/f1/ - Formula One

first for not petronas color finally

So to kick things off (and for my first post in a couple of months, still lurk, love you all) my family had drinkies with the Italian consul this evening and some very interesting things were said involving Alfa and an F1 operation.

Just thought you might like this extra level of credence to the rumors going around, since it has been reported as "rumored" or "suggested" in the media in the last week.

>>31202

Do you like meerkats?

>>31203

Every time I come back to post here, someone asks me that.

Kinda indifferent towards them, but fuck those comparethemarket.com.au ads

>>31198

>>31203

>>31205

>tfw constant new IPs because of shitty 3G internet

>segafredo is moving into cycling title sponsorship

At least Ron Benis will have fewer logos to compulsively arrange on their liveries pretty soon

http://velonews.competitor.com/2015/12/news/trek-signs-new-co-sponsor-becomes-trek-segafredo_391192

>>31202

>very interesting things were said involving Alfa and an F1 operation.

Wont be as much fun as the appallingly incompetent effort led by Carlo chiti or euroracing.

Still I do wonder what this will mean for Haas and sauber considering they will no longer be daddy's favorite b team.

Also welcome back. You're the guy that posted those sprites of the 90s f1 cars right?

>>31207

>evil sandgroper

Does this mean Arab? Because if it means Arab you should use your nepotistic oil money connections to go to a sand bowl and take pictures of yourself when you get arrested for drinking actual champagne.

>>31210

That's a gnarly creature there. Makes me think of the sandworm from dune. Australia never disappoints.

>In no way am I a dirty person of diversity. Sandgropers are a creature that you find in Western Australia. Us Western Australians are known as Sandgropers as a result. Pic related, cute little Sandgroper.

Ah, had no idea. Thank you for educating me such that I can be more considerate and less likely to cause micro aggressions /s

Nice Porsche. The sense of depth on the Ferrari was very nice.

>>31211

Yeah, the 956 had no shading done back when I worked on it, was just a rough template.

If you are serious about not wanting to cause issues, don't fucking worry. As should be clear by now from Ausfags, shitposting is a glorious art and national pastime.

>>31212

I'm just kidding about the sjw lite shit. We shitpost a bunch. Of course we try not to let it get to the point where people are just greentexting driver's names all the time.

The Australian pastime is alive and well here.

>>31213

That's really interesting Germanbro. A lot of the plebbit and f1technical queers among others insist that competitive racing is alive and well if you factor out Mercedes, but this is empirical proof that that is bullshit.

>>31213

>Lord Stevens ahead of his teammates despite scoring no points

nice try Will

>>31216

It also hugely advantages nasr. Ericsson had the edge in average earned places and generally higher finishes at the end of the year, but this makes nasr the recipient of a podium acquired by literally everyone crashing out and from taking out Maldonado

>>31213

>tfw what a wonderful year of Ferrari red dominance would have been

checked leddit to see if they have any good maymays going

they don't

besides some oh84s "not sure if trolling or retarded" moments

>I've been slowly re-watching 2007 in the off season, is it just me or did Hamilton start the McLaren feud?

>submitted 3 hours ago by [deleted]

>[deleted]

>>31220

Wow, he really is losing it.

>How long until an hero?

>>31219

Do you still have the link?

>>31222

https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/3x74c6/ive_been_slowly_rewatching_2007_in_the_off_season/

>oh84s has had to go back to brabham to find an acceptable aussie for his 'flair'

>>31223

He switches every month for the fun of it.

Pretty sure I've seen him with a vettel one.

>>31223

This shit is why I hate /r/Formula1 and Formula1 forums in general.

Fucking fanboys going to great lengths to make cases and arguments to "prove" that their favored drivers are better in any way they deem important.

>I like Alonso

>Alonso and Hamilton had drama

>allow me to write 200 paragraphs to "prove" why Hamilton is to blame

Just be honest and say that you like Alonso and think Hamilton is a cunt, instead of stooping to pseudo-intellectual bullshit to "prove" that Alonso is better.

>>31218

>thinking that dominance that is not merited by technical superiority in design (versus just jumping through the right hoops in restrictive formulae) or driver performance is deserved or acceptable.

>>31220

>>31221

He looks like shit too

>>31225

>tfw hamilton is an infantile cunt and lelonso rode the mass damper to victory

WRC wants to get on the E-sports train, for some inexplicable reason.

>>31227

because esports made a ton of money.

>>31228

Fuck esports, they're ruining games.

Studios are becoming so obsessed with trying to make their games crack the esport market (so they can make big esport shekels) that they're neglecting every aspect of their game that doesn't pertain to esport.

>>31229

>"Asia/Pacific Region"

top fucking kek

>more 3G internet fun

>>31206

>>31230

Oh wait, it's probably because I'm now using Google Data Saver in Chrome to try an reduce my data usage

>tfw 500mb a day allowance

It's basically a proxy with built in compression

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/data-saver-beta/pfmgfdlgomnbgkofeojodiodmgpgmkac?hl=en

>>31229

I'd argue that it would be good for WRC if the game in question didn't play second fiddle to the greatness that's Dirt Rally.

>>31231

>>tfw 500mb a day allowance

>tfw Microsoft Security Essentials just decided to update it's definitions file for no reason, and burnt through 150mb before I noticed

Un fucking installed. Cunt.

>tfw just saw star wars with the whole family

Was alright.

The cunt who made us all wait an hour while he got the police because vue fucked up their booking process and double booked a VIP seat was annoying and my brother has been in his big autistic mood about the film and almost wore a beanie over his eyes for the whole duration of it in protest.

>>31234

britbro i need you to tell me everything because i want to spoil my friends once i go tomorrow.

but i need most importantly to know!

does the nigger gets Rey?! because i'm shooting the theater is it happens

>>31235

>Wanting to spoil it to your friends

Mexibro that…that is the path to the dark side. There is light inside you. Don't throw it away.

