Formula 1 2018: General Discussion Thread

Jaysus! :eek:

Day 2 Analysis from Autosport.
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Cool_CM

Harika wrote: »

Are they drinking at work?

Harika

Mike Litoris wrote: »

I wonder who will do the English commentary. If its the current C4 guys I'm in.

Who is doing the world feed atm? I fear that it is Sky. And someone said Casey is on the board of Sky, so he might have an interest in that.
But as they could go to competition to Sky in the future, they might want to build it up with Edwards and DC.
Anyway for 12 bucks a month and 50 for Sky, it is a no brainer to do that.

Cool_CM

Harika wrote: »

Who is doing the world feed atm? I fear that it is Sky. And someone said Casey is on the board of Sky, so he might have an interest in that.
But as they could go to competition to Sky in the future, they might want to build it up with Edwards and DC.
Anyway for 12 bucks a month and 50 for Sky, it is a no brainer to do that.

I was thinking this - US broadcasters will be piggybacking off the Sky coverage . I would imagine that it is going to be Sky and presumably that's the reason that they won't be rolling it out in the UK just yet.

Harika

Cool_CM wrote: »

I was thinking this - US broadcasters will be piggybacking off the Sky coverage . I would imagine that it is going to be Sky and presumably that's the reason that they won't be rolling it out in the UK just yet.

Sky UK/Australia have exclusive TV rights that include online broadcast until 2025. That's why we won't see it in Ireland for a long time. But that will help to iron the startup issues out.

Burkie1203 wrote: »

Autosport reporting Renault already planning strategic grid penalties.

Formula 1 needs to go back to being motor racing. Its a joke these days. All that money for this nonsense

3 unit max this year. I would expect to see quite a lot of it. Horner said they expect to use 5 PUs this year anyway, so the limit doesnt really do anything expect make teams take a penalty.

donspeekinglesh

Harika wrote: »

Are they drinking at work?

There was snow at Silverstone in April for the WEC a few years ago. The photos were fantastic.

El_Duderino 09

Adamocovic wrote: »

Yeah, a lot of reports were coming out from within F1 journalists that the TR Honda was going to be very good this year and some speculated it may even be a shock contender at the top.

Only early days testing but good signs.

Paper never refused ink. But for winter testing journalists should be given ink-phobic paper for reporting anything except the number of laps completed and reliability issues.

Early days yet but I always hold out for stories about sauber as championship contenders. That’s when you know there’s no actual news to report.

Adamocovic

Hey guys, made myself a table for first two days of testing. It's sorted by number of laps attempted by the team, rather than fastest. Included the fastest driver of those laps too.

Just threw it together and think it's accurate but if there are any mistakes let me know.

Team| Laps| Fastest Time| Fastest Driver | Tyres
Toro Rosso| 201| 1:21.318| Gasly | Softs
Ferrari|178| 1:19:673| Vettel |Softs
Mercedes|177| 1:19:976| Bottas | Mediums
Williams|174|1:21.495|Kubica|Softs
RedBull| 172| 1:20:179| Ricciardo| Mediums
Sauber|144|1:22.721| Leclerc| Softs
Renault| 138|1:20.547| Hulkenberg|Softs
Force India| 101|1:21.841| Ocon|Softs
Haas|91|1:22.578| Grosjean| Softs
McLaren|88|1:20.325|Vandoorne| Hypersofts

Finally some action today!

Mike Litoris wrote: »

Finally some action today!

See, ditching Honda is paying off for McLaren already. Told ya.

*testing logic

ScrubsfanChris

https://twitter.com/alo_oficial/status/968828870261534720

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Jordan 199

Prisoner 6753 wrote: »

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Will you be allowed to watch races in the slammer?

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In fairness anything in the snow and a bit of space is great fun.

Some footage of the first day.

First thing that stuck out to me was how hard it was to see the drivers with the halo, good luck to the commentators in 2018.

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Jordan 199

Prisoner 6753 wrote: »

Predictions for Melbourne?

Ricciardo to win.

Cookie_Monster

Prisoner 6753 wrote: »

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F1 to be ****e, Supercars to steal the show

AMKC

Gintonious wrote: »

Some footage of the first day.

First thing that stuck out to me was how hard it was to see the drivers with the halo, good luck to the commentators in 2018.[/QUOTE

That's why they have numbers on the cars now so the commentators can tell which driver it is and everyone else too.

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Burkie1203

Mclaren putting race distances together. Mechanics will have a lot more free time this year

Anyone know what happened to Red Bull this morning. Either way Verstappen eventually went out and set the fastest time on his first flying lap! Impressive for the first lap of the day but tis only testing. He immediately got pipped by Bottas though.