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Posts posted by wood
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Did the Pit Lane Live show end really quick, or am I the only lucky guy that lost it?
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12 minutes ago, Anton Chigurh said:
They also jettisoned Nicholas Tombazis, Pat Fry (now engineering director at McLaren), Claudio Domenicali, Luca di Montzemolo, and Maurizio Arrivabene.
If Ferrari doesn’t win the tradition is to fire someone, and their structure and hierarchy changes all the time so they aren’t very stable.Absolutely. You mean Stefano, right? Luca was pretty great imho, and they've been nowhere since he left.
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Vane. Vain. Whatever it takes...
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21 minutes ago, Anton Chigurh said:
They also do it with castoffs from other teams. Aldo Costa is an Italian that is a former Ferrari lead designer and head of design and development. He got reassigned and then fired in 2011 and went to Mercedes and has been absolutely instrumental in their success.
James Allison had a lot of success at Renault/Lotus, then became TD at Ferrari. He had a “mutual parting” after the death of his wife. He later joined Mercedes, which many Tifosi were glad to see as they didn’t think he was that great. Well, he’s now been part of two double championship teams.
Their current technology director, Geoff Willis, went from Red Bull to freaking HRT, and has been at Mercedes since 2011 and has been a big part of their success as well.
A lot of it is a culture and structure thing, which is where some of the comparisons come from regarding the Patriots. When they encounter problems, they keep their head down and just fix it, kind of like the Patriots. They’re never “out of their element”.
Also, Ferrari usually spends more than Mercedes does, though it is close.
https://www.racefans.net/2018/12/26/the-cost-of-f1-revealed-how-much-teams-spent-in-2018-part-two/
Yeah outspending Merc by $10M is a drop in the bucket in F1, but I don't think we'll ever know how much exactly any of them spend. The same guy to whom Toto said they'd spend whatever it takes also said Merc outspends everyone. No doubt they have a great structure, being Mercedes, which is also a major reason they can outspend everyone easily. There's also a whole lot of Merc R&D infrastructure that can be used for F1 (especially early on when they produced their PU, which has been their biggest advantage) that very likely cannot be accounted for by Dieter's research. Issues like that are one reason I have my doubts about how well a budget cap can be policed in F1, but we'll see. Even Ferrari can't match what Merc can do in that area.
I'll definitely give you Costa, but calling Allison a castoff is a bit of a stretch. There were probably a few tifosi disgruntled with him, but that's always going to be the case at Ferrari, which is a big part of their problem. There were also a whole bunch more tifosi who were very sad to see him go, but they understood, given his family issues.
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LMAO at Danny Ric trying in vane to chunk the hats to the crowd.
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3 minutes ago, PittsburghTiger said:
They are the Patriots of F1. I love to hate on them and keep waiting for them to break, or do stupid shit, but they don’t.
Sorta. The Patriots have to do what they do under a salary cap. No budget cap in F1, and Toto Wolff has said flat out that Merc will spend 'whatever it takes to win'.
There's no disputing that they do a great job though.
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20 minutes ago, Anton Chigurh said:
No, that is definitely Alfa Now. Haas have actually started to differentiate a lot of their designs from Ferrari this year (aero wise).B-Team. C-Team. Whatever it takes. Ferrari's not gonna allow either to outdo them though. That was my point.
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On the way home from the Disch today me & my boy stopped and listened to a band & then walked around for a little while before going home. At 12th & Rio Grande I saw a guy riding one along 12th in the left lane with Beats headphones on. Within 15 minutes of leaving the car I saw a few people riding the wrong way on Sixth, saw several blow through red lights, & I personally got run into by this completely clueless AF motherfucker when I was crossing in a crosswalk. He was going the wrong way, coming down the hill on San Jacinto at 6th, and just rode right into a crowd in the crosswalk. I thought my kid was gonna whip his ass right there.
On the way back to the car we stopped and listened to another band for about 15 minutes. I shot all of the following in that 15 minutes. There was a lot more that I missed. That big group of about 10 guys that ran the light going the wrong way (East) had just run the red light going West as well, weaving and using 3 lanes, with one guy riding right in front of a crossing car & coming within less than a foot of being killed.
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6 hours ago, Hawndoh said:
I hope Merc doesn't just run away with it again. I'd love to see either Renault or Haas challenge the top 3 occasionally.
I'd also not mind if Racing Point struggled because Daddy Stroll seems like a douchebag.
It's a little sad what has happened to Williams. I hope they can at least get to a point where it's not embarrassing.
Haas won't be allowed to challenge the top. They're Ferrari's
bitchB-Team.Renault isn't there yet.
And Abiteboul is right about all this B-Team bullshit. If we're gonna allow B Teams, then just admit you're a 2-class series and award two championships.
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7 hours ago, Anton Chigurh said:
Eh, most people said the midfield would be tight, which it is. McLaren also had pretty good race pace during testing.Yeah most reasonable people saw it that way. Not most journalists tho. Even casual observers thought McLaren had good race pace during testing, but we were consistently told by the 'experts' that they were at the back of the midfield. Any good times they ran were called 'glory runs'. Good runs by other teams were always 'promising' and 'ominous' lol. One (was it Chandhok ?) even called one McLaren race sim a glory run. How exactly do you do a glory run on a race sim? Commentators & journalists in Barcelona were even openly mocking McLaren. Very few gave them a chance. Most of these guys talk a lot of shit while not even knowing what they're looking at.
