Posted on 08/05/2009 7:57:45 PM PDT by Chode
right???
Basically it's time to cinch up your seat belts boys, going to be a bumpy ride!
sounds about right...
Fixed spelling error.
lol... i stand corrected
Jezza Clarkson from the UK Sun:
“WE learned two important things during last weekend’s Grand Prix in Brazil.
Well, three, if you count Lance Stroll, who crashed his freshly repaired car on the formation lap.
And then drove it into a gravel trap.
First of all, Max Verstappen is one of the all-time greats.
He may even be the greatest driver we’ve ever seen.
And second, Lewis Hamilton is past his prime.
He blamed his car for his tail-end qualifying session but his team mate, George Russell, was on the front row.
Of course it’s possible that because Lewis is moving to Ferrari next year, the team are filling his fuel tank with lemon barley water instead of petrol.
But that seems unlikely.
It’s far more probable that he’s now too old.”
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/31603540/labour-government-destroy-farmers-cant-fight-back-reeves/
Of course it’s not even remotely possible that Hambone is only a dominant driver when he has the fastest car in the field, and that when there’s car parity, he’s just cold boogers on a paper plate. Or if you point that out you’re certain to be called “rayciss.”
Or is it?
“In Section B, revisions to the Sporting Regulations will mean that gender-neutral language is incorporated, highlighting the FIA’s commitment to inclusivity across the board.”
With the exception of HAMILTON this is stupid.
Thanks for the info...I heard it was unseasonably warm in your neck of the woods recently.
[[will mean that gender-neutral language is incorporated, highlighting the FIA’s commitment to inclusivity across the board.”]]
Highlighting the FIA’s commitment to assininity!
insanity
still is quite warm, 44deg and no snow yet...
Ranked: The 10 cleverest innovations banned from F1
10. Red Bull’s Onboard Camera Innovation
9. Red Bull Exhaust System
8. The Six-Wheeler Car
7. The McLaren Brake Steer System
6. The Fan Car
5. Lotus 78 – the ground effect car
4. Williams FW14B active suspension
3. Brawn GP Double Diffuser
2. McLaren F-Duct
1. Mercedes DAS System
https://www.planetf1.com/features/ranked-10-cleverest-innovations-banned-f1
Sites like this need to stop hiring teenagers for writers because they got no historical perspective.
Red Bull’s blown diffuser might have been better, cleverer, but it wasn’t the first. The Renault RE40 had a blown diffuser in 1983. Before there was Red Bull, Newey was blowing the McLaren’s diffuser in Y2K.
Similarly, Brawn might have been the first to put the double-diffuser on the track but Adrian Newey already had considered it but passed on the idea because to his interpretation the TR prohibited it.
And he complained bitterly to the FIA when it ruled the DD was legal but that didn’t slow him down retrofitting one to the RB5. Both Red Bulls were competitive by the third race of the season and the seventh would be Jenson Button’s last win. Sebastian Vettel’s 3 DNFs on the season (vs. Button’s one) prevented him taking the WDC, but Newey had made his point. ‘I can build a double-diffuser better than anyone else in F1.’
Lotus’ ground effects and “The Fan Car” both are overrated (on this list) because neither was the first. Both those features were incorporated in the 1969 Chaparral 2J Can-Am “sucker” car. The fact that the author doesn’t seem to know back then it was popularly called a “sucker car” goes to my point about perspective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaparral_Cars#2J
I also think the Tyrrell P34 deserves better than 8th but its legacy is hampered by the fact that they could never get Goodyear to take developing 10” tires seriously. Back then, Leo Mehl, Goodyear’s sports director, was the most powerful man in motorsports. Goodyear wanted their tires to be on the winning car in every major form of motor sports — F1, Indy Car, Nascar, IMSA, Cart, drag racing, go-karting — and you couldn’t make the most meaningless of rules changes without running it past Leo first to see if he (and Goodyear) would support it. And Leo apparently never saw any future in 10” tires. But the P34 did have a 1-2 finish (Sweden, 1976) so it definitely had potential. And it was IMHO the most shocking-looking car ever in F1. I remember Road & Track running a photo of it when they debuted with the caption, “Okay Ken (Tyrrell), where’s the REAL car?”
Tony Stewart juggles qualifying with birth of son !!!
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