Countdown to Aus
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>07/03 - 10/03: Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona
Winter Stream
>rabb.it
Test 1 recap
>Mercedes sandbags as usual
>Redbull sandbags a lot
>Ferrari might not sangbag enough or it's utterly shit
>$troll made clear who is the real amd
>McHonda being McHonda
>Renault, Toro Rosso and Force India are somewhere
>Haas and Sauber might be solve
>We got Bingo on day 3
Valtteri Bottas
Another vouch for Valtteri Bottas
Second for Vandoorne WDC
Phew glad I double checked before I posted mine.
OTHER NEWS
>Force India might turn pink
>Pat Symonds join Sky Crew
>Ross Brawn wants one test race per season for new formats
>Lewis Hamilton came out of the closet
6th for Ferrari WDC
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Weekend bronze ticket really is a great bargain, don't waste money on grandstands
>Lewis Hamilton came out of the closet
I want this to be true.
*farts*
Sup gents. I still don't know....
Is an car an athlete?
No but the horse who drives it is.
Finnish """""banter"""""
youtube.com
what is it with weird looking Dutch girls making my cock twitch?
fuck sake are they still a thing
they were a proper meme few years back
How I was ok with such ugly rear wings?
No but your mom is a sexual marathoner
An car has lots of horse-power
So, it really does boil down to the question of whether an horse is an athlete...
I remember last seeing them at junior eurovision and they all looked like gremlins.
Lisa in particular filled out really nice.
>I remember last seeing them at junior eurovision
are you an actual paedophile or a dad
or I'm an australian who watched it on SBS when I was a kid because it looked interesting.
I used to live on a remote island with 500 people 460 of whom were local indigenous, 45 of whom were other men, and five white girls, of which two might be available. This is back when we still only had dial up internet, so porn was not great. And the island only got three TV channels.
SBS was a godsend.
>tfw checking the TV guide and seeing "Rockbitch" was being screened for the third time that year and thinking "oh good i'll fap on Wednesday" seemed normal
Also my maths is slightly wrong. *450 of whom
why is eurovision a thing in australia its already embarrassing enough its a thing here
Thanks very fucking much for reminding me that Guy Sebastian exists
Reminder that one of the Finns will prove you all wrong come the start of the year
it's a bit of fun to watch, I guess.
I went to a lefty mates' eurovision party when it was hosted in Baku (kek) and had to laugh at all the leftists I knew turn into rampant nationalists for the night.
Eurovision is such a Contradicting night.
>Dancing and Singing
>Gay Pride
>Love and Unity and...
>RAMPANT NATIONALISM
will based Ross save F1?
>Naturally aspirated engines should come back
>We need to open Media for the fans
>DRS is bad and it should be gone
>Stroll trying his best to sudoku himself
Already happening but I admit, that one was kinda easy
High revving, naturally aspirated engines are #1 on my wish list now.
>test race
oh yes what a great idea, i can imagine everyone giving their absolute best and the teams pushing their cars to the limit.
theres gotta be some kind of incentive otherwise it ll be a joke
Naturally aspirated engines - that's good
Crofty is going to write a book - Jesus titty fucking Christ
>i can imagine everyone giving their absolute best and the teams pushing their cars to the limit.
>Implying they do it now
>>Naturally aspirated engines should come back
Was thinking about this today.
Toyota Prius (etc)
>N/A combustion engine
>electric motor
people call it a hybrid
Current F1 engine:
>turbocharged combustion engine
>electric motor
people call it a hybrid
Yet the previous F1 V8 engine:
>N/A combustion engine
>electric motor
no ones called it a hybrid
Pretty fucking sure a hybrid means combustion engine + electric motor, not turbocharger + electric motor.
If F1 wants to have technology that is """""road relevant""""" and """""on the cutting edge""""" then they should make the engine formula about advancing the electrical side, not increasing the fuel efficiency of combustion engines.
Throw out the turbo, let them have unlimited regen/deployment, but limit the physical size of the battery, so they actually have to develop better battery technology and more efficient electric motors to gain an advantage - something that is actually """""road relevant""""" and """""on the cutting edge""""".
Let's guess what it's going to be called
>Lights out, away we go
actually that sounds more like a book about schumacher desu
Friendly reminder.
>SHOTS FIRED
Sounds more like a book about the suicide rate in Finland during the short days of winter.
I'm thinking it'll have some kind of pun reference to speed or fast driving, feature a cover with Crofty in a fireproof suit and strongly imply to the casual observer that he was a driver
>implying it would be called anything other than "Lewis and me"
>The Ted Kravitz Story
brundle is the one who's constantly reminding viewers of 'back in my day' and 'when i beat schumi', not croft. if anything a dafty book would contain some ebin factual mistakes.
who /mclel/ here?
