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Ghost of Mussolini posted:How can anyone not like Sauber ??? Weren't they one of the two teams that scored a massive zero points in 2014?
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Norns posted:Weren't they one of the two teams that scored a massive zero points in 2014? That might have been because their drivers were incredibly bad, to be fair.
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Feb 18, 2015 00:29
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F1 journalism basically amounts to copy/pasting press releases and trying to be friends with everybody rather than being critical and independent. I guess that's to be expected when reporting from inside a dictatorship. (Look at that Panorama doc on Bernie from last year, no one wanted to say anything, much less anything that could be considered as critical.) There's something to be said about the photography, which can be really excellent.
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Feb 18, 2015 00:29
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Ghost of Mussolini posted:How can anyone not like Sauber ??? they're the most boring bland non-team on the grid ever since BMW left and took their funding with them
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Feb 18, 2015 00:31
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I can't even remeber what livery they were using. I keep thinking they were the Caterham cars.
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Feb 18, 2015 00:37
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Sauber were extremely cool in 2012 when they had Kamui and people actually thought Sergio Perez was going to be a success.
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Feb 18, 2015 00:38
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A buddy told me to watch for Kamui since hes supposed to be a great midpack racer. Man was I loving disappointed in 2014.
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Feb 18, 2015 00:41
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Kamui was great in cars actually built to compete in F1 rather than just go around a track at the same time F1 cars were there. I still remember some pretty breathtaking overtakes he did in his last few seasons at Sauber. It's a real shame he never got the backing to get into a better car. I personally think McLaren chose the wrong Sauber driver.
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Feb 18, 2015 00:46
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Is it about ethics in motorsport journalism?
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Feb 18, 2015 00:51
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Craig Scarborough wrote something for Autosport that takes a more practical look at that Ferrari concept and explains why it will never ever happen: http://plus.autosport.com/premium/feature/6390/could-ferrari-f1-concept-become-reality/?_ga=1.202706641.1546865961.1408733576 A shame as visually it's interesting, but how do you write a rulebook that encourages interesting looking cars as opposed to aerodynamically efficient ones? (hint, you can't)
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Feb 18, 2015 01:11
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drgitlin posted:Craig Scarborough wrote something for Autosport that takes a more practical look at that Ferrari concept and explains why it will never ever happen: http://plus.autosport.com/premium/feature/6390/could-ferrari-f1-concept-become-reality/?_ga=1.202706641.1546865961.1408733576 The answer is something no one wants to hear - standardised front-ends and floors. I'd probably be OK with it if it meant the teams could build whatever they wanted on top and put in any powerplant they chose. And if they brought in an FIA garage just purely to run local wildcards.
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Feb 18, 2015 01:43
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Norns posted:A buddy told me to watch for Kamui since hes supposed to be a great midpack racer. Man was I loving disappointed in 2014. His car was really awful.
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Feb 18, 2015 02:02
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Alain Post posted:Sauber were extremely cool in 2012 when they had Kamui and people actually thought Sergio Perez was going to be a success. Remember when Perez signed on for McLaren and his performances flatlined near the end of the year.
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Feb 18, 2015 02:03
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Human Grand Prix posted:Remember when Perez signed on for McLaren and his performances flatlined near the end of the year. Yeah, it was like they hired him based entirely on the Chinese GP that year or something.
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Feb 18, 2015 02:09
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drgitlin posted:Craig Scarborough wrote something for Autosport that takes a more practical look at that Ferrari concept and explains why it will never ever happen: http://plus.autosport.com/premium/feature/6390/could-ferrari-f1-concept-become-reality/?_ga=1.202706641.1546865961.1408733576 Does it say anything about sitting in pit for 10 mins to replace 7 separate body panels, wings and nose cones after being Pastored?
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Feb 18, 2015 02:11
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drgitlin posted:Craig Scarborough wrote something for Autosport that takes a more practical look at that Ferrari concept and explains why it will never ever happen: http://plus.autosport.com/premium/feature/6390/could-ferrari-f1-concept-become-reality/?_ga=1.202706641.1546865961.1408733576 Behind pay wall  anyone got a copy accessible?
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Feb 18, 2015 02:20
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hey i have a question about craig scarborough. i found his linkedin and literally all he's ever done is be an IT admin/manager/whatever. what the gently caress qualifies him to be an F1 expert
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Feb 18, 2015 03:05
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Wirth1000 posted:When did motorsport.com become some sort of actual journalistic output site and not the massive image dump for various legitimate real racing series and american clown shows? i think they did a buzzfeed, make a bunch of money generating spammy poo poo content and then invest it into being a respectable (ISH) site
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Feb 18, 2015 03:06
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I still like that Ferrari render and think F1 cars should have awesome Can-Am inspired-designs. What sort of prison hooker do I have to become to get Jean Todt to make this happen
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Feb 18, 2015 03:17
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What the gently caress is the point of the paywall on news items on Autosport.com when Racer.com just posts literally all the news stories for free.
