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Feels Villeneuve posted:McLaren are poo poo.
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It remains to be seen how good Sargeant will be. This year’s F2 field stunk - if anything, I’d probably give Drugovich a shot first.
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Nov 21, 2022 16:23
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F2 rookie standouts - Doohan, Lawson, Sargeant, Iwasa. Personally I dunno why Hauger gets to be the RBR reserve over Iwasa, who handily beat him in a worse car. He actually would have finished 3rd if not for Monza’s DQ. Doohan looks pretty fast - very raw though.
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Nov 21, 2022 16:26
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Feels Villeneuve posted:there are worse circuits but I hate silverstone the most op It’s bad compared to the old high speed layouts.
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Nov 21, 2022 23:27
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Feels Villeneuve posted:Looks like it's shaping up to be an incredible year to be a scud supporter, and yet another epic fail year to be Br*tish op Apparently Ferrari stopped development early for 2023 and turned down the engine a bit for reliability - so that bodes well for next year.
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Nov 22, 2022 16:49
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I personally grew very irritated that Mercedes fans and pundits alike seemed to not acknowledge that the W13 was a severely flawed car and the giant performance boost that was supposed to happen from like round 5 never materialized. It was, in most circumstances, not a race winning package. The engine also has been outclassed - this year, it was likely the worst on the grid.
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Nov 22, 2022 16:51
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italian quid posted:F1 fans are terrible for just making poo poo up to suit their narrative. The Merc was a dog this year. Remember the flex-floor nonsense before Belgium and how the TD would propel the W13 back to the front? Then Belgium actually happened. If anything the RBR cars were unaffected and it hurt the Ferrari more than anything. This was also not helped by Russell’s statements sometimes (IE Hungary).
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Nov 22, 2022 17:49
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Hamilton is fine. He’s a great driver.
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Nov 22, 2022 18:12
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Liam Lawson is being sent to Super Formula for some reason, which I don't mind but it's usually a place to park drivers that already are F2 champions. Pourchaire is likely headed there too.. Also, Mehri will be making his return there as well. He's extremely out of depth. Frond fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Nov 22, 2022 |
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Nov 22, 2022 18:25
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italian quid posted:There's like no talent in the pipeline to F1 which is depressing. There should be considerable panic over the fact any team would think bringing Hulkenberg back was a good idea but the media instead seems to act like this is perfectly fine lol Even F3 is barren. The V6 regs have been a disaster.
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Nov 22, 2022 20:06
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Feels Villeneuve posted:It's the same reason Kimi kept a seat so long and why teams would hire guys like Pedro de la Rosa or Jarno Trulli. Sometimes you want a guy who isn't going to do stupid poo poo and is going to be reasonably good at developing the car and scoring occasional points. Hulkenberg is actually something like the 20th highest point scorer of time, fair enough.
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Nov 22, 2022 20:09
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Feels Villeneuve posted:Presumably Haas will not be running their 2022 car next season OP Presumably.
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Nov 22, 2022 20:09
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Charles Leclerc posted:In fairness it's because most of them get their narrative from drive to survive and the motorsport.com comment section, which is the equivalent of eating lead paint and washing it back with a nice refreshing glass of high fructose corn syrup. Motorsport.com has one of, if not THE worst, comment section I've ever seen.
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Nov 22, 2022 20:22
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Feels Villeneuve posted:
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Nov 23, 2022 18:14
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Not ever reading that post.
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Nov 23, 2022 23:53
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Panic! At The Tesco posted:lewis continues to own NICE.
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Nov 24, 2022 04:09
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F1 cars may have fenders during wet races…
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Nov 24, 2022 20:01
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Byrne was.
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Nov 24, 2022 23:41
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Feels Villeneuve posted:that's right.... he's an "extreme e" bad driver!!!
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Nov 28, 2022 06:11
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Feels Villeneuve posted:i'm a big fan of Super Super Sebby V op I really like late Vettel.
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Nov 28, 2022 06:11
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Nov 30, 2022 16:38
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italian quid posted:I dunno, his job was kinda to figure out that he needed to do exactly that and he didn't. So his leadership ability is somewhat questionable I wish he could have been retained in some other role. He clearly is a very good engineer.
