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It looks like it won’t handle, but if they’re entering it into Le Mans then it must do, although I’d be very interested to know exactly how!
If that’s what fashionable people are wearing these days they’re welcome to it, there is not one shot amongst those where Lewis doesn’t look like a complete and utter tool.
As far as what Lewis does in his spare time goes, that’s his business, but if he’s going to have photos published he should at least try not to look ridiculous.
@ajokay Yep, went and registered just after posting that actually. Looking forward to getting started.
Just got this game and enjoying it so far. Need to sort myself out a new Xbox live account, then I will be looking for people to race against online, and I’d be especially interested if there was any sort of F1F-related car club.
Start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Westminster_District
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Canadian
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montr%C3%A9al
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Grand_Prix
5. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_SchumacherThis is an amusing way to kill 5 minutes.
I’m not against the idea of canopies, and if the FIA think they’re necessary on safety grounds then fair enough, but like many others the biggest issue I can see with them is that they could potentially stop or hinder a driver getting out of the car. There’s also the danger that a canopy could be crushed or disintegrate onto the driver, increasing the risk of injury to the driver.
However, I’m sure that if the FIA decide that canopies are the way to go, they’ll be rigorously tested to make sure they don’t pose any additional risk.
Really it could be any of them, I imagine they’re all capable of being right little prima donnas given a chance. For me Alonso is the most obvious though, he’s always come across as arrogant and not really willing to speak to the media, at least not the British media. That might be a hangover from his time at McLaren if it is the case. He might be different with the Spanish media, although I’ve seen Spanish TV coverage, and I don’t remember seeing him behave any differently.
Schumacher never used to come across well, but since his comeback he’s actually seemed a lot more likeable.
As I say, some drivers might be totally different depending on who’s interviewing them – they may be more than willing to talk to their own national media but be far less bothered about talking to journalists from other countries.
Of course, some of the drivers might consider the media to be an annoying distraction from the business of racing cars, but without anyone telling us plebs about their exploits and creating interest, they wouldn’t have a job racing cars in the first place!
@raymondu999 What I meant was that as long as Adrian’s there Red Bull should always produce a car that is at least competitive enough to challenge for the title.
In any case, we’re only a year away from some major rule changes!
Very interesting Portugoose!
I don’t think McLaren should be allowed to run Paffet either, they seem to be using the fact that he’s never actually raced in F1 to sneakily get a bit of serious testing with an experienced driver done. That and the fact that it’s against the spirit of the young driver test, which should be about giving experience to up-and-coming drivers who might well be on the grid one day.
For teams fighting for the championship, I think the ideal situation is to have 2 first-rate drivers, but have one who is slightly better than the other.
You need to be able to distinguish between #1 and #2 because at some point in the season you’re going to need to back one over the other for the championship, and you don’t want them taking points off each other.
At the same time you need two strong drivers so that while #1 is winning #2 is right behind him taking points off his challengers, and ensuring a maximum points haul if something happens to #1.
If they’re too evenly matched you get a lot of friction e.g. Senna/Prost, Alonso/Hamilton and Vettel/Webber in 2010. If there’s too much of a gulf you end up with one driver challenging for the WDC but being nowhere in the WCC.
This year I’d say Red Bull have been closest to the ideal: Webber has supported Vettel well, taking points off McLaren and Ferrari and contributing nicely to the WCC without taking points off Vettel.
At McLaren there isn’t a clear #1, although this season Button has just started to edge it. I expect Hamilton to bounce back though. They’ve been able to score consistently in the WCC, but if things stay as they are and both end up fighting for the WDC next year they could well get in each other’s way.
Ferrari have the worst balance, in that Massa isn’t really pulling his weight. He’s usually much further behind Alonso and not much help to him in the races, and hasn’t had as great a contribution to the WCC, as evidenced by the fact that Ferrari are nearly 100 points adrift of McLaren.
If it wasn’t for all the in-fighting at McLaren in ’07, Fernando would probably already have 3 WDCs. Now though, I think Vettel will be first to get there. As long as they have Adrian Newey I can’t see Red Bull dropping the ball in terms of car design.
I think get rid of the rule about the top 10 having to start on the tyres they qualified on. It’s a silly rule that effectively means it’s better to be 11th than 10th. If teams are leaving a set of primes unused but complaining about a lack of option tyres then take away a set of primes and add a set of options.
As for penalties for not running, on the one hand I think there should be some kind of comeback on teams for deliberately not running, on the other hand teams may well try to fake technical issues to get around it. The best solution is just to provide no incentive not to run.
Of course, with the current knock-out system, there will always be occasions when somebody gets into the top 10 but knows they can’t do better than 10th, so feels there’s no point in running. Not a lot you can do about that.
I think it just underlines what a mountain the new teams have to climb. Back in the day it was possible to arrive in F1 and be competitive in your first season – provided you did enough preparation, which Stewart and Toyota did. People seem to have forgotten BAR as well, had a dismal first year but 5 years later were regularly on the podium.
Reliability is definitely a major factor, when most of the cars are finishing every race, there’s no hope of the slower cars getting anywhere near the front.
The challenge of putting everything in place from scratch and securing the funding to keep it all going is also massive.
They’ve done well to get to where they are, but next year they all need to be closer to the front, even if they’re still at the back (if that makes sense), or they may struggle to survive for much longer. Lotus will get there I think, not so sure about the other two.