Might use the F1 App this weekend for the team radio
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Originally Posted by Guv'nor:
“Might use the F1 App this weekend for the team radio”
“Might use the F1 App this weekend for the team radio”
And the pit-lane channel might be worth having on again - as long as they swap the sizes of the picture so that the Pit-lane is large and the world feed is small. Pit Lane channel has been a joke this year. All it did was confuse me when they did a replay - screen is too small to see the replay banner!!
Eir Sport giving us a throwback to the old flyaway coverage days. A poor line to commentary makes the coverage seem phoned in.
Has there been a previous season of F1 with so many changes or 'clarifications' to the rules as this year? This is just ridiculous.
F1 is open cockpit racing, the halo is ugly and where will they fit the wipers on the windscreen thing, otherwise racing will be stopped due to 'light rain at turn 4'.
F1 is open cockpit racing, the halo is ugly and where will they fit the wipers on the windscreen thing, otherwise racing will be stopped due to 'light rain at turn 4'.
Have i seriously just watched christian horner say its ok to use the track limits and more?
Hope i never get in a car with him, he seems to think its ok to drive down the pavement in a town centre.
They have a tarmac strip round the track, if you are not capable enough to stay on it then go somewhere else, it is time the FIA made it simple, stay on the track or else, The dvla tell me the same and i manage to do it.
And so so sick of this halo rubbish, its OPEN COCKPIT racing, the day they fetch it in is the day i say goodbye to F1 and watch more GT and touring cars.
Why has nobody anywhere brought up what happens about drivers getting ot safely and quickly and more importantly when a car turns over?, how long before someone dies before it is upside down and they cannot be reached.
Hope i never get in a car with him, he seems to think its ok to drive down the pavement in a town centre.
They have a tarmac strip round the track, if you are not capable enough to stay on it then go somewhere else, it is time the FIA made it simple, stay on the track or else, The dvla tell me the same and i manage to do it.
And so so sick of this halo rubbish, its OPEN COCKPIT racing, the day they fetch it in is the day i say goodbye to F1 and watch more GT and touring cars.
Why has nobody anywhere brought up what happens about drivers getting ot safely and quickly and more importantly when a car turns over?, how long before someone dies before it is upside down and they cannot be reached.
Originally Posted by tasker:
“Why has nobody anywhere brought up what happens about drivers getting ot safely and quickly and more importantly when a car turns over?”
“Why has nobody anywhere brought up what happens about drivers getting ot safely and quickly and more importantly when a car turns over?”
I saw somebody say yesterday that when Ferrari took the Halo to Austria the FIA decided to try an extraction test & found that it took safety workers 12 minutes to get a Ferrari mechanic out of the car.
This is apparently one of the reasons why teams who were in favor of the halo decided that it maybe needed more testing & decided to vote against it yesterday.
Originally Posted by tasker:
“ how long before someone dies before it is upside down and they cannot be reached.”
“ how long before someone dies before it is upside down and they cannot be reached.”
More have died because of debris hitting them in the head. One in F2; one in IndyCar and one during F1 testing.
Cars don't tend to flip anymore as a general rule because the driving standards are better and the runs offs are tarmaced.
If Health & Safety is the main issue, then take the drivers out of the car and drive by remote control or even have a race of Simulators - 100% safe, 0% viewer ratings.
Motorsport is dangerous, the risk & reward is part of the attraction. Not excessive risk, but it's considerably safer than it ever has been.
Motorsport is dangerous, the risk & reward is part of the attraction. Not excessive risk, but it's considerably safer than it ever has been.
Originally Posted by aberboy:
“Cars don't tend to flip anymore as a general rule because the driving standards are better and the runs offs are tarmaced.”
“Cars don't tend to flip anymore as a general rule because the driving standards are better and the runs offs are tarmaced.”
On that point, looking at one of the crashes during last weekend (can't remember who), I noticed that because the wheels are tethered, the detached wheel wedged itself between the ground and the car and caused the car to flip over. It's that pro/con of these safety measures - in this case the tether - that need to be weighed up. (Obviously, the tether is much safer than no tether, but there is still a knock-on effect by having it.)
Originally Posted by cocarroll:
“On that point, looking at one of the crashes during last weekend (can't remember who), I noticed that because the wheels are tethered, the detached wheel wedged itself between the ground and the car and caused the car to flip over.”
“On that point, looking at one of the crashes during last weekend (can't remember who), I noticed that because the wheels are tethered, the detached wheel wedged itself between the ground and the car and caused the car to flip over.”
Same thing happened to Perez during F1 practice at Hungary last year.
