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Old March 25th, 2018, 07:32 AM   #1
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F1

Looks like a run away year for Ferrari. They have won every race so far. I think HAAS Ferrari needs to be thanked generously.
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Old March 25th, 2018, 08:21 AM   #2
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And the new passing rules in the pits are great! New tactics. Gotta keep the crowd entertained.
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Old March 25th, 2018, 05:46 PM   #3
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I haven't been interested in F1 since they got rid of turbos back in 1989. Did a token trip to Montreal in 2007 to watch the rain rasce. May get back into it now. Simply amazing technologies!
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Old March 26th, 2018, 05:14 AM   #4
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I had kind of lost interest in Formula One since the James Hunt era (when you still drink, get high, and have sex in the pits before a race) but with the new "pit pass" I'm all for cheating to win. Anything to keep Ferrari from leaving works for me.

I also don't like the fact that a Mercedes is the safety car. I believe a safety car should be from a neutral manufacturer. A 1959 Caddy would steal the show.
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Old March 26th, 2018, 09:50 AM   #5
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You mean back when tires were skinny and tires were fat?

CC, do you have an Amazon Prime Video account? You might like this show. I just watched it. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2518788/
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Drivers fat???@#$!
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I don't suppose that any of you fine folks have a racingf.orme tracker invite? The only way for me to watch motoGP or F1 is by paying 27/mo for a sports entertainment package which is primarily soccer and things that I wouldn't watch.
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Old March 29th, 2018, 11:31 AM   #10
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I don't suppose that any of you fine folks have a racingf.orme tracker invite? The only way for me to watch motoGP or F1 is by paying 27/mo for a sports entertainment package which is primarily soccer and things that I wouldn't watch.
No extra invites at the moment, my upload/download ratio isn't where it needs to be yet. I just donated a bit to get it more even, and have set up RSS feeds for the areas I care about, which should hopefully start flipping those ratios over time.

I will say that I'm hesitant to share any invites going forward. For every single invite I've given out, nobody makes much effort to keep their ratios close, and downloads way more than uploads (i.e. jumps on to download the files, and doesn't stick around to continue seeding). That is generally frowned upon, and is held against the both the inviter and the invitee. I'd only consider sharing in the future for folks who get how it is supposed to work and I can trust to do the right thing.

In the meantime - looks like SlingTV is now offering BEIN directly over their streaming service, might be a good option for cord-cutters:

https://www.reddit.com/r/motogp/comm...o_bein_sports/
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The halo SUCKS. No. More than that. It sucks AND blows AT THE SAME TIME.

The pointy end of the grid will be the usual suspects and produce telenovela-style drama but little interesting racing. Red Bull might do a bit better this year, but expect Lewis to pretty much run away with it. Vettel will do his utmost to be the next guy to 5 championships, but the Evil Empire will prevail. Kimi will, as usual, not do as well as we all want him to.

The midfield will be where the really entertaining battles will happen. Haas looks awesome and Alonso finally has a decent car under him, thank God. And maybe Hulkenberg will FINALLY get the result he so richly deserves after all these years. I'm calling Mclaren 4th, Renault 5th and Haas 6th at the end of the season, but it's going to be REALLY close.

It'll be interesting to see what happens with STR. Honda's lack of reliability has already struck. I think the dual-rookie lineup is going to hurt them a lot. Call it a development year for that team.

Force India, having been forced to build a new chassis out of cycle for the Halo, will have trouble getting out of its own way all season. They did extraordinarily well last year, but it's not going to happen again this time.

Williams is just having a disastrous time. Stroll never really struck me as the real deal, but Sirotkin might be interesting. Turns out he's an actual race engineer (with a degree), as was Rosberg. He might be able to to a lot to help develop that car.

And then there's Alfber. Well, someone has to bring up the rear.
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The halo SUCKS. No. More than that. It sucks AND blows AT THE SAME TIME.
Why? Camera views seem fine, drivers aren't complaining (loudly, at least), and it's not terribly ugly - at least in comparison to some of the wonky body modifications I remember from 2 or 3 years back due to late rule changes.

I wonder how protective it will be for the wide variety of low-likelihood but huge-consequence type things can befall an open-wheel driver going the speeds they are, but best case is we won't have to find out for a long time.
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Old March 29th, 2018, 05:57 PM   #13
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In between the high cockpit side bolsters, halo hoop and strut and the mirrors, it's almost impossible to see the driver outside of one or two specific angles. Might as well just make the damned thing a closed cockpit and be done with it.

We should be asking what the point of open cockpits actually is. They're not safer. They're not better aerodynamically. They don't make the car faster or easier to drive in any way. Arguably they are there so we can see the drivers. So if, in the name of safety, we add so much structure that we can't really see the drivers anymore, then WHY the hell are we keeping the cockpits open?

A closed cockpit would please the aerodynamicists no end, and they could make it as bloody strong as they like so it would be SAFER than the halo.

And in the process, we'd lose one of the things that makes F1 awesome to watch. But we're already most of the way there anyway.

This is the tail wagging the dog.

They've increased the maximum driver cockpit escape time requirement from five to ten seconds, presumably by magically changing the physics of fire propagation.

They've claimed that it would have kept that spring that almost punched a hole in Massa's skull from doing so, which is just crazy... the halo hoop could easily deflect something that would otherwise go over or past the driver's head down INTO the cockpit.

And they've freely admitted it would not have saved Jules Bianchi.

They gave lip service to a windshield with a single, brief test at Silverstone, then abandoned it with no further development.

Meanwhile, Indycar is doing it right, taking their time, thoroughly engineering a solution, and the result so far looks MUCH MUCH better.

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Yeah, I'm not sure the IndyCar windscreen will stay clean safely during issues on the track. I bet we see all kinds of extra pit stops and tactical gambles when it comes to tear offs and convenient surprise times for fuel and tire changes... It might make for good racing, but I don't like the whole premise of it. Idk, maybe I'm being picky. I'll still watch and enjoy it for what it is though. YMMV
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I thought that they just got a giant new sponsorship deal with a flip flop (thong sandal) company. Hopefully ESPN coverage will improve a lot. NBC had horrible timing going to commercial.

MotoGP started off pretty good.
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Yeah it did, Marquez in the second to last corner going for the inside line.
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China was AWESOME.

If you didn't see FP3 and quali, you really missed out. Ricciardo's turbo blew in FP3 (kerblammo). Evidently that's not a part that triggers a grid penalty.

The Red Bull mechanics pulled out the stops and did a full engine swap, beating their own record by a full hour. The days of being able to just bolt a new back end onto the car are long gone... it's a horribly complex process in the current era. They had to scavenge parts off of the engine they were using that morning to make it happen.

But they did... and got Daniel out in Q1 with only two minutes to spare. One flying lap. He wound up starting in P6.

I won't spoil the race but it was a real nail-biter in the last half. Some truly epic driving and totally legit (non-DRS) passing that'll make your hair stand on end.

Best race I've seen in a long while.
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