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FIA Formula One 2018 |OT| Halo: Racing Evolved
- Thread starter Aiii
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If everyone drove the same car, him and Nando would likely come out on top.
Since the championship is over, I am almost glad there were contacts shuffling up the field, otherwise it would have been another boring actionless race.
French analyst on RDS in Canada said Charlie Whiting was seen at Zandvoort, looking to homologate the circuit for f1
I watched F1 for like 25 years so it's a habit, it still excites me waiting for the races and such. But the quality of racing and the championships have been abysmal for most of the decade, between FIA fumbling the rules, shit tyres, dominant cars and impossible passes. Formula 2/GP2, MotoGP, IndyCar, WTCR/WTCC, etc. have been vastly superior for many years now. The only upside of F1 right now is knowing these are the best open wheel drivers out there, but the quality of their racing in terms of excitement is pisspoor.
Zandvoort returning to the calendar would be amazing.
Jerez and Magny Cours should also come back.
Instead we get utter shite like Paul Ricard...
That happens all the time. Keeps options open but it likely means nothing.
Penalties have been biased and there has been no consistency. Vettel should have had a penalty this race for divebombing like a moron, also Baku last year vettel should have gotten a worse penalty as well. Magnussens late breaking today too had no further action.
Amateur hour
Also speaks badly of F1 how Vettel was 19th after a safety car with a damaged car, some 30 laps later he is 6th, the last top team car, and despite he is over 40 seconds behind he is, position-wise, right behind 5th (who, for the record, is also running with a damaged car).
With what's been going on in recent races, are we sure about that?
It's about as thoughtful as Ferrari's strategists are able to muster at the moment, so don't be too hard on him :)
Vettel was penalized for the Baku incident and Lewis won the championship, what else did you want to be happy? Just found it funny that out of all stupid decisions these years you picked a case where the driver in question was penalized, not the hundred crashes by Max gone unpunished, not the car irregulations handled poorly or the questionable SC/VSC calls.
10 Seconds for driving on the side of another card and hitting him. So just because there is championship implications with Vettel he shouldnt get a penalty for divebombing? Thats what i mean by being cowards. And youre proving my point that race control is incompetent. I literally just picked recent examples of their incompetence
FIA have always been incompetent, but you picked cases where they were correct.
Ok if you think no further action for Magnussen and Vettel divebombing from that far back deserves no penalty then we can just agree to disagree.
Have a good one.
Ferrari have been strategising like they have when they haven't lol.
Magnussen should have been penalized. Vettel paid for the contact, he ended up last basically. Vettel was penalized in Baku.
You agree a 10 seconds for driving beside and hitting someone is adequate?? As i said i literally do not think thats enough, and just because you end up dead last because of a fuck up doesnt mean you dont deserve a penalty. As i said i dont agree with you but i respect your opinion.
When was the last time a Drivers Championship was won while not being the fastest car?
I can only think Schumacher, 1994.
It's the largest penalty besides the black flag, though. It wasn't small, and it was not dangerous, just pointless and stupid (banging wheels at that speed during SC was never going to cause injuries, come on now). I am more baffled by Kvyat crashing into Vettel on purpose for payback in Russia some years ago was acceptable, or to go further back thinking about how Schumacher got DSQ'd from the entire season for a low speed intentional contact whereas Senna few years earlier rammed full speed into his rival in a dangerous corner, a move that could have legit killed given the circumstances and the days. We can definitely agree the FIA is extremely inconsistent, constantly stuck between a "let 'em race" attitude and the need to penalize for putting one inch of a wheel on a white line. They should take hints from IndyCar if they want to preserve spectacle and also punish reckless driving.
Yeah. The +60bhp latest SuperHonda was struggling to overtake a Sauber on the start/finish straight with DRS.
2008 was a close call, Ferrari was probably faster in more tracks, but not by much. 2009 Brawn GP was fastest for less than half season but the order was moving up and down every race so there was no clewr competitor. 2005 McLaren was faster but less reliable. 1999 Ferrari was best but Schumacher got injured and Irvine was not good enough.
Either way we are looking, at best the 2nd best car always won in the past decades.