The moment he sees her he immediately tries to play tough to get her to like him. Lies about some shit. At one point they rescue her and she gives him a hug. JJ pretty much shipped them the moment they were together.

Kylo Ren is just a hologram.

>>31236

i've read the leaked scrip or whatever it was, i've been fucking with my friends telling them pointless little spoilers, they kinda hate me lol.

i asked one of my friends what character he wanted to see the most and when he said Luke, i laughed my ass off but i didn't say anything… JUST LIKE LUKE

>spoiler

welp, thanks 2015, the niggers won, its over friends.

>>31237

Dammit I was hoping you would say that to one to your friends and look like an idiot.

>welp, thanks 2015, the niggers won, it's over friends.

It's alright Han will save it all in the sequel.

To give my truly honest opinion:

Like I said it was 'alright' but I wouldn't say anything more. A lot of fan service in what is basically a HD remake of A New Hope. I mean for fuck sake they had a trench run on the new SUPER DEATH STAR.

Plus points is that the aerial battles looked fucking cool and the music was good. Whoever plays the pilot who is basically just the new Wedge is also great. The 'New Order' imagery looks cool as well.

Downsides: Humour was quite a bit forced and started to get into prequel territory. Over use of old lines and at certain points I couldn't help going "Dear god what the hell is /pol/ going to say about this".

If you liked how Spectre was with regard to the bond franchise then I think you will like this.

>>31238

>Dammit I was hoping you would say that to one to your friends and look like an idiot.

why? does Luke appears more than 30 seconds and talks?

everyone keeps saying its Star Wars 4.2 A New New Hope

i haven't seen any of the new bond movies in the last 10 years.

anyways thanks britbro, i hope the spoilers i read are correct.

>>31239

>does Luke appears more than 30 seconds and talks?

No. Unless you also count a flashback where he also doesn't talk. He is on a rock in the middle ocean for last 30 seconds.

Full credit to Mark Hamill though for losing all that weight unlike a certain female co-star.

I didn't realise the policeman from Heroes was also the new porkins.

http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/itv-linked-with-shock-new-f1-deal/

Bring back Murray and the comfy chair!

>teams have to choose tires 14 weeks in advance for flyaways

>last early season flyaway is Sochi (May 1)

>deadline for teams to nominate tires for Russia is therefore January 24

>testing begins Febuary 22nd

meanwhile

>teams have to choose tires 8 weeks in advance for European races

>first Euro race is Spain (May 15)

>deadline for teams to nominate tires is therefore the same day as the Australian GP

So the first 4 races will have absolutely no running, whereas at least for Spain they will have some testing, maybe Albert Park to inform them a bit.

but wait, there's more

>Canada is less than 14 weeks from Australia

there are going to be at least three different conditions/levels of experience for the first third or so of the season, so I can see why Pirelli are being super conservative with the nominations

>no running whatsoever

>testing

>Australian GP

also why is Canada-Azerbaijan a double header

>>31243

>why is Canada-Azerbaijan a double header

All the races in the middle had to move up to avoid an olympics clash and to allow the teams a 3 week break in the middle which they asked for whereas Bernie originally had it at 2.

>>31244

thanks, guess there was nowhere else to fit it in the calendar

>>31245

If I remember it was going to be later in the season but it got moved to the middle and Malaysia went to the rear half of the season.

It's not like it clashes with anything major of course…

>>31246

What's the story with the Malaysian race organizers? I realize that in sandbowls and azerbaijan oil money will cover hosting fees, but it's somewhat difficult to believe that as Germany fails to organize a 2017 gp at either of its venues, a nation that is currently in economic turmoil is somehow managing to justify subsidizing a gp.

>>31247

Just checked and I believe the chairman is former prime minister's son/now businessman. He probably pays a decent chunk of it.

Also I wasn't aware of Malaysian economy turmoil.

>>31247

In general the sum of money governments are willing to part with for sports promotion seems proportional to how oligarchical the rulers are. if anything the lack of political freedom helps them get along with bernie.

see:

>Putin

>Bahraini royal family

>Venezuela

>>31238

>>31239

Actually you know what thinking about it, no, I'm going to spoil some more. There is some stupid parts of the story:

[Spoiler]It starts out with the "New order" landing on Jakku (totally not Tatooine) to find the map to show where luke is. A guy hides it in the ball droid(never heard that one before) before getting captured. Black guy as a stormtrooper shows up and from just one of his fellow troopers dying and smearing blood on his helmet it manages to break his 22 years of stormtrooper developmental programming. This is a guy who was raised from birth to be a stormtrooper and never had a name (He is called finn because of his tag:FN-2187). He then can't kill a group of people when order to kill. Later on we find out he was actually a sanitation guy. Which begs the fucking question:WHY THE FUCK WAS HE PART OF THE GROUP RETRIEVING THE MOST VITAL FUCKING INTEL IN THE GALAXY?[/Spoiler]

[Spoiler]Ignoring that, the owner of the droid (Who is Poe the 'best fighter in the resistance') gets tortured to find the hidden map (Again totally original) in the new super star destroyer. He has to get transferred from his cell block and out of sheer coincidence it is the black guy in charge of transferring him. Black guy ask him to help escape and they steal a tie together. WHEN THE FUCK DID THE SANITATION GUY GET PUT IN CHARGE OF PRISONERS?[/Spoiler]

[Spoiler]Long story short they get shot down back on to Jakku and through a clunky scene the girl, black guy and ball droid end up stealing the Millennium Falcon and not even 2 minutes later does Han and Chewie turn up out of fucking nowhere. I'll summarize the scene:[/Spoiler]

[Spoiler]*Tie doing a bombing run on the town. Heroes running to find transport as shit blows up*[/Spoiler]

[Spoiler]Girl: We can out run them if we get that quad speeder[/Spoiler]

[Spoiler]Black guy: What about that ship? *Pointing off screen*[/Spoiler]

[Spoiler]Girl: That is garbage[/Spoiler]

[Spoiler]*Tie swoops past and blows up the ship they were going to*[/Spoiler]

