/f1/ - Formula One

>>62704

ROC Jan 21st & 22nd

https://www.thehenryford.org/explore/blog/a-colorful-look-at-a-1960-auto-race

the Henry Ford museum posted pics from the 1960 US Grand Prix at Riverside, which is a rare opportunity to get a look at one of the alternate tracks used for the USGP in its pre watkins glen days

https://vimeo.com/137481616

new video of an alfa 8c (no not the abortion of a rebadged maserati) out for a drive

http://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/2017/01/07/its-a-boat-its-a-car-its-the-buick-waterbug/

I just wonder what it is about people from non tropical/warm weather reasons that makes them wont to make aquatic cars.

in this case the guy was in detroit, but the guy who made the amphicar was from northern germany iirc.

idk about the gibbs aquada

>Liberty Media is now named "Formula One Group"

corporate equivalent of tattooing your spouse's name on your body

jenson's_jessica_tattoo.jpg

>>62711

Jules must be glad that his granduncle is finally getting some more recognition

>it's the annual mclaren orange livery article

means six more weeks of winter

Pastor may rescue KV Racing with his petroshekels, even tho it sounds like everyone is already fired? I'm behind on my Indycuck.

>>62713

then the subsequent speculation over whether it was just a testing livery begins.

>>62714

>weeniezuela has spare petroshekels again

i'm behind on my global markets

>>62715

Who knows, that was just conjecture on my part. Dunno why else the news would be worth reporting, especially given that he allegedly doesn't plan to race ovals.

>slow news day

>>62716

it's not truly a slow news day until they call up villeneuve for some edgy quot– oh. nm.

>General Custer is expected to appoint an executive in the coming days to take charge of marketing, sponsorship and media rights deals.

>Sean Bratches, a key figure in the rise of TV sports giant ESPN, and who left the network at the end of last year, has apparently been approached

so the plan is to somehow get an unavoidable F1 fee snuck into everyone's basic cable bill?

interesting willem toet lecture (warning: 80 minutes)

~30 min mark for some sauber 2014 mess insight

>>62719

that is henno

>they have to cross in the middle

having one loop shorter than the other only works when neither party has a spin or off. FS ariel atom parts cheap on monday

[tomorrow 3pm local]

Group A

Sebastian Vettel (Germany)

Travis Pastrana (USA)

Helio Castroneves (Brazil)

Scott Speed (USA) or Alexander Rossi (USA)

Group B

Juan-Pablo Montoya (Colombia)

Petter Solberg (Norway)

Felipe Massa (Brazil)

Pascal Wehrlein (Germany)

Group C

Jenson Button (Great Britain)

Kyle Busch (USA)

Tony Kanaan (Brazil)

James Hinchcliffe (Canada)

Group D

Tom Kristensen (Denmark)

Kurt Busch (USA)

David Coulthard (Great Britain)

Ryan Hunter-Reay (USA)

Can't wait for Donald-senpai to find out and start tweeting about this.

>based Delaware and Cayman islands

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/jan/21/formula-one-us-tax-efficient-avoidance

RoC in less than one bong

>gimmick 360 coverage underway

>jermany has to cheat by dropping the shit driver for nations cup

>Bernie fired by General Custer

we are living in the end times, folks

liberty renamed itself FOG, and custer was there already. not really news just bernie using the press again

eh i guess it is news

but i'll believe he's gone when i see the stake and ashes

>>62728

Cue this being sung by everyone who got screwed over by him.

>>62733

isn't he about to fuck off and retire anyway? besides the new bosses are going to cut the bonus and the team will be left with their choice of the finest italian and slovenian engineers

>>62734

Uncertain, the future is. Maybe Brawn or General Custer will not fuck with them too much initially.

>>62736

He'll probably open up the engine spec and allow limited ground effect stuff to compensate for reductions in conventional aero size.

>>62738

are we then doomed to BoP?

>>62737

i was just doing something similar but then realized M$ is going to push everyone off of win7 in just three years and is retroactively pushing Telemetry from 10 back into 8.1 and 7 anyway (will be forced in a final service pack before they cut off security updates). which would mean to make it worthwhile to 2023 i would need 8.1 and a whole patchwork of hacks replacing the shitty file manager, constantly staying on top of what services i have to disable and what sneaky tuesday patch is trying to fuck me, blocking an ever changing pile of dns on an external device because you can't even in your backdoored os. plus it's only going to get much worse as they migrate their business model to os as a subscription service.

all this means i'll have to linux full time. and that means all those fancy gaming cards and cpu cores will be fucking useless because i won't be playing any more pc games. which means i don't have to upgrade my hardware after all. never been so unhappy at just saving myself hundreds of dollars

>>62740

This is so that I can play stuff like Motorsport Manager (yes my current build is that old) or some other major titles I missed. I had the temptation to go full Linux when I saw what M$ is charging for one home license of W10 but apparently my friend who works for them can set me up for a lot less. Dunno how that works but the bastards probably make even their own employees pay for the OS, albeit heavily discounted.

