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Lord Crc

How about grid kids? Pick some local racing kids and/or fans, let them in the middle of the spectacle for a few hours and enjoy it.

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I’ll say the same thing I always say. Women, in significant quantities, just aren’t that interested in motorsports. The vast majority of young girls don’t take any interest in karting and as such never progress to anything near F1 level. This may be partially due to cultural bias though. Experiment...

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Chess has the Women's World Chess Championship, yet also mixed championships. This years cars are a bit more physically demanding, but by the looks of the current drivers that shouldn't really be a significant factor I think.

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The new hybrids will overwhelm the tyres with torque. I've been to 4 hybrid era grand prixes and see no sign of tyres "overwhelmed". None. The accelerator pedal has over twice the travel on the current hybrid V6 cars compared to the V8s before. That's to give the drivers a fighting chance of handli...

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Rule enforcing like this could and should be done by computers. Real-time telemetry combined with computer vision should make this an easy job, and it would make things consistent and predictable. Stewards could verify just to make sure it's not an obvious wrong judgment due to a bug or similar.

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Herb Tarlik wrote:These Mercedes Benz safety cars can go well over 150 mph. As a safety car, they are loafing at 80mph. The driver along with the car's function (as a safety car) is probably the limiting factor here.

Can they do 150mph through a corner?

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mikeyg123 wrote:With this tech I see no need for the safety car at all.

One thing I like about the safety car is that it really reinforces just how quick the F1 cars are. You see the safety car on the limit and the F1 cars behind looking like they're in a parking lot looking for space.

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jiminwatford wrote:Video explaining the FIA's working. Very interesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9wafkT ... ploademail

Thanks for posting, very interesting indeed.

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

No, if anything it's star fuel as it was created by stars. It's recyclable though.

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I can't help but feel that the FIA have done their research and have a positive case to introduce it - they know most fans think it's ugly as heck and they still go forward with it. I guess what I'm saying is that I'd like to see the scenarios that FIA have considered and their conclusions for each...

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Regarding Alonso 2016, as much as it against a drivers instinct perhaps he'd have been better/safer staying strapped in the car with his spine effectively braced against the seat and waited to be extracted in a controlled way? I was thinking more of the halo preventing Raikkonens car from making co...

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Not being able to get out can be very bad even if the car is not on fire. How exactly? I had to rush to a meeting, so was a bit quick. What I'm trying to say is that I think the halo will be an obstruction in certain emergencies. The driver might have gotten injured (from debris from the crash for ...

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Now... I don't really see how it would not be a net win. Maybe it could be a slight one, and I'm not convinced it's even worth it, but the negative cases that are invented tend to be freak cases that we haven't seen happening in decades: - "what if a driver breaks both his arms in a crash and needs...

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The biggest issue for me is that, as is the case with many optimizations, the Halo trades improved safety in some specific cases with reduced safety in other cases. To me it is not clear at all that the net result is a win. Seatbelts and airbags also trade improved safety in some cases with reduced...

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The biggest issue for me is that, as is the case with many optimizations, the Halo trades improved safety in some specific cases with reduced safety in other cases. To me it is not clear at all that the net result is a win.

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Hamilton: “Guys if Valtteri can’t catch the man ahead, tell him to slow down a bit to cause a bad wake.” For reference, the exact quote from Hamilton: Guys, if Valtteri is not fighting anyone ahead, you need to have him slow down just enough that it gives bad wake. Not that it matters really as it'...

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F1_Ernie wrote:Hamilton: “Guys if Valtteri can’t catch the man ahead, tell him to slow down a bit to cause a bad wake.”

For reference, the exact quote from Hamilton:

Hamilton wrote:Guys, if Valtteri is not fighting anyone ahead, you need to have him slow down just enough that it gives bad wake.

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moby wrote:The last season was not that good for Mclaren either.

That was a chassis issue mainly due to front suspension, wasn't it? Most seem to say the McLaren has a pretty good chassis now, so should be much further up with a good engine it seems.

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Great stuff, hope to see more like this!

