/f1/ - Formula One

second for VWL

third for checking ID color

tfw 20% of all shitposting

saving posts now for absolute gems like this

Looking forward to procrastinating today because of F1 related shitposting

>>36903

2nd pic is last year if it wasn't obvious

>Siemens kill

>Nova Chemicals kill

They seem to have lost a fair few sponsors

>>36898

http://www.crash.net/f1/news/228017/1/live-barcelona-f1-preseason-test-ii-day-1.html

>>36898

>http://ticker.auto-motor-und-sport.de/

Oh derp, translated version might be more helpful except for Germanbro

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fticker.auto-motor-und-sport.de%2F&edit-text=&act=url

>>36905

Fuck, should be

http://www.crash.net/f1/livecommentaries/5498/barcelona-f1-preseason-test-2.html

I wonder if any of the 2 streamers are there..

>>36914

Must be tight on parts. I'm guessing that they manufacture these parts in England for the obvious logistic reasons. They should have been able to design new support pylons during the break, or they are just using this as an initial shakedown wing.

>>36914

>>36915

>they should just throw perfectly good parts in the gargabe

>>36916

>perfectly good

>U brackets screwed in to the pylons to stop the wing mounting surface from falling off

pick one

>>36914

It wouldn't be too stupid to keep running the wing to see if that's a good solution, but they could have painted it tho

>>36918

they'll paint it for australia

>>36920

I should point out: 1st pic from today, 2nd pic from first test

>>36921

>2nd pic from first test

Last day, after it was bodged up.

>merc 1:23 on softs

I wonder if they're going to do laps with the glue tires

And the mclaren broke down in time for lunch

>>36924

I think you're right detective.

>>36903

>James key design philosophy

>longer wheelbase than stretched limo

>high sidepod taper

>dicknose

>Toro Rosso has 15 tire squirt slots now

the arms race continues

>>36931

>>36931

cross-poastan for awareness

>>36929

The wheelbase is dictated by the Ferrari 15 unit. I think the sidepod might have been dictated by using last year's Ferrari radiator solution to open up space on the floor. I think they might bring a sculpted sidepod design later on if it doesn't eat up too much R&D time.

>Williams slower than Mercedez despite being on the ultra super duper mega soft's

So we have to slog through another year of MWL/HWL?

>>36934

All likely true, but I am remarking on the fact that this car just looks like a cartoonish (read:exaggerated) version of last years.

>>36935

Can't wait to hear what exciting proposals people who don't understand the sport will come up with to fix this.

>>36935

>implying that Williams isn't just that shit

>>36935

Williams has no money. They can't compete with the juggernauts. I'm starting to dislike them too as they think that anything other than the Mercedes engine has allowed them to beat RedBull and Ferrari in the past 2 years. They got pretty comprehensively beaten by a heavily compromised SF15-T.

>>36935

It's Williams, even if the car was fast enough they'd still do meme pitstops and ruin their races.

TED'S NOTEBOOK

>>36951

If you want Paddock Uncut (and the Notebook), you can torrent it from here:

https://kat.cr/user/smcgill1969/uploads/?field=time_add&sorder=desc

>protip: this guy uploads all F1 sessions, so bookmark it

>>36951

ted in charge of his own mic levels

>>36956

I am surprised they didn't put in the electric pit lane rule and starter.

>>36956

>>36957

stop giving jean todt ideas

>>36958

b…b…but anon…thank of the ROAD RELEVANCE®

By running with electric motor in the pit lane the teams can use their engineering prowess to develop the perfect alarm to warn you that the car is coming. This is vital tech for future autonomous vehicles to prevent children and blind people getting running over in shared spaces®.

>>36960

>keep

keen*

>fuck

>>36960

to be fair that side doesn't have the burn mark on the car.

>>36984

Freudian slip or intentional? We may never know.

http://beta.autosport.com/live/commentary/id/1900575/formula-1-testing-2016-barcelona-second-f1-test-day-2

anyone awake?

>>36999

what are the chances merc will have any single thing bad happen to them today

>>36999

Just

>tfw my sleep schedule is so fucked it's basically random now

>09:24 - James Rogers says in the comments: "Looking forwards to seeing more steady work from the STR11 today, can see Max picking up a couple of podiums this season. World Champion before 2020."

good thing i adblock the comments then

I found this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUC4vwKNGfk

I'm not sure if it's legit or not. The stream is supposed to start in about 10 minutes.

