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34 minutes ago, VABuckeye said:

Couldn't link because the Tweet was deleted but here is the context.

 

The president of YPF (the Argentinian oil company and Colapinto's sponsor) who forgot the microphone was on and revealed off-line that Colapinto would be competing in the Alpine from Imola.

Red Flags podcast was discussing whether Doohan was going to get the boot soon, so that tracks.

Posted
9 hours ago, PGFrog said:

I know many are waiting for the flexiwing for Red Bull, but are there other upgrades that have been rumored for the other teams aside from AM who basically have given up on this year?

Apparently, contrary to what we've been hearing until the last couple of days, AM also has promising upgrades coming for the next 2 or 3 races. Seems they're having epiphanies based on the data from their new wind tunnel, learning where they've gone wrong, etc. Apparently they could only access the MB-AMG wind tunnel on weakends. That might explain some things.

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Posted
28 minutes ago, Updawg said:

Uh oh, is newey already working his magic

AFAIK, they're still saying Newey is dedicated to the 2026 car and that the new wind tunnel is the difference, but who knows.

Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, Kdub said:

Reports were that Papa Stroll was pissed because Newey said he was focusing on next year's car, not going to help with the current car

I can't put much stock in that. Newey is gonna focus on whatever Stroll tells him to focus on.

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Posted
14 hours ago, wood said:

Apparently, contrary to what we've been hearing until the last couple of days, AM also has promising upgrades coming for the next 2 or 3 races. Seems they're having epiphanies based on the data from their new wind tunnel, learning where they've gone wrong, etc. Apparently they could only access the MB-AMG wind tunnel on weakends. That might explain some things.

Merc’s wind tunnel is also pretty old. It seems like state of the art wind tunnels are key to these ground effect cars. McLaren got a new  wind tunnel at the end of 2023, and they have nailed it with every single update since then and are the first customer team to win a title in a long, long time. No other team has been able to consistently develop their car without huge setbacks that weren’t seen in their wind tunnel/sims. 

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Posted
2 hours ago, Burt Macklin said:

Merc’s wind tunnel is also pretty old. It seems like state of the art wind tunnels are key to these ground effect cars. McLaren got a new  wind tunnel at the end of 2023, and they have nailed it with every single update since then and are the first customer team to win a title in a long, long time. No other team has been able to consistently develop their car without huge setbacks that weren’t seen in their wind tunnel/sims. 

60% scales seems like bullshit when they aren’t allowed to test their cars on a track. If making 90% of development theoretical, just let them have a full size wind tunnel

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Posted
2 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:

60% scales seems like bullshit when they aren’t allowed to test their cars on a track. If making 90% of development theoretical, just let them have a full size wind tunnel

Pardon my idiocy, as I only have a BA.  But does the 60% matter?  Isn't it just some nerdy engineering math problem at that point?  I am serious, and will take criticism for my potentially horrible take.

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56 minutes ago, Native Horn said:

Pardon my idiocy, as I only have a BA.  But does the 60% matter?  Isn't it just some nerdy engineering math problem at that point?  I am serious, and will take criticism for my potentially horrible take.

I only stayed at a holiday inn recently, but I assume since they restrict wind tunnel size, there has to be an advantage to a full size model/testing wind tunnel. Otherwise why bother with the restriction?

Seems like every team talks about their struggles to get the wind tunnel results to match the on track results. 

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Posted (edited)
9 hours ago, Mittens said:

Dude.

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Fuckers get to be in F1 AND fly with the Blues. I was born at Pensacola NAS where the Blues train, and have probably seen them perform 20 times. Was in Navy ROTC at UT with the intention of heading to flight school until my shitty UT grades reared their ugly heads. I was soooo not ready for UT. Man, I'd cut off a nut for a ride-along like that one. I mean, I'm 59, so let's be honest, I no longer need 2 of 'em anyway. Took a ride on a full air show practice aerobatic ride in a Confederate Air Force T6 back in the day, piloted by my then-girlfriend's (no pics) dad. Those CAF dudes were crazy af. Fun ride. /csb

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Posted
3 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:

60% scales seems like bullshit when they aren’t allowed to test their cars on a track. If making 90% of development theoretical, just let them have a full size wind tunnel

Bring back in-season testing, for myriad reasons. Just include it under the budget cap along with everything else and let the teams figure the rest out.

