FIA Formula One 2018 |OT| Halo: Racing Evolved
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God, looking like another boring race this weekend. Yawn. It's gonna be like this until 2021, can't they change the rules or something? Really tired of only one team winning all the time.
It's simpler to just never stop hating Ferrari.
Brawn is working on changing some of the aero regs that if they are practical can be brought in sooner. Mostly surrounding cleaning up the wake and therefore enabling another car to drive closer behind without turning to complete shit. A bunch of it would be simplifying the front wing.
I'm legit impressed by the turnaround since last year. I argued pretty hard that he didn't deserve his contract extension, and he's definitely proving me wrong.
Yup, Mercedes and Ferrari will start the race on Soft. All the other teams who made it to q2 did their best laps on Supersoft.
Ferrari too? Everybody says Mercedes has good racing pace, but with both Ferrari cars starting on Softs they have very low chance to fight for victory tomorrow.
ah do not worry, Mercedes diva will cook its tires after 15 laps
Yeah Ferrari have an advantage that's for sure, but if Kimi continues to lose positions at the start...
If Ferrari manage to keep p1 and p2 they'll probably win, but if Bottas manages to sneak by Kimi things can be exciting.
Me neither.
You're a real friend. I needed somebody to talk me back to the ledge.
Wow at the late braking into turn 1. I had no idea you could do that. I've been doing it totally wrong in F1 2017!
And yeah, that SF71-H is fucking dialed in!
I've never tried this track, but I can just see that I'd never be able to find the right line through that corner. Way too technical, especially with the short run into T2.
Yeah I slam on the brakes hard at the end of the straight, it's very hard not to psychologically. Very easy to go wide on that long, winding corner if you get it wrong and you burn a lot of speed trying to correct the line, you're then playing catchup all the way until you come out of turn 3.
Seb nailed that. I'm inspired to load up the game and do some hot laps of Shanghai circuit now.
Well, considering his phoned in performance in the last couple of seasons, it seems more plausible than Ferrari fucking him over. Then again, I'm sure the accident in the pit lane last week was just another part of the plan to hold Kimi and his incredible talent back once more.
Top 4 starting on soft. P5-10 all on ultras.
Last years Mercedes was known as a bit of a Diva, 2018 car Goldilocks? Bahrain too hot, China too cold...
Downhill and uphill parts are great, other part of the track with too many narrow, sharp corners is bad.
That first corner will be interesting tomorrow. It looks like there are quite a few line options.
I still believe Mercedes has a chance to win tomorrow. I don't believe for a second Ferrari is gonna be this dominant.
but verstoppen, so drivers still ain't safe
Let's hope for an unexpected 150hp when he drops the clutch.
I'm still wondering why Gasley/Honda did so much worse this week compared to Bahrain.
I need Wax to come back to this thread and give us his weekly Honda news and updates.
I need Wax to come back to this thread and give us his weekly Honda news and updates.
Toro Rosso with its drivers screwed up the setup, hopefully the higher temps forecast for tomorrow brings back some performance as their FP2 race pace and tyre deg was decent.
Honda on the other hand are on a one way trip to the top now that they're no longer burdened by the clowns at McLaren.
That Peter P and his aero team are a bunch of absolute frauds. 3 years of draggy shit and now McLaren say they've set too low targets for 2018 and they just need to make the car faster in the corners and on the straights
I hope Toro Rosso can keep up the development throughout the season and beat these shits when it's all done and dusted - that last race where they totally destroyed them in front of the Bahraini owners after they paid Honda $80m to divorce them for supposedly causing all of their problems was quite satisfying.
MGU-H trouble in Melbourne was caused by vibrations after heavy impact with track kerb. Never experienced this issue before, confident that they wont suffer from this in future with introduction of improved unit they were developing.
Red Bull website speedweek says Honda's Spec II is slated for Canada - 35bhp improvement.
Probably one of engineers bumped the car in the garage and something moved on it and made that pace possible :D
Must've added a bit more jet fuel than they intended. And before I forget, welcome back Wax. Hope you're better after that bike crash.
Also as well while I'm at it; the grid for tomorrow pretty much sums up how I believe where most of the teams are as of today, although I must admit, I wasn't expecting Ferrari to be quicker than Mercedes.