2015 Random F1 Discussion Thread

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 5:05 pm

when I mean heavier is harder to drive, no fly by wire and power steering

just sheer driving pleasure on a 1200bhp BMW M Power Brabham BT54

Tobias · PostPosted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 7:26 pm

whatever happened to Rosberg in his 1986 mclaren season. such a short career.

mjs · PostPosted: Tue Apr 21, 2015 7:53 pm

Tobias wrote:

whatever happened to Rosberg in his 1986 mclaren season.

Understeer happened.

Quote:

"All season I struggled with understeer, and nobody seemed to be able to do anything about it.

In 2005, at Patrick's 60th birthday party, I was seated next to Barnard, and I talked to him more that evening than I did in all of 1986. He said, 'I remember you complaining about understeer', and I said, 'Yes, why didn't you deal with it?' He said, 'I was going to Ferrari the next year. My mind was elsewhere. It didn't interest me.'"

http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archi ... ke-rosberg

Quote:

“The TAG turbo in the McLaren didn’t have the same top-end power as the Honda I’d been used to at Williams, but the main problem was that understeer. Alain and I talked about it a lot, but nothing was ever done about it. It was strange: the only time I had a decent-handling car was at Adelaide, the last race of the year, where I was walking the race only to suffer a tyre failure on lap 63. And that was pretty much the sum total of my year at Mclaren. It was not what I’d been expecting by any means!”

http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archi ... ke-rosberg

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 3:57 pm

at least he raced the best loooking McLaren of all time, the yellow one

Omega · PostPosted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 4:16 pm

to me it always looked like a red car who had lost its colour after being behind a shop window for too long

mclaren2008 · PostPosted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 10:34 pm

6 months out from the race, Mexico has already sold out :8:

Artur Craft · PostPosted: Wed Apr 22, 2015 11:20 pm

Meanwhile, things are very different in China(sorry if already posted):

Quote:

"The races are not as brilliant as they were a decade ago," Yang added.
hanghai's F1 race contract runs until 2017, and Yang said the grand prix is just one of "a lot" of international events in the sprawling city every year.

As for whether the F1 deal will be extended, he insisted: "Changes have to be made to the sport.

"UBS was the title sponsor of last year's Chinese GP, but they didn't extend the contract this year, and there must be a reason for it.

http://www.newsonf1.co.uk/2015/news/Apr ... in_F1.html

Beezle · PostPosted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 12:44 am

Well... he has a point.

Maybe the show would be better if they had built a race track instead of a tielkedrome.

StefMeister · PostPosted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 1:42 am

Quote:

"The races are not as brilliant as they were a decade ago," Yang added.

The racing the past few years has been indefinitely better than the racing a decade ago & I think the last couple Chinese Gp's have been great.

I don't get the fascination many seem to have with going back to the way F1 was 10 years ago as lets be honest from a racing standpoint F1 was mostly crap 10 years ago.

iks · PostPosted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 2:00 am

StefMeister wrote:

Quote:

"The races are not as brilliant as they were a decade ago," Yang added.

The racing the past few years has been indefinitely better than the racing a decade ago & I think the last couple Chinese Gp's have been great.

I don't get the fascination many seem to have with going back to the way F1 was 10 years ago as lets be honest from a racing standpoint F1 was mostly crap 10 years ago.

Especially 11 years ago. 12 years ago was very good though.

ptclaus98 · PostPosted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 2:28 am

LucasWheldon wrote:

I wish F1 cars could be a bit heavier like those 80's turbocharged racers

1985 and 1986 were the peak of pure horsepower in F1, when Rosberg set the highest average speed down at Silverstone

One Of my favorite clips of F1 and racing in general is of the 1985 South African GP where he's chasing the front two. The sense of speed through Jukskei and Sunset is something I have not seen much of.

Artur Craft · PostPosted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 2:37 am

StefMeister wrote:

Quote:

"The races are not as brilliant as they were a decade ago," Yang added.

The racing the past few years has been indefinitely better than the racing a decade ago & I think the last couple Chinese Gp's have been great.

I don't get the fascination many seem to have with going back to the way F1 was 10 years ago as lets be honest from a racing standpoint F1 was mostly crap 10 years ago.

