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[Ark]

I imagine Renault are waiting to see how things pan out, Ferrari obviously are feeling very confident.

 

[Staab]

To anyone who might care, the Giant Bomb F1 podcast (Alt-F1, I think?) is now free and not just available to premium subscribers. I don't know what it's like, but could be something okay to pass the time?

Oh, fuck yes !
I loved it when they did a couple of free episodes, looking forward to adding that to my F1 week-end sum-up routine.

 

[Aiii]

With all the team purchasing and the RB stuff, I imagine Renault just held off doing major changes.

 

[Zeknurn]

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I imagine the amount of tokens used directly correlates with how much money each company is willing to spend on F1.

 

[Ark]

With all the team purchasing and the RB stuff, I imagine Renault just held off doing major changes.

Oh right. I'd actually forgotten about that whole fiasco last year, oops.

 

[brotkasten]

How is the upgrade situation going to be for Red Bull? They basically own the engines and can apply upgrades themselves, right? They're already using a different exhaust solution than Renault.

 

[Aiii]

How is the upgrade situation going to be for Red Bull? They basically own the engines and can apply upgrades themselves, right? They're already using a different exhaust solution than Renault.

Honestly, I'm not really sure. I believe the power unit is still Renault, but everything around it isn't and can be modified as they see fit (within the rules)?

 

[Psychotext]

Renaultlol

 

[Theorry]

Honestly, I'm not really sure. I believe the power unit is still Renault, but everything around it isn't and can be modified as they see fit (within the rules)?

Abit. What is good for them must be good for Renault works team also.
Only Red Bull managed to get Ilmor in the picture to work with Renault on the engine. Tag Heuer is just abit of smoke. It's better for both parties if they keep a distance from each other after all the things that happened between them. PR wise.

 

[Staab]

I can barely believe we're back on tour starting tomorrow, even better we're about 12hours out from first practice... dayum it flew by.
Please be a good season, please be a good season, please be a good season...
(read: no mercedes domination)

 

[Aiii]

I can barely believe we're back on tour starting tomorrow, even better we're about 12hours out from first practice... dayum it flew by.
Please be a good season, please be a good season, please be a good season...
(read: no mercedes domination)

For what it's worth

Spoiler

(nothing at all)

, Hamilton said at the drivers press conference that he believes that Ferrari played possum over testing and is in fact a lot closer to them than they've led us to believe.

 

[Psychotext]

Yeah... no.

 

[Aiii]

Actually, I'm fairly certain Lewis said the exact same thing at last years press conference.

 

[Zeknurn]

Wolff, Rosberg and Hamilton have all been doing their fake hype tour because they need people to not lose interest even quicker than last season.

 

[Tempy]

 

[ramparter]

Actually, I'm fairly certain Lewis said the exact same thing at last years press conference.

And they were much closer than anyone else expected after all.

 

[Staab]

Margherita

I liked Eva better, Margherita really does sound like either a pizza or a cocktail :lol

 

[Psychotext]

Marge

 

[Mastah]

Pirelli can't even make shitty tyres now:

Pirelli's plan to bring back the 'cliff' in tyre performance to Formula 1 in 2016 "didn't work", according to its motorsport boss Paul Hembery.

"That was the theory, that's what we were trying to do, but it hasn't worked at the level we wanted," he said.

"We haven't seen the difference in terms of a cliff.

Williams chief technical officer Pat Symonds said his team could not tell a difference between the tyre drop-off in 2016 compared to last year.

"It's quite peculiar," he said. "We went to Barcelona and thought 'well, let's see what we've got'.

"We ran some tyres really a long way down and we didn't actually detect the cliff of performance.

"We honestly can't see the difference between this year's tyre and last year's.

"If we look at the specification that Pirelli has given us, as we get to this underlayer, it should be really low grip.

"But we're not feeling it, we don't understand why, and I don't think it's just us."

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/123294/pirelli-tyre-cliff-plan-didnt-work

5 fucking years of experience and they can't reintroduce awful cliff in their tyres? How can anyone expect that these clowns are able to produce proper racing tyres for 2017?

