F1 - GP (General Purpose)

Chode ^ | 8/5/2009 | Chode

[Chode]

This will be a general purpose thread for F1 news and pings that really don't require a thread of their own.

[Lockbox]

I like how she goes from having fun to out right fear, at the end of the ride she is exhausted and upset.

[FreedomPoster]

What’s fun on that video, is trying to accurately determine what is her screaming, and what is straight-cut gear whine?

It isn’t always obvious.

[FreedomPoster]

And I just saw your #840.

BTW, please add me to the ping list. How have I missed this for the last couple of years?

[Chode]

done...

[Chode]

yup... doubt she'll try that again

[Chode]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/16932283

FASTEST TIMES, DAY ONE TESTING, Jerez

1. Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Lotus-Renault - 1:19.670
2. Paul di Resta (GB) Force India-Mercedes - 1:19.772
3. Nico Rosberg (Ger) Mercedes - 1:20.219*
4. Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault - 1:20.496
5. Daniel Ricciardo (Aus) Toro Rosso-Ferrari - 1:20.496
6. Michael Schumacher (Ger) Mercedes - 1:20.794*
7. Kamui Kobayashi (Jpn) Sauber-Ferrari - 1:21.353
8. Jenson Button (GB) McLaren-Mercedes - 1:21.530
9. Felipe Massa (Brz) Ferrari - 1:22.815
10. Heikki Kovalainen (Fin) Caterham-Renault - 1:23.178
11. Pastor Maldonado (Ven) Williams-Renault - 1:23.371
12. Pedro de la Rosa (Spa) HRT-Cosworth - 1:23.676*

[Lockbox]

Kimi gone for two years and sets fastest time in the new Lotus-Renault, who says F1 doesn't have a sense of humor.....

Let's see what happens tomorrow.

[Chode]

yup... gonna be an interesting first race

[Lockbox]

Hate the step down nose look, only McLaren did an elegant design for their nose. You would have thought Ferrari could have come up with a cleaner design then copying 'the step'.

Of course that assumes we are seeing the final design from everyone!

[henkster]

Why are they doing the step-down nose? I don’t like it either.

And I see that Force India found a way to sneak some more rear wing onto the car.

[henkster]

These are still “shake down” numbers. I’ll wait to see what the engineers come up with today after they digest the data and make adjustments.

[Lockbox]

Lower nose for crashing into other cars, noses were getting too high and may not of impacted the other car, but something higher such as the driver.

[Chode]

click the link in #821

[Chode]

i hope you're right, hate the step-down...

[Lockbox]

Most F1 teams went with a ‘high’ chassis, now the F1 has nose heigth regulations for 2012. McLaren had a low chassis thus does not have
the same distance to drop their nose to meet regulations.

[Chode]

Racing center displays historic McLaren
WATKINS GLEN—A McLaren M23 with one of the longest and most illustrious histories of the series is now on display at the International Motor Racing Research Center.  Hosting this spectacular car is a fitting cap to the Center’s 2011 yearlong celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first Formula One race at Watkins Glen. It will be on display through April.  Owned by Governing Council member Gregory G. Galdi, the M23/09 took the checkered flag as winner in its very first outing, in the Argentinian Grand Prix in January 1975 with Emerson Fittipaldi at the helm. In July of that year, Fittipaldi drove the car to victory in the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.  The M23/09 competed in 25 Grand Prix races - 29 races overall - and had podium finishes in the hands of Fittipaldi, James Hunt and Jochen Mass.  It has had only two owners: McLaren executive Leo Wybrott and Galdi. A full 25 years from its last race, the car had been residing in the Brooklands Museum.  With Mass at the wheel, the car finished fourth at the 1976 U.S. Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, its only running at the Glen. The car’s most recent appearance at Watkins Glen was in a vintage event in 2006. Read More ...

[TrueKnightGalahad]

I thought the new nose design looked familiar....

[Kickass Conservative]

I think they have an App for that.

[Chode]

LOLOLOLOL!!! thank God i wasn't drinking anything at the time...

[Chode]

compliments of Doogle | 02/12/2012 7:40:11 PM PST new

Got Cabin fever?...........got snow at the “Ring”?

http://www.autoblog.com/2012/02/10/theres-only-one-thing-to-do-when-the-nurburgring-is-covered-in/?icid=maing-grid10|htmlws-main-nb|dl8|sec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D134661