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ferrari's 2018 car:

 

Is anyone else really disliking the look of the halo? I get it's there for safety reasons, but aesthetically it's not great. I quite like the look of the McLaren (minus the halo, of course), hopefully they'll be more competitive this year!

 

I think everyone hates the halo's looks.

 

I'm in.

 

It can’t be a good thing when the design looks like they used flip-flops for inspiration.

 

they had those screens that they tested, but they weren't bolted down as if they were official and it gave motion sickness.

Instead of testing them properly, they went with the halo.

Seems idiotic til you consider this:




For reference, this is the "Formula X" car from Project Cars 2, a sort of game-designed open wheel series. It has a canopy like F1 ought have had:

 

What the ****.

 

ESPN2's attempt at covering the Australian Grand Prix is a complete failure so far. They've attempted to switch to Australia multiple times. The first few times produced just a stationary camera shot of an empty track with no sound. They went to commercial and came back a couple of times with no improvement. Then after another unscheduled commercial break, they were able to change cameras and get ambient sound, but still no commentators. They've now given up and are showing some E:60 show about ranking the top sports teams in history. I don't want that. I want my F1 race.

EDIT: Now they've totally given up and are simulcasting the UK broadcast from Sky Sports. That's better than not having anything at all.

 

At least they resorted to using Sky's broadcast while they fumble around with their own.

 

Great stuff for Alonso.. So happy

 

Lewis winning :"I almost don't believe how blessed I am with things to be humbly grateful for. I'm just so, so thankful. And humbly grateful to give thanks for it."

Lewis not winning :"I don't believe it."

Don't get the angst about the halo. It hardly ruins the look of an otherwise aesthetically harmonious machine. Everything on those cars is functional. It's the fact that they go PDQ that we tolerate most of the eyesores that are designed give each of them a couple of hundredths,

Just don't use the onboard camera angles that are stuck right behind the thing. That is just stupdity.

 

Hamltion will bounce back, kinda robbed today tbh. Alonso.. says the mclaren gonna suck till 3rd race.. well if they do that.. if they can find some more pace they'll be a force for that Red Bull team.

 

seems like the obvious thing is that if you take a pit stop during a virtual safety car, you have to also abide by the safety car speed restriction.

that being said glad Vettel was able to take advantage

 

He was 100% there.

I was at turns 9 and 10, so I saw Lewis go deep and lose that time to Sebastian. Here's a shot of Dan from FP3.



I think I have video of how close but Dan was <1 car length from Kimi. I usually have the app on listening to the BBC coverage, and that also has timing so the gap was between 0.1 and 0.9 s at that peak point.

 

See if this works...

 

The rules are quite clear and they only give drivers a potentially tiny advantage in a tiny window. All the drivers know the rules. And they are aware that the VSC sector delta that cars must keep to on track is an irrelevance when you come into the pit lane, with its 80kph/50mph to change tyres. If you applied the average overall speed restriction that they VSC is intended to impose (around 35-40%), the cars on track still do an average of 135kph/85mph.

 

Yeah and let's not forget that Sebastian lost the lead at I think China last year under similar circumstances, so Lewis deserves no sympathy here.

Also, here's the opening lap from turn 9/10 perspective: