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It's the 2016 F1 Season! I have put in as much effort into this OP as I deemed necessary - consequently it is a bit shorter than in previous years. I decided not to pick the "Racing" tag in case it caused false hope Last year was the second year in a row of Mercedes domination. This year will hopefully be a bit closer as Mercedes run into diminishing returns on car development and most teams will have one eye on the new rules coming next year. Rule Changes The only rule changes are some overcomplicated fiddles to the tyre rules which will be explained ad nauseum by your local F1 broadcaster, increased restrictions on in-race advice from the pit, and some overcomplicated fiddles to the qualifying rules which will be explained ad nauseum by your local F1 broadcaster. Calendar Just use this link (you can also use it to see other motorsport calendars) The slightly more effort bit 2015: 1st 703pts Stated Aim: Win both World Championships... again Actual Aim: Try to get Rosberg a World Championship 2015: 1st 381pts Like if: You are a glory hunter Hate if: You are racist/anti-British 2015: 2nd 322pts Like if: You find him sexually attractive Hate if: You find him sexually attractive 2015: 2nd 428pts Stated Aim: Win a World Championship Actual Aim: Finish a slightly closer second behind Mercedes 2015: 3rd 278pts Like if: You are literally Hitler Hate if: You are halfway sane 2015: 4th 150pts Like if: You like tedious old catchphrases Hate if: You find out how much he gets paid to be poo poo 2015: 3rd 257pts Stated Aim: Hold onto third place Actual Aim: Work out how to do corners 2015: 6th 121pts Like if: You are a paralympics enthusiast Hate if: You have something against Brazil 2015: 5th 136pts Like if: You like Finns who aren't pricks Hate if: You are Kimi fan #1 2015: 4th 187pts Stated Aim: Challenge for race wins Actual Aim: Find someone to blame for everything 2015: 8th 92pts Like if: You are a toothpaste manufacturer Hate if: You are Brainwrong 2015: 7th 95pts Like if: Putin tells you to Hate if: Putin tells you to 2015: 5th 136pts Stated Aim: Compete with Williams and Red Bull Actual Aim: Have a halfway solvent owner 2015: 10th 58pts Like if: You are a fan of endurance racing Hate if: You think he should've done something by now 2015: 9th 78pts Like if: You work for Pirelli's PR department Hate if: You expect anything from him in the first half of the season 2015: 6th 78pts (as Lotus) Stated Aim: Rebuild after Lotus ran out of money Actual Aim: Hope people forget how bad their engine is 2015: Twiddled thumbs at McLaren Like if: Danes are your favourite Norsemen Hate if: You are Ron Dennis 2015: Smashed GP2 at the 4th attempt Like if: You like Brits with only one kidney Hate if: You can't get past how silly his name is 2015: 7th 67pts Stated Aim: Solid points finishes Actual Aim: Train Verstappen to replace Kvyat 2015: 12th 49pts Like if: You are a frog and toad enthusiast Hate if: You can't be dealing with these whippersnappers 2015: 15th 18pts Like if: You liked his dad Hate if: You think F1 has enough Red Bull drivers 2015: 8th 36pts Stated Aim: Be better than last year Actual Aim: Find enough money to pay staff 2015: 18th 9pts Like if: Swedes are your favourite Norsemen Hate if: You are a poor and want to get into F1 2015: 13th 27pts Like if: You mistook him for Massa Hate if: You have to write about him for the OP 2015: 9th 27pts Stated Aim: Podium finishes by end of year... somehow Actual Aim: Be less embarassing than "drivers openly mock car" 2015: 17th 11pts Like if: You are into down on their luck Spaniards Hate if: You are afraid of zombies 2015: 16th 16pts Like if: You are into down on their luck Brits Hate if: You inexplicably still think he's poo poo 2015: 10th 0pts (as Marussia) Stated Aim: Be closer to the field than last year Actual Aim: Get Wehrlein F1 experience 2015: Won DTM Like if: You are employed by Mercedes Hate if: You are Nico Rosberg and you don't beat Lewis 2015: 4th in GP2 Like if: You like his money Hate if: You loathe Indonesians for some reason 2015: Did not exist Stated Aim: Points and turn a profit Actual Aim: Advertise Haas products 2015: 11th 51pts (at Lotus) Like if: USA USA USA USA Hate if: You realise he is 2015: Did absolutely nothing Like if: USA USA USA USA Hate if: You realise he is Mexican (and poo poo) Team Changes: The Enstone Team Lotus are now back to being Renault with Renault engines instead of Mercedes Manor Marussia have been allowed to drop the Marussia bit and are now just Manor. They have Mercedes power now instead of Ferrari Red Bull managed to royally piss Renault off, but couldn't find another engine supplier and had to come crawling back. They will call their engine Tag Heuer for reasons Toro Rosso have ended up with last year's Ferrari engine because Renault weren't going to help out Red Bull too much Lastly, we welcome Haas! Hi Haas. Team Haas is being run from 4 different locations with nearly everything subcontracted out, which is a thing. They have Ferrari power Driver Changes Pastor Maldonado was dumped by Renault because his sponsors still haven't paid for last year. He's replaced by Kevin Magnussen, who was sacked as McLaren reserve driver by text on his birthday Romain Grosjean has moved from Renault to the new Haas team. He is replaced at Renault by 2015 GP2 champion Jolyon Palmer The other Haas driver is Esteban Gutierrez, he was so poo poo in 2014 he ended up in the Luca Badoer role at Ferrari Finally, Manor dumped all their drivers and signed Pascal Wehrlein, a Mercedes backed hopeful, and Rio Haryanto who has mad Indonesian bank Other stuff people will ask me to add IRC: irc.synirc.net/F1 2015-16 Off-season | 2015 Part 1|2015 Part 2 | 2014-15 Off-season | 2014 season | 2013-14 Off-season | 2013 season | 2012-13 Off season | 2012 season 2011-12 Off-season | 2011 Part 1|2011 Breakaway (stop talking about phones!)|2011 Part 2 | 2010-2011 Off Season | 2010 Part 1|2010 Part 2 | 2009-2010 Off season 2009 News and Views|2009 Part 1|2009 Breakaway Thread|2009 Part 2 | 2008-2009 Off season | 2008 Part 1|2008 Part 2|2008 Part 3 | 2007-2008 Off season 2007 Part 1|2007 Part 2|2007 Part 3 | 2006 Part 1|2006 Part 2|2006 Part 3|2006 Part 4|2006 Part 5 | 2005 Whole Season | 2005 Part WTF | 2004 Whole Season Tsaedje fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Jun 15, 2016 |
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Rosberg is moonlighting at Toro Rosso now?