I won't say anything about this year because I stopped watching F1(highly doubt it got any better, though), but the Chinese GP of 2004 was way better, imho, than the 2014 one.

I think that GP(2004 Chinese) was particularly much better than the average back then and the typical racing was indeed poor. However, it had other stuff which kept me interested in the sport. Now, almost all is gone. Cars were good looking back then(this year only Mercedes and Lotus are) and sounded agressive. The speed of the cars was exhilarating when watching(since 2014, the cornering speed of the cars, during qualifying, is the same of the Audi's R18 LMP1 during the race, and during the races, the F1s are much slower) and there was more variation on the pecking order as development(another thing that matters to me) was not restricted. Even on 2004, Williams, Mclaren and Renault won races on merit, so it wasn't just Ferrari domination. Battles/overtakes were very rare, which was very bad, but, when happened, they were thrilling because they were more genuine and now the fake racing does nothing to me. It surely provides a lot more "action" on the race but not the kind I'm looking for

Maybe I would still watch F1 if there wasn't other outstanding series out there to fill my need for motorsports. For instance, the 6h of Silverstone ticked all the boxes for me: fantastic genuine racing, good looking cars, variety of technical/engineering solutions(not even counting Nissan as they are not there yet), fast cars(LMP1s/2s) and unpredictability

iks · PostPosted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 2:52 am

Artur Craft wrote:

StefMeister wrote:

Quote:

"The races are not as brilliant as they were a decade ago," Yang added.

The racing the past few years has been indefinitely better than the racing a decade ago & I think the last couple Chinese Gp's have been great.

I don't get the fascination many seem to have with going back to the way F1 was 10 years ago as lets be honest from a racing standpoint F1 was mostly crap 10 years ago.

I won't say anything about this year because I stopped watching F1(highly doubt it got any better, though), but the Chinese GP of 2004 was way better, imho, than the 2014 one.

I think that GP(2004 Chinese) was particularly much better than the average back then and the typical racing was indeed poor. However, it had other stuff which kept me interested in the sport. Now, almost all is gone. Cars were good looking back then(this year only Mercedes and Lotus are) and sounded agressive. The speed of the cars was exhilarating when watching(since 2014, the cornering speed of the cars, during qualifying, is the same of the Audi's R18 LMP1 during the race, and during the races, the F1s are much slower) and there was more variation on the pecking order as development(another thing that matters to me) was not restricted. Even on 2004, Williams, Mclaren and Renault won races on merit, so it wasn't just Ferrari domination. Battles/overtakes were very rare, which was very bad, but, when happened, they were thrilling because they were more genuine and now the fake racing does nothing to me. It surely provides a lot more "action" on the race but not the kind I'm looking for

Maybe I would still watch F1 if there wasn't other outstanding series out there to fill my need for motorsports. For instance, the 6h of Silverstone ticked all the boxes for me: fantastic genuine racing, good looking cars, variety of technical/engineering solutions(not even counting Nissan as they are not there yet), fast cars(LMP1s/2s) and unpredictability

I haven't watched F1 this year yet either. Long Beach was the first Indy Car race of the season for me too. I'm just waiting for a decent F1 race to come along and then I'l watch it.

Soul Reaver · PostPosted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 3:16 am

2004 was all the new race excitment. 2006 was an epic Chinese Grand Prix. 2007 all the Hamilton craziness. Can't get much better than this in a 4 year spam.

Artur Craft · PostPosted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 4:01 am

But I guess there is some guy in China, named Yin, who thinks exactly the opposite of Mr Yang

mclaren2008 · PostPosted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 6:04 am

I think the race should stay, it seems to be popular and the circuit is decent enough.

iks · PostPosted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 4:40 am

Artur Craft wrote:

But I guess there is some guy in China, named Yin, who thinks exactly the opposite of Mr Yang

I loled.

acopip · PostPosted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 8:39 am

Well guys, I was just browsing F1 websites.
I thought I... I believe I... I.... I.. I'll just leave that here.

Spoiler:

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Fish88: Done :lol:

Fish88 · PostPosted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 8:52 am

This is exactly the reason we have spoiler tags...

Ian-S · PostPosted: Fri Apr 24, 2015 9:29 am

"I'm a style icon".

No, you look a noob Lewis.

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