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- Fri Jul 27, 2018 5:19 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Management styles in F1
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6119
Re: Management styles in F1
Well, saving thousand of jobs, erasing an almost insurmountable debt in the billions and make two dying big companies a newer, bigger and profitable enterprise again is in itself quite an achievement. Talking about the quality of the jobs is easy, but I think any of the jobs Marchione saved allowed ...
- Fri Dec 02, 2016 11:58 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: The Official NICO ROSBERG thread
- Replies: 960
- Views: 309596
Re: The Official NICO ROSBERG thread
Rosberg will come back in 2018 and not with Mercedes!
- Fri Dec 02, 2016 11:54 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Nico Rosberg retires from F1, with immediate affect
- Replies: 498
- Views: 99173
Re: Nico Rosberg retires from F1, with immediate affect
He will come back with another team in 2018.
Will see at that time
Will see at that time
- Thu Mar 05, 2015 8:04 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Alonso crash/missing Melbourne [MERGED]
- Replies: 837
- Views: 184043
Re: Alonso crash/missing Melbourne [MERGED]
Some years ago I was sitting at my office, suddenly I can type in the computer, but I can't talk and when said something, was not the thing I wanted to say. To make the history short, I was able to call my daughter and when she listen what I was talking came to my office and took me to the hospital....
- Wed Oct 29, 2014 1:19 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Caterham into administration
- Replies: 93
- Views: 18001
Re: Caterham into administration
There is a lot wrong with F1 today. . A lot has been written about reducing the costs of F1, limiting testing, engine development, etc, etc. Almost no body talk about the biggest problems in F1. The main problem is the F1 business model is by itself unsustainable for any small team and on the long r...
- Thu Sep 25, 2014 12:03 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Alonso: "The other Ferrari is 45 seconds behind".
- Replies: 194
- Views: 42968
Re: Alonso: "The other Ferrari is 45 seconds behind".
Lotus 38 I said: "Alonso is performing at top level with what he gets...true" If you will like it more, I can say "Fernando is doing an outstanding work with the Car he is getting" I also said the Ferrari car is a piece of junk and I never had the intention nor said that the Ferrari is a dream car f...
- Wed Sep 24, 2014 6:02 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Alonso: "The other Ferrari is 45 seconds behind".
- Replies: 194
- Views: 42968
Re: Alonso: "The other Ferrari is 45 seconds behind".
The Ferrari car is a piece of junk, that is a known. Alonso is performing at top level with what he gets...true. Fernando is making the car performing better than the car is able...B%^%S. Kimi is not doing well..Treu. For any driver it will be hard to perform with a car that not only doesn't suit hi...
- Wed Sep 24, 2014 5:28 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: If Vettel Joins New Team in 2015 Would Credibility Be Lost?
- Replies: 179
- Views: 30179
Re: If Vettel Joins New Team in 2015 Would Credibility Be Lo
Well, Vettel has been slow in adapting to this car, had a lot of mechanical issues, team screw ups and bad luck. Daniel is being just perfect this year. This for me makes a good case of Daniel being a top performer but not a case for Vettel loosing his reputation. On top of everything, most of the t...
- Wed Sep 24, 2014 5:08 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Silly Season 2015 Uberthread [MERGED]
- Replies: 2131
- Views: 390324
Re: Alonso makes new demands to see out his Ferrari contract
2016 Vettel and Newey at Ferrari.
- Mon Sep 08, 2014 2:57 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Rosberg. Is this his only stab at a title.
- Replies: 152
- Views: 28164
Re: Rosberg. Is this his only stab at a title.
Some Logic lesssons: Rosberg is a second tier driver, doesn't deserve any respect. Rosberg is only fast because of the car. Lewis and Rosberg are very close on pace. Then: If Lewis and Rosberg are very close on speed and Rosberg is in reality a second tier driver that do not deserve any respect: The...
- Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:01 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: is motogp dying?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 9343
Re: is motogp dying?
Gladiators? Not, real racers as it was before in F1. This GP guys are racing and cornering at amazing speeds. To do that first you need to be pretty smart and second have big.....whatever. GP of today reminds me the old F1 years more than today F1. I bet you that more than half the drivers in F1 wil...
- Sun Aug 31, 2014 7:14 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: is motogp dying?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 9343
Re: is motogp dying?
Do not think so. Marquez is not killing GP, he is killing the Records. I wish F1 was at the level of GP now. In GP if you want to pass, you do not have artificial things on your equipment, the main equipment are your skills, talents and something else...
- Sat Aug 30, 2014 3:19 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Is Vettel's rep gone for good?
- Replies: 1511
- Views: 281191
Re: Is Vettel's rep gone for good?
Well, I think Vettel will struggle with Dan for the rest of this season and probably half of the next. The main problem is that for 4 years Vettel was driving a car that needed a very different approach while cornering, and that driving style and the Newey design together developed huge amounts of d...
