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Post by speedysteve on Mar 29, 2022 19:19:49 GMT
Bring back Colin Chapman😀
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Post by ant on Mar 29, 2022 19:31:57 GMT
If the conspiracy theories are to be believed he might be still around
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Post by speedysteve on Mar 30, 2022 11:31:20 GMT
If the conspiracy theories are to be believed he might be still around If he were, I'm sure he'd have made a good fist of this bloat trend Modern day Elan + 2 anyone🙂 |
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Post by MartinT on Mar 30, 2022 11:52:30 GMT
Elan 2? Looks more like yet another dull hatch/SUV creation. What on earth has happened to car styling of late?
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Post by speedysteve on Mar 30, 2022 14:24:19 GMT
Elan 2? Looks more like yet another dull hatch/SUV creation. What on earth has happened to car styling of late? Yeah, that's what's happening, sports car manufacturers evolving bloated SUVs. Colin spins a few more revolutions. |
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Post by MikeMusic on Mar 30, 2022 15:13:46 GMT
Maserati have one.
See them often as I cycle past Maranello service shop
Not yet seen a Ferrari SUV. To come maybe
Mercedes not shy about making them
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Post by speedysteve on Mar 30, 2022 16:55:32 GMT
Maserati have one. See them often as I cycle past Maranello service shop Not yet seen a Ferrari SUV. To come maybe Mercedes not shy about making them Pretty much saved Porsche, I understand. Where's the Hitler rant video about German SUVs and 4x4s, when you need it🙂 |
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Post by speedysteve on Mar 31, 2022 19:26:05 GMT
😂  'Lotus (Lots Of Trouble Usually Serious) Bumcrack' has a ring to it! |
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Post by speedysteve on Apr 9, 2022 10:57:59 GMT
Lewis bouncing up and down in that car like a 3 yr old in a pedal car, wanting it to go faster! 😂
Blurred vision express!
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Post by speedysteve on Apr 9, 2022 11:00:17 GMT
Nice pole by "It is I, Leclerc"..
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Post by speedysteve on Apr 10, 2022 16:25:01 GMT
Ferrari in the hands of Le Clech was fast enough in all stages.
Porpoising was pretty bad, but their car works anyway.
RB frailty be thy name.
46 points clear of Max.
Interesting that the Max - 'I'll cruise up alongside at SC restart' tactic was specifically banned.
Track suited McLaren and Merc better.
That Merc can't design a car in this day and age, with all the resources and number crunching they have, that doesn't porpoise, is a bit amazing in really.
Alex A spoke well in the post race interview I thought. Good effort dragging a Williams to 10th.
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Post by ant on Apr 10, 2022 19:51:34 GMT
Wasnt a bad albert park race, abit of action here and there
It is i leclerc just buggered off, neither rb had any answer
Interesting that hamiltons car had 1.5kg of extra sensors on it so they got some more data, presumably the telemetry from that box of tricks was monitoring the floor in some way. Maybe some pitot tubes or something in the tunnels to try and get a handle on what the car floor is actually doing
The daft wind tunnel speed rule limiting the max speed they can test at to 180kph (about 112mph) is probably the reason people have been caught out, that probably just over half of what the cars do flat out. God knows what the air mass in there is when flat out compared to that speed, and how much flow the tunnels can take before they cant compress the air any more and stall the airflow
how russell has ended up second in the standings and merc are second in the constructors standings with that rubbish car should be a rather large red flag to rb
Albon pulling off the almost impossible was the highlight for me. Deserves his seat, stroll not so much today, getting argy bargy wasnt really on. Racing point need to tie stroll senior up and lock him in a cupboard so they can get on with the job of making that very pretty shitbox into a decent car without him sticking his oar in
Verstappen dnf again was yet another warning to rbpt to give their heads a rattle, sainz dropped a right clanger too, just had to wait for the tyre warm up and he could have blasted past everyone. A silly error
But overall a relatively decent race for albert park
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Post by ant on Apr 23, 2022 18:44:51 GMT
Relatively interesting sprint race for once
Ferrari and red bull fairly evenly matched, the merc continues to be a dog. They have somehow made it even worse.
Haas and alfa looking sharp, alpine (if it doesnt blow up again) and mclaren looking good too.
Lewis looked all at sea, george looked barely able to get that awful car to do anything.
An absolute rolling travesty of a car, they havent a clue what to do with it
Nice to see seb get something at least reasonable out of the racing point after the catastophuk that was Australia.
Hopefully leclerc can get as good a start tomorrow and do verstappen again, id like to see that ferrari on the top step at the end of the season so every point counts
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Post by ant on Apr 24, 2022 19:50:59 GMT
Boring again. No drs, prcatically impossible to pass without a big performance advantage. Drs active, just end up with a drs train. Again.
