2016 Random F1 Discussion Thread

Fish88 · PostPosted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 2:56 pm

Renault's 2016 livery?

Neil · PostPosted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 2:58 pm

Something more official:

Neil · PostPosted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 3:01 pm

If this is their 2016 challenger, it has an odd air intake configuration.

kals · PostPosted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 3:21 pm

The air intakes look similar to that on the 2015 car, but you couldn't see them that clearly because of the black livery.

StefMeister · PostPosted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 3:51 pm

Here are the races that Channel 4 will show live:
http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news ... la-1-races

Bahrain – 3rd April (4.00pm)
Spain – 15th May (1.00pm)
Europe (Azerbaijan) – 19th June (TBC)
Britain – 10th July (1.00pm)
Hungary – 24th July (1.00pm)
Belgium – 28th August (1.00pm)
Italy – 4th September (1.00pm)
Malaysia – 2nd October (8.00am)
Mexico – 30th October (7.00pm)
Abu Dhabi – 27th November (1.00pm)

Neil · PostPosted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 4:23 pm

kals wrote:

The air intakes look similar to that on the 2015 car, but you couldn't see them that clearly because of the black livery.

So they are - I never noticed that before.

Neil · PostPosted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 4:40 pm

Aaaand.... It's not real.

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 5:25 pm

that's what I stranged, that livery only have PDVSA and Renault in it, no Total or other associate sponsors

mclaren2008 · PostPosted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 10:13 pm

StefMeister wrote:

Here are the races that Channel 4 will show live:
http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news ... la-1-races

Bahrain – 3rd April (4.00pm)
Spain – 15th May (1.00pm)
Europe (Azerbaijan) – 19th June (TBC)
Britain – 10th July (1.00pm)
Hungary – 24th July (1.00pm)
Belgium – 28th August (1.00pm)
Italy – 4th September (1.00pm)
Malaysia – 2nd October (8.00am)
Mexico – 30th October (7.00pm)
Abu Dhabi – 27th November (1.00pm)

Wow they can't even get Monaco :8:

codename_47 · PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 12:46 am

Monaco is better as highlights anyway.

At 4x ffward speed

mclaren2008 · PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 12:51 am

That is true - Monaco is indeed terrible.

Not being on Ch4 doesn't worry me though, I'll be in a hotel room in Indianapolis watching it on NBC

RtN · PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 1:27 am

LucasWheldon wrote:

that's what I stranged, that livery only have PDVSA and Renault in it, no Total or other associate sponsors

And when the real thing is released, there won't be any PDVSA stickers on it either.

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The only two shitters on the C4 list are Spain and Monza (Abu Dhabi is the finale, so it was getting in regardless), which I hope were part of their last picks. I assume that Sky chose Montreal and Interlagos among their first picks otherwise C4 would have them.

webbsy · PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 1:43 am

On the refuelling front, Damon Hill points out right at the very end of this article that they might be thinking about upping the amount of fuel flow to the engine (more power) and the only way to do that would be to reintroduce refuelling. Something I hadn't considered, but knowing the FIA they would probably just still keep the same flow limit.

http://www.espn.co.uk/f1/story/_/id/145 ... damon-hill

codename_47 · PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 1:58 am

Fuck refuelling

StefMeister · PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 2:58 pm

Its interesting how the recent debate about refueling is mirroring what happened back when it was last introduced in that its been pushed by Bernie & Ferrari with the other teams seemingly all against.

In 1993 when it was initially been discussed for 1994 Bernie wanted it to 'spice things up' & the only team in support was Ferrari because the V12 engines they ran at the time used more fuel which required they run a larger fuel tank than the V10/V8 powered teams.

From memory Bernie attached the rule reintroducing refueling to the regulations banning driver aids & they were all voted through at the same time with no consultation from the teams who then pushed several times over the next few years to get it banned for many of the same reasons we hear from them today.

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 3:01 pm

refuel should go back only if they raise the total race distance to 400km or more (and 100 laps at Monaco) and not counting fuel flow and no limited engines, so they could go full throttle and faster

amq55 · PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 5:40 pm

Manor news:

Omega · PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 6:10 pm

That's major news!

:tumble:

StefMeister · PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 7:15 pm

The FIA & Manufacturer's have seemingly agreed on an €12m per-year cost cap on the engines with manufacturer's agreeing to supply all customers with identical hardware. As a result of the manufacturer's agreeing to this the FIA have agreed to keep the current engine formula until at least 2020.

With that agreement reached it seems like the independent engine that Bernie & Todt were pushing is now dead.

In order to further reduce cost's drivers will now be limited to 3 gearboxes over a season.

Sky are reporting that refueling will not be returning.

Also Vettel has been testing the 2014 car at Fiorano today.

It seems there was some modifications made to the rear bodywork which I didn't think was allowed?
http://www.f1analisitecnica.com/2016/01 ... orano.html

NVirkkula · PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 7:46 pm

StefMeister wrote:

The FIA & Manufacturer's have seemingly agreed on an €12m per-year cost cap on the engines with manufacturer's agreeing to supply all customers with identical hardware. As a result of the manufacturer's agreeing to this the FIA have agreed to keep the current engine formula until at least 2020.

With that agreement reached it seems like the independent engine that Bernie & Todt were pushing is now dead.

In order to further reduce cost's drivers will now be limited to 3 gearboxes over a season.

Sky are reporting that refueling will not be returning.

Also Vettel has been testing the 2014 car at Fiorano today.
[tweet]https://twitter.com/AlexMariani96/status/689437181832654849[ /tweet]

It seems there was some modifications made to the rear bodywork which I didn't think was allowed?
http://www.f1analisitecnica.com/2016/01 ... orano.html

Those regulation changes are reasonable. Now open up the fuel flow limitation and increase the fuel capacity a little and there might be more engine noise for the fans. That's the only thing that's not taken in account here. We don't want refueling so it's all good.

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