2016 Random F1 Discussion Thread

Coldtyre · PostPosted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 9:25 am

Sato real Indy 500 champion 2011

Paul Tracy real Indy 500 champion 2002

Bring it on

Omega · PostPosted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 1:28 pm

What's wrong with Sato? Apart from his early years in F1, he has done quite well.

Haters are going to mention everything he did wrong, please don't waste your time on it.

LucasWheldon · PostPosted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 2:39 pm

Sato shouldn't be set as the kind of banzai japanese crasher, there were several other japanese that were worser, like Taki Inoue, Ukyo Katayama

Sato at least can claim a british F3 title (when it worth something) and a victory in IndyCar. I thought I could never live to see a japanese win in a top international open wheel series

gkmotorsport · PostPosted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 3:58 pm

I think Sato just never escaped the 'banzai Japanese driver' stereotype, at least in the English-speaking world. That is pretty unfair; he definitely showed himself to be better than that.

NVirkkula · PostPosted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 4:12 pm

What about Yuji Ide? The only driver who's driving got his super license revoked and never returned. That's at least par with Maldonado's life-time ban to Monaco. Can anything beat that? And just for the record, I don't count Inoue's career or Nissany's practice session at Hungaroring to match those two.

And can anyone of you name another driver who spend four years in F1 and we all expected him to crash at some point of the weekend. Which Maldonado did.

Dan Belcher · PostPosted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 4:18 pm

Shigeaki Hattori was pretty abysmal. Per Wikipedia, "Hattori raced for Bettenhausen in CART in 1999, but after he spun the car 18 times in 7 races, he had his CART competition license revoked at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca by chief steward Wally Dallenbach Sr." If I remember right, Mario Andretti lapped Laguna Seca faster in the two-seater than Hattori qualified.

Fabs · PostPosted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 5:08 pm

http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12479/ ... rnal-staff

An interesting quote:

Quote:

However, Honda will continue with their 'size zero' packaging this season, despite some in the paddock suggesting it was the cause of much of their reliability woe.

"F1 cars cannot go fast without proper consideration given to air resistance and the way suspensions move," Arai added.

"It's important to minimize the size of power units so that they don't interfere with the car's design. ...McLaren once told us that we don't have to be aggressive in downsizing our power unit. But we are determined to shrink the size by whatever means possible."

So that design was never Mclaren's idea? That would leave all the blame for 2015 with Honda, like I always thought.

I seriously doubt they will have resolved any of their problems after reading that article.

Omega · PostPosted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 5:50 pm

Dan Belcher wrote:

Shigeaki Hattori was pretty abysmal. Per Wikipedia, "Hattori raced for Bettenhausen in CART in 1999, but after he spun the car 18 times in 7 races, he had his CART competition license revoked at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca by chief steward Wally Dallenbach Sr." If I remember right, Mario Andretti lapped Laguna Seca faster in the two-seater than Hattori qualified.

If you look at Indycar then Milka Dunno should be included for being so slow that she had to be taken out of every race she started

gkmotorsport · PostPosted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 8:52 pm

Omega wrote:

Dan Belcher wrote:

Shigeaki Hattori was pretty abysmal. Per Wikipedia, "Hattori raced for Bettenhausen in CART in 1999, but after he spun the car 18 times in 7 races, he had his CART competition license revoked at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca by chief steward Wally Dallenbach Sr." If I remember right, Mario Andretti lapped Laguna Seca faster in the two-seater than Hattori qualified.

If you look at Indycar then Milka Dunno should be included for being so slow that she had to be taken out of every race she started

Just read that she has four masters degrees. Clearly one of the shittest IndyCar drivers, but she may have been the smartest person ever to sit in one

Gaara · PostPosted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 8:57 pm

Better then Marty Roth though. He'd have a spin in warm up and then not start the race.

mclaren2008 · PostPosted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 10:50 pm

"the car has too much grip"

:lol:

what a clown

Omega wrote:

Dan Belcher wrote:

Shigeaki Hattori was pretty abysmal. Per Wikipedia, "Hattori raced for Bettenhausen in CART in 1999, but after he spun the car 18 times in 7 races, he had his CART competition license revoked at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca by chief steward Wally Dallenbach Sr." If I remember right, Mario Andretti lapped Laguna Seca faster in the two-seater than Hattori qualified.

If you look at Indycar then Milka Dunno should be included for being so slow that she had to be taken out of every race she started

go to 2:56, what a joke of a driver

Coldtyre · PostPosted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 11:46 am

gkmotorsport wrote:

Omega wrote:

Dan Belcher wrote:

Shigeaki Hattori was pretty abysmal. Per Wikipedia, "Hattori raced for Bettenhausen in CART in 1999, but after he spun the car 18 times in 7 races, he had his CART competition license revoked at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca by chief steward Wally Dallenbach Sr." If I remember right, Mario Andretti lapped Laguna Seca faster in the two-seater than Hattori qualified.

If you look at Indycar then Milka Dunno should be included for being so slow that she had to be taken out of every race she started

Just read that she has four masters degrees. Clearly one of the shittest IndyCar drivers, but she may have been the smartest person ever to sit in one

She might be too academic-smart to drive fast. As a, huh, nerd myself, I overthink everything I do. This includes when I'm trying to race something to the limit (even a bike, lol). Very rarely do I reach the "zone" where you're focused and ride with your guts, that's where you want to be to be competitive on a race track, but the damn brain won't stop analysing stuff and keeps getting in the way.

De Cesaris fan · PostPosted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 11:55 am

As bad as Duno was, didn't it reach a point where the team didn't even set the car up properly, making her look a lot worse than she probably was?

gkmotorsport · PostPosted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 1:00 pm

Renault launch in 15 minutes. Their website has already buckled under the load :slaphead:

Gaara · PostPosted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 1:14 pm

De Cesaris fan wrote:

As bad as Duno was, didn't it reach a point where the team didn't even set the car up properly, making her look a lot worse than she probably was?

Yeaa, I do recall hearing that. They just took her money and concentrated on the other car.

micha · PostPosted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 1:27 pm

gkmotorsport wrote:

Renault launch in 15 minutes. Their website has already buckled under the load :slaphead:

Is Pastor their new IT man?

gkmotorsport · PostPosted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 1:32 pm

http://event.media.renault.com/Renault/ ... che=157044

gkmotorsport · PostPosted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 1:45 pm

New Renault thread.

micha · PostPosted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 2:10 pm

lol: http://rumblestripscomic.tumblr.com/pos ... -news-this

Omega · PostPosted: Wed Feb 03, 2016 2:55 pm

Omega wrote:

Tobias wrote:

anyone going to Barcelona pre-season testing here? Is paddock access possible? Should I buy general admission tickets in advance? What is the easiest way from the city centre to the track?

I'm going in March, first time for me. Tickets will be available online in February. But I hope they will be for sale at the gate too, as I don't know yet if I am going every day. Depends on who's driving.

Tickets are for sale online, only 15 Euro for each day.

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