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daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
That race had everything

Battle back and forth for the lead? Check
The top two teams dueling it out? Check
Billionaire son humiliates himself? Check (https://whendidmazepinspin.com/)
Washed up former Ferrari driver causing an accident? Check

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daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

Zeta Acosta posted:

every driver who violate track limits should be gunned down with machineguns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2GEKV1dOgY

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
Some of you guys are way to obsessed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWkVeT9GWeE

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
Confirmed excellent Drivers

Mad Max
Lewis (what a great drive)
Lando


Confirmed Frauds
Bottas - He's just bad
Mazebin - By the end of the season he will give birth to a thousand memes
Perez - Just another #2 Red Bull driver to get chewed up and spit out
Alonso - Should have stayed retired

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
If George's contract is up this year, I can't see him staying at Williams. Mercedes won't want to lose him, so either Bottas is out or George goes to McClaren and Dan is out.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

italian quid posted:

I really don't think the FIA or FOM fundamentally understand that the races are boring because nobody can pass other than the top three teams on the rest of the field, I don't see how a sprint race resolves that but 🤷🏼‍♂️


They do get it, but they also understand that F1 has gone too far down the rabbit hole to change that without completely blowing up the formula. That's not going to happen until those in charge start to lose money. Until then, they will nibble around the edges making minor changes.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
1) America does not need an F1 race. As an American I like watching the races at 8 AM on Sunday morning in my Pajamas.
2) American drivers do not make it to F1 because who wants to live in a Socialist paradise with free healthcare?
3) Haas' F1 team is a Fraudulent Faux American team run by Italians who want to embarrass America.
4) Ban Wings.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

FAUXTON posted:

get in there valtteri

:drat:

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

ilmucche posted:

My google pixel 4a should arrive tomorrow

Best phone I ever bought. Does everything I want, battery lasts for days, and it's cheap to buy.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

Pablo Bluth posted:

Did Haas accidentally give Mazepin an F2 car?

Does it matter? Mazepin can't drive either.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

Diorama posted:

One day I would like to travel to America to sample their world famous "little caesars" pizza

If you never get here, just try eating the shoes after Ricciardo drinks from it. Tastes the same.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZ


Burn this track the ground Nuke this track from orbit

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

Sab0921 posted:

This is fun, but also bulldoze Monaco and make it affordable housing for migrants.

Worst track ever. Maybe Liberty will threaten them into fixing this awful track.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

Zeta Acosta posted:

https://twitter.com/f1writers/status/1396585399464730624

what the gently caress they did to that wheel goddamn

Likely means it wasn't the wheelman's fault, as it's trivial to get a nut like this off with an air cutoff tool without having to go back to the shop.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

marshalljim posted:



To solve the Monaco problem, just have the race start with everyone lined up in reverse order of WDC points.

This is Brilliant on so many levels. #Mazespintrain becomes a reality, Haas take 1st and 2nd, and everyone realizes how terrible Monaco is and the whole race gets cancelled.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
Best Quali ever.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
What area some examples of a hopeless backmarker team like the current Williams and Haas actually getting their act together and competing for podiums? Bonus points if you can come up with teams that did it without a change in ownership.

daslog fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Jun 28, 2021

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

FAUXTON posted:

scuderia ferrari from 2020 to 2021 was a big turnaround

I thought of them, but I don't remember them being close to dead last or second to last.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

Panic! At The Tesco posted:

I haven't read much about the upcoming new regs. How likely are they to actually make a difference this time? Honestly sometimes I wish F1 was a spec series, it's pretty ridiculous when it gets to the point that the top two teams can lap every other car.

Generally in racing, no matter what the series is, eventually there will be a handful top teams who outspend everyone else and dominate. Changing the build rules often shakes this up so there is a reasonable chance that Ferrari will once again suck.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

glyph posted:

Late on this, but McLaren and Ferrari were 9th and 10th (out of 11 points scoring teams), respectively in the 1980 WCC, with each failing to qualify at least once.

ty

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

Theophany posted:

"they" didn't, Croft did. Di Resta immediately corrected him but was, bizarrely, overruled.

What I'm saying is that Sky do actually have some decent people like Di Resta and Chandhok but for some reason they continue to push the likes of the fat shouty turd who really needs to gently caress off back to ally pally and the darts.

