/f1/ - Formula 1 General - Not Snowing Edition

PRE-SEASON TESTING IS UNDER WAY

>Pre-season testing details:
Test 1 dates: Monday 26 February -> Thursday 01 March
Test 2 dates: Tuesday 6 March -> Friday 9 March
Starts daily at 9am Catalunya time (UTC+1)
Live commentary: autosport.com/live

>Countdown to Australian GP:
whenisf1on.com/
(23-25 March)

>Countdown to FKino in Bahrain:
fiaformula2.com/
(6-8 April)

>Official /f1/ Winter Stream:
rabb.it/spf1general

>Nico Hulkenberg's F1 races without ever scoring a podium:
135 (137 entries)

>McLaren testing mileage:
460km
99 laps

>Toro Rosso Honda testing mileage:
823km
177 laps

>News:
Testing isn't snowed out today. Which is nice.

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skysports.com/f1/live-blog
bbc.com/sport/live/formula1/43190407
f1today.net/en/results/day4/2018/03/01/winter-tests
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248047/Eva-Rausing-death-Billionaire-Tetra-Pak-heir-tells-inquest-hid-wifes-body-12-layers-clothes.html
youtu.be/AyDi8kI9gp0
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvKTvFJhZUJhmrb0bNg_Wzmgtd7s9sFZt
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvKTvFJhZUJjBmoImXpePtrwkw7giDsBm
youtube.com/watch?v=TImPaa09oyM&t=367
youtube.com/watch?v=7uyF_RoXAQg
pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=1023573
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AMD AMX

>shartley

Constructor's championship is more important than Driver's championship

hello where is on track action

autosport.com/f1/live/2750944/barcelona-f1-test-day-four-2018

skysports.com/f1/live-blog

bbc.com/sport/live/formula1/43190407

f1today.net/en/results/day4/2018/03/01/winter-tests

Will Magnussen ever get to race in one of the autowin cars?

Eternally indeed.

Desding dime :DDD

>F1 might go to Vietnam, a country poorer and has even less motorsports heritage than Malaysia
Not fair

lol no

No periscope streams?

If you wanted F1 in the Philippines, you shouldn't have elected a leader that supports summary executions, ya 3rd world dingus.

>Le clerc

>was quicker than Alonso

GOAT confirmed

You ausfailians just can't help yourselves can you. Doesn't matter the sport, you act like the older brother who never amounted to anything.

Could a team get away with a post qualifying change of driver?

Say Lewis got drunk, ill or injured in-between quali and the race. The rules say you can't change driver but could they?

>Make sure test driver is a similar weight, height and build to Lewis. Weighted shoes if needed.
>Keep helmet and gloves on at all times.
>Site personal problems when they miss the driver parade and go for a long comfort break to miss the anthem
>Or have Lewis limp his way through these and switch him out
>Team only on the radio using the little buttons for yes/no
>Make sure to finish off the podium
>Have press officer guilt trip the press by saying Lewis need to make a private call but will be back shortly and give time to everyone. Switch drivers out.

I feel you could just about get away with this.

But slower than erics son, I hope someone screencapped my post saying Markus would outscore le clerc

Some day

Is he basically a couple of years away from riding small car le mans?

...

He'd need some face paint around the eyes but sure.

You know this ends with you wanking off the All Blacks whilst we laugh at how irrelevant Union is.

>SON OF ERIC

I still want to see a drawer full of your panties.

IIRC, a driver needs to have participated in at least one "practice session" to start the race.
Interestingly, qualy is officially a "practice session".

Ericsson just beached it

Wanna see my socks?

Reminder to beach a car is for it to stop in the gravel and it has to be tractor cunted out.
Ricciardo wasn't beached yesterday, so fix the bingo.

post knickers

No. Be a good girl and post panty drawer.

I thought we'd at least start with the America's Cup and then you claiming that our skipper was an Australian first?

>going this slowly
>still manage to spin off

Yeah that is why I'm saying a post quali change. It's why when Valtteri "hurt his back" and missed Australia, Susie couldn't do the race to the angry shouts of idiots everywhere.

reminder that new zealand's greatest ever driver needed an Australian car to win the championship.

He did a 54 before going off but yeah. Rip

Why is he in the F1 again? Probably the slowest driver on the grid

Waffel went faster too.

Would you also stuff your boipussy with tetra pak kroners for the chance to drive in F1, /f1/?

America's Cup is more for making fun of America for having a non American crew and literally only being good due to money.

he just tried to go into full kansei dorifto mode

Oh, I didn't read it all and thought it was a normie question. Didn't notice the memeing.

I remember reading an interview years ago with Gibson Motorsport, who used to run the factory Nissan touring cars in Australia in the late 80's / early 90's.
They admitted to a lot of the cheating they did with the cars* , and also told a story about when Fred Gibson's wife couldn't qualify the Nissan Exa fast enough (iirc), they sent Mark Skaife out with her helmet right at the end of the session to do a lap. He was successful.


>*for example, on the Nissan Exa Turbo: Turn the key and the engine starts. Keep turning the key and the boost pressure increases past the allowed limit.

>with tetra pak

No. Too degenerate for me.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248047/Eva-Rausing-death-Billionaire-Tetra-Pak-heir-tells-inquest-hid-wifes-body-12-layers-clothes.html

if there will be music inserted into the grand prixes as liberty says, I hope it will be at least localized, for example they could insert some XS Project at the Russian GP, like this
youtu.be/AyDi8kI9gp0

What was the best cheat in motorsport?