Ridiculously narrow temperature window, no grip in tyres, even though they are falling apart when pushed for more than 1 lap, blow ups in circumstances tyres from other manufacturers coped with no problems, tyre regulations and limits unheard of in F1 before 2011 and now Pirelli doesn't understand why cliff they tried to bring back is not there. But yeah, wider tyres surviving laptimes up to 5 second per lap faster than now are totally doable, lol.

 

[Goldrusher]

Red Bull are to use their Formula One expertise to help British sportscar makers Aston Martin produce a ground-breaking new ‘hypercar’ for the road.

The ‘innovation partnership’ will see Red Bull Racing’s Chief Technical Officer, Adrian Newey, and Aston Martin’s Chief Creative Officer, Marek Reichman, collaborate on project ‘AM-RB 001’, which will combine cutting-edge F1 technology with Aston Martin’s signature design.

To celebrate the partnership, Red Bull Racing’s F1 cars will carry the iconic Aston Martin wings logo throughout the 2016 season, making their debut at this weekend’s Australian round at Albert Park in Melbourne.

“This is a very exciting project for everyone at Red Bull Racing,” said team principal Christian Horner. “Through this Innovation Partnership the iconic Aston Martin logo will return to Grand Prix racing for the first time since 1960, and Red Bull Advanced Technologies, led by Adrian, will be using Formula One DNA to produce the ultimate of all road cars.”

https://www.formula1.com/content/fo.../3/red-bull-announce-aston-martin-tie-up.html

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2016/03/17/red-bull-aston-martin/

 

[dubc35]

Ha, wasn't Aston rumored to supply Force India with engines this year? Quite the change.

So this will be the Red Bull X2016?

 

[Azzawon]

I know it's gaming related, but some of the community guys who got to test F1 2016 have confirmed the return of Career Mode and the Safety Car in this year's game. Woo!

saucy

 

[Lach]

I know it's gaming related, but some of the community guys who got to test F1 2016 have confirmed the return of Career Mode and the Safety Car in this year's game. Woo!

saucy

If they can also add some decent AI blue flag behaviour I'm happy!

 

[xrnzaaas]

I know it's gaming related, but some of the community guys who got to test F1 2016 have confirmed the return of Career Mode and the Safety Car in this year's game. Woo!

saucy

So the historic races will be back in 2017 edition?

 

[Wax Free Vanilla]

I thought F12015 was the last POS from Codemasters


Guy Martin F1 special on tonight @9pm, Channel 4

 

[kvk1]

CM can't lose the F1 license fast enough.

Those games never stopped being broken in major and unfixed ways, and have gotten progressively watered down in features with each release.

 

[Zeknurn]

Well to be fair to Codemasters, they showed that they were able to create the best rally game since RBR with Dirt Rally. I have a feeling FOM is a big reason why the F1 games turn out like they do.

 

[nature boy]

As in FOM asking too much money for the license it's impossible to improve the game.

 

[kvk1]

I've bought every single one of those games since their 2010 acquisition of the license, because I'm a sucker.

There hasn't been a single one where there wasn't some combination of tire/fuel/AI bugs that pretty much ruined the game for anyone not looking to purely multiplayer or run races at 10% length or something.

Nothing against their other titles though, CM makes some badass rally games.

 

[Mastah]

The best season preview:

http://sniffpetrol.com/2016-formula1-guide/#.VurhFFPQTXS

The entire engine package seems to be troublesome, being of what engineers call a ‘points: zero’ design.

 

[king picollo]

Do we have an on season OT yet? am i being blind.

Woo F1!

 

[JadedWriter]

Do we have an on season OT yet? am i being blind.

Woo F1!

I think Ark said it should be up Friday morning. "Morning" being different things for many people for geographical reasons.

 

[brotkasten]

The best season preview:

http://sniffpetrol.com/2016-formula1-guide/#.VurhFFPQTXS

Love this part for Haas.

Haas promise to bring some good ol’ American know-how to Formula 1, straight from their factory in the proud American state of Oxfordshire where the Italian chassis and Italian engine are put together ready for their French and Mexican drivers.

 

[JadedWriter]

Love this part for Haas.

