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Nov 11, 2018 - 04:39pm PT
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What, like you think I have standards?
Now that is funny! Ha ha!
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From Wikipedia, a bit on Interlagos:
One reason why many drivers consider Interlagos interesting is that it was not built on flat terrain, but follows the ups and downs of hilly ground, which makes it harder to drive and demands more power from the car's engines. The hilly course is also a good feature for road cycling races usually held at the circuit.
The circuit is known for its many inclines and formerly bumpy surface, which could take its toll on F1 cars because they have a very low ride height and little suspension travel. The races are therefore very tough on the car, and also physically tough on the drivers, especially since the circuit is anti-clockwise, where the centrifugal forces in the many hard left turns push the drivers' necks to the right, instead of left as in the majority of circuits on the F1 calendar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aut%C3%B3dromo_Jos%C3%A9_Carlos_Pace
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Nov 25, 2018 - 08:34am PT
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F1 2018 final race: Yas Marina Abu Dhabi
(110 days to go until Melbourne)
Well, Yas Marina is a flat circuit but it has 21 corners!
Starting grid:
Hamilton
Bottas
Vettel
Raikonnen
Ricciardo
Verstappen
Verstappen's engine had a few settings still stuck in safe mode, quickly dropped to 10th at the start.
Hulkenberg & Grosjean clicked at a 90° right-hander: Hulk high sided to the left and we saw the bottom of his car several times until, as a passenger, he was planted in the barrier upside down!
Raikonnen out with a mechanical
Resumption of the Verstappen-Ocon show, with several place swaps
Then, more fun: Verstappen overtook Hamilton
L 33 Vandoorne/Ocon/Grosjean battle it up, with Vandoorne coming out on top
(commentators note that Vandoorne was quite the go-getter in F3, so happy to see him fighting)
L 36 Ricciardo fastest lap @ 141:249
L 38 Verstappen overtook Bottas, with a healthy bit of front tire contact, Bottas said to have pinched Max just looked like good old roughhousing to me, all around!
L 39 Ricciardo overtook Bottas (Toto Wolff said Bottas was having LR tire trouble)
L 47 Ocon out
L 49 Gasly out
L 55 Vettel fastest lap @ 140: +
Actor Will Smith waved the checkered flag
Podium:
Hamilton, F1 champion 2018, 11th win of the year, sets a record of 408 points gained in a single season
Vettel +2.581 behind at the finish
Verstappen, fifth straight podium
Hamilton, Vettel, Alonso pulled F1 driver championship formation doughnuts.
Was fun to see Vettel taking selfies with the towel-head grom!
(Hey, don't knock the Arabian headdress: if it was good enough for Race Bannon & Jonny Quest in at least one episode, I'm all about the outfit)
[DNF: Gasly, Ocon, Ericsson, Raikonnen, Hulkenberg]
Only 2 of 10 teams will have the same lineup in 2019
Alonso out of F1, now pursuing the Triple Crown
Ricciardo, after 100 races & 7 wins with Red Bull, goes to Renault in '19
Leclerc to Ferrari
Where is Kimi going? ... Sauber
Ocon to be Mercedes reserve driver
And following up with my wee faux pas @ Lewis Hamilton and the Midas Touch, how about this one:
"Years ago when some Vaquero was especially expert in throwing the lazo, handling his reigns or in riding bucking horses, people would say that his reata had eyes, he had a bueno mano, that he was muy horqueta and his saddle did not leak."
 From Last of the Vaqueros, Arnold R Rojas
Question: were will petrochem take us in the 21st century?
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Reilly
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The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 25, 2018 - 08:47am PT
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An epic season culminated by Anglo/Teutonic precision.
Sad to see one of the greats leave so ignominiously.
Hard to imagine them putting new cars on the starting grid in less than 4 months,
not that they havent been working on them for a while presumably.
I doubt Ricciardo will relish his move, but then Italians dont really use relish, do they?
