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New Fag said:
So I got F1 manager, it's fucking shit.

It's an inferior version of motorsport manager with the only improvement being the part manufacturing where you can choose the design direction which changes the stat increases.
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Apparently it has Crofty's voice in it as well. If that isn't enough of a reason to avoid the new F1 Manager game, idk what is.
 
Pee Cola said:
Apparently it has Crofty's voice in it as well. If that isn't enough of a reason to avoid the new F1 Manager game, idk what is.
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The one thing I've always hated about commentary in F1 games is that you can tell the lines were recorded for the game, and they don't sound natural at all. Their voice has none of the cadence or spontaneity that it does in real life. What they should do instead is take the raw, isolated studio recordings from FIA, choose a few hundred lines that sound good, and polish them up.
 
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Oh hey Lewis, didn't think I'd see you here.

So, you think you're tough for winning a race or two in a "shitbox"?

You merely adopted the shitbox. I was born in it, molded by it. By the final race of my first season, I lapped my own team-mate in a Minardi. Twice. Then I took the next year off because Flavio Briatore saw something in me.

When I came back the first time, I almost won my third race during the most competitive F1 season since the '80s, before I smashed into a wall in a collision that would have been fatal before the HANS device. I recovered and tried again, and a few months later, I won. I lapped Michael Schumacher in a car that was fractionally as powerful as his, on the track that is the hardest to overtake on.

And then, in 2005, I broke his streak. The streak which you never got the chance to break. Then I did it again the following year.

Even at McLaren where the team's atmosphere overwhelmingly supported you over me, I still got the same number of points, wins, and podiums as you did. Even though you got hundreds of hours of testing during 2006 and I never even sat foot in the car before the pre-season, (I may have got this part wrong lel) I still nearly beat you at your own game. And then I left, knowing that the team would never earnestly support my title bid. I went back to Renault since you were so scared of me beating you in a Ferrari.

In 2008, Briatore rigged a win for me. And then I won the race after on pure performance anyway.
In 2009, I had the worst car on the grid. And I still scored pole at Hungary and 3rd at Singapore.
In 2010, I very nearly won the championship.
In 2011, I dragged a shitbox of a Ferrari to a win at your home race, during a season you spent half the time smashing into my team-mate.
In 2012, I dragged a slightly better shitbox to the final championship-deciding race of the season.
In 2013, I dragged my shitbox to 2nd in the standings, destroying Webber in far superior machinery.
In 2014, I came within 5 seconds of driving the biggest shitbox of my Ferrari career to a win at Hungary.

And then Vettel replaced me.

The same Vettel that cried like a bitch when he spun himself off at Germany trying to beat you, who was replaced by Leclerc who cried even harder when he spun himself off at France. I could only have wished for a car as good as theirs. I was the only Ferrari driver after Raikkonen to tame Ferrari's personnel and bring their worst efforts to two drivers titles, which I only lost because of my own team sabotaging me with bad strategy calls. Vettel and Leclerc lost their championships way before the point I would have.

7 titles? Big deal, considering half of those were against your team-mate who got told to move out of the way, and the other half were you and the FIA conspiring against other teams to weaken them. People who actually know F1 will know I came less than 10 points from being a 5-time F1 World champion, and that's all that matters.

I won the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice, the most prestigious racing event in the world. I almost won the Indy 500 on my first try, and still have plenty of time to try again if I wanted. If Sato and even Ericsson can do it, so can I. I won the Race of Champions, and participated in the gruelling Paris-Dakar Rally, where I finished 13th out of 351 entrants. Whilst you poured all of your chips into Formula 1, I diversified my portfolio and toured the world of racing. Tried my hand at everything with wheels. Enjoyed my life while you agonised and fretted over perceived advantages from your rivals. Got your lapdog Toto and his friends from the FIA to ban wings and engines and pitstops that allowed your opponents to win over you.

And once you retire from F1, that is all the legacy you'll ever have. You probably won't have your own museum like I already do.

So, you think I'm bitter, do you? Bitter over what? My 32 wins, most of which were done in cars far slower than the champion's machinery? My 98 podiums? My other racing achievements? My museum? My E-Sports team? My humanitarian campaigns? Get over yourself, you drama queen.

The only person that's bitter is you and your fans, as it slowly dawns upon you that you will never win a race again. You will never win your 8th title, or your 5th consecutive title. You and them will obsess over the events of Abu Dhabi 2021 for many years, until it eats away inside you and you can't stand it anymore. The clock is ticking, Lulu. Unless you deal with Max in the next year or so, he is going to break every last one of your unbreakable records.

I am a national hero for an entire generation of Spaniards. Look around you, Lewis. Children hardly know who you are anymore. You are a dinosaur from a bygone age, much like I am, but you haven't been able to admit it to yourself yet.

You think turning up to races looking like the lovechild between a Teletubby and an eskimo for thousands of free internet points is the cutting-edge of fashion, when in reality you're an insecure, middle-class, half-white metrosexual who thinks the world of F1 is below them.

