Its the same with the Lambo's. They look huge on TV but when you see one and sit in it your like" This is it? Really"
New 911 is a big girl with big hips.... Not sure how it compares to an 04 996, but driving my friends I was struck by how wide it was. Not sure I'd want to drive one in anger down a forest road. Back on topic F1.....
It is hard to fathom that team Red Bull and Renault are this far behind..... From motorsports: Mar.5 (GMM) Red Bull's early-season technical crisis is plumbing new depths, with news the reigning world champions are calling upon junior team Toro Rosso for help. Italy's authoritative Autosprint reports that Red Bull has asked the Faenza based sister team for assistance on the all-new 'brake by wire' technology, which is tied in with the highly-sophisticated 'ERS' systems. "The fact that Red Bull wants to use someone else's (system) says a lot about the size of Red Bull's other problems," said veteran correspondent Alberto Antonini. One of those bigger problems is with extreme "turbo lag", Red Bull's Dr Helmut Marko admits. "You step on the gas," he told Austrian television Servus TV, "but the power comes all of a sudden, the wheels spin, the car slides and you lose speed. "We are working with Renault on the test benches day and night to improve the situation for Melbourne," added Marko. World champion Sebastian Vettel, however, is expecting to struggle next weekend. "If half the drivers fail to finish, then maybe we could take a few points," he said. "At the moment we have bigger problems to solve than just the pace."
The first time I was at Indy for the F1 race I was amazed at how small the cars were. But then a few years later we saw a MINI on the roof of an Excursion.
Sounds like they're doing it completely wrong. The electric system feeds back into the turbo on other engines, so that when you demand acceleration, the electric motor FIRST spins up the turbo so that there is NO LAG AT ALL. If their system has lag, then they failed on a very fundamental innovation that both Ferrari and Mercedes got right. That's a really really bad failure on their part.
:lol: :lol: :lol: Someone please tell me laughter is appropriate here... Report: F1 apparently headed for Azerbaijan in 2015 or 2016 (nbcsports.com)
Isn't Azerbaijan the oil/gas rich part of the former Russian Federation? Much more so than Ukraine, which is more like Kansas to them.....
Well, if Azerbaijan gets one then Kazakhstan should get one. Borat GP, anyone? Come one, that would be just EPIC!
Turkey paid for the race but they dropped because of embarrassing low turn out. How would this be any different?
Mordor Grand Prix Announced BERNIE Ecclestone has struck a deal to take Formula One to the land of Mordor, where the shadows lie. The Mordor Grand Prix will be on the F1 calendar from 2016, to the delight of the Black Land’s motorsport aficionados. The deal to bring Formula One to the orc-rich land was facilitated by Ecclestone’s friend and business associate, the Witch-king of Angmar, who rubbished concerns over Mordor’s human rights record. He said: “Media accusations of mass surveillance, hobbit torture and secret armies of Uruk-Hai are unfounded and holding back tourism. “People always say that one does not simply walk into Mordor. We want to show them that one in fact drives into Mordor, ideally in a single-seat, open cockpit car in the company of champagne-drenched bikini models.†Teams will race in a newly constructed course in the shadow of Mount Doom, under the all-seeing eye of the Watchful One. Drivers will be challenged by the threat of incineration if they leave the track, though the possibility that they will be corrupted and enslaved by Sauron’s dark sorcery has been dismissed by race organisers. Mordor overcame a period of domestic unrest to successfully host the Commonwealth Games and the Chess Olympiad, while the UNESCO-listed Black Gate has recently seen concerts by 50 Cent and Jennifer Lopez. Formula 1 fan Tom Logan said: “This is great news for the sport. But everyone knows it’s still Nürburgring to rule the all.â€
As much as I am a fan of Ferrari and have been for many, many years. I am starting to lean towards Massa this year.