I think you are missing something here. Crofty said something to the effect of "I'm being told it's a 5 second penalty" which can be translated to "the support guy talking into the headphones is telling me that it's one 5 second penalty"

You may now resume your Crofty bashing.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
George replaces Bottas
Bottas Replaces Kimi
Some F2 Mercedes driver replaces George.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
YouTube tv is the best way to watch f1 in America. Set the dvr for formula 1 and you are good to go

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

quote:

The high media profile of Formula 1 masks the fact that most teams are relatively small organisations with limited HR capabilities. Recruitment to five or ten graduate positions may result in over a thousand applications. As a shortcut, some teams filter to candidates with 1st class honours degrees only. Most teams recognised filtering by particular university groups resulted in less diversity; this is discouraged but many recruiting managers acknowledged that they sought out applications from universities - typically Russell Group - with which they had strong relationships.


I'm not sure I'm reading this right. Are they saying that teams are filtering out of candidates that don't have honours degrees and this is bad for diversity?

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

Aphex- posted:

They're talking about first class honours which are the highest awards you can achieve for your degree and Russell Group universities are like our version of Ivy League schools. So basically selecting only the top achievers from the more prestigious universities that all their mates went to.

Thanks. Trying to convince the teams to hire anyone besides the top candidates because of their skin color seems like a long shot.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
so how does quali work if the winner of the sprint race gets pole?

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

harperdc posted:

quali sets the sprint grid, winner of the sprint is officially 'polesitter' which has made Sebastian Vettel mad.

I 100% approve of any system that makes the drivers whine.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
#FAILRARERRI

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

Petty Haberdasher posted:

This is my first year watching F1 and coming from NASCAR in the 90s and 2000s I'm really struggling to understand the penalties that to me at least seem like regular racing. Especially the last couple of weekends, it's the most I've shouted at the TV and it's caused my boyfriend to come into the room to make sure everything is okay.

Max's racing this season reminds me a lot of how Dale Earnhardt used to drive, nothing but hack driving and shoving people around. Which, fair, that's a valid way to go at it even if I'm not big on it but the whining out of that team when their opponent finally calls their bluff gets some huge eye rolls from me.

I appreciate this thread pointing out the pit lane channel, I've enjoyed that commentary quite a bit more than the main feed. Ditto missed apex (I think I saw that recommendation here at least) as those two have really helped me understand some of the rules and strategies that aren't super obvious for someone new to the sport.

F1 is run by Europeans who think soccer is a sport played by manly men when in fact it's a bunch of drama queens faking injuries. They run F1 the same way .

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

F1 just programmed fuel conservation into the formula buy mandating fuel flow rates. Formula E can do the same thing if they want to.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

track day bro! posted:

personally I think we should ban all forms of motorsport


What has happened to NASCAR is the the cars go too fast to make the racing entertaining on many tracks.

Aero ruins everything, especially at high speed.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

boop the snoot posted:

So we should road plows on the front of f1 cars?

Ban wings!

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

NotJustANumber99 posted:

So Toto's email diagrams turned out to be from the same colouring book as the ones posted in this thread?

Team principles drawing in wrecks in MS paint. I think my son did the same in elementary school.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
I'm still trying to get my arms around how the cost cap works.

Next year, if the fraudulent Bottas ends up driving for Alpha Tauri and punts our good boy George so many times that Mercedes has to exceed the cost cap due to all the replacement parts, is Mercedes just screwed?

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

Theophany posted:

the guy who has a storied history of berating people to an open mailing list for whatever minor transgression is just a different entry on the bristol scale, they all loving suck and should have their egos reverse-enema'd back into their poo poo-filled colons

e: mandrakelinux supremacy

Man, this makes feel terrible for people who get insulted on the internet. They should burn him at the stake.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
I have tried multiple times to watch Formula E. It's boring as hell , someone explain why it's more than a bunch of manufacturers engaged in marketing exercise to look green while not actually developing anything.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
We all should make fun of NASCAR at all times, but even they know how to postpone a race due to weather.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
The only thing Sprints do is demonstrate how boring F1 would be without pit stops.

daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari
I didn't expect George to start out qualifying Lewis until next year.

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daslog
Dec 10, 2008

#essereFerrari

Centusin posted:

Max winning 1 wdc is fine as long as George wins the next 5

I'm also a big fan of good boy Georgie

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