F1 2018
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1%er
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In Brazil women have a very different view than women in the UK I believe, here in Brazil if you look at a women and she catches your eye she is likely to give you a big smile in the UK they are likely to slap your face, funny old world isn't it.
Here women love to be looked at, they spend lots of time looking around to see who is looking at them, it is how people flirt here, if I catch a women's eye when I'm looking at her and she likes the look of me she will come over and sit/stand close to make it easier for you to speak to her.
1%er
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Ted's note book 
I love it. By the time it finishes the sun will be starting to come up here so I'll take the dog for a walk on the beach, always a good start to the day, the beach at sunrise. I want to go to bed but the dog needs to go out or I'll wake up to shit on the balcony.
I love it. By the time it finishes the sun will be starting to come up here so I'll take the dog for a walk on the beach, always a good start to the day, the beach at sunrise. I want to go to bed but the dog needs to go out or I'll wake up to shit on the balcony.
Oh well 
Race start at 16:10 here in the UKLooking forward to the next race in Bahrain, night race there so good time for me iirc late morning or lunchtime here
beesonthewhatnow
going deaf for a living
So, worth watching some highlights or not? I kinda want to give F1 another chance before it disappears down the American “entertainment sport” toilet, but reading that Vettel won by passing in the pits under a VSC doesn’t exactly sound great.
Give the highlights a watch
Australian GP is rarely an exciting/overtaking track, but always good to see the opening race.
1%er
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Some bits of news and gossip doing the rounds
I have no idea how the Chinese have been watching Formula 1 up til now as only recently has a deal been done with the rights holders and Chinese firm CCTV to show live races there on television. CCTV will broadcast all the races and all the qualifying this year. As well as the Chinese GP it is expected that a new race in Hanoi Vietnam is likely to attract many fans from China. It is hoped that the new contract with CCTV will bring tens of millions of new viewers to the sport and help to change the decline in viewing figures because F1 has gone behind a pay-wall in many countries.
Anyway the reason I mentioned China above is really an introduction to rumors going around of a Chinese team being built, with a view to entering F1 at the time of the engine change in 2021. Geely is a company which has solid links with the Chinese government and over the last few years has moved into the car industry. In 2010 they brought Volvo from Ford and last year they also took a controlling interest in the Malaysian car firm Proton and its subsidiary Lotus Cars. Last month it bought around nine percent of Daimler, the Mercedes-Benz parent company, a stake worth $9 billion.
Geely has since announced plans to build two new Lotus sports cars and an SUV which could be an indicator that it may want to up the profile of Lotus with-in motorsport. Lotus is a very big name in F1 and competed with huge success between 1958 until 1994, although its last venture into the sport didn't really go well, but that is mainly down to the fact that it was underfunded from the get-go. It is note worthy that Carl-Peter Forster, a former BMW, GM Europe and Tata Motors executive is also a non-executive director of Geely and also Cosworth. It is no secret that Cosworth wants to reenter F1 and has been looking for funding to do so. China remains a key market for the Formula One Group and any expansion there would be welcomed by Liberty Media for sure.
Talking of expansion, the USA is also a big target for Liberty Media and later this year a demonstration run timed to coincide with the US GP in Austin will take place in Miami. If that works out well, one can expect Miami to move on to a full street race, there has been talk of this for sometime and plans are moving forward.
While F1 is looking for expansion there is also talk of contraction, it is looking likely that at Silverstone this year's British GP is going to be reduced to a three-day meeting in terms of on-track action, rather than the planned four days. This is thought to be to help the race promoter save money, as three days is considerably cheaper than four. It suggests that the BRDC (the promoter of the British GP) and Liberty are talking, which is hopeful and could lead to an extension past 2019 when the current deal ends.
Valtteri Bottas has had a bad start to the season but we have only had one race, the talk is that Mercedes want to resign him, but there is also rumors that Ferrari have been showing a renewed interest, to replace Kimi. Ferrari have shown an interest in Bottas in the past and it seems he is still on their radar. Personally I think nothing will happen with Bottas until Danny Ric's situation at Red Bull is sorted out. His is key to the driver market this year and when he makes his decision other domino's will fall into place. There is also another driver who could move up to Mercedes if he shows he can preform again this year and that is Esteban Ocon, it must not be forgotten that despite him driving for Force India he came up through the Mercedes driver development programme.
What of Haas, the team to watch this year I believe, despite the pit-stop/wheel nut horrors in Melbourne they showed something special for a team that is starting only its 3rd season in the sport. Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean locked out the third row of the grid and were running fourth and fifth before pit stop issues resulted in a double DNF.
