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>WDC Standings L. Hamilton 187 V. Bottas 151 S. Vettel 111 M. Verstappen 100 C. Leclerc 87
>WCC Standings Mercedes 338 Ferrari 198 Red Bull 137 McLaren 40 Renault 32
>Nico Hülkenberg F1 races without ever scoring a podium: 164 (166 entries)
>Max Verstappen F1 races without ever EVER scoring a pole-position: 89
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>News: Some teams are still pushing for going back to 2018 tyre spec McLel doubtful about Renault upgrades because it would lead to penalties later in the year Paddy fired from Willy Ricci: "Paul Ricard sucks, they should use a different layout Maini at Campos instead of Boccolacci, O'Ward at MP instead of Ragu
>one season Means nothing. The only reason Lewis lost that season was because of his engine failure. Otherwise he would have comfortably won it.
Also remember Schumacher basically lost the '97 championship to Villeneuve and the '98 championship to Hakkinen. So yeah.
I'm not saying Lewis WILL match or overcome Schumacher. We don't know, obviously. But I think he now has the potential to at least match Schumacher's 7 WDCs.
Josiah Harris
ahahaha markeLOL BTFO
Josiah Hernandez
>Means nothing. The only reason Lewis lost that season was because of his engine failure. Your stupid excuse means nothing. He's generally had better reliability than Rosberg or anyone else in the field. You only ever see Hamilton and his fans make such stupid excuses, really. Countless drivers have lost championships "because of reliability", and no one has been as lucky as your boy.
Parker Murphy
based poland.
Tyler Perez
Maybe Rosberg did also have an engine failure while leading a race causing him to retire during the 2016 season, but I don't remember such an occurrence. I could be wrong though. Feel free to bring up an example.
Point is, Ham is closing in on Schumi. He might not get there, sure. Maybe he'll win the sixth this year and then he'll retire or something. Or maybe Ferrari will come back much stronger next year. Or maybe he'll have an accident in the next race, hospitalising him, and maybe Bottas will win the season. Who knows. Anything can happen. Obviously.
I'm simply saying that Ham is getting closer to Schumi. Given Ham's performance so far this season it looks pretty plausible, though by no means certain, that he'll take this season. And if he does then he'll only be one season away from Schumi's record. And Mercedes have consistently stayed on top ever since 2014, despite repeated, determined, and often radical attempts from Ferrari to try and dethrone them.
So, while absolutely nothing is certain, of course, it's just fun to think that Ham could, possibly, if the stars align just right, maybe, equal (or possibly even better Schumi's record). He might not. But he might. Maybe.
>Feel free to bring up an example. The whole 2014 season was Rosberg losing out because of technical failures. But, hey, I'm sure you don't count those because he only regularly lost points instead of retiring. You have your narrative, why let facts interfere with that?
>I'm simply saying that Ham is getting closer to Schumi. Yes, and no one is contesting that one point of yours. It's just that no one but you cares. Everyone who's seen both of them race knows that he'll never be as good as Schumacher in his prime.
>And Mercedes have consistently stayed on top ever since 2014, despite repeated, determined, and often radical attempts from Ferrari to try and dethrone them. I'm sure FIA and their Mercedes-friendly rule-making and policies, including counteracting some of Ferrari's improvements, have nothing to do with that, right?
Jaxon Hughes
Jesus... stop living in the past already. There’s nothing you can do about it anymore
Luke Mitchell
But in the past F1 was good. I just want it to revert to that state
Christopher Garcia
If he was American, his name would be Fato O'Ward.
Easton Torres
>revert to that state Too late. Americans took over. It will only get worse from here on out.
Xavier Ross
Schumi will forever be #1.
Liam Fisher
>Pat O'O'Ward >Land O'Norris >Carl O'Sainz Our fuckin time lads.
>Otherwise he would have comfortably won it. would he? the engine failure meant nico only needed 2nds to win the title, so what incentive was there to do better? perhaps he could have taken lew down even without it
Carter Adams
>talking about 2016 reliability >brings up 2014 reliability
Muh seething “strawmanning” german
Caleb Evans
>~40°C in Austria this weekend >Everyone's tires will melt
I dislike Hamilton cuz he is the one in a decade who can break Schumacher records and he even doesn't want it cuz "muh good reputation, I'm good but Schumi a god", scum driver.
Levi Thomas
you now remember double points for abu dhabi 2014 that was bad
Schumacher's reliability in his best seasons is nothing compared to Hamilton's average season. And Schumacher had to fight his way to the top instead of being gifted competitive car after competitve car from his rookie season onwards.
When can we have smol qt cars again and not have drivers race in these pigfat tanks designed to appeal to braindead Americans who think sloped back front wings and rear wing endplates look "aggressive and cool"
>but that could easily be attributed to fact that 90’s cars were less reliable as as a whole. And why was that? Were the engineers worse? Or was it simply that the cars were less regulated and teams and drivers could and would take more risks? Of course, the more you dominate, the less risks you have to take. Hamilton has been cruising to victories in the last few years, even more so after Rosberg retired (from racing altogether, not from a specific race).
Dominic Edwards
Bussiness idea: Bring refueling back and make race tyres hard as fuck. Powerful engines to compensate low times. Progressive active aero beginning era.
Julian Jones
2 reasons 1) hardware such as engines were disposable, the rich teams would use 1 engine per session if they could. This meant that they were built fairly cheaply and not a lot of work done to increase their reliability. Nowadays the teams only have 3 engines/year and gearboxes have to last 5(?) races. 2) Manufacturing techniques have simply advanced greatly (probably caused by the FIA mandating engines last longer). Nowadays you can create components for engines/gearboxes etc to much tighter tolerances, much less flaws in them.