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Martin Brundle commented during the race that Honda had a ERS deficiency compared to the others. So even if efficiency was the same, they would use more fuel anyway? Lose lose for them Indeed. I mean it would be good if Honda could get it sorted ASAP, another engine supplier can only be a good thin...

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moby wrote:Just wondering, is it because the engine is less efficient, has to spend more time on the throttle etc, or is it an energy recovery deficit? More recovered and usable, less need to use fuel.

Martin Brundle commented during the race that Honda had a ERS deficiency compared to the others.

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Are you watching on C4 HD? There shouldn't be much of a difference when comparing HD feeds. That's like saying there shouldn't be much difference in the video quality between a HD YouTube video and a BluRay disc. Bitrate is a very important component. The primary reason why 4k Netflix streams look ...

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mikeyg123 wrote:Brundle isn't the lead commentator.... Are you sure you're not thinking of Croft?

To be fair, Simon Lazenby usually introduces them as "Commentary comes from Martin Brundle and David Croft" (in that order).

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Exediron wrote:
LBET wrote:Thumbs up for back to V8 engines.
I haven't read it yet, but if this is an example of their insights I'm expecting a bunch of revisionist drivel now.

It's not their "insight", it's simply based on the survey data.

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nixxxon wrote:
Lord Crc wrote:How would one handle interaction between the virtual car and the race cars? Without that, what's the point?
There would be no actual interaction, you would run along them like being ghost cars. Can't do it in any other way

That's what I assumed, but then what's the point?

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How would one handle interaction between the virtual car and the race cars? Without that, what's the point?

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shogun wrote:Does anyone know why sky doesnt air the post race press conference... for me its the best part of post race. The pundits can analyse whatever they want nothing beats hearing it form the drivers themselves.

But they do? Or do you mean on the main sky channel?

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A certain blog F1-life.net has speculated that Sauber is going to join hands with Honda that will provide them engines at a low cost. This would enable Honda to gather more data engine data to solve their woes. Good for Sauber. Atleast they'll use the latest engine specs instead of older Ferrari on...

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I have been thinking about Daniel Ricciardo's problem getting to the grid yesterday which was caused by a sensor issue and it made me wonder if all the electronic systems should be taken off the cars which would make things a lot simpler (and cheaper) and would stop things like that happening as I'...

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Orange was kinda crowded this year, not a bad move. Only thing I don't like is the blue BWT thing (both color and design).

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Podium, probably yes. Wins no.

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Having a system to keep the Astroturf wet should be enough...

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I don't see the issue from a sportmanship-POV. When the opponent tries to make a pass, the driver tries to place the car in such a way that it becomes harder for the opponent to overtake. Same thing for me, especially considering Hamilton did not do any special moves except not using the loud pedal ...

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Slightly similar case here in Norwegian football today. A player just got banned from the national team for four matches (11 months) and has to pay a fine for the following: After the game I walked off the pitch and into the tunell where the linesman where standing. As I passed him on my way to the ...

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True, but it's possible to say that it's equivalent to x horsepower, too, even if it's not actually an HP boost The power needed wil depend on the speed you want the 20kph added too and the drag coefficient of the car. At 100kph the number to add 20 will be far less than at 300kph. Without knowing ...

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mcdo wrote:Grosjean nearly decapitated someone for a start

Yes, hence why I assume he thinks that should be penalized. I hope I'm right...

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Teddy007 wrote:Still again, I'm sick of these penalties. Let them race.

Where do you draw the line? I assume you think Grosjean in Spa'12 is over the line... so where does it go?

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Personally I feel he got off a bit light, as his trajectory meant he cut across the racing line after the apex. For someone taking the corner normally, there's no way to avoid a car cutting across like that.

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For race day, one thing I always miss is a second row at the bottom, so one could always see the number of stops each driver has made, and ideally how old the current tires are.

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Wild idea, how about starting the race with a 5 second penalty (where they have to wait in the pits). That would deter the top teams from swapping gearboxes willy-nilly, while not hurting the smaller teams who can't afford to use gearbox like they were going out of fashion anyway. As for hurting the...

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