>>37004

sure looks suspicious

>>37005

1 minute until disappointment

>>37006

can always load up a bare browser and click all those tinyurls for excitement

Haas blown turbo and HAM getting to a tenth of Vettel's time on the same tyre.

HAM 3 tenths quicker on Softs than a Renault on SuperSofts.

so can we def say yet

-haryanto a shit

-GUT rusty from being not very good

-merc wins lal

>that cooler inches above the exhaust

>>37015

lewd

http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/elimination-qualifying-could-be-back-on-for-melbourne-676813/

>The preferred plan that has emerged is for Q1 and Q2 to run as the knock-out system originally intended, and then Q3 to remain as it has been in recent years.

>>37020

I suspect Ferrari was involved with this.

Vettel 1:24.611 Medium

Just saying…

>First test best times:

>8) Rosberg Mercedes 1:24.867 +2.057 Medium

>12) Hamilton Mercedes 1:25.409 +2.599 Medium

>>37022

I really hope the ferrari is up there. but other teams seem to inferr that they're not on the same level of Mercs yet. Im hoping that somehow Rosberg can play Ferrari's advantage against hamilton; of course, that can happen both ways.

Then again, maybe a 1986 will happen again; where Vettel can take advantage of the two mercs fighting and snab the WDC from under them.

>>37023

>based shit Gimi

>>37024

I really wouldn't be suprised if the defer kimi to a 2nd driver position if it meant vettel securing a WDC.

I think Kimi is an extremely competitive driver, but only when he has a car set up to his liking; having another competitive driver might mean compromising his front-end heavy driving style (sort of like how Hamilton is fucking up Rosberg, except in that case it seems to be more motivated by keeping the car babby from whining.)

>>37027

>but only when he has a car set up to his liking

It will be interesting to see how the change to push rod suspension will help him.

>mfw Gimi actually comes good

Also, apparently another thing that really fucked his sensitive feels, was the FIA changed the regulations and made the teams go back to hydraulic steering instead of electronic.

Apparently with the electronic they could just laptop very minor changes in feel, but with hydraulic they had to play trial and error machining parts over and over, which takes fucking forever, and isn't as precise.

>>37032

Why not closed cockpits while they're at it?

>>37031

>acestream

The Russians seem to have a problem with their satellite reception.

A lot of streams from torrent-tv.ru have had a shitload of break up lately

>>37032

omfg yes nice job theyre not all cucks!!!

>>37032

on an added note i really liked to hear what will buxton has to say now. he defended the new qualy system; i wonder if hell backpedal.

>>37046

lel

>tfw have to watch potatostream because the ace is fucked

>>37049

>tfw internet is so fucked i cant even watch the potatostream

If the dude who was interested in the ford probe and how those are kind of a rare car now is here, I just saw 2 of them on the same block.one of em was this nineties teal color.

Notebook

>>37056

Context pls. Who are they referring to?

I am in full casul mode due to maths

>>37057

brasilian stock car stewards whatsapp convo leaked

>>37057

oh, referring to caca bueno for most of it

they gave him a ban after race control fucked up and didn't show him a chequered

>>37055

>>37055

>damn! must be a mazda OC convention in town. 2nd gen? or original space shuttle tampon?>teali still see rangers around with that

One was first Gen, the other second Gen, the second Gen one was teal.

That seems to have been a fairly popular color on rangers

>>37060

>a fairly popular color on rangers

because people bought rangers for their wives

>>37063

#topkeks

last time someone connipted him he shut down blog comments entirely for a couple weeks

>>37063

<3

found a new mascot for diageo-force india

>dat responsibly

>>37067

Bullshit, sir. That breaks the laws of the universe. We must all be dead or in the matrix.

>>37020

if the reason for the delay was "we cannot write software in time" how do they expect to have that all in place? and just for the two most complicated sessions

>oh, we don't care about Q1 and Q2

>also we were basically lying about that lel

>>37070

>pajamas

>not just sleeping in the nude for comfort

>>37071

they're also for lounging I suppose

>>37070

>>37071

I wear pajamas bottoms on those days I know I'm going to be wearing a dressing gown for most of it but still want to look just professional enough to answer the door for mail.