I don't think we are going back to the days of unreliable engines unless manufacturers are forced to make engines by hand milling and lathing only and ban CNC machines.
Poor Hakkinen. Imagine if the zoomers had to go through this.
Caleb Garcia
Yea, I would think the engine cost rules have had the biggest effect. Even into the mid 00’s, teams with a lot of money who were falling behind (IE early BMW Williams, BAR-Honda, Mclaren a few years) were way more focused on on getting outright pace than reliability.
Things got more reliable when you went to one engine per weekend and then all the teams had were reliability improvements (ostensibly) when the engines froze in 2007.
Nathan Diaz
how much of a bitch emilia's been
Lucas Collins
MWL
Benjamin Scott
I know it’s popular to shit on Indycar in /f1/ but if you go watch any indy road race you immediately see why we need 2 and 3 stop races.
Maybe Pirelli should bring a 4th type of meme tire to every race and force teams to use 3 compounds
I heard his faggy voice and immediately closed the video after 3 seconds, goddamn
Dominic Mitchell
Not really, Mercedes won hibrid era cuz 2 years of advantage in aero and engine, and tricky rear suspension, and pirellis mafia too.
Hunter Scott
I try to watch Indycar Then I immediately turn it off when I'm forced to watch adverts every 5 minutes and every fucking camera is named a sponsor >now we are looking at a replay from the Firestone Burgerking view from Rossi's car American "entertainment" is absolute cancer and I hope Iran and North Korea nuke you fucks.
Carson Morris
Was expecting the video of hakkinen hiding in the woods at Monza
Gabriel Gomez
>Mercedes Petronas
Easton Nguyen
imagine his tantrum when fettuccine and his old man were taking the piss out of him
Evan Scott
>Still has a Ferrari helmet For fucks sake
Jace Miller
>American "entertainment" is absolute cancer and it's slowly invading Formula 1.
Jaxon Wood
Kek
Luis Adams
I watch on Dutch tv with Dutch commentary. No commercials, no sponsor shilling from the commentator, problems weren't.
Ryan Jenkins
>Pirelli revises tire compounds for the weekend >Hamilton complains about degradation whilst in the lead for the last 30 laps anyway
>"B-Bono, I might have problem with the clutch" >"Okay, Lewis, there's a slight issue, we are working on it"
*takes a very good start and leads Bottas by 2 seconds after first lap*
Noah Lewis
>Bring back refueling >He doesn't know Mercedes extra qualy pace "party mode" comes from the special fuel petronas supplies them with
There no way to change the regs that will harm Merc, other than if they say you can only create the car in the country of origin of the manufacturer, ie. in Germany not the UK
Easton Sanchez
"Zak Brown? Yeah that guy can suck my dick"
Michael Martinez
Business idea: there's a petrol station at a separate part of the track and they all have to get the same fuel. None of that pump gas shit though, I want the proper 80s cancer mix so they can really spool the turbos up.
Blake Hughes
Is OP pic still a potato /f1/?
Adam Lewis
The logistics of McLaren operating from New Zealand woulf easily kill them
Luke Morgan
why does she look like an used up pornstar in F1 2019?
How do they know he's improving when his teammate is Gasly. That dude is not F1 material he can't push VER like Ricciardo did last year. Also this year he's fighting an equally shitty SF90 car in race configuration.
Luis Bell
it's a trap bro, they're gonna kill you and steal all your oreos dude, dont do it
>Schumacher basically lost the '98 championship to Hakkinen
No, Häkkinen almost lost it to Schumacher. He was in a Newey rocket ship that lapped the entire field in Australia and took 12/16 poles that year (one fluke for Fisichella, last three races Schumacher on pole). McLarens were a full minute ahead of Schumacher in the second race, Häkkinen beat Schumacher by 47 seconds in Spain... It was a miracle that Schumacher kept the championship alive until the last race.
Xavier Powell
I dunno about that, Bossberg is still living rent free in his head. He was slower, but he knew how to rile him up.
>schumacher never ever had a great driver as a team mate >muh goat, schuey is the bestest >britney xD, future champ, appears >oh oh really makes u think
Mason Sanchez
Lads who got their F1 2019 careers started already. Not played an F1 games since Championship Edition (2006 season released in 2007 for the PS3) and just wondering if it has the following stuff:
>driver transfers >driver stat changes based on performance >decent damage
>driver transfers Yes, finally. The only negative is that the drivers keep their 2019 helmets when moving to a new team so, for example, Hamilton will have Monster and Mercedes logos on his helmet if he moves to Ferrari or Red Bull or whatever. And the moves aren't just straight-swaps like Bottas to Ferrari and Leclerc to Mercedes but there's some real musical chairs silly season stuff going on with some drivers getting left without a seat etc.
>driver stat changes based on performance Yes, kind of. Older drivers get weaker and eventually retire, younger drivers might get stronger etc.
>decent damage Best damage model ever apart from GP4.
Evan Russell
>He was slower Rosberg might have been slower, but he was also more tactical and had a better understanding of the car and technical details. I'd say that Roseberg is a more "complete" racer than Hamilton. His main problem was that he, at first, tried to be a gentleman racer, and only succeeded when he went all in and played as dirty as Hamilton.
Of course, he also got penalized both by FIA and his team for doing to Hamiton what Hamilton had been doing to him before. So it was a massive uphill battle for him. And in his last race ever, Hamilton, his so-called "teammate", played it especially dirty and tried to back him into slower traffic (thereby also ruining the race for the impartial viewer). No surprise he retired after all of that shit.
Ryder Lewis
Noice. Might seem petty but have been holding out on transfers/stat adjustments
You guys know that HAM never asked for primadonna status in his contract unlike some of the great drivers in the past.
