/f1/ - Dead "sport" general

>record scratch
>freeze frame
>So you might be wondering how I got into this situation...

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first for gimi win in singapore

mad amx

Can we PLEASE just make a single motorsport generaL

fuck they all look like manlets in that picture

i know theyre not giants but im talking omega manlets. like under 5'9 150lbs

there is one every single weekend with a bunch of dates for several series

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>implying anyone wants to mix with you.

Motorsport is better separate to keep out /F1/ autism

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Has Pitbull ever been spotted at any race ?

This is as retarded as saying 'Can we PLEASE just make a single football generaL'

can we PLEASE just make a single dutch containment thread.

No.

No, it would make no sense.
/F1/ gets tons of posts and has over 100 posters at the end of every thread.

>Some Swedish documentary filmers are making a big budget Ronnie Petersson documentary to be released next year.

Unfortunately the producers say it'll be focused on "the human element of F1", instead of the racing. They have a bunch of contemporary drivers as talking heads, so it might still be good.

It seems that the plan to back Ericsson in order to increase motorsport interest in Sweden is working pretty well. Maybe in 10 years we'll have a good driver in /f1/ so I don't have to root for Finns.

Yes he did the concert at Bahrain 2015

I miss Rio

So since F1 is being taken over by a souless American media Comglomerate, what suggestions would you give the new owners to improve F1 entertainement?

I wouldnt mind using WWE style signature music for each driver, when they get on the podium.

I miss him.

>Lewis' debut mixtape becomes the new FIA anthem
nah

>Hamilton comes in for a pitstop
>a normal quick pitstop happens
>as the car leaves the mechanics notice the front left tyre is the wrong compound
>the mechanics look at the front left new tyre man
>he takes off his helmet, and with a /cheeky/ grin he unzips his Mercedes overalls to reveal Ferrari overalls

F1 with WWE story oh the horror

His name was Rio and he drove into the sand
Just like his sponsors' cash comes from a distant land
And when he drives he really shows you what he can
Oh Rio, getting out of Q3 was never in the plan

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"his name is Rio and he watches from the autism box" doesn't quite have the same ring to it

As a bass player I'm mentally and physically scarred by that song.

Where was this when he was actually IN formula 1?

Why do F1 execs and drivers have literally the shittiest taste in music? Is it because they spent their whole life involved with sports that they didn't try digging deeper into music culture?

Give one good reason why you waste time following and watching Formula 1

memes

Oh, that's easy. It's because I...I...well...

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...I don't know anymore. I guess it's because I always have. What the hell else would I do with my Sunday mornings?

I like comparing gaps.
This is actually true.

became a habit.

on most sunday nights go to parents house, have a lovely dinner, sit on the couch and watch the grand prix with a coffee and cigarette.

been like this from when I was a kid, to when I moved out last year

just bought tickets to the USA grand prix lads

taylor swifty and the weekend will perform too

gimi and valerie

>Smoking cigarettes as a kid

obviously the go to parents house and cigarette part were adapted later

your lungs must be full of tar

your lungs must be full of tar

only pussies are'nt into man drama

they simply do what the money tells them to do

Habit basically.

I'll sit through 19 shit races just so I don't miss 1 meme magic filled race.

The women.
The men.

Everything in life is sex.

Pussy

Yeah but I'm talking about drivers personal taste too not just the FOM chosen theme songs or whatever. Riccy is a screamo baby and Jenson listens to mom rock etc.

ricci is into pretty much anything from skrillex and diplo through flosstradamus to parkway drive

>Metalcore and dub step

Is he 14?

his favourite band is alexisonfire
take a guess

He reminds me a lot of my old roommate. He's probably a great guy and fun to hang around with but Christ I could not talk with him about anything other than racing and cars

It's not as if we OVERLY shun discussion of other motorsports in here. Especially if you keep it single-seater
>Fuck NASCAR

>Plan to back Ericsson
Urghh, please don't. Give it up Sweden

You

habit i guess.

even if noone i know IRL follows it

I've always liked racing but haven't had the attention span to ever follow a series fully until a few years ago. It gives me something to care about and watch with my brother on early mornings or late nights. I also work with cars and you would be surprised by how much being into racing helps with automotive theory.

