Ferrari: For each race you let Gio race, you get a free upgrade from a 2016 to a 2017 engine
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Ferrari: For each race you let Gio race, you get a free upgrade from a 2016 to a 2017 engine
Elvin Atombender
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Yes, it is a bit weird. He must have been in pretty good shape before the accident so a month or so without normal training shouldn't make it impossible to drive.
Maybe there is something in the contract that says that you can be replaced for the season if you get an injury that makes you miss x number of races and he wants to make it look like it's decision and that he is not forced to by the injury?
It could also be that the crash affected him mentally and that he isn't comfortable driving the new F1-cars on the edge yet.
Mastah
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I've read from a good source that it's possible Wehrlein is not 100% fit, but the real problem is testing at Barcelona circuit is, well, testing. In Melbourne, when it was no longer driving around, but rather pushing more to the limit, on a bumpy track, it aggravated his injury.
BTW:
I don't think that general fitness is the issue here. Is injury hasn't probably fully healed yet.
jizzlobber
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Ric 8.4 %????
No way!
No way!
I think everyone is reading a bit too much in to the situation.
Formula 1 drivers in the modern era are elite athletes, and missing a months worth of training will really put them behind. From what the BBC said during the race weekend in Australia, they didn't expect him back for a few weeks, so there was always a chance it would end up being two races.
If he doesn't show up for Bahrain I'd start to worry.
I'd be surprised if he makes Bahrain, as it's only one week after China. Now Russia....
But yeah. It might simply be reading too much into it....
Psychotext
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Vettel's China helmet commemorating Schumacher's last win...
Dutch Gronk
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Inline 1 to be the new Engine spec then.
bobnowhere
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Wow, "Almost the same power as the 2016 unit"
Huge vibrations, no more power.
Runs single cylinders in a dyno instead of a full engine until far too late to correct any problems.
Anyone else see a pattern here? It's not a pattern of competence that's for sure.
Graphics Horse
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Your thoughts, Wax?
gutterboy44
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Wax just misread some early reports. He thought he read that Honda will have the best single seater engine but the report actually said Honda will have the best single cylinder engine.
FrankCanada97
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brotkasten
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I'm so glad that I can laugh about this, because as much as I bitch about Ferrari and their incompetence.
At least they're not McLaren-Honda.
Wax Free Vanilla
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Fake news.
Hasegawa at Melbourne:
"we have more power than we did at the point of Abu Dhabi last year"
"Vibration wasn't much of an issue today. But it was still happening a bit on shift-up, so if we solve that we may be able to shed some laptime. As comments from drivers, they said oscillation was still persistent, same as before. It always happens when you shift up, but it just doesn't seem to disappear. That's the issue.
https://jp.motorsport..を作るしかない-885035/
McLaren will still win races this season once they fix their weak gearbox and Honda introduce their combustion developments.
Wax Free Vanilla pre-2016:
Wax Free Vanilla pre/early-2015.
Wax Free Vanilla pre-2014.
Wax Free Vanilla pre-2013.
(They didn't win a single race, btw.)
Fox Mulder
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Yeah, if it was just fitness for these new cars, Giovinazzi stepped in on short notice and did well.
Jezbollah
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Best use of this gif ever.
What the hell is wrong with you?
LMAO
Pinnochio shown here is powered by a Honda engine.
I'm watching the press conference interlude and it's raining quite a lot.
Forecast:
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2017/04/06/2017-chinese-grand-prix-weather/
Forecast:
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2017/04/06/2017-chinese-grand-prix-weather/
Another easy for Vettel
MontyBrown
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Seems almost mean to make fun. I assume he has some sort of disability such as autism?
No harm in leaving him post as he is.
brotkasten
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Sounds like someone needs to do an avatar bet.
Ferrari needed until Saturday to get their setup right in Melbourne, and boy did they get it right for Vettel at least.
That might not work out in China. Or it might. Maybe Mercs don't get it right either. We don't know. Either way the weekend might not be a perfect indicator of optimal pace since car setup is a lot harder at this point of the new regs.
That might not work out in China. Or it might. Maybe Mercs don't get it right either. We don't know. Either way the weekend might not be a perfect indicator of optimal pace since car setup is a lot harder at this point of the new regs.
brotkasten
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What do you propose?
Either way, it's pretty exciting. I'm looking really forward to it.
Do not try to derail Ferrari train
Of course I want Ferrari to win. I'm just being realistic, as always.
Wax should visit http://hasmclarenhondawonyet.com/ and tell us if he sees the same counter as the rest of us because I'm starting to believe he is in an alternative universe that happens to overlap with ours in this specific neogaf thread only.
Realistically, if things are anywhere close to matched at the top, the Mercs would still win every second race at the least.
Cars have been dragged to close championship finishes with 3-5 wins from time to time.
It's not the end of the world. But a lot of people on the Ferrari hype train seem to expect them to win every race or something. I bet if they don't fight for a win two races in a row people are gonna shout FERRARI CAN'T DEVELOP A CAR OVER A SEASON immediately.
Shift F1's China preview is up. It's a Drew-only affair.
It's actually very difficult to make a clock that's *never* right in any context, so kudos to them on that front!
(The easiest way to make a clock that never shows the right time is to have it constantly X minutes fast or slow - but for that to never actually be correct, it needs to be *consistently* at that offset, and so is keeping perfect time albeit at that offset. A truly useless clock would have to have its speed fluctuate, but never at a point where it's representing the correct time. But to do that... it'd have to *know* the correct time in order to avoid it!)
It's actually very difficult to make a clock that's *never* right in any context, so kudos to them on that front!
(The easiest way to make a clock that never shows the right time is to have it constantly X minutes fast or slow - but for that to never actually be correct, it needs to be *consistently* at that offset, and so is keeping perfect time albeit at that offset. A truly useless clock would have to have its speed fluctuate, but never at a point where it's representing the correct time. But to do that... it'd have to *know* the correct time in order to avoid it!)
Ouch.
I'm a McLaren fan, but I'm not a deluded fool. Wax what the hell. Just take the L and stop defending the idiots at Honda.
Dutch Gronk
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Mastah
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Psychotext
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I'm still putting my money on him leaving McLaren before the season is over.
brotkasten
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I can't wait for the glorious return of Jenson Button.
Development
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Do contracts say anything in F1? or is it like in football
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