Would be interesting to see how De Vries fares in that car.
In other news, Prema have found another series to dominate in.
Prema closing on GP3 expansion for 2018
This is also interesting because apparently in the midst of a brewing F3/GP3 war, GP3 was offering Prema free chassis.
Read Stroll for a second and bursted out laughing
nekkid
It doesn't matter who we are, what matters is our plan.
Might need to widen that net.
To commemorate this special moment, he's getting a 35 place grid penalty at his home race!
Psychotext
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Walk the track afterwards, it's really good. Also try the grandstands at La Source and Raidillon if you can get in there on the Friday.
Sadly there's really not much of note to speak of in the local area. Few nice little towns though.
Edit - Oh, and take a decent poncho. When it rains it REALLY rains.
Also... try and find this.
Or this...
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Yagami_Sama
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Good for Vandoorne. The start of this season was pretty bad for him, but now things are getting better.
Let's just hope that next year Honda manage to have better engine.
Let's just hope that next year Honda manage to have better engine.
FrankCanada97
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https://www.motorsport.com/indycar/news/bourdais-returns-for-gateway-gutierrez-out-943896/
Sebastien Bourdais has recovered from his brutal Indy 500 crash and will be back in his race seat for this weekend's IndyCar race. This of course means Esteban Gutierrez will be without a drive for the remainder of the season. Anyone who saw that crash would be amazed that Bourdais made such a speedy recovery.
Sebastien Bourdais has recovered from his brutal Indy 500 crash and will be back in his race seat for this weekend's IndyCar race. This of course means Esteban Gutierrez will be without a drive for the remainder of the season. Anyone who saw that crash would be amazed that Bourdais made such a speedy recovery.
Good to hear he's recovered.
In other news, Mick Schumacher will demo his father's 1994 Benetton car at Spa. https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/schumacher-michael-mick-spa-benetton-943902/
And I thought you were joking... https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/honda-vandoorne-spa-penalty-upgrade-943985/
Development
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We also leave tomorrow, my 3rd time visiting the Spa GP. Wich stand are you on? My no.1 tip is to bring your walking shoes because from the parking to the stands is a pitty walk uphill and downhill.
Totally worth it if the engine is a significant improvement.
Leaving in 10 minutes
Will be at the track in about 3 hours Have tickets for La Source, so that should be fine
Getting on grand stands without a ticket for that grandstand is near impossible by the way, two years ago I lucked out because a fence was open at the end of the day. Was able to sneak into a silver grand stand near the GP2 pits. But in general, it's impossible.
Myoclonic Jerk
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So.. Kimi is gonna add a fifth win in Spa?
No doubt
GOOO KIMI
No doubt
GOOO KIMI
Psychotext
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Not on a Friday it's not. They're supposed to let you in for a look if you want.
...and yeah, I forgot about that awful walk from the parking. Next time I'm just paying one of the car parks in the town. Didn't help that I missed the turn for the more expensive parking that we'd paid for.
...and yeah, I forgot about that awful walk from the parking. Next time I'm just paying one of the car parks in the town. Didn't help that I missed the turn for the more expensive parking that we'd paid for.
The Honda situation is much too cruel for a joke
Wowowowowowowowow. That's just cruel to the point he might as well not even bother taking part in Qualifying. Just set a time in free practice to prove you're past the 107% rule and be done with it.
Preload is available too.
Development
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Leaving in 10 minutes
Have tickets for La Source, so that should be fine
Have fun man! We are in Silver 2, just at the bottom of Eau Rouge. La Source is corner 1?
Ah nice!
Yeah first if you are in front of the grand stands it's the left one. View of the start finish straight, first corner and exiting towards eau Rouge. Had a Friday ticket last year and loved it.
Was busy at the track today by the way!
[McBain] That's the joke.jpg
I hope you guys on track aren't anywhere near the orange-clad Verstappen crowds when he inevitably has an engine failure or something.
Game just unlocked on Steam. Reviews look super positive!
Happy racing!
Really tempted to get this.
Would be my first F1 game since 2012 lol.
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