mario wrote:Now, because time penalties cannot be protested, they tried to get around that by protesting the provisional results instead - but the stewards just rejected that move, noting that it wasn't meant to be a mechanism for protesting against penalties that can't be protested. Their attempt to get the penalty increased was therefore dismissed. https://www.racefans.net/2019/03/11/ste ... -for-bird/
So at least we can not accuse the FIA of leniency. No FIA Leniency. No FIAL. Dammit, I failed at getting a FAIL acronym...
watka wrote:I find it amusing that whilst you're one of the more openly Christian guys here, you are still first and foremost associated with an eye for the ladies!
dinizintheoven wrote:GOOD CHRISTIANS do not go to jail. EVERYONE ON FORMULA ONE REJECTS should be in jail.
That was a weird race from the start procedure to the chequered flag, even for Formula E. Also, if di Grassi loses the title by 8 points, I'm going to be so angry with the world.
Starting on a bridge looked really cool.
Rob Dylan wrote:Mercedes paying homage to the other W12 chassis by breaking down 30 minutes in
UncreativeUsername37 wrote:That was a weird race from the start procedure to the chequered flag, even for Formula E. Also, if di Grassi loses the title by 8 points, I'm going to be so angry with the world.
I wouldn't worry about that, someone behind the scenes will ensure we have a fifth champion in five years...
Part of me is also wondering if it might be worth a bet that Oliver Rowland will finish ahead of his season 2 champion teammate.
James Allen, on his favourite F1 engine of all time: "...the Life W12, I can't describe the noise to you, but imagine filling your dustbin with nuts and bolts, and then throwing it down the stairs, it was something akin to that!"
Those four being Sam Bird, Lucas di Grassi, Jérôme d'Ambrosio and Daniel Abt.
James Allen, on his favourite F1 engine of all time: "...the Life W12, I can't describe the noise to you, but imagine filling your dustbin with nuts and bolts, and then throwing it down the stairs, it was something akin to that!"
No great loss. He'd been driving dreadfully this year anyway. OK, the car's clearly not the best but Mitch Evans has been trying his best whereas he clearly hadn't.
Mitch Evans wrote:Terribly sorry I barged your car into the wall, old bean...
André Lotterer wrote:SCHWEINHUND!
Mitch Evans wrote:...in my Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaag.
André Lotterer wrote:Ach so, kein problem. You will enjoy your champagne, ja?
And so the stage was set for the most purple of race victories, and Virgin weren't even involved.
James Allen, on his favourite F1 engine of all time: "...the Life W12, I can't describe the noise to you, but imagine filling your dustbin with nuts and bolts, and then throwing it down the stairs, it was something akin to that!"
And yet somehow, despite a perfectly middling and uneventful race to eighth place, Jérôme still ends up taking the championship lead. This title bid simply refuses to die.
kevinbotz wrote:Cantonese is a completely nonsensical f*cking alien language masquerading as some grossly bastardised form of Chinese
Gonzo wrote:Wasn't there some sort of communisim in the East part of Germany?
Hilarious that he threw his toys out of the pram just before that, couldn't have happened to a nicer bloke....
Mind you, I think Mitch Evans is making that car look very good - always good to see a Kiwi win, and to give Lotterer a taste of his own usual tactics made it even sweeter.
Meanwhile, Lopez continues to prove that he is utterly useless in open wheel racing.
Barbazza wrote:Meanwhile, Lopez continues to prove that he is utterly useless in open wheel racing.
USF1, what could have been.
watka wrote:I find it amusing that whilst you're one of the more openly Christian guys here, you are still first and foremost associated with an eye for the ladies!
dinizintheoven wrote:GOOD CHRISTIANS do not go to jail. EVERYONE ON FORMULA ONE REJECTS should be in jail.
THIS IS NOT A DRILL, IT IS ACTUALLY RAINING DURING AN FE RACE.
Predictably, it's absolute chaos on track as none of the drivers have any grip. That being said, regardless of what happens now, Nissan have easily won ROTR.
Fetzie on Ferrari wrote:How does a driver hurtling around a race track while they're sous-viding in their overalls have a better understanding of the race than a team of strategy engineers in an air-conditioned room?l
East Londoner wrote:THIS IS NOT A DRILL, IT IS ACTUALLY RAINING DURING AN FE RACE.
