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Chunky

Just a few thoughts that everyone ought to bear in mind when thinking about V6/V8/V10 past versus present: 1. The engine manufacturers are only interested in power units that provide a technological "halo" for marketing, even if there's very little to transfer directly to road cars. The days of norm...

Chunky

I admit, it's the best part of 20 years since I traveled the length and breadth of Japan on business and over 10 years since I did any proper business with them in Europe. Believe me, honour and face are very important in Japanese culture, you don't say no but instead say that an idea is interesting...

Chunky

Maldonado had a crash free weekend in Japan. Yay! His immense talent is finally manifesting itself as he dodged here, slid there, to avoid everyone who was trying to take him out. He even managed to finish close behind Grojean without rear ending his team mate or making a suicide dive to overtake an...

Chunky

Alonso's comments on Sunday were fascinating, if indeed as per all the original rumours at the time, Ron had Fernando forcibly inserted where the sun don't shine at the insistence of Honda. Whatever the back story, it does seem that Alonso is more than happy to become persona non-grata with Honda an...

Chunky

Wow! Schumacher had a 5.5 litre bladder. That's a very heavy night's boozing for most people. What a legend.

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Chunky

Weighing the driver without the car is a pretty pointless exercise. They know quite accurately how much Vettel weighs and that cannot change that much. .......................... Pretty pointless having a weigh in for anyone then. I wonder why they bother. It was a myth. Another thing thrown at Sch...

Chunky

The simple answer is ususally the way it will work. If the car is in 1000 bits the stewards will work on the assumption that car weight was okay but will still want to weigh the driver. If the driver is badly injured but the car is okay, they will weigh the car but not insist on weighing the driver ...

Chunky

Jenson Button was lucky Honda did leave the sport and didn't have to put their engine in his 2009's car.. :lol: The Brawn was so good aerodynamically that it would have won the WCC with an engine from a Foden tractor. Didn't he also turn down Honda and, by extension, Brawn, at the end of 2008? It i...

Chunky

.................... I think Maldonado and NASCAR would be a match made in heaven. And I say this as someone who genuinely admires him and has a lot for time for NASCAR too Yeah, I agree with that. Maldonado making that move would simultaneously improve both F1 and Nascar. Although F1 would get the...

Chunky

I confidently predict that Alonso will spend another dismal season at McLaren then buy his way into another team using sponsor money as per his previous moves. The Honda power unit will then come good with the 2017 rule changes, the McLaren will become dominant and Alonso will have completed his rec...

Chunky

" A huge off at Eau Rouge " (as per Lotus) doesn't qualify as using a lot of kerb. It strikes me that the relationship is no longer on firm ground, if it ever was. Maldonado was saying the team were investigating, they've hung him out to dry and put the blame on him. He's in Perez at McLaren territo...

Chunky

So now we learn now that Pastor's "bad luck" at Spa was his own fault - he bust the car. Again. That's on top of wiping out the front end of the car in free practice. You'd think that he might have taken some learning from his Hungarian debacle but sadly not. Maldonado doesn't have bad luck. He just...

Chunky

Justin is from my home town, so the local TV news has been carrying info about it. The video they show doesn't show a lot but they report he was stuck in the helmet by the nose cone of another car after a crash. He is is critical, in an induced coma, but they don't say whether he has any skull injur...

Chunky

Cadence braking is as old as the hills. Because it's effect is almost exclusively on the front axle I can't see any reason why it should be ruled out by either brake by wire or energy harvesting. That's so long as the teams have managed to give the drivers some artificial feel in the pedal. Good dri...

Chunky

Good job no-one wants to exhume James Hunt for paternity tests. Jeremy Kyle would be off air for a year because every DNA lab in the UK would be booked solid.

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Chunky

Used to work for a Finnish firm and went there quite a bit. One beautiful day, we were walking to get some lunch and I asked my host how many days they get for summer. " Six....... " was the reply, ". ..... and this is day two. We might get the other four, we might not. ". The sea next door was froz...

Chunky

Good on him, I hope it actually happens. I too use hand controls to drive the car and I have immense respect for anyone who can race with two limbs less than normal to work the car with. My concern in the event of a crash wouldn't be if I could extricate myself (past experience says it's far better ...

Chunky

Rosberg is advertised as a thinker, not a racer which explains why he did okay last year by digesting Hamilton's data but never managed to get past him on the track. A couple of times he was actually scared off the tarmac by the sight of number 44 in his mirrors. But in my mind, the Hungary decision...

Chunky

IIRC, Hamilton wasn't happy with the brakes for his first season at Mercedes and in the end they changed supplier to give him the feel and performance he needed. In fact, at some point during the second season he and Nico had different brake materials.

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Chunky

Well unlike you I don't know everything and I take time to listen to what the TV pundits say Pity you weren't listening to what McNish thought then. I most certainly don't know everything, but if it looks that way from your perspective then maybe I just know more than you? I've only seen the last f...

