Jase1        Posted at 2023-03-17 18:32:00(87Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| LOL   Yeah lets hope so  | |
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| MUTILATEDFILTHPosted at 2023-03-18 03:13:47(86Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| While this isnt F1 related, does anybody here do any online racing with steering wheel and pedals? Always on the lookout for more drivers for my team on iRacing. | |
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R34P3R Posted at 2023-03-18 03:48:03(86Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| I Myself Don't,,, But I am trying 2 figure a way 2 play F1 2022 on my laptop with some sort of a controlor | |
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| daz40Posted at 2023-03-18 16:04:23(86Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| Mercedes looking off the pace. But really loving Alonso this year he seems to fit the the Aston Martin perfectly Also got him in my F1 Fantasy team so go Alonso | |
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| MafketelPosted at 2023-03-18 16:38:24(86Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| That's not a Mercedes problem...  | |
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| R34P3RPosted at 2023-03-19 01:34:49(86Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| daz40Posted at 2023-03-19 12:11:36(86Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| My son believes Verstappen will not make up 14 places. I believe he will. Whatever happens it makes for an exciting race, and gives perez a chance to shine | |
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| sherbPosted at 2023-03-19 15:31:03(86Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| I'm impressed with Piastris' drive, one to look out for in the future I think. An interesting grid should make for a good race. | |
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| R34P3RPosted at 2023-03-19 17:23:36(86Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| I 2 am looking 4 good things 2 come from Piastri, I also think things ( races ) will B more exciting as the season goes on >>> Go MAX. | |
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| daz40Posted at 2023-03-19 19:31:13(86Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| Why would they take so long to make a decision, letting Alonso stand on the podium shake the champagne only to take it away . Same as I feel the safety car was not really needed for where stroll parked up But good for my home boy Russell. | |
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| MafketelPosted at 2023-03-19 19:55:55(86Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| How was the look on his face after max just did that? | |
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| MafketelPosted at 2023-03-19 19:56:44(86Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| Because they had to take a close look at it... It was kinda hard to see... | |
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| R34P3RPosted at 2023-03-20 02:20:04(86Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| Yes Sir Billie Bub >>> I Believe Alonso Has Been Reinstated Bck to 3rd Place | |
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| R34P3RPosted at 2023-03-20 02:25:20(86Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| After seeing one breeze past him at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton said Red Bull's current car is faster than anything he ever had during Mercedes' dominant spell of a few years ago. Red Bull recorded a second straight one-two finish at Sunday's Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, finishing comfortably clear of its rivals. | |
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| MafketelPosted at 2023-03-20 06:53:47(86Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| It starting to sound like he's looking for a seat at Red bull... 🤣 🤣 | |
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| Jase1Posted at 2023-03-20 14:57:15(86Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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|  The duo, often seen together in the paddock, had been working together for the last seven years, with Cullen first appearing alongside Hamilton at the 2016 Australian Grand Prix. The announcement was met with heartfelt social media posts from both Hamilton and Cullen, which suggested that Cullen had left to "pursue her dreams". Speaking after the announcement, Mercedes Team Principal Toto Wolff believed that the decision was Hamilton's choice. "It was no surprise to us because Hamilton had been looking for change for a while," he told Sky Sports. Wolff elaborated in the press conference and paid tribute to "mascot" Cullen, and said he supported any decisions made by Hamilton to have 'honest' discussions about the future. "Angela was part of the gang for a long time," Wolff commented to media, including RacingNews365.com. "I think in every team, whether that is his close circle, or also in the wider group, this is not a static situation that you can freeze, because we all develop as people, we develop as an organisation and if things don't work out anymore, then we need to be honest about it and then bring change. "Angela will always be a mascot of the team. She's the only one who has a louder voice than a starting car. But, you know, if this is what he decides, we will always absolutely support him, whatever direct direction he wants to take." | |
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| MafketelPosted at 2023-03-22 13:53:01(86Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| Jase1Posted at 2023-03-22 13:58:18(86Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| WOW !!! I didn't see that one coming  Can you imagine she starts working with Max passing the gloves and helmets and scootering down the paddocks chasing him LOL | |
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| MafketelPosted at 2023-03-22 14:45:36(86Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Take a good look at the text at the bottom of the img... 🤣 🤣 🤣 Best to use zoom... 🤣 🤣  terrible | |
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| Jase1Posted at 2023-03-22 19:11:33(86Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| Ha Ha Ha You got me LOL :) Grrrrrr  | |
