The F1 2015 thread…

This one’s about Graham Hill

My mum’s hero. On the basis that when we ran across the car park at Oulton to get his autograph he was packing the car boot – which was immaculate. That sort of thing impressed my mum.

Nothing to do with his devilish good looks or charm. No no.

An article for those who like their F1 engine analysis!…

http://somersf1.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/tokens-comparing-powerunits-and.html

Excellent link Muffin Man – thanks!

The bit about the variable length intake trumpets and why this alone supports the FIA’s decision not to give Honda the full token allocation for use throughout the 2015 season was very interesting.

This sentence made me chuckle mind:

“I think it is also important at this juncture to talk about variable length intake trumpets (VLIT)”

I hadn’t made the natural leap myself but after reading on it made perfect sense!

variable length intake trumpets

This is an excellent phrase.

interesting
Twitter feed from 1995 season as it happens 😀

like that 🙂

boxing gloves are off at renault and red bull with he said she said saga ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/32050898)

Alonso tries to confound the media by denying everything Mclaren have said regarding the crash, its not windy and I’m not in 1995, furthermore you’re not my muvvvaaaa!
(http://www1.skysports.com/f1/news/24184/9776231/fernando-alonso-says-steering-locked-for-barcelona-testing-crash)

ooerrr and we havent even started racing yet.. I bet Bernie, Dieter and Ron didnt have much to say around dinner last night ( forget about monsoons and humidity, its going to be frosty!)

so why didnt Alonso just say things these straight away – was he told not to? would it cause the car to come under a safety investigation? why would he sit back and wait and here all this rubbish from McLaren and not just tweet what happened as he always does….

i see a frosty relationship brewing – unless that car improves utterly drastically in the next few races i suspect he will either take the rest of the year off or he’ll have some get-out-clause that will let him in elsewhere…

Oooh! This floats my boat. Maybe Monaco too.

3D circuits

LOVE that Tweeter feed 😀

looks like the 4 engine limit has been upped to 5 , as agreed by all engine manufacturers (and therefore the teams)-just got to get it past the FIA.

errrr so much for the cost cutting then?

Isn’t there some loophole regarding the number of races on the calendar and the wording of the engine limit? They get to have 5 if the number of races listed on the calendar is above a certain number, and there was a race listed which never was going to happen which takes it above that number (the conspiracy theory being that it was only ever there to allow for this loophole).

@aracer’s got the biscuit 😀

storming first wet lap by lewis.

I enjoyed that.

Rosberg playing dirty again 👿

didn’t help him 🙂

he wasnt playing dirty, he was being a racing car driver, he wanted to get across the line with hardly any time left so he had the most dry track he could in order to put in his best lap,

when Lewis passed him and realised what he was doing, HE DID THE SAME!

they both ended up with lots of cars around from other drivers ALSO DOING THE SAME so lots of traffic

if they had just gone for it like vettel did, they would have both improved

nice to see the McLarens turning up that engine and getting into Q1 – oh no wait………………..

Looked like a block to me. Lewis was behind him on his timed lap whilst rosberg had backed off for whatever reason. He stayed on the racing line at a considerably slower speed than ham. Does that not equate to a block?

I’d have called it a block. Lewis just returned the compliment to show who is boss

yes it was a block and lewis did the same.. just them playing around. I think the comment after qualifying shows he’s not taking the bait. I bet he is happy the Ferrari is in the mix to help him out.

I hope Ferrari gets the win.. that will well and truly set the cat amongst the pigeons.

I was amused that, since Red Bull have now been written off as rubbish, there was no commentary at all on their progress or comment on the fact that they are 4th and 5th on the grid.

quite funny Nico asking about Hamiltons lines and being told “nope” 🙂

good drives by Verstappen and Vettel. The rain really does bring the best out of the drivers 🙂
The Red bulls moved up but the proximity of the Torro rosso ,ust put them under pressure.The Torro rossos are pretty handy with the Ferrari Renault I meant 🙂 power pack and town hungry rookies.

Prediction
Rosberg
Hamilton
Vettel

Torro Rosso are using Renault PUs, same as Red Bull. Which makes there performance even more impressive, and Horner’s whinging even sadder. Maybe the chassis isn’t quite as good as they are telling themselves it is.

Who is the new bloke in the other Merc? Wheres Nico? I’ve not seen him turn up for a race for the past 8 or so races..

Good improvement for McLaren hopefully beating FI in qualifying by China.

Defo a block in my book, Nico had won me over a bit after the way he went up to congratulate Lewis at Abu Dhabi and has conducted himself since. Straight back to to twunt status after that.

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quite funny Nico asking about Hamiltons lines and being told “nope”

Been a while since I last flicked two fingers at the telly!

my pers. opinion is they should make f1 cars for a better range of conditions and send them out in lightning and monsoons 🙂

I see vettel and lewis taking each other out on the first lap (not before a certain someone in a black and gold car has already done it at the first corner) and rosberg goes on to win

Rosberg wins by 1minute Sunday and the championship by 60points too.

There. Ive not jinxed him at all.

Prediction
Rosberg
Hamilton
Vettel

I very much doubt it

Hamilton
Rosberg
Vettel

A bit more action than the last race!

Agree. Daft changing tyres so soon though..

Still how good is LH through traffic compared to Nico?!!

Agree. Daft changing tyres so soon though

Nah – Vettel would need to get a full pit-stop ahead to make his call work.

It’ll kill Rosbergs race though, he’s stuck in traffic and isn’t the racer Lewis is.

Possibly not as ruined as I thought! 😀

Vettel made Rosberg look a bit pedestrian..

We have a race on!

Loving this.

ooops

Good to see Raikkonen now up to 5th, from 11th, via a puncture.