[Spoiler]Girl: Garbage will do fine!![/Spoiler]

[Spoiler]*Camera pans to Millennium Falcon as a fanfare happens*[/Spoiler]

[Spoiler]A lot of it is like that.[/Spoiler]

[Spoiler]Han, Chewie and black guy capture chrome plate stormtrooper so she can disable the shields on the MEGA SUPER ULTRA DEATH STAR THAT DEPLETES AN ENTIRE SUN (Why is this only a single button press that can be done from any console? Like that is a fucking major oversight)[/Spoiler]

[Spoiler]Black guy: What are we going to do with her?[/Spoiler]

[Spoiler]Han: Have you get a waste chute we can put her in? A "trash compactor"?[/Spoiler]

[Spoiler]Black guy: Oh yeah it does[/Spoiler]

[Spoiler]I swear they almost wink at the camera saying that[/Spoiler]

I could go on but this post is already dark enough

>>31250

Welp sorry about that one if you hadn't seen it

>>31250

oh damn the leaked scrip was apparently right.

thanks britbro, now i can focus on hating this movie and frowning while everyone in the theater loses their shits for stupid stuff

lmao a friend blocked me because i send him a picture of a rear wing that says star wars.

>>31250

Only read the beginning and end of your post but fucktarded plotholes are a key weapon in JJ's arsenal

I'm planning to see this movie with my whole family when we're all in town next sunday (as in next next sunday) but my unspoilered state is not gonna last at this rate

>>31242

for the best, cohen has really driven the bbc straight into the shitter over his tenure and it looks like they will be continuing his policies

>>31255

It's a deliberate political game.

>you have to own a "TV license" in the UK to own a TV

>the money from that funds the BBC

>the BBC wants the TV license increased

>government says no

>BBC deliberately cuts things that will cause public outcry, claiming they don't have enough money

>pressure now on government to increase BBC funding

>>31256

>public outcry

who gets bbc but doesn't get itv? it's not like skydarts. most brits would be probably be chuffed their licence isn't going to haram ecoterrorists and rightly so

this from a person who doesn't have basic cable because I don't want to de facto pay ESPN twelve dollars a month

>>31257

>who gets bbc but doesn't get itv?

Bongs will cry about ads during the race, and that ITV is somehow inferior*

>*bongs love to have an elistist circlejerk about the BBC

WE'RE BACK

What's different?

>>31259

nothing yet

https://ghostbin.com/paste/qt2ww

>>31261

Ah, that wasn't up when I posted.

So they fucked up, we're back on the old software again, and anything we post now won't be copied over to the new software.

Don't know why I expected anything more really…

>classic 8ch

>forcing HTTPS to see if I can bypass my data save proxy and get a real ID

get in the F-E thread

>>31271

Lucky bastard

>>31286

how many more years of your career do you have to spend being a broadcaster before that is the first thing on your vitae

>>31286

Love it. Brundle is such a tool who only got anywhere because tom walkinshaw gave him amazing cars.

>try to see what the beta looks like now

>https://beta.8ch.net/

>Whoops, looks like something went wrong

somewhat of an understatement

>>31295

http://infinitydev.org/f1

>>31296

much appreciated, hans

FE race when?

>>31303

one bong, 45 bings

>>31294

Tom Walkinshaw deserves some respect, the dude did all kinds of weird things.

>>31304

cool, thanks, also i saw TFA, it was meh.

>>31304

is it really?

fuck i am bad at math

>>31306

>>31303

Just because I know you will have forgotten about the Formula E thread

>>9487

>>9487

>>9487

>>9487

Pretty nice article about how Roberto Moreno got the Benetton seat in 1990 after Nannini had his accident

http://en.f1i.com/magazine/37045-my-biggest-race-roberto-moreno.html

>Andretti almost got an F1 seat in 1990

A serious what if.

>>31305

yes, but brundle deserves no such respect. Also walkinshaw was not a particularly good manager by the time he was running arrows. Certainly TWR and Jaguar sport were hugely impressive, but when he ran arrows he kept doing overly ambitious shit (hiring Brian Hart to make a works engine exclusively for arrows e.g.) and then firing people and changing strategy before that strategy had matured. Hell, if they had soldiered on with Yamaha engines after Judd reworked them and Ron Tauranac reworked the chassis, that might have even been viable.

>>31358

Excellent article. Kind of interesting how before there were so few teams and such restrictive contracts there was a much more fluid drivers market. Moreno, Lehto, Salo, and de cesaris became super substitutes that could kick ass with no testing time.

Nelson Piquet saved moreno's career by vouching for him.

>Andretti almost got an F1 seat in 1990

>A serious what if.

in 1986, haas lola wanted mario andretti to sub for the detroit gp after tambay's crash. Mario wouldnt do it, and he encouraged them to seek michael. An agreement was reached but they couldn't get michael a super license in time.

They chose eddie cheever (shit driver) instead.

additionally in 1992, when Ivan Capelli was underperforming at ferrari, ferrari wanted a mid season replacement and had talks with Nelson Piquet and Michael Andretti. They advanced to a very serious level before Piquet's indy crash made that a moot point. Unclear why it didnt happen with andretti, but you have to realize that both Carl Haas and the ferrari team had such a good relationship with mario, that they would have been far more favorable and less hostile environments for michael than Mclaren was.

>>31361

>It's sort of similar to how Warwick got the Brabham ride partially because he didn't immediately call Bernie 5 minutes after they announced De Angelis was dead.

I love that story.

>I wonder if Marussia got any calls like that after Japan.

I have to think that stevens did. Especially considering how ready he was with cash to buy the caterham seat.

>Also when Richardsf1 start posting content from Chandni? Like seriously?

Lol. If you search f1 shit her videos always come up even though they have sub-triple digit views. Are there so few f1 videos on the net that havent been bernie-d that she is the only one left?

>>31362

It is kinda qt how much effort she puts in.