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| Jase1Posted at 2023-03-22 20:00:11(86Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| George Russell thinks his Mercedes Formula 1 team has "got some more performance in the locker" for the next few races after an encouraging Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.  Mercedes' poor start to the season looked set to continue when it struggled through Friday practice, but after overnight work the team unearthed more performance for qualifying. While Lewis Hamilton still struggled to get to grips with certain characteristics of the W14, team-mate Russell made a step forward by qualifying fourth, which became third after Charles Leclerc's grid penalty. It led to Russell saying after qualifying that Mercedes gained "more performance in a week than we found in almost a month". Mercedes' race pace also took a step forward, with both cars outperforming the Ferraris. Amid confusion over Fernando Alonso's final results, Russell was briefly handed third but he was eventually confirmed as fourth ahead of Hamilton. While the team is not getting carried away by its sudden improvement from Bahrain to Jeddah - a more radical concept change is still in the works - Russell does feel optimistic that there is more to come from the Brackley team on the short term. "We definitely made a step in the right direction," Russell said. "I think, above all, we just truly maximised the potential of the car. "We had a really strong qualifying, which was really enjoyable. I was really pleased to come home in P4 on the road because I felt like that was the maximum that was possible. And I was having fun up there. "The car was feeling good. And we know we've got some more performance in the locker in some races to come."  When asked earlier in the weekend when Mercedes' next significant steps might come, Russell said May's Emilia Romagna Grand Prix is the most likely target. "Maybe Imola time," he said. "Perhaps you can bring it a bit earlier, but I guess you're always a bit wary to bring things to a street track. "We just need to weigh up the options. With the mistakes we've made we're not going to rush to bring things forward, unless we're absolutely 120% sure it's the right one. "And obviously, the longer you wait, the bigger impact you can have because of the development slope, so we need to weigh up the pros and cons. "We want to be winning races this year, that's where we want to be. Of course, we'd love to be fighting for the championship, but Red Bull is just doing an excellent job. "The gap they've got to the rest of the field is bigger than we've seen in F1 for six, seven or eight years, so it's pretty impressive." | |
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| Jase1Posted at 2023-03-23 15:43:53(86Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| Formula 1: McLaren technical director James Key leaves as new team structure revealed  James Key joined McLaren as technical director in 2019, replacing Tim Goss Technical director James Key has left McLaren after a difficult couple of seasons and been replaced by a new design-office structure at the team. Key's role has been split into three separate technical director positions under team principal Andrea Stella. David Sanchez joins from Ferrari to lead car concept and performance. He is joined by two internal promotions - Peter Prodromou on aerodynamics and Neil Houldley on engineering and design. All three will operate with the job title of technical director in charge of their own area of expertise. Sanchez will start work on 1 January 2024 after completing his "gardening leave" from Ferrari. The changes, which the team emphasised had been worked on for months, come after McLaren slipped from fourth to fifth in the constructors' championship in 2022, and a dispiriting start to the new season. The team admitted they had missed their targets over the winter, having failed to spot a development direction early enough, and are last in the constructors' championship after two races having suffered both below-par performance and poor reliability. McLaren are hopeful upgrades scheduled to be introduced from the fourth race of the season will return them to a more competitive position. Stella said: "Looking ahead, I am determined and fully focused on leading McLaren back to the front of the field. "Since taking on the team principal role, I have been given the mandate to take a strategic approach to ensure the team is set on a long-term foundation, for us to build on over the years. "This new structure provides clarity and effectiveness within the team's technical department and puts us in a strong position to maximise performance, including optimising the new infrastructure upgrades we have coming in 2023." McLaren Racing chief executive officer Zak Brown said: "It has been clear to me for some time that our technical development has not moved at a quick enough pace to match our ambition of returning to the front of the grid. "I'm pleased that, having completed a full review with Andrea, we are now able to implement the restructure required to set the wheels in motion to turn this around. "These strategic changes ensure the long-term success of the team and are necessary to see McLaren get back to winning ways. "We have everything coming into place now with our people and infrastructure and alongside an exciting driver line-up, I'm determined to see McLaren get back to where we should be." Prodromou as technical director, aerodynamics, will be supported by Giuseppe Pesce, who has been promoted to director, aerodynamics and chief of staff. Piers Thynne has been promoted from operations director to chief operating officer with the aim of supporting Stella in "innovating and elevating the standards at McLaren". The restructure has been introduced shortly before key infrastructure projects at McLaren are due for completion. These include the team's own wind tunnel, which is expected to be running by the summer. For more than a decade, McLaren have been using a third-party wind tunnel in Germany, creating both cost and logistical issues. Analysis - Why has this happened? The roots of this restructure at McLaren go back to last season, when bosses began to have concerns the team was not developing at the rate intended. McLaren have ambitions of returning to the front of the grid. But after a positive 2021 season, in which the team won a race for the first time in nine years, progress stalled in 2022. Last year, F1 introduced new regulations that were intended to close up the field and promote closer racing, but McLaren's lap-time deficit to the front doubled and the team dropped a place in the constructors' championship, losing out in the fight for fourth to Alpine. That was partly because Daniel Ricciardo had a difficult season, scoring just over a quarter of the points of team-mate Lando Norris, leading to his contract being terminated a year