2018 F1 Random Discussion Thread

Soul Reaver · PostPosted: Thu May 17, 2018 10:06 am

Wanna bet that this is going to happen at Monaco?

Fabs · PostPosted: Thu May 17, 2018 1:03 pm

Coldtyre wrote:

Soul Reaver wrote:

And Stroll

There should be a YF whenever those two are close, or anyone close to Magnussen at anytime during the race.

Now I want to see a direct battle between Mad Max and K-Mag. Preferably, Magnussen defending. The only sensible thing to do would be to evacuate all the grandstands and marshall posts before these two get a second apart, lol.

EAS · PostPosted: Thu May 17, 2018 3:08 pm

Coldtyre wrote:

Soul Reaver wrote:

And Stroll

There should be a YF whenever those two are close, or anyone close to Magnussen at anytime during the race.

Now I want to see a direct battle between Mad Max and K-Mag. Preferably, Magnussen defending. The only sensible thing to do would be to evacuate all the grandstands and marshall posts before these two get a second apart, lol.

The race track would need bunkers to keep everyone safe in such a situation.

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Thu May 17, 2018 4:12 pm

that's pretty much whatwe expect from those 2 in Monaco, plus airborne and flips

StefMeister · PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2018 3:17 am

There's been some new additions to F1TV.

1981 Silverstone,
1986 Australia,
1987 Silverstone,
1988 Monaco,
1989 Hungary & Japan,
1990 Australia
1992 Hungary,
1994 Silverstone,
1995 Italy & Pacific,
1996 Monaco,
1998 Australia & Canada,
1999 Australia & Italy,
2000 France,
2005 Canada,
2006 Hungary & Brazil,
2007 Europe & Japan,
2008 Canada,
2009 Malaysia.

StefMeister · PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2018 2:01 pm

http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/ ... v-coverage

Quote:

Dean Locke, F1's Director of Broadcast & Media, joined Sky F1's Ant Davidson at the Skypad in Barcelona to discuss 2018's on-air changes for the world feed of F1 races and reveal what innovations might appear next.

Fabs · PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2018 2:59 pm

Dear lord all that bitching in the comments on that skysports page.

It gave me a headache.

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2018 4:09 pm

Audio up feature should be permanent

thestig88 · PostPosted: Fri May 18, 2018 10:06 pm

Wonder if FOM will upload any F1 Digital+ coverage onto F1TV?

StefMeister · PostPosted: Sun May 20, 2018 5:26 pm

I was watching the 1986 Australian Gp on F1TV yesterday & found this piece of James Hunt commentary on the final lap to be rather amusing :lol:

https://streamable.com/f0yff

I also came across this recently.

EAS · PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2018 5:40 pm

Michael Latifi, the father of F2 driver Nicholas Latifi, becomes 10% shareholder of McLaren

https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/44200260

It's been said this has nothing to do with Nicholas' career, but I highly doubt.

iks · PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2018 7:04 pm

Marc Marquez will drive a RBR:
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/red- ... z-1040037/

Hmm...

StefMeister · PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2018 7:59 pm

Apparently next year Pirelli are looking at the 3 compounds at each race simply be called Soft, Medium & Hard regardless of where they sit on there overall range as it's felt that having Hyper, Ultra, Super Soft etc... is a bit confusing.

They will still put out the data saying where the compounds sit on there overall range but on TV, Commentary & internally at teams they want to simplify it in part for the benefit of newer/more casual fans.

TBH I think they should have done this a while ago as the naming of the compounds has got rather silly recently.

Fabs · PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2018 8:04 pm

StefMeister wrote:

Apparently next year Pirelli are looking at the 3 compounds at each race simply be called Soft, Medium & Hard regardless of where they sit on there overall range as it's felt that having Hyper, Ultra, Super Soft etc... is a bit confusing.

They will still put out the data saying where the compounds sit on there overall range but on TV, Commentary & internally at teams they want to simplify it in part for the benefit of newer/more casual fans.

TBH I think they should have done this a while ago as the naming of the compounds has got rather silly recently.

really?

kals · PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2018 9:09 pm

Hardest Compound>>A-B-C-D-E<<Softest Compound

There you go, much simpler.

codename_47 · PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2018 9:09 pm

iks wrote:

Marc Marquez will drive a RBR:
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/red- ... z-1040037/

Hmm...

RIP lando norris rise to ascendency

kals · PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2018 9:10 pm

codename_47 wrote:

iks wrote:

Marc Marquez will drive a RBR:
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/red- ... z-1040037/

Hmm...

RIP lando norris rose to ascendency

Actually no, however this is a threat to Lando Norris' ascendancy - https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/13620 ... investment

codename_47 · PostPosted: Mon May 21, 2018 9:19 pm

I'm going to throw my tablet into the sea

EAS · PostPosted: Tue May 22, 2018 12:22 am

A friend of mine said last year that McLaren is in a decadence spiral similar to Williams and Honda was a scapegoat hiding this.

Now McLaren is under the influence of another wealthy Canadian father of a young driver. Eerily similar to Williams, I would say.

Soul Reaver · PostPosted: Tue May 22, 2018 12:25 am

Fabs wrote:

StefMeister wrote:

Apparently next year Pirelli are looking at the 3 compounds at each race simply be called Soft, Medium & Hard regardless of where they sit on there overall range as it's felt that having Hyper, Ultra, Super Soft etc... is a bit confusing.

They will still put out the data saying where the compounds sit on there overall range but on TV, Commentary & internally at teams they want to simplify it in part for the benefit of newer/more casual fans.

TBH I think they should have done this a while ago as the naming of the compounds has got rather silly recently.

really?

kals wrote:

Hardest Compound>>A-B-C-D-E<<Softest Compound

There you go, much simpler.

At least they should have renamed after they put a tyre softer than super soft. There was only one hard.

Hyper Soft, Ultra Soft, Super Soft, Soft, Medium, Hard

Could have easily being changed to

Super Soft, Soft, Medium, Hard, Super Hard, Ultra Hard.

And since we never use the Ultra Hard, that wouldn't be a problem. But their solution is even better. The worst for me was when they used the Optimum and Prime names, never got which one was which. It sounded like the best one and the bestest option.

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