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The Formula 1 2015 Season |OT| Formula E Feeder Series
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Now this is something I can agree on.
He's almost too happy. Shenanigans must be afoot there.
Damn:
Kimi on #Autosprint cover: "All show no substance"
Given "fumo", does it literally translate as "All smoke no fire"? 'cause that'd be a great headline for that image.
Wax Free Vanilla
Member
McLaren's short nose has passed the crash test.
Button:
"next race there are a lot of changes coming to the car. It will be very different apart from the colour scheme.
Peter P's B-spec?
Button:
"next race there are a lot of changes coming to the car. It will be very different apart from the colour scheme.
Peter P's B-spec?
theignoramus
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A view of the Canadian GP from my seat in Grandstand 12. They really need to let the cars do higher revs. They sound much louder in person than they do on TV (theyre loud enough to make it impossible to hear your own voice if one or more of these cars is doing hard acceleration or flying by at a high speed) but theres nothing spine tingling or special about the sound as there was with the higher revving v8s and v10s. That definitely takes away from the theatricality and pizazz of the trackside spectacle. At least it felt that way in person, standing 50 meters away from these cars. The Ferrari Challenge boys have engines that sound about as loud as the F1 cars. I prefer the ear splitting, otherwordly wails of an engine revving above 16,000 rpm.
Also: holy mother of christ that Honda engine sounds BAD in person. None of the people around my area vocally complained about the sound until the Mclaren Honda drove by: it just produces a real unpleasant noise. And from what Alonso and Button were saying over the radio it goes racing about as poorly as it sounds. I feel bad for those two, especially Jenson whose endured years of this kind of thing before with Honda.
Also: holy mother of christ that Honda engine sounds BAD in person. None of the people around my area vocally complained about the sound until the Mclaren Honda drove by: it just produces a real unpleasant noise. And from what Alonso and Button were saying over the radio it goes racing about as poorly as it sounds. I feel bad for those two, especially Jenson whose endured years of this kind of thing before with Honda.
Mastah
Member
Can't wait. But Honda pls, no more reliability problems.
ConstructMe
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So will the short nose be a terrible red bull/williams one? or a nice looking merc/lotus?
And they have Nissan as WEC's McLaren-Honda!
nature boy
Member
Yeah, just copy pasted it from twitter. That sounds about right based on my limited Italian.
Too bad Alonso isn't racing Le Mans this year:
Le Mans looks more fun to drive than F1 - Fernando Alonso
Jump in, Lonso!
PdotMichael
Banned
Just don't drive for McLaren.
Psychotext
Member
They look like pretty good seats. I'm really struggling to work out where I'd go for Canada.
Seriously, F1 coverage needs to improve to the level the WEC does. This is a post I made just then on it in the OT:
Get on that shit, FOM (or whoever).
Get on that shit, FOM (or whoever).
Business
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I've been around all the grandstands in Montreal and in my opinion T1 is the best spot, ideally more towards the left compared to the pics above, but that's splitting hairs.
If Nico Hulkenberg wins this race it might help getting other current F1 drivers into WEC.
I have to say the 6h of Spa was much more exciting than LeMans so far with cars running sprint stints for the entire race. It's a shame Hartley screwed up the #17 by overtaking under yellow flags. Webber and Bernhard need a new teammate. Let's go Jenson...
I have to say the 6h of Spa was much more exciting than LeMans so far with cars running sprint stints for the entire race. It's a shame Hartley screwed up the #17 by overtaking under yellow flags. Webber and Bernhard need a new teammate. Let's go Jenson...
Hartley also has a punchable face.
Jezbollah
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b-b-but Schumi/Vettel/Hamilton domination eras is boring and Audi dominating the WEC for 15 years is "exciting" /s
I have no interest watching this weekends Le Mans for the same reason its been for over a decade now.
4(6?) Audis will lead the race from start to finish, while Toyota/Porsche/Nissan will be plagued with problems all day long. Actually that sounds a lot like F1 right now lol
spoiler alert: Audi wins! zzzzzzzzzzzz
How's this working out for you so far?
Why bother with trolls? He clearly doesn't know what he's talking about and is just talking by looking at the race results and don't know one thing from WEC or previous LeMans races because if he did he would know that even last year Toyota dominated from the start until the 14h mark when the leading car had to retire and gifted the win to one of the slower Audi's.
Is Hartley a bit of a dick? I don't know anything of him at all.
Hell, maybe Webber could get his protege Mitch Evans from that Jota into Porsche next year. Save him from the humiliation of getting into F1.
Like Dilly said he has a very punchable face.
He seems like a fast driver but he's very prone to make silly mistakes like he did yesterday which cost #17 a 1 minute stop and go penalty (plus ~30 seconds lost in the pitlane) which dropped them from 1st place to 4th at the time..
I guess the issue is FOM have all these super lucrative deals with broadcasters worldwide which they would undermine the value of significantly if they offered their own streaming service. Until there is a change in their approach to broadcasting I can't see this happening.
Psychotext
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That's endurance racing. It's pointless to look back on what might have been.
I just hate it when young, facepunch-worthy turds rob Webber of a potential victory
Psychotext
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Ahh lets face it, he didn't do bad for a number 2 driver.
fu3lfr3nzy
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I'm more than happy to eat crow to see anyone but Audi win this race. Congrats to Porsche.
It's ironic how the things normally plague other teams plagued Audi instead and the Porsche ran like clockwork.
Like I mentioned in my previous post, I'm not gonna watch it, and even if I wanted to I couldn't because Fox Sports' coverage is terrible compared to SPEED channel's coverage in the previous years.
Speaking of Fucks Sports, when they were showing Hulks onboard footage and the radio transmission was about to congratulate him, they switch the feed to Patrick Dempseys interview and they didn't even replay what was said to Hulk unlike their F1 coverage. FFS!
ps: Lotterer so salty at the podium. Take that you smug bastard
Psychotext
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Adam Scott Aukerman
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Wouldn't be surprised to see Hulk enter WEC full time next year. His chance of a front running F1 drive looks to be long gone, so he might as well make the switch sooner than later.
Hell, I wouldn't be all that surprised to see Alonso buy his way out of his McLaren contract at the end of the year and join him the way things are going.
Hell, I wouldn't be all that surprised to see Alonso buy his way out of his McLaren contract at the end of the year and join him the way things are going.
I know it might sound silly, but what would Hulkenberg have to aspire to if he joined the WEC full time?
I mean, LMP1 racing is all about winning Le Mans. That's the ultimate. And he's literally already achieved the ultimate goal in sportscar racing in his second ever race...
I mean, LMP1 racing is all about winning Le Mans. That's the ultimate. And he's literally already achieved the ultimate goal in sportscar racing in his second ever race...
Do it again, keep winning. The Big F1 teams are not giving him a chance.
Adam Scott Aukerman
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Exactly. I'm sure he'd rather be in a prestigious series as a regular winner than a prestigious series as a what-could-have-been driver.
RukusProvider
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Webber second. All is well in the world again.
RukusProvider
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hey I like Webber! because of him we had some amazing F1 threads and gifs.
Psychotext
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JadedWriter
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But it's been that for years. Granted former F1 drivers in LeMans isn't new and I would assume WEC is a recent racing formula?