Alexander Anderson
In 2005 rule changes they specifically targeted Ferrari's advantages, when will they do the same to Mercedes? It's been long enough.
Carson Campbell
>HAM never asked for primadonna status in his contract Have you read his contract or how do you know this? Could it be that you trust Hamilton and Toto, of all people? In their first season together, Rosberg had to yield for Hamilton for a spot on the podium. Two years later, Rosberg pushes Hamilton off the track (something Hamilton had regularly been doing to him before), but Hamilton doesn't take evasive action, resulting in a public shaming of Rosberg by his teamleaders. No such thing happens, of course, when Hamilton causes double-DNFs. Rosberg was, without a doubt, a number-two to Hamilton. Everything we've seen indicates that.
Carson Cooper
>when will they do the same to Mercedes? They should already have done this years ago. They didn't. And they won't. FIA and Liberty apparently want Mercedes and Hamilton to win.
Jeremiah Murphy
Rosberg was allowed to win races,finish ahead of HAM and win the WDC apparently. Some number two drivers in the past were not allowed these things.
He was a number two because he wasn't as fast. I think he was better than Bottas but not on the same level with HAM.
I think the current drivers in F1 are all pretty weak.They don't have the real hunger that even young HAM had back in the day. If you look at them during interviews they are all in NPC mode all of them sound the same and it's like they all know their place on the grid.
Jacob Fisher
and what exactly can they change? hard difficulty: you can't pick tyres, merc won everything, blisters or not
Michael Russell
this. I don't think he was contractually obligated to be a number two driver, but Mercedes definitely made sure to make him understand that he is. They never asked Hamilton to move over for Rosberg, even when he was clearly faster or Hamilton was having issues. On the other side, Rosberg almost always obeyed team orders, even if it put him in a bad position or rather, put Hamilton in a better position. He managed to win the 2016 championship even though he was also being a team player, which is impressive by itself. That single DNF Hamilton suffered is no excuse. Iirc, Rosberg even let Ham through in Monaco 2016 because he was having issues, for instance. Sure, Hamilton could have had a much better chance if he didn't DNF once, but he just as much would've had increased his chances if he hadn't botched so many of his starts early on in the season, or if Rosberg refused to be a team player. If you still insist on that one DNF being the reason for Hamilton's defeat, keep in mind that that will also mean that by that same logic, Rosberg is the true champion of 2014.
>tl;dr Rosberg earned being a world champion one way or another and Hamilton let it slip.
>“Not wanting to be arrogant but on an off day I might be a tenth or so off but this is more than that.” >Not wanting to be arrogant >NOT WANTING TO BE FUCKING ARROGANT
Holy fuck... How? How are you this dense? Genuinely I'm at a loss for words.
>Rosberg was allowed to win races,finish ahead of HAM and win the WDC apparently. Was allowed? What could they have done to stop him without sabotaging their own races? They did practically everything they could to stop him short of deliberately destroying his car or stalling him in the pits.
>and what exactly can they change? Scrutinize the Mercedes car and find out what makes them fast, then make that illegal. They've done the same for every other "dominant" team before. But instead of going after Mercedes, they most recently (last year) went after a Ferrari trick (grey area, but within the rules). Strange, isn't it?
>Documents I have sent to work have had the author as "WAGlad" for at least a month
Oh fuck.....
Isaac Sullivan
>"Okay it's all over. It's all over. Hamilton seventh, Hamilton seventh. By my calculations we win the championship by one point." Reminder the V8 era 2006-2010 pre-VWL was kino. Imagine if the 2010 finale was at Interlagos and not Abu Shitty
>tfw you will never make a fleshlight out of two of those rear tyres, a rubber glove and some lube
Angel Phillips
Maybe the problem with modern F1 is that when teams screw up aero development or chassis development they are hardly punished for it.
When you fuck up an engine, you don't finish the race. Bad aero just makes a car slow and a bad chassis could be dangerous but most drivers are capable enough to drive a bad car slowly.
Colton Rivera
>that pic >that post fuck user, thats the most beautiful f1 car ive ever seen them tires so thick FUCK
Isaiah Myers
Stop it! You're scaring the modern 7 metre long shitmobiles!
Jeremiah Gray
Just imagine them right after a stint, so hot and sticky.
Isaac Cooper
The 1970's and 1980's had the best-looking and coolest cars in my opinion
don't care what engines are used desu as long as they rev to 20k, weigh less than a subsaharan child and have a sensible amount of power.
Ethan Turner
dubs and I do it
John Collins
Well, its true.
Landon Edwards
rerolling.
Colton Taylor
Sup bros. If sunday is a snoozefest I'll fly to Nederland on august first and take a shit on Jos's lawn.
Nathaniel Hughes
You probably should be thinking up a *us related acronym for WAG right now.
Luke Fisher
Lets face it, the best we're going to get are more pics of Baha's asshole.
Luis Young
you mean like Waggot ?
Eli Turner
>Mercedes have consistently stayed on top ever since 2014
The FIA rigs it for them.
>redbull does well >oh sorry your cars burn fuel too fast, and we don't like your engineering innovations. Disqualified. >Ferrari does well >oh sorry we're just going to give you a time penalty that's exactly big enough for Mercedes to win, lol.
Matthew Williams
Sell watches and occasionally do guest commentary work. If they let that Indian guy in, they'd be jumping for joy at a chance to get Hamilton with a mic in his hand.
That comparison is actually a good view for me. I thought the tires got thinner over the years, no the cars got larger.
