2008 F1 Season

[ctjet]

interestingly its Hammo Vs Schumi tomorrow, with both on slicks i think

(with massa only coming in 0.16 today faster than DLR on current spec tyres)

it should be a decent shootout... hopefully anyway

ill be watching

Edited April 16, 2008 by ctjet

[dezz]

they look ridiculous.

[ctjet]

new renault front wing

and 'shark fin' engine cover

Edited April 16, 2008 by ctjet

[ctjet]

The appearance of Ferrari's radical new nose innovation at the Barcelona test on Monday confirmed that espionage could still be a factor at the Italian team.

Alleged Ferrari spy Nigel Stepney no longer works for the Maranello based team, but the technical secret about the 'hole nose' nonetheless emerged in the pages of an Italian magazine some ten weeks ago.

Autosprint broke the story about the nose, including sketches of the innovation, in its pages in February, raising suspicions that the leaking of confidential and sensitive design data has not stopped, notwithstanding Stepney's firing and McLaren's $100m fine.

According to the Swiss newspaper Blick, Technical Director Aldo Costa was 'horrified' about the leak, confiding that 'very few' Ferrari workers even knew about the nose solutions when they were being tested in the wind tunnel.

Blick claims that an internal investigation into the leak is in progress.

awesome

[Whiplash]

That would be this nose cone

Edited April 16, 2008 by Whiplash

[ctjet]

seems like a much less... eligant(?)...solution to a similar mid nose areo device that BMW have come up with

[Marco-R34GTT]

Love the sight of those slicks though...

They should of been back years ago..

Damn Max!

Edited April 17, 2008 by Marco-R34GTT

[ctjet]

they should never have left

how do they intend to mark the softer tyre since there will be no groove in the face of the tread to paint on that rediculous white stripe?

[Whiplash]

how do they intend to mark the softer tyre since there will be no groove in the face of the tread to paint on that rediculous white stripe?

like the champcar red tire?

[djr81]

Who cares the soft tyre is just a diversion from the fact the racing is so dire. Just gives people the false hope that someones option tyre will grain & stuff their race.

Bin refuelling.

Give em soft tyres that only just last the distance.

Kill the downforce.

Then we may get some racing.

[Whiplash]

[ctjet]

they said that the red would clash with team colours

or some similar petty reason like that

[Marco-R34GTT]

they should never have left

how do they intend to mark the softer tyre since there will be no groove in the face of the tread to paint on that rediculous white stripe?

Well yes... Exactly...

I'd still like to see a ban on all those silly flaps and elements that protrude all over these modern cars, reduce some of their aerodynamic efficiency and make it so a trailing car gets a bit of tow... Also, I'd like to see F1 take the biofuels route... 1.8 litre turbocharged V8 biodiesel motors... Could you imagine the torque???

[bnr#@]

Why do people keep winging about parity in f1? It’s the pinnacle of motorsport, why should they have restrictions? The cars should be using the best and most advanced of everything that they can come up with. If a team is loosing then they need to make a better car or continue to loose... If people say "to keep the cost down" well if you want to play at the top then you need to bring the appropriate $, why should other teams who can afford the development suffer for the team that wants to play the game but cant really afford it....

F1 should not be about making all cars even, it should be about the ultimate speed whatever way possible.

[dezz]

Why do people keep winging about parity in f1? It’s the pinnacle of motorsport, why should they have restrictions? The cars should be using the best and most advanced of everything that they can come up with. If a team is loosing then they need to make a better car or continue to loose... If people say "to keep the cost down" well if you want to play at the top then you need to bring the appropriate $, why should other teams who can afford the development suffer for the team that wants to play the game but cant really afford it....

F1 should not be about making all cars even, it should be about the ultimate speed whatever way possible.

FINALLY!

[ctjet]

Unfortunately there arent enough companies/car makers willing or able to spend the big bucks to complete like the top teams are doing. By cutting costs it allows more teams to entry into this business, because without any cars on the grid to watch, theres going to be no formula 1 to watch.

F1 cars these days now exceed the limits of the drivers ability, not the other way around which was the cse in 'the good old days'. So now they are having to regulate the cars so as to keep them at a level where both car and driver abilty are somewhat the same. With this comes ridculous rules and band aid solutuions to the ever growing list of pronblems. And when you have dipshits like Mosley in change of these things, we're never going to get real solutions

So once again, thank you NoW... you've done us all a great justice

Edited April 17, 2008 by ctjet

[Marco-R34GTT]

Everyone's limits except teh Schu!

[ctjet]

... get fkd

Edited April 17, 2008 by ctjet

[Marco-R34GTT]

Wat choo talkin bout Willis?

Schu could pilot a V-3 rocket through Eau Rouge without batting an eyelid...

Schu has teh force!

:D

[ctjet]

oic... he probably wasnt using it when he flipped his bike at 80 clicks around turn 9 the other day

Edited April 17, 2008 by ctjet