Formula One - Bahrain - TV Schedule (U.S.)
03-27-2016, 08:10 PM
#1
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Thread Starter
Formula One - Bahrain - TV Schedule (U.S.)
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Formula One - BAHRAIN Schedule on NBC Sports Network and CNBC
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NOTE: LIVE COVERAGE OF QUALIFYING WILL BE ON THE CNBC NETWORK.
1. THE TIMES AND DAYS FOR THIS RACE ARE DIFFERENT, SO PAY ATTENTION!
2. THERE ARE TWO SHOWINGS OF THE RACE THIS WEEKEND.
3. THERE ARE THREE SHOWINGS OF QUALIFYING.
4. THERE ARE TWO SHOWINGS OF PRACTICE (P2).
5. NOT ALL OF THE BROADCASTS ARE ON NBC SPORTSNET!!!
6. THE *LIVE* QUALIFYING SESSION AT 8:00 AM (PDT) SATURDAY IS ON CNBC !!!!
7. The PRE-RACE show is integrated into the race broadcast time.
The post-race show "F1 Extra" is shown immediately after the race show
whatever time that may be. NBC schedules "F1 Extra" to start 2 hours after
the start of the race but, in reality, it's always shown immediately after the race
irregardless of the clock. The simplest way to make sure you record "F1 Extra" is
simply to add enough extra time to the race broadcast recording to get (a) any
extra time that was needed to record the entire race including any delays, and
(b) "F1 Extra". My standard is to add at least three hours (!) just to make
sure I cover most eventualities.
I pull this info from from my Tivo's schedule. I have no guarantee that
it is correct but it usually is. I also double check it with the NBC Sports
NET schedule.
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ALL TIMES PACIFIC DST TIME !!!!! (Eastern times in parens)
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Friday April 1, 2016
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Saturday April 2, 2016
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Sunday April 3, 2016
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Monday April 4, 2016
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Formula One - BAHRAIN Schedule on NBC Sports Network and CNBC
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
NOTE: LIVE COVERAGE OF QUALIFYING WILL BE ON THE CNBC NETWORK.
1. THE TIMES AND DAYS FOR THIS RACE ARE DIFFERENT, SO PAY ATTENTION!
2. THERE ARE TWO SHOWINGS OF THE RACE THIS WEEKEND.
3. THERE ARE THREE SHOWINGS OF QUALIFYING.
4. THERE ARE TWO SHOWINGS OF PRACTICE (P2).
5. NOT ALL OF THE BROADCASTS ARE ON NBC SPORTSNET!!!
6. THE *LIVE* QUALIFYING SESSION AT 8:00 AM (PDT) SATURDAY IS ON CNBC !!!!
7. The PRE-RACE show is integrated into the race broadcast time.
The post-race show "F1 Extra" is shown immediately after the race show
whatever time that may be. NBC schedules "F1 Extra" to start 2 hours after
the start of the race but, in reality, it's always shown immediately after the race
irregardless of the clock. The simplest way to make sure you record "F1 Extra" is
simply to add enough extra time to the race broadcast recording to get (a) any
extra time that was needed to record the entire race including any delays, and
(b) "F1 Extra". My standard is to add at least three hours (!) just to make
sure I cover most eventualities.
I pull this info from from my Tivo's schedule. I have no guarantee that
it is correct but it usually is. I also double check it with the NBC Sports
NET schedule.
--------------------------------------------------------------
ALL TIMES PACIFIC DST TIME !!!!! (Eastern times in parens)
--------------------------------------------------------------
Friday April 1, 2016
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- 8:00 AM - Practice 2 [LIVE] (11:00 AM Eastern)
- 8:00 PM - Practice 2 [RESHOWING] (11:00 PM Eastern)
Saturday April 2, 2016
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- 08:00 AM - Qualifying [LIVE] (11:00 AM Eastern) ** CNBC **
- 09:30 AM - Qualifying [RESHOWING] (12:30 PM Eastern) (This is on NBCSportsNet!!!)
- 10:30 PM - Qualifying [RESHOWING] (1:30 AM Eastern SUNDAY MORNING) (This is on NBCSportsNet!!!)
