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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Just when you thought the worst circuit on the schedule couldn’t get any worse.  

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This is so F1.  What a complete mess (same goes for Red Bull).  

 

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I know this thread is about F1, but there is other forms of racing. On the other end of the F1 spectrum is dirt track sprint cars. They actually have a higher weight to horsepower ratio than an F1 car. They can pop a wheelie at 100 mph. They run on small ovals between 1/4 and 5/8 of a mile dirt track. This week starting last night, is the annual Knoxville Nationals, the most prestigious race event of the year.  4 nights, around 100 cars, all going after the big prize on Saturday night of $200,000. Which isn't really that much when an engine cost $75,000. Kyle Larson the NASCAR champ will be in the field tonight. Kasey Kahne, ex NASCAR guy was in the field last night. Speaking of last night - quite the finish between 3 guys. 

 

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The NASCAR race just finished. Logano won. Kyle Larson ran 6th. He won the pole for the big race mentioned above (the Knoxville Nationals), but due to the scheduling conflict he can't be there. Knoxville has a rain delay in his favor. Hendrix Motorsports has a plane lined up to try to beat the window. A slim chance, but fly from Richmond to Knoxville, Iowa. Why not? Neat stuff. Racing people are just cool.

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9 hours ago, Screwball said:

The NASCAR race just finished. Logano won. Kyle Larson ran 6th. He won the pole for the big race mentioned above (the Knoxville Nationals), but due to the scheduling conflict he can't be there. Knoxville has a rain delay in his favor. Hendrix Motorsports has a plane lined up to try to beat the window. A slim chance, but fly from Richmond to Knoxville, Iowa. Why not? Neat stuff. Racing people are just cool.

The racetrack in Knoxville put FlightTracker on their giant video scoreboard so fans could follow the flight from Richmond.

He won in Knoxville after finishing sixth in Richmond. 

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1 hour ago, CMRivdogs said:

The racetrack in Knoxville put FlightTracker on their giant video scoreboard so fans could follow the flight from Richmond.

He won in Knoxville after finishing sixth in Richmond. 

I was watching. The drama over him making it was better than the race. They go 50 laps but stop around half way for fuel (don't get me started on that). He started on the pole and by lap 26 he had lapped half the field. Finished a couple of seconds in front of 2nd place at the end.

I was watching the flight tracking site and there were almost 17k following his plane. It was the most tracked plane in the world at that time. He flew into Pella, Iowa (Knoxville has an airport too but Pella has a longer runway) and had a police escort to the track, about 15 miles away. The feature started after 1 am our time. 

This is the 4th sprint car race he's won this week. Wild that Hendrick's Motorsports allows him to do this.

Kasey Kahne, the former NASCAR guy got 3rd, and an Ohio guy, Sheldon Haudenshield got 2nd.

Now the little town of Knoxville will go from 30 some thousand people back to 7.5k. Those 4 days in August are huge for many businesses there. The track entrance is on a state highway (14) just as it gets into the little town. Right smack across the street is the Dingus Lounge, a popular hot spot for the week. You have to see it all to believe it.

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11 minutes ago, Screwball said:

 

Now the little town of Knoxville will go from 30 some thousand people back to 7.5k. Those 4 days in August are huge for many businesses there. The track entrance is on a state highway (14) just as it gets into the little town. Right smack across the street is the Dingus Lounge, a popular hot spot for the week. You have to see it all to believe it.

Between Knoxville and Dyersville (Field of Dreams Game) Iowa got a big tourism boost this weekend

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35 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Between Knoxville and Dyersville (Field of Dreams Game) Iowa got a big tourism boost this weekend

We thought about stopping at the ball park when we went to Knoxville in 2021. Didn't have time but would have been neat to see it. The track seats around 21k. They run Wednesday thru Saturday. I don't think that number counts the race teams (or track personnel). They had around 100 cars and each team is at least 5 people. 

Huge boost for the local economy. They even have a parade. But they have been doing this for 65 years. Last week was the same format but for 360 ci cars. The 360 Nationals. I don't remember when that started, but that gives them two weeks of fun.

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1 hour ago, Screwball said:

We thought about stopping at the ball park when we went to Knoxville in 2021. Didn't have time but would have been neat to see it. The track seats around 21k. They run Wednesday thru Saturday. I don't think that number counts the race teams (or track personnel). They had around 100 cars and each team is at least 5 people. 

Huge boost for the local economy. They even have a parade. But they have been doing this for 65 years. Last week was the same format but for 360 ci cars. The 360 Nationals. I don't remember when that started, but that gives them two weeks of fun.

We visited the ballpark when it first opened. It was cool. I’m a big Kinsella fan and have read most of his books

Really like what they’ve done to the area with the new ballpark.