Formula 1 and MotoGP - Racing

I finally watched most of the post race stuff. Lots of protests and lawyer assgoblinry.

Sounds like there will be protests and appeals and such until thursday, but I don't expect them to flip. Both sides got screwed a bit, but red bull had some crazy luck.

Lewis has had his share of amazing luck with safety cars and such so it all evens out over time.

Amazing finish to the season with more questionable decisions by race management, as is tradition this year. Even Sky Sports said that Hamilton went off the track at the start and needed to give the position back.
Still, brilliant tactics by Red Bull won this even if Mercedes had the faster car.
Toto Wolff losing his shit will never not be amusing.

Kharzette said:

I finally watched most of the post race stuff. Lots of protests and lawyer assgoblinry.

Sounds like there will be protests and appeals and such until thursday, but I don't expect them to flip. Both sides got screwed a bit, but red bull had some crazy luck.

Lewis has had his share of amazing luck with safety cars and such so it all evens out over time.

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Yeah, there was some shit going on, but I feel it is even over the season.

For sure, the winner of this year's title earned the hell out of it, though.

This is an excellent interview of Max Verstappen and his father Jos (who raced for Benneton in the 90s) by David Coulthard. Actual discussion, not just a bunch of PR talk.

Looks like TT coverage this year will be live / streamed:

Sounds like Masi got the axe

Kharzette said:

Sounds like Masi got the axe

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He was weak.

Testing in barcelona that isn't supposed to be called testing was this morning. Red bull has very small sidepods. They all look strange without all the jungle gym of extra wing bits on the sides.

There's no tv there but people are sneaking photos.

MotoGP started! I thought it was still a month off.

Good races. The Grisini livery looks so goooood. I'm stealing those colours on my next ship I build.

Real testing is today, haven't found a download for it yet.

Looks like merc copied redbull's sidepods. Here's hoping they were a troll by redbull to see who copied them.

I finally got the test coverage. It is less merc copying and more saying "hold my beer". The merc basically has no sidepods at all.

I agree with your vid. I think the specs are more about extending beyond geometric boundaries than meeting some minimum volume threshold.

I think they can pull in a reference to the cad software and check if anything is poking into the red areas.

I've been slowly getting through testing. It is like 8 freakin hours a day. The coverage is really good but I'll probably only watch day 1.

Seems like everyone from the F1 org + all the sky people are working together so you had Ted and the new Tech guy Sam hanging out in the pit lane talking about stuff. Then Brundle out at various corners (the really good insight), and Crofty / Davidson / Jolyon with occasional Buxton.

It looks like low speed corners and exit traction are the really big problems right now. I don't think engineers really give a rats ass about "driver comfort" so I doubt the bouncing will be a big deal. Stalling the floor at high speed is usually a good thing (though it might be a problem in silverstone).

Did you see the Shaman at the GP? Tryin to cast weather control. That's a druid spell and it needs an opal I think.

Interesting to see Ferrari and Mercedes switching places. MB will catch up...maybe. They have a lot of work to do!