They will come as a new team (they have two places on the grid reserved, same as Porsche), even if they decide to enter for Season 5 under HWA branch (company that oversee their DTM program) with temporary powertrain. Venturi will stay connected to them, probably as customer team.I wonder if Mercedes will come with a band new team or if they'll take over Venturi. That would be sad, cuz Venturi has one of the best liveries in Formula E in my opinion.
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FIA Formula One 2018 |OT| Halo: Racing Evolved
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I highly doubt that he would be a racer. Maybe a team principal like McNish at Audi
Yes. Current grid (Ten teams, 20 cars) + Mercedes and Porsche (4 cars from Season 6). It is crowded enough :P
If Mercedes or better said HWA decides to enter next season with interim car, they will take two grid spots reserved for Mercedes. That means that team would rename into official Mercedes F-E team for S6
Never crowded enough for me. If you can bring it, you can race it. I always love seeing races with 30+ cars on the grid. I remember the 2015 F3 season had 35 cars on the grid at the races, great fun watching those junior drivers.
Juan Pablo Montoya's 12-year old son has signed on with the Ferrari Driver Academy.
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/134268/montoya-son-joins-ferrari-academy
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/134268/montoya-son-joins-ferrari-academy
Current Ferrari Driver Academy members:
Giuliano Alesi
Marcus Armstrong
Enzo Fittipaldi
Antonio Fuoco
Callum Ilott
Charles Leclerc
Sebastian Montoya
Gianluca Petecof
Robert Schwartzman
Guan Yu Zhou
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/134268/montoya-son-joins-ferrari-academy
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/134268/montoya-son-joins-ferrari-academy
Current Ferrari Driver Academy members:
Giuliano Alesi
Marcus Armstrong
Enzo Fittipaldi
Antonio Fuoco
Callum Ilott
Charles Leclerc
Sebastian Montoya
Gianluca Petecof
Robert Schwartzman
Guan Yu Zhou
Deflector, windscreen, aeroscreen, whatever it's called, it sure looks slick.
Scott Dixon is testing it today at the Phoenix oval in variable lighting conditions. Video will come out soon enough.
PPG made it out of a different proprietary material that's supposedly stronger than what F1 tested. IIRC it's used in commercial aviation and in fighter jet canopies.
I don't really mind the halo but I think that IndyCar screen is better. Though now the FIA's backed the halo hard I'd be surprised if we saw a switch in F1 anytime soon.
Renovation work at Paul Ricard race track is complete - they changed corner 12 by opening it up quite a bit. (can be seen on the image). But good lord those abrasive stripes....
Would he not be able to notice that quickly? Looked pretty obvious from the pics.
Like I said before, the indy version looks a lot less curved (and goes more vertical at the front).
Like I said before, the indy version looks a lot less curved (and goes more vertical at the front).
Good to see that this new design doesn't have any of the issues Vettel reported. It seems like they were able to avoid them due to a different curvature of the shield.
It certainly looks great. Do we know if it's as durable as the Halo?
All we know is that the material used is proprietary and supposedly stronger than the one used in the Shield. There's still a lot of testing to be done. IndyCar is looking at implementation near the end of the 2018 season at the earliest.
That'll be nice, they can helpfully label the small grassy valleys they end up stopping in.
Oh, I didn't know the shield was coming so late to Indy. Then I get the complaints about not using it in F1 even less.
I also looked up the statement Vettel made after the test and it wasn't only dizziness he reported.
"I don't think I need to talk about the pros. Obviously I know what it's for," said Vettel. "Cons: I tried it this morning, I got a bit dizzy.
"Forward vision is not very good," he added. "I think it's because of the curvature. You get quite a bit of distortion.
"You get quite a bit of downwash down the straights pushing the helmet forward," he said.
"We had a run planned with it but I didn't like it so we took it off."
Pat Symmons added to that
"What he's describing is air spilling over and into the cockpit," he said, adding that CFD simulations last year had hinted at potential issues.
"We did see an awful lot of effect not just on the driver but on the engine inlet, on the rear wing, things like that," he said.
"I keep going on about aerodynamics, but we can't forget the aerodynamics on a Formula 1 car.
"This is really quite an immature technology that we're talking about."
I hope we'll see further testing of different prototypes throughout the season. But yeah, saying they should've just implemented the shield over the Halo seems a little silly.
lol:
The World Endurance Championship round at Fuji has been brought forward a week so that it no longer clashes with the US GP, but not everyone is happy about it
Hilarious that Alonso can do all the races now.
The World Endurance Championship round at Fuji has been brought forward a week so that it no longer clashes with the US GP, but not everyone is happy about it
Hilarious that Alonso can do all the races now.
The actual camera in that video is above eye level at the top of the visor. Dixon said he didn't experience anything like that. Of course they still have to test it on a street/road course, but so far it's a great start.
I'm only half way through EP1 so far, no drama yet, but it's a fascinating insight into aspects of F1 and the company, it does seem to jump about a bit though, not really telling a story.
This is why it's hard to just tolerate the halo. It looks fucking dumb and is certainly less safe than using a full screen like this. FIA rushed a band aid through while a less popular/funded series like Indycar potentially does it better.
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awesome to see him having fun. He looks so unhappy during weekends at most times.. Felt really bad for him especially in Singapore the way RAI TV were hounding him.
That screen looks incredibly good. Why oh why didnt F1 just take a step back and get Indycar to "beta test" this before implementing it next year..
So this is what Ferrari domination looks like.
He must be a huge F1 history nerd to be able to throw out all that info while barely having to think about it.
Yeah. Interesting to see behind the scenes stuff. I hope Amazon will continue to make docs like this.
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Because people died. And they kind of wanted a thing there to make them not die. They can always change to another solution later, they can't not do a thing because people complain that it is ugly and then explain to the next Wilson or Surtees's parents why their kid is now dead while that could have been avoided by an existing solution they purposely did not implement.
Yep, I understand that. I'm just perplexed by the timing. If you do it, go for it - but do it as soon as it's feasible. It's been over 2 years since Wilson's death, and 9 years since Surtees death. If they had addressed it after Surtees death, then may be Wilson would be with his parents now.
My thoughts on the McLaren documentary on Prime:
I found this very difficult to watch. Some good bits but overall it just felt like propaganda issued by McLaren to make sure the world knew that Honda were solely responsible for their demise. Their agenda was clear from the offset and wasn't a tale of the time - more a retrospective at how bad Honda was.
I didn't really enjoy it.
I found this very difficult to watch. Some good bits but overall it just felt like propaganda issued by McLaren to make sure the world knew that Honda were solely responsible for their demise. Their agenda was clear from the offset and wasn't a tale of the time - more a retrospective at how bad Honda was.
I didn't really enjoy it.