Henry Butler
Going off the tyre size the proportions look off. The cheat Renault should have 355 at the front and 380 rear The merc should 245 front and 325 These 2 look right The second Renault should have 305 front and 405 rear. Which looks wrong, the rears of the cheat Renault look smaller than the fronts on the second Renault
Bentley Lewis
The difference between the 2 Renault rear tyres should be 6% difference but looks like 20% or greater difference
Business idea: Japanese first names as last names, and last names as first names.
Wyatt Brown
>Cyril Abiteboul: "This reaction in the middle of the season is never something that I particularly like. I think F1 has a situation with Mercedes, but it's not by suddenly changing the tyres that Mercedes domination is suddenly going to go away."
Based Cyril directly asked the MQ
Nathaniel Myers
>I think F1 has a situation with Mercedes Truth bomb from the squirrel right there.
I love how the netflix thing painted him as a bad guy that's been holding RBR back, and that's unironically the position the brits take too because RBR is just down the road
Hunter Rivera
I still find it remarkable that Waglad was able to slide into Emilia's DMs and convince her to tell him about her smelly pussy
Jordan Gonzalez
>Cyril is being a professional and doing his job >Horner is constantly shit talking and bullying him >Cyril is the asshole >Later: >Cyril finally bullies Horner back >Cyril is the asshole
>be red bull >deliver best chassis every year >engine sucks major dick >confront renault about this >suddenly red bulls start blowing up midrace Yes, Cyril is a good guy, keep trusting that arab kike.
Sebastian Moore
>"it's Honda's I mean Renault's fault"
>2019 >get new engine partner >not down on power >doesn't blow up mid race >still 3rd best team every race
bEsT cHaSiS oN tHe GrId
Nolan Rodriguez
its ok, but they shove noneexistant drama into it too much and its completely irrelevant by now since its all about 2018
Zachary Lewis
Maybe they're both assholes.
Brandon Adams
>arab kike
Russian user is the 2015 Honda engine of intellects.
Evan Richardson
>not down on power Ze hondaz finally ketchup, es ist drei way fight for das championship!
>Best chassis every year RB hasn't been the best chassis since 2014 They were close last year but Ferrari and Merc have been superior last season Merc's sidepods this year is fucking insane
>On an off day I might be a tenth slow >So there's more than that Yeah it's because you are shit and Liam "I crash with my teammate every race" Lawson will get a seat before you
Luis Powell
Consider the following: RB can't put that much drag because they lack power.
so what are unironic changes liberty and fia can make for next year to nerf mercedes/top teams? >success ballast >going back to blistering tyres >reverse grid >different rpm/fuel flow limits for teams >testing allowances for teams what else?
Andrew Butler
>what else? Less restrictions on testing and (more importantly) development. Compensate teams who weren't allowed to catch up during the first few years of Mercedes' dominance for that shit. Actually try to see what makes Mercedes this fast and outlaw it, like they did for every other team before. Stop randomly declaring Ferrari's innovations illegal. Stop applying their damn rules inconsistently (which always seems to favour Mercedes). Don't let Mercedes participate in the rulemaking process in the first place.
Jordan Johnson
new tyres that do weird shit and "accidentally" deliver a few sets to ferrari, rb, reno and mclel before merc knows what's happening
>completely change power unit concept to something Mercedes doesn't have a 2 years headstart from, ideally it should also be less expensive than the current concept >go back to tyres that weren't requested by Mercedes specifically >stop outlawing Ferrari/RBR innovations while allowing >entirely incidente >stop the overwhelming british presence from shaping up F1 to their narrative (international broadcast, etc) >make an effort to have the stewards not decide in Mercedes favor 100% of the time with any sort of incidents
Parker Thompson
how can heat be real nigga like just turn on your AC lol
Justin Jenkins
won't get above 17c today here, feels good
Jaxon Bailey
just give F1 cars something with more than 6 cylinders
Literally reverse grid. For decades I've watched them implement every imaginable rule to try and make it more entertaining and it always fails. Reverse grid.
Dylan Anderson
They already have that this year since driver weight got separated from car weight That's why tall dudes like Russel and Kubica were able to drivevand still maintain fitness
Luis Thomas
>reading comprehension Oh shit it's success ballast not the ballast to make the cars still legal due to driver weight being separated
Logan Rogers
Ban aero. Racing should be done in a vacuum.
Brody Fisher
>Reverse grid. No, just reverse the two Mercedes and let everyone else start in the usual direction. Gonna be spicy.
Jacob Morales
>weight = sucess Nick 17xWDC
Daniel Jackson
Interlagos 2018 would like to differ
Connor Anderson
Yeah this: Although honestly I think he might do fashion and maybe music shit before he becomes a commentator. If that goes tits up though (which it probably will) then commentating would be a back up plan, I guess.
>the german poster consistently favours german drivers GEE WHAT A FUCKING SURPRISE
Hamilton had three retirements in 2014 and Rosberg only had two. And even though Rosberg's engine sucked in Abu Dhabi, he himself said that Lewis still would have won the championship anyway, because Rosberg's engine didn't start fucking up until around lap 20, while Hamilton had overtaken Rosberg right at the beginning and had built up a couple of seconds lead already, and Hamilton would have had to come third or lower for Rosberg to have a chance to win the title.
COPE.
>being salty because your country's driver isn't dabbing on 'em COPE
FIA could fuck Ferrari because they knew Ferrari can't and won't leave F1. But the situation right now is different:
>if Mercedes stays in F1 and continues to win, the sport will suffer A LOT >if Mercedes leaves F1 completely to focus on Formula E or something, the sport will suffer A LOT >if Mercedes stops winning (whether by FIA intervention or just other being better), they may very well leave F1 soon >if Mercedes continues to win, they may very well leave F1 soon
It's a game that F1 can't win. Whatever they do, they probably are soon down to 18 cars and 3 engine suppliers.