Well McLaren and Force India think there is something suspicious going on between Haas and Ferrari, who supply Haas with engines, suspension and other listed parts but also allow Haas chassis partner, Dallara, to use their windtunnel. The two F1 teams, though, are not allowed to share information on parts that they are expected to build themselves. Questions are now being ask by other teams if they are both sticking to the rules. Both McLaren and Force India have claimed that a team only in the sport for 2 years prior to this season could not develop a car so quickly.
Force India chief operating officer Otmar Szafnauer is reported as saying "I don’t know how they do it, it’s magic, it’s never been done before in Formula 1. I just don’t know how it can be right that someone who’s been in the sport for a couple of years with no resource could produce such a car, does it happen by magic? If it does, I want the wand. All the aerodynamic surfaces have to be your own. If they’re not, I don’t know how you can tell unless you start investigating. Scrutineering only tells you that it fits within the boxes of the regulations. Is it yours or somebody else’s [idea]? That’s the real question. And I don’t know the answer to that. Maybe it is their own, it’s just suspect, how can you gain that knowledge without history and the right tools and people?”
McLaren’s Zak Brown also wonders if they are keeping to the rules, he has said "We all know they have a very close alliance with Ferrari and I think we just need to make sure it’s not too close. There could be some influence, there’s certainly some parts of the car that look very similar to last year’s car. But that’s for the engineers and the FIA to look at more closely.”
The faster Haas become and the higher they move up in the constructors championship, other mid-field teams may also jump on the bandwagon, although I must admit the Haas car does look very similar to the 2017 Ferrari and I noticed that a few news reports after testing referred to it as the white Ferrari, we will have to wait and see if this story has legs.
I have no idea how the Chinese have been watching Formula 1 up til now as only recently has a deal been done with the rights holders and Chinese firm CCTV to show live races there on television. CCTV will broadcast all the races and all the qualifying this year. As well as the Chinese GP it is expected that a new race in Hanoi Vietnam is likely to attract many fans from China. It is hoped that the new contract with CCTV will bring tens of millions of new viewers to the sport and help to change the decline in viewing figures because F1 has gone behind a pay-wall in many countries.
Anyway the reason I mentioned China above is really an introduction to rumors going around of a Chinese team being built, with a view to entering F1 at the time of the engine change in 2021. Geely is a company which has solid links with the Chinese government and over the last few years has moved into the car industry. In 2010 they brought Volvo from Ford and last year they also took a controlling interest in the Malaysian car firm Proton and its subsidiary Lotus Cars. Last month it bought around nine percent of Daimler, the Mercedes-Benz parent company, a stake worth $9 billion.
Geely has since announced plans to build two new Lotus sports cars and an SUV which could be an indicator that it may want to up the profile of Lotus with-in motorsport. Lotus is a very big name in F1 and competed with huge success between 1958 until 1994, although its last venture into the sport didn't really go well, but that is mainly down to the fact that it was underfunded from the get-go. It is note worthy that Carl-Peter Forster, a former BMW, GM Europe and Tata Motors executive is also a non-executive director of Geely and also Cosworth. It is no secret that Cosworth wants to reenter F1 and has been looking for funding to do so. China remains a key market for the Formula One Group and any expansion there would be welcomed by Liberty Media for sure.
Talking of expansion, the USA is also a big target for Liberty Media and later this year a demonstration run timed to coincide with the US GP in Austin will take place in Miami. If that works out well, one can expect Miami to move on to a full street race, there has been talk of this for sometime and plans are moving forward.
While F1 is looking for expansion there is also talk of contraction, it is looking likely that at Silverstone this year's British GP is going to be reduced to a three-day meeting in terms of on-track action, rather than the planned four days. This is thought to be to help the race promoter save money, as three days is considerably cheaper than four. It suggests that the BRDC (the promoter of the British GP) and Liberty are talking, which is hopeful and could lead to an extension past 2019 when the current deal ends.
Valtteri Bottas has had a bad start to the season but we have only had one race, the talk is that Mercedes want to resign him, but there is also rumors that Ferrari have been showing a renewed interest, to replace Kimi. Ferrari have shown an interest in Bottas in the past and it seems he is still on their radar. Personally I think nothing will happen with Bottas until Danny Ric's situation at Red Bull is sorted out. His is key to the driver market this year and when he makes his decision other domino's will fall into place. There is also another driver who could move up to Mercedes if he shows he can preform again this year and that is Esteban Ocon, it must not be forgotten that despite him driving for Force India he came up through the Mercedes driver development programme.
What of Haas, the team to watch this year I believe, despite the pit-stop/wheel nut horrors in Melbourne they showed something special for a team that is starting only its 3rd season in the sport. Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean locked out the third row of the grid and were running fourth and fifth before pit stop issues resulted in a double DNF.
