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Here’s today’s round-up:
Links
Drivers unimpressed by rear wing plan (Autosport)
Adrian Sutil: “It’s again very good for the show. I think it’s not so good from a driving point of view, because if you defend your position well it doesn’t really matter.”
Great Grand Prix Racing Heroes Trailer (Youtube)
Brunswick Films have an exciting production in the pipeline.
SIS Live gears up for F1 in HD (TVB Europe)
“Formula One Racing could be broadcast for the first time in HD next year, writes Adrian Pennington. SIS Live, which provides production facilities to the BBC for its race coverage, is building a new HD-ready flyaway unit for just that possibility.”
Europe GP – Conference 1 (FIA)
Fernando Alonso: “I think the problems lapping people in Canada?óÔé¼?ª there’s nothing we can do now. We still think that we lost the opportunity to do something better out of that race. I think that at the end of the year, over 19 races, everything balances out. So sometimes it happens to us, I’m sure it happens to the others at other races. It’s already happened, and we didn’t realise it and we took advantage maybe in China or Malaysia… we don’t know. It happened to us, it was very obvious because we were fighting for the win but we also know that there were some problems in other races. I think there’s nothing to say in tomorrow’s briefing. We also know that it’s not the easiest part of the race, to drive those cars, but it’s the same for everybody, so we just need to do a better job next time.”
Comment of the day
Call it the ‘proximity wing’, call it ‘Mario Kart F1’, most people call it a bad idea:
Wrong, so wrong. It amazes me that there was a HUGE debate after Bahrain about how to liven things up and allow more passing moves, I actually tried to write down all the ideas at the time and I gave up after about 40 of them, but not one person said: how about having a moveable-wing-that-the-driver-behind-can-use-but-not-the-one-in-front-and-only-if-he’s-less-than-1s-behind-at-arbitrarily-defined-points-on-the-track-and-not-during-the-first-2-laps-and-can-you-tell-we’re-making-this-all-up-as-we-go-along?
Sean
From the forum
Newnhamlea1 asks Will car manufacturers who’ve left F1 return in the future?
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On this day in F1
In case anyone had forgotten just how crazy and downright juvenile the FIA-FOTA ‘war’ became last year, flick back to this story from one year ago today: New Mosley threat over "dictator" claims puts FIA-FOTA deal in jeopardy
F1Yankee
25th June 2010, 0:15
Great Grand Prix Racing Heroes Trailer (Youtube)
i urge you to click on the little soccer ball in the corner.
BasCB
25th June 2010, 7:00
Thats a horrible sound with the football, glad i am not a fan watching those games! I heard several broadcasters (German, BBC, Czech TV) are working on dubbing out this sound during live coverage.
The last question to Hunt is a classical reacting to his answer of why he still is fast :-o
Icthyes
25th June 2010, 0:19
Is that sarcasm by Sutil? ;-)
newnhamlea1 (@newnhamlea1)
25th June 2010, 0:27
Herecy! you forgot the 1.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
25th June 2010, 8:31
Added it!
Fer no.65
25th June 2010, 0:32
Mark Webber… just some sense there :)
“We need to get the balance right in having skillful races between each other, and not an IRL [IndyCar] race where you pass each other four times per lap and everyone gets bored of that.”
Ben
25th June 2010, 1:56
thankyou! someone else who gets it. Overtaking isn’t exciting, its actually the buildup to the overtake. If you see overtaking all the time its boring, because each individual overtake is essentially meaningless.
Look at football/soccer, spectators go absolutley bonkers over a goal because its a significant event.
YeaMon
25th June 2010, 2:49
Lmao, the IRL has seen some absolute amazing racing this year.
David A
25th June 2010, 3:12
Mark Webber probably meant NASCAR, but frankly I got bored of both of the main American Series…
BasCB
25th June 2010, 6:58
As Webber is one of the leading GPDA guys currently i hope the drivers will have something to say about it.
Trulli also realizes some of the concerns about safety that i saw voiced here yesterday.
