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Post by Deleted on Oct 12, 2018 15:05:43 GMT
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Post by robmarsh on Oct 12, 2018 15:21:01 GMT
Great update Rob, Really pleased that George Russell has got a drive fixed up in F1, even if it is with a now below par Williams organisation. I wonder how much input MB had in this appointment, but what of Esteban Ocon? At least Williams have a proper talent in the team now, so no excuses for them. From what I gather there maybe some deal with relation to engines. Williams being so patriotic in the past maybe a British driver was an easier sell than a French one, or maybe Ocon would rather take a break than drive for Williams. It seems as though Williams woes could be put down to a lack of correlation between the wind tunnel and the track owing to them changing the rolling surface on the "road" of the wind tunnel. There is still conjecture as to Russell's team mate. Williams were hoping for a bidding war between Artem Markelov and Sergy Sirotkin. However, Markelov's old man just got arrested for fraud so that won't happen. He must have irritated the wrong guys to get arrested for fraud in Russia. Kubica may still have an outside chance. All of the above courtesy of MPH.
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Post by charleselan on Oct 12, 2018 16:24:24 GMT
Great update Rob, Really pleased that George Russell has got a drive fixed up in F1, even if it is with a now below par Williams organisation. I wonder how much input MB had in this appointment, but what of Esteban Ocon? At least Williams have a proper talent in the team now, so no excuses for them. From what I gather there maybe some deal with relation to engines. Williams being so patriotic in the past maybe a British driver was an easier sell than a French one, or maybe Ocon would rather take a break than drive for Williams. It seems as though Williams woes could be put down to a lack of correlation between the wind tunnel and the track owing to them changing the rolling surface on the "road" of the wind tunnel. There is still conjecture as to Russell's team mate. Williams were hoping for a bidding war between Artem Markelov and Sergy Sirotkin. However, Markelov's old man just got arrested for fraud so that won't happen. He must have irritated the wrong guys to get arrested for fraud in Russia. Kubica may still have an outside chance. All of the above courtesy of MPH. Yes Rob, I have read that piece as well, quite interesting. It would appear that Markelov has upset the former KGB man in some way, so he won't be troubling F1 anymore. I am disappointed as I was looking forward to the Russians taking over Williams, it could have been like 1978 when the team were under Saudi money. All the team would have needed would have been for the design dept copying this years MB and making it better, along with a Russian version of Jones, voilà.
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Post by René on Oct 12, 2018 22:15:46 GMT
Nando, the man who said in 2014 that you can only finish second at Ferrari. The man who should have been WDC in 2010 where there was not only the team to blame for losing out. I see most of the voters are Spanish. They know it's over.
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Post by René on Oct 12, 2018 22:17:07 GMT
musing is great, something I have always done and probably explains why I am not wealthy Quote of the week!
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Post by René on Oct 12, 2018 22:20:15 GMT
Great update Rob, Really pleased that George Russell has got a drive fixed up in F1, even if it is with a now below par Williams organisation. I wonder how much input MB had in this appointment, but what of Esteban Ocon? At least Williams have a proper talent in the team now, so no excuses for them. Yes, I agree. Great and well deserved for Russell but it's a disgrace that Esteban is sidelined.
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Post by Carl on Oct 13, 2018 0:22:37 GMT
I love musing too. As a youngster my favourite musing time was during maths and physics. Probably why I didn't become an engineer. Looking back, the things that interest me the most are mechanical!!! You probably were inspired by the subject to follow your own thoughts. I could never pay attention in physics for that reason.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2018 2:47:47 GMT
"I never thought I could have said that, but Hamilton is really the one who could beat Schumacher's records. He has everything under control and, quality that unites him to Michael and the all-time greats, he knows how to win races that on paper should lose "
Ross Brawn, 11 October 2018, Trento, Italy
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2018 9:37:49 GMT
Watching the replay of the Japanese GP on Fox Sports Asia. Must say that Verstappen gets away with quite a lot. It seems he has developed the same deeply anti-sporting attitude as Senna, who used to put his competitors in the situation where either not engage him or have contact and ruin their races. It's a different sport now and I'm afraid that part of the mutation did start with Senna.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2018 10:37:57 GMT
Next year’s last race will be on the 1st of December. Far, far too long and far too many races, 21. It should be no more than 17, 18, and proceedings should get to a close by the end of October at most. It recalls when I used to read the chronicles of Yarborough, Pearson, Petty racing into November. The nascarization in full swing, diluting the sport until completely devalue it.
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Post by robmarsh on Oct 13, 2018 13:50:07 GMT
I got an email from McLaren to enter a competition to win a signed T shirt. Second prize is dinner with Zak Brown.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2018 0:32:57 GMT
He's worth less than a T shirt.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2018 1:33:01 GMT
I got an email from McLaren to enter a competition to win a signed T shirt. Second prize is dinner with Zak Brown. Van Doorne entered three years ago, and won the booby prize!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2018 1:41:54 GMT
Next year’s last race will be on the 1st of December. Far, far too long and far too many races, 21. It should be no more than 17, 18, and proceedings should get to a close by the end of October at most. It recalls when I used to read the chronicles of Yarborough, Pearson, Petty racing into November. The nascarization in full swing, diluting the sport until completely devalue it. Thats looking like a very long season, racing in 9 months from mid March, to beginning December. Add in the pre-season testing a month ahead of that and there is almost no 'off season' left.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2018 2:45:49 GMT
The key factor in modern sports is television, or broadcasting in general, whether on TV or on computers. The business of TV rights is huge, that is why initially Ecclestone did not discriminate between free-on-air or pay-per-view, it was all about making the “killing”, the biggest possible deal without taking into account the collateral shrinking of the audience, which would eventually impact the exposure of the sponsors and in the final analysis the sustainability of the business model of the “sport” called Formula 1.
TV exposure means to provide an increasing number of “events” – you thought they were races or, delusion, Grands Prix – in the same way they have been multiplying games in football competitions. The clear example is the European championship for nations, every four years alternated to the World Cup. It was a highly competitive and selected tournament with 16 participants, minnows couldn’t make it through. To increase the number of games to be televised, the participants went to 24 – effectively half of the whole European nations – diluting the quality of the competition.
We have now 21 races, likely to increase in due course to 25, resistance within the sport will be overcome through usual “sweeteners”. They are lining up races in Miami – FL, which is not Florida, but Flatistan – and Hanoi.
If it was a sport, where pure and simple merit matters, they should limit as I said in my previous post, to keep prestige of the achievement, while competing on tracks that provide the challenge, not tourist locations. They should also free testing in the four winter months, both to keep people at work, and allow real innovation to be experimented and implemented, limiting computer simulation. Obviously, they won’t be doing any of that. It’s not a sport. It’s a show.
Incidentally, this is also the reason why when we see the human factor surfacing, as eventually it always does until it will be driven by robots – e.g. the superior talent emerging over the average, in a sport where the entrance is not free-for-all, never been – most people dismisses it, they can’t recognize it and denial takes hold.
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