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Chunky

Spa 2008. It's taken a long time for Hamilton to get back the win that the stewards stole for Ferrari. I've not seen any cockpit footage or telemetry yet, but unless Vettel kept his foot in and/or steered right it's a very unfair penalty, even if it's the rules. How this compares with Vestappen in M...

Chunky

LeClerc was faster in practice and qualy, duplicating the young Vettel style at Red Bull - quick, precise and clinical in the fastest car when there was no-one chasing him and no-one to pass. Very impressive. Then at the start of the race Vettel put the move on him to go P1 and I thought, " okay, no...

Chunky

I'm definitely no Vettel fan and this one was maybe 50/50 but all four drivers from Merc and Ferrari have had to excercise unecssary caution with Verstappen this season and last where they could expect better but still competitive driving from the more mature members of the grid. Something tells me ...

Chunky

You have it all wrong. He's going to get measured for a Shackleton's high seat chair. One of the big ones, with the grab rails and the electric motor to tip you out on to your zimmer frame. They just told him it was for Ferrari so they could get him to the showroom. Poor dear, it's terrible when you...

Chunky

Glorified go-cart jockeys. The best drivers are undoubtedly in rallying. The car control is incredible, the road surface is constantly varying and unpredictable, plus they don't get to hone it to perfection from lap to lap. If they push a bit too hard it's not a trip to the run-off and come back on ...

Chunky

Like many of Brawn's ideas, it's excellent and would cut down the cost of all the photography and subtle espionage at every GP and test. Of course, it would have to be limited to non strip down stuff, so no peering inside engines, but they could insist on the removal of covers and so on. I doubt tha...

Chunky

Option 1 - return to an open breather system like on my dad's Anglia 105E and belch grey fumes all over the place, on to the track and around the bodywork of the car. Just for extra spice, remember that it will be hitting the visor of the driver behind like in the good old days when they used to get...

Chunky

At last! A chance for Maldonado to get a drive that his sponsorship and ego so desperately deserve.

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Chunky

There's no point in an engine manufacturer being in the sport unless they can have their name on the bodywork and get some lower grade publicity as the cameras switch to the mid-field and back marker battles now and again. There's only two circumstances in which this would work: Firstly, if they can...

Chunky

Just in the process of reading Brawn and Parr's book about F1 and strategy. A very good read, that I'd recommend, by the way. In it, he's very clear that he loved the engineering, loved the strategy, loved managing but hated the politics and believes it's worse now. There's some poking of Ecclestone...

Chunky

This sounds odd, but I think subconsciously Lewis lacks self-confidence - which is why he's always trying to justify why he lost. I'm not only thinking about this WDC title, but also tweeting car telemetry a few seasons ago to justify Button beating him (in quali IIRC). Hamilton doesn't lack self c...

Chunky

Button for a season ??? How good would that be? Alonso would be bashing his own head against the nearest brick wall. I predict that Alosno will move, the Merc will not be competitive next season and Hamilton will replace Button who had come out of retirement at McLaren just in time for Honda to com...

Chunky

Very good, considering it's for nowt. Except the ads, but I record and scroll through. Now that F1.com charges for live data this isn't a problem. Oh, and they could do with someone who can talk technical stuff, like the guy on the Beeb did. I don't need the eye candy, so Suzy doesn't add much to th...

Chunky

I don't think this is even debatable, but being debatable, there are many stats that prove that the Mercedes is the most dominant car ever in any era of F1. I don't have any but I've read a lot about it lately. It's a no-brainer. And that, gentlemen, gives you the entire crux of this pointless thre...

Chunky

Even the Premier League realises that they need plurality of viewing options. Add to this that F1 is much, much more dependent on both advertisers and blokes with tea towels on their heads who want to promote their sand infested back yard and you can be certain Sky won't be the only way forward. Res...

Chunky

This can only ever be a very, very long thread.

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Chunky

Let's put this in perspective shall we? At the absolute pinacle of automotive engineering, it's ridiculously easy for a mechanic to put the kybosh on a car. A couple of years ago Rosberg didn't get off the grid because of a "bit of dirt" in the steering wheel connection. Lewis also had an engine fir...

Chunky

We need to stick with the corporate pandering to oligarhs and blokes with tea towels on their heads. Everyone knows it's the most improtant thing on a driver's mind. No need for drivers to maximise recon time, it just helps avoid first lap major carnage which would spoil the show. And forget the com...

Chunky

He should be made to stay at Ferrari for the remainder of his career. The poor *inaudible* would go suffer immeasurably.

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Chunky

I'm no fan of Vettel. I fully expected him to kick off when the hybrid engines came in and Mercedes became dominant, ending his run of right place, right time, Uncle Helmut engineered entitlement. To his credit, he didn't. Even when Ricciardo wiped the floor with him. Instead he went to Ferrari, got...

