the-muffin-man – Member

So what do we think of the Shield then? I’m not offended by how it looks – and a million times better than the Halo – and in some angles it looks pretty cool…

Looks fine, can’t we just call it a windscreen and be done with it yet?

Elsewhere, feedback of “it’s a bit blurry” mean it’s still not likely to catch on yet

Yeah, not bad. Best of the solutions we’ve seen so far.

Presumably they’d be using some kind of rain-x type coating in case of rain?

Looks like it ought to improve the aero, so its a win for me (even if it doesn’t actually improve the aero, looking like it will is a positive).

Though it makes me think – is there a lot of wind force on their helmets when going at top speed?

Though it makes me think – is there a lot of wind force on their helmets when going at top speed?

I don’t think so, as long as they keep their heads upright. They have a headrest and bulkhead behind them. There will be a high pressure area ahead of that bulkhead, the air has to flow around that so the driver’s head will be in a pocket of undisturbed air. If they let their heads roll off to the side, I believe they get buffeting. I think that can be a problem if their neck muscles get tired because their head rolls over and gets buffeted, increasing the load on their neck muscles, causing a downward spiral of fatigue.

From the trackside the shield might as well be a full canopy as you spend far more time with an oblique view of the car rather than full side on which is about the only angle where it’s obvious that there’s nothing around the driver.

Though if it was good enough for batman…

Yep, that shield looks good to me! Especially if it saves a life!

Looks way better than the halo,but I wonder if it will provide problems in the wet?
Cracking day here at silverstone today

The tear-offs are going to be huge on that shield

Vettel only did a lap with it then asked for it to be removed as it made him dizzy.

Silverstone was indeed great. Trying not to be too smug with the paddock club tickets that we received from a friends friend (but probably failing)
12yr old son was absolutely loving it. Stood next to Coulthard and Hill 🙂
Hill is almost as grey as me ;-(

God I miss the noise of the n.a. cars.
Interesting that the Honda sounds really quite different to the other cars.

Presumably it makes it harder for him to judge his sideswipes?

Handbags

igm – Member
The tear-offs are going to be huge on that shield

Smaller than the ones the use at Le Mans

I read it was 3 installation laps rather than 1, which would be more like it (but he still didn’t like it)

Presumably it makes it harder for him to judge his sideswipes?

🙂

Another 30 place grid penalty for Alonso. Getting rather silly. I wish they would penalise the teams rather than the drivers.

If your at Silverstone tomorrow, make sure you see the Williams anniversary cars on track. The 6 wheeler and my personal all time favourite the FW14b are running!

Karun drives the FW14b

Wasn’t the six wheeler a Tyrell?

That had four fronts. The Williams had four rears.

I stumbled upon the F1 live purely by accident when I headed up to London to see a mate who was over here on business, from Canada.

I didn’t have long as I had to meet my mate, but quickly snapped these:

[/url]F1 Live, London 2017 by Mike Kennedy, on Flickr[/img]

[/url]F1 Live, London, 2017 by Mike Kennedy, on Flickr[/img]

scotroutes – Member
johndoh » Wasn’t the six wheeler a Tyrell?
That had four fronts. The Williams had four rears.

That’s the one

I’m at Silverstone and the minute, today was brilliant, especially Alonso in Q1. Looking forward to the race, planning to ride my MTB round the track after 🙂

Do real people actually buy Paddock Club tickets or is it really just corporate hospitality?

I wish they would penalise the teams rather than the drivers.

I think McHonda have penalized themselves about as much as is possible, hard to see what more the authorities could pile on top of that.

I think McHonda have penalized themselves about as much as is possible, hard to see what more the authorities could pile on top of that.

Good point, although with the amount of components they’ve used they’d be pretty much guaranteed to be last in the constructors championship rather than being able to change a load of components this weekend to give them a chance in Hungary to possibly overtake Sauber.

Alonso seems more optimistic than usual.

That verstappen vettel battle was excellent

It wouldn’t be an F1 race without Vettel moaning about another driver driving in a perfectly legal way

Haha exactly!! 🙂

It’s not the same without Martin Brundle on Sky

🙁

Has he left Sky? He was really good when he was on BBC

Poor Kimi

But he gets some luck as Vettel has gone pop too 🙂

He was taken ill just before the start.

Has he left Sky?

Taken to the medical centre before the pitwalk.

Great end to the race, though.

I enjoyed that one. I like Hamilton’s attitude and determination a lot but still cringe whenever he speaks 🙂 always been a Raikkonen fan and Bottas seems quite similar. Max is great, especially when he’s working it up Vettel, who seems to be becoming quite the **** as he gets older. For a start to finish lead that was a good race.

Another great race. Really enjoying this season! Gald to see my earlier worries about there being no overtaking because of the new aero regs have proved to be wrong 🙂

Just think what it would’ve been like if pirelli hadn’t gone quite so safe on the tyres – bodes well for next year (unless you’re kimi or seb ;))

I remember when doing an event at silverstone the tarmac was the coarsest stuff I’ve ever seen more like coral than tarmac.

Halo all set for 2018 introduction (despite 9 out of 10 teams against it)…

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/strategy-group-halo-shield-decision-932802/

…laughable they are sticking this monstrosity on the cars and banning T-wings and shark fins on aesthetic grounds! 😐

F1 cars won’t be the same again. Why not stick ruddy great rubber bumpers on them while they are at it.

Given how much contact there seems to have been this year i dont see how you can argue against the Halo, its unfortunate it looks ridiculous but it wont take long for it to just be accepted or even improved on.