Basically weekends.

>>37070

The closest you will get is buying some nomex underwear

>>37032

saw this on motorjew:

>Behind closed doors in the FIA motorhome, Whiting met with several drivers – including Kimi Raikkonen, Sebastian Vettel, Nico Rosberg, Felipe Massa and Sergio Perez – to discuss a host of matters including the new qualifying session.

>Behind closed doors

i guess yes the doors were closed… they expect them to have a meeting outside?

>>37079

>i guess yes the doors were closed… they expect them to have a meeting outside?

I'm sure Reddit would like them to have it on social media

>all in favor, click like

>>37081

probably caused the crash to begin with with her caterwauling

>>37081

just a quick question, why don't they deal with the graffiti on the nurburgring? Is it so hard to paint over it or is it just part of the experience? Also, how are these teenagers breaking in and doing this in the first place?

>>37062

>I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING

Sandgroperfag here with

BLOG

Coughing all night, wake up with sore throat and cough, over day getting the lethargy of either a common cold gone crazy or of mild pneumonia. And I have work tonight. And an early start tomorrow morning. And work tomorrow night. Fuck this shit.

So, who here still holds out hope for Manor to trump McClunker and maybe one other team?

>>37085

take some cough drops.

>So, who here still holds out hope for Manor to trump McClunker and maybe one other team?

Manor will be at the back again imo

>>37086

Being nodrugs gives me amazing recovery time (this should pass within 24-48 hours given past precedent) but fuck the first 12 hours or so feels bad. Will take some soothers if it gets intolerable, but will probably just sweat it out tonight.

>>37088

Won't stop a Massa. Won't stop a high tyre strike.

Solution is shit, back to drawing board (or force people to put up with it to the detriment of the sport for a few years until someone else potatoes and then it is suddenly a stupid idea to everyone who was shilling it.

>>37090

Well yeah, to me the drawing board is just a post it note with "it ain't broke fuckwit" written on it.

>>37091

That's more of a writing desk than a drawing board :^)

>>37092

I will draw whatever the fuck I want on my board, fucking eastern cunt. Maybe I should draw Sydney and Melbourne entering a great depression after we and Northern NSW secede, fuckwit.

Just kidding bro, its all gravy. Just feeling like shit for reasons outlined above.

>>37093

>Northern NSW

That would be me :^)

>>37093

>Northern NSW

Reporting for duty :^)

>>37094

>>37095

Oh for fuck sakes, I'm sick of this post not submitting bug

>>37096

Good man, come and join our glorious confederacy of independent states, and rebuild the empire from the best colonies. We can give it back to the poms once we purge their own.

/larp

>>37097

what, already? i just got my druid respec'd because i was sick of doing an equal weighted number of evil and good deeds and went pure evil because i wanted to be like FIA

>>37099

>what, already?

Same time as the last 7

Anyone keeping up with WRC?

Meeke will overtake Ogier within a year or so imo.

>>37101

if by keep up you mean i see and then skip past the "ogier wins stage 7" articles

>>37101

>Anyone keeping up with WRC?

Finbros, probably.

oh yeah, didn't save the photo and can't be assed to look it up but looks like RB has painted the crew helmets with the nightmare matte paint too

>>37104

just like anal

>>37102

>>37103

I recently got an iphone (i know it's gay). There is this WRC app that is pretty nice though. You can also get "WRC+" for 5 bucks a month as well, and it includes live coverage, whatever that means. I'm thinking about getting it tho.

The coverage still sucks regardless, but I just love rally.

>>37108

i just read that on the amus feed and thought they meant ferrari was testing it in the lab back in italy or something

maybe they decided to make a visual point like when they sent out massa with that floppy wing

>>37107

>I recently got an iphone (i know it's gay).

>You can also get "WRC+" for 5 bucks a month as well,

I have an android phone with a hack app called Lucky Patcher.

I get the paid F1 app features for free :^)

>>37108

They've literally just wrap some carbon sheet on it, then covered it with resin and let it dry, to make it look like carbon fiber and not welded pipes >>37088

>>37110

sheeit i'm jelly.

