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colinp

makes me realize how lucky we are that leggard is no longer commentating!

colinp

What's the point of a livery launch ....

colinp

Merc are trying to get 2 people fired, i cant remember they guys name , but he brought in the rules to cut aero -- no way in hell will that person go, they do this to all the teams that have big advantages - even Ferrari.. So if Merc and hamilton are waiting for massi, i think hamilton has to quit b...

colinp

would love to see some newer tv stats, 2012 was a loooong time ago,, 4k tvs were $20,000, and the first hybrid won lemans

colinp

i was thinking the same thing about whats happend here... alot of talk was about not having enough money to keep up with the development race.... i just see one problem with that.. Sauber running what could be called a two year old engine design and zero money with one average driver and one pay dri...

colinp

Could lithium not be considered a fossil fuel? its not exactly renewable.

colinp

I Just dont see how this brings any more safety to motorsport.... How do they justify a formula1 drivers life over that of a formula ford driver? The only decent safety device brought in recently is the Hanns device, and the best part is it works for every form of motorsport. Maby a redesign of the ...

colinp

Formala E at the moment seems to restrictive on its electric technology. everyone has to use the same batterys - when batteries are the biggest killer of EV's at the moment

colinp

Thanks

i just kept ending up on the racecontrol website

colinp

I thought the F1 site was bad.... can anyone find any of the laptimes? for both practice sessions?

colinp

If you are being murdered down the straight you will have to compramise the car to get less drag.

If honda was competative mclaren could run full downforce and be competative in the twisty bits

colinp

What is the point? Also a GPS is some 30m wrong and isn't as exact as people might think, that along with latency is a big problem. your tom tom might be a few meters out, but any motorsport datalogger with GPS is within 1 or 2 foot. Without the danger eliment sim racers will almost always be faster.

colinp

To benefit road cars the answer is simple ... 100kg of fuel, the rest is upto you, this would allow development in areas that couldbe more optimized than the current way of making a hybrid

colinp

The ecu is essentially just a chip, each team can then then program the engine maps on it, like firing order fuel,air,spark and the complicated ers stuff

colinp

Copied my car

colinp

I think only 2 of the 6 engines are 2016

colinp

The Williams factory is impressive,im not sure if you can just turn up or if they have open days? I went on a work "jolly"

colinp

The Official reason was the fans at the trackside would only get to see the F1 cars go past about 20 times. they shortned the track not just for F1 but so other slower championships and club motorsport could use the track aswell.

colinp

Ive gone for Kvyat... The Kid has been though it all as was totaly broken be being religated, this meeting he was on the pace right from FP1, if he had this years ferrari i would hav bet on him being front row. He battled hard and fair, especialy with Max. Someone with less mental control could have...

colinp

If you want to watch super powerful, state of the art cars with a roof and closed wheels watch WEC!

F1 is not the technical pinnacle of Race cars any more, and is arguably not the pinnacle of race drivers anymore either.

If the cars become to similar to WEC, F1 would be finished as a series.

colinp

the problem is a cars body work will ALWAYS create downforce even without wings, two cars both with the same level of mechanical grip, and ground effect , the car behind would still not be able to pass. They tried making the rear wing smaller to reduce turbulence and rear end grip and all that did w...

colinp

im a bit confused , can you tell me what the point of the halo is? is it to stop things like Massa's spring accident or to stop cars driving over the top of a driver or to protect from things like bianchi??

colinp

Maby she should have given up the fags to improve her blood oxygen levels.... She has a full team who work for her, Doctors, managers , phyisos etc no excuses!

colinp

Just a observation.. With the car on its roof, the ability of the driver to get out, would seem more restricted?

colinp

I quite like the idea Glasnost, there has to be a way of controlling costs, my only worry would be, for example Ferrari get the spare tokens from Haas as part of the engine deal so the extra cash would never be seen .

colinp

this is better value https://racecarsdirect.com/Advert/Detai ... chassis-03

colinp

The Brawn was showboating in testing..

colinp

I would imagine most of BBC f1 crew will be brought in by channel 4 or be snapped up by sky. I am also betting that channel 4 can't stay away from adverts every 15 mins which will ruin the show and personally will cement me watching it on skyf1 I cant imagine anyone snapping up the remains of the B...

colinp

Ive been giving tuition this year to novice race drivers.
My first bit of advice i give then is, Once you get the breaking right, its much easier to take the correct line.
Im not sure that there is a "most important skill" each part of your driving reflects on to the next.

colinp

Im sure they can make loads of versions of the parts they want to upgrade, without using any tokens, then select the best bits for the actual race engines, that then use the tokens, so it could be a big step

colinp

Bang on
Formula one should be the pinnacle of what is possible

The this energy recovery etc is covered by WEC and FormulaE

colinp

I think they look awsome!

colinp

w1Y! wrote:I'm gonna say it again.

WHY DO WE NOT HAVE INTERACTIVE VIEWING YET. (aka the red button)

We have had it but the uptake wasn't great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mvgkza8fn_U about 35 seconds in shows what we used to have

colinp

Millions and millions of people had sky long before the f1, infact i remember paying for F1Digital+ on top of my subscription. None of these people would cancel and move to an exclusive app, the cost in streaming hardware and bandwidth would be so ridicules' it wont happen anytime soon, Im sure the ...

colinp

angrypirate wrote:I remember in 2009, prior to the start of the season, the odds on a Jenson Button WDC was something like 60-1. I wonder what the odds are on a JB podium in Spa?

£20 at 66/1 cha ching

colinp

Im sure when the do the noise test its 1meter and at 45 degrees, by the time the noise gets to the spectators its sufficiently dispersed

colinp

Although there were a lot of incidents they looked genuinely competitive with the Torro Rosso's. So looks like a good step forward. I hope its not just a once off with track layout and conditions. Glad someone else spotted this, I think they were also racing for the first time this season IMO with ...

colinp

If you create drag / dirty air , the car behind would get a better tow down the straights. Its easyer to make your car faster than slow down the competition, the dirty air solution would only be any good whilst the attacking car is behind you, after that you wouldnt be able to keep up

colinp

I had a proper tour of the lola factory in 2008 was amazing i watched as the cad team used what looked like 2 mice at the same time. Then had my phone confiscated for taking photos of, i guess what would be the last LMP car in the wind tunnel. Was also showen a car being setup up on a hydraulic 4pos...

colinp

For the first time in 35 years I actually tuned off half way through the race!

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