Originally Posted by tasker:
“And so so sick of this halo rubbish, its OPEN COCKPIT racing, the day they fetch it in is the day i say goodbye to F1 and watch more GT and touring cars.
Why has nobody anywhere brought up what happens about drivers getting ot safely and quickly and more importantly when a car turns over?, how long before someone dies before it is upside down and they cannot be reached.”
“And so so sick of this halo rubbish, its OPEN COCKPIT racing, the day they fetch it in is the day i say goodbye to F1 and watch more GT and touring cars.
Why has nobody anywhere brought up what happens about drivers getting ot safely and quickly and more importantly when a car turns over?, how long before someone dies before it is upside down and they cannot be reached.”
Every single discussion about this has included talk about what happens if the car turns over.
They don't catch fire anymore, fortunately. So even if a driver is trapped inside an upside down car he's not in any danger.
The Halo is a bit of a half-arsed solution. If canopies are where we're going just do that.
Originally Posted by aberboy:
“More have died because of debris hitting them in the head. One in F2; one in IndyCar and one during F1 testing.
Cars don't tend to flip anymore as a general rule because the driving standards are better and the runs offs are tarmaced.”
“More have died because of debris hitting them in the head. One in F2; one in IndyCar and one during F1 testing.
Cars don't tend to flip anymore as a general rule because the driving standards are better and the runs offs are tarmaced.”
Tell Alonso that
Originally Posted by pzboyz:
“Has there been a previous season of F1 with so many changes or 'clarifications' to the rules as this year? This is just ridiculous.”
“Has there been a previous season of F1 with so many changes or 'clarifications' to the rules as this year? This is just ridiculous.”
True. But they've been more or less inconsequential ones. James Allen's blog has got a "top 10 mid-season rule changes" article up, which is kind of funny, really...
It's so refreshing to have Ant back on the Sky coverage this weekend, makes the world of difference.
There's a nice video on the app of Barrichellos onboard first lap from 2000.
There's a nice video on the app of Barrichellos onboard first lap from 2000.
The audio commentary line from Channel 4 to Eir Sport Ireland remains poor today and even broke up while Holly was interviewing in the pits. It's weird because the team radio clips are attached to the TV feed, the radio clips sound better than the commentary.
Originally Posted by _SpeedRacer_:
“It's so refreshing to have Ant back on the Sky coverage this weekend, makes the world of difference.”
“It's so refreshing to have Ant back on the Sky coverage this weekend, makes the world of difference.”
Just superb stuff form him this weekend.
Id add him to the common question, who you would love to have as a dinner guest.
Some pratt on twitter mentioned by Croft in practice 3 was criticising Ant. Whoever it was, just go away.
Why did sky even mention that, just one more nail in the coffin for me for Crofty and his twitter nonsense.
Sky's car soccer makes me long for the glory days of Louise in Trulli's vinyard. 2019 is a scary prospect.
Originally Posted by scardis:
“The audio commentary line from Channel 4 to Eir Sport Ireland remains poor today and even broke up while Holly was interviewing in the pits. It's weird because the team radio clips are attached to the TV feed, the radio clips sound better than the commentary.”
“The audio commentary line from Channel 4 to Eir Sport Ireland remains poor today and even broke up while Holly was interviewing in the pits. It's weird because the team radio clips are attached to the TV feed, the radio clips sound better than the commentary.”
Gawd. Quality is awful. Sounds like the 1980s when they simply used whatever phone line they could find
Originally Posted by bobnick:
“Sky's car soccer makes me long for the glory days of Louise in Trulli's vinyard. 2019 is a scary prospect.”
“Sky's car soccer makes me long for the glory days of Louise in Trulli's vinyard. 2019 is a scary prospect.”
Quess that was England losing the world cup again then.
Childish how Sky apologised for Toto Wolff saying 'balls out'
I mean seriously?!?!!!!
No reason to say sorry for that, at all!
I mean seriously?!?!!!!
No reason to say sorry for that, at all!
FOM seem to have found a magnifying tool:
https://flic.kr/p/KwRnov
https://flic.kr/p/KwRnov
Originally Posted by popeye13:
“Childish how Sky apologised for Toto Wolff saying 'balls out'
I mean seriously?!?!!!!
No reason to say sorry for that, at all!”
“Childish how Sky apologised for Toto Wolff saying 'balls out'
I mean seriously?!?!!!!
No reason to say sorry for that, at all!”
I was wondering what the apology was for as I was sure I didn't hear anything sweary.
I look forward to the day they broadcast a drivers radio message unbleeped in error and go into monumental meltdown.
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