Keith Collantine (@keithcollantine)
25th June 2010, 8:30
I don’t think Webber’s watched an Indycar race for a while…
Oli
25th June 2010, 0:54
I think there was an article on autosport that said there was going To be no f1 in HD until 2011 and no 3D until at least 2013
newnhamlea1 (@newnhamlea1)
25th June 2010, 0:59
thats what the article keith linked too said as well, it was merely stating that seeing as its new equipment they may as wll install hd hardware in preperation for the hd switch.
matt90 (@matt90)
25th June 2010, 1:11
I was really looking forward to HD broadcasts, especially after just getting my new 1080p TV. But then I realisaed that I don’t actually receive any HD channels and that I’m not really prepared to pay extra for any seeing as there’s so little on them. Still, whether I’m getting it or not it’s ridiculous that the option hasn’t already been there for the last few years anyway.
matt90 (@matt90)
25th June 2010, 1:01
Haha, I remember that Mosely story. It was like a child being called a name and crying over it, and to get back at the other kid he says he won’t be allowed to his birthday party unless he says sorry and tells everybody that he isn’t actually a (whatever name he was called). And that he has to be bought some sweeties.
It was the moment when it really became clear that he should step down. Bringing F1 to the brink of collapse, being argumentative, arrogant and a general idiot, that was bad enough. But when he started employing these childrens tactics into his pre-existing methods of intimidation/negotiation/self-destruction-of-my-favourite-sport, that was the most pathetic display of leadership I’ve ever seen. Worse than any of di montezemolo’s rants or even Gordon Brown in general.
However, the irony that he was called a dictator and his response was to threaten not to stand down was nicley ironic. I’ll almost miss the old facist pervert.
matt90 (@matt90)
25th June 2010, 1:06
btw, it would be great to see you ditch your usual monthly Todt approval ratings and redo it today instead just to see how much his approval has changed in the last few days as a result of the adjustable rear wings.
Tomás
25th June 2010, 2:50
Hello everyone;
here are much photos about the new F10b from today:
http://wp.me/pKzhf-s4
thanks;)
BasCB
25th June 2010, 7:02
nice pictures. That is really quite a hole they have in their diffusor. And it looks like they will be watching for heat damage very carefully.
Scribe (@scribe)
25th June 2010, 10:39
Great photos’s man.
Looking at them though, I think this Ferrari system can only be feeding the diffuser, an not cleaning air up round the rear tyres like Redbull.
wasiF1
25th June 2010, 3:09
I am happy that break never happened in F1.
HD is surely welcomed in F1 but will it be in all the feed around the world.
geo132 (@geo132)
25th June 2010, 6:52
you think we’ll get to see a footage of that?
matt88
25th June 2010, 8:10
I remember the FIA-FOTA war last year, especially what said the Italian F1 commentator, probably during the British GP weekend.
“Finally, we’ll have a truly interesting FOTA championship, we’ll have 3 cars per team, we’ll have the classic circuits and all the necessary changes to make F1 better, while Ecclestone will manage this ‘F1’ championship of unknowns, with USF1, Manor, etc. and Turkey and Barhain.”
The next race, he had to change his views…
“At the end, FIA and FOTA reached an agreement, for the best.” :D
Mike
25th June 2010, 8:26
The site was running slowly for the past few weeks, but it’s great now. Thanks Keith!
jonnyw360f1 (@jonnyw360f1)
25th June 2010, 12:40
Well when I open the homepage on my iPod Touch (running iPhone OS 4.0, the newest) it loads the computer version rather than the mobile version, but when I click on any links it takes me to the mobile site (apart from the forum, which doesn’t have a mobile site) and some things don’t resize properly in portrait mode, such as pictures at the head of articles and lap times for practice sessions etc. I’m not sure how this could be fixed, is the problem at my end? (The site worked well before I updated, but I updated to the newest OS the same time you changed the site). Other than that, great site Keith, and we even got a mention from David Croft! ;)
DGR-F1
25th June 2010, 13:30
Poor Alonso, having to save his boss from ‘foot-in-mouth’ disease!
Ruckers
25th June 2010, 14:19
F10b looks good!
Harry Ball Ox
25th June 2010, 15:10
Here’s a great idea for the FIA to ‘improve the show’ and employ KERS all at the same time….
Instead of using KERS as a power boost, use it for braking. Allow each team to have a remote control that controls their competitors cars. And allow them to push a button, only once per lap, that would slow their competitors cars down.
But to make it fair it can only be used once per lap, on odd even laps, unless the car your using it on is an even numbered car. Then you can use it twice per lap but only when your car has on intermediate tyres and you’ve qualified in an even numbered grid position.
And if your team doesnt use KERS, then you are allowed to use a short cut on the track. Teams using short cuts will compete for medals rather than points.
BasCB (@bascb)
25th June 2010, 16:09
With exhaust blown diffusors going mainstream, i enjoyed reading this analyses of how it works by Craig Scarborough on his blog ScrabsF1. He explains what it does and how it does not work, with his great drawings of the principles behind it.
you can find it here: http://scarbsf1.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/exhaust-driven-diffusers/