- Sat Aug 16, 2014 9:03 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Paddy Lowe
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6230
Re: Paddy Lowe
To say that he took Mercedes to the next level is just wrong. The engine for the Mercedes was designed long before he was there and the Mercedes car is so good mainly because of the engine, because aerodynamically I think the best car is still the Red Bull. The pit stop still are lacking, even with ...
- Tue Jul 29, 2014 1:22 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Hungary Merc Team Orders Uberthread - [Merged]
- Replies: 184
- Views: 24455
Re: Hungary Merc Team Orders - [Merged]
I think Lewis did the right thing. I also think Vettel did also the right thing some time ago, not allowing Webber thru, but then half of the people in this forum called Torquemada because disobeying teams orders was a sin. Other "fans" started booing Vettel because of that. Now Lewis did the same a...
- Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:35 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Red Bull Commitment 'Has its limits'
- Replies: 132
- Views: 41834
Re: Red Bull Commitment 'Has its limits'
Blake: The FIA makes the Rules and is the enforcer of them, but that doesn't mean that the FIA is not obliged to comply with its own Rules. If the FIA says a team to use something out of specs, then the FIA is out of control, swimming pool on its own Regulations. If a sensor is out of specs is illeg...
- Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:25 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Red Bull Commitment 'Has its limits'
- Replies: 132
- Views: 41834
Re: Red Bull Commitment 'Has its limits'
While some people wants the RBR team and its owner to disappear from F1, I do not find anything wrong with what he said: Asked if there will be ever something to make RBR out of F1, he answered "The question is not so much whether it makes economic sense but the reasons would be to do with sportsman...
- Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:24 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Red Bull Commitment 'Has its limits'
- Replies: 132
- Views: 41834
Re: Red Bull Commitment 'Has its limits'
While some people wants the RBR team and its owner to disappear from F1, I do not find anything wrong with what he said: Asked if there will be ever something to make RBR out of F1, he answered "The question is not so much whether it makes economic sense but the reasons would be to do with sportsman...
- Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:09 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Red Bull Commitment 'Has its limits'
- Replies: 132
- Views: 41834
Re: Red Bull Commitment 'Has its limits'
There are two problems: After Gill finish the sensors, then a Third Party Enterprise calibrate them, but this is still not the big problems, the problem is that after the sensor are installed, according to some developed model the FIA approves certain "offsets" The basis for the offsets, believe or ...
- Mon Mar 24, 2014 7:43 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Red Bull Commitment 'Has its limits'
- Replies: 132
- Views: 41834
Re: Red Bull Commitment 'Has its limits'
doesn't mean that what the FIA did was legal
- Mon Mar 24, 2014 7:41 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: Red Bull Commitment 'Has its limits'
- Replies: 132
- Views: 41834
Re: Red Bull Commitment 'Has its limits'
Zoue wrote: because they can't. The rules are quite explicit in what procedure to follow with regards to fuel flow sensor readings, and RBR didn't follow them. That's pretty black and white. As I said before, I think the DQ should stand, but let me ask something: The owner of Red Bull is right on th...
- Fri Mar 21, 2014 7:30 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB appeal.
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 194163
Re: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB app
After 28 pages still some people think Red Bull had its own measurement system or that they put another sensor: All the teams have two measurement systems: the data from the ECU and the FIA's homologated one. You should use the one the FIA says you to use.
- Fri Mar 21, 2014 7:23 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB appeal.
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 194163
Re: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB app
The writing of the Rules is 100 % OK. Only problems steam from the sensor being out of specs making them illegal. If you need to make an offset to your sensor based on the ECU data that is supposedly less accurate speaks very loud at what he have at hand. By the way, when somebody here said that a f...
- Thu Mar 20, 2014 7:54 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB appeal.
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 194163
Re: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB app
By that definition, a faulty sensor does not meet specs but that doesn't make it illegal, just faulty. I do agree that if they force a part on the teams then that part should be fairly bullet proof, although I disagree that any variance should necessarily make it illegal. And I would support any te...
- Thu Mar 20, 2014 6:43 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB appeal.
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 194163
Re: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB app
Fangio52 wrote: Is it legal to use a sensor that doesn't comply with the specs which where the basis of the homologation? I think that the fact that the teams accepted the illegality of using sensors that do not meet the specs, do not make the FIA to be on the legal side. Am I right? Zoue: Hmm, I d...
- Thu Mar 20, 2014 6:18 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB appeal.
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 194163
Re: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB app
If estimations, even complex formulas, are used to "fill in the blanks" in order to be able to connect the data points and calculate the area and thus the fuel flow, you're introducing uncertainty into the model. Is the accuracy of this uncertainty small enough to reliably calculate the total fuel ...
- Thu Mar 20, 2014 6:07 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB appeal.
