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FIA Formula One 2018 |OT| Halo: Racing Evolved
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I saw on Reddit (so take with a pinch of salt) that for some it was two months salary for 4/5 days work.
Well then it sucks. I figured it was like American cheerleaders, who are paid next to nothing.
It still looks like a bolted on afterthought, not really different than those that were tested mid-season last year.
I'm fine with the halo on paper but it could integrate much better to the rest of the car.
Ok...if I lost this amount of money out of my yearly revenue I'd be fucking pissed.
If a post on reddit is to go by, standing on the grid and looking pretty was barely 5% of the job. Most of the time was spent meeting "important" people and showing them around. So yeah, they can still continue to do that job and not have to be eye candy for old perverts on the grid.
If that's what they cut out that's cool and not the entirety of what they did fine. I don't want to see people out of work, especially models. People assume that they're well paid, but they really aren't. They're usually pretty nice people as well. Granted I know amateur models and not professional ones.
isn't it all that "other stuff" that these models are getting paid for? A borderline escort service. I find the whole premise to be very creepy, even if the models are happy for the work.
I was kind of hoping it wasn't this to be honest. Grid girl is something I never did too much research on so if the FIA was pimping them out then it really should just be abolished. Though if it was that I'm pretty sure it would have made the news years ago.
I think I'd rather be eye candy on the grid than a pseudo escort... but what do I know, I'm an old pervert!
Seriously though, the actual grid bit is handy for getting other work. The hanging around with lecherous old fucks? Not so much. Well, not the sort of work you'd want to do anyway.
Alternatively, broadcasters will now go on air at 10 past the hour.
This is some serious cargo cult shit.
Five Live coverage of F1 generally starts at 5 minutes before the hour, but that isn't because Five Live programmes do that in general, it's because they only want to waste 5 minutes of valuable air-time on buildup. I imagine they will now start at 5 minute past the hour, and squeeze in some news and weather.
I'm in NZ; most races start at 12am here haha! If I can do it surely you can too! If they're pushing it an hour back, it'll become 1am and I think I'll still do it. Live F1 is good.
At least Brazil will be better for you guys, it kind of pushes on through properly to the next day now. It'll be 4:10 AM for us :(
Cheers. I'll be honest, I can't say I'm a fan of that. Will mean getting back too late from the track to be able to do much in the evenings when I'm visiting a country to see the F1.
If anything it makes it more likely that I'd just go for qualy and the race and skip everything else.
If anything it makes it more likely that I'd just go for qualy and the race and skip everything else.
The races in Asia are also really good; particularly Japan. Happen to be especially lucky with that one as Suzuka is so prone to having safety cars and red flags, which means a longer broadcast of course. That would suck if it were starting at 1am.
Plenty of nighttime/early morning viewing to go around hahaha!
The worst one for NZ is Abu Dhabi, which I think started at 2am last year, and of course has the extra indignity of a) being a lame circuit and b) being a lame race because the championship is almost always decided earlier in the season. Assuming that continues to start at 2am (or, worse, 3am) it'll still be the only race I skip unless the championship happens to be crazy close this year.
I'd love for them to shift back to Brazil being the final race. If your final race is almost never going to be the championship decider, it had better be super entertaining at least. Abu Dhabi is... not that.
Speaking of Mclaren and strange... Who here remembers this? The failed Mclaren - Lamborghini project.
Rather than going with the Lamborgini engine Mclaren partnered with Peugeot, leading to one of Mclaren's worst seasons from that era. Let's hope that now in 2018, Mclaren with another French engine supplier can have some success.
http://8w.forix.com/mc-lambo.html
Rather than going with the Lamborgini engine Mclaren partnered with Peugeot, leading to one of Mclaren's worst seasons from that era. Let's hope that now in 2018, Mclaren with another French engine supplier can have some success.
The funny thing is that even with the disaster that was Peugeot, McLaren scored 7 podiums in that single season.
Here's the Central European Times corrected for DST
It's too bad we lost Malaysia because I enjoyed watching F1 in the morning because it freed up the rest of the day.
Please, Indy, save us!
I guess this championship is done for him.
Looks like it. He will never be able to catch up to Bird or Rosenqvist unless there's an upset.
Something like this is inevitably coming to the FIA cars, they just did a shit job and only the dumb halo was ready.
See, it's not that hard to develop a good looking head protection system!
Exactly my thoughts. I don't see how this doesnt replace Halo if drivers can use it on super speedways, road courses, short ovals and street circuits without any issues.
Please Indy, demonstrate to everyone that this is a fat, far better and much aesthetically better idea to the Halo.
So, this happened at the Race of Champions...
Rudy van Buren is McLaren's new sim driver after winning their eSports competition last year.
Either Norris has got some explaining to do, or van Buren is simply a better driver hard done by due to circumstances.
More info, the screen will be tested at the Phoenix oval on Feb. 8th.
http://www.indycar.com/News/2018/02/02-02-Windscreen-test-ISM-Raceway
http://www.indycar.com/News/2018/02/02-02-Windscreen-test-ISM-Raceway
Now I'm holding out for them to put van Buren into a real McLaren this year and notice that he can hang with Nando. RIP Norris.
nah, Vettel got sick and they scrapped it. It was baffling that they tested the screen only a few times compared to Halo.
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Well they wanted to add a new protection to the 2018 cars no matter what so they went with the least problematic model. I hope we'll get something different for 2019.