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The Formula 1 Off-Season |OT| Haas to get better, right?
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Some of Max in "action," too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_sNg8BjFSk (actual demo is tomorrow)
I think RB might be on to something here. We can have guys like Maldonado drive F1 cars off of steep cliffs and stuff.
I tried live streaming this on Weeb TV, but as it's premium there's no access outside of Poland. It used to be on TVN I think? I remember watching Button in Canada in Poland, it was amazing and my mother-in-law got well into it, cheering when Vettel span out at the end!
dat Tag Heuer power!
Not sure if posted: Haas posted their team truck livery...let's hope the car has some more color.
Not sure if posted: Haas posted their team truck livery...let's hope the car has some more color.
brotkasten
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Speaking of liveries, it looks like Lotus is going yellow this year. The question is how yellow?
xrnzaaas
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For as long as I remember it was transmitted by Polsat. But like I've said the viewership has declined and since many of the races from the current calendar are now transmitted during primetime they decided to let it go. I tried watching a couple of races via live streams, but the connection is often pretty bad. These days I usually wait for the full race to be available somewhere online to download it to my PC.
They should have winter GP. Paging Bernie...
brotkasten
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September 4
Maldonado:
“There are a lot of rumors and for sure negotiations going on. I really wish the best for the team, we have a contract until the end of next season, so it should be all OK, whether Renault comes or not. I really wish the best for the team, if Renault comes, they are welcome.”
Few months later
Renault felt with significant livery changes to be made to the car - scheduled to be unveiled in early February - affecting the available space on it, that would in turn change the existing contract.
I love contracts in Formula 1.
brotkasten
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DC has already been confirmed.
PdotMichael
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RIP hasmaldonadocrashedtoday.com
JadedWriter
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No wonder why Pastor drove so horribly, he was just a livery all along.
brotkasten
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JadedWriter
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Yeah I read that. It's fucking hilarious how these F1 contracts are both ironclad and razor thin at the same god damn time.
In thiis case I guess Maldonado has a contract that requires him to pay a certain amount of money. Then to get the sponsor to give that money they require a certain amount of exposure on the car that isn't part of the contract. So Renault is basically telling them to pay up despite getting less exposure if they want Maldonado to drive.
Technically everyone is adhering to the conditions in the contract. Nifty loophole.
It's OK, we've still got hasmcLarenhondawonyet.com.
Aaaaand Sauber is in the news again for all the wrong reasons again.
A swiss court has allowed Sutil to sue against Sauber for breach of contract.
Sauber says the contract (for 2015) was terminated as Sutil had missed payments of a total of 40 Million Swiss Francs (sponsoring money) at that point.
Source in German
A swiss court has allowed Sutil to sue against Sauber for breach of contract.
Sauber says the contract (for 2015) was terminated as Sutil had missed payments of a total of 40 Million Swiss Francs (sponsoring money) at that point.
Source in German
Myoclonic Jerk
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Is that true? If so, on what grounds does he stand to file a case against them?
Of course it's not true. This is the same company that had to pay Giedo van der Garde about 15 million for pretending he didn't have a contract.
Maldanado's ears probably just pricked up like a dogs, just in case.
brotkasten
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I'm sure Sauber would love to have his potential money.
I'm not sure Maldonado can manage that. It requires driving a car into empty air.
My first thought was "Isn't that an inverted Hoover logo?"
It's not, really, but it's similar enough that my brain made the association straight away.
Actually, I wonder if it'd be interesting to have a GP somewhere really cold. Probably too many safety issues (don't want the track iced up!). What's the (generally) coldest one we currently do? Silverstone? Sochi?
What were Whisper doing before they got the F1? Were they a... Carless Whisper?
I'll show myself out.
brotkasten
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They have mostly smaller clients.
You can check them out here: http://www.whisperfilms.co.uk/clients
Not quite F1 related, but if it's as serious as the VW scandal it could have a big effect. Renault stocks are down 16% from reports that French fraud investigators have seized computers. It looks like emission testing, but that's not confirmed.
Edit: 20% down now.
Edit: 20% down now.
Jezbollah
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Oh, it IS F1 related in the long term...
JadedWriter
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Well it's going to sound like a vacuum cleaner so it makes sense.My first thought was "Isn't that an inverted Hoover logo?"
It's not, really, but it's similar enough that my brain made the association straight away.
Surprised its taken them this long really, when the VW thing leaked out I figured they'd get the rest of the companies quickly after that as well.
I'm one of those people that doesn't think any of the producers didn't have the same "optimizing" software for emissions testing.
I have to agree, I cant imagine that with all the money that VW were able to throw at the engines, and how well most of those engines otherwise perform, that every other manufacturer isn't pulling the same trick in one way or another.
Pirelli can fuck off.
I feel a big difference with VW was their involvement in the US. A lot of the issues in EU with disparity on and off the test bench seems to be more about EU's testing than the individual manufacturers.
Mumm champagne leaves Formula 1 and lands on Formula E: http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/f1-ends-mumm-champagne-partnership-deal-667713/
Psychotext
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I guess this spells the end for the Enstone outfit. Shame.
Funny thing is, it probably takes things like this for people like Bernie to actually start noticing.
F1's new sponsor has a yearly revenue of 1.2b dollars.
I think Bernie is fine.
Psychotext
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It was reference to rich people and champagne. Never mind. lol
I have to admit, I'm amazed he even makes it up the hill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFSJr2LK0J8
But it looks cool.
But it looks cool.
Goldrusher
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A closer look at the studded snow tires they're using for the RB snow demo today:
Here's a video with the snow tires:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_sNg8BjFSk
They ended up using rain tires with snow chains though...
Some more teaser videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChWIBHi7zBw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_sNg8BjFSk
Wax Free Vanilla
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A poster on Digital Spy said Suzi Perry will definitely not be joining C4, he also said Jake won't be happening either. DC new lead presenter?
Reddit says Mark Webber and Susie Wolff are C4's top targets to join him
Are they going for the dullest line up of all time?
A poster on Digital Spy said Suzi Perry will definitely not be joining C4, he also said Jake won't be happening either. DC new lead presenter?
Reddit says Mark Webber and Susie Wolff are C4's top targets to join him
Are they going for the dullest line up of all time?
>Dullest line-up of all time
>Webber
does not compute
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