And predictably in FE, they didn't do things by halves. It didn't just rain, the commentators said it was hail!
watka wrote:I find it amusing that whilst you're one of the more openly Christian guys here, you are still first and foremost associated with an eye for the ladies!
dinizintheoven wrote:GOOD CHRISTIANS do not go to jail. EVERYONE ON FORMULA ONE REJECTS should be in jail.
East Londoner wrote:Predictably, it's absolute chaos on track as none of the drivers have any grip. That being said, regardless of what happens now, Nissan have easily won ROTR.
And it wasn't for the lack of trying on Edoardo Mortara's part to take it away from them...
Also, if anyone missed this statistic: after Jaime Alguersuari, Fabio Leimer, Jean-Éric Vergne, José Maria López and Alex Lynn couldn't manage it... finally, Sam Bird's team-mate has won a race!
James Allen, on his favourite F1 engine of all time: "...the Life W12, I can't describe the noise to you, but imagine filling your dustbin with nuts and bolts, and then throwing it down the stairs, it was something akin to that!"
watka wrote:I find it amusing that whilst you're one of the more openly Christian guys here, you are still first and foremost associated with an eye for the ladies!
dinizintheoven wrote:GOOD CHRISTIANS do not go to jail. EVERYONE ON FORMULA ONE REJECTS should be in jail.
I was going to, but got caught up in the moment of having an article published while trying to watch England threaten to unseat South Africa as Rejects Of The Cricket World Cup.
I have to wonder if, given that F1 is already heading for another season akin to 2002 and 2004, Alejandro Agag saw the writing on the wall last year and was determined to send FE careening off the deep end in the other direction. Yes, I know street circuits have restrictions that proper racing circuits don't, but why do the circuits have to have so many of these silly, silly chicanes that were absolutely bound to produce the kind of pile-up that happened on the first lap? We see what happens every year at Monza when 20 F1 cars try to get through the Rettifilo on the first lap, but that's a wider track and doesn't have a wall on one side and a whole pile of Tecpro barriers on the point of the chicane... it was inevitable that the similarly-shaped chicane on the Bren track wedged two cars into an impenetrable roadblock. And we've seen similar traffic jams in the past with circuits that have tried to use two sides of a grade-separated highway connected by a hairpin that's far too close to the start line (and of course there's another one of those just round the corner for the season closer).
Maybe you could say this was acceptable when FE was an experimental series in the first four seasons with the first-gen car, which were an extended test run to see if electric racing actually worked. In this second phase, as manufacturer interest ramps up ever further, and those manufacturers want nothing more than to wield their electrically-powered supremacy on the track, the series needs to give them suitable tracks to do that on. Never mind that JEV said the Bern track reminded him of Pau, how about if the Pau Grand Prix became an FE race? And the return of the Birmingham Superprix has also been mentioned around these parts...
James Allen, on his favourite F1 engine of all time: "...the Life W12, I can't describe the noise to you, but imagine filling your dustbin with nuts and bolts, and then throwing it down the stairs, it was something akin to that!"
A large part of me wants to say that inevitable track-induced incidents are a fun part of FE's character, but it is probably for the best that they don't happen as much. And I'd love to see the Pau Grand Prix be in a major series again. "Winning the Pau Grand Prix" hasn't meant enough for quite a while....
Rob Dylan wrote:Mercedes paying homage to the other W12 chassis by breaking down 30 minutes in
Personally, I would like to see Pau, Macau and Surfers Paradise on the calendar for FE, alongside Monaco. These are all long-established street tracks with a bit of prestige to them, which would help to boost FE's profile further. Although FE didn't last long at Long Beach...
watka wrote:I find it amusing that whilst you're one of the more openly Christian guys here, you are still first and foremost associated with an eye for the ladies!
dinizintheoven wrote:GOOD CHRISTIANS do not go to jail. EVERYONE ON FORMULA ONE REJECTS should be in jail.
