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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. ...

Chunky

Is there a source that confirms Mansell's claim that Ferrari gave Prost Mansell's car? It is definitely possible, but I doubt Prost could not have Mansell's settings copied onto his car, provided it was really set-up he wanted. Which is in itself remarkable, Prost being renowned for his work on car...

Chunky

Blinky McSquinty wrote:First off, this is an idea born out of Hamilton's brain.

Yep, he phoned his best mate Alonso last year and suggested McLaren did it.

Or maybe .......... He's seen the advantage of it and is thinking about what's best for his WDC chances rather than Mercedes' WCC interests. Shame on him.

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Chunky

........................Mansell was a terrific talent who happened to be overshadowed by some of the biggest giants in the history of Formula 1. ..................................Is Hamilton the Mansell of this era but with a more fortunate circumstance, or is he a cut above and closer to the likes...

Chunky

http://www.foxsports.com/motor/story/f1-lewis-hamilton-belgian-gp-spa-start-from-rear-071616 Interesting option. He's also presumably have a mountain of tyres to play with. No point in using much rubber in qualy, other than to break a new engine in. I wonder if they'll offer Nico the option to do th...

Chunky

The brazen experience in this thread is simply A M A Z I N G. There. Fixed it for you. Ignorance doesn't arise from opinions, it arises from assuming one knows best and everyone else is wrong. I know my Adidas trainers are less trendy than Nike, but I can run in them just as well. Apple is a fashio...

Chunky

If you knew the history of the company and why certain policies exist, you may come to appreciate it. .......................... Okay, we get it, you like Apple. They provide your living, you dream about killer code and maybe long, long ago the Microsoft BSOD wiped out all your treasured digital ph...

Chunky

Well if Apple ended up giving F1 software away, I'd only hope it's better than iTunes :? As for freee content, they've never given anything for free that's worth having. Hands up if you ended up with a crappy U2 album dumped on your phone. I'm reminded of the Sky F1 weekly show that's free to air bu...

Chunky

Reportedly the possibility of a team and also buying up the F1 TV rights. And F1 itself. http://uk.businessinsider.com/why-people-are-passing-around-that-crazy-apple-formula-1-rumour-2016-7 https://joesaward.wordpress.com/ Before you know it, Google will be moving in with their self driving car tech...

Chunky

I think you're mixing your drinks a bit Blinky and what you are saying isn't logical. Because: Although we were all taught at school that laminar flow is better than turbulent flow, this was usually the case of a fluid constained within a pipe. An F1 car, in comparison, is in an unconstrainded envir...

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