My laptop is already on W10, 'upgraded' through the major OS versions as they were released. So sadly I am used to the cuckery. Guess the good news is that it will be officially supported longer, tho with most Linux distros it takes a seriously long time for the version to be abandoned.

>have an inkling that game is also available on Linux

>Minimum Spec: Ubuntu 14.04

Fookin dropped

Also Manor is kill but we all knew that

Although the parent company of Manor – Just Racing Services – will cease trading, the company that holds the right to race in F1 – Manor Grand Prix Racing Ltd., is not in administration.

JUST

>>62743

at least sauber will have no competition for last place

>and a new livery

>>62744

Haas doesn't get prize money until 3 seasons of competition (paid out in 2019) so unfortunately curry tits is guaranteed prize money for quite some time.

>but will still find a way to cock it all up

>>62743

RIP. Those 2 Sauber points killed them.

>>62746

>be felipe nasa

>know you're looking for a drive

>try to score points and make yourself marketable

>end up putting the only team you could have driven for out of business

>lose your seat to the driver whose team you just cucked

JUST

>>62747

we never have to suffer crofty's massa/nasr again

>>62748

>those SF15-T mule car flared rear wing endplates

I would be OK with the other '17 cars featuring them, this is manor we are talking about tho

>>62747

he's a piece of shit state-money-financed-sandnigger anyway

>>62752

>great american railway journeys

is that any good? I would watch scenic train video

>>62753

i haven't watched any of merika but i've seen his other railway journeys through yurop and he is an absolutely insufferable pompous ass. constantly reading out his bradshaw's guide and pretending to be an edwardian gentleman. evidently he was some politician a few years ago which explains some of his shitbagity.

maybe if you turned off the sound it would be okay, just don't get blinded by his teal and pink suits

>>62753

if you want comfy there are some Flying Scotsman vids like http://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Flying_Scotsman_from_the_Footplate

force india gets its early money with haas veto lifted

>Haas had no particular issue involving Force India but used its veto as leverage following a request made to the FIA to reimburse the secured $20 million deposit the US outfit had put up over a year ago to guarantee its participation in the Formula 1 world championship.

>The FIA was scheduled to pay back the amount to Haas in full, plus interest, after a two year period. But with Haas' presence on the 2017 grid now guaranteed, it asked the governing body for an early pay-back.

>Apparently the issue has been resolved to Haas' satisfaction, thus also clearing the path for Force India.

what was that $20M doing all this time? nice job getting it back

>>62756

>plus interest

hope they got that too

>>62762

and the same stream is also up as ace on the well known .ru site, maybe ppl just don't need it or aus isn't repoping it. but surprised a vlc has remained up this long.

>skipped first 3hrs

are we rooting for anything interesting?

>not a merc, porsche, audi, or MARC silhouette

>>62763

I just played motorsport manager all afternoon, might be watching later tho

>>62769

so RELENTLESS i turned it off with 90 min to go was suddenly ill actually

>she .. passed 6 drivers

ic its not big on realism

>>62770

>realism

yeah, half the drivers are grills and Vettel (aka 'Wexler') has a tremendous beard

>was suddenly ill actually

feel better anon

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/?p=791231

what do you guys think of factory restoration/reproductions. Datsun did this with 240z cars a while ago

>>62773

well it's not like they are allowed to just make decent new cars any more so why not

people waste money on worse shit

>>62775

it puts an autistic man who commandeered a company and a bunch of arabs in charge of your phone

>>62780

now where are her bathing suit pics like jorda?

>Ferrari has had to cancel the second day of the Pirelli wet tyre test at Fiorano because of a lack of spare parts after Sebastian Vettel's accident.

>Although there had been some hope that repairs could be made to the SF15-T mule car overnight, closer examination of the chassis back at the factory left the team realising it did not have enough spare parts to resume running.

>not have enough spare parts

>Fiorano

rip mule car

>>62793

There really needs to be more Martini liveries in other racing series.

>>62793

>when your official renders look shittier than fanboi mockups

not a good sign for $trolliams

>>62805

He could be a music producer too for some second rate Ibiza shit with that name. All he needs is to dress like an uber-chad and he's ready to light up the club with some fresh beats.

