F1 2018
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Well deserved win for Daniel.
Zapp Brannigan
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Monaco is a shit race virtually every year.
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Zapp Brannigan
Built like a steakhouse, handles like a bistro
Limejuice
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I kind of understand. It's not easy to overtake.
Today, maybe a spot or two of rain would have helped.
Also, the complete lack of safety car because the marshals shifted Alonso's and the Leclerc detonation so damn fast.
weltweit
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So two wins apiece for Vettel, Hamilton and Ricciardo.
I suppose Monaco is not really a power circuit so his loss of battery power was perhaps less of a blow here than it could have been on a faster easier to overtake circuit, but whatever, at the end Vettel could not even keep up let alone challenge for the win.
I bet Red Bull had a draw for who had to go on the podium with Ricciardo, and the loser had to go AND drink from the shoe of many smells
I suppose Monaco is not really a power circuit so his loss of battery power was perhaps less of a blow here than it could have been on a faster easier to overtake circuit, but whatever, at the end Vettel could not even keep up let alone challenge for the win.
I bet Red Bull had a draw for who had to go on the podium with Ricciardo, and the loser had to go AND drink from the shoe of many smells
Limejuice
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As a petrolhead, I feel the pain. Hope it works out.
I'm going to spruce my car up tomorrow and put it in for its MOT on Tuesday. It'll fail for rear disks and pads. So, known expense.
1%er
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Did you get your MOT?As a petrolhead, I feel the pain. Hope it works out.
I'm going to spruce my car up tomorrow and put it in for its MOT on Tuesday. It'll fail for rear disks and pads. So, known expense.
No MOT here, the only time you have to have your car checked to ensure it is road worthy is if you sell it, the new buyer has to take it to a government place to register and they will check it over. Over the last few years things have got better but a while ago it wasn't unusual to see cars that were falling apart driver around. Being right by the beach lots of cars here are really rusty but people keep driving them, I've seen one that the floor was rusted out and just replaced with wooden boards and another had a brace wielded across the front suspension points to keep the engine in place as the mountings were so rusted
1%er
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Miami GP not a sure thing
It seems that the local residents are not behind a GP in Miami. The City Commission gave the green light for talks to begin but local residents are talking about taking legal action to stop any race. People who were around when they used to have a race in Miami say the disruption isn't worth it, the noise and street closures will make the area a living hell for the week before the race.
Miami mayor Francis Suarez believes the race will bring an "economic windfall for the city", but went on to say "The residents are our bosses, and we have to take into account their concerns" political speak for we will listen but then ignore you, I suspect. Being America I think any legal action could hold this project up for years, I guess we will have to wait and see.
FIA still looking at Ferrari ERS
The FIA has been examining Ferrari's system and its unique twin-battery arrangement since April's Azerbaijan Grand Prix, and Whiting confirmed after Thursday's Monaco running that he was now satisfied with it. Whiting said no extra sensors were fitted to the Ferraris in Monaco, and the FIA instead had to pursue a more complicated process to check how the system was operating.
Charlie Whiting has now said "Via a complex routine we were able to be satisfied that the Ferrari was OK, but we don't want to have to go through that all the time, so we would rather additional measurements are made. What we will have for Canada will be a better system which will help us get things done much, much quicker, because it's taken us a couple of races to get to the bottom of it. We want them to put extra monitoring on, but at the moment we're having to do it in a painstaking way. It takes a little longer than we would like. What we're trying to do is to monitor exactly what the differences between the two halves of the battery are. That's the crux of the matter. Other systems treat their battery as one. Ferrari, it's one battery, but they treat it as two. That's the fundamental difference, I don't think it's a secret I'm giving away there. Not only are they sealed, [but] because they only have two of them for the season, it's not just a straight matter of plucking a sensor off the shelf and putting it on, It needs better integration for that. I'm not sure when any more additional sensors can be fitted; probably not until next year".