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 194163
Re: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB app
Fangio52 wrote: You are right: Until now there is no proof whatsoever that using the homologated fuel sensor would have put RBR at disadvantage. But until now, there is no proof on the contrary neither. Zoue wrote: But there is no burden of proof on the FIA for that I never said that the burden of ...
- Thu Mar 20, 2014 4:20 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB appeal.
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 194163
Re: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB app
Zoue: I don't understand this line of reasoning. First, there's no proof whatsoever that using the homologated fuel sensor would have put RBR at a disadvantage to everyone else. Mercedes were also told to turn things down even though their own internal readings differed from the official ones. They ...
- Thu Mar 20, 2014 12:52 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB appeal.
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 194163
Re: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB app
[quoteedit 2: something just strikes me. What if teams align with the timing of the sensor and inject more between the readings? So inject more, also at 5 or 10Hz but shifted by half a cycle?][/quote] Impossible, the ECU is sealed and the mappings you put into it are previously FIA approved. Best Re...
- Thu Mar 20, 2014 12:45 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB appeal.
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 194163
Re: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB app
[quoteIf their own readings only put them on a level playing field with the other teams (which seems a bit unlikely), then I agree that Dan's race result should stand - but RBR should still suffer a minor penalty plus loss of constructors points for ignoring the FIA.][/quote] The DQ should stand, be...
- Wed Mar 19, 2014 11:21 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB appeal.
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 194163
Re: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB app
Blake: Let me try to explain it to you but I know I am bad explaining things. You started the race with lets say 100 kg of fuel. During the race, your fuel flow sensor is sampling the flow and based on this readings its totaling unit is computing the total of fuel consumed by your car. At the end of...
- Wed Mar 19, 2014 10:43 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB appeal.
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 194163
Re: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB app
You seem to have missed my earlier reply on you in using this method. I will repeat: Sorry I didn't reply to you before. Let me explain that it is not my method. It is in use for a long time, with some more variations and calculations in the model, but the basic totaling unit is based on the totali...
- Wed Mar 19, 2014 7:29 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB appeal.
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 194163
Re: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB app
Zoue wrote: "Whether RBR's methods are more accurate is not the issue. The rules, which they signed up to, stipulate that the FIA sensors are the only acceptable method for monitoring fuel flow. They cannot unilaterally decide to do it differently because they feel they will get a better result I ne...
- Wed Mar 19, 2014 6:02 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB appeal.
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 194163
Re: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB app
Actually, unless I am totally misunderstanding things, just checking the amount of fuel left (as some have suggested as a true indicator if a team has gone over the 100) has no relevance to this situation. Would a team/driver not be able to use more fuel when they wished (ie push-to-pass) for certa...
- Wed Mar 19, 2014 3:43 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB appeal.
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 194163
Re: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB app
I don't know how you propose to know all the facts sat in your armchair, the FIA had all the facts to hand during their 4/5 hour deliberation on whether Ricciardo should be disqualified or not. Also Red Bull did gain an advantage by taking the law into their own hands, all the other teams abided by...
- Wed Mar 19, 2014 3:04 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB appeal.
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 194163
Re: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB app
Even if RB prove they were not exceeding the FIA flow limit they were still running at an advantage to the other teams who were complying with the FIA instructions. The teams that complied were running at a lower threshold to follow the directive. It is highly unlikely that RB's own readings are mo...
- Wed Mar 19, 2014 2:42 pm
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB appeal.
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 194163
Re: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB app
And the fact remains that they did gain a performance advantage. Red Bull did gain a performance advantage if they went over the 100 kg/h flow, something no body even the FIA knows. According to the FIA sensor that is the case, but given the accuracy of the sensor it is hard to say if that is the t...
- Wed Mar 19, 2014 2:43 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB appeal.
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 194163
Re: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB app
One more thing I whish to know:
What were the offsets used for every car on the grid...this will be at least interesting.
What were the offsets used for every car on the grid...this will be at least interesting.
- Wed Mar 19, 2014 2:41 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB appeal.
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 194163
Re: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB app
"Gills say that 92% have a tolerance of +/-.25% which doesn't mean the other 8% are worthless. They also say that ~50% have a tolerance of +/-.10% and nowhere has anybody said anything about what tolerance the FIA is willing to accept. " The homologated sensor should have an accuracy of 0.25% both ...
- Wed Mar 19, 2014 1:40 am
- Forum: F1 & Motorsport Forum
- Topic: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB appeal.
- Replies: 1355
- Views: 194163
Re: UPD: Ricciardo DSQ for breach of fuel flow limit, RB app
The offset for the sensors is form a fuel system model from the FIA. Why do you need to model a real process to say the reality. In a process you just read the real values from sensors. It is like you put a thermometer on me and it shows 36 degrees C but then you take a model of my body built by you...