Me too, Felix

>be me
>see Max Verstappen getting a podium
>start watching F1

:^)

I have no good reasons

I've always wondered this, but how is it that shit drivers manage to have personal connections and pull wealthy sponsors, whereas seemingly far superior talents struggle to find any sponsors at all? Why don't these sponsors simply back the better drivers? I assume they want their sponsorship to be more noticed

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because most paydrivers have rich daddies who want their son to compete in the highest echelon of motorsports

the ones who don't have rich daddies have rich family friends who fill that role

although you also have the nasr/perez/magnussen type of pay driver, who get funding from a billionaire from the same country, partly because they're the best/one of the best prospects from that country and partly because the billionaire wants to show off to that country's citizens and advertise the company worldwide

you also have the Alonso kind of pay driver :^)

>play F1 '16
>join McLelren during first season because I'm awesome
>replace Alonsold after a few races
>finish season ranked 7 because >Honda
>second season, car improves, now a top 4 team, ahead of Williams
>still can't beat Ferrari, RB or MC pace
>win races anyway by being cheeky as fuck in the corners and delaying brake points to squeeze in front
>spend the rest of the race micromanaging fuel to keep pace and fight off overtakes on every straight

RON BEEEEEENIS YOU FUCKER BUILD ME A BETTER CAR

Build yourself a better car faggot that's the whole point of not just switching car every season.

I don't, I'm upgrading it. Engine at 4/5 now.

>German
>obsessed with a simulator game
story checks out

>codemasters
>simulator

hmm

Is a engine a athlete?

>all those games
>not alphabetically and chronologically sorted

>Croatian
opinion disgarded

What is the difference between ProFarm 1 and ProFarm 1:GOLD EDITION?

Can I farm schumi?

an hero

>lol you and your work simulators hahaha

Meanwhile our GDP crushes yours and we're the only first world country making a net profit every year instead of more debt.

HURRR WORK SIMULATORS LOL

is a toothpaste an person?

is an pineapple a flag?

>Urghh, please don't. Give it up Sweden
Only if you get rid of Palmer first :^)

M8 i think Ericsson is shit too, but the people backing him do it because they want motorsport to become popular here again. Thanks to ERI, F1 get's more time in sports broadcasts and in the papers. He's never going to get a podium, but the backers are still getting what they want. Because of this you will probably see him in F1 for a while, probably until a better Swedish driver appears.

Our best hope for getting ERI out of F1 is if Joel Eriksson in F3 keeps his current form up. There's also Gustav Malja in GPKino, but I doubt he's an upgrade over ERI.

>türkiye
>first world

i think my love for f1 is waning

it's so much merc dominating, it's knowing that they'll continue to dominate for the foreseeable future

and i don't blame this on merc. they've done an incredible job building their car. i blame RBR, ferrari, mclaren, williams, and all the other teams for failing to step up to the plate and give us some real competition

i bet this is how people felt in the 00s during the schumacher/ferrari era

> forgetting the pineapple

>getting triggered this easily

this Philo guy seems bretty good

Casual

>we're the only first world country making a net profit every year instead of more debt
>net profit
>country

you're still a toothpaste

Are you retarded?

>no fluroide

You still don't use toothpaste :^)

I wonder who could be behind that post

countries don't make profit or loss, they're not companies

you probably meant a budget surplus or a current account surplus, and there are plenty of first world countries with that

>implement rules to stop the rich teams from developing their engines
>give one factory team a big head start on their engine

Token system should've been scrapped as soon as Mercs advantage was revealed.

>falling for the mind control jew

>all engine manufacturers agreed to the rule
>start crying when their shit engineering is exposed

>the fucking state of de Jong

Who is funding this guy. He's absolute shite.

toothpaste mafia can't be stopped

They gotta steal drivers from Belgium to be successful though.

Do you think any of the drivers race with a buttplug in?

He's just not the same since his Spa crash last year. He would have been a definite WDC without it

Vettel - he seems pretty uptight when racing.

I love Rosberg but he races with a sanitary pad on his head.

Not too far to butt plug

i thought he was ded at first

I hope someone like Willi Weber will write an autobiography and casually mention Schumi used to race with a butt plug until his first retirement

The next race, half the grid would drive with butt plugs

>implying teams should be allowed to have any say in the regulations

Besides, engine development rules and especially engine penalties are completely retarded in the current form.

There should be a limit on the number of engines homologated by the team, not a limit on the number of engines actually used.
That way, when a team does not feel sure reliability-wise, it would have to homologate another engine without developments to take it to the race weekend.
And if a team is feeling confident, they can take just a single engine, not eating up their develompent potential for further races.

You can keep the slots for development, but you risk a DNS if your engine blows up in practice. Or you can run through new engines every weekend, but you freeze your development.

The token system is really not the reason we have MWL you faggot.

It's the fucking Mercedes car maker budget going into their F1 car which is the reason it has inexplicably great aero, very little tyre deg, drag and a still superior engine/electric component.

Mercedes are only in F1 to exploit it as marketing platform. They don't give a fuck about Motorsport or racing. They only use their new F1 bragging rights to sell their stupid fucking ugly shit cars to people after trying to shift their image away from pensioner cars to young bydlo cars with the new cheap CLA and so on.

They even had Rosberg doing TV commercials for the fucking CLA.

F1 has never had such a cancer as Mercedes before.