Chunky

I suspect Rosberg will get a WDC. If not this year then before Mercedes supremacy is overturned. Compare with previous times. Prost won more than Senna, but they only people likely to make a story about Prost's life would be a French state supported art house studio. He was good, just not as good, e...

Chunky

You mis-read the timing and actual events to a good degree. Honda had piled money into F1 and in typical Japanese corporate fashion, acheived nothing. There was a major rule change coming and development money was switched very early to the new format and poured in. It was going to be a double or qu...

Chunky

Its a cool design, but I'd say its very inspired on the Red Bull X1 prototype. In that it has a wheel at each corner, you are absolutely correct. Other than that, there's hardly anything else in common. This piece of work has obviously taken a lot of time to produce and at first glance it looks muc...

Chunky

......McLaren are saddled with an underpowered PU. But that doesn't mean that Honda should be blamed for anything. They have a monumental task is trying to create a PU under the regulations and frankly have done pretty well..... It's not like the regulations were a secret, they were available to ev...

Chunky

mcdo wrote:There's no evidence to suggest any of that

Are you by any chance an accountant? Or even an actuary? 'Cos if we're talking about evidence instead of considered opinion , this forum would get about two posts a week.

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Chunky

So we have a number of possible options: 1. Nico is better than he was. 2 Lewis is no better than he used to be. 3. Nico has learned some things from Hamilton but Lewis probably hasn't got (or taken) as much back the other way. 4. The car has been increasingly developed to benefit from a more cerebr...

Chunky

This :thumbup: With the 2017 cars apparently being 'beasts', Hamilton should be in his element next year. He'll be at Merc. It will take Rosberg all of a season to get his head around driving a car that can pull his face off. Hamilton will take to it like a duck to water. Vettel might be slow up the...

Chunky

The ultimate limit is set by maximum fuel flow and the amount of juice they can haul around with them. Having all that spare equipment removes any concern about reliability though and it means that in the latter stages of the rsason there's no need to worry about nursing a power unit.

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Chunky

Just rumors, tidbits,and hints, but it appears that Mercedes have a hydraulic heave damper with mercury inside. Because mercury is so heavy, it acts like a built-in mechanical accelerometer. Thus each end has the ability to sense pitching, and alter the suspension to keep the car as level as possib...

Chunky

With more down force and the fuel flow limit still in place methinks we can expect more of a sprint then fuel save and then sprint again then limp to the end. Hopefully it will sort the men from the boys occasionally at some point in the odd race, but the days of gladiators collapsing of exhaustion ...

Chunky

So 9 races, some spare engines left for practice and three brand new ones to drive the nuts off. Turn the boost up to 11 !!

It will be quite interesting if we see hm stuck behind Rosberg again. One of them has to make parts last, the other one ..... nah.

Chunky

........judged on one bad season..................................In my view, it's fairly simple. Putting it bluntly, it’s all to do with the calibre of Vettel’s team mates. The one time Vettel gets paired with the nearest thing to a tier 1 team mate (Ric), Vettel gets beaten in every measurable wa...

Chunky

I'm no fan of Vettel, far from it. But I recognise that his stock has grown, not diminished. From a situation where he had an ultra dominant car, no permissable in-team competititon and was able to stick in a fast qualy lap then romp away from the front to win some rather unworthy titles he has impr...

Chunky

There's absolutely no logic in swapping only PU bits instead of all the lot. The penalty would be the same, he'd have more spare engines than Rosberg and only the (predominantly) non-Mercedes buying folks on forums like this would notice. It would do no harm to the Mercedes brand. However, we have t...

Chunky

Could I buy Sky F1 coverage race by race like say, a boxing match? No. Can I just have Sky F1? No. Instead, I not only have to have the base Sky package which is already costing me thirty quid a month but I have to have Sky Sports on top. I don't want the football, I don't want the curling or the sk...

Chunky

What a terrible thing to do, putting the F1 results on the news. Didn't affect me, I was driving around playing MP3s rather than the radio all afternoon so there was no risk of exposure to results. I then came home to sit in front of the Discovery Channel until 7pm. That meant I could spool through ...

Chunky

In that race both cars were running low on fuel and Mansell's car ran out of fuel after the chequered flag, according to Mansell's fuel meter he should have run out 2 laps from the end but the meters were not that accurate back then. But wasn't it magnificent? It couldn't happen today because we've...

Chunky

My point is that you can have whatever tyres you want. They are just an artificial creation, designed to make "the show" marginally less predicatable. If we wanted tyres to last forever, Pirelli would make them. But fuel saving - that's the over-arching killer of the sport. It's like Jess Eniss havi...

Chunky

Jenson will score more points at Williams next season than both McLaren drivers combined. Assuming that is, that he wants to drive rather than being fixated on the dosh.

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Chunky

No fan of Alonso, but I do sympathise with his view. Cars, tyres, run off areas instead of grass, ugly aero - they're all irrelevant compared with the fuel limit. If they had unlimited fuel and unlimited flow they could drive the nuts off a car and do multi-stops for tyres when they turn to canvas. ...

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