Only but of interest came from a leclerc balls up.
Hamilton seemingly cant be arsed any more, looked a right charlie in p13 when russell put the same car in p4. No excuse for that performace, utterly mediocre which i never thought id say about hamilton. so did ricciardo sat right at the back when norris is on the podium
Im getting rapidly more bored with this season
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Post by MartinT on Apr 24, 2022 20:03:02 GMT
I watched the highlights. Sad that Sainz got punted off when he needs a couple of good races under his belt. Leclerc made a bit of a blunder.
The motion of the cars looks horrible, all bouncy with seemingly no ability to absorb bumps at all. Driving them must be sickness inducing.
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Post by speedysteve on May 1, 2022 20:18:51 GMT
This one is doing the rounds..  |
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Post by MartinT on May 8, 2022 13:04:52 GMT
I didn't see the qualy live but great to see Sainz up there with Leclerc as he needed a break. The Mercedes fortunes reversed with Hamilton getting the slightly better setup and Russell the donkey. Clearly that car is another level above prima donna. Look at Bottas placing just above Hamilton!
Times
1 Charles Leclerc Ferrari 1:28.796
2 Carlos Sainz Ferrari 0.190s
3 Max Verstappen Red Bull 0.195s
4 Sergio Perez Red Bull 0.240s
5 Valtteri Bottas Alfa Romeo 0.679s
6 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 0.829s
7 Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri 0.894s
8 Lando Norris McLaren 0.954s
9 Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri 1.136s
10 Lance Stroll Aston Martin 1.880s
11 Fernando Alonso Alpine 1:30.160
12 George Russell Mercedes 1:30.173
13 Sebastian Vettel Aston Martin 1:30.214
14 Daniel Ricciardo McLaren 1:30.310
15 Mick Schumacher Haas 1:30.423
16 Kevin Magnussen Haas 1:30.975
17 Guanyu Zhou Alfa Romeo 1:31.020
18 Alex Albon Williams 1:31.266
19 Nicholas Latifi Williams 1:31.325
20 Esteban Ocon Alpine No time
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Post by MartinT on May 9, 2022 6:46:09 GMT
A bit of a meh race, to be honest. The Miami track doesn't really look prepared enough. Annoying that Leclerc couldn't hold the lead. Mercedes screwed up Hamilton's strategy but Russell did very well to climb to 5th.
Classification
1 Max Verstappen Red Bull 1:31.458
2 Charles Leclerc Ferrari 3.786s
3 Carlos Sainz Ferrari 8.229s
4 Sergio Perez Red Bull 10.638s
5 George Russell Mercedes 18.582s
6 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 21.368s
7 Valtteri Bottas Alfa Romeo 25.073s
8 Esteban Ocon Alpine 28.386s
9 Alex Albon Williams 32.365s
10 Lance Stroll Aston Martin 37.026s
11 Fernando Alonso Alpine 37.128s
12 Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri 40.146s
13 Daniel Ricciardo McLaren 40.902s
14 Nicholas Latifi Williams 49.936s
15 Mick Schumacher Haas 73.305s
16 Kevin Magnussen Haas 1 LAP
17 Sebastian Vettel Aston Martin 2 LAPS
R Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri 11 LAPS
R Lando Norris McLaren 17 LAPS
R Zhou Guanyu Alfa Romeo Racing 50 LAPS
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Post by ant on May 9, 2022 7:05:01 GMT
I dont think they screwed up his strategy to be honest, he was on the same one as those around him
George just got lucky with the safety car again, allowing him to change onto the mediums under the safety car
Sat behind lewis on new mediums it was inevitable he would go past. Lewis could pit or not pit and either way lost track position to george, although he could have gone after george on the same tyres. The team chose not to bother after he said you tell me when asked, given that there was a risk that a slow stop would have dropped him down the field, so consolidated 5th and 6th. I dont think lewis was about to have a proper scrap with george anyway, no point when the car is a dog and they need every point the team can get. Merc can do without its drivers banging wheels for the sake of abit of pride.
Both of them did bottas just after the restart following a small mistake
Lewis or george werent about to catch perez so it was the best possible score for them
Lewis has had no luck whatsoever this season, george has had plenty.
But another processional race that had to be spiced up by a safety car.
Did nothing for me.
God help merc trying to get that car through eau rouge when spa comes around, that will be a brown trouser corner in that thing
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Post by MartinT on May 9, 2022 7:26:02 GMT
God help merc trying to get that car through eau rouge when spa comes around, that will be a brown trouser corner in that thing Agreed, that requires a level of commitment I cannot see the Mercedes drivers having in that car at the moment. Downforce with porpoising shaking their brains into jelly or less downforce? |
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