Sunday April 3, 2016
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- 07:30 AM - RACE [LIVE] (10:30 AM Eastern)
Monday April 4, 2016
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- 09:30 AM - RACE [RESHOWING] (12:30 PM Eastern)
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03-31-2016, 07:47 AM
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Alonso Won't Race In Bahrain
http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/al...ain-gp-683160/
Also, here's a short, cool piece on how those great pics of Alonso's crash were captured (by Mark Sutton - the guy in charge of all the photogs who get these pics at each race.)
http://www.espn.co.uk/f1/story/_/id/...o-alonso-crash
Z//
Also, here's a short, cool piece on how those great pics of Alonso's crash were captured (by Mark Sutton - the guy in charge of all the photogs who get these pics at each race.)
http://www.espn.co.uk/f1/story/_/id/...o-alonso-crash
Z//
Last edited by Zoxxo; 03-31-2016 at 07:53 AM.
03-31-2016, 08:17 AM
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Tech analysis: The key safety advances that saved Alonso's life
http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/te...ife-682435/?tp[0]=19&s=1
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04-01-2016, 06:06 AM
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Thread Starter
From The Telegraph (Great Britain) on Thursday...
Money men are running Formula One into the ground
by Oliver Brown
Chief Sports Feature Writer
31 March 2016
So here, distilled, is the ungovernable shambles that constitutes
Formula One in 2016. The revamped qualifying system, so disjointed in
Australia that Sebastian Vettel had time to change into his jeans for
the press conference, is a farce. Drivers hate it, crowds are
befuddled by it, and team principals are so incandescent about it that
Red Bull’s Christian Horner believes fans in Melbourne are owed an
apology. Everybody agreed, then. But guess what? At this weekend’s
Bahrain Grand Prix, after a fortnight in which all parties somehow
failed to develop an alternative despite unanimous discord, we are
forced to endure it all over again. Bernie Ecclestone Bernie
Ecclestone was unimpressed by the new qualifying format
Bernie Ecclestone had hoped, like a helpless romantic, that the sport
would be "man enough" to acknowledge that it had made a mistake, not
recognising that the power structures he has designed militate against
anything resembling a decision. Jean Todt, head of the FIA, F1’s
regulatory authority, has long been a fence-sitting figure who was
less interested in commemorating the Paris attacks than in promoting
his own road-safety campaign. CVC Capital Partners, the controlling
shareholders, are an opaque US private equity group headquartered in
Luxembourg, whose chairman, Donald Mackenzie, tries desperately to go
incognito on the rare occasions he attends a race.
As for the 85-year-old Ecclestone, one wonders whether his heart is
truly in it any longer, given he concedes that F1 is a spectacle not
even he would pay to watch. The consequence, alas, is complete
bureaucratic paralysis. Among the most disenfranchised of all are the
drivers, reduced to sending a plaintive open letter through the Grand
Prix Drivers’ Association - a well-meaning but toothless body - to
register their displeasure. "The drivers have come to the conclusion
that the decision-making process in the sport is obsolete and
ill-structured, and prevents progress being made," it read. "Indeed,
it can sometimes lead to just the opposite: gridlock."
In no other sport could it stand that the serfs are the 22
phenomenally courageous young men who risk their lives for the cause,
and upon whose image F1 is marketed for gargantuan profit. Tennis, for
example, is so deferential to its stars that it allows Maria Sharapova
to stage-manage the announcement of a failed drug test. In F1, by
contrast, Lewis Hamilton’s data engineer holds greater power than the
average driver. The leading actors, those whose genius underpins the
entire show, are treated as no more than subservient employees,
watching on powerless as the suits stage their interminable,
self-serving power play.