Nicholas Stewart
>Crofty and Alex Jacques sound natural as fuck in F1 2019 >Ant and Davide sound like shit, it's clear as day that they are reading straight from a paper and fumbling through their lines
Codemasters should sort of hire Brundle and Herbert to do the co-commentating shit if they absolutely need to pair Crofty/Alex with someone.
>consistently favours german drivers Just compared to that shithead Hamilton, you moron. When it came to personality, for example, I prefered Häkkinen to Schumacher, for example. Of the so called "greats", I like Prost and his approach best. I have a deep respect for Lauda. Of the current crop, I'd say I enjoy Raikönnen the most (in general, and not necessarily for his driving abilities). But, hey, seems I argued for Rosberg when Hamilton/Rosberg was the topic and for Schumacher where most people who've seen Schumacher race would agree with me. So I guess I'm more biased than you, the Brit whose post reeks as much of Hamilton as it reeks of ad-hominem attacks. Remember, when you point one finger at others, three fingers point back at you.
>COPE.COPE.COPE. >lewis dab.jpg >muh retirements >engine failures don't count >being a designated number 2 doesn't count >playing dirty doesn't count >you're German so your opinion is invalid >COPE.COPE.COPE. Absolutely cringeworthy post. Do yourself a favour and refrain from such childish behaviour. I don't think it's particularly healthy.
Jacob Nelson
I think you made him angry
Cooper Martin
So, no matter what, Mercedes leaves? Well, let them leave then. It's far less damaging for the sport and the brand "Formula 1" if they just leave.
>still no Prost >still no Mansell >still no motherfucking Piquet >still no Senna
no
Landon Morris
i think they should make the f1 cars bigger and heavier. like put one of these Bugatti w16 engines with 4 turbos in all of the cars would fix the sport
Sebastian Murphy
No tobacco no aesthetic
Nathan Edwards
wait what the fuck, driver stats change in f1 2019?
This kind of attitude is why we're stuck with the halo.
Juan Garcia
>r/f1 thinks Russell is a future WDC because he's beating a cripple
Ian Adams
If he's gonna be driving mercedes rocketship that should be enough anyway.
Lucas Sanders
>r/f1 thinks lmao who gives a fuck
Ethan Richardson
"Of course 'beautiful women' are not a problem – nor are beautiful men, or beautiful people in general. But when you display only one sex as 'beautiful' – although I think 'sexualised' would be a more fitting word for the grid girls – you serve to diminish half of society."
Aiden Baker
Is it just be who thinks some of the qualifying gaps should have been bigger so far? >0.04 seconds for Bahrain >0.028 seconds for China >0.274 seconds for Monaco I know Russell is a rookie, but Kubica pretty much is as well. Russell at least has more Pirelli experience.
Christopher Jenkins
fucking kek
Nicholas Morris
So we should also have gridmen? >Why yes, I am a F1 gridman, how did you know?
>gridmen Isn't that that failed /m/ Trigger anime from last year?
Oliver Butler
Yes we should! I volunteer!
Ian Morris
There is nothing wrong wth being a beautiful man.
Justin Wright
There is nothing wrong with being a beautiful woman.
Jonathan Sanchez
Business idea
Qualifying is now done with 1 Hot Lap per driver. The order of each hot lap is decided by the result of the previous race but reversed i.e last place is the first flying lap. Qualifying is rolling with no breaks.
Grayson Brooks
There is nothing wrong with living in a blurred house.
Anthony Harris
There is nothing wrong with being a beautiful woman (man).
Hej, nazywam się Toto i nienawidzę was wszystkich jebanych przegrywów. Czy wy w ogóle sracie? Jedyne co robicie to obrażacie mnie i moich pracowników siedząc w obsranych bokserkach przed laptopami.
Z uszanowaniem, Toto "Dolny pies" Wolff
Blake Young
I'm so fucking happy right now guys! Finally my life has a direction and I don't feel so terrible all the time.
1. it's Italian (Gazzetta) 2. I don't rate the cube 3. because he beat Russel in wheel on wheel combat
Matthew Stewart
Imagine if Toto becomes next Liberty CEO.
Ryan Parker
>Kubica >fitness
Cooper James
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Eli Phillips
Probably because he didn't make an error in tje race. people would be out with pitchforks if he made the error russell did with >muh hand tweets or whatever. and he defended well against russell too. He'd show a lot better if he adapted his driving style. mfw he's been the fastest williams at pit stops every time
>Ve are looking at der growth in Formel Eh und ve are very aware that they truly are the most prestigious motorsport today, ve hope that mit some hard vork and determination ve can bring together the vorlds of electric und hybrid-motorsport, and mit der right words, build bridges into unexplored regions.
Blake Stewart
>The order of each hot lap is decided by the result of the previous race but reversed i.e last place is the first flying lap. why give the winner of the last race an advantage
Ryder Ross
To be fair to the cube, he is in very good shape. he seems to cycle every on every off day and it works for him. look at his hungary 2017 test. he looked rekt af afterwards. 3 months later at the Abu Dhabi test, he looked fine.
Chase Foster
This is Brutus. He uses a 47l V12 taken from a Heinkel He 111 with up to 750 hp and 2600Nm of torque.
Oh hey just noticed he beat Russell. If the investors stay on at Williams & Kubica starts better adapting to how he has to drive now could he still be in F1 for a while longer? Honestly did not think he would make it to the end of this comeback season & would have to sit out races through fatigue etc.
Was it the Hungary test where he looked properly beaten & unkept when spotted by the media?
Jeremiah Foster
The problem with Kubica isn't his fitness or even his injury. It's that he hasn't raced F1 (or even anything remotely close in terms of cars, tyres, or engines) in nearly a decade. And I don't know if he has time to get back up to speed left in his career, or even if his former speed is transferable to the modern cars.
