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PostPosted: Fri Nov 06, 2020 10:52 am 
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I like the Korea circuit, because it has some character making it different from the others on the list. The fast and the slow parts of the circuit clearly separated makes cars differently quick in different sectors.
One of my biggest arguments against the majority of Tilke circuits is, that every single sector on every single track seems to have the same amount of corners, the same radii, the same average speeds... no character. He doesn't build a fast circuit and then a slow circuit. He builds the same one over and over again.
I even like Hungaroring better than most Tilke tracks. Its objectively worse, but its different.


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Scotty wrote:
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Another shitty Tilke track is coming. Forget about the location.


It's a street circuit. Who said Tilke's involved?

As a matter of a fact, Saudi Arabia were planning on building a motor racing facility for F1, but Alex Wurz's company was going to do it.


Oddly enough a very good friend of mine works for Wurz's company as a civil engineer

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Hypocrisy isn't a new thing for the sport.

Well, it kind of is a new thing. When half of the grid was run by tobacco, at the same time they weren't pretending to care about tobacco's public health concerns.

But now this Saudi Arabia race, while as a country in princple no different to especially Bahrain and UAE, is an entirely new location and a contract, and it follows a year when F1 got really political, so this really highlights the hypocrisy. The one positive thing here is that now one has to be really gullible to believe that #WeRaceAsOne initiative and other BS was ever genuine.


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I found it funny that at the height of the tobacco sponsorship you had Mansell that was a very fit driver and Rosberg that was a smoker that just showed up to the races with some kind of prepare

Mansell would finish exhausted, thinking he was going to die (even though he was just doing a scene) and Rosberg jumped of the car and lighted a fag like if he was simply doing a truck delivery

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 06, 2020 3:54 pm 
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The one time Mansell SHOULD have carried on like a pork chop and flailed about but didn't was this.....



That was in all honesty a massive hit to the head to an exposed solid steel beam.....but try to hold one trophy.......Oh the agony!

I can't help but feel that Murray did that poke on purpose, just look at the way he does it and then continues like nothing happened LOL.

Really though, I just saw the name Mansell and wanted an excuse to have a laugh at that classic.


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Looks like several Williams team members have tested positive for covid. This probably came about from George Russell's trainer testing positive about a week ago.
https://www.williamsf1.com/news/2020/11 ... -statement


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in a a perfect world the 2021 decision falls at the Saudi Arabia race but the overwhelming majority of viewers boycot watching the race anyways.

We know we shouldnt expect any real protest, let alone boycot, of the drivers and/or teams.

But I'm realistic enough to know that us viewers wont boycot it in great numbers either :(


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They spent all that money building a track and pit building that will never be used :lol:

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Can't say I'm shocked. My friend had an ordeal getting his ticket money back over several months which set off alarm bells


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Pretty ambitious to have Australia in its normal place.


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Ah Tasman series, what a nice effort

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What the hell, clean up the Thunderdome and run them around that!

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Scotty wrote:
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Pretty ambitious to have Australia in its normal place.


We've had zero cases for 11 days in a row. Safest developed country in the world right now regarding COVID. Unless our quarantine laws get in the way, but I've heard the Aus GP will be pushed back to October.

I know the situation there is good but the circus needs to get there too.

In contrast Bathurst 12 Hours was cancelled already a few weeks ago and World Superbikes hopes to have its round at Phillip Island at the end of the year (normally in February).


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All of the elite cycling races have also been cancelled with the exception of the national championships. The issue is the quarantine period.

But March may be a different prospect to January and February, so maybe that is what they are hanging their hope on.

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Couldn't Canada fit in along with the rest of the flyaways, before or after Austin? Doesn't make sense in this period to do Azerbaijan, Canada and then France.


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Pretty bad calendar, too much races. This year was the perfect amount, 16 or 17 races. I'm sure there will be cancelations. How can they run a street race with no spectators? Doesn't make sense to build a track just for a TV race.


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Pretty bad calendar, too much races. This year was the perfect amount, 16 or 17 races. I'm sure there will be cancelations. How can they run a street race with no spectators? Doesn't make sense to build a track just for a TV race.

They know perfectly well they have to cancel many races. Even if a miracle happens and the vaccine is ready by spring, it will take a year or two until mass gatherings can happen and quarantine rules are lifted.

For commercial purposes they can't just announce a cancellation of all flyaway races and put TBA in a place of every date. They probably have a plan-B calendar ready, but that will be kept as a secret and only published in the last possible moment in February, calling it force majeure situation. Whether they will visit Portimao, Nürburgring, Mugello and Imola again or do more double-headers remains to be seen.


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About the only interest in this season has been curiosity about F1 racing at new or returning tracks, so I wouldn't mind some of that randomness again next year tbh

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remember when we had 16 races at mostly good places? Pepperidge farm remembers.

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