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Post by Bartman on Mar 12, 2021 22:48:06 GMT
Money, under the excuse that he has had massive hours on the simulator and they need the correlation. oh aye, of course, it's just how it is
but god bless the boy...why is he there.
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Post by forgotten in space on Mar 12, 2021 23:22:30 GMT
Money, under the excuse that he has had massive hours on the simulator and they need the correlation. oh aye, of course, it's just how it is
but god bless the boy...why is he there.
It was clearly a Williams decision and Doritos keeping it was a very inauspicious early move. They did get Capito as CEO though, so let's wait and see. The Alpine looks very bulbous in that livery colour:| |
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Post by Bartman on Mar 13, 2021 0:32:53 GMT
It was clearly a Williams decision and Doritos keeping it was a very inauspicious early move. They did get Capito as CEO though, so let's wait and see. The Alpine looks very bulbous in that livery colour:| yep, i trust doritos tbh. if they want to honour past agreements, get a few extra quid, fair enough. i would rather have aitken in that car, if not russell or latifi, but it is what it is. capito is a big pick. between him at williams and brivio at alpine, i'm interested to see how these appointments go.
yes, the alpine is much less flattering on track than it is as a render/promo shot. i think the aston looks smart, as does the the mercedes which surprised me. the alfa somehow looks huge, like the minardi which was heavier on the navy blue than i thought.
this tsunoda boy seems quite handy.
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Post by forgotten in space on Mar 13, 2021 14:19:14 GMT
Vettel has to drive the prototype tyres for two days straight? That sure helps getting used to the new car :|
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Post by Bartman on Mar 13, 2021 16:11:48 GMT
swap giovinazzi with leclerc in the big team
testing is just testing but i'm really intrigued by what the order will be this season. everyone seems to have bridged the gap by quite a bit with the exception of williams and haas (and aston). the mclaren and alphatauri look like rockets that are also very drivable.
still expecting mercedes to rock up 0.6s quicker in Q1 in a fortnight though :p
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Post by Bartman on Mar 13, 2021 18:13:25 GMT
per the brdc, murray walker has passed away
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Post by forgotten in space on Mar 13, 2021 21:36:43 GMT
per the brdc, murray walker has passed away top bloke he seemed to be. I hope Aston lets Seb run in the afternoon tomorrow so he can at least have the (fake) psychological boost of clocking the faster time :| |
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Post by Bartman on Mar 13, 2021 22:05:11 GMT
top bloke he seemed to be. I hope Aston lets Seb run in the afternoon tomorrow so he can at least have the (fake) psychological boost of clocking the faster time :| yeah, by all accounts he was a top guy. i posted that forgetting that yourself in portugal and fordy in australia, the usual poster, probably wouldn't have had the exposure to him as i did, being british (  ). he's synonymous with motorsport here and a proper icon - stirling moss, lewis hamilton levels of recognition, probably even more iconic actually. literally "the voice of motorsport" for so long.
one would hope so. the start of the aston/vettel era has not been entirely smooth for him. hopefully tomorrow's running goes smoothly and he's able to get his name up there with norris and tsunoda at the top ;)
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Post by Bartman on Mar 14, 2021 15:17:42 GMT
formula one does not need red bull or ferrari anymore, we've past te need for them
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Post by Bartman on Mar 18, 2021 23:13:05 GMT
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Post by forgotten in space on Mar 19, 2021 10:20:32 GMT
I thought it looks like complete arse. 27 corners for what? (Not that some of those won't even be corners for these cars) |
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Post by Bartman on Mar 19, 2021 19:15:06 GMT
welp honda's factory supported driver has lost his seat in BTCC with the team citibg funding issues. hope we're all looking forward to our motorsport future of schumachers, hapsburgs, billionaire children and mid-00s stars/'10s rejects that landed in formula e at the right time
honda are pulling out of BTCC, which explains all of that
few major series that honda have withdrawn from in the past year or so, i'm wondering if this points to a general downsizing of their motorsports dept. or a refocus towards motogp, super gt, indycar/super formula (and maybe prototypes again). interesting.
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Post by Bartman on Mar 19, 2021 19:16:32 GMT
I thought it looks like complete arse. 27 corners for what? (Not that some of those won't even be corners for these cars) i'm not enthused by it either mate. if a race is decent it'll because of weather (wind, as in baku) or just one of those strange days like monza and sakhir or mugello last season.
i'd also prefer there not to be a grand prix in saudi arabia tho  |
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Post by forgotten in space on Mar 19, 2021 21:11:02 GMT
welp honda's factory supported driver has lost his seat in BTCC with the team citibg funding issues. hope we're all looking forward to our motorsport future of schumachers, hapsburgs, billionaire children and mid-00s stars/'10s rejects that landed in formula e at the right time
honda are pulling out of BTCC, which explains all of that
few major series that honda have withdrawn from in the past year or so, i'm wondering if this points to a general downsizing of their motorsports dept. or a refocus towards motogp, super gt, indycar/super formula (and maybe prototypes again). interesting.