I was tempted to mention Macau, but figured the organisers of the Macau Grand Prix didn't want to take the focus off their main event - if FE could be brought there, though, it'd negate the need for a rejectful circuit around a smog-addled Chinese city (though they'd probably still insist on one anyway). Surfers "Where's The Apostrophe, You Flaming Galahs?" Paradise is a fine idea, especially as it could fill that awkward gap in the Northern Hemisphere winter that's meant two-month breaks in previous seasons. I also notice that, with the newer shortened circuit used only by Supercars, GT racing and sub-F3 single-seater series, the steady development of FE cars means they could go for the outright lap record...
James Allen, on his favourite F1 engine of all time: "...the Life W12, I can't describe the noise to you, but imagine filling your dustbin with nuts and bolts, and then throwing it down the stairs, it was something akin to that!"
dr-baker wrote:Personally, I would like to see Pau, Macau and Surfers Paradise on the calendar for FE, alongside Monaco. These are all long-established street tracks with a bit of prestige to them, which would help to boost FE's profile further. Although FE didn't last long at Long Beach...
Perhaps Adelaide or Melbourne could be used if Surfers Paradise doesn't work out? Australia and New Zealand have plenty of good street courses seen in Supercars.
Hopefully everyone's caught up with both FE races from New York by now.
Very entertaining, it has to be said, and yet again Buemi ends up near the top of the standings having seemingly come from nowhere.
Out of the newbie ex-F1 drivers who came in this season, Wehrlein has definitely been the most impressive, though inconsistent, and Vandoorne and Massa have both been quite underwhelming, but I kind of expected that from both of them TBH ...
madmark1974 wrote:Hopefully everyone's caught up with both FE races from New York by now.
Very entertaining, it has to be said, and yet again Buemi ends up near the top of the standings having seemingly come from nowhere.
Out of the newbie ex-F1 drivers who came in this season, Wehrlein has definitely been the most impressive, though inconsistent, and Vandoorne and Massa have both been quite underwhelming, but I kind of expected that from both of them TBH ...
To be fair on Stoffel, that HWA was a piece of thrash most of the year. He still basically destroyed Paffett throughout the year (altho, not a hard achievement on itself by 2019), and was much more competitive than the car was.
He had the pace in qualifying, but usually in sunday's the struggled more due to the tendency of the car to use more energy than others.
Mario on Gutierrez after the Italian Grand Prix wrote:He's no longer just a bit of a tool, he's the entire tool set.
18-07-2015: Forever in our hearts Jules. 25-08-2015: Forever in our hearts Justin.
madmark1974 wrote:Hopefully everyone's caught up with both FE races from New York by now.
Very entertaining, it has to be said, and yet again Buemi ends up near the top of the standings having seemingly come from nowhere.
Out of the newbie ex-F1 drivers who came in this season, Wehrlein has definitely been the most impressive, though inconsistent, and Vandoorne and Massa have both been quite underwhelming, but I kind of expected that from both of them TBH ...
To be fair on Stoffel, that HWA was a piece of thrash most of the year. He still basically destroyed Paffett throughout the year (altho, not a hard achievement on itself by 2019), and was much more competitive than the car was.
He had the pace in qualifying, but usually in sunday's the struggled more due to the tendency of the car to use more energy than others.
I am contractually obligated to hype up how good Pascal was this year, at least in qualifying. One of the best over a single lap, for sure.
As for Vandoorne, he was 100% let down by the team. Formula E is so different from other series that even with years of motorsport experience, it takes a lot of getting used to. The strategy game is very different, and over the season HWA showed signs that they hadn't quite gotten to grips with it yet. Energy use is a huge factor here, and if they can't make the most of the powertrain by working out a good lift-regen-brake strategy, ultimately they won't be able to go as fast in the races because they'll be using more energy for the same lap time.
kevinbotz wrote:Cantonese is a completely nonsensical f*cking alien language masquerading as some grossly bastardised form of Chinese
Gonzo wrote:Wasn't there some sort of communisim in the East part of Germany?
I think the next logical step for Formula E would be for it to have a feeder series. I'm not on about the Jaguar iPace eTrophy thing that exists, but a proper FE junior series with spec cars.
It could run at all the same circuits as the senior championship, but with the rule that every team must run at least one driver who is under the age of 25. 30-minute races with random grids (which sounds mad, but given how important overtaking is in the senior series, I don't think this would be especially counterproductive) that run between FE quali and the race. We can call it FuturE because marketing is fun.