My dad actually handed his old iphone over to me so I got it for free. I guess I could jailbreak it and do something similar, maybe not. Either way, it's free so oh well.

>>37107

We do get some WRC on free TV here but it's like one or two stages. I wonder if WRC+ has more video coverage.

IIRC WRC+ also gives access to some archives and goodies. I'm also tempted to get it but I'm not sure I'll watch enough WRC to make it worthy.

At least they got how the 21st century works, unlike a certain other race series that keeps banning people posting content.

>>37115

>635x423 HiRes.jpg

pick one

>>37116

the original was taken from space, that is a crop

>>37115

I hope he doesn't have a cursed car like last year. Based on the tests so far, it looks that way..

can't wait for some more ebin Verstappen overtakes this season

>>37117

Claro must be happy

Weichai not so much

>>37117

It doesn't look as bad as the prototypes looked like though, probably just because of the CF vinyl.

I'm interested to see how much it hampers visibility though. You know, having a big bit of fucking steel in the middle of car

>>37120

>implying Verstappen can overtake while staying withing track limits

Oh wait, that rules only applies to Vettel, to be judged by chief steward David Croft

>>37122

good thing they put the one man most well equipped to explain the experience in there

>>37123

what about Spa m8? that shit was ballsy and legit

>>37124

Can't wait to see the interviews

>kimi how was the new head protection thing

>ermm yes

>>37126

goddammit i just tried to scrape your post off my monitor

>>37098

>not joining these united states like every other seceding former colony wants to

>>37099

>went pure evil because i wanted to be like FIA

ebin

>>37108

wow that's so much worse than i could have ever imagined.

>>37126

I heard Kaspersky became a botnet

>>37122

>CF vinyl

It would be real carbon fiber, just not structural in anyway.

All Ferrari would have done is wrap it with carbon mat, then dumped resin on it.

Then probably would have baked it in the autoclave because they have one

>If you want to make a sheet of carbon fiber, you just get a piece of glass or something flat and smooth, lay a sheet of carbon mat on it, then pour resin on it and let it dry.

>It won't be structural, because the autoclave procedure is used to dry it under pressure while forcing the resin in to the weave, but it's fine for looking pretty.

.

and they've already taken it off without a timed lap

please tell me that is the last we'll see of that.

>>37131

it does look like tape or contact shelf paper

reminds me of those horrible tacky mclelren jackets they had in the whitmersh era

palate cleanser

>tfw the halo creates lift and the cars have to adjust by creating more downforce on the front and rear

>>37137

>inb4

>muh dirty air

>muh pirelli

>>37135

he just rode on the curb. That wasn't the actual overtake point anyways, he overtook him on the next turn

>>37139

>implying he didn't gain an advantage

>>37136

>v6 turbo

ear cleanser

:^)

>nobody told us it was Funny Appendages Day.

wow who writes this genius stuff for diageo? get them a late night talk show, stat

>>37141

come on now man, he had the balls to go full force onto that turn just to stay even with the guy, then he benefited by being on the inside on the next turn. He didn't break any rules and it worked out for him in the end.

I'm not even a Verstappen fan, i'm just saying….

>>37137

Fairly certain most teams will add a shitload of aero bits if they're allowed to. Like 2008 era aero clusterfucks on the hoop

>>37142

>vid related

>>37144

pray it remains there

>>37145

> He didn't break any rules and it worked out for him in the end.

Yeah he did.

>>37145

>I'm not even a Verstappen fan, i'm just saying….

And I'm not a "muh track limits" enforcer, but when the media and fans call for blood when certain (usually german) drivers do it, but dismiss it when the exciting young have-a-go hotshot does it, I call bullshit.

>>37148

post the rules he broke

>>37147

I actually like the V10's better.

The V12 sounds smooth and creamy, the V10 howls like an fucking animal.

The V8's were shit compared to both.

>>37149

2:54

>implying he doesn't gain an advantage

>>37150

>The V8's were shit compared to both.