>>62804

Oh man, the shark fin looks good in black; I suppose that's the benefit of not having enough sponsors to fit the space.

ren-O launch in 40 bings

>>62807

it's the black background. can pretend it's not htere

the fin on the STR should be the worst with their new diet livery

renault are actually doin it live again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP_93DA3700

>>62820

I wonder what Ted has to say about it :^)

just noticed the sduct near the R after all the paint jerb hides it

>>62821

electrostatic device to eliminate the need for spark plugs

will there be a car without ugly nose?

>>62823

computacenter

>>62820

I wouldn't be too surprised if it's just there to confuse the other teams and distract from something else. We'll see if it's still there on the test.

>>62824

probably the only one without the thumbtib would have been manner >>62758 . unless force vijay brings back the nostrils

>>62825

its so punters can get uprafts by using the term 'Y75 vortex' on some e-forums

>Silverstone not up for sale

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/silverstone-no-longer-for-sale-brdc-875866/

There's still gonna be some restructuring behind the scenes though.

Sky Sports are running a Potato stream of the Force India event.

http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12430/10769253/force-india-launch-their-2017-f1-car-watch-live-on-sky-sports1234

>Fucking Crofty.

>Mostly marketing shit being spieled out

There's been more talk about Johnnie Walker than clips of the car.

>slept through FI launch

wow that is the fugliest one yet

like a shrimp fork attached to a lawn dart

>>62817

>>62830

So, we get ugly sharkfins every time the formula gets revamped?

>>62837

hopefully the haas fin will be a giant american flag

>>62830

Christ, I even like the shark fins but they couldn't have made that car uglier if they tried.

Here's a neat little gallery of all the launched cars so far plus the Mercedes teaser.

http://www.crash.net/f1/feature/240352/1/gallery-feast-your-eyes-on-the-cars-of-f1-2017.html

This reveal is mostly unwatchable. You can barely make anything out in 1080.

They should've done a conventional stream instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFbvXhjrv90

>>62848

it's the same as last year's nose

that front wing screams launch fake as they are incapable of producing a race aero part with that few elements

>>62849

I guess we'll have a better look at the nose come testing. They stuck with the short nose last season so they might this.

Also Renault are the only team with >>62823 right?

All the other seem to have gone with a straight column thingy.

>The car's name is W08 EQ Power+

https://www.mercedesamgf1.com/en/mercedes-amg-f1/amg-f1-news/amg-f1-article/2017-launch-f1-w08/

>At the 2016 Paris Motor Show, Mercedes-Benz unveiled its new product brand for electric mobility: EQ. The name EQ stands for “Electric Intelligence” and is derived from the Mercedes-Benz brand values of “Emotion and Intelligence”. EQ aims to make electric mobility simple, comfortable, safe and accessible for everybody.

>From the forthcoming facelift of the S-Class, all future Mercedes-Benz Plug-In Hybrids will carry the designation “EQ Power”. And the launch of the F1 W08 EQ Power+ makes the new F1 car the first Mercedes-AMG Hybrid to receive the “EQ Power+” designation, which will be used on all future Mercedes-AMG performance hybrids.

All this road-car shit.

comparing sidepods with the williams the inlets are much wider and much less tall. presumably have the same cooling requirements so this is something

>>62857

Cue Ferrari raising a major stink over Merc thinking what they couldn't.

>>62842

It's so fucking long.

>>62860

All F1 cars look long as fuck in profile thanks to the tiny wheels even tho they are pretty wide now

>>62859

Well there was a slight problem with that.

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/engine-issue-disrupts-toro-rosso-filming-day-876300/

I hope they close up the T-wing loophole before Australia.

>>62866

Why can't Ron Benis for once stick with the testing livery?

>>62870

That ain't happening

>>62873

Goes about as fast as one, to be fair.

>>62873

tbh the marrusia looks better.

>>62867

Ron is out, thus this one has actual color on it.

>Max Verstappen has filled a request with the Formula One Management in order to get a new abbreviation.

from VES to VER now that jev is gone

>scarbs anal isis on drivetribe

https://drivetribe.com/t/G2u-FvWTRiSSNSdxpbergw?iid=ANXlntJWRNea-NruAv62LA

funny, i've been looking at the front there for weeks and it's only ever been james may fluff about speeding cameras and garbage about porsches on ice

>>62888

I hope you are right, trips man. If Williams is bad this season, they're going to struggle to survive. I hope Paddy Lowe comes soon. The MikeF1 guy on that Williams board did also mention hiring the Ferrari Aero guy and James Key does not make sense financially as well. Maybe they might offer shares to James Key as well and I hope that is the case.

