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HawaiiF1Fan

I voted for keeping the status quo on the engines. Maybe change them later, but let the rules run their course first.

To me F1 is always about the technological innovation and change throughout the year and years.

You settle on a set engine and we're going to have IndyCar or GP2.

HawaiiF1Fan

Well (usually) the best of the best make it to F1. Unless there is a constant turn over of drivers every single year, then you will have people sitting.

I do wish the FIA made it mandatory that the reserve and test drivers run the cars in say FP1 so they get seat time.

HawaiiF1Fan

I'm not sure Kimi could get past Seb in the same team to win. Same goes for Fernando. But realistically with the right car all these guys could win barring being beaten by their teammate. I read that part so wrong. I was about to demand the basis for your opinion that Fernando also couldn't overcom...

HawaiiF1Fan

I think the Mercedes and Toro Rosso are the two best bases. If TR had the funds to rival Mercedes, Red Bull, Ferrari, McLaren or even Williams I think they would have finished ahead of their varsity team. I wouldn't argue that the STR10 may be the best chassis on the grid in terms of performance pe...

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Why would Ferrari direct their resources to overhauling Mercedes just before the huge aero changes in 2017? Surely, it would be more sensible to funnel more development for the 2017 regulations than for the final year of the current regs. "But what we have seen through the season, and latterly part...

HawaiiF1Fan

I think Seb would have won, but I don't think we'd be seeing anywhere near the kind of domination that Mercedes is showing. I think Kimi could legitimately have been beaten to #2 in the WDC by another team's driver.

HawaiiF1Fan

I'm not sure Kimi could get past Seb in the same team to win. Same goes for Fernando. But realistically with the right car all these guys could win barring being beaten by their teammate.

HawaiiF1Fan

Button sure does like to live off two successful seasons out of how many. Rosberg would beat button quite convincenly these days. It's easy to say what he's saying when he can blame the care I seriously doubt that Nico would beat Jenson quite convincingly in the same equipment. I think Jenson is mu...

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1. Mercedes 2. Toro Rosso 3. Ferrari 4. Red Bull 5. Sauber 6. McLaren 7. Williams 8. Force India 9. Lotus 10. Manor I think the Mercedes and Toro Rosso are the two best bases. If TR had the funds to rival Mercedes, Red Bull, Ferrari, McLaren or even Williams I think they would have finished ahead of...

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Chery picking some of my points, but OK I concede. I used the gear box to illustrate money saving v driver in control v relevance to road cars. What driver skill is involved in flicking a tab when a blue light comes on, especially if there is software there to over ride a mistaken flick. My persona...

HawaiiF1Fan

I think RBR is just desperate, quite frankly. McLaren is going to veto any Honda deal that involves another top team; Red Bull's only option is to make amends with Renault. This is what I think too. Add to this the very open way in which Red Bull was throwing Renault under the bus. I cannot see Hon...

HawaiiF1Fan

I chose wins because I'm too lazy to think about the other records.

HawaiiF1Fan

Hamilton had the upperhand on Button mainly because most of the time he qualified ahead of him. If the McLaren by miracle becomes a Top car, most of you are in for a nasty surprise. Mark my words. I'm an Alonso fan and yes I do agree that if the McHonda becomes a top notch or even just a reliable c...

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Perhaps RBR are just charming them to ensure getting a 2016 engine and still save face i.e. not crawl back to Renault. I think RBR is just desperate, quite frankly. McLaren is going to veto any Honda deal that involves another top team; Red Bull's only option is to make amends with Renault. This is...

HawaiiF1Fan

Damned with feint praise with that last line, but the gist is about right. Yeah, but it's true. I'd love it if Indycar was as quick as F1, but unfortunately that would make them even more of deathtraps than they already are on the ovals, so I guess what can you so... NASCAR is probably quicker than...

HawaiiF1Fan

... This is a new circumstance. There has always been an independent source of competitive engines before. .... A thousand times this. You nailed it. And I can't understand how some can actually defend this F1. I'm not convinced it's really true, though. How about the end of the 80s where the Honda...

HawaiiF1Fan

I agree with most everything in this post. Nice job of stating it, Zoue. As long as it's the perceived fastest drivers in the fastest cars, that's all they want to see . That pretty much sums up the public... as opposed to the F1 fanatics who populate F1 forums. ;) Isn't that what it is really all ...

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Damn you Beschy!!! I had a heart attack. lulz

HawaiiF1Fan

Its not the V6 engine, it is the way it is set up with the recovery systems. The engine is fine, and I'm sure several builders would have units ready in short order if it was not for the gubbins. This is so specialist and expensive to make and so individual to each engine that an engine builder jus...