Chunky

It was said in a Sky tv broadcast during FP1 Watched it, never heard it (or at best is was a throwaway I instantly forgot) and no link to it on the Williams website or anywhere else I can see. But I'll take your word for it that someone was absolutely categorical that absolutely everything was exac...

Chunky

pokerman wrote:This was clearly stated by Williams ......

Link?

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Chunky

As Blackhander (almost) says, any change in the airflow requires energy to create, which, by implication means increased drag. However, that's not to say that two equivalent downforce / equivalent drag configurations can't be created in different ways, and that one of them could have dramatically gr...

Chunky

Susie Wolff was 8 tenths slower than Massa in practice, that's an eternity in F1 terms " On 18 July 2014, Wolff drove in a free practice session at the German Grand Prix. This session also started with car problems, but these were solved and Wolff managed to put in a good performance, finishing the...

Chunky

I hear that neither Maldonado nor Perez has a race seat next year. They're both looking at battlebots for 2016 as the closest thing to the way they drive.

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Chunky

I've been deeply saddened by this, even though we all feared deep down it was going to happen. I recently spent over a week in intensive care, all hooked up to the best equipment available thanks to bacterial meningitis and pneumonia that almost killed me. A family friend, my age, is about to begin ...

Chunky

owenmahamilton wrote:Nobody has mentioned Haas, if they want someone with experience he would be a good candidate I would have thought.

Genius.

Going to effectively be the Ferrari B team as well so there's a chance of some progress if they have a good development driver to help things along.

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Chunky

Susie Wolff was 8 tenths slower than Massa in practice, that's an eternity in F1 terms " On 18 July 2014, Wolff drove in a free practice session at the German Grand Prix. This session also started with car problems, but these were solved and Wolff managed to put in a good performance, finishing the...

Chunky

Remember how Button forgot he had a contract with Williams for 2006, and had to buy it out for 10 millions to go to BAR? Well, this can back bite him now and his chances. Frank is not a person that forgets such things. Jenson makes a career decision and hands Frank $10M. Alonso threatens Ron, costs...

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I too would go for Jenson. He should have jumped ship last year when McLaren were mucking him about until the death; if bringing sponsor money with you wasn't a driving factor, I half expected him to go to Lotus instead of Maldonado. He'd be an excellent development driver for Williams (something th...

Chunky

Too good to need any coaching despite the worst accident record on the grid, never holds his hand up to any errors and won't get out of the car in free practice for the test driver. Clearly an asset to any team. He should have been banned for life after the Spa 2011 qualifying incident, so he's alre...

Chunky

F1 isn't too slow. It was too fast in the days when they had hay bales and trees instead of tyre walls and big whoopee cushions, deep gravel traps instead of run-off areas you could land a small plane on. F1 is just too technical and not dependent enough on driver skill. Hence why state oil company ...

Chunky

Lewis's take on his decision to pit sums it up perfectly. ""It wasn't luck, it wasn't genius, it was just for once the right call. Sometimes you get it right, sometimes you get it wrong" It's a great quote Qiwater, thanks. Honestly the rubbish that has been written on this topic is unbelievable. An...

Chunky

I think Lewis made the (retrospectively good) tyre switch call because he'd rather lose first place to Nico thanks to a wrong pit stop call than by being overtaken on track. Well your scenario would certainly explain Monaco, because Nico was definitely all over him wasn't he? Nah, the race was just...

Chunky

Rosberg being massively quicker than Hamilton but being forced to stay out while Lewis pitted, costing him any chance of a surprise victory............... Nice thought, but in no way connected to reality. Rosberg was briefly gaining ground on Hamilton but there's no indication that this was a true ...

Chunky

You either look at Jordan as a sage and guru or an incoherent feckwit. Personally, I favour the latter and switch to Sky whenever the BBC have him on screen. He's been peddling this back handed criticism of Dennis for some time, I'm not sure if he's even aware that it's Boullier who's supposed to be...

Chunky

Outstanding driver but not a natural "big" personality. Few F1 drivers are. In fact, I can't remember one since James Hunt, although Eddie Ervine was maybe halfway there. He should have stayed in Austria for the test then headed for the simulator. I fear that we are beginning to see the signs of his...

Chunky

Asphalt_World wrote:If it weighed 30kg's, they'd increase the weight limit....

In handling terms 30kg at the top of the car would have the same effect as 100-150kg down near the ground. The only option to counteract it would be to increase car width and you end up ..... a bit like WEC cars.

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Chunky

For the zillionth time .......... anything that would have saved Raikkonnen getting his head sliced off would weigh so much that it would completely destroy the balance of the car and the performance. Cripes, drivers like Hulkenberg already struggle to keep inside the vehicle weight limit, we don't ...

Chunky

Ironic isn't it! Strangely the ones bashing Vettel for the same comments last year are quiet... And yet, last year Vettel's team mate was wiping the floor with him and winning races, including Canada. Alonso has had none of that - just a car that either trundles round like a milk float or breaks do...

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