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Old 02-17-2018, 11:56 AM
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I agree with Lowe, until someone crashes and has any kind of problem getting out of the car.

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Old 02-17-2018, 11:58 AM
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Beware the concept of "producing the greatest spectacle in sport", Mr. Brawn.
Do you really want to compete down at the level of monster trucks, nascar, wrestling, lingerie football... ?
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Old 02-17-2018, 07:44 PM
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I agree with Lowe, until someone crashes and has any kind of problem getting out of the car.

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I do wish they had made it out of transparent material.

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Beware the concept of "producing the greatest spectacle in sport", Mr. Brawn.
Do you really want to compete down at the level of monster trucks, nascar, wrestling, lingerie football... ?
LOL.
Something had to change at a certain point.

The main thing it seems to me is the politics.
F1 can't be a sport run by the inmates.
For too long we have how well seen how that has worked out.
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Old 02-17-2018, 07:53 PM
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I do wish they had made it out of transparent material.
Scotty still hasn't come back to give us the formula for transparent aluminum yet!

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Old 02-18-2018, 12:53 AM
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Old 02-18-2018, 09:53 AM
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Originally Posted by VetteDrmr
Scotty still hasn't come back to give us the formula for transparent aluminum yet!

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Or even titanium which is what the Halo is made from.

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Old 02-18-2018, 06:14 PM
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A cure for overrunning track limits?
http://gptoday.com/full_story/view/6..._track_limits/
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Old 02-19-2018, 11:38 AM
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2018 Red Bull reveal:


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Old 02-19-2018, 12:26 PM
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Not seeing much "red" in RB. Livery is pretty dull; hopefully it's not representative.

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not representative, camouflage outfit to hide sensitive parts when taking spy photos. Real livery when will test in Barcelona. they all do it.

From my impression, the FW41 seems to me already well done, it has copied the cape below the Mercedes and has pontoons like Ferrari.
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It's going to take me a long while before I can ignore the Halo...
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The FIA has banned, temporarily, the T wing and shark thin but it is impossible to keep the brain of engineers in a cage.

If you look at the RBR 14 and FW 41, you will see that the next war will be that of barge boards and pontoons, with barge boards as high as medieval walls cut by "murderers" (killers?) and "mâchicoulis" (medieval defense architectural words)

Is it understable ?

The "meurtrière" :


The "mâchicoulis"
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No more shark fins but a "grey" zone of the regulation, allowing this dinausore backbone that we will see on all F1 2018. Mercedes presentation in 4 steps on 22nd, same date for Ferrari.

Renault. elsewhere for the other teams, there will still be changes between now and Barcelona testings.

Nando (Fernando Alonso) is testing since yesterday a Toyota TS050 2018 in Portugal. He will be at time for presentation of the MCL33. Nando 2018 = Superman ?
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Old 02-20-2018, 01:16 PM
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Beautiful.




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Haas first to reveal their 2018 car:







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Beautiful.

Yes, it is...so is the new Alfa Romeo Sauber:












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Old 02-20-2018, 05:32 PM
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Interesting how Haas made the hoop "disappear" and Alfa sort of features it as part of the design. Like both.

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Old 02-20-2018, 07:15 PM
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Strangely, I do too.
I guess painting it makes all the difference in the world....
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Old 02-20-2018, 09:10 PM
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Not digging the halo.
Grid girls gone.
What next?
Lingerie football is looking better and better every day!
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Frenco-Belgian F1 website, in Frrnch and Englisg but more rich in French. Some articles in French do not exist in English.

Excellent analysis of 7 aspects of the revolutionary Sauber between C36 and C37 and with other F1 models. I hope geolocation doesn't interfere with reading. LMK
http://www.f1i.fr/magazine/magazine-...r-c37-a-loupe/
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