I race because I enjoy racing, and I get to race whenever I want. You race because you enjoy winning, and you haven't won for a whole year. We are not the same.

(Can someone post this on 4chan or make it in the style of an imageboard post?)
 
Hambone tears about being called out.

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Ps that's how we all feel about you.

Of course Sky need to run to m'lady's defence with some hamboner sucking.

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Or cast your mind back to Silverstone where he showed he's happy to take others out deliberately and have Toto nobble the officials.
 
Coccxys said:
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Of course Sky need to run to m'lady's defence with some hamboner sucking.

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Or cast your mind back to Silverstone where he showed he's happy to take others out deliberately and have Toto nobble the officials.
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Dont forget how Crofty immediately stammered out a "Well, Lewis has started out in front so many many times he's just so great you guys" after the message aired.
 
Silhouette said:
www.motorsport.com

Schumacher to cut Ferrari ties at end of 2022 F1 season

Mick Schumacher's relationship with Ferrari is to conclude in December, meaning that the German will be a free agent as he searches for a 2023 Formula 1 drive.
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Big news for Migg, Free agent as of next year.
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From the same article:
Although there has been no confirmation from Haas, it's accepted in the paddock that Schumacher won't be retained by the US-owned team for a third season in 2023, with Antonio Giovinazzi currently a favourite to land the seat alongside Kevin Magnussen.
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Why Giovinazzi? He's a Latifi-tier driver at best.
The remaining open drives on the grid include Alpine and Williams, with Schumacher's close friend Esteban Ocon backing him as a candidate for the former.
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Interesting. Between this, the rumours of Gasly being bought out of his AT contract to make Alpine 100% French and the nice things Otmar has been saying about Ricciardo as of late, it's anyone's guess as to who'll be driving alongside Ocon in 2023.
 
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I don't know why Ricciardo doesn't offer to drive at a much smaller contract than he usually would, or even for free.

He's already got his money from McLaren, and if he signs to another team he'll lose that, so the teams should be jumping over each other for a guy who was winning races as recently as last season, and will cost them essentially nothing to have him in the seat.

As for Giovinazzi, Haas are fucking idiots if they seriously consider him. He was thrashed by a 40 year old hasn't given a shit since 2013 Kimi Raikkonen whilst at Alfa. He's already 28, completely shat the bed in FE with zero points finishes and five consecutive retirements (how fucking bad do you have to be to fail in a series filled to the brim with F1 rejects like Vandoorne and Wehrlein?), and honestly doesn't belong in open-wheel racing.

To sort this mess out once and for all, I'd say Gasly should fill Alonso's seat, making the team fully French and giving him another chance to work his way up the ladder since there's about a 1% chance he'll get the second RB seat again. Ricciardo should fuck off to Indycar or take a year off and try for another open seat, and Mick really should maintain his seat at HAAS, or failing that, taking Latifi's seat at Williams. The team obviously want someone who'll cause as little damage to their car as possible in exchange for a driver with no future in the sport and with Steiner refusing to take responsibility for the dogshit strategies they've beset their drivers with this year.
 
Becky McDonald said:
I don't know why Ricciardo doesn't offer to drive at a much smaller contract than he usually would, or even for free.

He's already got his money from McLaren, and if he signs to another team he'll lose that, so the teams should be jumping over each other for a guy who was winning races as recently as last season, and will cost them essentially nothing to have him in the seat.

As for Giovinazzi, Haas are fucking idiots if they seriously consider him. He was thrashed by a 40 year old hasn't given a shit since 2013 Kimi Raikkonen whilst at Alfa. He's already 28, completely shat the bed in FE with zero points finishes and five consecutive retirements (how fucking bad do you have to be to fail in a series filled to the brim with F1 rejects like Vandoorne and Wehrlein?), and honestly doesn't belong in open-wheel racing.

To sort this mess out once and for all, I'd say Gasly should fill Alonso's seat, making the team fully French and giving him another chance to work his way up the ladder since there's about a 1% chance he'll get the second RB seat again. Ricciardo should fuck off to Indycar or take a year off and try for another open seat, and Mick really should maintain his seat at HAAS, or failing that, taking Latifi's seat at Williams. The team obviously want someone who'll cause as little damage to their car as possible in exchange for a driver with no future in the sport and with Steiner refusing to take responsibility for the dogshit strategies they've beset their drivers with this year.
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It's been said he doesn't lose the money if he signs, McLaren has to pay the difference between the contract he picks up and the $21M. So it actually makes sense to advertise himself as 'free pretty decent driver'.

As much as I'd want to see him in Indycar, I don't blame him for staying with F1. It's got to be easier to stay in rather than get out and back in, especially in this day and age.
 
I am relatively new to F1 (just started watching this season) but watching Max BTFO Ferrari almost every race, is this a normal thing?
 