>Watching mighty car mods while shitposting with aussies on the 4chans
Living the dream

Not enough tarmac run-off 0/5
t. FIA

>liking MCM
>"hurr hurr look at me. LOOK LOOK at me I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO funnE" t. Moog

Marty Cars Mods would be so much better.

Alan car mods more like it lad

Didn't Lancia have a fake rollcage filled with fuel in rally at one point?

They already do that, m8
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvKTvFJhZUJhmrb0bNg_Wzmgtd7s9sFZt
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvKTvFJhZUJjBmoImXpePtrwkw7giDsBm

Still has Moog's shit music in it though.
>made a comment that one of the songs sounded a lot like Tuna Ninja
>the comment got deleted
>must have rustled Moog's jimmies
>but it really did sound like Tuna Ninja

Oh shit nigger I didn't know they had these videos. Boy do I love hearing the same 5 songs over and over over hundreds of videos.

some guy in nascar put a basketball in his fuel tank and several metres of extra fuel line to get around the max tank capacity. Before it was checked, he'd inflate the basketball and the tank was legal, then before racing, he'd deflate the ball and could squeeze another 2-3 laps worth of fuel in.

>but it really did sound like Tuna Ninja

Prove me wrong.
You can't.

youtube.com/watch?v=TImPaa09oyM&t=367

youtube.com/watch?v=7uyF_RoXAQg

Chances for Renault podium this year?

0

This one was my favourite

30%.
If Renault wins, Red Bull will be on podium too.
The only thing that stops RB from winning is engine.
The only things that stop Renault from winning are engine and pilots.

>the MAF

That's not how it works!

>any car that is homologated with a MAF sensor or similar has to have it connected to the inlet on the car, and plugged in.

Looks good to me!

...

Mercedes oil burning and tire pressures, somehow both cheats were even approved by the FIA

there is a gud thread here
pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=1023573

The ones we don't know about.

This. There have been some seriously dominant cars that after a reg change suddenly drop way back. I would say the FIA have a long lost of "don't let people do this" that weren't exactly cheats but also not allowed.

Isle of Man TT - they worked out it was faster to change an entire fuel tank than refuel the empty one on the bike.

NASCAR - Smokey Yunick plumbing 11ft of fuel line into the car before it hit the regulation size tank - was good for 17L of fuel.

SCCA TransAm - Penske/Donohue acid dipped the shells of their Camaros before roll cage and paint, which stripped some 370lbs of metal from the shell.

Mercedes EZmodeing 3 championships by burning oil as fuel.

"Quali mode" on the engine

the best part was when ferrari started doing it and they were told they couldnt, and its only mercedes that can do it, and the media turned a blind eye.

And SkyF1 going on about it as if Ferrari were being massive cheats.

>WEAKstappen still not out
LITTLE
DUTCH
C U C K

That's some top quality bait right there

I don't care if F1 comes here or not. I'm more upset that Malaysia abandoned F1, and F1 would rather go to Vietnam than beg Malaysia to reconsider.

ricciardo is a cunt

/vettel/

Brushing twice a day helps keep the dutch away

Governing body involved cheating is the best cheating.

RBR: Hey, FIA we are blowing exhaust gases to supercharge our diffuser. Problem?
FIA: Meh whatever, other teams can give it a go also
Other Teams: Ehh we can't but we could if we are allowed to change our engine and chassis designs
FIA: Nope they are homologated, get fucked
Other Teams: Then ban it
RBR: SHHHHIIEEEEETTTTT
FIA: OK, lets ban it in Silverstone
RBR: AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH! We only got pole and 2nd in qualifying and finished the race 2nd and 3rd!!! RRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! THIS IS NOT FAIR! WE NEED IT FOR RELIABILITY REASONS!
FIA: Ok we will stop banning the EBD
Other Teams: Sweet, so we are allowed to change our engine design?
FIA: Nope, still homologated bitches, you can still get fucked. VWL

Frankly, I find it immature and childish to pick on people of such high class and caliber as the Dutch.

>other teams too shit to come up with blown diffuser
>this is somehow Red Bull cheating

they got to you too finnbro?

>Toothpaste bullying is both shallow, and pedantic

Bully gimmick posters

Show panty drawer.

Show evidence you won't be taking me back to your mum's basement.

>Actually thinking we give a fuck
Wew

are you the kiwi grill?

Australia doesn't have basements.

I gotta be honest, though, my yard is only big enough for one, maybe two sheep.

Shitrotkin set a 1.40 in the wet when everyone else was doing 1.44’s

It took more than an hour of drying track before anybody beat it.

Raingod?

Or getting.

Are you taking testing times seriously

How can we, when we don't even know the coefficient of friction of the track surface, let alone the air viscosity?

The teams all payed millions of pounds to fly everything out to Catalunya to learn.... nothing.

Yeah but at least they're able to factor in the sweat rate of the tyres, whereas without that, we don't know shit.

>Taking testing times for value

Yay.....

anyone else has been following F1 over half of your life?

not a big fan of this weather desu schmesu. summer when

yes, and it has only gotten worse.
on the upside, my life seems to have gotten better

Why isn't RB running at all?

Because they suck a lot of dick