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FIA Formula One 2019 |OT| Oil Mining vs. Energy Drinks vs. Big Tobacco, pick your poison
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Honda are pulling out of F1 after 2020, there's soon to be a meeting in Japan to seal the deal, also their long time F1 / motorsport advisor recently passed away. The plug is getting yanked.
Smart thinking.
(everyone will be watching WEC by then anyway..) - they'll probably enter that category with Aston Martin in the new Hypercar regulations.
Pretty much. There used to be a 30-minute warm-up practice session on Sundays before the race back in the day, even.
Which Hulk!?
You're not wrong about Ric. Renault not doing him any favors
hahahaaha you're funny.
Wax never posts sources. Rarely actually posts sense.
Does anybody really believe the Ferrari engine is more powerful than the Mercedes engine? Mercedes has been way better in corners compared to Ferrari which could just be a result of them using more downforce. If they used less downforce, their straight line speed would improve too.
Wasn't it acceleration that Ferrari seemed to have improved a lot compared to Merc?
And he says he doesn't believe in posting sources either.
Meanwhile, I can't believe he's only banned for 3 days.
Press and Mercedes likes to push this narrative, but I don't think it has ever been true once since 2014. Even on weekends Ferrari dominated performance-wise it wasn't due to the engine being better.
I believe that I read that the power from the ICE's are similar but Ferrari is able to run their MGU-K for longer or harder or something. Pretty sure it was an AMUS translation on reddit.
Renault have made a big leap in power, just not reliability yet. McLaren cars have been near the top of speed traps every weekend, they fixed their draggy car from last year it seems.
Mercedes PU is probably the best and this is why Ferrari tried to use an extreme low df concept but it didn't work out. Moreover everyone confirmed that the new aero regs and especially new tyres helped Mercedes even more so i think next year will be a more of the same of this one.
There is no track in the calendar where Ferrari and RB can win right now.
Pirelli must be glad they helped Mercedes figure out the tyres in that illegal test some years ago, contributing to what may be 7 consecutive titles for them.
Do you have anything to back up that claim or is my sarcasm detector broken
If there was one track for Ferrari to win it's this one, and they really need a solid win to boost the teams morale.
When the track suits the Ferrari, there is always something else that fails in the team, be it technical issue or strategy mastery.
There won't be any track where Ferrari is faster so it's not a huge problem ahahah
I hope some of you don't expect Ferrari to win here. Mercedes will be faster by 0.4s in quali and close to a second faster in the race.
How many times has Hamilton shoved Monza up Ferrari's ass?
Nope. Monza is a low downforce track so Ferrari edge on the straights now won't as powerful.
Easy Merc 1-2. There is no track on the calendar where Rb or Ferrari can win on pure performance. Maybe if they find a way to make the tyres work ( HUGE MAYBE)...
500 million gazillion times
but Ferrari can always beat the odds. I mean they constantly do anyway because nobody in their right mind would think they can still fuck up more badly than they did the race before. And yet they do.
The drive Hamilton pulled on them last year was some hilarious god tier shit.
Nah, old Hockenheim was horrible for the on-site spectators and boring to drive.
I think you already know the answer to your question.
Looks like it was an engine failure.
This, combined with Marko's interview to Italian press in the week stinks of desperation. They have no come back to Mercedes. Don't forget all teams agreed to the tyre changes despite some of the Merc/Pirelli conspiracy theories. Ferrari and Red Bull have just got it wrong.
Pirelli should leave F1 tbh. When they arrived teams were killing tyres and doing 2-4 stop races and it was chaos. After a bit they learned they're better off saving it for 95% of its lifetime and do a 1-stop strategy, which absolutely murders the battles which are already near impossible with the current track/cars combination.
I don't think it's Pirelli's fault, tbf. If you could put on a set of fresh tires and then pass cars and drive off into the distance, that would mix up the strategies better.
Don't get me wrong, I'm no big fan of the tyres, but half the problem is no one wants to make high deg tyres and so we're stuck with Pirelli for the foreseeable. No one even tendered for the 18" tyres apart from Pirelli. It's down to the teams to make them work. Unfortunately for nine of them there's one team operating at another level entirely right now.
But why do we need high deg tyres? Formula E has a lot of overtaking partially because they have tyres they can push on.
I think its a difficult balancing act. Michelin seem to think they could make a tyre that can last the race and be a good tyre. But then there would be no stops at all.
I think I'd like to see the mandatory stop removed. LetSauber Alfa run on one tyre for the whole race if they want, and let others run S, S, S if they want.
I'd also probably remove Friday practise entirely and instead give them a free test on the Monday once the race is done. Less time to fine tune and perfect everything before the race, still plenty of track time to develop parts and gather data.
Fuck, mix it up, do a Saturday practise, and then a Saturday 3 lap average quali. One 60 minute session, average time taken from your best 3 laps. Use those times to determine the 1-10, 11-16 and 17+ groups, and then have those go out and do Q1, Q2 and Q3 based on that. 10 mins each, 1 hot lap needed.
Literally the only company in a position to do that was Pirelli.
I think I'd like to see the mandatory stop removed. Let
I'd also probably remove Friday practise entirely and instead give them a free test on the Monday once the race is done. Less time to fine tune and perfect everything before the race, still plenty of track time to develop parts and gather data.
Fuck, mix it up, do a Saturday practise, and then a Saturday 3 lap average quali. One 60 minute session, average time taken from your best 3 laps. Use those times to determine the 1-10, 11-16 and 17+ groups, and then have those go out and do Q1, Q2 and Q3 based on that. 10 mins each, 1 hot lap needed.
The decision for nobody to tender was in large part due to the FIA being dumb as a bag of rocks, and mandating that the supplier would have to supply 1 year of 13s and then 2 years of 18s. A decision so moronic it's actually laughable.
Literally the only company in a position to do that was Pirelli.
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