For sure, too little displacement (and torque) and they're all the same.

if you like howls and nasty idles without a hint of smoothness, the cg901 leyton house march had a 76 degree version of the judd EV which has fucky firing intervals

>vid related

>>37151

>taking the outside line while on a high speed corner

No, that's not an advantage, in fact, it's a disadvantage. The fact that he was able to maintain control of his car is admirable. The fact that has was able to do so while overtaking the guy on the next turn was also something to take in. Max is a good driver.

>>37153

>The fact that he* was able

>>37153

>Max is a good driver.

>complete pointless fanboy comment

>fanboy detected

Not going to argue for 750 posts with a fanboy.

>"Wir testen unseres Ende April bei einem Showrun", verriet uns Teamchef Christian Horner.

more lels incoming

>>37152

Noice

>>37155

I'm not even a fanboy, lol. Are you some fag from /pol/? It's like you try to discredit someone who doesn't agree with you and create some strawman.

I am a Ferrari fan. I support Vettel the most and then Kimi. I also enjoy Goatass. Verstappen is just some teenfag that popped out of nowhere and now I recognize that he is good. Why does this make me a fanboy?

>>37158

>Are you some fag from /pol/?

Um… I accused you of being a fanboy of a racing driver, not an SJW or a jew.

>I don't think you know what /pol/ means

>>37159

>I don't think you know what /pol/ means

As an ex-/pol/ack, I do unfortunately. It doesn't matter which subject you target, as long as they are against your narrative, you will fight to make their opinion seem meaningless.

It's like how SJWs fight to censor people who disagree with them. /pol/acks are right wing SJWs.

>>37161

they will end up making it so thin that it doesn't even protect anyone, it will just be some symbol.

If a tire hit that thing at over 200mph, it would crumble.

so how does that thing deflect stuff any less towards the spectators than a full canopy

>>37163

It deflects media attention.

>tire kills world famous driver = never hear the end of it

>tire kills bystander = 5 second mention when the race is covered during the sports report

>>37163

it's stupid by design, so they can replace it after one season with a full canopy

>mercedes already has one in the tunnel and will make sure the rules are written to its spec

>>37161

Figured I'd put aside differences for 5 seconds and post this to halfchan to help fight the halo with ebin memes…

Post got "spam' filtered because I wrote "fullchan".

What a fucking hugbox.

So glad we have based 8ch and don't have to deal with some faceless rulers neurotic bullshit.

>>37164

well I have to say, it's better than a closed cockpit situation. At least we won't have Mavrick reporting in from a tinted window, to claim that the Russians are closing in on their position.

02:34 Alonso is still running on the softs, having now dropped to 1m28s laptimes after that initial 1m25.1s.

>falling asleep at the wheel

>>37161

Perfect

>>37166

Wow what the fuck

>>37170

and Sky strikes back with instant shilling.

>>37170

>testing the new halo device

it's just a hollow lightweight mockup innit

>>37172

I bet the entire thing is just a carbon fiber "cage" that some teenager made during a science fair. The thing looks so frail.

>>37163

To be fair quite a lot of the car will deflect stuff up.

>>37172

>>37173

apparently it was 6kg.

>>37174

>6kg.

that's a lot of papi-ay mache

anyone into WTCC?

>>37175

>implying it's not carbon mache of the tiny off-cuts that usually go in the bin

>>37176

CWL

>The Halo was fitted to the Ferrari on Wednesday night and Sebastian Vettel tried it out in the car in the garage.

>However, it was decided that Kimi Raikkonen would be a far better person to conduct early visibility tests on track because he would offer a far more impartial view on its impact on the drivers.

>>37127

>>37127

>>37127

>>37178

>tfw murricunt

>no coverage

>have to pirate everything

>>37181

Vettel confirmed pimp

>>37183

>Speaking of, is he still with Hannah?

As far as we know, yes.

She just stays as home with the kids.

>>37183

>I'd honestly eat her shit, and i'm not even the submissive type.

You and me both, anon.

>>37184

it looks like carbon fiber?? Is there titanium in there somewhere? I don't get it. It looks like a prop.