The very manner of Ecclestone’s latest response told us as much. "Dear
gentlemen," he began, in response to their concerns. "I am not sure if
this is the right description." Carry on like this, and it will not
just be the drivers who feel alienated and condescended to. Already,
outside the cabal of six teams who are entitled to a say in the F1
Strategy Group, a mutiny is stirring. Monisha Kaltenborn, the
principal at Swiss team Sauber, hinted that it was increasingly
difficult to survive as an independent entity in a world run by
cliques. "It doesn’t really give you any comfort to know that others
are suffering as well," she said, disclosing that she had to plead
with Ecclestone for an advance on money that Sauber expected to
receive later this year. "Something is fundamentally wrong in the
sport."
It is all very perverse, very exasperating, very F1. For the bottom
line - and Ecclestone and the merry men at CVC care about nothing if
not that - is that the sport is coining it in as never before.
Revenues for 2015 were a record £1.25 billion, while profits for F1
parent company Delta Topco, based in Jersey (where else?), surged to
£361.2 million. Given that CVC have not had to invest a penny, and
take home roughly four pounds in every 10 that F1 generates, it is
spiffing business. The more they make, the less they have to care
about such trifling matters as how their plaything is administered.
They are blind to the reality that F1, as a product, is not working
for anybody beyond their sequestered elite. Yes, everything looks
splendid over a Dom Perignon in the Paddock Club, the gilded enclave
where denizens include George Lucas and Michael Douglas, but for the
casual fan the sport risks fading into oblivion, fast. The £300
million sell-out to Sky from 2019, with nothing but the British Grand
Prix available in the UK terrestrially, is merely a symptom. This
year’s 21-part season is only one race old and already F1 is into its
soul-sapping spin through Bahrain, China and Russia, races that have
zero connection to its heritage and that function only to buttress the
vaingloriousness of the countries’ rulers.
One of these days, Ecclestone should set up his own sideline in
dictatorship tourism, so cravenly does he court the chequebooks of
despots. In July, Bernie’s ‘Tyranny Tours’ will touch down for the
first time in Azerbaijan, a mafia state that toasted last summer’s
European Games by imprisoning non-compliant journalists. Clearly, the
priorities of paying punters were uppermost in his mind when he agreed
to that one. He must have imagined F1 aficionados here were beside
themselves at the thought of a holiday in Baku - at least until
British Airways decided this week to cancel the only direct flights,
deeming the route was not commercially viable.
This, in microcosm, is F1’s malaise. The two constituencies it ought
to care most about, the drivers and the fans, are the two it
consistently disregards. Power has been devolved, apparently
irrevocably, into the hands of faceless financiers. They neglect to
note, or perhaps they simply do not care, that a sport existing purely
for corporate gratification is no longer much of a sport at all.
//
Money men are running Formula One into the ground
by Oliver Brown
Chief Sports Feature Writer
31 March 2016
So here, distilled, is the ungovernable shambles that constitutes
Formula One in 2016. The revamped qualifying system, so disjointed in
Australia that Sebastian Vettel had time to change into his jeans for
the press conference, is a farce. Drivers hate it, crowds are
befuddled by it, and team principals are so incandescent about it that
Red Bull’s Christian Horner believes fans in Melbourne are owed an
apology. Everybody agreed, then. But guess what? At this weekend’s
Bahrain Grand Prix, after a fortnight in which all parties somehow
failed to develop an alternative despite unanimous discord, we are
forced to endure it all over again. Bernie Ecclestone Bernie
Ecclestone was unimpressed by the new qualifying format
Bernie Ecclestone had hoped, like a helpless romantic, that the sport
would be "man enough" to acknowledge that it had made a mistake, not
recognising that the power structures he has designed militate against
anything resembling a decision. Jean Todt, head of the FIA, F1’s
regulatory authority, has long been a fence-sitting figure who was
less interested in commemorating the Paris attacks than in promoting
his own road-safety campaign. CVC Capital Partners, the controlling
shareholders, are an opaque US private equity group headquartered in
Luxembourg, whose chairman, Donald Mackenzie, tries desperately to go
incognito on the rare occasions he attends a race.
