Formula 1 Discussion - And favourite driver?

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I realize I'm a dirty American but like do Euros have any other emotion than that stupid Ole song to a sporting event?
 
A big slice of tedium topped with tension in the final laps. This what I want to see in the sport. Drivers pushing themselves and their cars to the absolute limit. Norris wanted that win and he was prepared to push all of his chips into the middle of the table to secure it. It didn't come off, but he was close.

What the fuck was going on with Russell?
 
Gotta say, that was a fun race. I'm surprised there's no safety car, considering a couple of cars went into the gravel at some point in practice. Magnussen also played safe because he got a 10-point penalty. I was hoping he would get into more shenanigans with the other driver, but oh well...

Mcclaren is closing in on Verstappen, and I hope it indicates a more exciting match for the next races.
 
JoseRaulChupacabra said:
Is it really the tyre grooves causing all the spray or the massive amounts of vorticity being constantly kicked up by these hyper aero cars?
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Yes.

You'd see all that spray driving down the road if regular car bodies didn't have wheel wells. Travelling behind a Semi-Truck is actually a great demonstration
 
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Now THIS is how you do a special livery, not just paint a couple of blue stripes down the side.

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I wish Williams would embrace the full on Gulf livery, or Martini even.
And McLaren the good old Marlboro red and white. Those were pretty liveries.
But no, everything has to be a shitty bitcoin, crypto, nonsense ai or Arab piss sponsor on bare naked carbon fiber these days.
 
Eadred said:
I wish Williams would embrace the full on Gulf livery, or Martini even.
And McLaren the good old Marlboro red and white. Those were pretty liveries.
But no, everything has to be a shitty bitcoin, crypto, nonsense ai or Arab piss sponsor on bare naked carbon fiber these days.
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They're a team that's been on the skids ever since 2017, so it shouldn't be a surprise that they are just going for whoever can throw money at them. That said, what would be the past decades equivalent's to crypto and shitcoin sponsors?
 
The Grognard said:
They're a team that's been on the skids ever since 2017, so it shouldn't be a surprise that they are just going for whoever can throw money at them. That said, what would be the past decades equivalent's to crypto and shitcoin sponsors?
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As in 'free flowing money', oil and cig sponsors.

In 'sketchy'... Uh. Sketchy isn't monolithic. Moneytron is iconic but an outlier. 70s had a lot of state sponsored entities getting into it: Saudia, Brazilian sugar interests...
 
Mikoyan said:
As in 'free flowing money', oil and cig sponsors.

In 'sketchy'... Uh. Sketchy isn't monolithic. Moneytron is iconic but an outlier. 70s had a lot of state sponsored entities getting into it: Saudia, Brazilian sugar interests...
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Free-flowing is part of it, but the idea is more that they are companies that operate on feet of clay but throw money around like the world ends tomorrow. They can be sketchy, but they also can just be operated by idiots with more money than sense.
 
The Grognard said:
Free-flowing is part of it, but the idea is more that they are companies that operate on feet of clay but throw money around like the world ends tomorrow. They can be sketchy, but they also can just be operated by idiots with more money than sense.
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The biggies in the 70s were oil-related companies (flying high until the embargoes went away) and some state-sponsored stuff. (Saudia, though that's also kind of oil related)

People simply didn't need outlier sponsors back then when you could just ring down the chain of tobacco companies and if you were halfway competent you were in.
 
It must be a nightmare these days to find sponsors with all the rules in the various countries of what can and can't be advertised.

That's why Sauber have 2 title sponsors this year, gambling advertising is banned in loads of places they go so they can't have stake at those GPs and no sponsor is paying full price to only be shown at half the races.

I'm surprised crypto is OK in the more governmentalaly restricted parts of the world, since it can be used to circumvent government restrictions.

They have to get their money from somewhere though, it's far more expensive to run an F1 team now than it was in the 80s that's for certain.

As for the McLaren livery, it would have been cool if they went malbro colours but I have no idea how the FIA would have reacted to that so Brazilian flag colours for the Senna tribute is the safer option.
 
Mercedes really risking it with Russell's front wing. Who introduces new parts with no spares in Monaco of all places?
 
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