Formula 1 Emirates Grand Prix de France 2021

webbsy · PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 8:39 am

I openly admit that I like spectacular smashes as long as the drivers walk away. Hell, half of the time I am internally screaming at the TV during the race for someone to bin it it the wall (strangely I find those NASCAR wrecks just sooooo fucking boring).

So yes, I am hoping like hell we have a Mauricio Gulgimien flip in the first corner.

As an aside, the way I found this forum was combing through the internet looking for crash vids. I even want the V10's back and the Halo to go. So yes, I am a heathen.

SBan83 · PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 10:21 am

Coldtyre wrote:

This is a good test track. If I drive a scary rapid race car for the first time, this is where I would want to do it.

Should it have grandstands and innocent civilians spectating on track and on TV? Hell fucking no.

I don't get the forum though. On more challenging tracks, people fear the risk. This track is hated, yet it's a prime example that excitement comes with the corollary of danger. Admit it: you aren't all here for driving skill only, because this track requires a lot more skill than Baku for example. But it's a chore to watch in comparison. Even side by side racing makes little sense here.

A track where a mistake is punished requires a lot more skill, that's a fact. Where the consequence of a misjudged apex can mean a broken wheel or front wing as opposed to just driving over funky-coloured asphalt.

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 12:08 pm

webbsy wrote:

I openly admit that I like spectacular smashes as long as the drivers walk away. Hell, half of the time I am internally screaming at the TV during the race for someone to bin it it the wall (strangely I find those NASCAR wrecks just sooooo fucking boring).

So yes, I am hoping like hell we have a Mauricio Gulgimien flip in the first corner.

As an aside, the way I found this forum was combing through the internet looking for crash vids. I even want the V10's back and the Halo to go. So yes, I am a heathen.

till today I look forward someone causing that crash that Maldonado caused to Señor Oops back in Bahrain 2014. A nice flip at slow speed that caused mayhem afterwards

Omega · PostPosted: Wed Jun 16, 2021 1:54 pm

LucasWheldon wrote:

webbsy wrote:

I openly admit that I like spectacular smashes as long as the drivers walk away. Hell, half of the time I am internally screaming at the TV during the race for someone to bin it it the wall (strangely I find those NASCAR wrecks just sooooo fucking boring).

So yes, I am hoping like hell we have a Mauricio Gulgimien flip in the first corner.

As an aside, the way I found this forum was combing through the internet looking for crash vids. I even want the V10's back and the Halo to go. So yes, I am a heathen.

till today I look forward someone causing that crash that Maldonado caused to Señor Oops back in Bahrain 2014. A nice flip at slow speed that caused mayhem afterwards

We had that in Bahrain (or Sakhir, whatever) last year, with Stroll.

EAS · PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 2:05 pm

Ok, this layout looks way more fun than the actual one

Beezle · PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 2:09 pm

Just skip the chicane and run it backwards. As there are runoffs everywhere, runoffs shouldn't be an issue.

codename_47 · PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 2:20 pm

About the only part I like on this track is the final 2 corners, which do well to generate flippers in lower series...

Aside from that, trash it

Gabriel · PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 6:56 pm

They should just bypass from 11 into the front straight, and get rid of the chicane in the middle of Mistral.

Schumifan · PostPosted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:43 pm

This track isn't even worth coming up with comedy solutions for eg. ramps and fire pits. It's beyond saving

webbsy · PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 2:06 am

I just don't understand why they don't use the straight. After all we just came off that almost 2km long straight in Baku. The Signes turn isn't what it once was, there is an acre of run off.

It is so strange because the track map would suggest that it should be a good track for action, instead its Abu Dhabi levels of shit in pretty much all classes.

cookie · PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 10:49 am

Vettel in the barrier, gravel would have prevented that happening. Just saying Paul Ricard, your tarmac did nothing to slow that car down

gkmotorsport · PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 10:51 am

More financial bitching from Mercedes to the FIA because the sausage kerbs are damaging the car. "You can't just tell us not to go wide" :lol:

webbsy · PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 10:53 am

Oh for fucks sake. That Mercedes Radio is one of the chief reasons modern F1 pisses me off. That curb that our driver went wide on damaged our car.....get rid of it! Unacceptable. Well, don't run off the bloody track!

codename_47 · PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 11:22 am

Something tells me the addition of teams to FIA radio to the coverage this year is one of the worst innovations FOM could've brought us

It won't be insightful, it'll just show all teams pretending to care about safety for their own advantage

Max has damaged his car on a kerb too, expect horner to appear on sky within 10 mins to moan about it.... :whistling:

webbsy · PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 11:33 am

All the constant camera zooms looking at the curbs doesn't help either.

mclaren2008 · PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 12:01 pm

You think Mazepin is bad, look how far Roy Ni$$any is off the pace

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 12:03 pm

webbsy wrote:

Oh for fucks sake. That Mercedes Radio is one of the chief reasons modern F1 pisses me off. That curb that our driver went wide on damaged our car.....get rid of it! Unacceptable. Well, don't run off the bloody track!

just let them race alone in F1 and create another championship from scratch

well, they did that in Formula Truck and the series was folded after 3 races

Gaara · PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 12:20 pm

webbsy wrote:

Oh for fucks sake. That Mercedes Radio is one of the chief reasons modern F1 pisses me off. That curb that our driver went wide on damaged our car.....get rid of it! Unacceptable. Well, don't run off the bloody track!

Pretty much what Brundle said.

gkmotorsport · PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 12:22 pm

Gaara wrote:

webbsy wrote:

Oh for fucks sake. That Mercedes Radio is one of the chief reasons modern F1 pisses me off. That curb that our driver went wide on damaged our car.....get rid of it! Unacceptable. Well, don't run off the bloody track!

Pretty much what Brundle said.

Can you imagine what these conversations would be like if they did have gravel here!?

Gaara · PostPosted: Fri Jun 18, 2021 12:52 pm

Vettel wouldn't have hit the barrier if there had been gravel there.

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