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Only article I’ve seen on this is Mateschitz refuting the rumour, what other sources do you have?
Audi have continually denied any interest in F1 and their motorsports programs have always tried to maintain a road-relevance (Quattro, TDI) so short of an e-tron hybrid link, which they already achieve through their WEC program I don’t see why they would bother.
Also, why would Red Bull sell the Milton Keynes site they’ve invested millions in just to buy another facility they’d then need to invest more in. Makes no sense either.
I’m with @matt90 on this one. Going to assume it’s normal roadworks until we hear otherwise.
It’d be a shame if it didn’t get to race next year, but I suppose infringement is infringement.
Also might explain why it suddenly disappeared from supposedly being in Gran Turismo 6.
Race07; Gran Turismo hasn’t been played since I bought that.
Game Stock Car, absolutely fantastic, my current favourite, I love the Mini Cooper and F3 car in it.
Richard Burns Rally, pretty ancient now but leagues ahead of any other rally game I’ve ever played.
And watching the development of Assetto Corsa with great interest.
Interesting how this gets almost universal revulsion, given the subjective nature of aesthetics. I think I’m among the minority who barely notices stuff like this as I find single seats both aesthetically unappealing and unattractive from and engineering standpoint too.
The wishbones and big tyres are like the exposed ribs and bloated organs of some dead creature. An F1 car is like a decomposing LMP.
“Who wouldn’t like to go back to the era when drivers looked at their fuel indicator…”
Me, for one. I’m sure many crashes have been averted by the team knowing a tyre was losing pressure or a brake disc was overheating.
Besides, even if the teams don’t get it in real time they’ll just have it stored on the car and download it all when the car comes in.
As few as possible. Manufacturers come and go on the whim of a marketing committee, which is bad for the sport. Prefer proper and self-styled racing teams like McLaren, Williams, Ferrari etc.
Some of us may know a few details though. It’s not unthinkable that there are a few engineers floating around this forum, perhaps some even work in motorsports, or F1 itself.
Of course it’s pointless, as the most someone will know is a few details regarding one team. But it’s interesting to talk about nevertheless.
Aero efficiency will, if anything, be much more important in a fuel limited formula, surely?
Hence what seems to have been work by RB in this direction, the RB9 winning in Canada, Belgium and Italy, as they reduce their reliance on exhaust derived downforce.
Why does it seem to be general consensus that the Renault engine will be down on power? Aren’t turbos supposed to be Renaults sort of brand history, at least before safety? Like boxers with Subaru, VVT with Honda and exploding with MG?
@prisoner-monkeys put it as succinctly and truthfully as anyone could.
I know a few guys doing F1 related topics, but they’re under engineering in general, mostly aerodynamics. They just happen to be in on a topic applicable to F1 and motorsports in general.
“The Oxford English Dictionary records the first use of the phrase “conspiracy theory” to a 1909 article in The American Historical Review” so that’s 92 years before 9/11.
Seb gets his ridiculously huge leads (which aren’t that ridiculous at all, in fact) because he gets the best out of a great car.
He must not think much of his championship then, as he won that on the turn of the weather/ Toyota strategic call didn’t he?
Every driver wants to win, I’m sure Max Chilton would rather be at the sharp end than dawdling around at the back.
And Hamilton has been competitive the past 5 years, even when the car has not. He hasn’t gone a season without a win and has a record better than some entire teams.
He, like a lot of fans, is wrapped up in some romantic notion of F1 being a drivers’ contest, when it’s not. It’s an engineering competition. Arguably, it has more in common with something like the JSF or ATF programs than a spec motorsport series.