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Feb 18, 2015 04:33
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Wirth1000 posted:What the gently caress is the point of the paywall on news items on Autosport.com when Racer.com just posts literally all the news stories for free. It's really important we know Gary Anderson's desperately wrong opinion about everything.
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Feb 18, 2015 04:35
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Butt Wizard posted:It's really important we know Gary Anderson's desperately wrong opinion about everything. He's never as wrong as Edd Straw, who's so invariably wrong he's probably one of the shitposters in this very thread.
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Feb 18, 2015 04:46
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its me i am the gary anderson
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Feb 18, 2015 05:23
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Gary Anderson should stick to designing cars.
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Feb 18, 2015 07:21
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About 10 years ago Car or Autosport did a special where they asked prominent designers to design their F1 car of the future. Gordon Murray's was basically a Wipeout 2097 thing and holy poo poo it owned. I'm on my phone but I will try to find it later it must be floating around
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Feb 18, 2015 08:05
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Reactions to the F1 concept from Ferrari on Autosport ranges from: F1 is not INDY!!!! F1 is not Le Mans!!!!! A detailed technical discussion of why a design concept for the general look and feel is completely wrong aerodynamically and would be terrible More people complaining that the look is not F1 enough A couple of people who legitimately think it is interesting A bunch of people who think the sport is perfectly fine as it is A bunch of people who think the sport is stuffed but changing the design philosophy will do nothing because drivers should be in more danger and tracks suck All the other mentally ill people who do not fit into the above groups who just hate it because Ferrari isn't English
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Feb 18, 2015 08:12
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Wirth1000 posted:What the gently caress is the point of the paywall on news items on Autosport.com when Racer.com just posts literally all the news stories for free. Because they hate people looking at their adverts. More seriously I guess Racer are paying them more than the adverts would but that doesn't sound right.
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Feb 18, 2015 08:54
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be nice wicka posted:hey i have a question about craig scarborough. i found his linkedin and literally all he's ever done is be an IT admin/manager/whatever. what the gently caress qualifies him to be an F1 expert He drew some fancy pictures of the inside of F1 cars that got popular on the internet.
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Brainwrong posted:He drew some fancy pictures of the inside of F1 cars that got popular on the internet. Autism. Gotcha.
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F1 2015: Sauber added a dick ring
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Feb 18, 2015 10:16
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The FIA banned changing helmets midseason. Not happy.
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Feb 18, 2015 12:14
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Sebastian Vettel posted:The FIA banned changing helmets midseason. Not happy. Why not just ban fun all together and then insist every time goes in with a beige coloured car?
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Feb 18, 2015 12:19
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darth cookie posted:Why not just ban fun all together and then insist every time goes in with a beige coloured car? Beige is far to lively. Grey is where it's at. Grey and black.
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Linedance posted:Beige is far to lively. Grey is where it's at. Grey and black. And some wacky zany McLaren intern put some red on the designs as an office prank, and everyone laughed because "haha, colour. How bohemian" and Ron Dennis let them keep it in lieu of getting a Christmas bonus. I hate McLaren.
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Feb 18, 2015 12:41
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darth cookie posted:Why not just ban fun all together and then insist every time goes in with a beige coloured car? I actually think this is good move and playing up to the gimmick of my username being Sebastian Vettel.
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Feb 18, 2015 13:07
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Sebastian Vettel posted:I actually think this is good move and playing up to the gimmick of my username being Sebastian Vettel. I love Sebastian Vettel
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Feb 18, 2015 13:13
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i'm willing to lose the occasional neat one-off helmets if it means vettel has to stick to a single loving design i do think this change and permanent numbers and whatever will make it easier for fans to identify drivers and ultimately in some way improve "the show" but why isn't this a secondary measure behind uh accepting that the internet exists, having a youtube channel, streaming races, etc
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Feb 18, 2015 13:20
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Say what you want about Vettel's helmet changes, but that also means that if this rule had been in place previously, Jenson wouldn't have been able to have a tribute to his dad and all the other drivers wouldn't be able to have a new one-off helmet design for their home GP.
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krushgroove posted:Say what you want about Vettel's helmet changes, but that also means that if this rule had been in place previously, Jenson wouldn't have been able to have a tribute to his dad and all the other drivers wouldn't be able to have a new one-off helmet design for their home GP. So one shitcunt ruined it for everyone. e: Realised that specifying who the shitcunt is was redundant NtotheTC fucked around with this message at 13:55 on Feb 18, 2015 |
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