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Nov 30, 2022 16:39
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Simplex posted:I've never really understood the Monaco hate. Yes, it's largely processional, but for a long time that was every track. With Monaco you always have a good chance for some rain, and barring that someone is going to throw their car into a barrier at some point to bring out the safety car. So really in any given year Ferrari is going to have multiple opportunities to make a boneheaded strategy decision. It’s a really lovely track and the races are awful processions.
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Dec 4, 2022 01:31
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Slow speed circuits suck eggs.
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Dec 4, 2022 01:32
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Feels Villeneuve posted:KFC is dog poo poo Japanese KFC was pretty good. Canadian KFC gave me food poisoning.
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Dec 5, 2022 20:34
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italian quid posted:also I wasn't describing it as posh McDonalds, I said that there's a subset of people that exist that think they're posh for eating Wendys over McDonalds lol McDonalds is also fine for what it is, Ditto Wendy’s. Burger King is measurably worse than either.
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Dec 5, 2022 20:35
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I’ve been debating whether to install autoblip/flatshift in my Toyota 86. I could see a benefit.
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Dec 5, 2022 20:39
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Heel-Toe is fun though.
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Dec 5, 2022 20:39
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The best fried chicken around me is made by Hakka Chinese places.
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Dec 5, 2022 21:16
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https://the-race.com/formula-1/could-renaults-old-f1-boss-lead-hyundai-to-formula-1 Lmao. Let's hire the guy with this F1 track record; - Producing, on average, the worst F1 engine since 2018. - Destroying the relationship with RBR. - Losing all of their customer teams. - Signing drivers for PR stunts (then losing one of said drivers). Also added bonus; - He oversaw the Mechachrome 3.4L single turbo F2 engine. Read about how that's been going since 2018.
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Dec 7, 2022 19:47
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The new BMW 4 series looks like a Capybara from the front.
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Dec 7, 2022 20:09
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The Toyotas are bland and non-offensive, which is better than virtually of their rivals. Ferraris still look really good.
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Dec 7, 2022 22:48
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ArmZ posted:I like the 86/brz/frs I don't care what anyone says. I do to. I own one.
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They had been trying to make a mid-engined Corvette for like 50 years. What are you on about? Also MR/M4 > All else. GM realized the FMR chassis had been pushed as far it was allowed to go. Also while it’s hard to prove, GM’s internal management was so rattled by the Fiero they intentionally severely nerfed it as they knew it’s chassis dynamics were superior to the C4 Corvette’s despite it being made of Citation parts.
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Dec 8, 2022 20:22
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italian quid posted:I don't think it really was that as much as a reckoning among GM management at the time that having like 8 different divisions building oddball projects that only stepped on its own market share made zero loving sense now that they didn't have a stranglehold over the US market. Here’s where I’d disagree slightly - Roger B Smith’s attempt to reform it made it even worse. He is the absolute worst CEO of the 20th century IMO. Keep in mind the Japanese market had a shitload of market duplication (do you like the Mazda Familia? How about 6 different versions of it!!) but avoided the issues because they were good at the expensive bit sharing (driveline and chassis). GM would have 4 similar looking cars on the outside but they would have 5 different engine and transmissions among them. Frond fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Dec 8, 2022 |
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Dec 8, 2022 21:05
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italian quid posted:I would also say that it is very GM to gut an ambitious project to follow a more conservative approach, they had a functional EV in the 90s and shuttered the whole thing. The Chevy Vega allegedly was going to have a rotary engine to the point where GM had functional prototypes doing lifetime mileage simulations and they abandoned that completely at the last minute. There was going to be a mid-engines rotary Corvette too. Keep in mind as well they were Turbo pioneers and just fluffed that off completely, sold 2 really good engine designs to other companies (and then had to buy back one from AMC embarrassingly like 8 years later.)
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italian quid posted:They had a really good FWD platform too and just left it to languish till the imports stole the march on them. Probably could've dominated the RV market if they had stayed in it instead of building one really good model and just letting it age out GMs abrupt exit from the commercial market was extremely weird - they did very well there…
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ethanol posted:yeah there was only once celica kid because they were more expensive, but still pieces of poo poo I owned a 2 Preludes and known people who own a Celicas. They were good cars. You still see them around. You do not see Dodge Daytonas or Berettas.
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I have a SW21 and a 86 GT.
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Honda has registered for the 2026 regs.
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