He went on to say "We really have been trying to get to the point where we are entirely satisfied that the power being delivered to the MGU-K is correct, it was difficult to explain exactly what we were seeing, that's what we kept going through with Ferrari, because it's a very complex and totally different system to anybody else's. We have to understand these things, it just took us a bit longer to understand what was going on. Their duty is to satisfy us that the car complies, but they were finding it hard to satisfy us. It's wrong to say that Ferrari didn't communicate, because they've been very helpful the whole way. It's just been very painstaking and detailed work to try to get to the bottom of how their system works, and hence give us the comfort that we need".
So it looks like this story could run for a while as the other teams are claiming that Ferrari are getting more power from their batteries than is allowed under the rules and challenging Ferrari about the amount of oil used by their Turbo . The rumor is that Lorenzo Sassi who was the chief engine designer at Ferrari until last summer, when he was sacked by Sergio Marchionne, has been "spilling the beans" about the Ferrari car. It is interesting to note that the FIA have issued a number of technical directives relating to energy stores and to oil use in the turbochargers. Surely no team would cheat to such an extent nowadays, not after what happened to Renault back in 2009. The penalties would be so harsh they'd make everyone involved heads spin so much they'd fall off and then ban them all for life.
Kimi Raikkonen
While we are talking about Ferrari one of their drivers is in the news in Canada, Kimi Raikkonen has filed a police complaint in Montreal, alleging a local woman is harassing and blackmailing him. According to local press reports, a woman in her 20s claims that she was working in the Montreal bar Velvet Speakeasy in 2016 when the Ferrari driver groped her. "He learned over, slipped his hand into my dress and grabbed my breast," she claims. "One of his friends slipped his hand into my panties and touched my genitals." She did not make a complaint but a few weeks ago, the alleged victim's lawyers wrote to the legal team representing Raikkonen in Canada.
"Our client denies everything and considers that what the woman has done is illegal," a lawyer representing Raikkonen in Montreal said. The woman's lawyer said: "Faced with allegations of this nature, we're obviously shocked and disturbed that this is the response." As for the claims that the woman asked for money, her lawyer said it was "a little more graceful" than that. "What we were looking for was an opportunity to sit down and come to terms with what happened to my client."
Alfa Romeo factory team
There has been much discussion of late about Sauber soon becoming a full-blown Alfa Romeo factory team, owned by the Alfa Romeo company, and presumably renamed accordingly. Alfa Romeo has not had a competition department since 2007 when N Technology, which had been managing Fiat sporting activities, switched to work with Honda. This is expected to happen at some point in the course of the next few months, as the Italian car manufacturer gets into closer alignment with its cousin Ferrari.
Ferrari and Alfa Romeo are no longer owned by the same company, but their shareholder structures are fairly similar and they share the same chairman in Sergio Marchionne. It is logical for Alfa Romeo to use as much Ferrari IP as possible, just as Haas is doing, and this is good for Ferrari because the firm will be paid handsomely for the relationship. Thus it would cost Alfa Romeo far less than doing everything from scratch, and would benefit Ferrari financially as well. In the longer term Alfa Romeo could develop away from Ferrari but it is wise to have a solid footing on which to start.
It is no surprise at all to see an announcement that a Ferrari engineer has been named as the replacement technical director for the departed Jorg Zander. The new man is Simone Resta, who will take over the role on July 1, which means that there is no gardening leave. This indicates that Ferrari is very happy with the appointment. It is unlikely that someone like Resta would have been allowed to get to the end of a Ferrari contract without a new deal being secured in advance, so one might suggest that the timing also suggests collusion between the two companies.
It seems that the local residents are not behind a GP in Miami. The City Commission gave the green light for talks to begin but local residents are talking about taking legal action to stop any race. People who were around when they used to have a race in Miami say the disruption isn't worth it, the noise and street closures will make the area a living hell for the week before the race.