Well McLaren and Force India think there is something suspicious going on between Haas and Ferrari, who supply Haas with engines, suspension and other listed parts but also allow Haas chassis partner, Dallara, to use their windtunnel. The two F1 teams, though, are not allowed to share information on parts that they are expected to build themselves. Questions are now being ask by other teams if they are both sticking to the rules. Both McLaren and Force India have claimed that a team only in the sport for 2 years prior to this season could not develop a car so quickly.
Force India chief operating officer Otmar Szafnauer is reported as saying "I don’t know how they do it, it’s magic, it’s never been done before in Formula 1. I just don’t know how it can be right that someone who’s been in the sport for a couple of years with no resource could produce such a car, does it happen by magic? If it does, I want the wand. All the aerodynamic surfaces have to be your own. If they’re not, I don’t know how you can tell unless you start investigating. Scrutineering only tells you that it fits within the boxes of the regulations. Is it yours or somebody else’s [idea]? That’s the real question. And I don’t know the answer to that. Maybe it is their own, it’s just suspect, how can you gain that knowledge without history and the right tools and people?”
McLaren’s Zak Brown also wonders if they are keeping to the rules, he has said "We all know they have a very close alliance with Ferrari and I think we just need to make sure it’s not too close. There could be some influence, there’s certainly some parts of the car that look very similar to last year’s car. But that’s for the engineers and the FIA to look at more closely.”
The faster Haas become and the higher they move up in the constructors championship, other mid-field teams may also jump on the bandwagon, although I must admit the Haas car does look very similar to the 2017 Ferrari and I noticed that a few news reports after testing referred to it as the white Ferrari, we will have to wait and see if this story has legs.
Limejuice
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Re Danny Ric: there always seems to be one driver who controls the musical chairs. Danny R. must be hoping for a berth in a Mercedes or Ferrari. At this point in his F1 career, he really must secure a championship-winning car. I bet he'll spend a few races seeing if the RB is up to snuff as it was in the Vettel era, conclude that it isn't, then get his agents/managers to start buying lunch up the pit-lane. But I think Ocon would be a better buy for Mercedes and Botty a better fit for Ferrari.
I can see why people are looking warily at Haas, but Haas has been in motorsport for decades as a big sponsor, then they set up a team in 2002/2003. The Haas parent company makes machine tool manufacturing equipment which it sells to, among many others, Ferrari. When people worry that Haas may be using Ferrari parts, the reality is that Haas equipment manufactures Ferrari parts. CNC manufacturing being what it is, all Haas needs is a photo of a part and they can reproduce it to the micron. And Dallara is a huge chassis builder for a large number of race formulas and has a near monopoly in F3. While not as venerable as Ferrari, Dallara is a recognised expert in chassis design and may well be consulting for Ferrari in return for wind tunnel testing time. All this suggests to me that Haas is a serious, heavyweight player with relationships at the top of the sport. That doesn't mean the team has to be squeaky clean when it comes to F1 manufacturing rules, but it could help explain why they're further ahead than other small or new teams.
Still, F1 wouldn't be F1 without the gossip and scandal, eh?
I can see why people are looking warily at Haas, but Haas has been in motorsport for decades as a big sponsor, then they set up a team in 2002/2003. The Haas parent company makes machine tool manufacturing equipment which it sells to, among many others, Ferrari. When people worry that Haas may be using Ferrari parts, the reality is that Haas equipment manufactures Ferrari parts. CNC manufacturing being what it is, all Haas needs is a photo of a part and they can reproduce it to the micron. And Dallara is a huge chassis builder for a large number of race formulas and has a near monopoly in F3. While not as venerable as Ferrari, Dallara is a recognised expert in chassis design and may well be consulting for Ferrari in return for wind tunnel testing time. All this suggests to me that Haas is a serious, heavyweight player with relationships at the top of the sport. That doesn't mean the team has to be squeaky clean when it comes to F1 manufacturing rules, but it could help explain why they're further ahead than other small or new teams.
Still, F1 wouldn't be F1 without the gossip and scandal, eh?
beesonthewhatnow
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weltweit
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Good I think Mercedes should be made to work for it this year.
Limejuice
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Yes, it's looking good for Ferrari. The question is who can compete with them. Danny Ric? Max and Hammy should give us some decent overtaking if they survive the start.
(On Sky, no Ted Kravitz. He and the no doubt long-suffering Mrs K have had a daughter, and I think I heard they've called her Albertine. I'm just going to leave that there.)
(On Sky, no Ted Kravitz. He and the no doubt long-suffering Mrs K have had a daughter, and I think I heard they've called her Albertine. I'm just going to leave that there.)