Vapid_Idiot said:
I am relatively new to F1 (just started watching this season) but watching Max BTFO Ferrari almost every race, is this a normal thing?
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Ferrari have not been really good for quite some time. It is new that it is Red Bull vs. Ferrari rather than vs. Mercedes. Mercedes have utterly fucked it this year, previously being dominant (thus most of this thread's justifiable reeeing about Lewis). Ferrari have been fucking strategy and everything else this year, really fucking hard. They have a good car and engine, and good drivers, and just fuck it all up constantly. This chaos is nothing new for the prancing horse, it took the Todt-Schumacher partnership to really get their shit together when they were dominant.

Is it normal for one team to dominate over the others? In modern F1 this is frequent. If you're lucky, there'll be a second team competing. If there are three it is manna from heaven. The relative parity of all teams the beginning of this year was a product of the new rules shaking things up and the emerging dominance of one or two teams now is really a reversion to the norm.
 
Mikoyan said:
Ferrari have not been really good for quite some time. It is new that it is Red Bull vs. Ferrari rather than vs. Mercedes. Mercedes have utterly fucked it this year, previously being dominant (thus most of this thread's justifiable reeeing about Lewis). Ferrari have been fucking strategy and everything else this year, really fucking hard. They have a good car and engine, and good drivers, and just fuck it all up constantly. This chaos is nothing new for the prancing horse, it took the Todt-Schumacher partnership to really get their shit together when they were dominant.

Is it normal for one team to dominate over the others? In modern F1 this is frequent. If you're lucky, there'll be a second team competing. If there are three it is manna from heaven. The relative parity of all teams the beginning of this year was a product of the new rules shaking things up and the emerging dominance of one or two teams now is really a reversion to the norm.
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Well I'm glad i never took the ferrari pill
 
Vapid_Idiot said:
I am relatively new to F1 (just started watching this season) but watching Max BTFO Ferrari almost every race, is this a normal thing?
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It's the normal for this season. Ferrari's current car is very fast on a good day and they seemed like serious competition in the first few races, but they've compensated with severe reliability issues and completely idiotic team strategy. Meanwhile RB is both fast, reliable and helmed by strategists that have more than three braincells to rub between them, and Max being a monster driver doesn't really hurt them either.
 
Seymour Duncan said:
It's the normal for this season. Ferrari's current car is very fast on a good day and they seemed like serious competition in the first few races, but they've compensated with severe reliability issues and completely idiotic team strategy. Meanwhile RB is both fast, reliable and helmed by strategists that have more than three braincells to rub between them, and Max being a monster driver doesn't really hurt them either.
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Sergio has been pretty great too from what I have seen. They clearly have this season in the bag, and likely next season too
 
Becky McDonald said:
I don't know why Ricciardo doesn't offer to drive at a much smaller contract than he usually would, or even for free.

He's already got his money from McLaren, and if he signs to another team he'll lose that, so the teams should be jumping over each other for a guy who was winning races as recently as last season, and will cost them essentially nothing to have him in the seat.
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Ricciardo is one of those drivers who isn't World Champion material exactly, but who had the potential to grab a title during a power vacuum, if the stars aligned. I depend upon his beaming Aussie grin for my RDA of Vitamin D, so I do have an interest in him remaining in the sport.

Objectively, he's done in F1. There is very little to be gained reputationally, and his stock may decline even further if he hangs on in one of the backfield teams. If he stays, it's because he wants a few more paydays.

Perhaps he can recover his mojo in another series, hopefully not Formula E. Whenever I see a former F1 driver piloting one of those souped-up Mario Karts, I am overwhelmed by the same combination of nausea and pity that I would feel if I went to a strip club and saw my dad preforming in drag.

He has a personality, so a career in punditry or as co-commentator is not beyond reach.

In terms of legacy, he occupies a broad tier of drivers who inhabit the subconscious memory until someone mentions their name and you hear yourself automatically replying - "Yeah, I remember that guy."
 
New Fag said:
So I got F1 manager, it's fucking shit.

It's an inferior version of motorsport manager with the only improvement being the part manufacturing where you can choose the design direction which changes the stat increases.
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Right so I now put in a refund request and below is what I put for my explanation, just so there is a better description than it's fucking shit.

It's a rip off of Motorsport manager, which isn't bad in of itself but it is soo hamfisted and arse backwards.

The menus are un-intuitive and require multiple clicks. i.e. you want to assign the best race mechanic to your best driver well on the driver screen you can only see the mechanic assigned to that driver, click on the mechanic to see stats and you just can't go back to the page you were looking at.

The hand holding tutorial tells you everything but the details of how making parts work. Even worse it wants you to skip the first free practices giving you one less weekend to get used to them and then upon stopping it so you can take part in free practice you then need to work out what everything means 0/5 some sort of text what's that mean, no tool tips to help.

During track time the map view is non-rotatable and unable to zoom in/out so you can easily block parts of it with your drivers. everytime something happens on track it changes out of map view.

Lack of hover tool tips on stuff.
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And that was after only 90 mins.
 
Vapid_Idiot said:
Well I'm glad i never took the ferrari pill
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Funny, I only resumed watching F1 last year, and not because it was a competitive season but because the engineering aspect has always interested me. The last time I watched an F1 race was all the way back in the early 2000's when it was all Schumacher Ferrari.

I come back last year and find out what a shit show they've become.
 
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