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Reilly
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Dec 25, 2018 - 08:41am PT
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Great article on Kimi on BBC today. Not sure how to post a link to an app.
Formula 1: Kimi Raikkonen's world is a very different place http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/45239949
Quite, but what he [Kimi] lacks in words, the Iceman more than makes up for in intrigue and
cold, hard racing. Which is just as well, because if you ask him about his grand plans for the
rest of his life beyond Formula 1...
"I'll get a dog."
BwaHaHaHa! I think I have my favorite quote now, of all time.
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Dec 25, 2018 - 08:48am PT
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I'll get a dog. See that's what it is to be an ex-F1 driver: you go big!
As an ex-climbing guide, the best I could muster was some house plants, which were already under the care of my wife before we were married.
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Reilly
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The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 28, 2019 - 08:32am PT
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BBC Sport running a bunch of old pics of F1 cars today during testing.
And surely there can be no argument for #1 on the Ugly List:
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Mar 15, 2019 - 08:20pm PT
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Tune in & buckle up motorsports fans!
Melbourne practice on the telly right now.
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Reilly
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Mar 15, 2019 - 09:18pm PT
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So much for the blather about Ferrari being a half second faster.
I knew it was Merc sandbagging. I wonder what Bottas prob was.
Kimis Alpha must be a dog, huh?
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Mar 16, 2019 - 08:19am PT
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Qualifying first three rows:
Ham
Bot
Vet
Ver
Lec
Gros
Kimi makes the cut for Q1 at #10
Daniel #12
How does that work out for those guys?
Daniel trades chronic DNF for Renault and a better contract?
Williams, with 800 people on their org chart and newbie Russell the apologist.
That's quite an organization and a lot of history for a street sweeper.
Anyone going to attend an F1 race this year?
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JimT
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Mar 17, 2019 - 09:30am PT
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Looks like Ferrari have work to do....
Can Verstappen perform consistantly enough to be a threat in a drivers championship race between two Mercedes drivers?
My tip for the constructors title (the only one that really matters), Mercedes. Williams last.
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Marlow
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OSLO
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Mar 17, 2019 - 09:43am PT
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Congrats to Bottas, much deserved... It's hard to get team orders every time you have a chance to win. Now he's building momentum. My best wishes for the next races...
I would be very surprised if Ferrari isn't there in a few races. Good for Red Bull, Verstappen and Honda. Cool to see Sauber/Alfa Romeo in the upper eight. Haas and Kevin Magnussen got a good start.
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Reilly
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The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mar 17, 2019 - 12:34pm PT
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Interesting article on BBC Sport by Anonymous Aero-guy. He supposedly works for one of the teams, probably not Merc or Ferrari, and went into some detail about their different approaches this year. He says Scuderia may have hit upon a setup that could paint them into a corner as the season progresses. He says Mercs more traditional approach allows more flexibility in tweaking down the road, so to speak. Ferraris clearly didnt pay off today.
Kudos to Valterri. He was smiling up a storm at the end, for a Finn. 😉
Williams should pack it in for the duration. Kubica was lapped on lap 10 or so? 😖
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DMBARN
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Eagle, ID
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Mar 17, 2019 - 01:13pm PT
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Just finished watching the NetFlicks series on last years season. Pretty interesting. I was pretty impressed with Daniel Ricardo from Australia. He certainly has the talent and seemed to have the level headedness to last for more than a few seasons. I think having all those young drivers in the mix this year could wind up being problematic. I wish they had included more time to the front runners to give sense of what it took to stay at the top (Ferrari). Lots of "moving parts" to make a team successful. I was disappointed (but nor surprised) that if your daddy is rich then you get a spot on the team. I've never really followed it before but will this year.
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Mar 17, 2019 - 04:54pm PT
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2019 GP Melbourne
As described by one of the commentators, Melbourne is a fast street circuit. What that means to me is very little contour or elevation change. From Wikipedia:
In spite of being a circuit on public roads it has characteristics of a natural road course considering it being fast and flowing combined with extensive runoff in many corners.