Isaiah Adams
Would he have been better adjusting his driving style post accident to something like endurance racing or would that have been worse taking into account the stints over a possible 24 hour race?
Levi Cooper
>got an option to start watching F1 seasons between 1995-1999 >Can only pick one because I have work >dont know which to choose
>Everyone shits on Vandoorne for being like 2 tenths off Alonso in quali despite the fact that Alonso is generally regarded to be a teammate destroyer (both in terms of skills and politics) and even by edgelords as one of the better drivers in recent memory
>Everyone rates Sainz and Norris because they are close to each other and the car is slightly better this year even though Sainz got BTFO by Hulk as teammates and Norris just had a terrible F2 season with one win
I mean Vandoorne's spirit was obviously destroyed at McLaren and he likely wasn't driving as well as he could have, but I can guarantee if any of the current drivers had Alonso, or anyone actually highly rated as a teammate and suddenly everyone would be calling for them to be replaced.
Same could be said about Gasly. Everyone seemed to think he was somehow quite a good driver when his comparison was Hartley who is a huge outlier rookie to F1, and now are criticizing him when he is getting BTFO by Max even though he is likely driving at the exact same level and pace as before. Friendly reminder that this is a driver who went like 3 years without a win in junior categories and almost choked a guaranteed Prema GP2 title to a rookie Giovinazzi.
Why are peoples opinions so stupid bros?
Gavin Clark
It couldn't do any harm (unless he crashed again and broke his limbs) (which he might) but is there really much point? I know it's still racing and driving but it's like practicing your guitar because you want to play the violin. Unless he lands a Toyota drive, he's going to get no experience of hybrid engines. He'd be better off in F2. But given the choice between F2 and a Williams F1 drive, there's no real question.
Luke Foster
This is likely the case. I always liked him during his first career but there's some serious rose tinted glasses when looking back at his career, he was very good yes but he was also inconsistent and all over the place on occasion. The fact that he has done almost no circuit racing in almost a decade is what killed his speed. F1 drivers Spend like 10-15 years just going around circuits nonstop before they even make it to F1. Kubica spent several years of his off time literally not racing at all, and then most of the actual racing was against a clock in 4WD cars.
I would also argue that the quality of the drivers on the grid has improved dramatically in the past decade but that's up for debate.
I mean we should remember that Schumi was gone for like 3 years and he came back on a completely different level to the point that he didn't even look great against Rosberg. Schumi was older yes but age itself doesn't immediately relegate the unironic GOAT to "pretty much average".
Isaiah Ross
Considering a quad amputee ran le mans I don’t stamina/fatigue would be an issue
Ryder Butler
98 or 99
Kevin Adams
1998 1999
you can skip the rest
William Ortiz
He beat Russell because Russell hit a bollard/sign and had to make an extra stop. Still, Russell made the error. He won't stay om next year because Latifi brings double his budget. Pic related from Hungary. This is correct. I was thinking about it the other day. But he did twice intend to race in the WEC, but both teams went to shit - ByKolles and Manor/Ginetta. He turned down a Merc DTM drive despite lapping faster than Paffett.
The thing is, he wasn't able to adapt to single seaters until late 2016. Was Super Formula an option for 2017? I imagine the entry list was full by that point. Or he didn't want to move to Japan.
But then you look at Hartley. 5-6 years out of single seaters, racing in WEC instead. He equally struggled in F1 against Ghastly over 2018. Kubica being up against Russell really doesn't help his cause. Would he look better going up against Stroll or Sirotkin? Quite possibly. But the fact remains, there is no racing substitute for the Pirelli tyres in F1, which obviously Hartley and Kubica could not make use of before their debut/return.
Shoemaker had worse injuries during his comeback than Cubpizza
Mason Rogers
Mark Hughes said Schumi's bike crash injury really fucked him up more than being away for 3 years. I recall him say only 10% (iirc) of people survive the injury he had.
Kevin Lee
Interestingly, DTM skills carry over to Indy pretty well because of the low levels of downforce. This is why Wickens was able to show up and be a front-runner from day one, until he Kubica-ed himself.
Caleb Lopez
bazowany i czerwonopigułkowy
Carter Thompson
1997 - simply, simply lovely season
Zachary Sanchez
Forgot Wickens raced in DTM tbhlad.
Owen Bennett
F1 cars no longer run on fuel. They are completely electric with a highly advanced KERS system that generates essentially an unlimited charge. This tech will be in the future road cars within a decade. Mercedes are using an AI/machine learning algorithm that pretty well self drives the car. Every lap completed improves it's real-time understanding of the track and then overlays that on top of driver input. (Conceptually it's kind of like an auto-tune for driving.) The driver can enable/disable it from the steering wheel. Generally it's disabled for the start, overtaking, and high traffic and enabled for clear track. They can even set a desired time and the car will adjust to achieve it. Will be one of the biggest scandals F1 has ever seen when it's exposed. And that time is coming near.
Cooper Sullivan
Your source on that?
Nathan Edwards
>Yeah I support Max Verstappen and I'm the first on of the famous Orange army. How did you know that?
Lad why do you keep posting topless men in this thread?
Charles Davis
I'm firmly sure I'm Heterosexual, so I got no problem to post very masculine men.
Jaxon Long
Gasly was close to crying in the car last year and this happened a few times not just once. If he's that fragile in that environment at Toro Rosso with Hartley as his teammate clearly he was not ready to race for the main team.
Vandoorne,Hartley and Gasly are good racing drivers but they are not F1 material. Albon and Norris are doing a decent job but they have average teammates. I'm not sure about Gio and Russell yet.
