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johnp

So what happened to the sleek sexy F1 cars we were suppose to get? the front wing looks like a huge snow plow, what a monstrosity

johnp

Yellowbin74 wrote:Personally, I'm happy with the sound as it is - don't care if they are noisy or not.

Please don't add microphones as that's a bad idea plain and simple.

Too late.... F1 has already contacted Marshall amps to fix the noise problem

johnp

Anyone stupid enough to pull a boneheaded move like Vettel did doesn't deserve to be world champion

johnp

Why did he make only 1 run in Q1 ? what was wrong with his car?

johnp

given that Honda runs it's engine program all by itself, it all depends on them. I think Mclaren builds a decent enough car so that Fernando could fight for a win or two. But it all depends what happens with the new engine. Still, the major problem is that RON isn't running the operations any more....

johnp

Looking at the ridiculously massive front wings the new cars have, we're in for lots of first lap carnage (unless your starting on the front row)

johnp

Looks like 3 groups of designers (front, middle, back) worked separately to create this mess, that shark fin looks like it's made of plywood

johnp

I guess the rumours of the hideous shark fins making a comeback were true, so much for good looking new cars. But I do love the new rear wing and cockpit area

johnp

F3 cars have something like 240hp, F1 cars will have over 940hp next year, is this kid ready??????

johnp

36 million is more or less what Bernie charges for a right to stage a GP, someone has pretty nasty sense of humor

johnp

This is the first year we're getting the full broadcast from sky in Canada, I must say the pre and post race shows are god awful, boring to the max

johnp

Bernie "I reject your reality and substitute my own"

johnp

Nothing but stupid word games, the bloody engine will still be built by Renault, I would be very surprised if Red Bull are allowed to do even minor modifications to the power unit (aren't the engines sealed the engine maker?)

johnp

After the comments made by Dennis, and Alonso wanting to park his car despite more than half the race to go, it kind of makes you wonder what's happening in McLaren land

johnp

According to Cosworth "It would cost roughly £20m to develop from scratch, with everything else that goes with it." so in other words it's possible to produce an engine with the same horsepower (if not more) as the $1 billion dollar Mercedes power unit, and you wonder why F1 is going down the finan...

johnp

According to Cosworth "It would cost roughly £20m to develop from scratch, with everything else that goes with it." so in other words it's possible to produce an engine with the same horsepower (if not more) as the $1 billion dollar Mercedes power unit, and you wonder why F1 is going down the financ...

johnp

Formula 1 does not need the cutting edge of anything. The fastest car would be rocket propelled, with skirts in a fully enclosed body being sucked onto the track by extractor fans and with variable nozzles for the rocket engines like a Harrier Jet aircraft. The driver would be a passenger who was i...

johnp

Fast forward to 2017...a new 2.5 liter twin turbo 900hp is introduced, 3 different engine builders remain Ferrari,Honda and Ilmor . Mercedes pulls a hissy fit and withdrawals from F1 (Susie leaves Toto as a result) McLaren, Red bull, and Williams start winning races again, and a least 2 new teams e...

johnp

Fast forward to 2017...a new 2.5 liter twin turbo 900hp is introduced, 3 different engine builders remain Ferrari,Honda and Ilmor . Mercedes pulls a hissy fit and withdrawals from F1 (Susie leaves Toto as a result) McLaren, Red bull, and Williams start winning races again, and a least 2 new teams en...

johnp

What exactly does Lauda do for Mercedes? besides shooting off his mouth and insult other teams

johnp

The engines are vastly more expensive than those they replaced, so I agree with you that from a cost perspective they were a step in the wrong direction and have been counter-productive. However, they are much more powerful than the older engines, so the bit about being slower is not true. It is th...

johnp

Button *IN* for 2016. Confirmed in the McLaren. Smart move on McLaren's part. Smart? you know if Mclaren dumped both Button and Alonso next year, and replaced them with Magnussen and Vandoorne, they would save over $35 million and get the same race results (unless Honda finds 75-100 bhp in the off ...

johnp

I was under the impression that the road car division is making good money, doesn't Dennis run that operation as well?

johnp

Well at least Honda helps McLaren pay the bills, I wonder if McLaren had a title sponsor they would put up with such a bad engine

johnp

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johnp

The major problem I have with modern F1 cars is their race pace, no matter how you look at it the fact is these cars are bloody slow, turning them into fuel tankers hasn't help (bring back re-fueling)

johnp

Ferdinand Piech is no longer in charge at VW so there might be a possibility for them to buy out Red Bull possibly for the 2017 engine rule change ? I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a major engine rule change 2017, these ridiculously expensive hybrid engines are here to stay ( or kills F1 peri...

johnp

An amazing detail look at the MP4-30 http://www.racecar-engineering.com/cars/mclaren-mp4-30/ (sorry if it's already been posted)

johnp

Interesting quote from Alonso “I think the cars are different – slower, heavier… In China, the pace in the race was 1min 43 and in 2004 the pace was 1min 33, so it is 10secs difference. When you drive 10 seconds slower you don't have the same feelings. Almost sounds like Fernando is getting fed up w...

johnp

I actually believe wacko Marko this time, Mercedes has come to the realization that an F1 title has lost a lot of it's lustre when one team is demolishing the rest of the field primarily because an engine rule change (a change not very popular among F1's dwindling fan base) Perhaps you could tell u...

johnp

I actually believe wacko Marko this time, Mercedes has come to the realization that an F1 title has lost a lot of it's lustre when one team is demolishing the rest of the field primarily because an engine rule change (a change not very popular among F1's dwindling fan base) Respectfully, I couldn't...

johnp

I actually believe wacko Marko this time, Mercedes has come to the realization that an F1 title has lost a lot of it's lustre when one team is demolishing the rest of the field primarily because an engine rule change (a change not very popular among F1's dwindling fan base)

johnp

This is all a Bernie red herring. Mercedes is already reputed to be over 900hp, so just normal development will mean that they will be hitting 1000hp by 2017. It's just manipulating perception as usual from the poison dwarf. I don't think the actual engines (without the super expensive ERS systems)...

johnp

what I'm reading is that they'll go with a twin turbo V6, how difficult is it to change the current engines to a twin turbo configuration? (do they have to come up with a totally new engine design)

johnp

I see nothing wrong with Ilmor,Cosworth and Ferrari producing 1000bhp V8's revving over 20,000rpm, better than the sorry state F1 is in today (who the hell cares how much fuel they use)

johnp

Nico is becoming more delusional after every beat down Lewis lays on him, next he'll claim that his engine is underpowered compared to Lewis, this is starting to get really pathetic

johnp

Poor Alonso, I think he would've went faster if he got out and pushed Ron's fairy cakes around the track, I'm surprised that turkey could keep up with the safety car

johnp

Why do they even race in Malaysian? looks like not even 20,000 people showed up, one of the main grandstand looked 70% empty. Well done Vettel can't believe he got beaten by Daniel Ricciardo last year (Danny really stunk up the place)

johnp

what's happening is not very shocking to be honest, I recall Bernie stating over 10 years ago that F1 is too big for a promoters to stage races, that government money was needed to run an F1 event. Well that approach works with governments that don't answer to the people, not too well with democrati...

johnp

nixxxon wrote:In 2004 the cars used grooved tyres, so I dont think it's exactly fair to make a direct comparison.

new tires are probably 3 or 4 seconds faster than those used in 2004, plus if they developed the V10's (and cars) up to 2015, we would be talking about 8 to 10 seconds a lap faster for the V10 cars

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