Formula One 2014

[djr81]

I was at the Sydney Retro Speedfest at Eastern Creek last weekend, and among the classic cars they had there were some old F1 cars, very cool seeing them out on track.

Team Haas Lola THL1

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Benetton B186

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Williams FW07

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Flame Out Surtees TS9B

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Was the Lola a Lola-Hart or Lola Ford?

On another note was reading this book last night.

http://www.pitstop.net.au/products/the-v12-engine/

Anyway the section on the 3.5 litre V12's built for F1 before they reverted to 3.0 litre motors was interesting. Turns out Isuzu, HKS, and Nissan all had 3.5 litre V12's. As did Porsche (A complete dog of a thing which some would remember from the Footwork arrows days) and Ford. About the only people to make it work were Honda. And even then it was arguable that with packaging included it wasnt as good as the V10.

Edited May 6, 2014 by djr81

[180fan]

Was the Lola a Lola-Hart or Lola Ford?

On another note was reading this book last night.

http://www.pitstop.net.au/products/the-v12-engine/

Anyway the section on the 3.5 litre V12's built for F1 before they reverted to 3.0 litre motors was interesting. Turns out Isuzu, HKS, and Nissan all had 3.5 litre V12's. As did Porsche (A complete dog of a thing which some would remember from the Footwork arrows days) and Ford. About the only people to make it work were Honda. And even then it was arguable that with packaging included it wasnt as good as the V10.

I'm not 100% on this, but I'm pretty sure it would be the Hart, given that the Speedfest entry list has it marked as a THL1, and according to wikipedia it was the 1986 THL2 where they changed from Hart to Ford

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haas_Lola

[Roy]

Very keen to see the historic F1 cars take to the hillclimb at Goodwood in a few weeks. Sux to be a broke ass punter walking around what is going to be motorsport heaven

[MattR]

heya, no real for sale section for motorsport items so wanted to chuck it here if any one is keen. I have a few old Adelaide F1 posters and the first 4 Melb F1 posters for sale.

all except ADL 86 and 90 $50each.

the 86 and 90 $100 each.

the 1990 was the 500th GP

any more details just let me know.

[wolverine]

Just over 4 hours to P1

[MatthewT85]

hmmm vettel does 4 laps in FP1 and is sitting out all of FP2, he's prob gonna be on struggle street this weekend

[Roy]

Tragic isnt it

[tweety bird]

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3h13fBSqGyk&feature=youtu.be

[MatthewT85]

nice 15kg....

so sutil wont go on his 2 day fast again

Edited May 10, 2014 by MatthewT85

[ctjet]

anybody not driving a merc is about to have a unpleasant fight for pole

[chus13]

Maldozer's at it again lol

[wolverine]

The new Massa

[mad082]

Up until a few races ago I didn't realise that there wasn't a control fuel used in f1

[wolverine]

Button is Captain Slow on hard tyres. He must want to go out at the bottom of Q2.

[wolverine]

...but sneaks in on the mediums.

Raikkonen faster than Nando.

[wolverine]

It's a lock on the front row for Merc, Daniel another good performance into 3rd. Bottas and Grosjean great laps coming in 4th and 5th. Roy will be happy for the first time this year.

[sh@un]

There can be no doubt now that Mercedes will kick the teeth of this season truly in.

#HamiltonForWDC

[chus13]

Up until a few races ago I didn't realise that there wasn't a control fuel used in f1

What? Is that new to this year?

[mad082]

I dunno. I always assumed it was a control fuel like the v8 supercars run, but they were saying at the start of q1 that the fuel supplier to redbull are expecting to gain 1/10th of a second from their new blend.

[sh@un]

prolly why the FIA needs a test sample at the end of every session