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Formula 1 2018: General Discussion Thread

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Probably time to open a new thread for the 2018 season?

Silly season is still in full swing as we all know with Williams and Sauber not having confirmed their line ups as yet.

What are people's opinions on the Halo and Alfa Romeo for 2018?

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mickdw

PukkaStukka wrote: »

I hope they were made eat their words. Some of the remarks in that were miles off.

To be fair, it was pretty spot on in terms of what I felt at the time after Brawn managed to scrape a team together.
Nobody could ever have foreseen what they did.
Brawn was confident in what they had when Honda were on board but Honda have a habit of pulling the plug just at the wrong time. I don't think even he expected the hastily put together Mercedes Engined Brawn to be the class of the field. Even after testing, where they were quick, I certainly thought it was showboating for sponsors.
Amazing how much they were off the pace in 2010 as Mercedes though.
I'm sure Schumacher thought he was jumping into a guaranteed race winner and championship contender.

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Adamocovic

Rossi IRL wrote: »

Nico Rosberg joins the Sky team for the 2018 season.

The uproar on social media from Hamilton fans is rather quite funny. Some very over the top reactions to that announcement.

billybonkers

Rossi IRL wrote: »

Nico Rosberg joins the Sky team for the 2018 season.

Rosberg has the best eyebrows in F1, hands down!

R00ster

AMKC wrote: »

What happened to the Brawn GP cars? Who owns them or are they in a museum somewhere?

From what I can find online, it appears that Button has his car, Ross Brawn has Barrichello's, and Mercedes have the spare car. There were only three Brawn chassis (Honda built two designed to run a Honda engine). Button raced his car in every session until the last GP in Abu Dhabi.

AMKC

R00ster wrote: »

Did the Guardian do a preview booklet this year? Haven't seen them do one for a few years, they used to be great.

This was their Brawn GP profile for 2009 (presumably completed before pre-season testing)

What happened to the Brawn GP cars? Who owns them or are they in a museum somewhere?

PukkaStukka

R00ster wrote: »

This was their Brawn GP profile for 2009 (presumably completed before pre-season testing)

I hope they were made eat their words. Some of the remarks in that were miles off.

R00ster

Did the Guardian do a preview booklet this year? Haven't seen them do one for a few years, they used to be great.

This was their Brawn GP profile for 2009 (presumably completed before pre-season testing)

Jordan 199

Looks like I made a mistake. Sorry Rossi IRL.

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Jordan 199

Rossi IRL wrote: »

Nico Rosberg joins the Sky team for the 2018 season.

That's Sky Germany man.

Rossi IRL

Nico Rosberg joins the Sky team for the 2018 season.

Harika

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Lads, someone posted s link to some good data of lap times for race simulations for Mercedes, RB and Ferrari.

Could you post a link to it again? I looked back over the last few pages but can’t see it.

Cheers

https://mobile.twitter.com/f1debrief

El_Duderino 09

Lads, someone posted s link to some good data of lap times for race simulations for Mercedes, RB and Ferrari.

Could you post a link to it again? I looked back over the last few pages but can’t see it.

Cheers

AMKC

17larsson wrote: »

Yeah it was a good finish to the race.

I don't like the fan boost thing though and the coverage seemed a bit amateurish, from the camera shots to the commentating but interesting to watch.

I'll look forward to watching a race or two next year again when the F1 is finished for winter!

Next year with the new cars and longer lasting batteries Formula e will be racing on the full Monaco track layout as well.

christy c

astrofluff wrote: »

Eir's coverage for the Race on Sunday is 5.05 as per their TV guide.

https://www.eirsport.ie/tv-guides

Think they must have their wires crossed, sky have 6.10 as well

https://www.google.ie/amp/www.skysports.com/amp/f1/news/12430/11232101/f1-in-2018-race-start-times-pushed-back-for-new-formula-1-season

Charlie-Bravo

Eir's coverage for the Race on Sunday is 5.05 as per their TV guide.

https://www.eirsport.ie/tv-guides

christy c

astrofluff wrote: »

So is it formula coverage officially starts at 5 mins to the hour but the race doesn't go lights out until 10 mins past the hour?

For the first race, there's daylight saving to contend with. I think it's 5.10 race start. But someone please check that for me.

Race at 6.10. On the formula 1 official website there's a "convert to your time" option which saves all the mental arithmetic

Charlie-Bravo

So is it formula coverage officially starts at 5 mins to the hour but the race doesn't go lights out until 10 mins past the hour?

For the first race, there's daylight saving to contend with. I think it's 5.10 race start. But someone please check that for me.

Ajsoprano

Prisoner 6753 wrote: »

Lads this FormulaE thing isn’t bad,Vergne and DiGrassi had some scrap

The fan boost thing ruined it for me. Might watch it later if there’s nothing on.

17larsson

Prisoner 6753 wrote: »

Lads this FormulaE thing isn’t bad,Vergne and DiGrassi had some scrap

Yeah it was a good finish to the race.

I don't like the fan boost thing though and the coverage seemed a bit amateurish, from the camera shots to the commentating but interesting to watch.

I'll look forward to watching a race or two next year again when the F1 is finished for winter!

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Ajsoprano

Prisoner 6753 wrote: »

The new starting times will take a bit of getting used to

I normally record it. Have Guinness on Saturday night to watch qualifying and Guinness on Sunday night to watch the race.

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Jordan 199

Less than one week to go to the first qualifying session of the season.

Sterling Archer

AMKC wrote: »

Anyway I can just pay for Eir Sport? I don't really care if there is no build up or not. Half the time I only half watch the build up anyways.

Do you know anyone who is an Eir Mobile customer - https://www.eir.ie/sport/

AMKC

flazio wrote: »

Eir Sport have live access to all of Channel 4s session coverage, but only the session coverage, no build up or reviews. Just straight in with 5 minutes to go to formation lap, off air after the podium. Sadly this is also getting canned at the end of the season.
Still though, worth it to not have to endure David Croft.

Anyway I can just pay for Eir Sport? I don't really care if there is no build up or not. Half the time I only half watch the build up anyways.

flazio

AMKC wrote: »

Fecking raging. I know Channel 4 only get 10 races live but with the introduction of the Halo this year, Mclaren using Renault engines now and Toro Rosso now using Honda engines and it looking like its going to be a really exciting year you would think they would have got the first race of the season but no only fecking highlights. Feck you Sky.

Eir Sport have live access to all of Channel 4s session coverage, but only the session coverage, no build up or reviews. Just straight in with 5 minutes to go to formation lap, off air after the podium. Sadly this is also getting canned at the end of the season.
Still though, worth it to not have to endure David Croft.

AMKC

Fecking raging. I know Channel 4 only get 10 races live but with the introduction of the Halo this year, Mclaren using Renault engines now and Toro Rosso now using Honda engines and it looking like its going to be a really exciting year you would think they would have got the first race of the season but no only fecking highlights. Feck you Sky.

Charlie-Bravo

I'll play. Is there a Boardsie group yet?