I spoke to her once and given her some WAG info about Camille which she was super grateful for. (Mainly because she was in contact with half the WAGs and was unaware of what happened to Camille)

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/11/18/ahok-cancels-fund-support-racer-rio-haryanto.html#sthash.e86OTFm5.dpuf

but 5m is still enough for a manor seat

>>31364

>State-run companies

>city budget used to support shit driver

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>>31365

par for the course tbh

http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/analysis-the-real-cost-of-pdvsa-sponsoring-pastor-maldonado/

too much fuckery to greentext the details

>>31367

yes I can't wait to watch some shitty scrolling autosport text with those stupid flag graphics that aren't even shaded to match the outline

>>31368

same

>>31370

He was never going to win.

BBC officially leaving and channel 4 taking over.

http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/channel-4-becomes-terrestrial-home-of-formula-1?hootPostID=dde274dfb372ab4d0ede906f68a35e34

>No more chain

This makes me very sad.

>>31371

>He was never going to win.

Yep. But how hard he got BTFO is lolworthy

>fewer votes than Tyson Fury

>http://metro.co.uk/2015/11/09/heavyweight-boxer-tyson-fury-makes-bizarre-homophobic-rant-about-the-end-of-days-the-devil-and-abortion-5489356/

>>31372

He won it last year so no one was going to vote for him. He also won the championship on pay TV which will hurt the perception of him.

Tyson fury had his group of people voting for him (plus /pol/ & /sp/ spamming votes).

Jessica was a feel good story and did something legitimately impressive

Kevin sinfield had all of rugby league voting for him

And Murray won the Davis cup impressively and in style on FTA tv. All the people who didn't want Fury to win will have voted for him.

>>31374

>taken through the duration of the live races."

Doesn't mention anything about Practise or Quali.

BBC have spoiled me.

>>31371

how will this affect the selection of skirted presenters and shiny legs thereof?

can we expect an increase or decrease in bobbing ponytails and will buxton poison himself and leave his nude corpse with single red rose in anus sprawled across the doorstep of a certain someone?

Takeover DONE

Lotus is now Renault

http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/renault-takeover-of-lotus-finally-completed/

>>31378

>Door actually likely to hit that ass on the way out.

>>31379

Maybe that's why he put his motor in the wrong mode when he was getting beaten by Nico.

>>31381

>Likable team now run by state-owned automaker with infamously annoying and shitty executive at the head.

I think I'm rooting for redbull now just because of how shitter shattered people get when Horner opens his mouth.

>>31383

Well memed my friend.

>newey red pilled as always on the current formula

>wants spec engines/fuel/software instead

it was going so well

http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12475/10107099/mercedes-and-ferrari-controlling-f1-says-red-bulls-adrian-newey

>>31386

>Aero man wants aero formula

Not that surprising.

>Tonnes of people complaining because the F1 channel was turned into the Darts channel so Sky put their season review on Sky sports 1 which lots of people don't have

HAHAHAHAHAHA

>>31391

>senna didnt die for this

lel

That sounds so much like something he would say, like when asked about closed cockpits or stricter safety rules. Something like "Senna didn't die for stupid canopies man" or whatever

>C4 are trying to get Webber as a commentator

Oh god

>>31394

I want Webber to have to say "And Sebastian Vettel is 2016 World Champion" pretending to like it.

>>31398

RIP

More money for the Renault F1 Team perhaps?

>>31399

more money for a certain brisbane gt academy playstation driver

>>31400

yay for more people killed at the nurburgring

>>31398

lmao, what a short and sad story Nissan.

>>31398

>finally a second failed FIA crash test (the rear crash structure failed) would have necessitated a further redesign – That appears to have been the final straw.

the hybrid stuff I get but rear crash structure? isn't that pretty basic undergraduate level engineering

>>31386

Wtf. Why Adrian?

>>31393

Senna died for your sins. And the 3.5 liter formula.

>>31398

Down with the hybrid shitboxes.

Also, this makes sense. Renault is spending its govt bucks on f1 and not wec.

>>31403

I think because they had done a lot of drivetrain compromises in order to make muh aero loophole work. Redesigning the crash structure might have fucked with that. Just speculation, it might just be that Renault-Nissan are retarded.

>>31403

Stricter WEC 2016 rules?

>>31405

I think the fia just makes dumb rules as a function of time

…Just like the EU

>>31404

>I think because they had done a lot of drivetrain compromises in order to make muh aero loophole work. Redesigning the crash structure might have fucked with that

I was thinking the same. Back half of the car is a tunnel, not something energy adsorbing / crushable.

>>31406

You have to understand them, it gets quite boring after several hours of sitting in a room and doing nothing while getting paid. Gotta make rules to pretend they're busy

Who is the (former) head of their wec project? I have to think an organization with unlimited patience for abiteboul is generally incapable of vetting project heads.

>>31407

Yeah

>>31408

Kek

>>31404

>I think because they had done a lot of drivetrain compromises in order to make muh aero loophole work.

b-but the drivetrain is the other end of the car?

and the rear crash structure is just a doohickey for which they should have already had all the necessary loads when designing it because they already knew exactly what the FIA test is?

I dunno I failed my only engineering class and it was nuclear

>>31410

>b-but the drivetrain is the other end of the car?

Ostensibly the reason they went with the retarded front drive hybrid transaxle system is to make the car's rear hollow. This was to make downforce without a wing. If the rear crash structure needs to be beefed up, it may no longer be able to be so conducive to airflow.

>>31411

This is terrible, but I'm fucking dying of laughter.

What breed is the new dog?

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/122316

>"Lewis Hamilton would not disobey Mercedes Formula 1 team to win"

Um…. he did in the last fucking race

>engine mode -gate

>>31412

>What breed is the new dog?

It's a great dane. It seems pretty reserved, temperament wise.

>but fucker has some bass when it does bark

>>31411

lmao, this is why cats are superior(also because a mad cat can at best chop your eye off instead of fucking murdering you like a dog), give them food, water and thats basically it.