Teams could be something like this:
HWA Racelab (staying on as a Merc junior team) - David Beckmann & Daniel Juncadella
Jaguar Racing Team Asia (pulled from the eTrophy) - Simon Evans & Mahaveer Raghunathan
Rahal Letterman Lannigan (pulled from the eTrophy) - Santiago Urrutia & Rinus van Kalmthout
TWR Techeetah (pulled from the eTrophy) - Stefan Rzadzinski & Guanyu Zhou Except with twice as many teams and drivers, but I'm too sleepy to come up with the rest
Given that it's a very specific style of racing that doesn't really exist anywhere else, I think it would benefit young drivers to get the hang of the lift-and-coast driving, the elbows-out racing and stuff rather than having to learn on the job next to a psyched up Andre Lotterer. Slightly smaller grid sizes - say, sixteen cars? - wouldn't be the end of the world either given the
watka wrote:I find it amusing that whilst you're one of the more openly Christian guys here, you are still first and foremost associated with an eye for the ladies!
dinizintheoven wrote:GOOD CHRISTIANS do not go to jail. EVERYONE ON FORMULA ONE REJECTS should be in jail.
If they had a crack at it now, how many of the first-gen cars are still serviceable?
And is anyone else tempted by the prospect of an electric Touring Car championship at any stage, even if it might be a Nissan Leaf walkover at the moment?
James Allen, on his favourite F1 engine of all time: "...the Life W12, I can't describe the noise to you, but imagine filling your dustbin with nuts and bolts, and then throwing it down the stairs, it was something akin to that!"
dinizintheoven wrote:If they had a crack at it now, how many of the first-gen cars are still serviceable?
That would be an excellent ready-made solution for a junior series.
They could potentially also use the junior series to test potential new ePrix venues, although part of the attraction of Formula E is that it can make the most garbage of venues turn out a decent race.
dinizintheoven wrote:If they had a crack at it now, how many of the first-gen cars are still serviceable?
That would be an excellent ready-made solution for a junior series.
They could potentially also use the junior series to test potential new ePrix venues, although part of the attraction of Formula E is that it can make the most garbage of venues turn out a decent race.
Basically taking the book from V8 Supercars's feeder series then
Klon wrote:What did poor André do to you for him to be insulted like that?
UncreativeUsername37 wrote:Formula E continues to innovate ways a race can be really weird.
That is true.
watka wrote:I find it amusing that whilst you're one of the more openly Christian guys here, you are still first and foremost associated with an eye for the ladies!
dinizintheoven wrote:GOOD CHRISTIANS do not go to jail. EVERYONE ON FORMULA ONE REJECTS should be in jail.
So, no one's talking about the Santiago race? There was overtaking all the way through, the win was decided very late... it was a great race. And there were only about a dozen time penalties.
Rob Dylan wrote:Mercedes paying homage to the other W12 chassis by breaking down 30 minutes in
I agree, it was a bit quiet to begin with but all kicked off after the person leading (no spoliers) took his second Attack Mode. Happy with the eventual winner too.
Also I think Di Grassi made up about 15 places but hardly even got shown on TV that I can remember?
Snooker loopy, nuts are we, But not when I want to watch Formula E!
STOP FANNYING ABOUT ON THE YELLOW, GET THIS MATCH OVER WITH AND THEN WE CAN GET TO MEXICO!
James Allen, on his favourite F1 engine of all time: "...the Life W12, I can't describe the noise to you, but imagine filling your dustbin with nuts and bolts, and then throwing it down the stairs, it was something akin to that!"
dinizintheoven wrote:Snooker loopy, nuts are we, But not when I want to watch Formula E!
STOP FANNYING ABOUT ON THE YELLOW, GET THIS MATCH OVER WITH AND THEN WE CAN GET TO MEXICO!
There wasn't any snooker on BBC iPlayer! Although there was some yellow action (predictably) in the FE race...
By the way, anybody going to the FE races in either New York or London?
watka wrote:I find it amusing that whilst you're one of the more openly Christian guys here, you are still first and foremost associated with an eye for the ladies!
dinizintheoven wrote:GOOD CHRISTIANS do not go to jail. EVERYONE ON FORMULA ONE REJECTS should be in jail.