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Posted
15 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

I only stayed at a holiday inn recently

I flunked out of Aerospace Engineering as a freshman at UT, does that count?

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Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, Native Horn said:

Pardon my idiocy, as I only have a BA.  But does the 60% matter?  Isn't it just some nerdy engineering math problem at that point?  I am serious, and will take criticism for my potentially horrible take.

Some nerd talk about it here

https://www.reddit.com/r/F1Technical/s/TcUqUialT2

https://forums.autosport.com/topic/190472-couple-of-questions-about-60-wind-tunnel-models/

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Posted
4 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:
6 hours ago, Burt Macklin said:

Merc’s wind tunnel is also pretty old. It seems like state of the art wind tunnels are key to these ground effect cars. McLaren got a new  wind tunnel at the end of 2023, and they have nailed it with every single update since then and are the first customer team to win a title in a long, long time. No other team has been able to consistently develop their car without huge setbacks that weren’t seen in their wind tunnel/sims. 

My kid was telling me there's also some talk about Merc's wind tunnel being 'too smooth', i.e. it doesn't have a way to re-create bumpy track conditions. There's some speculation that this is one reason they've had so much trouble with ground effects.

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Posted
47 minutes ago, Dutch said:

Rather have Spa every year and Miami every other. 

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Agreed, though some prefer the scenic views from a parking lot with an elevation change of maybe 10' over a classic track cut through the hills of Belgium.  

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Posted
20 hours ago, PGFrog said:

Agreed, though some prefer the scenic views from a parking lot with an elevation change of maybe 10' over a classic track cut through the hills of Belgium.  

Yeah, but does Belgium even have vapid celebrities, millionaires and billionaires eager to flaunt their wealth, and whores?

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Posted
13 minutes ago, Mittens said:

 Someone is going to waste a couple milly into a wall.

Congrats Charles!  The fucking broadcast hasn't even started yet bro...

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Posted
17 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

Yeah, but does Belgium even have vapid celebrities, millionaires and billionaires eager to flaunt their wealth, and whores?

While there aren't thousands of the average people staying in tents on the hillside, it is F1 so when don't you have those things at any race?  

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Posted
27 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

He looks like a horse jockey next to George, these aren’t helping

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When do we get the Netflix spinoff show starring Kimi, Lando, and Yuki? Young millionaires banging supermodels a full foot taller than them.

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How the fuck do they let the race go that long with all that debris and how in the world is it taking the stewards this long to address the Red Bull release of Max into Kimi?

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I realize that the teams like to take on the traits of the locations of the race and demolition derbies are big in the south, but someone needs to settled down Red Bull and RBR.  Holy shit the pit release was bad, but Lawson ramming Fernando might have been worse.

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I am not sure what the answer is to fix the problem,  but the crashed caused by Lawson ramming Fernando could make it difficult for Alonso to make it to qualifying.  

Do you put him at the back of the pack with the guy he wrecked out if AM can't get the car fixed in time?  

I realize things are going to happen in racing, but that was just a completely dumb arse decision.  

Posted
1 hour ago, PGFrog said:

Holy shit the pit release was bad

How the fuck does that happen? I have to imagine that there's at least one person whose sole job it is during pits to know who's behind you and who might be trying to slide into the pit in front of you.

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25 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

How the fuck does that happen? I have to imagine that there's at least one person whose sole job it is during pits to know who's behind you and who might be trying to slide into the pit in front of you.

Red Bull has gone from being the absolute bests in the pits to a shitshow.

Which happens first for them? They end a driver's race by stripping the nuts trying to change a tire similar to Merc and Bottas or one of their drivers loses a tire after a stop because they don't get things on right?

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