>>31395

Let's be fair DC only fits in one of those categories

>Jenson and Jessica have split

I…I….I can't even…

>>31418

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/jenson-button-jessica-michibata-split-7059637

>>31418

If it's because of their jobs then they have already done that once back in 2010.

They got back together in like 2 months.

>>31419

>On the split, a spokeswoman for Jessica said last night: “That’s the first time I have heard that. And I think if it were true, I’d be one of the first to know.”

I'm guessing they have just kinda drifted apart.

>>31418

>>31420

>tfw she wasn't cheating on him but Jenson heard the rumours which came from the Japanese media and he accused her making her get angry at him.

>>31421

Or

>McLaren was going to get rid of Jenson at the end of 2014

>his fans campaigned for Jenson to stay

>McLaren relented

>spent the entire year traveling around the world

>wasting his time driving one of the worst F1 cars in history

>while his wife drifted away / cheated on him

>eventually costing his marriage.

>>31422

Or

>Jessica wanted a child and was willing to end her career to settle down.

>Felt it was only fair if Jenson reduce his motorsport commitment

>Signed a new contract

>Went and had revenge sex

>Got pregnant

I'm going with bullshit until proof but wouldn't be surprised if it was true.

>>31420

>>31418

Unless the mail are lying (Which is absolutely possible) then it seems to be true.

>A spokesperson for Jenson told MailOnline: 'Jenson and Jessica have decided to go their separate ways and it is very amicable. There is no one else involved.'

>Specifying that there was no one else involved.

hmmmm

>>31424

Oh wow, confirmed then.

>this is like the wag 9/11

>you'll remember where you were when you found out

>>31425

Not until one of them dies due to external circumstances do I count it as WAG 9/11

More of a 7/7 or Paris attack.

>>31426

No it is organised by drivers before wags so that all the girlfriends or wives of a driver are together.

It will only go to the ex folder when Jenson retires/dies.

0 points (25% upvoted)

https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/3xwewj/jenson_and_jess_button_reportedly_split_up/

>Reddit thinking it's fake.

They're sure going to look stupid when they realize it isn't.

>>31428

>That one guy with quotes thinking it is actually true.

>Click on his name

>Some guy has been reposting all my WAG stuff for the past 2 years.

>Also posted something about Nico Mana

And I was worried I might have autism.

>>31429

This is why you shouldn't share info on halfchan

I'll move this to the WAG thread as it is getting a bit much

http://www.espn.co.uk/f1/story/_/id/14420391/2017-regulations-result-less-overtaking

to get more overtakes:

>The two main things that top happen are tyre degradation, making sure the tyres are not too uniform in their behaviour through the race, and judging and tuning the size of the DRS correctly so an overtake is possible

>more DRS

and meanwhile bernie wants to push a different engine(probably a return to the V8) for 2017

Q:The new Cars are expected for 2017 and the new engines for 2018. does that make sense?

Ecclestone: We want the new engines for 2017

http://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/formel-1/interview-mit-bernie-ecclestone-f1-10323369.html

>>31437

so are the 2017 regs finalized yet? at least there's some minor chance of an equal playing field if the teams have less than a year to work on the cars

>still waiting on consults Bernie and Jean to announce their decree

>>31437

>(probably a return to the V8) for 2017

Fuck the V8, give me:

>2L aspirated V10 @ 18000rpm

>unlimited (or very high MJ limit) energy harvesting / deployment

Cars would sound great, be green enough, and would still be "advancing technology"

>2015 almost 2016

>still watching Formula 1

ded sport

>>31449

>2015 not 1995

>still watching IndyCar

:^)

>>31450

Indycar is more fun than Formula 1, any year, even as small as indycar is now it is a lot more fun that MerecedesWinsLoL

>2017 rolls around and Pirelli brings back 'the cliff' etc.

>Mercedes' chassis fucks up their tires again

>Ferrari and nu-Renault still have great deg so it's pretty competitive

>big tire rule change mid-season that helps Red Bull more than it does Mercedes

>Daniel wins LOL

Seriously tho why are Merc so shit at tire management, do they have an incompetent senior engineer they can't fire? This one guy must have photographic evidence that Toto is a cuck, there's just no other explanation.

>>31448

The engine format should be:

>2.4 liters for naturally aspirated engines, no rev-limits or engine configuration limits

>1.6 liters for turbocharged engines with a 3 bar boost limit

>150 kilos of punp gas to work with

That way, existing knowledge can be used to create some fantastic and unique machines. I do agree on you with the energy harvesting and deployment with you.

>This year I decided to stop paying for Sky’s F1 coverage. That was partly because Formula 1 has become a bit rubbish in general.

>Much of their coverage feels like it is specifically aimed at school children. And the Hamilton mania has made ITV look positively restrained.

>Technical analysis? There is some, if you hunt it down.

>However, you are more likely to have to endure some mind-numbing feature of drivers playing with giant Jenga blocks.

http://duncanstephen.co.uk/bbc-f1-coverage-loss-marks-the-end-of-a-golden-era-what-can-we-expect-from-channel-4/

>Scuderia autismo strikes again

The Coulthard to Top Gear rumors begin…

>inb4 Suzi to Top Gear rumors

>inb4 Eddie to Top Gear rumors

>inb4 Lee to Top Gear rumors

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14163512.David_Coulthard_to_join_Top_Gear_team/

BIANCHI FAMILY TO SUE THE FIA OVER THE DEATH OF JULES

http://thejudge13.com/2015/12/23/bianchi-family-to-sue-the-fia-over-the-death-of-jules/

>go too fast under yellow

>crash

>blame someone else

>sue them

>>31462

will neo-TG have a Stig?

>implying it matters

>implying it won't be an utter disaster of a program

>>31464

The other rumor says Chris Harris, Sabine Schmitz, and Coulthard, so I doubt they need a "tamed racing driver" to do hot their laps.