HawaiiF1Fan

My guess would be that he simply lost downforce being so close behind another car, understeered wide and then got onto the marbles were he had no grip and then crashed. When you look when he's spinning his left front tire is up. Generally speaking the F1 chassis are so stiffly sprung you don't see ...

HawaiiF1Fan

I don't understand why this keeps coming up. Cosworth will not/cannot be competitive under this current engine formula. Cosworth was not even competitive under the V8 formula of just several years ago how is anyone seriously considering they will be competitive with the ERS formula against the likes...

HawaiiF1Fan

The other option is that power from the MGU-H is unrestricted, so is it more efficient to make it do MORE work and feed power produced to the motors? This continuous exhaust production was done for defuser blowing so is possible. It is one of those things that if you do not have the figures to bala...

HawaiiF1Fan

My guess would be that he simply lost downforce being so close behind another car, understeered wide and then got onto the marbles were he had no grip and then crashed. When you look when he's spinning his left front tire is up. Generally speaking the F1 chassis are so stiffly sprung you don't see ...

HawaiiF1Fan

IMO, - Mario Andretti is certainly not in the same league as Hamilton and Vettel when we look at accomplishments in Formula 1 specifically. - Mansell and Gilles are also nowhere near Vettel and Hamilton. They have became largely a myth because they were so spectacular to watch. - I really don't see...

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I don't agree with this. The issue is that if you stop engine development now then basically only Mercedes and to a lesser degree Ferrari understand these powertrains. Push forward and get the other manufacturers to understand the powertrains as well. This is the same thing when people were crying o...

HawaiiF1Fan

The WCC is nothing but a consolation prize. No one cares if their team wins the WCC but not the WDC. I remember when McLaren won the WDC and Ferrari won the WCC. No one cared. All Ferrari felt was the crushing loss to McLaren. Attempts to play up the WCC looked weak and pathetic. The WCC could simp...

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Mercedes says its decision not to supply its customers with its latest spec of Formula 1 engine for the remainder of the season is out of concern for compromising their performance. http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/121401 I'm really starting to intensely dislike Wolff. I find him to be v...

HawaiiF1Fan

No.

To me it's car feel. Everything comes out of that. If you can't feel what the car is doing you cannot hope to correct or change things............this points towards knowing if the front is washing out, the rear is stepping out, you are at the traction or braking limits, etc.

HawaiiF1Fan

^^^BTW I am talking about the FIA Presidency not the state of F1.

HawaiiF1Fan

..................And Todt really is the weakest FIA president ever, a complete and utter disappointment. The funny thing is that when Max was the FIA President everyone used to say he was Bernie's puppet. To me it's a lot of the same thing now. Everyone's complaining...............which I think is...

HawaiiF1Fan

Mclaren dropped him by sending a short email on his birthday. That's one classy team. The thing is, they have a horrible young drivers programme. They don't know how to manage it and are screwing their drivers, making their champions wait, and just creating a mess all around. Yes, Hamilton worked f...

HawaiiF1Fan

The other option is that power from the MGU-H is unrestricted, so is it more efficient to make it do MORE work and feed power produced to the motors? This continuous exhaust production was done for defuser blowing so is possible. It is one of those things that if you do not have the figures to bala...

HawaiiF1Fan

HS Thompson wrote:God I wish Cosworth were back in F1.

Don't you remember their last comeback? It wasn't pretty.

If Cosworth came back they would be behind what Honda and Renault can do.

HawaiiF1Fan

It's not like it's hidden.................

HawaiiF1Fan

Something I forgot to post earlier, because of the whole accident discussion. I was amazed at how closely the cars could follow through the fast sweeping corner 3 - after all, they reach 300km/h there, according to the map. I think I'm going to watch Francorchamps again, and see how they behaved th...

HawaiiF1Fan

mas wrote:The McLaren has been so unreliable and variable for both drivers can any firm conclusions really be made about this year's head to head ?

^^^This

HawaiiF1Fan

KingVoid wrote:Give me 20 drivers better than Vettel and Hamilton assuming both ended their careers at the end of this season.

Arguably (and in no particular order).............I can only come up with 7

Senna
Prost
Alonso
Schumacher
Fangio
Clark
Stewart

HawaiiF1Fan

For me a mix of WCC & WDC with the emphasis being on the WCC.

HawaiiF1Fan

I don't understand much of that, but I found somewhere that Mercedes qualifying mode works by opening the waste gate and running compressor only with MGU-H. Not sure what it means, but are you sure that can be done without modifying PU? The wastegate on a turbo setup is used to vent gases going to ...

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