Formula 1 2019 - General Discussion Thread

flazio

mickdw wrote: »

I tried to buy a case of rich energy on their site.
No luck. Don't ship to Ireland or anywhere bar UK it would appear.

Parcel motel or address pal.

Harika

24 can costs 20 pound, 90 million sold according to the guy. Even if that is true, you can calculate how wonky the sponsorship is.
Red bull in comparison 6 billion in 2016

Charlie-Bravo

I think he said 90 million made, so not all of it sold. That'll be a big warehouse holding that many. How long until the stuff expires? Probably as long as they last, 4 races.

AMKC

So is it this week that the first of the new cars will be revealed? Can't wait to see there new livery's and colours.

Jordan 199

AMKC wrote: »

So is it this week that the first of the new cars will be revealed? Can't wait to see there new livery's and colours.

It is. Toro Rosso tomorrow

mickdw

flazio wrote: »

Parcel motel or address pal.

I didn't so much want the drink, just checking it's availability.

AMKC

Here's a sound of the new Toro Rosso

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfkDH4amASQ&feature=player_embedded

Harika

Rich energy sued for copying that logo.

Rossi IRL

Harika wrote: »

Rich energy sued for copying that logo.

Their some chancers, can we have a poll or something to see how many races they last.

Charlie-Bravo

Well here's the Calender...

I've got my money on race 5, Spain, when the European races start (proper).

Grands Prix scheduled to be held as part of the 2019 World Championship:
Round |Grand Prix |Circuit |Date
1|Australian Grand Prix |Australia Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit, Melbourne |17 March
2 |Bahrain Grand Prix |Bahrain Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir |31 March
3 |Chinese Grand Prix |China Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai |14 April
4 |Azerbaijan Grand Prix |Azerbaijan Baku City Circuit, Baku |28 April
5 |Spanish Grand Prix |Spain Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló |12 May
6 |Monaco Grand Prix |Monaco Circuit de Monaco, Monte Carlo |26 May
7 |Canadian Grand Prix |Canada Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal |9 June
8 |French Grand Prix |France Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet |23 June
9 |Austrian Grand Prix |Austria Red Bull Ring, Spielberg |30 June
10 |British Grand Prix |United Kingdom Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone |14 July
11 |German Grand Prix |Germany Hockenheimring, Hockenheim |28 July
12 |Hungarian Grand Prix |Hungary Hungaroring, Mogyoród |4 August
13 |Belgian Grand Prix |Belgium Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot |1 September
14 |Italian Grand Prix |Italy Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza |8 September
15 |Singapore Grand Prix |Singapore Marina Bay Street Circuit, Singapore |22 September
16 |Russian Grand Prix |Russia Sochi Autodrom, Sochi |29 September
17 |Japanese Grand Prix |Japan Suzuka International Racing Course, Suzuka |13 October
18 |Mexican Grand Prix |Mexico Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City |27 October
19 |United States Grand Prix |United States Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas |3 November
20 |Brazilian Grand Prix |Brazil Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo |17 November
21 |Abu Dhabi Grand Prix |United Arab Emirates Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi |1 December

pjohnson

1.30pm today Toro Rosso reveal
3pm Williams reveal

Jordan 199

McLaren are teaming up with British American Tobacco.

corminators

The energy drink thing is some sort of weird kickback to Haas who thinks he has been very hard done by in the sport IMO. Budget caps were meant to be introduced and weren't.

pjohnson

Rumours Alonso may do some of the preseason testing for McLaren.

flazio

Jordan 199 wrote: »

McLaren are teaming up with British American Tobacco.

Got a source on this?

Jordan 199

flazio wrote: »

Got a source on this?

Autosport website.

Adamocovic

Interested to see what Merc do this year. Teasing that silver was last year.

Reckon it will be a livery only used for testing, just like RedBull had that lovely dark navy, blue and white car that was only used for testing. Can't stray from Silver Arrow image.

Cool_CM

It's on the McLaren website now too

https://www.mclaren.com/formula1/partners/british-american-tobacco/mclaren-racing-announces-global-partnership-british-american-tobacco/

recyclebin

Cool_CM wrote: »

It's on the McLaren website now too

https://www.mclaren.com/formula1/partners/british-american-tobacco/mclaren-racing-announces-global-partnership-british-american-tobacco/

So they saw what Ferrari and John Morris were doing with Mission Winnow and copied it. What a load of horse manure!

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recyclebin wrote: »

So they saw what Ferrari and John Morris were doing with Mission Winnow and copied it. What a load of horse manure!

Even horse manure has a value in F1 these days it seems.

On a serious note, can they advertise tobacco products where it is still legal such as China or are they prohibited by being EU registered/based companies?

Jordan 199

:cool:

Charlie-Bravo

I'm really liking this year's front wings. Very cool and slick.

H3llR4iser

astrofluff wrote: »

I'm really liking this year's front wings. Very cool and slick.

Very clean without all the rubbish appendages added on, but they are absurdly wide and give the cars a bit of a "snowplough" look.



Although the most interesting thing will be the first two braking zones in Melbourne - I can see a few front wings knackered before the drivers get to full grips with the new dimensions...

Jordan 199

Williams will be now known as 'Rokit Wiliams Racing'.

Harika

Jordan 199 wrote: »

Williams will be now known as 'Rokit Wiliams Racing'.

Rokit looks only slightly better than Force Energy. Just slightly as startup from August 2018, no product yet released
Nice livery btw, looks similar to the BWT from Racing Point.

Jordan 199

AMKC

H3llR4iser wrote: »

Very clean without all the rubbish appendages added on, but they are absurdly wide and give the cars a bit of a "snowplough" look.



Although the most interesting thing will be the first two braking zones in Melbourne - I can see a few front wings knackered before the drivers get to full grips with the new dimensions...

Very clean without all the rubbish appendages added on, but they are absurdly wide and give the cars a bit of a "snowplough" look.


I never minded all the appendages on the wings but do agree it got a bit silly. I think they should have just been allowed 3 wings maybe one for the high downforce tracks, one for the slower tracks and one for the low downforce tracks but be able to use whichever wing suited best, Instead it was nearly a new wing for every race by the big teams.

As for being very wide they were this or wider before the 2014 rules came in.

Just look up any of the cars from 2011 the wings went way out and lots of them got broke during the races as the drivers got to close trying to base or get by in a tight corner.

Adamocovic

I'm really liking the Williams

Jordan 199

Beautiful shade of blue on the Williams.

muckwarrior

It looks really good there, but I'll reserve judgement til I see it on track, in daylight.