These 2019 cars drive themselves which makes it difficult to rate young drivers. Mazepin for example got in the Merc and he was fast right away and the guy is nowhere in F2.
>Mercedes W10 5733 mm length 2000 mm width 950 mm height >Toyota TS050 4650 mm length 1900 mm width 1050 mm height
Charles Wilson
we're already in a vacuum when it comes to emotions no atmosphere
Adrian Gray
What's the most expensive car /f1/ has driven?
For me, it was a V12 Mercedes S class.
Nice to drive but as its obviously not a performance car, the luxury of sitting in the back was what really impressed me. Still would never buy a Merc though unless its god-tier W124
Justin Nelson
348
Tyler Ward
2018s Seat León , proud enough.
Adam Stewart
formula ford
Adam Morgan
Mitsubishi ASX in driving school and if we're counting every kind of vehicle it would be an Actros or a T-54, not sure which is more expensive.
Xavier Jones
I've finally got my license last friday, actually. So just a Renault Kangoo so far.
Elijah Young
Me third from right looking smug as ever.
Jason Ward
Golf mk.2 ja sam samo jedna obichna bosanchuga
Isaac Taylor
Here is a cost cutting method:
>regulations introduced 3 weeks before testing starts >engine has to be from a road car and cannot exceed maximum output of 800hp >each team capped at 150 employees total >regulations change every year >each team allowed to introduce upgrades to their car a max. of 3 times per season >if the FIA discovers that the car has more than 5 electronically controllable parameters of the car (engine map, brake bias, party mode) the team in question gets an automatic 1 race ban and their entire car becomes open source for all teams for 1 week >drivers not allowed to know their laptimes during the race and must rely on instinct whether they are driving too quickly or too fast >tires completely analog with no sensors aside from a FIA-mandated flat tire warning
It would liven up the order a bit I think and keep the cars from being perfect robots on wheels where the drivers just operate them across
smoking should be banned and smokers should be executed
Aaron Rivera
Fucking kek, my sides went into space
Ethan Wright
slow pieces of shit... I can dominate the fuck out of f1 in my 1994 EG hatch with a couple of simple mods:
- 10 point cage with Parachute - 3 piece discontinued JoJo frontend - spec-R full drag suspension - Fuel cell with -8 lines from tank to motor - 1 044 bosch pump - 1200 rc injectors - golden eagle sleeved block - cp 10:1 pistons - Eagle rods - arp headstuds - oem h22 headgasket - Balance shaft delete - competition clutch twin disc - Port and polished head - skunk2 valve springs and retainers - Str cam gears - crower stage 1 cams - aluminium radiator with slim fan - gsr transmission with itr lsd. - qsd h2k intake manifold adapter - k20 rbc manifold - qsd throttle body spacer - blox 70mm throttle body - 4bar omni map sensor - 6al msd with coil and cap. 3 step launch control - hks bov - Turbonetics t74 t4 twinscroll. turbocharger. - Custom t4 front facing turbo manifold with 44mm flange - 44mm tial wastegate - Custom water to air intercooler set up - aem eugo wideband w/ gauge - tuned on chipped p28 - 13 inch volks drag rims - 2 15 inch volks rear rims - arp extended wheel studs - si cluster - 150 shots of nitrous im making 348 horsepower to the FRONT WHEELS because thats the only place the power should ever be
You'll get better but that car wont. Drove one for work and it was... Unfun
Luke Williams
yesss me first, me first!
Kevin Butler
Renault hasn't been a good car company since Group B. They're part of the whole Eurotrash trend that seems to have killed so many companies. Lancia, Renault, Peugeot, Opel, VW, FIAT, Citroen, are all cancerous. Many of them were good, but now.. they're shit. Same thing with a lotta US companies, especially GM brands.
Angel Robinson
Ferrari F430 Spyder, albeit on a track day. How I’d love to have a go with one on the road. I remember it had a “2007 F1 Champions” plaque on the dash...
Henry Morgan
>>Actros >Yuck Yikes
Nathan Ross
Damn, only the bangs girl in the middle and kinda the smug one are good looking
I have an unused $50 voucher from Supercheap that will buy at least two rattle cans.
Matthew Long
>Make car as light as possible >Make Nick our driver >????
Benjamin Watson
We need to pick something so unequivocally inappropriate that they can't stuff us into an existing class, so we can pot hunt like the SCG car.
Andrew Phillips
>Nick makes his grand return >Says he'll do a night stint >When his turn comes up nowhere to be seen >Someone watching stream finds him sat next to a bonfire eating barbecue
Are you suggesting we head into the English countryside looking for a milk float to enter as a renewable energy racer?
Business idea Teams can only entry drivers whose racing numbers have at least a common divisor. For example BOT and HAM is a possible pair because they can both be divided by 11 VET-LEC no
David Stewart
The same class as Carrie so we can bully her
Easton Thompson
And then pair AMX and hamilcuck so that HWL finally ends
stewards and fia for not showing a black flag and handing a race ban to vetlel. same case as maldonado in belgium '11 and monaco '12, but money and connections talk, so who cares lol
Jose Lee
Good reference post
Dominic Wright
So is amx actually good? Or is this the case of his teammate being so bad that he looks good in comparison?
Anthony Hall
Well he made Ricciardo run off to Renault so he's based.
