It's just fatigue from a fan perspective. 7 months is long and even though qualifying & races are no more than 4 hours of your time it's still a very long season.
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FIA Formula One 2018 |OT| Halo: Racing Evolved
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It's just fatigue from a fan perspective. 7 months is long and even though qualifying & races are no more than 4 hours of your time it's still a very long season.
Oh no I forgot about the halo.
Is it still going exclusively to Sky next year in the UK? Can't say that will encourage me to keep interested.
Is it still going exclusively to Sky next year in the UK? Can't say that will encourage me to keep interested.
I think if you actually look at the races Ferrari were the most consistently fast across the season, with Red Bull having the best performance uptick at tracks where they could get the aero and engine to talk to each other best.
I think this year is going to be fascinating.
Especially with rumors that Ferrari will have a longer wheelbase car and Mercedes staying with their concept from this year
Interesting to see no open driver slots. I feel like there are always last minute spots open. Bummer about the halo, excited about everything else.
Was it? I mean, sure, Merc had the higher peak potential on most tracks, but the way things turned out, they weren't always capitalizing on it. Without that string of bad luck in Asia, Vettel would be ahead or at least deliver a nailbiter to the end.
After 5 weeks last year the table was:
VET 68
HAM 61
BOT 38
RAI 34
After 5 races last year the table was:
VET 104
HAM 98
BOT 63
RAI 53
So yeah, I guess that stroll to victory by 5 time WDC Sebastian Vettel was pretty nailed on.
It's not exclusive to Sky - there are a few races live on Channel 4...
Both Hockenheim and Nürburgring didn't want to host yearly for financial reasons, so they alternated. Then Nürburgring gave up completely and Hockenheim wasn't prepared to do it either - The result is that there was no German GP in 2015 and 2017.
I'm talking 2019. From what I can see Sky have committed to 'free to air' highlights and the British GP, but no details on whether the free broadcaster would be Sky or someone else
Thanks! To bad. Always fun to watch races on tracks you have driven countless laps on in-game. That fucking first hairpin..
If I were to guess, Channel 5 will probably have some sort of highlights package, as they are owned by BSKYB. I hope by then Liberty will have in place some sort of streaming service. SkyF1 is just too expensive for me, and you have to take it as part of a package that only adds to the cost.
The current F1 games are pretty damn enjoyable, so you can get used to the current tracks.
I wonder how Circuit Paul Ricard will play in the games.
It is something that will actually affect the racing, too. But boo hoo, the halo ruins F1 or something.
I like the thread title lol.
Hopefully Alonso can get at a podium or two this year.
Also hoping for Red Bull to be competitive with Ferrari and Mercedes from the start of the season.
Hopefully Alonso can get at a podium or two this year.
Also hoping for Red Bull to be competitive with Ferrari and Mercedes from the start of the season.
Like to drive a little slower.. GT-R style or somthing, F1 to fast. At least we got Sao Paulo this time, fun track!
Nice to see we got a new scandinavian in little danish boi. Is he any good?
So I've been seeing this in more and more places. 3M looking into copyright claim over new F1 logo
I don't know if 3M has much here. There is a similarity but I could see it settling if anything.
I don't know if 3M has much here. There is a similarity but I could see it settling if anything.
Yeah not particularly excited for the penalties this will result in this year.
Just play McLaren in career mode.
Magnussen? He got a 2nd place podium in his very first race and it's been kinda downhill since then. Strongly placed in the lower half of the driver grid.
Thanks for the OT ! I am still in shock that kubi couldn't get a titular seat T.T
I hope Sirotkin will convince...
Like each year, i cannot wait to watch the tests...
I wish us a merry season :p
I hope Sirotkin will convince...
Like each year, i cannot wait to watch the tests...
I wish us a merry season :p
I know the engine related cuts have been to reign in budgets to help the mid and low tier teams. As such has there been any estimation how much it'll save these teams in expenses Year of Year?
Ouch, there's more than a passing resemblance there. I wonder if the angle of the slope on the F is the same.
Personally I think the new logo utterly sucks, so stick your lawyers on them 3M!
Plus he's probably the most hated driver by the other drivers of the field. He plays rough on and off the track. D:
I thought that was only in the wet
10 place grid penalty me if I'm wrong
Then again, that would only matter in the wet to begin with
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Yeah, I have no problem at all with the Halo, I hope it proves itself on the first day of racing, so everyone can shut up about it.
The lower price at which engines will be sold in the future has not been made public at this stage.
The FIA was aiming at a figure in the region of £7.9m to £9.5m, down from the current cost of around £13.8m to £17.7m, and it is believed this target has been reached.
Going from memory here, but I think Rosberg's last engine one year was 9 races or so old by the end. He got a new engine at Monza(?) that immediately failed and had to go back to the previous one. I think he won several races late on as well.
Sorry, just for clarification is that range the cumulative engine cost for 2018? Thanks.
Alain Prost said current price of engines is in the range 12 to 14 million euros per unit in Auto Plus (sorry i don't have access to the subscription content for the direct source).
Reducing number of engines means less units to spread Research and Development costs to anyway...
Mercedes engines division spent 83.4 Million euros in 2016 in R&D. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2017/12/25/mercedes-f1-engines-drive-110m-investment-uk/
"Per unit"- my goodness! I was unaware that a single engine could cost that kind of money. Thank you for information.
I believe NBC still has the rights to FIA broadcasts, so you can watch on NBC Sports (or other NBC sister sites when pre-empted)
Luckily, the Winter Olympics will be done by the time testing starts
You're welcome ;) and yup, they cost en arm, that's why they usually come with advertising compensation, running time for drivers from the manufacturer's academy, or...the team just uses engines from older specifications (like Sauber did last year). that's also why teams want simplification.
I would love to see how that turned out, as manufacturers have had to keep spending R&D for this increased reliability and probably really hasn't kept costs down. Renault and Honda have also had to design new engines.
The three engine rules is dumb when we've had so many failures and just keeps the Mercs and Ferraris on top.
That figure is per power unit! (Engine elements: ICE = Internal Combustion Engine / TC = Turbo Charger / MGU-H = Motor Generator Unit - Heat / MGU-K = Motor Generator Unit - Kinetic / ES = Energy Store / CE = Control Electronics).
There are talks to further reduce costs from 2021 by possibly removing the MGU-H element from the power units.
It should be noted these numbers are rough estimates, it is extremely hard to find any concrete info on actual costs. Also worth noting is that some customer teams like Sauber will get an engine supply at a discount, essentially Sauber are a Ferrari B-Team, signing Ferrari junior academy driver Le Clerc for the upcoming season.
Ahh, I got psyched out cause I checked my bookmark and NBC still has all their branding up.
Looks like it's indeed ABC/ESPN/ESPN2.
I think that's actually cool, I remember they used to show the Monaco GP on the Wide World of Sports way back in the 80s.