>>37179

>>37184

>Kimi Räikkönen said, visibility with new halo concept was "okay".

meanwhile in the shit country that keeps calling my house at 8:00am from a spoofed ID trying to tell me they are from microsoft

>The country’s largest lender, State Bank of India (SBI), has approached the Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT) seeking the arrest of Vijay Mallya in a bid to recover loans to Kingfisher Airlines, which was promoted by the liquor baron. SBI also wants his passport impounded and a complete disclosure of his personal assets.

>>37186

see:

>>37088

>>37131 (imo)

>>37184

>Anyone else get the vibe that this is a very deliberate "look at this piece of shit"

that's not a nice thing to say about craig slater

>>37190

I still bet it's steel inside, I think it's just a prop, we'll see when some driver takes a piece of hardware to the skull in the future.

>>37192

btw I hope this doesn't happen like in indy

>>37184

>Anyone else get the vibe that this is a very deliberate "look at this piece of shit"

Yep.

Get it out to the fans as much as possible who weren't already sold on the idea.

>>37189

> keeps calling my house at 8:00am from a spoofed ID trying to tell me they are from microsoft

Reminds me of when I used to get telemarketing calls (we have a do not call register now with big fines for violations)

>be me

>be 15

>phone rings

>it's a telemarketer

>it's a grill

>she sounds cute

>decide to be polite and not hang up, because cute grill

>fap instead, because cute grill

>answer her stupid questions for a few minutes

>edging now

>she asks how much I earn

>I say "that's kind of personal, it's like asking what colour underwear you're wearing"

>cute girl retorts: "actually, today they're pink"

>blow load thinking about cute grills little pink panties

>tell her I have to go

>hang up

>>37194

it's a new "medium wing". There are front wings and rear wings, now there are medium wings!!!

brought to you by walmart™

>>37197

Mount hole for the high speed camera?

>>37199

right in the front would be good, it would be like living the life of a driver.

>tfw this thing is actually awesome

2015 pole time: 1:24.681

Gimi lap: 1:23.009

Soft vs mediums, but I don't think Gimi got 1.6 secs from one tyre step

I want this halo meme to die, honestly.

>>37212

>tfw the FIA is forcing a meme

>>37213

those goddamn frenchies

>>37212

when i follow these tweetner links from the live testing, almost all the reply-eets(?) from the normies are overwhelmingly negative

but of course that and a couple of knives will get you a date with saward's sister

>Raikkonen's next hotlap on the super-soft is a 1m23.8s. That's only a drop-off of 0.8s, but you have to wonder what his first time would have been on these tyres if the end of his lap hadn't been compromised.

Autosport trying to create tension..

is merc trying to sandbag with the mediums or are they trying to prove that they are fastest on them (while failing)? I wonder.

I wonder how many laps these ultra softs will last. I am guessing 10 tops but I have no idea…

mclaren did 50 laps before lunch wtf

>>37223

I think they're running their B spec engine made by the non-Arai team

>>37226

gonna have to make a third team for that possibility

RB alternative confirmed as a bigger windscreen

>Manor just 3/10ths of the mclaren on the supersofts.

>>37232

Mclaren are saying that they are still not pushing the power unit yet, but it still shows you just how much the Mercedes unit can compensate for a relatively simple aero package.

Super consistent and long stint from Kimi on the Meduim tyres. Looking good.

>>37234

>inb4 the media spins it as more evidence of Mercedes dominance

>>37183

>I'd honestly eat her shit, and i'm not even the submissive type.

What the actual fuck?

>>37184

>Anyone else get the vibe that this is a very deliberate "look at this piece of shit"

Yes

>>37195

Ahahhaaahha holy fuck that's outstanding.

>>37197

I don't know how anyone can be okay with this

>>37212

We all do

>>37228

Did we ever figure out how to order custom ones?

>>37231

He looks like a lego

>>37108

>>37114

>>37117

i like the thing, just close it up and remove restrictions on F1 to become faster and boom!

The future of F1 would be great.

>>37238

https://twitter.com/tgruener/status/705446247625318400?s=09

>#F1 @HulkHulkenberg slams halo concept: "It looks horrible. You have to accept some risks. There needs to be an element of danger. "

Hulkenberg gets more and more ==BASED== every second.

>>37241

Hulkenberg is the voice of reason in an institution full of progressive SJW faggots.

There truly is not difference.

>>37246

>no*

sry for bad england.