Grayson Gonzalez
>Cyril is being a professional >Cyril >professional
He's fast that's for sure, can't tell how he would behave in a situation in which he needs to be smart throughput the championship and not just gloryrun a few races
Angel Perez
Mercedes SLS AMG on a track day once. Pretty fun but they didn't let me take the assists off so it was basically just "mash the throttle as soon as you're past the apex and let the car do all the work"
Carson Turner
Giulia Quadrifoglio. Test drove a Kia Stinger as well, which was better than I expected. The view out the back is utter shit though
Lincoln Adams
we are gonna have another MWL I wish they would just FUCK OFF FOREVER
Sebastian Nelson
>Tfw MWL gave me so much pain I now see the weekend as a constant suffering and I just want it to be over
Cameron Jenkins
Reminder MotoGP from Assen this sunday
Nicholas Young
will they post bianchi version during japanese gp?
I kind of admire bicyclists' and motorcyclists' ability to be completely oblivious to danger in traffic, it's like they don't have an instinct for self-preservation. t. anxiety disorder pro who worries about everything
Sebastian Rogers
Especially nice in Germany where car drivers always get at least part of the guilt whenever a cyclist gets downed even if he drove like a complete retard. Not sure about the rules concerning motorcycles though
Jonathan Moore
Happened just yesterday >On a two-lanes road >There's this halwheeler halfbrainer with his bike between the lanes >Like riding the painted part >Both lanes are free so there's no reason for him to stay there >Since my car is small I decide to just pass him on the left lane >As soon as I do I see him sperging in the mirror flipping me off
Weird, weird people
Brayden Wright
Fuck cyclists. I respect them when I'm in a car because I don't want to kill them but they have no idea how dumb they are. Recently a guy was killed on a bike who crossed a blind (!) 4-lane (!!) street corner coming out the wrong way of a one way side street (!!!). Bicyclists were furious and demanded cars to be banned but honestly there was no way they guy wasn't going to die. Saddest part: there's a traffic light 50 m in one direction and an underpass 50 m in the other direction. No need to drive onto the inner city highway.
Brody Nelson
Truly the scum of the earth, even worse than a certain F1 destroying Austrian
Charles Nguyen
I personally don't understand those hardcore pro cyclists who wear bodysuits who cycle on the car lane when they could be safe and ride on the pedestrian/bike lane
Nathaniel Hernandez
>F1 2019 ALERT >F1 2019 ALERT >F1 2019 ALERT
DON'T START YOUR CAREER MODE BEFORE CODEMASTERS RELEASE THE CAR PERFORMANCE PATCH! THE CAR PERFORMANCES AT THE MOMENT IS BASED ON WINTER TESTING!
Reminds me of one where a guy on a bicycle went flying through a stop sign, with his view obscured by hedges, straight across a main road, while even wearing headphones. The court blamed the car driver that hit the moron because he was a couple of KM over the limit, so naturally he caused the accident, not the bicyclist too stupid to give a single fuck about HIS OWN safety. Now the bicyclists family is suing the car driver...
William James
I mean, I tend to be lenient on them mainly because a proper roadbike would get wreckd and get the guy wreckd if he was to go on the bike lanes that are around here. But as soon as I notice their bike is even mountainbikeish I unleash my fury on them for not using it
Jason Rivera
but it's tarmac I sometimes ride my oldish road style bike to go to store and to pub but I use pedestrian lanes, why would I subject myself to dangerous shit willingly when I can easily avoid most of it on the bike lane
Anthony Campbell
>implying a season without complete and absolute MWL is a bad thing
Christopher Morgan
Some cyclists got hit near me riding down the left lane of a two lane, 60 mph highway. Naturally the cycling community demanded that the speed limit be halved immediatey.
The state did tell them to fuck off and use a side street though.
Julian Perry
>but it's tarmac Not always I have to specify I'm not talking about in-city lanes but in the outskirts so they often get dirty with weeds, potholes and various stuff. Honestly if I was a cyclist I'd feel way safer going on the road next to it
To be fair he was almost 30km/h above. Also the dude got an year but it was suspended and there is going to be another trial. As for the monetary suing it's gonna end up in nothing, the insurance company will obviously state Hayden ran the stop sign so they aren't gonna pay shit
Brody Turner
You're only allowed on a pedestrian way if a sign specifically says so in Germany, otherwise you'll have to use the road. And bike lanes only travel the same way as the side of the road they're on except there's a sign saying anything different
Brody Roberts
>30km/h *20km/h
>and there is going to be another trial Just keep trying him until they get the verdict they want... Is it true that when someone dies in an accident in Italy they legally need to find someone to blame?
we used to have 30km/h max speed for cyclists on the sidewalk but now it's the same here too yet some people can't understand that it's the law thankfully in the city centre pedestrians (aka korean tourists) make cycling impossible on the sidewalks
Tyler Robinson
and what happened to the cyclist? quadra-spazed on a life-glug?
Read a report on 78 km/h >Just keep trying him until they get the verdict they want... Yeah but on the other side, it's the dude's defence that will go (at this point I think they already made the request desu) against the decision, I don't really know to get what given that they already had the minimum time possible with all the mitigations (?) of the case Then there's another level of trial if wanted but that's pretty long stuff >Is it true that when someone dies in an accident in Italy they legally need to find someone to blame? Well no, but if someone dies because of someone else he must undergo a trial no matter what, taht it might result in an absolution but the trial is needed
I swear I keep mistaking him with Deletraz It's not a massive loss desu, he just ran out of money, it happens. >No word yet on who will replace him. Well, a certain Finn has F2 experience and is currently racing with Trident already
>Is it worth it to go be a backmarker in F2? Well, I guess so, maybe something will happen, plus he is still young.
>It's gonna be Merhi or Nissany Roy Vey just disappeared mid season, wonder where he went. Poorberto was hanging around at Campos but given Pooini is in maybe he will leave
>gets fat at the trough of F1 >starts thinking about how old he is and retirement now the focus is all on these young drivers >I know I'll make the sport even now I have won my 5+ championships