None of the turns are particularly spectacular to me. From Wikipedia:
The course is considered to be quite fast and relatively easy to drive, drivers having commented that the consistent placement of corners allows them to easily learn the circuit and achieve competitive times. However, the flat terrain around the lake, coupled with a track design that features few true straights, means that the track is not conducive to overtaking
Clearly, Hamilton owns it (or owned it), this with his 8th pole position overall at Melbourne and 6th pole in a row at Melbourne. (It was his 84th pole position overall.)
But not so fast said Bottas today! This is one track where it is said pole position doesn't readily guarantee a win. He said this win was his best race ever. (This is his sixth year to date since his debut as a driver in Formula One.) With no wins in 2018, he took first place in the last race of 2017 and now the first race of 2019.
At one point during the race I thought I heard Hamilton reporting over the radio something not right with the set up on his handling, but he denied any such issue at the post race interview.
During practice it was noted that Mercedes set its cars up very stiffly, and that combined with the bumpy track was really obvious in practice and qualifying, because Hamilton looked like he was driving over washboard much of the time! The Ferrari were more compliant in their suspension tuning and this was also visibly evident. When Martin Brundle, or one of the other commentators was asked which suspension set up he preferred he simply remarked: whichever is faster!
Nice to see HAAS fielding their cars as well as they did, qualifying at sixth (Grosjean) and seventh (Magnussen) on the grid, right behind the three dominant teams. Then Magnussen took sixth at the finish, while Grosjean DNF along with Ricciardo and Sainz (McLaren).
Bummer to see Ricciardo lose his front wing after a slight detour onto the grass right at the start, and then DNF at lap 31.
There was some good midfield racing and overtaking throughout, particularly between Kvyat/Toro Rosso and Gasly/Red Bull. It was cool to see Verstappen overtake Vettel for third, granting Honda powerplants their first podium in the V6 era.
McLaren (Norris) 12th, right behind Kvyat and Gasly.
Say, Reilly: we saw some interesting visuals with the vortices coming off of the outside edges of the rear wings. I didn't quite catch why/what that visual phenomenon was all about? I know what it means from an aero perspective, but I don't know why we were actually seeing it. Is that phenomenon visible coming off of the winglets of jet aircraft?
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Reilly
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Mar 17, 2019 - 05:44pm PT
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Tar babe, it is largely a function of humidity. Ive a cool vid of the condensation track
off the inboard engine of an A380 Ill post.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
^^^ Kinda amazing to bear in mind we were probably already doing 170 mph just 50 off the
deck in a 400 ton ride.
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Mar 30, 2019 - 10:42am PT
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Race #2, qualifying at Bahrain
Leclerc takes pole position: becoming the second youngest F1 driver to claim pole position, behind teammate Vettel as the youngest. Leclerc also set the track record, with Sebastian in second position for a Ferrari lockout throughout Q1, Q2, & Q3! Then Hamilton, Bottas, Verstappen behind Ferrari in Q3. My reading indicates in practice that Mercedes was .5 seconds faster in racing conditions. So maybe we will see a race up front?
Kimi 9th on the grid. Alonso now supporting McLaren on the other side of the pit wall, and McLaren doing a bit (?) better overall than we've seen, with Norris taking 4th position in Q1, and the team at 7th (Sainz) and 10th (Norris) in Q3.
Interesting stat: Hamilton has 84 pole positions, equal to that of all of the rest of the field!
Russell still holding up well in front of the microphone as Williams trails behind everyone else.
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Mar 30, 2019 - 10:58am PT
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Was good to see Ferrari running well. Will be interesting to see what Vettal does if LeClerc paces faster and if Ferrari will allow him first seat privilege. I think, what if Ferrari opted to let Vettal go in favor of Kimi. Hope Mercedes isnt sandbagging, well see race time.
Peace
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