Miami mayor Francis Suarez believes the race will bring an "economic windfall for the city", but went on to say "The residents are our bosses, and we have to take into account their concerns" political speak for we will listen but then ignore you, I suspect. Being America I think any legal action could hold this project up for years, I guess we will have to wait and see.
FIA still looking at Ferrari ERS
The FIA has been examining Ferrari's system and its unique twin-battery arrangement since April's Azerbaijan Grand Prix, and Whiting confirmed after Thursday's Monaco running that he was now satisfied with it. Whiting said no extra sensors were fitted to the Ferraris in Monaco, and the FIA instead had to pursue a more complicated process to check how the system was operating.
Charlie Whiting has now said "Via a complex routine we were able to be satisfied that the Ferrari was OK, but we don't want to have to go through that all the time, so we would rather additional measurements are made. What we will have for Canada will be a better system which will help us get things done much, much quicker, because it's taken us a couple of races to get to the bottom of it. We want them to put extra monitoring on, but at the moment we're having to do it in a painstaking way. It takes a little longer than we would like. What we're trying to do is to monitor exactly what the differences between the two halves of the battery are. That's the crux of the matter. Other systems treat their battery as one. Ferrari, it's one battery, but they treat it as two. That's the fundamental difference, I don't think it's a secret I'm giving away there. Not only are they sealed, [but] because they only have two of them for the season, it's not just a straight matter of plucking a sensor off the shelf and putting it on, It needs better integration for that. I'm not sure when any more additional sensors can be fitted; probably not until next year".
He went on to say "We really have been trying to get to the point where we are entirely satisfied that the power being delivered to the MGU-K is correct, it was difficult to explain exactly what we were seeing, that's what we kept going through with Ferrari, because it's a very complex and totally different system to anybody else's. We have to understand these things, it just took us a bit longer to understand what was going on. Their duty is to satisfy us that the car complies, but they were finding it hard to satisfy us. It's wrong to say that Ferrari didn't communicate, because they've been very helpful the whole way. It's just been very painstaking and detailed work to try to get to the bottom of how their system works, and hence give us the comfort that we need".
So it looks like this story could run for a while as the other teams are claiming that Ferrari are getting more power from their batteries than is allowed under the rules and challenging Ferrari about the amount of oil used by their Turbo . The rumor is that Lorenzo Sassi who was the chief engine designer at Ferrari until last summer, when he was sacked by Sergio Marchionne, has been "spilling the beans" about the Ferrari car. It is interesting to note that the FIA have issued a number of technical directives relating to energy stores and to oil use in the turbochargers. Surely no team would cheat to such an extent nowadays, not after what happened to Renault back in 2009. The penalties would be so harsh they'd make everyone involved heads spin so much they'd fall off and then ban them all for life.
Kimi Raikkonen
While we are talking about Ferrari one of their drivers is in the news in Canada, Kimi Raikkonen has filed a police complaint in Montreal, alleging a local woman is harassing and blackmailing him. According to local press reports, a woman in her 20s claims that she was working in the Montreal bar Velvet Speakeasy in 2016 when the Ferrari driver groped her. "He learned over, slipped his hand into my dress and grabbed my breast," she claims. "One of his friends slipped his hand into my panties and touched my genitals." She did not make a complaint but a few weeks ago, the alleged victim's lawyers wrote to the legal team representing Raikkonen in Canada.
"Our client denies everything and considers that what the woman has done is illegal," a lawyer representing Raikkonen in Montreal said. The woman's lawyer said: "Faced with allegations of this nature, we're obviously shocked and disturbed that this is the response." As for the claims that the woman asked for money, her lawyer said it was "a little more graceful" than that. "What we were looking for was an opportunity to sit down and come to terms with what happened to my client."
Alfa Romeo factory team
There has been much discussion of late about Sauber soon becoming a full-blown Alfa Romeo factory team, owned by the Alfa Romeo company, and presumably renamed accordingly. Alfa Romeo has not had a competition department since 2007 when N Technology, which had been managing Fiat sporting activities, switched to work with Honda. This is expected to happen at some point in the course of the next few months, as the Italian car manufacturer gets into closer alignment with its cousin Ferrari.
