Formula 1 Discussion - And favourite driver?

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The direction of F1 is really bad, same goes for the info-table on the left of the screen. More often than not, it shows gap to leader, which is ridiculously useless information for anyone past 5th place.

It only ever gives us vaguely important information, when pitstops are due and we need to know where a single driver would end up afterwards. At literally every other point in the race, you need to know if a driver is within DRS-range (something that could be highlighted by some visualization btw). Even when pitstops are due, you can just tally up individual gaps to get a general idea of where a driver would end up.

Yet 80% of the race we get gap to leader. Just a pet peeve, but it makes me wonder if the people working on this stuff actually are into F1.

As a Vettel-Fan I can also say that you simply have no fucking clue what's going on in the midfield during Qualifying. You seldom even know who's on a fast lap and how they are doing. Is it too much to ask for, to have a clock running next to their name on the left when they are on a quick lap, so I know how they are doing?
 
RomanesEuntDomus said:
Yet 80% of the race we get gap to leader. Just a pet peeve, but it makes me wonder if the people working on this stuff actually are into F1
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Even worse when it shows tyre age, positions gained/lost or just their full name and car number for multiple laps at a time. Like I want some information about the sport and what's going on further down thanks.
 
ShilkaSamurai said:
If you haven't seen it, there's an amazing video on YouTube "There will Never Ever be another driver like Dal Earnhart" that shows the fight between Bobby and Cale.

https://youtu.be/IxTAJNifDAI
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I'll second that.

I happened to watch that video a week or two ago when it popped up in my recommendations, despite not knowing much about NASCAR. The video was really well done & gave an interesting perspective into NASCAR's history and Dale Earnhardt. Definitely worth a watch.
 
Coccxys said:
Even worse when it shows tyre age, positions gained/lost or just their full name and car number for multiple laps at a time. Like I want some information about the sport and what's going on further down thanks.
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Yeah right, totally forgot about that. It's like they got Einstein, Freud and Kafka to brainstorm the perfect system to show whatever information is the most redundant. Like the race will be 10 laps old and we'll be informed that all cars are at zero pitstops. Or pitstops will happen, so we get full names but no tyre overview. It seems to be tailor made to switch to whatever is most useless at the moment.

And god have mercy on your poor soul if you think the pundits will have any input :story:
 
DapperShark said:
Flashbacks to Le Mans 2016 when the leading Toyota broke down in the final fucking lap
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That's a tradition for Toyota. Remember the Gt One from the last century? They broke down in the last hour. One time with the gearbox the other time a flat tyre. The car was abeauty though

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Coccxys said:
Even worse when it shows tyre age, positions gained/lost or just their full name and car number for multiple laps at a time. Like I want some information about the sport and what's going on further down thanks.
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They really fucked up the graphics package. Last year was SO much better.
 
RomanesEuntDomus said:
If this season ends with Checo winning the title, I would be so happy. Dude is a great driver and I'd love to see Mexico losing it over having their own WDC F1 driver.
Would also be kinda neat for RB, first Dutch champion, first Mexican champion.
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This will all depend on how stubborn Helmut and Horner are. Will they want Max to win at any cost, or would they be happy to support Checo if he ends up being in the stronger position towards the end of the season? Whilst I suspect they'd be less salty about this scenario than Toto would be about George outclassing Hambone, that's still a factor.

I'm cautiously optimistic that both are more about the team's reputation, and can show just enough pragmatism for their Plan B to become Plan A if that is RBR's best shot at a WDC.
 
Anyone keeping an eye on the Isle of Man TT? Just found out it's been a fucking Final Destination movie out there, five people have died so far, most recently a father-son team during a sidecar race yesterday :stress:
 
The funny thing about qualifying is, bar calamities like the jockeying for position at the end of Q1 it’s very hard to broadcast qualifying in a way that is engaging to watch. It would be cool if for qualifying they went for a mega split screen look with a ton of different drivers onboards. But usually they just have a camera at the finish line and you see each driver cross the line and then see a number pop up on the bottom of the screen.
 
Full Race Replay said:
The funny thing about qualifying is, bar calamities like the jockeying for position at the end of Q1 it’s very hard to broadcast qualifying in a way that is engaging to watch. It would be cool if for qualifying they went for a mega split screen look with a ton of different drivers onboards. But usually they just have a camera at the finish line and you see each driver cross the line and then see a number pop up on the bottom of the screen.
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Splitscreen footage would be best. For instance, it could be split in 4 individual screens, one shows a table of all drivers currently driving, all their total times and sector times and positions on a map, the other three show us different drivers.
I think that would work out rather well.

The way it is now, they might as well just clamp a camera down near the finish-line pointing down the long straight and only show that footage and show the times of all drivers coming past. That way, at least we'd fucking know who just finished a lap. For any midfield driver, we usually just get an update on their time in the table on the left and that's it. We sometimes didn't even know they were on a hot lap.

It's hard to choose the correct footage and different people will have a different interest in different drivers, but one thing is for sure:
We do not need to see Hamilton meandering his way around the track 75% of the time, while there's a fierce battle to avoid being shoved out of Q1 or Q2 between 5 other drivers.
 
sadly vette bros i must inform you: ITS OVER
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DapperShark said:
Anyone keeping an eye on the Isle of Man TT? Just found out it's been a fucking Final Destination movie out there, five people have died so far, most recently a father-son team during a sidecar race yesterday :stress:
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Yeah the TT is often a case of survive it first then see where you came. I have blasted around that course in my car (when open, at night where no cops around) and it has some seriously dodgy parts, on a motorcycle you are basically playing death or glory.

Here the deaths by year chart
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And total deaths by nationality.
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Here are some videos of the course and riders if you're wondering how so many die watch this and wonder how so few die...

 
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