The Formula 1 Stuff Thread

[f1since08 54]

It has to make a comeback!

Team Car Power Unit 1st Driver 2nd Driver Test/Reserve/Development Driver(s) Mercedes AMG Petronas W08 Mercedes #44 Lewis Hamilton #77 Valtteri Bottas #94 Pascal Wehrlein, #31 Esteban Ocon Red Bull Racing RB13 Tag Heuer (Renault) #3 Daniel Ricciardo #33 Max Verstappen Pierre Gasly Scuderia Ferrari SF70H Ferrari #5 Sebastian Vettel #7 Kimi Raikkonen Antonio Giovinazzi Sahara Force India VJM-10 Mercedes #11 Sergio Perez #31 Esteban Ocon Alfonso Celis Jr. Williams Martini Racing FW40 Mercedes #19 Felipe Massa #18 Lance Stroll Paul di Resta McLaren MCL32 Honda #14 Fernando Alonso #2 Stoffel Vandoorne #22 Jenson Button Scuderia Toro Rosso STR12 Toro Rosso (Renault) #55 Carlos Sainz Jr. #26 Daniil Kvyat Pierre Gasly, Niko Kari, Sergio Camara, Luis Leeds, Richard Verschoor Haas VF-17 Ferrari #8 Romain Grosjean #20 Kevin Magnussen Santino Ferrucci Renault Sport F1 RS17 Renault #27 Nico Hulkenberg #30 Jolyon Palmer Sergey Sirotkin Sauber C36 2016 Ferrari #94 Pascal Wehrlein #9 Marcus Ericsson #36 Antonio Giovinazzi, Tatiana Calderon Event Track Dates Pre-Season Testing Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya 27th Febriary - 2nd March Pre-Season Testing Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya 7th -10th March Australian Grand Prix Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit 24th-26th March Chinese Grand Prix Shanghai International Circuit 7th-9th April Bahrain Grand Prix Bahrain International Circuit 14th-16th April Russian Grand Prix Sochi Autodrom 28th-30th April Spanish Grand Prix Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya 12th-14th May Monaco Grand Prix Circuit de Monaco 26th-28th May Canadian Grand Prix Circuit Gilles Villenueve 9th-11th June Azerbaijan Grand Prix Baku City Circuit 23rd-25th June Austrian Grand Prix Red Bull Ring 7th-9th July British Grand Prix Silverstone Circuit 14th-16th July Hungarian Grand Prix Hungaroring 28th-30th July Belgian Grand Prix Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps 25th-27th August Italian Grand Prix Autodromo Nazionale Monza 1st-3rd September Singapore Grand Prix Marina Bay Street Circuit 15th-17th September Malaysia Grand Prix Sepang International Circuit 29th September-1st October Japanese Grand Prix Suzuka Circuit 6th-8th October United States Grand Prix Circuit of the Americas 20th-22nd October Mexican Grand Prix Autodromo Hermanos Rodríguez 27th-29th October Brazilian Grand Prix Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace 10th-12th November Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Yas Marina Circuit 24th-26th November

[yugin96 0]

An assortment of random stuff from the season so far.

Australian Grand Prix:

Must... not... laugh... at... Seb...

Malaysian Grand Prix:

Max Chilton being, well, Max Chilton.

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yugin96 said:

Love that gif :D

[MBKF1 89]

Vettel at the end is like 'Did he actually just do that?' :p

[KRTheIceman 0]

@-) 

[f1since08 54]

[MBKF1 89]

I still laugh every time :p

[yugin96 0]

1) Spot Kimi.

2) Spot Vettel.

[onetwothree 0]

[spoiler]Well it appears as though they're playing rock, paper, scissors under Marcus Ericsson's bottom.[/spoiler]

[MBKF1 89]

Or doing what Kimi was doing in the press conference a day or two earlier.

[couger1981 81]

Storm troopers showing how a pit stop is done

[sjsharp2010 185]

sounds like good news about Schumi

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26885624

about time I'd say

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sjsharp2010 said:

sounds like good news about Schumi

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26885624

about time I'd say

I really hope conscious signs are true. Only time can heal his body.

[KRTheIceman 0]

Yep, he won't just wake up and be fine again, long road ahead.

[sjsharp2010 185]

KRTheIceman said:

Yep, he won't just wake up and be fine again, long road ahead.

indeed not but it's a good step in the right direction and at the moment that's all we can hope for

[yugin96 0]

Interesting stuff on why the Mercedes engine is giving its teams a power advantage at the moment.

From Motor Sport magazine:

"Mercedes have split the turbine and compressor - which are normally sited next to each other in turbo engines - so that the compressor is at the front of the engine and the turbine at the rear. This means that the airflow has much less far to travel from intake, through the compressor and into the cylinders.

"This not only increases power but also reduces dramatically the amount of piping required for the engine, giving a significant advantage both in total weight and weight distribution in the car.

"On top of this, the design reduces lag in the turbo to almost nothing so that less power is required from the motor-generator unit attached to the turbo to spool it up to minimise lag before the drivers go on the throttle, so more of that power can be used directly at the rear wheels.

"Ferrari had the same idea, and their compressor is also detached from the turbine, but it is only about a third or so across the 'v' of the engine, rather than right the way across. Perhaps Ferrari were worried about being able to control the vibrations in the shaft connecting the turbine and compressor if it was as long as the engine.

"The Mercedes customer teams have not been able to take as much of a benefit from this advance as the factory team because they did not know about it as early as the works team.

"The interesting thing is that apparently the idea initially came from the chassis team, aware of the potential packaging, weight and weight distribution advantages of splitting the turbine and compressor. The engine team realised it was an enormous technical challenge and were not initially sure whether they could pull it off. But they have, and the results are spectacular."

[couger1981 81]

Looks like the Teams , the FIA and Bernie have agreed to change the engines to make them louder, wonder if this will have an effect on the Mercedes performance?

The F1 Times

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couger1981 said:

Looks like the Teams , the FIA and Bernie have agreed to change the engines to make them louder, wonder if this will have an effect on the Mercedes performance?

The F1 Times

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That's not quite accurate- they're only looking into ways to make them louder and have no idea how it's going to be done at the present moment.

[couger1981 81]

yugin96 said:

couger1981 said:

Looks like the Teams , the FIA and Bernie have agreed to change the engines to make them louder, wonder if this will have an effect on the Mercedes performance?

The F1 Times

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That's not quite accurate- they're only looking into ways to make them louder and have no idea how it's going to be done at the present moment.

Says they agreed in the article?

[yugin96 0]

Yes, but they only agreed to investigate how to make the noise louder. No guarantee that it'll actually happen because it's not exactly a straightforward problem to solve without changing the pecking order.

[onetwothree 0]

If we're going to be stuck with these engines, we may as well adapt them to their real life applications. I'm no fan of the new sound (or lack thereof) but there isn't really any point of making them louder when the average consumer doesn't want a screaming engine in their Mazda or Ford. Plus, it gives opponents to GPs (like the Albert Park anarchists) one less reason to complain.

[f1since08 54]

Incredibly, Force India are SECOND in the constructors championship!

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[buttonfan 4]

I would love to race with him on rFactor :P