Ferrari and Alfa Romeo are no longer owned by the same company, but their shareholder structures are fairly similar and they share the same chairman in Sergio Marchionne. It is logical for Alfa Romeo to use as much Ferrari IP as possible, just as Haas is doing, and this is good for Ferrari because the firm will be paid handsomely for the relationship. Thus it would cost Alfa Romeo far less than doing everything from scratch, and would benefit Ferrari financially as well. In the longer term Alfa Romeo could develop away from Ferrari but it is wise to have a solid footing on which to start.
It is no surprise at all to see an announcement that a Ferrari engineer has been named as the replacement technical director for the departed Jorg Zander. The new man is Simone Resta, who will take over the role on July 1, which means that there is no gardening leave. This indicates that Ferrari is very happy with the appointment. It is unlikely that someone like Resta would have been allowed to get to the end of a Ferrari contract without a new deal being secured in advance, so one might suggest that the timing also suggests collusion between the two companies.
Limejuice
Well-Known Member
Yes, after the brakes were sorted there was a small problem with one of the light clusters and a weak bracket on the exhaust, either of which would be a fail under the UK's ever-tougher, brand-new MOT regime. £450 in all. But I'm street legal and my car stops on a sixpence. As Mrs Limejuice discovered this morning when some bozo ran a red light while I was driving her to the station.Did you get your MOT?
No MOT here, the only time you have to have your car checked to ensure it is road worthy is if you sell it, the new buyer has to take it to a government place to register and they will check it over. Over the last few years things have got better but a while ago it wasn't unusual to see cars that were falling apart driver around. Being right by the beach lots of cars here are really rusty but people keep driving them, I've seen one that the floor was rusted out and just replaced with wooden boards and another had a brace wielded across the front suspension points to keep the engine in place as the mountings were so rusted
Limejuice
Well-Known Member
"As for the claims that the woman asked for money, her lawyer said it was "a little more graceful" than that. "What we were looking for was an opportunity to sit down and come to terms with what happened to my client."
In other words, a shakedown. Methinks they picked the wrong guy trying to rinse Kimi.
In other words, a shakedown. Methinks they picked the wrong guy trying to rinse Kimi.
1%er
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Vijay Mallya out as Force India boss
It would seem from a document filed with Companies House yesterday that Mallya is no longer involved at Force India, the TM01 (Termination of a Director Appointment) see below, was registered 30 May 2018. It appears at this time that he will remain team principal but in name only. His directorship is believed to have been passed to his son Siddarth.
The Force India Formula One team is rumored to be sold within the next few weeks after a consortium led by British-based energy drinks boss William Storey. It appears that Storey, chief executive of Rich Energy, has finalized terms with Vijay Mallya and Subrata Roy to buy the team in the deal for an undisclosed sum. It is also being reported that Mercedes might strengthen its ties with Force India by extending the current cooperation on engines and gearbox and making into a junior or B-team, as is said to be happening between Haas and Ferrari.
Crisis what crisis
Problems continues at Williams as lead aerodynamicist Dirk De Beer has now left the team only a month since the departure of chief designer Ed Wood. Chief Engineer Doug McKiernan will assume full responsibility over the aerodynamic and design direction of the car and Dave Wheater is stepping up to take on the role as Head of Aerodynamics. It should be clear to anyone who watches F1 that Williams problems over the last couple of years have been with the chassis and/or the aero, as their car has been fastest in the speed trap many times over the last few years, so clearly their Mercedes power-unit isn't a problem. The Williams' reshuffle comes as the team look to turn around their season after making their worst start to a campaign since 2013.
