Most liked posts in thread: F1 - 2011

And short cuts. They should have shortcuts on all tracks.

 

Yes, but they should be hidden and have to be "discovered" by the drivers...

 

Heck.....for that amount of money I would be a great Indian farmer!

 

I think he was just being a d!ck by sending them Redbulls cause they were being beaten by them all the time.

 

And Bernie will open and close them whenever he wants!

 

Audi says F1? Meh.....

Though rumors persist that one of the Volkswagen Group's brands could make the jump into Formula 1, Audi is adamant that it won't be the one to do so. According to the company's motorsport boss, F1 bears "no relevance to the road."

The German automaker most prominently races Le Mans Prototypes, like the new R18 TDI pictured above. Is that really so different from F1? Audi points out that over the course of a 24-hour race like Le Mans, just one of its cars covers more distance than an entire F1 season, its average speeds are 20 mph higher than in F1 and they use 42 percent less fuel in the process.

Audi has a strong racing pedigree that extends even beyond Le Mans, staking its name in rallying and touring cars, as well. Audi has brought many of its technologies from its motorsport program to its road cars, but according to this report, Audi sees little connection between grand prix racing and the development of its volume products

 

Lotus vs. Lotus settled with win to Lotus.

 

Why Nathan? It's not going to be rebroadcast later.....

My main criticism of Fox is that after showing umpteen billion commercials during the rain delay, they still broke for commercials about ever 4 minutes during the last part of the race, when the most action was happening. You'd think they'd met their sponsor obligations already and could stick with the race.......

 

Let me Google that for you....

Wikipedia ..

So then we go look up J-Damper where we find this page J-Dampers in Formula One - F1technical.net

 

No, come on, don't be rude..... He was using a galvanised iron watering can like this, with the rose unscrewed from the end:



And you could see how safety was absolutely critical - all the mechanics had left their cigarettes burning on the pit wall, so that they didn't drop any ash off the end into the fuel filler.

 

Thanks for the great video. It pretty well ruint my plans for the day! LOL

 

If you like, next time I'll throw up a link to the stream that I'm watching - no commercials, BBC coverage. I run my Mac Mini into my TV and only stream Netflix, Hulu or Ustream anyway, so it's no bother for me to do that. The only caveat is that I might not get a good stream until 15 minutes before the race starts - sometimes less. It's not perfect but I find the lack of commercials outweighs the hassle.

Network television and cable are soooo Twentieth Century

 

Please show some sympathy for us poor Brits - we have to watch TV like this all the time. Oh, the suffering.....

 

Don't want to spoil it but another good race and hats off to Micheal on his run from dead last!!!

 

Bear in mind that Formula 1, as a predominantly Europe-oriented sport, has always had a different balance between absolute competition and public entertainment than most American sports. In most years, one or two teams are dominant - because they have built the best interpretation of the rules.

Ensuring equality between teams, so as to give the public the spectacle of lots of possible winning cars, has never been an objective - or at least, it didn't used to be, though maybe rule changes like cutting testing have benefited the lesser-funded teams more than others (then again, maybe not).

It's odd that socialist Europe should want a dog-eat-dog sport whereas free market America should want a everybody-gets-a-turn-at-the-front sport, but that seems to be what we've got.

 

Crap, I'm sorry Nathan, figured most here on this thread watched it this morning... There is much more to see!!!