>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc/12066136/Who-will-be-Top-Gear-co-presenters-alongside-Chris-Evans.html

And yeah, who cares anyway, it will be shit.

>>31463

I think it's more over:

a) not calling off the race

b) not reacting to Sutil's crash with an S.C. or red flag

c) no medical helicopter

d) sham investigation

though I agree the ultimate responsibility lies with Jules, it sorta makes sense that the two shittiest cars in the race (Marussia and Sauber) went off. the race was going to end when conditions deteriorated beyond what was considered reasonable and racers gonna race, so it was up to race control to make that judgement call and I'd say in hindsight they put it off too long. none of the drivers made a stand by parking their car (Lauda Japan 1976 and Prost Australia 1989 come to mind), though probably only a WDC can get away with that.

>>31468

a) not calling off the race

c) no medical helicopter

Don't see how either would have helped Jules in any positive way.

>>31468

>though probably only a WDC can get away with that.

Funnily enough, out of all the teams on the grid, I think Manor (under Booth and Lowden's leadership at least) would be the most understanding if the driver wanted to park it on safety grounds.

>Could you imagine Ron's sperg out if a McLaren driver did it?

>a) not calling off the race

>>31469

the race went ahead because of bernie shekels and TV contracts, then the teams were obligated to participate then the drivers had to race etc. no race, no chance for accidents. not interrupting the 'hip battle was probably a big reason too, even though that ended up being a bit pointless when the result was just another HWL 1-2 finish.

I agree on the team formerly known as Marussia parking it since they have nothing to fight for points-wise but there's likely a lot of pressure on the top drivers not to "give up" when they're one team employee vs. the hundreds of others at the factory plus business interests. Louis can't even manage his own tire strategy in the race without handholding, I can't imagine him making a bold decision like that.

>>31469

>>31471

this is mostly playing devil's advocate for the bianchis fyi, I realize keeping tractor cunt off the circuit is the only change necessary

>>31472

> I realize keeping tractor cunt off the circuit is the only change necessary

And closed cockpits, obviously

:^)

>>31448

At larger displacements each marginal gain in horsepower will be larger as engine efficiency out of the box will be less. Aka small displacement will fuck up the development race.

Idk why you would legislate engine configuration and number of cylinders. Plus, It's pretty clear at this point that the hybrid side of things is adding more to cost, unreliability, and crap racing (by way of padding the power curve) that it needs to be left behind.

>>31460

Nice cd story.

>>31463

The FIA is fucking retarded but unless the rules have a "no tractor cunts" clause, they aren't guilty of shit.

Gary hartstein was rambling about how a helicopter would have helped among other things, but I don't know how credible he is considering his situation. If any thing I think todt coming after him is a Streisand effect esque boost to his credibility.

>>31475

>Aka small displacement will fuck up the development race.

The development race would be on the electric side.

>Idk why you would legislate engine configuration and number of cylinders.

Purely for sound.

Bernie is a cunt, but he's right about that.

>Plus, It's pretty clear at this point that the hybrid side of things is adding more to cost, unreliability, and crap racing (by way of padding the power curve) that it needs to be left behind.

Leave it behind an you end up like NASCAR still running carburetors in 2011

>>31473

>Hamilton abuses Charlie Whiting for talking to him in the corners

>gets 5 place grid penalty

>>31477

there shouldn't even be microphones for the drivers, just one way into the helmets from charlie and read everything else on the pit board

make the pit crews have to scramble because they don't know for sure if the driver is coming in +/- a lap or even remembers how Plan A was told to him in the morning

https://rabb.it/spf1general

https://rabb.it/spf1general

https://rabb.it/spf1general

Fuji 2007 now

>>31481

what is even that website

>>31485

Cuckchan set up a stream to watch races.

Cuckchan is currently dead for some reason.

>>31476

Your argument is entirely predicated on the idea that hybrid systems are the future and somehow make internal combustion in its pure form out moded.

Real average fuel economy in passenger cars hasn't improved with the advent of mild and strong hybrid systems. Some amount of that is due to regulation, but it's silly to say that hybrid systems have a monopoly on the future when they aren't particularly efficient.

Hybrids are literally the worst of both worlds. You have the enormous complexity of two different drivetrains, the requirement of repeated energy conversion (which is always the least efficient part), dramatic gains in weight, and huge decrease in reliability and powertrain life due to the batteries, complexity of the system, and fundamentally inferior service life of electric and electronic equipment compared to the mechanical components of a piston engine.

Not to mention that the environmental cost of manufacturing the batteries and motors (which require non ecologically friendly rare earth minerals) far exceeds the questionable benefits of the marginal to nonexistent gains in fuel economy.

Moreover in grand prix racing, where simplicity and weight loss in addition to packaging are necessitous to victory, why on earth would the ungainly disaster of hybrids even be talked about save for todt's fetish for them?

This is no different to claiming you're on the "right side" of history.

VHS beat betamax and the world is no poorer for it. There is no case to be made for forcibly legislating this unmitigated disaster of a concept on motorsport. Especially when motorsport is about escapism.

>>31515

>Your argument is entirely predicated on the idea that hybrid systems are the future

>implying they aren't

http://www.rttnews.com/2517223/bmw-all-models-electric-within-decade.aspx

>and somehow make internal combustion in its pure form out moded.

The development of the ICE is at a dead end

(other than maybe infinitely variable valvetrains, but that's probably banned in F1 anyway)

>There is no case to be made for forcibly legislating this unmitigated disaster of a concept on motorsport. Especially when motorsport is about escapism.

Motorsport might be about escapism to you, But you don't matter. The money does.

And the money cares about marketing and image. And that means clean and green hybrids.

>>31476

>>31523

Full marks for trying but trust me any arguments have been made and shot down here long ago.

>>31525

By idealists.

Of course a "pure" internal combustion formula would be better, but it's not a realistic option with F1's "stakeholders" and the world political environment.

I'm trying to make the best of a bad situation, others are burying their heads in the sand.

>>31527

damn, all 5 languages lmao.

nice one nico.

