The F1 Thread

[Paddingtonwolf]

Karma is fucking ace

 

[Nando]

Absolutely stonking drive from Bottas.

Easy peasy for Lewis. Flawless

 

[Freddeno]

Good for Kimi to get third anyway

 

[Tredman]

Great finish, really good grand prix.

 

[Nando]

Good for Kimi to get third anyway

Did a good job today. Deserved it.

 

[darlowolf64]

Hamilton to Kimi "you got a puncture? So did Sebastian...shame". :icon_lol:

 

[Freddeno]

Bottas could be a title contender too..stable, fast and not many mistakes

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

He could be. Apart from the fact that Hamilton is number one in that team. Not like the Rosberg rivalry

 

[jlo]

Halo to be introduced from next year. Ugly but right decision IMO

 

[Carrotdude]

Looks quite distracting for the drivers with the bit straight in front of their face. Is the idea to stop them getting hit in the head by stray tyres and things? Or is it for if they roll the car?

 

[jlo]

Looks quite distracting for the drivers with the bit straight in front of their face. Is the idea to stop them getting hit in the head by stray tyres and things? Or is it for if they roll the car?

The test upon which it has been adopted is it's the only effective solution to a tyre fired at it at 150mph. I suspect the design will improve when you actually see if liveried up next year, and I suspect the drivers vision isn't actually affected at all. Still ugly, but it's all they've got so far. At least it'll push forwards other safety developments just by adopting it.

 

[Johnny75]

I have no idea why they don't just put them in a cockpit. Would be infinitely safer and would increase the speed they could go at.

 

[Wombat del combate]

What if the cockpit didn't release after a crash though?

 

[Johnny75]

What if the cockpit didn't release after a crash though?

I guess you'd have to have a way of doing that.

 

[jlo]

The shield they trialed at Silverstone wasn't massively different to a cockpit and it created more issues than it solved on first attempt. Definitely having an easy way to exit the car has been part of the remit from the start

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[Law's Bus]

I have no idea why they don't just put them in a cockpit. Would be infinitely safer and would increase the speed they could go at.

Because then they'd be sportscars and have to race at Le Mans!

Grand Prix Racing is historically open wheel, open cockpit right back to the 1920s when they lost riding mechanics following an accident in a Sunbeam, 1955 Mercedes Streamliner experiment notwithstanding. Incidentally, the riding mechanic involved in that accident is buried at Holy Trinity churchyard, Heath Town.

Mario Andretti once said that once they put rollcages on US sprint cars, people acted like hooligans with one another. As F1 cars have got safer over time, driving standards have declined massively - Schumacher and Senna for example, would not have got away with some of their antics in earlier eras.

 

[BillyDee]

It has always been stated that the solution should not only meet safety requirements, but also 'philosophical' ones, that philosophy being F1 is open cockpit racing. With that in mind I can't really see any alternative to the halo.

 

[jlo]

I thought they'd find an engineering solution so the halo didn't need the front support - it doesn't strike me as particularly difficult to engineer something aerodynamic. If the main goal is to deflect tyres or large debris, then it'd more than do the job.

 

[jlo]

Might seem like a while off, but Cosworth may well be seeking a return in 2021...alongside some new teams: http://www.carscoops.com/2017/07/cosworths-gearing-up-for-f1-return-in.html?m=1

F1 definitely feels to be moving in the right direction without Bernie controlling everything I must say

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[Tom Hark]

Might seem like a while off, but Cosworth may well be seeking a return in 2021...alongside some new teams: http://www.carscoops.com/2017/07/cosworths-gearing-up-for-f1-return-in.html?m=1

F1 definitely feels to be moving in the right direction without Bernie controlling everything I must say

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Bernie controlled everything you must say?? Wow, that's influential! :icon_surprised: