Motorsports Thread

[Jody]

I think you'll find "the scheme" is a lot bigger than that. I assume you live on the same planet as me, Toto et al? Are their pollutants ring-fenced somehow?
Explain how my concern should be dismissed?

[Yes, you've set me off, well done if you were just trolling ... ]

I wasn't trolling anyone!

They use 400 tyres in a race weekend, ship all cars and personnel around the world for a year, all the flights taken, fuel burned, carbon fibre parts that are used for one or two weekends and you’re concerned with a few litres of coolant that you don't even know is harmful?

 

[FishFright]

Off the record comment has been put out there and now they're are scrambling for denials because it wasn't "official"

"To be honest" lol "I Haven't paid a great deal of attention to it"? Yeh, alright pinocchio.




During the first hour of pre-season testing in Bahrain, there appeared to be comment from Horner to a usually very credible media outlet in Auto Motor und Sport.

“The new Mercedes violates the spirit of the regulations,” Horner was reported to have said.

“For us, there are some parts that are not legal.

https://www.planetf1.com/news/christian-horner-mercedes-w13-not-legal/

I was reporting what has been said today.
If you prefer I'll post old news instead , if that makes you happy?

 

[Deleted member 26715]

It will be interesting to see if it does run into cooling issues, there were times last year when it was borderline & they had to ease back, but maybe with less disturbance from the car in front that may not be as much an issue as before, or we'll see the Mercs running a different line down the straights.

What does 'In the spirit of the regulations' even mean?

Or does it mean, why the F didn't we think of that?

 

[matticus]

I wasn't trolling anyone!

They use 400 tyres in a race weekend, ship all cars and personnel around the world for a year, all the flights taken, fuel burned, carbon fibre parts that are used for one or two weekends and you’re concerned with a few litres of coolant that you don't even know is harmful?

I simply don't believe that you can disregard environmental damage just because you are surrounded by other polluters. You are aware that in the west internal combustion engines have legally controlled emissions? There are no free passes - we are watching the sport from the same planet, they build some of the bloody cars 10 miles from me!

"You may as well ..." is never a good argument.

[I could also bring up F1's pretence at being more eco-friendly - in which case they should ban any new material that is more harmful than what it replaces, until approval is granted after proper scrutiny.]

 

[Deleted member 1258]

It will be interesting to see if it does run into cooling issues, there were times last year when it was borderline & they had to ease back, but maybe with less disturbance from the car in front that may not be as much an issue as before, or we'll see the Mercs running a different line down the straights.

What does 'In the spirit of the regulations' even mean?

Or does it mean, why the F didn't we think of that?

Your last line is probably true.

 

[Jody]

I was reporting what has been said today.
If you prefer I'll post old news instead , if that makes you happy?

It's todays news.

I simply don't believe that you can disregard environmental damage just because you are surrounded by other polluters. You are aware that in the west internal combustion engines have legally controlled emissions? There are no free passes - we are watching the sport from the same planet, they build some of the bloody cars 10 miles from me!

"You may as well ..." is never a good argument.

[I could also bring up F1's pretence at being more eco-friendly - in which case they should ban any new material that is more harmful than what it replaces, until approval is granted after proper scrutiny.]

I disreagard it because it seems a little pedantic to go after a team for environmental damage when you don't even know what the chemical composition of the coolant is.

 

[FishFright]

It's todays news.



I disreagard it because it seems a little pedantic to go after a team for environmental damage when you don't even know what the chemical composition of the coolant is.

My fault , misread the PF1 date.

 

[matticus]

I disreagard it because it seems a little pedantic to go after a team for environmental damage when you don't even know what the chemical composition of the coolant is.

Then why not say that? Would have saved a lot of bandwidth! ; -)

 

[Jody]

https://www.planetf1.com/news/red-bull-christian-horner-comment-to-go-away/

lol

“In summary, it is clear Horner did speak to Schmidt (extensively, I hear) and did say what he is quoted as saying.

“But it seems Red Bull now want it to go away, hence the remark about “no official comment” (whatever that means). It won’t go away, though. Obviously.”

 

[Jody]

Then why not say that? Would have saved a lot of bandwidth! ; -)

My fault eh?

 

[matticus]

My fault eh?

It's there in black-and-white, read it back if you want!

 

[Jody]

It's there in black-and-white, read it back if you want!

What evs

 

[FishFright]

Happily for Haas there are out on track for the second session of testing.

 

[Reynard]

Hmmmm, I'd be willing to bet my stash of chocolate that it's the "bugger, why didn't we think of that first" green-eyed monster. That sort of thing's been going on since Cooper put the engine behind the driver in the late 50s and revolutionized the way a single seater car was engineered and how it handled out on track, putting everyone else's noses out of joint... Funny then that everyone then followed suit in fairly short order...

Liking the variation in the cars this year, will be interesting to see what works and what doesn't. It's so refreshing to see a grid full of cars that look different.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

It's so refreshing to see a grid full of cars that look different.

If fugly