2011 F1 Thread

[Beer Baron]

link to old races?

all on my HD/media server at home and I just stream to any of my TVs (all networked). they take shitloads of space though, I have quite a few full seasons but we are talking 100s of GB.

[Beer Baron]

yeah I've been enjoying watching chump car lately too. shame they are now heading to ovals for the next little while. all the recent road courses and street circuits have been good to watch. thank jeebus for foxtel.

[scarface_au]

Season Overtakes

1982 638

1983 607

1984 666

1985 657

1986 581

1987 558

1988 493

1989 547

1990 494

1991 495

1992 406

1993 392

1994 289

1995 297

1996 186

1997 285

1998 207

1999 260

2000 279

2001 230

2002 235

2003 303

2004 277

2005 204

2006 287

2007 270

2008 260

2009 244

2010 547

2011 283+

tell me again why we need DRS & KERS. Last year didn't have enough overtaking? Even the stats nerds can't keep up with it this year! At this rate we'll have 1344++ passes this year. Awesome

Its f**king ridiculous.

Too much time, someone has (not you).

I don't think we should judge DRS on what happened at the sphincter of the universe. I'm not sure if you'd say they got it wrong because I'm not sure what the alternative was (DRS on the front straight instead, perhaps?), but the back straight just gave too much advantage to the passing car. At the end of the day, though, I'd rather see easy, even bogus, overtakes than none at all, because then the faster driver has a fighting chance at using his car's speed.

I admit that DRS + KERS does make F1 a bit Mario Kart, though. That's not going to change unless the FIA can figure out how to make the cars less aero-efficient and -dependent. They've tried, but they haven't quite managed it yet.

More grip than power = boring racing. More power than grip = awesome racing.

So what's the solution? MOAR POWAH!

[Galois]

Too much time, someone has (not you).

I don't think we should judge DRS on what happened at the sphincter of the universe. I'm not sure if you'd say they got it wrong because I'm not sure what the alternative was (DRS on the front straight instead, perhaps?), but the back straight just gave too much advantage to the passing car. At the end of the day, though, I'd rather see easy, even bogus, overtakes than none at all, because then the faster driver has a fighting chance at using his car's speed.

I admit that DRS + KERS does make F1 a bit Mario Kart, though. That's not going to change unless the FIA can figure out how to make the cars less aero-efficient and -dependent. They've tried, but they haven't quite managed it yet.

More grip than power = boring racing. More power than grip = awesome racing.

So what's the solution? MOAR POWAH!

That actually makes a whole lot of sense (to me at least)

Edited May 11, 2011 by Galois

[Roy]

If the rest of the season was like the sphincter of the universe then DRS will be a failure. In my eyes we had one race where it did nothing. Two where it seemed ok. One bad race.

In past seasons you may have had to wait two or three races for a good battle and pass. To me if you are a few tenths or even a second quicker. Then you have to work to get past and the guy behind should be able to hold you off with some race craft. But in the past there have been cars that are far quickwr caught behind slow cars which is rubbish. If Massa is 18th because of a problem in quali then he should not spend the whole race battling a car that has scored less then 10 points yhe past few seasons...

[sh@un]

That's not going to change unless the FIA can figure out how to make the cars less aero-efficient and -dependent. They've tried, but they haven't quite managed it yet.

Actually, there's an easy solution to this: Fan-assisted ground effects that generate 100% of the downforce (no wings allowed). Then the turbulent wake airflow won't matter.

Of course that would also mean finding a way to regulate the amount of downforce, though.

[Bazil_1]

I'm on the fence with DRS still, great idea and would be interesting if it could be used for X seconds per lap wherever the driver liked but as mentioned that's just going to separate the guy in front even further..

What if it to use it you needed to be within the 1 second window from the driver in front plus your last lap was within 0.5 seconds faster than the guy in front. Would help the faster guys to pass the back markers and would mean that there would be less chance of the chasing driver to put in a really shoddy lap then fluke the section near the DRS detection, allowing them straight past the driver in front.. That plus deactivating the DRS as soon as the chasing driver is half way past the driver in front should make some interesting corners and allow the talented drivers to get through rather than anyone who can get within a second of the car in front.

[boiracer]

<---happy with it

without DRS button and Hammo wouldnt have had the multi lap battle they did. and from what i saw Webber was out of legs anyways by the time he made his DRS overtake. He just had more pace on those tyres and that fuel load than Lonzo did, and was clearly gonna cruise past anyways eventually, as alonzo did to him earlier.

sure it all needs a few tweaks. and the stats as posted previously would suggest its not needed....but, theyre always gonna try and add new unnecessary stuff to keep Bernies mind young and thinking??....lol

[JAS-25T]

all on my HD/media server at home and I just stream to any of my TVs (all networked). they take shitloads of space though, I have quite a few full seasons but we are talking 100s of GB.

I have the same setup but you need to give me the 100's of GBs first.

[hrd-hr30]

<---happy with it

without DRS button and Hammo wouldnt have had the multi lap battle they did.

seriously? they had a very similar battle there last year without DRS.

[Beer Baron]

seriously? they had a very similar battle there last year without DRS.

it can be arranged.

[ctjet]

greece vying for a spot on the calander?

dun make me laugh out loud

[N1GTR]

They have nice wenches though.

[sh@un]

greece vying for a spot on the calander?

the Greek gummint must reckon they'd turn a profit from the exercise

[ctjet]

They have nice wenches though.

[scarface_au]

Lol'd at Schumacher's comment that his collision with Petrov was "mostly" his fault. Like cutting himself shaving or tripping over his own feet would be "mostly" his fault. I think he's "mostly" taking up a seat that someone should "mostly" have

[wolverine]

greece vying for a spot on the calander?

dun make me laugh out loud

A couple of laps around the Acropolis then a bit of nude ancient Olympic grid girl action then a bit of Greek style for SV and Helmut.

Sounds like a goer......if only Greece wasn't bankrupt.

[chuckie]

Lads just a link to site i read,

http://www.racer.com/

[Beer Baron]

have to agree there. not sure greek women are up on my 'hottest 5 nationalities' list.... have you seen chicks in greece steveo? granted there's some good ones but the average is not exactly don bradman like....

[N1GTR]

Maybe its the 50/50 greek aussie ones that have got me thinking that way