As for the 85-year-old Ecclestone, one wonders whether his heart is
truly in it any longer, given he concedes that F1 is a spectacle not
even he would pay to watch. The consequence, alas, is complete
bureaucratic paralysis. Among the most disenfranchised of all are the
drivers, reduced to sending a plaintive open letter through the Grand
Prix Drivers’ Association - a well-meaning but toothless body - to
register their displeasure. "The drivers have come to the conclusion
that the decision-making process in the sport is obsolete and
ill-structured, and prevents progress being made," it read. "Indeed,
it can sometimes lead to just the opposite: gridlock."
In no other sport could it stand that the serfs are the 22
phenomenally courageous young men who risk their lives for the cause,
and upon whose image F1 is marketed for gargantuan profit. Tennis, for
example, is so deferential to its stars that it allows Maria Sharapova
to stage-manage the announcement of a failed drug test. In F1, by
contrast, Lewis Hamilton’s data engineer holds greater power than the
average driver. The leading actors, those whose genius underpins the
entire show, are treated as no more than subservient employees,
watching on powerless as the suits stage their interminable,
self-serving power play.
The very manner of Ecclestone’s latest response told us as much. "Dear
gentlemen," he began, in response to their concerns. "I am not sure if
this is the right description." Carry on like this, and it will not
just be the drivers who feel alienated and condescended to. Already,
outside the cabal of six teams who are entitled to a say in the F1
Strategy Group, a mutiny is stirring. Monisha Kaltenborn, the
principal at Swiss team Sauber, hinted that it was increasingly
difficult to survive as an independent entity in a world run by
cliques. "It doesn’t really give you any comfort to know that others
are suffering as well," she said, disclosing that she had to plead
with Ecclestone for an advance on money that Sauber expected to
receive later this year. "Something is fundamentally wrong in the
sport."
It is all very perverse, very exasperating, very F1. For the bottom
line - and Ecclestone and the merry men at CVC care about nothing if
not that - is that the sport is coining it in as never before.
Revenues for 2015 were a record £1.25 billion, while profits for F1
parent company Delta Topco, based in Jersey (where else?), surged to
£361.2 million. Given that CVC have not had to invest a penny, and
take home roughly four pounds in every 10 that F1 generates, it is
spiffing business. The more they make, the less they have to care
about such trifling matters as how their plaything is administered.
They are blind to the reality that F1, as a product, is not working
for anybody beyond their sequestered elite. Yes, everything looks
splendid over a Dom Perignon in the Paddock Club, the gilded enclave
where denizens include George Lucas and Michael Douglas, but for the
casual fan the sport risks fading into oblivion, fast. The £300
million sell-out to Sky from 2019, with nothing but the British Grand
Prix available in the UK terrestrially, is merely a symptom. This
year’s 21-part season is only one race old and already F1 is into its
soul-sapping spin through Bahrain, China and Russia, races that have
zero connection to its heritage and that function only to buttress the
vaingloriousness of the countries’ rulers.
One of these days, Ecclestone should set up his own sideline in
dictatorship tourism, so cravenly does he court the chequebooks of
despots. In July, Bernie’s ‘Tyranny Tours’ will touch down for the
first time in Azerbaijan, a mafia state that toasted last summer’s
European Games by imprisoning non-compliant journalists. Clearly, the
priorities of paying punters were uppermost in his mind when he agreed
to that one. He must have imagined F1 aficionados here were beside
themselves at the thought of a holiday in Baku - at least until
British Airways decided this week to cancel the only direct flights,
deeming the route was not commercially viable.
This, in microcosm, is F1’s malaise. The two constituencies it ought
to care most about, the drivers and the fans, are the two it
consistently disregards. Power has been devolved, apparently
irrevocably, into the hands of faceless financiers. They neglect to
note, or perhaps they simply do not care, that a sport existing purely
for corporate gratification is no longer much of a sport at all.
//
04-02-2016, 06:49 AM
#10
As a former intense and passionate fan of F1, I mourn it's passing as a Sunday morning event to behold. Bernie Ecclestone, the vain and quixotic Frenchman, has ruled F1 with a capricious iron fist. His insistence that F1 cars address global warming have turned a sound so beautiful as to make grown men weep into something akin to a fart. IMO, he should have had the honor to resign after Senna died. Senna walked the track a day or so prior with another driver and they discussed the corner he died in, because it was dangerous, but had a body of water behind it so improvements were limited--but some effort should have been made. (To add insult to injury, the Socialist Italians wanted to try the entire Williams team for murder, a terrifying prospect for F1). Bernie Ecclestone has always placed money ahead of safety, and it was the drivers, and particularly Jackie Stewart who forced change. The typical expensive and arbitrary annual changes of which I have forgotten the particulars, I still believe led to the ridiculous phallic symbol nosecones--an orchestrated silent mocking of Bernie's heavy hand. Here's hoping that F1 can claw it's way back to it's former glory, but frankly I usually walk away after the start to find something more interesting to do Sunday mornings, if it's even on at all. Sorry for the intense opinion, but it feels like a great, great loss.
04-02-2016, 08:03 AM
#11
Safety Car
Thread Starter
As a former intense and passionate fan of F1, I mourn it's passing as a Sunday morning event to behold. Bernie Ecclestone, the vain and quixotic Frenchman, has ruled F1 with a capricious iron fist. His insistence that F1 cars address global warming have turned a sound so beautiful as to make grown men weep into something akin to a fart. IMO, he should have had the honor to resign after Senna died. Senna walked the track a day or so prior with another driver and they discussed the corner he died in, because it was dangerous, but had a body of water behind it so improvements were limited--but some effort should have been made. (To add insult to injury, the Socialist Italians wanted to try the entire Williams team for murder, a terrifying prospect for F1). Bernie Ecclestone has always placed money ahead of safety, and it was the drivers, and particularly Jackie Stewart who forced change. The typical expensive and arbitrary annual changes of which I have forgotten the particulars, I still believe led to the ridiculous phallic symbol nosecones--an orchestrated silent mocking of Bernie's heavy hand. Here's hoping that F1 can claw it's way back to it's former glory, but frankly I usually walk away after the start to find something more interesting to do Sunday mornings, if it's even on at all. Sorry for the intense opinion, but it feels like a great, great loss.
I do, however, have to correct a couple of things:
Bernie is not French. He's British - born in Suffolk, England. Maybe you're thinking of Jean Todt.
Bernie did not insist that F1 "address global warming". What Bernie did was lust after the bank accounts of the world's auto manufacturers and the way past their guards was to let them sell their goods using F1 as the vehicle (so to speak.) The auto makers, fully understanding the the future was not going to look kindly upon endlessly burning fossil fuels saw F1 as the way to both develop and sell hybrid systems. (You know that's the way things are going when both Porsche and Ferrari are offering hybrid power systems in their road cars.) So Bernie said, "Whatever you want so long as you bring the big name of Mercedes to the party!" and gave them big say in the rules of the sport in order to get what everyone wanted. But to think that Bernie gives a rat's butt about global warming issues is silly in the extreme.
I agree with you re: the "nosecones". I hated them at first. Now I'm resigned to them because (a) 26 years of looking at them has softened me (Tyrell 1990) and (b) they are part-and-parcel of the high-tech nature of F1. The raised nose actually came about as an aerodynamic thing. Once Jim Hall and Colin Chapman made the racing world pay attention to the issue via their racing successes, aero developments came fast. It was soon realized that low noses that were designed to send the air over the car were not a great idea as that air is not controllable and is hugely turbulent. The less the car disturbs the ambient air the better.) The new ideal was to send what air you needed (or could legally use as per the rules) under the car and to send the rest around the sides of the car where you could use and control it. Hence the raised nose and the vertical prow underneath. I will occasionally squint at an F1 car to see the core fighter jet aero design elements that are clearly visible and remind myself that what works for those things is probably a good starting point for the F1 aero folks.
The F1 teams will *never* mock Bernie's heavy hand. He has made many of the folks in the paddock into multimillionaires and has paid the teams (m/b)illions of dollars over the years and the teams are generally happy to follow Bernie's lead - mostly in nodding silence (but not always.)
re: the sound of the cars.
Yeah. Really sad. I still recall the days when I could tell you which car was which from just the sound. From 1/2 mile away outside the track.
