Gintonious wrote: » As its preseason etc, here is a sweet BAR from 1998 in a testing livery. Its an absolute beat.
Cork Truck Driver wrote: » That livery was nice, they should have kept it. The dual Lucky Strike/555 branding was rubbish. On separate cars, as they wanted to run it, looked fine, but the FIA wouldn't allow it.
Gintonious wrote: » Seems like they ran this livery twice. Here you can see the Honda badges on the car and helmet. They switched to Honda after they used the Supertec ones in 1999, so I would guess this was pre-season 2000. Sorry, I love little details like this.
Cork Truck Driver wrote: » I'll always remember either Craig Pollock or Adrian Reynard saying that they would win a race in their first season, yet didn't score a point. Villeneuve retired from the first 11 races and Zonta broke a bone in his foot in Brazil. When Mika Salo stood in, he scored the team's best result that year, 7th in Monaco. The above photo was probably the 1999 spec car with a Honda engine in the off season perhaps? The supertec engine being a rebadged 2 year old Renault wasn't it? You'd be like myself with the small detail. Best car from around that era was the 2000-2002 Arrows with Orange as title sponsor.
Gintonious wrote: » And that Arrows had a solid chassis, they would usually do well around Monaco and that was a track where the engine wasn't really a big factor. You might be right with the 1999 car with a Honda bolted in. The Supertec engine was a joke of a thing, I would love to know how many of them they blew up that year.
Cork Truck Driver wrote: » I wonder did DC maintain his friendship with Enrique Bernoldi after Monaco 2001 :pac: Arrows built far better cars than the likes of Minardi, Hungary 1997 anyone? At least back then the sport was a bit unpredictable with unexpected engine blows, Irvine at Imola 1999, Schumacher France 2000, Hakkinen at Indianapolis 2001. Not the farce we have today with reliability being too good.
Vic_08 wrote: » You should apply for a job with the Honda PR department.
flazio wrote: » Last I heard about the former Toyota F1 chief executive Cregan, he was running the F1 tracks in the middle east.
....in the last year of the BBC coverage in 2015 was 3.1m. Channel 4's was 1.9m last year. Sky's in 2017 was 652,000.
Schorpio wrote: » Interesting audience numbers given there from Benson - That said - Sky don't care about numbers. They only care about having the sport to drive subscriber numbers. Those numbers should be of concern to FOM though. Nearly 5 times fewer people watching the sport than when it was FTA.
Gintonious wrote: » https://www.autosport.com/gallery/index.php/id/3793 In anticipation of the new cars and liveries coming out, here is a nice gallery of some old and rare ones to enjoy.
astrofluff wrote: » How long is it on for? Kidding, I was going to ask where I could watch it but found this live stream on the website:https://imsatv.imsa.com
Harika wrote: » Someone did the maths, and FOM got more money out of 650000 Sky people than out of 8 Million on BBC
strawdog wrote: » I think its one of those knowing the price of everything and value of nothing situations for FOM. In terms of hard income im sure subscriptions bring in more coin, but, as the article touches on, in terms of overall exposure, creation of new young fans, winning over the casual viewer etc, I still think they're shooting themselves in the foot. 2024 is a long way a way, could see the sport suffering badly in the interim
LIGHTNING wrote: » Just look at the mess that is the WRC, it never recovered from being dropped from TV or at least being put in terrible time slots.
astrofluff wrote: » F1 is probably my favourite sport over all others. But watching Fe in the last few years, it has gather so much moment (along with road EVs becoming more common place), that putting F1 behind a pay wall the exposure is lessened, and Fe is available FTA too. By 2024, we could be very well in a 50/50 split of Fe fans versus F1 fans.
astrofluff wrote: » F1 is probably my favourite sport over all others. But watching Fe in the last few years, it has gather so much momentum (along with road EVs becoming more common place), that putting F1 behind a pay wall the exposure is lessened, and Fe is available FTA too, will bring more fans to Fe than F1. By 2024, we could be very well in a 50/50 split of Fe fans versus F1 fans, if not leaning towards Fe majority.
Jordan 199 wrote: » 2018 launch dates so far:Williams: 15th of February.Renault and Sauber: 20th of February.Ferrari and Mercedes: 22nd of February.McLaren: 23rd of February.Toro Rosso: 25th of February.