>>62892

>>62893

>>62894

I feel betrayed. They said the launch was tomorrow and we got pics today. How can they launch without a surprise?

>>62895

hopefully the surprise will be an announcement they will ditch that grey livery after testing

>>62897

At least it started.

>>62902

it reminds me of those cheap christmas tree ornaments that come twelve to a box

>>62904

When do Ferrari ask for "clarification" on the rules for this piece?

>>62904

Quite a few of the teams hid the diffuser area this year, they normally do.

are we not watching daytona this year?

>>62902

yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvO5jC2W9FM for the lazy

crashcar is more like it. the standard of driving has collapsed since the 90s

>>62911

Thank you.

>>62913

np

so many crashes this year. like we cant go 2 laps from a caution without a pileup.

>>62915

I'm hoping for one more caution before the end.

I love how many chicken wing adverts there are.

>>62916

you might be in luck

>>62917

ahahaha. Honestly i'm disappointed at the relative scarcity of beer ads.

>being a waltrip/hamlin fan is suffering.

>>62920

with alkaseltzer

5 laps to caution hopefully.

I'm legitimately hopeful for you britbongs. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1340899/shop-starts-selling-meat-in-pounds-and-ounces-after-britain-voted-to-leave-the-eu/

this is a sign you might be able to ditch other industry standards.

if you're lucky and active, you might be able to leave euroncap and have good cars again.

fuck there are like no cars left.

>>62922

Well that didn't happen.

>Chase Elliot

That's a pretty decent name for someone in first place. Although, who the fuck calls their child chase?

>>62926

pretty weird. Chase is somewhat common as a girls given name or as a last name but yeah it's a bit goofy.

you can tell what happens in american motorports is bad when they show the WifeCam(R)

>Bayne didn't win.

Guess he wasn't big enough.

I wonder if this will stop his trained assassin ex girlfriend

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nascar/2015/01/13/kurt-busch-ex-girlfriend-assassin-domestic-abuse/21693523/

>>62931

This is what F1 needs to make it exciting.

>>62932

http://www.sportingnews.com/nascar/news/patricia-driscoll-video-kurt-busch-ex-girlfriend-trained-assassin-domestic-abuse-allegation-investigation/1neakv7bq079d10c9w4mntgpx1

the best part is that there's an inkling of truth to it. memetier

tuned in JIT to see someone in haas pyjamas celebrating for the only time this year

>>62934

noice

>>62933

Fucking hell lad.

nearly time for the annual triggered by the fucking low quality green and red flag icons on the live text test coverage

>>62938

i miss the test days from 2014 when all the cars were hacking and wheezing.

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

the racing sucked then too but at least it was in a funny way.

>>62940

a bottle of kingfisher and a condom.

>>62939

honda still makes those noises

remember the ferrari road car with the '14 test PU shoved int?

>>62942

I remember and retards were hyping the shit out of it like it would be some extra fast special edition, as if these motors don't suck ass and weigh more.

this one

>>62946

jean todt pls go

someone should tell him his wife was an asstier bond girl so he an hero's

Noice image

>>62711

man what if they named the truckcunt massacre one after him. That would be poetic.

>>62945

>>62946

>I don't get to masturbate to loud noises

boohoo, it'll be electric before it goes back to obsolete technology, this isn't fucking nascar.

some scarbs roundup on windsor

also on merc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntr5biLJIeg

and on ferrari https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sw7UTgGfrY

>>62949

Noise is not the top priority clearly but all but the most deluded hybrid apologist sees that this is objectively the worst formula f1 ever had.

looks like several MBM commentaries getting underway. unfortunately some of them are just reposting stream of twats

f1i has an actual text, and looks like autosport will as well altho their site is garbage. collantine has one going but it's fucking collantine

Found a small video of some of the cars going round and pics.

https://twitter.com/McLarenF1/status/836194003251040257

McLelen.

>>62961

dj booly-A with the unconvincing shock

>McLaren F1 racing director has admitted that the team hadn't expected to find the new MCL32 so glitch-prone on the first day of pre-season testing

>"It's disappointing because yesterday we had a filming day, we did 100km, and more or less everything went right, so this morning it came as a little bit of a surprise to have a problem.

>"Honda's engine was running in a safe mode [on Sunday] so there wasn't much to compare.

>merc on top

>haas brake problem into a wall

>horner shit talking

>honda broken

>sauber off the pace

maybe something new will happen on day 2

>>62965

Horner is right this time. The Shark fin is very ugly.