I, too, am rapidly losing interest in this game. All the politics is tiring. Being made an annual patsy for Bernie's faux-crises-that-are-really-just-contrived-PR-bull***t-games has grown very very old. Listening to the endless "let them eat cake" arrogance and/or the "you just don't understand" patronizing BS that comes from all the F1 bigwigs is also dispiriting. The regularity with which the interests of the fans are blown off makes me steam.
Lately it's like watching a slow-motion traffic accident. You don't want to watch but you can't help but do so. Eventually the visuals will become just too gross to watch and that will be it. If only *all* of racing wasn't being run by fools or plutocrats.
Z//
04-02-2016, 01:10 PM
#13
Safety Car
Thread Starter
The cats had already been herded. Any and all "loose cats" existed solely because of Bernie "It wasn't MY idea" Ecclestone.
Z//
04-02-2016, 03:21 PM
#15
Melting Slicks
But there was no need to "come up with" anything new for qualifying. All of this came about because Bernie wants to up the TV ratings so he can charge more money. Period. Everyone else was happy with the system that was in place. Then, when the teams voted in Australia to go back to the old way, he and Todt saw that as a public challenge to their dictatorship re: the rules so they conspired to NOT have the old way as an option in the "real" vote so that not matter what happened this new nonsense would be either in Q1 and Q2 OR in all three qualifying sessions. Going back to the old way (which was what *everyone* wanted except for Bernie & Todt) wasn't allowed to be an option.
The cats had already been herded. Any and all "loose cats" existed solely because of Bernie "It wasn't MY idea" Ecclestone.
Z//
The cats had already been herded. Any and all "loose cats" existed solely because of Bernie "It wasn't MY idea" Ecclestone.
Z//
Now, probably Todt and the 'Troll' (neither of whom have a clue what they are doing to what was once the greatest racing series in the world), also wanted to try the stupid new Quali format again, so didn't feel the need to strong arm Williams and Force India.
Regardless, what was always one of the most enjoyable aspects of the race weekend has become a snooze fest, even though Lewis did pull a great lap out of his butt to take pole.
Bish
04-03-2016, 11:49 AM
#17
First, let me say that I agree with your basic premises here very much. Bernie built F1 from nothing into a powerhouse and then sold it (and everyone associated with it - except the owners) down the river.
I do, however, have to correct a couple of things:
Bernie is not French. He's British - born in Suffolk, England. Maybe you're thinking of Jean Todt.
Bernie did not insist that F1 "address global warming". What Bernie did was lust after the bank accounts of the world's auto manufacturers and the way past their guards was to let them sell their goods using F1 as the vehicle (so to speak.) The auto makers, fully understanding the the future was not going to look kindly upon endlessly burning fossil fuels saw F1 as the way to both develop and sell hybrid systems. (You know that's the way things are going when both Porsche and Ferrari are offering hybrid power systems in their road cars.) So Bernie said, "Whatever you want so long as you bring the big name of Mercedes to the party!" and gave them big say in the rules of the sport in order to get what everyone wanted. But to think that Bernie gives a rat's butt about global warming issues is silly in the extreme.
I agree with you re: the "nosecones". I hated them at first. Now I'm resigned to them because (a) 26 years of looking at them has softened me (Tyrell 1990) and (b) they are part-and-parcel of the high-tech nature of F1. The raised nose actually came about as an aerodynamic thing. Once Jim Hall and Colin Chapman made the racing world pay attention to the issue via their racing successes, aero developments came fast. It was soon realized that low noses that were designed to send the air over the car were not a great idea as that air is not controllable and is hugely turbulent. The less the car disturbs the ambient air the better.) The new ideal was to send what air you needed (or could legally use as per the rules) under the car and to send the rest around the sides of the car where you could use and control it. Hence the raised nose and the vertical prow underneath. I will occasionally squint at an F1 car to see the core fighter jet aero design elements that are clearly visible and remind myself that what works for those things is probably a good starting point for the F1 aero folks.