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1 hour ago, Goofyboy said:
Merc lock out. Norris in the top 10 is awesome. Can’t wait for lights out and see who crashes first.
Yeah just finished Qualifying. Lots on the table this weekend for me & my boy. So, yeah, same as it ever was, at least in Q. After being told all thru winter testing and ever since by the 'experts' that McLaren were only quicker than Williams ... they're fifth. The same experts also had Merc behind Ferrari. Just goes to show how hard winter testing is to read.
We'll see tonight though, how different race pace will be compared to Q.
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On 3/14/2019 at 8:14 PM, pwinger said:
now it just went to a production screen with audio only
That's a commercial break minus the ad.
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On 3/14/2019 at 8:04 PM, elfenix said:
Don't forget the 12 + 1000 of Sebring is this weekend.
Yeah I was gonna take my older boy to see Alonso in the 1000 (he's not running the 12), but the logistics were too much without him missing a lot of school. They have an extra large crowd this year, soit might've been rough even after we got there.
Haven't even had a chance to start watching it yet. Guess we'll just avoid news and start tomorrow. So much going on ... Sebring, F1, Texas Baseball, plus actual lfe.
What Alonso is doing is phenomenal and so fun to watch. It think he's going to do something that nobody will match in a very long time, if ever.
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20 hours ago, 52-80 said:
since about 7/10 races are really predictable (read = boring), especially at the front end, the drama and intrigue is in the build-up to the race, culminating in qualifying session.
you're watching the trajectory of who's practicing well, and seeing how that translates to qualifying. even if the qualifying results are somewhat predictable, you know that these guys are giving it 100%. in the race, theyre often conserving fuel, tires, and motor longevity. also, pay attention to mid pack because that's where the chaos is.
f1 is pretty unique in that aspect. when i was watching nascar, cart, champ.... i only paid attention to race day, and the front 3 positions because there's lots of lead changes and jostling for position. f1, not so much.
...which is a huge problem in F1 right now.
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On 3/14/2019 at 8:00 PM, AustinMT said:
I have seen multiple people on scooters lane-splitting (dangerous and illegal), randomly switching from sidewalks to streets (dangerous), running lights, etc. Of course, I see that every day since I work at Congress/Cesar Chavez. It’s just worse this week. Maybe if you actually lived here and dealt with it regularly....
Yeah I don't even go downtown that often any more, but every.fucking.time I do, I see numerous incidences of unparalleled scooter stupidity.
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I gotta tell y'all, I love this team's fire and passion.
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FYI, FP1 will not air on any ESPN TV channels tonight. It will be on ESPN3 instead...
http://www.espn.com/f1/story/_/id/26082657/espn-f1-tv-broadcast-schedule-2019
Rolex Australian Grand Prix
Practice 1 - Thursday, March 14, 8:55 PM - ESPN3
Practice 2 - Friday, March 15, 12:55 AM - ESPNEWS
Practice 3 - Friday, March 15, 10:55 PM - ESPNEWS
Qualifying - Saturday, March 16, 1:55 AM - ESPN2
Qualifying (re-air) Saturday, March 16, 7:00 - ESPN2
On The Grid - Sunday, March 17, 12:30 AM - ESPN
Race - Sunday, March 17, 1:00 AM - ESPN
Race (re-air) - Sunday, March 17, 6:30 AM - ESPN2
Race (re-air) - Sunday, March 17, 9:00PM ESPNEWS -
1 hour ago, Goofyboy said:
Most of the drivers are bitchy.
It’s time for Merc and Hamilton to start their campaign for #6.
Also, I would love for Kiki to out score Vettle.Kiki = Kimi? Yeah that would be pretty cool, but they won't let that happen. Leclerc might though.
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I've only seen 2 episodes of the series, but I particularly like how they're taking the broader view of the whole weekend rather than just the race itself. I'm that guy that watches every single session of the weekend to get the whole story of what happened. I know not everyone is this way, but with the sports I love I've always been very attracted to the prep work that goes into it and the buildup of an entire event in its entirety. To me, tuning into an F1 weekend right before the race starts is like walking into a movie theater 3/4 of the way through a movie.
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Hell yeah. I called this months ago ... Alonso 2020 Bathurst 1000 entry mooted https://www.autosport.com/sup/news/142091/alonso-2020-bathurst-1000-entry-mooted
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Good watch, if you have the time...
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Damn.
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1 hour ago, elfenix said:
what if nascar had been developed on road courses for $100, alex
I've been thinking for a couple years that the time is perfect for a North American Supercars spinoff, racing at tracks like the Glen, Road America, Sonoma, VIR, Long Beach, Lime Rock, Road Atlanta, Hermanos Rodriguez, Mid-Ohio, Belle Isle, Laguna, Barber, Thunder Hill, Elkhart, Mosport, CGV, and so on...
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Yeah same here.