>>31523

>>31526

Fuck that, F1 deserves to go out in a blaze of glory rather than persist for a year longer as a greenwashed shadow of itself.

>>31526

Also, how is it any different from the V8's with KERS?

People had no problem with them. But since the V6's, if anyone mentions hybird or electric, people sperg the fuck out.

>>31531

>Also, how is it any different from the V8's with KERS?

1. That was bad too, for reasons other than the fact that the v8s were heavily limited in development

2. Kers was limited to being a finite amount of boost controlled by a button and unthrottlable

To reiterate, kers was not an improvement, and certainly not the way forward, it just sucked less than what we have now, and the vast majority of people were not concerned about it as the cars still sounded alright and the racing was mediocre as opposed to terrible.

>>31523

>The development of the ICE is at a dead end

>

>(other than maybe infinitely variable valvetrains, but that's probably banned in F1 anyway)

how can you say that when direct injection, camless engines, homogenous charge compression ignition, cylinder head geometry, and engine metallurgy (to name a few) are seeing huge gains. not to mention the multiplicative gains from execution of these technologies in concert with eachother.

gasoline and certainly race fuel are far more energy dense, lighter, and much more easily refilled/stored/converted than any electrical battery arrangement.

Motorsport might be about escapism to you, But you don't matter. The money does.

>And the money cares about marketing and image. And that means clean and green hybrids.

yet bernie sees more value in rolex and johnnie walker as ambassador brands than much more popular/cheaper and less exclusive sponsors. This coupled with a refusal to go free to air across the board and/or offer direct streaming means that bernie has no interest in following the pack even if it means a wider base of clientele.

an insistence on keeping f1 upmarket in an age of shit and populism definitely denotes escapism.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/11708997/Formula-One-urgently-needs-to-liven-up-says-Donald-Mackenzie.html

donald mackenzie certainly sees it as escapist.

>http://www.rttnews.com/2517223/bmw-all-models-electric-within-decade.aspx

and bmw is a near luxury brand that feels threatened by "the apple of cars" in tesla. of course that a company that was formerly boutique and alienated its customer base needs to copy the flavor of the week.

General motors tried to do this against the imports when they continued to downsize in the 80s– it didnt work. import buyers bought imports, and buyers of traditional american cars bought fords instead.

>>31535

BMW will learn soon enough that they should just replicate their 80's strategy of just having a good line-up of driver's cars. Some electric cars are nice to hedge their bets in case some small european country decides to get silly with their nanny-statery or there's a demand for electric city cars that aren't shit.

>>31581

If you look carefully, they're also the different version of the helmets he used this year

Hamilton emulates Senna in 2016 when?

True fatal crash when?

>>31583

>tfw Lewlew dies and becomes a martyr

>tfw they make a Lewlew biased documentary that paints Nico as the villian

>>31584

>Nico portrays the evil white man that was always against him and had a nazi-inspired ideological driving style that inevitably led to Hamilton's death, in this new documentary brought to you by the BBC.

"The best portrayal of a driver in his struggles against the evil fascist patriarchy known as the FIA"

- New York Times

>>31583

He'll punch a cop in the americas and get ventilated.

>>31588

Serves you right, you meerkat hating bastard

>>31589

I'm not the completely evil meerkat hater like I said in >>31204 I am indifferent towards them.

Don't want them in my house though.

kinda like uninvited foreigners really

>>31588

oh thats cute as fuck

>>31593

Better donuts than Hamilton

>>31597

SUICIDE

WATCH

>>31600

Maybe he can pretend it's because he loves working with Jessica Ennis in santander adverts.

>>31600

looks like Vandoorne might get a McLaren seat after all

>>31604

well at least the manufacturers are going to have something newsworthy on the 15th, in the form of their cost-cutting proposal. then another two weeks until the appointed dictators Bernie and Jean put in their counter-proposal. teams should start presenting cars sometime around then so we just have to survive these three weeks.

>inb4 all teams reveal at Barcelona

almost typed Jerez then I realized they cut it, what a joke

Also (always an 'also' with me)

http://www.alexanderrossi.com/news/317/

>As I write this, my team and I are working hard on 2016 and we look forward to sharing some exciting news soon.

have alaska coffee roasting co. and coupons.com bought him a seat with the team formerly known as marussia, or is it a reserve/test/FP role at Haas?

>Mercedes say 4 million euros isn't enough to get pascal wehrmacht a seat

how many beans could Rossi & Co. possibly summon?

AMUS article (in german) compared the Mercedes W06 with the Porsche LM car. They got some GPS data from Spa

http://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/formel-1/exklusiver-vergleich-zwischen-mercedes-amg-w06-und-porsche-919-10327845.html

Copying from plebbit:

>Minimum F1 weight is 701kg, WEC's is 950.

>The Mercedes distributes its electric power throughout the entire lap, whereas the Porsche uses the majority of its hybrid power for acceleration.

>Porsche is believed to be putting out a combined power output of 1350bhp, with the Mercedes having around 850.

>The corner apex in a Porsche is 20-40 metres before where it would be in an F1 car. By the time the Mercedes hits the apex the Porsche is already accelerating again. 200m later, the Mercedes has caught up again.

>On the Kemmel Straight the Mercedes peaks at 337kmh and the Porsche at 321. The Porsche hits VMAX 500m before the Mercedes.

>The Mercedes brakes from 320kmh to 75 in 155m, the Porsche requires 185 to go from 290 to 70.

>The Mercedes takes Eau Rouge/Radillon at 310kmh, the Porsche 280. Pouhon is 280 vs 255.

>>31609

Peak power being equated with real output. Ick hybrids.

>>31610

>tfw motorsport now has a video game "nitrous" button

>>31612

And it's the casual NFSMW one that recharges as you're driving and not when doing cool shit like drfits.

Shameful.

>>31613

>Formula E is actually planning on having F-zero style recharge zones that are off the racing line

It's gimmicky but frankly who the hell cares.