Haas promise to bring some good ol’ American know-how to Formula 1, straight from their factory in the proud American state of Oxfordshire where the Italian chassis and Italian engine are put together ready for their French and Mexican drivers.

There's nothing more American these days than outsourcing labor and manufacturing to other countries. Just thank god the engine isn't made in China with Vietnamese and Pakistani drivers.

 

[Jezbollah]

I think Ark said it should be up Friday morning. "Morning" being different things for many people for geographical reasons.

I hope this is Australia time - otherwise the OT will be going up after the first day is over.

 

[Mohonky]

Wolff, Rosberg and Hamilton have all been doing their fake hype tour because they need people to not lose interest even quicker than last season.

So was Lauda. It remains to be seen though whether they are closer. If you listen to the drivers and team execs at Merc, they all seem to think Ferrari are right there on them pretty much.

But at the same time we've heard that before so we won't really have a clue till Saturday Quali and the race on Sunday as to whether Merc really are sandbagging hard or Ferrari did in fact sort it out. Ferrari were definitely very close at points throughout last year but at the same time, Merc seemed to be pissing about abit toward the end of the season also, I don't think they've really shown the performance of the engine they actually brought out for the end of last year much less whatever they were doing in the off season.

I will kind laugh though if Merc come out and annihilate everyone again.

 

[Theorry]

Is there going to be a OT?

 

[dubc35]

Is there going to be a OT?

lol yes, see the last few posts.

My favorite parts from Sniff (love that site btw):

...while spare boss Niki Lauda spent the off-season in the team’s highly advanced swearing simulator working on new ways to make television hosts flustered. ‘It was fucking great,’ he explained. ‘Cockpencil!’

McLAREN
Engine: Terrible

 

[tomtom94]

I know what the problem is, you guys don't know about the new deal: basically, if you aren't subscribed to Sky Sports then you only get half the OT posts. Aiii and I have just been chatting shit in it for the last week now, it's great.

 

[dubc35]

I know what the problem is, you guys don't know about the new deal: basically, if you aren't subscribed to Sky Sports then you don't get half the OT posts. Aiii and I have just been chatting shit in it for the last week now, it's great.

ha, the OT really was copyright infringement and taken down by FOM!

 

[Ruruja]

Almost theeeere.

I was looking through the liveries on F1Fanatic earlier and good grief Haas really blew it, what a grim livery.

 

[dubc35]

Almost theeeere.

I was looking through the liveries on F1Fanatic earlier and good grief Haas really blew it, what a grim livery.

I think they tweaked the sidepod a little but it's still terrible.

ESPN F1 has a poll on which is the best livery, most liking Ferrari and Renault (don't look at the gender votes breakdown, lol)

 

[Chris R]

Almost theeeere.

I was looking through the liveries on F1Fanatic earlier and good grief Haas really blew it, what a grim livery.

If the car is good, who cares what the thing looks like. I'd rather they focus on the stuff that makes it go fast first, and worry about making it look good second.

 

[Fox Mulder]

If the car is good, who cares what the thing looks like. I'd rather they focus on the stuff that makes it go fast first, and worry about making it look good second.

It's not like the engineers are designing the liveries too though.

It's a spectator sport where people stare at cars. Of course ones that look boring will be hated on.

 

[Zeknurn]

The Haas livery looks like one of those unbranded F1 toy cars where something with the livery is off and you can't explain why.


Speaking of the F1 games, F1 2015 is having a free weekend on Steam.

 

[Mobius 1]

Time for the OT, we're hours away from P1.

 

[Psychotext]

Patience, he's already said that he wont have it up in time for the practices.

 

[Mastah]

Andrew Benson ‏@andrewbensonf1 9m9 minutes ago

Heavy rain and strong winds this morning in Melbourne

Lots of running in FP1 then.

 

[Line_HTX]

Is the green flag actually midnight Saturday morning or midnight Sunday morning?

Also, what in the hell are those new front wings design?

 

[Chris R]

Is the green flag actually midnight Saturday morning or midnight Sunday morning?

Midnight Sunday morning if you are in the Central Time Zone (just after Saturday finishes and as Sunday is beginning, in case midnight Sunday doesn't actually mean 12:00 AM on Sunday)