>>37246

Am I the only one that doesn't really care too much about engine sound? I mean sure, it's great and all but it's just a gimmick and a novelty in the end. If a v6 was made to sound like a v10 it would be cool for about 5 minutes and then i'd just pay attention to more important things like reliability and efficiency.

>>37249

Im more referencing how there was promised a singificant increase, but there wasnt any.

Yes I agree; efficiency over sound. A formula shouldn't be built around the noise a car makes. Its tune shouldn't be itself crafted per se, but rather a circumstantial to the engine that was created.

Skeumorphism will do nothing but only further hinder the sport.

>>37242

I would not call F1 an institute of progressive faggots. It's more one of those corporations who are so incredibly risk-averse that they end up disappearing inside their own assholes.

>>37250

It's a band-aid to a problem caused by the upper-management insisting upon several contradictory things at once.

>>37238

>Thinking that any compromise with the rule cucks is productive.

>>37249

Noise is important just as the looks of the cars are important, but in neither case should the cart lead the horse.

If the fia stopped fucking everything up with rule after rule, all of these issues would solve themselves anyway.

>>37252

I can perhaps see risk averse but the fia doesn't have all that much invested in the profitability and popularity of the sport as they only make and enforce the rules, the commercial side of the sport is handled by ecclestone.

>>37254

>there needs to be an element of danger

This would trigger any corporate safespace promoter. The insurance agencies will have a fit over it as well, I bet.

>>37256

>8 billion mah battery

>water

That poor peasant farmer

nbc upping ted kravitz with lenny kravitz

>>37258

>posting Will Buxton

Go back to >>>/reddit/

:^)

>>37260

says the person who visits reddit more than anyone here

>>37260

I swear nearly every british correspondent is just another yes-man willing to suck bureaucrats dicks for bonus bucks.

>>37262

>not enjoying the considered thoughtful not at all groupthink opinions available on Reddit

>>37263

buxton is just in it for the gow pussy

>>37262

To be fair that title probably goes to me.

>>37266

well then thank you for not tracking the shit on your shoes back inside here

unlike *COUGH* some people

Torrent of Paddock Uncut and Notebook is out

>https://kat.cr/user/smcgill1969/uploads/?field=time_add&sorder=desc

>>37258

This interviewer guy is fucking annoying I would love to give him a good punch to the head. He makes Ted look like an expert.

>>37270

I take that back, the guy actually knows certain things about F1 (unlike Ted), but he is still pretty annoying, and doesn't insert satirical comments.

>this gimi interview

all you had to do was mumble one word about not being able to see shit

YOU HAD ONE JERB

>>37271

I just shit talk too much, they don't like me.

>>37271

Post the sidebar with mod list so I can stir up drama if needed

>>37280

Just make better crash helmets then

Ted's Notebook

http://autoweek.com/article/formula-one/jean-todt-tells-bernie-ecclestone-stop-bad-mouthing-f1

>FIA president says criticism must be kept internal

>"We have to get them cheaper and louder," he admits. "And it cannot be that a team has difficulty getting one. Apart from that, the hybrid engine is one of the best things Formula One has done."

>Indeed, he hopes the direction in which F1 is heading will attract more car manufacturers to the grid, like Audi.

didnt happen lol

>"The FIA has two pillars," Todt insisted, "motorsport and mobility. One of my priorities is of course traffic safety: each year 1.3 million people die on the road – 500 children every day. Formula One is a luxury problem.

>"It would be entirely out of place if the president of the FIA is concerned about the details of F1. But I do have good support people," he added.

WOW

O

W

>>37291

Why the fuck doesn't the FIA have a "motorsports president"?

Shit organisation, full of shit people, that turns everything to shit.

>>37291

tl;dr

>ruining motorsport which i am apathetic to isnt as important as forcing stupid regulations like euroncap and the NHTSA down the world's throat

Who is driving for McLaren tomorrow/today?

>>37291

http://www.espn.co.uk/f1/story/_/id/14892326/f1-absolutely-not-topic-audi

need to reinforce that todt is wrong on all counts

I haven't been able to follow testing at all, can you give short summary of what's been going?

Still MWL and some new quali system and Lewis being Lewis off-track?