Zapski, is your Sky broadcast pay per view? Will you let us in on the secret on how you get to watch it there? I would dearly love to not have to listen to it on MSNBCFXAB3CNNXYZ or whatever broadcasts it here.
Comparison between current 13" wheel and the 18" they tested today. When you get used to the 13" wheels you stop noticing how small they are but this puts it in perspective. How many other cars run with 13" wheels these days?
F1 should have gone to bigger wheels years ago. The 13s with the balloon tires is racing tech 1960s-1970s. Yes the materials and construction is different. They can use bigger, less expensive brakes and get the same stopping power. To make it work though the regs will need to change allowing changes in aero and suspension. Maybe this should happen next year as the teams are going to have to redesign the suspension to deal with the fric ban anyway.
Another change that will cost teams millions to deal with. Thought the idea was for teams to be saving money. This & the FRIC ban will not do that. Hey but that's F1. :crazy: If they want to save money they should be recapping the tires. Run a race & then recap them for the next race.:wink: That's so crazy I'm surprised they haven't done it already.
Yes, my understanding is that everyone has always known that bigger wheels and lower profile tyres would be faster, but it has been seen as such a monumental change that it has always been put off. The current 13" wheel diameter has been in use since the 1960s when it was actually fast. I think in the last round of F1 tyre supply bids, Michelin said it would only supply at 18" diameter and the bid was rejected as being unwanted change. Tyre movement currently provides a lot of the suspension of F1 cars and if there is a change to 18s, everything in the suspension has to change. It is probably as big a change as going to hybrid power plants, even if it would put F1 back on the same path as all other motor sports. But it would produce exactly the situation we have now where one team gets the new formula right and all the others suffer. And it's a shame to see ride-on mowers getting all the publicity - the British Lawn Mower Racing Association (yes, there is such a thing) has a 'Group 1' class for the real die-hards with run-behind mowers:
Since we Americans have to do things bigger and faster we have 2 Lawnmower Racing Groups. U.S. Lawn Mower Racing Association and the American Racing Mower Association.
Please, that would be "rotary tiller". [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMICRlQGsGE"]'08 Highlights of theWorld Championship Rotary Tiller Race - YouTube[/ame]
I usually watch it live online, through a variety of sites that are re-broadcasting it. During a race, this site usually has a stream: http://www.eplsite.com This site rebroadcasts a lot of TV: Time4Tv Channel Categories And finally, this site re-streams all of SKY Sports: Sky Sports 1 Live Stream | Live Sky Sports 1 Streaming Now keep in mind that you should have an ad blocker, and pop-up blocker running for these sites, and UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES DOWNLOAD ANYTHING from any of them. You only need Adobe's Flash player, and you should only get that from Adobe.Com. You will have to close ads within the video stream, and sometimes they hide the close button, so look carefully. None of the streams are HD, but if you don't mind that you get to watch without commercial breaks during live race sessions, and you get to listen to Martin Brundle provide the commentary. None of these locations are guaranteed to be up consistently either. They tend to get shut down from time to time. If you miss the race, and want to watch it later in HD, you can usually get a torrent from the pirate bay within a few hours of broadcast.
Well, this is ... different. The folks at Motorsport Magazine are so sure F1 has fundamental flaws that they've put together a petition. You can actually go sign it. Some of what they propose makes a lot of sense and maybe if Bernie sees it he'll ... :lol: I can't even finish that! :lol: Bernie will want a paper copy so he can use it to wipe his ass. Petition: An F1 Revolution That's just a snip, the rest is here.
SPOILER ALERT . . . . . . . . . . . 2014, Nico Rosberg handing Lewis Hamilton his whiny little arse weekend and week out!!!
No he didn't hand him his arse. Lewis had a brake failure. Yes Nico got pole, but we'll never know if he or Lewis would have been fastest. Guess we'll figure that out next race. Oh how I'd have loved to see Bottas & Williams on pole. Two tenths might as well have been two miles.
Lewis was left whining as Nico took pole...Nuff said...lol What I'm left wondering is, is Kimi really that much off his game or is Alonso really that good? Given that the Ferrari is a POS this year.
Spoiler warning for those who have yet to watch...... We will have to agree to disagree on your first point. Lewis sure drove a fine race today. I did not expect him to go through the field as well as he did. Loving the Ferrari Red Bull duals. Last race Vettal & Alonso, this race Alonso & Ricciardo great stuff. Yes I believe Fernando is much faster than Kimi. This is a sad way for Kimi to end his F1 career.
All this whilst Nico had a pleasant and leisurely drive through the German countryside on his way to victory!! Yes I really am beginning to think Kimi isn't even trying, he's driving to get bought out again..... And poor Massa, he is his own worst enemy.
Yes Nico had a boring race today. :wink: I enjoy watching racing. Not Nico's fault just the way it turned out. I'm glad there is lots of racing going on for the rest of the points, otherwise I'd be bored. :sleep: I feel sorry for Massa , but he did himself in this time. Glad he escaped unharmed.
Best racing I saw today was the delayed broadcast of the Continental Tire ST race!! Went to the wire with a Porsche Cayman, a BMW and a Miata fighting nose to tail, and swapping the positions for the win! They finished in the order I listed!! I know those guys had fun!
I watched that race also today. That Cayman just had the top end power to drive around them in the straights. That was some great racing.