More on Ferrari and their ERS
It seems that it is no longer just a rumor that Lorenzo Sass spilled the beans about Ferrari, it is now being reported that the Silver Arrows accused their rivals of breaking ERS rules after engine man Lorenzo Sass swapped the Prancing Horse for Mercedes. James Allison brought the allegations to the powers that be but Wolff was raging when the report was supposedly leaked to the press.
However, Whiting has since come out to defend the FIA and he claims the media had already uncovered the names of his team members. "I didn't think it was any secret," says Whiting. "In fact when we had a little chat with the guys (journalists) yesterday, it was they who came up with the Ferrari man's name. I don't think it was any secret. He just, as many engineers do, came up to us and said 'this guy started working for us and he says this team might be doing that', and we go and check".
Driver rumor
Toro Rosso may be looking at Kubica as a potential mid season replacement for the poorly performing Brendan Hartley. Red Bull’s Dr Helmut Marko alluded to the fact that the New Zealander might well be gone from Toro Rosso mid season. He is reported as saying to the Austrian press “The situation around Brendon is not pleasing. We will go through this in peace and see what we can do in the future”. Whispers in the paddock are that Robert Kubica will be his replacement.
It would seem from a document filed with Companies House yesterday that Mallya is no longer involved at Force India, the TM01 (Termination of a Director Appointment) see below, was registered 30 May 2018. It appears at this time that he will remain team principal but in name only. His directorship is believed to have been passed to his son Siddarth.
The Force India Formula One team is rumored to be sold within the next few weeks after a consortium led by British-based energy drinks boss William Storey. It appears that Storey, chief executive of Rich Energy, has finalized terms with Vijay Mallya and Subrata Roy to buy the team in the deal for an undisclosed sum. It is also being reported that Mercedes might strengthen its ties with Force India by extending the current cooperation on engines and gearbox and making into a junior or B-team, as is said to be happening between Haas and Ferrari.
Crisis what crisis
Problems continues at Williams as lead aerodynamicist Dirk De Beer has now left the team only a month since the departure of chief designer Ed Wood. Chief Engineer Doug McKiernan will assume full responsibility over the aerodynamic and design direction of the car and Dave Wheater is stepping up to take on the role as Head of Aerodynamics. It should be clear to anyone who watches F1 that Williams problems over the last couple of years have been with the chassis and/or the aero, as their car has been fastest in the speed trap many times over the last few years, so clearly their Mercedes power-unit isn't a problem. The Williams' reshuffle comes as the team look to turn around their season after making their worst start to a campaign since 2013.
More on Ferrari and their ERS
It seems that it is no longer just a rumor that Lorenzo Sass spilled the beans about Ferrari, it is now being reported that the Silver Arrows accused their rivals of breaking ERS rules after engine man Lorenzo Sass swapped the Prancing Horse for Mercedes. James Allison brought the allegations to the powers that be but Wolff was raging when the report was supposedly leaked to the press.
However, Whiting has since come out to defend the FIA and he claims the media had already uncovered the names of his team members. "I didn't think it was any secret," says Whiting. "In fact when we had a little chat with the guys (journalists) yesterday, it was they who came up with the Ferrari man's name. I don't think it was any secret. He just, as many engineers do, came up to us and said 'this guy started working for us and he says this team might be doing that', and we go and check".
Driver rumor
Toro Rosso may be looking at Kubica as a potential mid season replacement for the poorly performing Brendan Hartley. Red Bull’s Dr Helmut Marko alluded to the fact that the New Zealander might well be gone from Toro Rosso mid season. He is reported as saying to the Austrian press “The situation around Brendon is not pleasing. We will go through this in peace and see what we can do in the future”. Whispers in the paddock are that Robert Kubica will be his replacement.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
or bothRe-signed or resigned?
1%er
Well-Known Member
Re-signed or resigned?
I did have a WTF moment at first read
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
as did hamilton when he was told he had resigned.I did have a WTF moment at first read
weltweit
Well-Known Member
The TT is crazy fast, and dangerous.
Hats off to the competitors but you wouldn't find me doing 200mph between stone walls.
