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wood

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  1. Yeah me too. Wewillsee. I do think this car has good to great long run pace, but they seem to struggle more in qualifying trim. If they can get on top of that, who knows ...
  2. LOL. So, tl;dr ... Max's Day 3 long runs were more similar to Alonso's than anyone else's, and Max's and Alonso's tires were wearing very well. Alonso was slower than Max by less than 0.3s on average overall, and his quickest stint average (his last) was only about 0.13s slower per lap than Max's quickest one (also his last).
  3. F1 Debrief on twitter (@f1debrief) compiled every testing lap time and broke them by driver and day, here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/11npchw-mS3BR0kwSkJUg0JKXkGjam7Zg/htmlview# I noticed something interesting and then realized he had already tweeted about it as well. Hmm ...
  4. From what I hear hardly anyone in the paddock can even stand to be around Ocon - even the French guys.
  5. ... and some of the teams apparently think he was running with 85kg fuel weight much of the time.
  6. From Autosport re: Vegas. LOL, what starts here & all that: Also, some testing analysis from a poster that I thought was interesting:
  7. Drain cover strikes again. Another red flag, right at the start of the session ...
  8. Dude's hair always reminds me of Strangelove lol. Helluva nice guy.
  9. Not sure if they're all running low, but the Merc seemed to be running very low this a.m. on the main straight down toward T1. Sounded like maybe some porpoising too, but I couldn't actually see any evidence of that. ETA: In that video it does seem to be the Merc that's scraping/sparking the most, maybe a bit rhythmically in the slo-mo bit at the end, too.
  10. Good video, esp from about 28 min to 42 min. Seems to align a lot with what I posted above. Especially striking to me is where he talks about the cars being able to run 195-200 but are running as slowly as 175 in those big packs, because everyone just keeps going slower and slower, happy to save fuel and afraid to get out of line.
  11. Even though I cancelled my F1TV Pro already, it's paid through like March 3, so I took in highlights of each of today's test sessions. The early session was fine, but when I watched the evening session, they had the audio from the early session playing over video from the evening session. Amazing.
  12. And of course, this all assumes that NASCAR wants to move away from pack racing ... which I seriously doubt is the case.
  13. One way to do it is for the big super speedways to have their banking lowered, creating a flatter track that requires some lifting or even braking in the corners, allowing the cars to separate from each other. That, of course, will never happen. On the car side of things, I'm not sure penalites for coasting will help much. I think there would still be pack racing. I think they need to take away enough aero and mechanical grip on the cars, and up the power a bit, so that they have to lift for the turns. Even in the mid-1980s, they had to lift in the corners because of too much straightline speed and not enough tire or aero to handle cornering that fast. Basically until you can find a way to make the drivers have to lift for the turns, you'll get pack racing, even without restrictor plates, ECU restrictions, etc (and obviously Cup cars haven't actually used plates for a few years). I was told It was the 2000 Truck race at Daytona that inspired the late 2000-2001 Cup aero package. Granted, the Truck series didn't run plates at Daytona or Talledega until after 2006 iirc, but still had pack racing leading up to that time - due to a ton of downforce and drag (ie as aerodynamic as a brick and running in 2000 9:1 compression engines).
  14. Ah, cool. You were posting while I was editing. That's what I thought. Hope it works out!! Fuck paying Bally.
  15. :stupidquestionamnesty: What is DTC? Direct to Consumer? Free sounds very good to me. I'm currently paying bally monthly to stream my Stars.
  16. This website ... is nice. https://www.f1-tempo.com/
  17. McLaughlin is a freak. Oughtta be in F1.
  18. ^LOL. And yeah, this is why I rarely watch NASCAR for going on 30 years now, after being a huge fan the first half of my life. I just have no interest in watching a huge pack of cars circulate for 3-4 hours, all going the same speed, bumper to bumper, waiting for a big one. I want to see the best teams and drivers be able to separate from the rest and see the differences between all the cars' performance levels. This shit is a lottery.
  19. Yeah anyone could see that shit coming. Pack racing is so stupid, but I guess it's what NASCAR wants. I see some people on other forums saying this is all on the drivers, but the drivers aren't driving in a pack because that's what they want to do. When the cars can't separate and spread out, you end up with pack racing no matter what the drivers do. Then, even if everyone tries to do everything right, it'll still typically end up in a big one. It wasn't always like this, and the drivers back then were every bit as aggressive as these guys are. Everyone who was paying attention could see this coming. We see it over and over and over.
  20. Keselowski. Shocking.
  21. Well, fuck. Duchene out, lower body injury. I wonder if that's related to the hit he took in the back of the leg that shoulda been called tripping.
  22. Yep and it wasn't just that weekend. It was for weeks or even months with road reconstruction, fences & lighting going up and down, the bridge being put up and taken down, etc, etc. The first year was the worst, but they still expect major traffic diruptions for 4 months out of the year due to F1. That temporary bridge is a major sore spot for the locals.
  23. Yep. Ferrari?!?!? Never gonna happen!!! (Even though he's hinted at it before) The Vegas pit facility, much like COTA's pit building for example, is mostly 'flex space', like you'd see at a convention center. IF or when they decide to move on from Vegas years from now, that building will likely go for a nice price in a place like Vegas. I think they'll do at least 1 or 2 more races there, but after that, who knows. And if they get their act together re: how they deal with the locals & not being so heavy-handed, who knows, maybe they can even win them back. If they don't ... at best it will be an acrimonious existence for them in Vegas.
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