The F1 teams will *never* mock Bernie's heavy hand. He has made many of the folks in the paddock into multimillionaires and has paid the teams (m/b)illions of dollars over the years and the teams are generally happy to follow Bernie's lead - mostly in nodding silence (but not always.)
re: the sound of the cars.
Yeah. Really sad. I still recall the days when I could tell you which car was which from just the sound. From 1/2 mile away outside the track.
I, too, am rapidly losing interest in this game. All the politics is tiring. Being made an annual patsy for Bernie's faux-crises-that-are-really-just-contrived-PR-bull***t-games has grown very very old. Listening to the endless "let them eat cake" arrogance and/or the "you just don't understand" patronizing BS that comes from all the F1 bigwigs is also dispiriting. The regularity with which the interests of the fans are blown off makes me steam.
Lately it's like watching a slow-motion traffic accident. You don't want to watch but you can't help but do so. Eventually the visuals will become just too gross to watch and that will be it. If only *all* of racing wasn't being run by fools or plutocrats.
Z//
I do, however, have to correct a couple of things:
Bernie is not French. He's British - born in Suffolk, England. Maybe you're thinking of Jean Todt.
Bernie did not insist that F1 "address global warming". What Bernie did was lust after the bank accounts of the world's auto manufacturers and the way past their guards was to let them sell their goods using F1 as the vehicle (so to speak.) The auto makers, fully understanding the the future was not going to look kindly upon endlessly burning fossil fuels saw F1 as the way to both develop and sell hybrid systems. (You know that's the way things are going when both Porsche and Ferrari are offering hybrid power systems in their road cars.) So Bernie said, "Whatever you want so long as you bring the big name of Mercedes to the party!" and gave them big say in the rules of the sport in order to get what everyone wanted. But to think that Bernie gives a rat's butt about global warming issues is silly in the extreme.
I agree with you re: the "nosecones". I hated them at first. Now I'm resigned to them because (a) 26 years of looking at them has softened me (Tyrell 1990) and (b) they are part-and-parcel of the high-tech nature of F1. The raised nose actually came about as an aerodynamic thing. Once Jim Hall and Colin Chapman made the racing world pay attention to the issue via their racing successes, aero developments came fast. It was soon realized that low noses that were designed to send the air over the car were not a great idea as that air is not controllable and is hugely turbulent. The less the car disturbs the ambient air the better.) The new ideal was to send what air you needed (or could legally use as per the rules) under the car and to send the rest around the sides of the car where you could use and control it. Hence the raised nose and the vertical prow underneath. I will occasionally squint at an F1 car to see the core fighter jet aero design elements that are clearly visible and remind myself that what works for those things is probably a good starting point for the F1 aero folks.
The F1 teams will *never* mock Bernie's heavy hand. He has made many of the folks in the paddock into multimillionaires and has paid the teams (m/b)illions of dollars over the years and the teams are generally happy to follow Bernie's lead - mostly in nodding silence (but not always.)
re: the sound of the cars.
Yeah. Really sad. I still recall the days when I could tell you which car was which from just the sound. From 1/2 mile away outside the track.
I, too, am rapidly losing interest in this game. All the politics is tiring. Being made an annual patsy for Bernie's faux-crises-that-are-really-just-contrived-PR-bull***t-games has grown very very old. Listening to the endless "let them eat cake" arrogance and/or the "you just don't understand" patronizing BS that comes from all the F1 bigwigs is also dispiriting. The regularity with which the interests of the fans are blown off makes me steam.
Lately it's like watching a slow-motion traffic accident. You don't want to watch but you can't help but do so. Eventually the visuals will become just too gross to watch and that will be it. If only *all* of racing wasn't being run by fools or plutocrats.
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04-03-2016, 01:33 PM
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Go HAAS!
Ferrari going BOOM b4 the race even starts
McLaren
"You guys can tell me if I have any engine code"
"You don't have any engine codes"
Ferrari going BOOM b4 the race even starts
McLaren
"You guys can tell me if I have any engine code"
"You don't have any engine codes"
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04-05-2016, 05:10 PM
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Merc looking into changing the clutch solution
http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/me...starts-684882/
http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/me...starts-684882/