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 01:33 |
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Alonso will podium this season
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 01:34 |
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El Hefe posted:Alonso will podium this season It will be at Suzuka (maybe) (probably not).
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 01:35 |
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Human Grand Prix posted:Rosberg is moonlighting at Toro Rosso now? 2 spergs spotted this in under a minute. Good work, already fixed.
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 01:36 |
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Human Grand Prix posted:Rosberg is moonlighting at Toro Rosso now? It's a big OP give a bit of leaveway
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 01:37 |
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Tsaedje posted:2 spergs spotted this in under a minute. Good work, already fixed. You should have left it in. The description also worked sorta.
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 01:38 |
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Tsaedje posted:
Fixed that one. Good OP overall
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 01:38 |
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El Hefe posted:Alonso will podium this season Hell he'll win races this year.
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 01:38 |
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Also this is a quality OP. Good job.
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 01:39 |
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Oh yeah we need to do bold predictions before qualifying. Haas will be competitive Lewis Hamilton will have a break down in the middle of the year and become poo poo
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 01:40 |
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I feel like "competitive" needs to be defined for that prediction to be anywhere near bold
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 01:43 |
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Fighting Sauber or whoever is slightly faster than Manor.
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 01:45 |
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keevo posted:Fighting Sauber or whoever is slightly faster than Manor. Sauber is a good benchmark, for sure
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 01:47 |
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Tsaedje posted:Sauber is a good benchmark, for sure If Haas beats Sauber this year you've really got to wonder what they're doing on the grid.
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 01:50 |
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the haas is now white
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 01:58 |
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Exciting stuff
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 01:59 |
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be nice wicka posted:the haas is now white I actually like the look of that quite a bit more. Also sky finally ditched the "Nico hit me" bit in their opening video.
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 02:02 |
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Wet Mel
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 02:02 |
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Haas will have more points than Renault this year. Fairly bold.
dreesemonkey fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Mar 18, 2016 |
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Jolyon Palmer will outscore Kevin Magnussen
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 02:05 |
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keevo posted:Oh yeah we need to do bold predictions before qualifying. Haas will score points in their first race Rosberg will commit suicide by cop after suffering a nervous breakdown in Monaco Vettel will make a questionable comment about Muslims and/or Jews Only 3 cars will finish the Monaco Grand Prix, none of them championship contenders, none of them McLarens A Williams will win a race A Finn will win a race An American will be brought in to replace another driver at the USGP A track marshal will die Kilonum fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Jul 28, 2016 |
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Williams will win a wet race.
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 02:08 |
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McLaren are poo poo.
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 02:15 |
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Alain Post posted:McLaren are poo poo. supposed to be bold
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 02:16 |
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Oh man Palmer has quite a chin on him. First time I've noticed that.
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 02:17 |
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Way more effort in the OP than we deserve. gently caress YES FINALLY
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 02:29 |
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"Its great to have Aston Martin back in Formula One" I'm no expert on the 50s/60s era but didn't Aston do miserably?
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 02:39 |
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I like how you omitted Vettel's stars
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 03:07 |
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Diet Crack posted:I like how you omitted Vettel's stars I'm going to pretend it was intentional
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 03:14 |
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The McLaren going into T1 looks like the most unstable, bouncy turd ever.
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 03:17 |
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Verstappen with the first spin of 2016
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 03:45 |
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He Verstopped
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 03:46 |
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Vercrappen.
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 03:48 |
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Minimum Verstappen
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 03:52 |
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Jesus Christ Hamilton. Then again, FP1.
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 04:06 |
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The most exciting race will be at Hockenheim. The least exciting race will be at Baku.
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 04:06 |
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This was an ominous performance from Mercedes, IMO.
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 04:11 |
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Rev. Dr. Moses P. Lester posted:Minimum Verstappen Maximum Verstopen
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El Hefe posted:Exciting stuff White is good.
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# ? Mar 18, 2016 04:13 |