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I just watch the C4 highlights.
I have now taken to reading the race report and then watching the highlights if it sounds like it is worth watching. Putting the whole lot behind a paywall killed off much interest from me.
I just watch the C4 highlights.
This is my thoughts, there's 10 or so races I'll probably watch live, they're either opening/closing races; Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, or ones that I've though have been good in the past, although Spa makes it on to the list, and unless there's weather (not too much, just the right amount) it's often dull.
I'm thinking Bahrain, Australian, Japan, Imola, Silverstone, Spa, Zandvoort, Monza, Singapore, Brazil, Abu Dhabi. Some I'll not watch at all just becasue of the Sports Washing, but if anything else becomes a crash-fest or just seems like a decent race, I'll watch on C4 catch up.
I should add that I also generally record the C4 highlights on my Humax box, so I can fast-forward the ads, the bits where Webber & Coulthard talk endlessly about how great Red Bull are & the Karen Horner interviews.
Hmmm, I'm not the most devoted F1 fan, I'll admit.
I tend to listen to 5 live, may watch highlights on YouTube. Putting it behind a paywall killed it for me.
C4 highlights for me too and remember that most of the presenters are on the RB payroll
It is.
If anyone is contemplating watching the Rob and Romesh F1 'special' on Sky I can save you the trouble - don't bother. How two people who have no interest in the sport can be given that level of access is beyond me, and they don't even pretend to be interested.
I should add that I also generally record the C4 highlights on my Humax box, so I can fast-forward the ads, the bits where Webber & Coulthard talk endlessly about how great Red Bull are & the Karen Horner interviews.
Same. The highlights are generally decent enough that I don't miss the full coverage.
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The C4/ Red Bull love-in is a bit tedious. Is it not produced by Couldthard’s production company
If by some miracle, Horner does leave, it'll be really funny to see how Coulthard and Weber spin it 😁
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it’ll be really funny to see how Coulthard and Weber spin it
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Logan Sergeant driving it too - hope they've made plenty of spare parts...
Good news on Williams getting the car out. I've got faith in James Vowles but I thought it was going to be another 2019 for a minute...
How two people who have no interest in the sport can be given that level of access is beyond me, and they don’t even pretend to be interested.
I used to work for a commercial specialist cleaning company, and we were quoting to clean the Merc factory. Looking down the spec was mental, all the various departments to clean, inc ‘Toto’s Office’…
Sales guy had no interest in F1 whatsoever, so a full, all access factory tour (inc a shit ton of NDAs) when pricing up, way more involved than any punter would get, was wasted on him 😤
Logan Sergeant driving it too
In the off-season he was remarkably candid about his performance, and his shock at just how brutal a season in F1 was compared to his expectations, and experience thus far racing formula cars. He's done quite a bit of work to improve his fitness apparently. I'm looking forward to seeing how he does, as underneath I think there's a decent driver.
I did some data work for Benneton F1 at Enstone, a few years back, and got the factory tour. It was amazing and not wasted on me at all.
I did some data work for Benneton F1 at Enstone, a few
yearsdecades back
FTFY
The other thing is that F1 drivers used to get a decent amount of testing mileage in before they even showed up at their first F1 race.
And now they turn up having spent hours and hours in the simulator which (by all accounts) is a bit more than just a fancy video game. Sure to they won't have the physical effort of driving the car, but they're not exactly unprepared for F1.
Sales guy had no interest in F1 whatsoever, so a full, all access factory tour (inc a shit ton of NDAs) when pricing up, way more involved than any punter would get, was wasted on him
A very good friend works in a very niche business that supplies rolling road type of stuff (I suspect it's all significantly more complex than big treadmills) to the motor trade – he's been to a few F1 sites as well as several major car manufacturers across the world. I am not sure if it's still the same, but there was a time that he was not even allowed on site with any kind of image capture device (ie, including phones with cameras). He's got a great job!
VCARB has hit the tracks - livery looked nice in the moodily lit renders - looks a bloody mess on track!! IMO of course...
Read Nick’s post that I quoted
Ah yes. As you were....
The Red Bull secrets being revealed...
https://twitter.com/rbr_daily/status/1760200659075273088?s=12&t=EQoHg-RGok071Fjc15ZHKw
That's gotta sting at Mercedes If RB get that vertical sidepod design to work
It's one ugly machine though - those side cannons are the sort of looks only a mother could love. Notice the intakes into them at the end of the halo...
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It’s one ugly machine though – those side cannons are the sort of looks only a mother could love. Notice the intakes into them at the end of the halo…
Love it. Closer pic of that detail...
https://twitter.com/AlbertFabrega/status/1760202764972339322
Track still looks quite green so can't say anything about performance yet, but man that car is rumple fugly from above!
All I can see with those cannons...
So F1Tv - is it worth the £20/year?
If you can get F1TV it sounds good.
Thought it was more like £80 a year though.
If you're in the UK you'll need to add the cost of a VPN too and then hope F1TV don't block your stream! 🙂
...looking at the times so far though - you may want to wait till 2026!* 😭
(*I know it's only testing, but...)
It’s one ugly machine though – those side cannons are the sort of looks only a mother could love.
I'm imagining them as bulges to cover the cams on a wide V-12 😀
Isn't the £20 F1TV just live timing?
That’s gotta sting at Mercedes If RB get that vertical sidepod design to work
From what I understand the "zero pod" concept is all about chasing peak downforce, the design exposes more floor so it can potentially generate higher peak downforce. Mercedes couldn't get it to work as they hadn't really understood how this interacts with the mechanical platform and as a result they got lot of issues, the horrible porpoising being the most obvious one.
IF Redbull can use the concept to increase downforce while using their advantage when it come to understanding the overall package then it really doesn't bode well for the competition.
I was about to post that all the cars look more compliant/no porpoising compared to last year, but then the merc was just shown on screen, either bouncing or porpoising horribly. Hope they're just testing stuff and it's not a sign of things to come for the W15...
then the merc was just shown on screen, either bouncing or porpoising horribly.
😬😬😬🤦♂️
3 hours in and I'm going to make the wildly predictable errr..prediction that this year will again be dominated by RB.
There, I said it, we can now all spend our Sundays more productively.