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Posted on 03/12/2026 2:15:50 PM PDT by Carriage Hill
Circuit: Shanghai International, First Grand Prix: 2004, Number of Laps: 56, Circuit Length: 5.451 km, Race Distance: 305.066 km, Lap Record: 1:32.238, Michael Schumacher (2004) Track.
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First Grand Prix: 2004
NumBer of Laps: 56
Circuit Length: km
5.451 Race Distance: 305.066 km
Lap Record: 1:32.238 Michael Schumacher (2004) Track.
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Don’t plan on getting Apple TV so I will have to settle for the practice qualifying and race summaries put out by F1 on Youtube.
I thought they’d be going around the track counter-clockwise.
Same here. ESPN’s race coverage is gone. The race’s highlights — usually 8-10mins — is also available later in the day, or next day.
I’m surprised the Chineys haven’t set-up roadblocks or mined the track...
I like that racing better than NASCAR.
The racing that involves making a right turn every now and then... Constant left turns typically result in complete boredom.
A Tilkering designed to say “up” in Mandarin. (上). The character is part of the city’s name. Bernie wanted effectively Tournament Players Clubs hosting F1 races with the same formulaic ideals.
Main thing is a huge long straight into a tight turn is the Tilkering specification. That will result in likely more lifting in the tightest turns to charge the 🪫 battery to become 🔋 battery. This Net Zero by 2030 is bravo sierra from Obamites. With the Tilkerings that F1 has, it is much easier to avoid they hope what happened in Melbourne. The chances they hope of this lift on straights will be a storyline.
Apple has proven left wing bias promoting news.
Road racing is real racing. TRASHCAR is pathetic crap; good only for the wrecks.
I didn't plan on getting Apple TV either. I'm getting sick of being nickeled and dimed to death by streaming services - YouTube TV, Netflix, Hulu, Peacock, etc. It's getting out of control.
But I am an iPhone user, and Apple is selling a bundle called Apple One which consists of Apple TV, Apple Music, Apple Arcade, Apple News, Apple Fitness, and 2TB of Cloud storage for $20/mo.
And one subscription is sharable among up to five family members. Just the cloud storage for me and my wife were already paying was half of the monthly Apple One subscription, and we never paid for Apple Music before but that alone would be the other half.
So I bit the bullet and bought Apple One. I don't use the News, Fitness, or Arcade, but I suppose Apple Music is nice, and as I said the iCloud+ being bumped up to 2TB is OK for my picture-taking crazy spouse.
But the F1 coverage turned out to be very good. It is the Sky Sports coverage. You get the main program, plus if you watch live you can choose to watch any of the in-car cameras for every driver.
So although I'm not happy about it, it turns out that Apple One isn't too terrible if you're an Apple iPhone user.
I am not an Apple iPhone user. I already have Peacock and Prime so that is all for me. I may get rid of them too.
“Rotisserie Wing”...
LOL.
The whole point is their audiences will be reduced to the elites. Exhibit A is Miami Gardens 2023 when (gasp) Kamala’s husband and his dottir showed up at the race. That’s Apple’s audience target.
I read a half-baked theory on what that’s supposed to do that almost made sense.
When an object is in forward flight, the wind will always blow the center of pressure aft of the center of gravity. That’s why rockets, arrows and darts have wings at the back end. That draws the CP aft, which increases longitudinal stability.
In a device like this (or a weather vane), the pivot functions as the CG, so if the CP is forward of that, it will want to turn the other way around. The other teams are using 3000 psi (!!!) of hydraulic pressure to operate their active aero but all Ferrari had to do was release the wing and let aerodynamics turn it over.
Bonus points because the wing would automatically assume the most streamlined position.
Which sounded interesting but it falls apart when you ask how they get it back into the original, non-areo position. And when it’s open, it’s locked in, not flapping, so it’s not seeking a point of aero equilibrium.
Anyway, they switched to conventional for the sprint qualies. According to Ted Kravitz, you won’t see it again unless they can resolve some reliability problems.
Helmut Marko offers that there was a lot of passing at Melbourne but very little competitive overtaking.
Hard to argue with that.
He also says nobody’s going to catch Mercedes unless the FIA intervenes with ADUO. And with the streak FIA is on, they’re like the a government putting bandaids on a problem it created through its own ineptitude. “We’re from the FIA and we’re here to help you!”
https://racingnews365.com/helmut-marko-delivers-f1-teams-crushing-mercedes-blow
Watching the vast differences in speed by the same car and driver earlier today, it’s clear they’re still feeling around for the best combination of all the moving components in play for best speed. It’s ridiculous this wasn’t all finished before Melbourne. Now the butts in the bleachers aren’t race fans, they’ve investors who are financing the beta testing the teams should have completed weeks ago.
Adrian Newey has really hacked off the Japanese because he voices his criticisms of their work bluntly and directly not in the polite, couched manner they’re accustomed to. So he’s made himself a lightning rod both for alienating his engine partners and for not doing a better job as team principal.
Peter Windsor is giving Newey the rough edge of his tongue because Newey didn’t go to Japan and straighten this out himself. He conveniently overlooks the fact that Honda has been working on this PU since 2023. Newey DID go to Japan in November of last year but he wasn’t team principal then, so it wasn’t in his purview to jerk a knot in the Japanese’s ass. Plus the Japanese failed in their due diligence to keep the customer apprised of just how far behind they were. If Newey hadn’t gone then, when he was there purely in an advisory capacity, they might be further behind than they are.
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