>>31614

ok now give the cars more speed, better tracks and turbo booster rockets and maybe FE would be fun.

>Lemmy Kilmister is death

fuck this fucking earth, Lemmy was a beast.

>>31617

Jesus fuck this year has been taking the big ones

>tfw initially read that as Le Meme Kimster and thought something had happened to Kimi

>>31624

>america mad because they don't use carburetors

:^)

>>31625

>unnecessary complexity

>current year

>>31653

Jean Alesi Bahrain finishes 2009: 1st & 6th

doesn't look like he was really punished for that

also

>looking up speedcar series

>top quality official website http://www.speedcarseries.com/

>>31662

>>looking up speedcar series

>>top quality official website http://www.speedcarseries.com/

Oh fuck, best laugh I'd had all week.

>>31662

Oh my.

I can't read those stories tonight.

>>31636

what a fucking idiot. "hur dur even if this was public info, i'm sure my vastly different aspect ratio, displacement, valve area, fuel injection, and valvetrain wont have any incompatibility"

>>31653

wow does that car have a spool instead of a differential? the wobble on the onboard when alesi gets both ends of the axle back on the track really looks like it.

>superior american redneck car technology

>yuropoors please ignore

in all seriousness though, there's a ton of bubba-derived solutions in motorsport (like acid dipping, spools, taped radiators, cross weighting, and others) that work fucking great

something something cars and engines.

>>31674

thats fucking adorable!

>>31676

It's always fun with you.

>>31676

its like playing Russian roulette

Ted explains the new tire rules:

https://vimeo.com/150276775

>>31679

this explained nothing and I'm pretty sure he relayed some misinformation

>>31635

He should know by now that F1 engines don't even have camshafts these days. Solenoids can do the job better at high-level cost-is-no-objection motorsports.

>>31681

Can't tell if making a joke about ted-these-engines-dont-have-sparkplugs-Kravitz.

Indeed camless engines (either with fully pneumatic valves, or with electromagnetic actuation) are viable, but the current engines use a camshaft to actuate valve opening, and compressed gas to close them.

>Tilke's fantasy F1 team:

>Driver: James Bond

>Designer: Pablo Picasso

>Team Principal: Angela Merkel

>Team Owner: Steve Jobs

>Car: Bobby car

I'm not sure who out of Monisha or Merkel could be worse at running a team.

>>31684

merkel would just never make any decisions at all

>>31684

>Team Owner: Steve Jobs

Would work well in F1

>copy everyone else's ideas

>use superior resources to make idea better

>>31679

>>31680

I'm with Button on the new rules not changing anything. Ted/Sky are pretending the pick-your-compound system will make it more likely that a team will go for one-stop strategies compared to the current ruleset. Like I said before, the more I think about this it's clear that the teams will actually have less choice in the new system since there are now two sets out of the twelve (thirteen with the Q3 set) that can only be used during the race.

Not going to make any bold predictions here on exactly what the teams are going to do choice-wise (unlike Sky). Just saying that any team that puts in 5/3/2 SS/S/M has to be pretty desperate for a good quali performance and then try to one-stop the race. But of course that strategy wouldn't be possible because they'd have to start the race on super softs and two-stop it with both reserved compounds like their video shows… which is going to change nothing.

>>31689

The problem with the "different choices/tactics" argument, is that the teams will do computer simulations and will all find the same fastest scenario.

Only retarded teams like Williams will get it wrong, and only desperate retarded teams like Sauber will do a different strat.

>>31690

Yes. Different strategies wont be picked unless the cars are different enough that they have different strengths and weaknesses.

>>31684

Wow, I thought you were kidding…

http://www.thepaddockmagazine.com/2015/02/my-fantasy-f1-team-hermann-tilke/

>>31694

Wow. At first I was appalled that Jim Clark wasn't far and away the highest voted, then I was confused that Nige was ahead of Stewart.

Then I got a little angry.

What is it about Scots that makes them good? And why didn't coulthard have it?

>>31696

Or di resta for that matter.

>>31697

>>31696

Didn't play with enough farm equipment and off-road stuff as a kid.

>>31698

That would partially explain the famed mechanical sympathy that Clark had. Dicking around with farm equipment would do that.

>>31699

then why aren't there many good drivers from indiana

learn to truck around hay before you have ball hair out there

>>31700

Because American motorsport is dead except for NASCAR.

>tfw getting bored and watching old karting videos

I like how little Nico has changed.

>>31704

flag has changed

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2015/12/30/founders-fathers-friends-and-firebrands-the-men-and-women-we-mourned-in-2015/

>everyone is old/dead now

>Selected R.I.P. in peaces: Guy Ligier, Gerard Ducarouge, Jean Pierre Beltoise (bad year for french f1 people), Robert Manzon, Yutaka Katayama

>>31709

Good.

>boomers start to die off

>millennials hate cars and want driverless electric autodrones

>we get to buy the classic cars the boomers paid 100k for, for 5k a piece

>>31710

I was getting depressed that few people will be old enough to know the joys of classic motoring, but now that you put it that way, I would like to have a grossly undervalued GTO Judge or AMC rebel machine.

>>31710

you had me at dying boomers

>>31733

Meh, overblown drama.

"There was a fire in the city we were in"

>>31733

kek, i would say damn poor building but dubai is so rich its gonna be rebuild in a few days

>>31736

Depends how long it takes them to find some slave workers.

>>31737

I'm sure they have enough left over even after they extinguished that fire by catapulting them onto the tower

>>31733

reminds me of "formula one star narrowly escapes firebombing in bahrain" a.k.a. some team vehicles drove past a protest where a molotov had been thrown against the asphalt

>>31753

I didn't even realise that was on.

Was it any good?

>>31754

it's just a bunch of clips and random people talking about how awesome the bits were

like a standard "wasn't blackadder/dads army/rising damp/whatever so great" docu with old folks, only they are raping it for two one-hour-long specials and all the people who actually made the footage hate them and don't appear