Motor Sport

[louisbosco]

we're back! and for the love of the fire horse lunar year. I hope this is Ferrari's year!

[goosehd]

Definitely not Aston Martin’s…

[Bridger]

@WhiskeySandwich that's interesting insight.

I wonder if any of the Honda engineers from the RB days have stuck around with Ford.

[Bridger]

@louisbosco said in Motor Sport:

fire horse lunar year

Good shout @louisbosco

I would love Lewis to pick up a few wins this season and or finish top three in the driver's championship

[Bridger]

[Bridger]

George has been patient over the years. Is this why? Keen to see whether Merc have their mojo back.

Time now for S8 D2S - should be plenty of drama.

[Brian]

Think Mercedes mechanics deserve a medal already for what they managed to do with Antonellis car in the time they did

[Bridger]

Indeed. Also well done Kimi for keeping his cool and to get P2 on a street circuit after binning it.

[goosehd]

If George is the predominant winner this year, I may sit this season out…just something about him that I can’t stand.

[Tago Mago]

@goosehd Let me help you - he's a dick

[Bridger]

Great to see Ferrari have a competitive car. Less great, they still have the same head-scratching strategy.

[goosehd]

@Bridger I don’t know about that…they seem to have figured out how to fuck up every race pretty well. The only other team with that much success is Aston Martin keeping Stroll in a driver’s seat.

[Bridger]

I think Honda is providing Stroll with defence for his usual form for the moment. That won't last long, though.

[Giles]

I only watched the highlights and did not hear his name mentioned.....

[WhiskeySandwich]

While it was an entertaining race, I’m not sure I’m into this race dynamic/rhythm with the focus on battery charging/deployment. It seems gimmicky and the overtaking artificial. There’s still a lot of strategy but like LeClerc so eloquently stated “It is like the mushroom on Mario Kart.” I don’t think I can stand Russell dominating the year, so hopefully Ferrari and Max can close the performance gap, which seems to be largely overstated by pretty much everyone.

[mclaincausey]

They botched the regs and shouldn’t have allowed Mercedes to effectively cheat. Gonna be a shit season unless drastic measures are taken quickly.

Let’s get back to a match of engineering and driver skill, not seeing who can manage their PU better.

[WhiskeySandwich]

The worst part is -despite our objections, I'm sure they'll consider it a successful season and rule era, thanks to the boosted viewership they're certainly getting with Apple, Netflix, and the F1 movie.

[WhiskeySandwich]

So I've done a bit of research and I'm trying to wrap my head around this new PU. It's surprising difficult as they seem pretty cagey about details. "Just watch, you'll like it, lots of overtakes."

total power over 1,000 HP, but this breaks down into a distribution of kW, which i dont understand as well.
ICE = about 400kW
Electric Motor = about 350kW
Overtake = 0.5MJ

I'm sure the electic motor isn't pure drag at all times the "Boost" button isn't pressed, right? Or is it purely running on the ICE at about 540hp?

Seems like they probably have a split that is 'Boosted' like 20% with the button. Then maybe another 10% with "overtake"? (i swear i heard Jacques, say something like this during the broadcast.)

Thing is, How does the FIA regulate exactly the output and discharge of the various 0.5MJ for "overtake" when the systems are bespoke? If one car were to regularly find itself in a DRS-Train, ahem, "Overtake-train" would they theoretically place higher wear on their components via hyper discharge?

Just brainstorming, feel free to join me

[Bridger]

Surely they have time to put on a second Silverstone race

[Giles]

Well done Kimi, Lewis and Charles.

Gutted for Lando.

And Lance parks it, again...