What did he mean by this?
more like
>can someone please turn the lights out
>tfw no manors to beat
>British photographers being this mad still
Illuminati confirmed
>Reminder that there were people in 2015 that said Ricky would never win another race and that Bottas' career would end.
any f1 ticket is a waste of money imho. went to spa last year and it was
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You sure they meant Ricky and Bottas instead of Alonso and Button?
there was one bong in particular who kept posting that
>I wish I was home shitposting
>I bet Lewis will win
>that girl has some huge tits
>tfw forever alone
>my feet hurt
>Implying any predication made on a Cantonese Horse Breeding forum would be even close to correct
>what is meme magic
That's not even a broken clock being right, that's a calendar with the wrong year.
put a tenner on bottas so he better fucking delivers
>he thinks Finland won't lose again
also put a tenner on ricky but thats definitely gone now
>a tenner
you absolute madman
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Another pointless season awaits
nah it was just all in all shit. it's more interesting to watch it home since the sound is shit, there is nothing to do there in the breaks (or pay 30€ to play 10min of F1 2015 in the Codemasters booth), food and drink is overpriced as hell (4€ for 0.3L bottle of water) and you had to pay 1,5€ to take a piss
>drink is overpriced as hell (4€ for 0.3L bottle of water) and you had to pay 1,5€ to take a piss
Two birds with one stone, m8.
did they market F1 2015 as 'TRY AN F1 SIMULATOR!'?
did you go with anyone else?
>$troll
>Bottas the quiet anime main character underdog
>McLaren suicide squad
>vetlel again
This season has great memeing potential
>you had to pay 1,5€ to take a piss
Germans and following the rules....
not sure if you know how to have fun Germanbro. we went a few years earlier and its a fact that the F1 experience in general is better on tv then on a live track (in terms of following a race)
But everything is so much more fun, the roaming, banter with other peeps, live actions, camp site maniacs, the smell, parties, the shared joy of being there with a few thousand.
the list go's on and on.
Not saying anyone should do it every race but fuck me we all should do it at least a few times.
(unless you go there for 1 driver only because you're not a petrol head but a fanboy, then you deserve it to have a bad time)
>the quiet anime main character underdog
>bottle of water
Not beer
Maybe if it had a really big cash prize it could work, say $2m to the winning driver and $8m to the team or something, that would probably get them to care. But it couldn't be a points race, people would flip shit like they did for Abu Double.
>Bottas the quiet anime main character underdog
he's more like the character in a Disturbed song
>MADNESS IS THE GIFT THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO ME
Bottas sits next to the window back of the class.
test race with the drivers shuffled throughout the grid
You can just smuggle in beer and stuff right?
m8, not all of us are Dutch and are used to walking around with very large objects shoved up our asses.
>he doesnt have bags
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>implying they don't check bags for beer and plastic explosives
>1,5€ to take a piss
enjoy your 1st worldness
people pay me to NOT take a piss HAHA
>you had to pay 1,5€ to take a piss
when I went to Spa in 2012 loads of people were just pissing in the woods, and even then I'm pretty sure the toilets were free
yes
my mom
i went to the DTM, WEC and World Series by Renault the year before at Hockenheimring and Nürburgring respectively and all 3 events were infinitely more fun while at a fraction of the price
beer was 5€
They check bags here pretty and don't miss much. They check sealed bottles for glue and cut marks to make sure you haven't switched the liquids.
It's still pretty easy to fool them if you know how.
Obviously this only works for events they let you take sealed bottles into.
Pretty well*
yeah. also the race is 2 hours, lets say 3 on-track. you can drink as much as you want before and after with stuff you brought in.
there's no reason to spend all your savings on what they offer in such events. we all know we are getting screwed, work around it.
I've seen whole families exit the track after the race over the fences in the forest at Spa hehe.
would not do that myself for a 1-time event buts its an option.
>i went to the DTM, WEC and World Series by Renault the year before at Hockenheimring and Nürburgring respectively and all 3 events were infinitely more fun while at a fraction of the price
Sure, if you compare it like that. me and my brothers have an all-race-bucketlist, we want to see every possible class race live, we've been to loads of them and what you talk about is different every time.
But this is F1. expect commerce to be max. if you're surprised by that...
You gotta plan it right though, we want to see AMX live but already we decided the current boring reign of Mercedes is not worth it. so we hope it will be better in a few years and catch a race in Germany or the UK by then.
But even with comparing classes F1 is going to lose out because the younger the drivers are and the less insane commerce is, the better the racing is, period.
go to an F3 event if you want to see good races. go to an F1 event if you want to suck up elitism in motorsports.
Reminder that improper quint usage killed Bianchi.
Always practice safe quints
BERNIE SAYS: WHEN YOU QUINT NEVER DRINK
WE MISS DARYL THE F1 STREAMER
doesn't get more anime than that
>Mclaren used more Honda engines in one test than they are allowed to use for the whole season
Wew, at this rate I doubt Alonso will even drive the whole season. He'll probably drop out by the summer break and then we'll have Button back and ready to charge his way to a RELENTLESS 2018 WDC.
Say one nice thing about this man
He's likeable and good at his job.
What do you guys think about the idea Liberty Media put forward recently, to award a point for every non-DRS overtake?
Get out
that's the most retarded thing I ever heard.
He knows when he's been a bad boy.
Stupid since it could potentially reward stuff like fucking up your start so bad you have to pass all the backmarkers to get back to where you should be running.
Not to mention non-DRS overtakes should be the only overtakes in the first place.
Semi-related, anyone else been to a race in the last few years and feel like DRS sucked all the passing away from the rest of the track? I've been to 2 races and sat in 2 previously notorious passing zones, both of which where no DRS, and I can only remember seeing 1 solid pass by an F1 car in 2 whole races.
F1 actually comes off lame as fuck when the feeder series are having passing up and down the field almost every lap.
Every DRS overtake should be penalized by 1 point