>>62969

i love that the mercedes is an upgraded version of the previous incarnations as opposed to a redesign and that it's still going to beat every other car barring todt instituting a ballast system.

RBR looks good, McLaren stinks and Mercedes will dominate.

It's 2014 again.

>>62976

but mclaren was ok in 14

i sort of hope GOV nazi will outdo stroll today

>Vandoorne has completed two installation laps before being attended to by mechanics and wheeled down pit lane into the garage.

http://en.f1i.com/news/90959-williams-calls-day-stroll-mishap.html

>>62983

do you think they sent his dad the bill? or is it already included in what he is paying

>- Any system that changes how the car responds to body accelerations.

>- No direct coupling between the ride height function and the braking system or the steering system.

>- Right height control via self-levelling.

>- Direct coupling between the role and heave parts of the suspension.

>- The storing of energy for delayed deployment or any system that would result in non-incidental asymmetry in the response to changes in load applied to the wheels.

typically FIA, just vague enough to guarantee a protest. the result of which will be only after all the extant systems have bagged extra points. which they will be allowed to keep on grounds the FIA directive was too vague

Wow. Honda is a fucking joke. I'm glad I'm not a McLaren fan is all I can say.

https://twitter.com/Race_Staff/status/836569619485839365

>The Defence Secretary, Sir Michael Fallon, has announced the formation of a world class panel which will help challenge and drive the Ministry of Defence’s innovation agenda.

>In a speech at the University of Oxford, Sir Michael addressed engineering students, academics, and apprentices as he announced three members of the new Defence Innovation Advisory Panel.

>The Panel will be tasked with driving forward the MOD’s Innovation Initiative, which aims to encourage imagination, ingenuity and entrepreneurship, in pursuit of maintaining a military advantage in the future.

>Major Tim Peake, the first British astronaut at the European Space Agency, is one of the panel members to be announced. Businessman and former Chairman of McLaren Technology Group Ron Dennis, Innovate UK’s Chief Executive Ruth Mckernan, and Robert Hannigan, retiring GCHQ Director, all join him.

>“There can be nothing more important than our national security,” Dennis said. “I’m enthusiastic to be among the first of those named to this world class panel, who have joined MOD to spearhead their efforts to innovate across the organisation, from technology to culture – challenging the status quo, staying ahead of the curve through change and innovation.”

making bridan great again

>>62986

>* Competence and licence to drive in the UK

mite b setting the bar too high there

i wonder why williams only had one front wing for the test? considering it is probably the part most likely to be damaged

maybe some situation where they know they don't want this wing but haven't decided the next? or some production problems. if it were sauber it would be because they are poor

some notebooks

day 2

paddock uncut day 1

padduck uncot day 2

>>62991

>>62992

>we should have 20 of the best drivers in the world

>we don't have that today

entire grid btfo

>>62990

It's probably the floor that was damaged which stopped testing.

>>62991

>>62992

>>62993

>>62994

I've been looking for non-potato hosting, thanks.

Some good footage of the first day of testing.

for posterity the notebook notebook from yesterday since the notebook itself was ross brawn

cech out the texting stance at 7:07

>>62999

$troll:

>“Unfortunately just a little thing at the end, a victim of a situation that happened on the end on the car, which just threw the car away from me.

smedley:

>"He was an innocent victim of that happening and what should have been an innocuous sideways moment brought him around into the barrier and did some damage.

>"That happens and we expect it to happen there is no blame on his part."

bet victim dot com

notebook day 3

paddock uncut day 3

>>63005

purple drank

>>63005

Watermelon

this honda noise from 0:45

here is the paddock uncut for 4

next should be "development corner" from ted

here

>>63020

why did mexibro get scared off? like what happened to him?

>>63021

bullied by an Australian that has now fucked off to halfchan

clipsal stuff still going on for third day

ARCs race 4 just finished, TCMs next and then GTs. schedule: >>63017

vGnWL

Gilles Simon is leaving Honda

https://web.archive.org/web/20170306202319/http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/128383/honda-parts-company-with-gilles-simon

>But against the backdrop of Honda's troubled first 2017 test, and amid rumours of disagreements between Simon and other senior management about the direction the engine project needed to go in, they have agreed to part ways.

Do you reckon he said something like "hon hon hon, let's make our engine work this year"?

newey pet project gets white power nazi name

>>63031

serves them right desu for hiring gaijin

>they put rachel on the case instead of craig

i wonder if he got stuck in his hotel somehow being a spastic

>>63034

How are they trolling?

>>63035

it's the pit stop practice car, none of those parts are meant for the track