Is it really bad for BTCC? |
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Post by forgotten in space on Mar 19, 2021 21:14:44 GMT
I thought it looks like complete arse. 27 corners for what? (Not that some of those won't even be corners for these cars) i'm not enthused by it either mate. if a race is decent it'll because of weather (wind, as in baku) or just one of those strange days like monza and sakhir or mugello last season.
i'd also prefer there not to be a grand prix in saudi arabia tho Oh, definitely, fuck the saudis but then again if it were up to me the calendar would have no "World championships" considerations. :p A couple races at Suzuka, Brasil, Silverstone, Italy, Spa, and that's 10 races already. Go to non-sucky tracks and you're set. (That reminds me to do a 10-race season in the F1 game) |
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Post by Bartman on Mar 20, 2021 18:33:33 GMT
Is it really bad for BTCC? it's not great for BTCC because honda have been a long factory presence within the series. this season i believe only toyota gazoo racing and BMW will have full manufacturer backing (not sure what the deal is with vauxhall and ford are semi-factory being run through motorbase). a few more very talented drivers are missing this season due to budget but there'll still be 22 or so cars on the grid (down from 32 a couple of years back). it's bad for the regulations though with the FIA really screwing the BTCC, as when super touring era collapsed. the NGTC regs which were developed after S2000 ran its course in britain in the late 2000s is a perfectly affordable, accessible and technically impressive formula. after WTCC and citröen made everyone quit the series, under S2000 regs, the FIA adopted TCR for the world championship regs rather than NGTC. TCR, like GT3, is cheaper, essentially stock, BOP'd and, like GT3, manufacturers are drawn to it because they can go racing with less development on their end and in loads of different series, selling cars to anybody. of course, TCR is also getting super expensive now...but they won't learn. NGTC was taking off in scandinavia and there was some interest from south america but nothing came of it. BTCC is on an island regulation wise now and so the case for honda sticking around is less, same as with subaru and VW in recent years, so they went. |
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Post by Bartman on Mar 20, 2021 18:36:09 GMT
i'm not enthused by it either mate. if a race is decent it'll because of weather (wind, as in baku) or just one of those strange days like monza and sakhir or mugello last season.
i'd also prefer there not to be a grand prix in saudi arabia tho Oh, definitely, fuck the saudis but then again if it were up to me the calendar would have no "World championships" considerations. :p A couple races at Suzuka, Brasil, Silverstone, Italy, Spa, and that's 10 races already. Go to non-sucky tracks and you're set. (That reminds me to do a 10-race season in the F1 game) see you get it :p i would have interlagos and montréal guaranteed spots on the calendar and everything else can rotate. japan, uk and italy get guaranteed races but the track doesn't have to be the same every year. tracks also have to pay marshals is my rule. |
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Post by forgotten in space on Mar 20, 2021 19:51:33 GMT
Oh, definitely, fuck the saudis but then again if it were up to me the calendar would have no "World championships" considerations. :p A couple races at Suzuka, Brasil, Silverstone, Italy, Spa, and that's 10 races already. Go to non-sucky tracks and you're set. (That reminds me to do a 10-race season in the F1 game) see you get it :p i would have interlagos and montréal guaranteed spots on the calendar and everything else can rotate. japan, uk and italy get guaranteed races but the track doesn't have to be the same every year. tracks also have to pay marshals is my rule. FIA/FOM should pay marshals AND tracks instead of charging fees, as there's no races without tracks :p (Dunno how really feasible it is, but under the current/old Bernie model, teams struggle, promoters and tracks and everyone struggle so myeah). |
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Post by forgotten in space on Mar 23, 2021 12:32:21 GMT
FX joins Doritos as the new TD  |
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Post by Bartman on Mar 23, 2021 15:05:38 GMT
FX joins Doritos as the new TD that's a good signing. doritos really do seem to be in for the long game.
george russell is now one the directors of the GPDA, with seb vettel and alex wurz. despite his young age he seems to have a good head and sense of perspective, as well as being held in very high esteem by the drivers. i do hate how the driver's union has "directors" though, gross.
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Post by Bartman on Mar 24, 2021 15:29:34 GMT
i've missed him so much
this reply was beautiful
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Post by forgotten in space on Mar 24, 2021 23:18:52 GMT
Explain! 😅
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Post by Bartman on Mar 25, 2021 11:21:21 GMT
kyle kaiser, for juncos racing, bumped fred alonso from the indy 500 field the other year in a car that had been destroyed earlier in the week. juncos also lost their sponsorship during the indy fortnight and all in all it was a massive serving of hubris for mclaren, who sat out a day of testing because the car was not the correct shade of orange. in fairness, all of the cars prepared by carlin were poor other than charlie kimball's but mclaren did bring their own crew and tried to run operations their way as much as possible. lost bob fernley his job which is a shame as this disaster has probably overshadowed all of the great work he did with force india. |
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Post by Bartman on Mar 26, 2021 13:16:22 GMT
alpine getting good and then fallilng to the back of the midfield when alonso joins is just too perfect
for real though, i am getting big 1999/2000/2001 vibes from this season. merc and red bull are clear 1-2, mclaren i think are a clear number 3 and haas and williams are off the back. the midfield - from bahrain and bahrain alone ofc - is chaos. could be a good year for a driver of the salo/alesi/heidfeld school of consistency and strong overall pace to really put on a big performance.
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Post by forgotten in space on Mar 26, 2021 19:14:14 GMT
15 cars within a second is pretty tasty, but let's see tomorrow.
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Post by Bartman on Mar 26, 2021 23:13:15 GMT
verstappen 0.2 ahead of bottas and giovinazzi in the top ten is my quali shout
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Post by yepsure on Mar 27, 2021 15:08:18 GMT
But the Mercedes is undriveable
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Post by Bartman on Mar 27, 2021 15:11:51 GMT
i'm here for the minardi revival
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Post by Bartman on Mar 27, 2021 15:43:57 GMT
the carlos and charles battle this year is going to be dynamite
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Post by Bartman on Mar 27, 2021 16:12:01 GMT
quite the lap by max there.
alphatauri looks mega,especially with gasly behind the wheel.
perez will be fine.
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). he's synonymous with motorsport here and a proper icon - stirling moss, lewis hamilton levels of recognition, probably even more iconic actually. literally "the voice of motorsport" for so long.
