The F1 Thread

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My understanding is the FIA can change any regulation without approval from teams if it is safety related.  The Bearman thing would qualify IMO.

For qualifying, just turn off the harvesting for the hot laps.  I'm sure its just a few lines of code that could shut it off or something like that.  Let it harvest on their outlap, they then switch the engine mode to qualifying, and it shuts off the harvesting, but you still have one full battery to deploy for the lap.

As bad as I think things are right now, I don't think any one team is getting an advantage.  Mercedes would be the top team with or without the battery/harvesting situation.  So that is good at least.  

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The speculation about the future of Max in formula one is about to explode. 

His race engineer just left Red Bull for McLaren.

Ferrari should try to poach Hannah Schmitz.

 

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32 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

The speculation about the future of Max in formula one is about to explode. 

His race engineer just left Red Bull for McLaren.

Ferrari should try to poach Hannah Schmitz.

 

Lots of speculation with almost none of it having him stay at Red Bull.  

Are they allowed to give him an ownership stake in the team? That may be the only way to keep him 

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Something called Formula One is holding a race this weekend.  I don't know, I'm going to check it out.  

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So much for the theory that the long break will help AM.

 

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I’d hate to be Larry Stoll’s Cardiologist.  A lot of pressure in that job.  

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The McLaren mechanic at the end makes it even better.

 

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Wow.  

 

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Somehow, given the weather we have had in the Midwest, they got the Indy completed. Little rain delay, but what a race. Was a great show all day. Great finish too. Neat video below;

 

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15 hours ago, Screwball said:

Somehow, given the weather we have had in the Midwest, they got the Indy completed. Little rain delay, but what a race. Was a great show all day. Great finish too. Neat video below;

 

I 100% forgot that was on and missed it.  Great finish.  

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1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

I 100% forgot that was on and missed it.  Great finish.  

It is nothing like it used to be when a hundred cars were trying to get in. 33 most years now. I don't know half the drivers or where they came from. But the race was great, and the finish was spectacular. Talk about some nads...

There is a race the night before at Anderson Speedway in Indiana. The Little 500 it's called. 33 sprint cars on a 1/4 mile track for 500 laps. Wild race. Normally I can watch it be couldn't this year unless you paid. A guy named Cody Swanson won. This guy flat out dominates sprint car asphalt. Never been in the Indy - that is a travesty.

I think it was Johnny Rutherford who said something like: there are more car salesman at Indy than there are race car drivers.  He might be right, and that's why the field is the way it is - minus guys like Swanson.

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