Formula 1 Pirelli 2018 United States Grand Prix

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 4:12 pm

Circuit of the Americas

Last year's race

Lewis Hamilton dominates the race en route of his 4th World Championship win

2018 Season Standings (after 17 races)

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Spoiler:

the championship ends on sunday

Fabs · PostPosted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 4:13 pm

plz rain so Vettel can fail and Lewis wins by 35 seconds.

Ian-S · PostPosted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 4:20 pm

Won't need rain for that to happen.

Fabs · PostPosted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 4:53 pm

true

Chris A · PostPosted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 5:29 pm

I fell asleep before I even finished reading the thread title.

iks · PostPosted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 4:51 am

meh track

meh season

meh cars

meh series

:roll:

Brazil will be the next and last F1 race I watch this year, as per usual.

Omega · PostPosted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 9:53 am

The question is not if Hamilton will win the title this race, but how Ferrari is going to screw it up and hand it to him.

mclaren2008 · PostPosted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 10:41 am

They'll run out of fuel

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 3:54 pm

Scotty wrote:

Fuck what anyone thinks, this is THE worst track Tilke has designed. I'd even say Yas Marina isn't as shit.

the final sector of CotA is the biggest shit Tilke shat

James B · PostPosted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 6:25 pm

Wasn't the whole gist of it based around some scribblings from Tavo Hellmund? Would be interesting to see what the original design looked like and how much influence Tilke had. I'm going to pre-emptively blame him for all the bad parts, which may be unfair but is also probably right

Gaara · PostPosted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 6:59 pm

Didn't they just tag on corners from other tracks? Or am I thinking of another track.

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 7:07 pm

they actually picked the worst curves of the best tracks, which means it doesn't even have personality

the only part worth is the first corner and is not that awesome

codename_47 · PostPosted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 9:46 pm

I like this track. :whistling:

webbsy · PostPosted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 11:27 pm

Scotty wrote:

His best circuit was the one in India, shame it was wasted on a country that ditched having a GP after about 10 minutes.

I'd agrue that Malaysia was his best. All I can remember from India is that 1km long straight and a chicane that Massa couldn't navigate.

Fabs · PostPosted: Wed Oct 17, 2018 9:14 am

Love how it's been raining steadily for nearly 5 days and will continue, but Sunday will be dry lol.

So Vettel wi... oh wow I nearly said that :lol:

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Wed Oct 17, 2018 4:05 pm

dry or wet, it'll be a Lewis Hamilton walkout

the question is if Vettel will be able to finish 2nd (probably not)

Coldtyre · PostPosted: Wed Oct 17, 2018 6:09 pm

Scotty wrote:

webbsy wrote:

Scotty wrote:

His best circuit was the one in India, shame it was wasted on a country that ditched having a GP after about 10 minutes.

I'd agrue that Malaysia was his best. All I can remember from India is that 1km long straight and a chicane that Massa couldn't navigate.

Essentially it was 3 long straights, then a ridiculous high speed section where the cars never went below 5th gear.

With COTA they should draw a straight line from where turn 3 is now, to where the last turn is now, make it the track, turn it into a Brands Hatch Indy style circuit and have a 300 lap grand prix there.

I'd love to see a grand prix where cars are doing 30 second laps, if you're not near the lead and you put you immediately go a lap down.

(Essentially I want an oval grand prix)

Norisring, with DRS allowed on both straights. Not a single team would pull up any sort of lead, you'd have an oval pack-race deal and dive-bomb drama at about every corner. A Force India could win a race like this.

Fabs · PostPosted: Wed Oct 17, 2018 9:01 pm

Or Lewis will actually push and lap the field.

kals · PostPosted: Thu Oct 18, 2018 12:36 pm

Scotty wrote:

His best circuit was the one in India, shame it was wasted on a country that ditched having a GP after about 10 minutes.

Buddh International Circuit was just an inverted version of parts of Istanbul Park. Some of it was interesting but the majority was typical formulaic stuff we've got used to with Tilke tracks.

Sepang is my favourite of his tracks, with China second. Korea was also good, as is Austin yet both have a few unnecessary corners (for the sake of having more corners).

mclaren2008 · PostPosted: Thu Oct 18, 2018 12:42 pm

My favourite Tilke track is Istanbul

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