early. But Brown also began to feel he was not seeing the technical progress he had wanted or expected. Brown recognised the success of the 2021 car was - because of the unique circumstances around the Covid-19 pandemic and teams using the same cars for two years - essentially a product of work done in 2019, when the technical leadership of the team was very different. The 2019 season started with Pat Fry as McLaren's technical director, Stella as performance director, Prodromou as head of aerodynamics and former Indycar star Gil de Ferran, who left the team last year after a couple of seasons focusing on their US racing plans, still in place as sporting director. Key joined just after the start of the 2019 season and Fry left for Alpine in the summer of that year. Through 2020 and 2021, McLaren repeatedly expressed confidence in their technical leadership structure, but the results in 2022 led Brown to question whether things were going in the right direction. Towards the end of last season, team principal Andreas Seidl, who joined in May 2019, was approached by both Ferrari and Audi, and chose to accept the offer from the German company to lead their F1 project when it starts in 2026. Rather than force Seidl to stick to his contract and stay until the end of 2025, Brown decided to let him leave for Alfa Romeo/Sauber, where he is heading up the team's transition into Audi as chief executive officer, and take the opportunity to make major changes at McLaren. The first of those was the promotion of Stella to team principal as a replacement for Seidl. The restructure announced on Thursday centres on the capture from Ferrari of Sanchez, who has been at Maranello for a decade and was their head of vehicle concept. In that role, he was key in the team's effective response to major regulations changes for both the 2017 and 2022 seasons, both of which they started with a fully competitive car. More recruitment is in the pipeline and McLaren believe they have course-corrected and are now back on target with their ambitions. | |
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| R34P3RPosted at 2023-03-23 21:59:43(86Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| Jase1Posted at 2023-03-24 20:20:03(85Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| Alonso makes Brawn GP comparison after Aston Martin’s leap up the order this season  Fernando Alonso has likened Aston Martin’s leap up the F1 pecking order to the fairy-tale Brawn GP story from 2009, with the Spaniard paying tribute to his “very talented” new team after back-to-back podium results. Aston Martin placed seventh in the constructors’ standings in 2021 and 2022 but find themselves second overall with two rounds completed in 2023 – Alonso finishing behind only the Red Bull drivers in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. Asked if he has ever seen an F1 operation make such a step, Alonso picked out Brawn GP as one of two examples, after the team emerged from Honda’s departure at the end of 2008 to spectacularly win both the drivers’ title with Jenson Button and the constructors’ crown. However, the two-time world champion also suggested that Aston Martin’s progress over the recent winter period is even more impressive given the relative stability in the regulations between the 2022 and 2023 campaigns. “Ferrari when it was 2020, they were very bad, or 2021, then in the following year – last year – they were fighting for the championship, or won the first two or three Grands Prix of the year, so Ferrari made a huge step last year. [There was also] Brawn GP – huge,” said Alonso.  “With a non-regulation change, [Aston Martin’s is] probably the biggest one. All the others, they were with the regulation change, plus with the cost cap it’s very difficult to do something like that, but we have very talented people in the team – so far it’s been a good start and hopefully only the start.” Alonso was also keen to note the efforts of Aston Martin CEO Lawrence Stroll, who brought the British brand back to F1 a couple of seasons ago and is pressing ahead with a five-year plan to turn them into a championship-contending force. On linking up with Stroll and witnessing his leadership so far, Alonso commented: “Obviously very happy, very proud. I think he has this vision of having a winning team in the near future, whatever it takes, whatever it costs, whatever is needed. “When he has an idea normally he succeeds, that’s why it’s interesting to have a leader like Lawrence because you know you have everything you need behind you and the team is in safe hands, whatever he’s requesting.” While Aston Martin sit second in the constructors’ standings after the first two rounds, Alonso holds third in the drivers’ battle, 14 points away from championship leader Max Verstappen. | |
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| R34P3RPosted at 2023-04-01 16:19:43(84Wks ago) Report Permalink URL | ||
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| MELBOURNE, Australia -- Red Bulls will start first and last at Sunday's Australian Grand Prix after Max Verstappen took pole position at Albert Park and teammate Sergio Perez crashed out in Q1. Verstappen claimed pole by 0.236s from Mercedes' George Russell in a competitive session that looked less one-sided than qualifying at the opening two rounds in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. "Not too shabby," Russell said over team radio. "I thought we were one second off the pace!" Lewis Hamilton doubled down on Mercedes' return to form with the third fastest time, 0.136s off his teammate and 0.035s clear of the Aston Martin of Fernando Alonso in fourth place. Perez will start last on the grid after beaching his car in the gravel at Turn 3 on his first flying lap. The Mexican struggled throughout final practice with the balance of his car and when it came to qualifying he locked up on the entrance to Turn 3 and ploughed straight into the gravel. "We need to sort that issue, man," a clearly frustrated Perez said over team radio. "It was the same f------ issue again." Perez went into the weekend just one point behind teammate Verstappen after winning the last race in Saudi Arabia, but now faces a huge challenge to minimise the damage to his championship chances on Sunday. Carlos Sainz took fifth for Ferrari ahead of the second Aston Martin of Lance Stroll in sixth and teammate Charles Leclerc in seventh. Alexander Albon exceeded expectations at Williams with the eighth fastest time and will start ahead of Alpine's Pierre Gasly and the Haas of Nico Hulkenberg, who round out the top ten. The second Alpine of Esteban Ocon missed out on a place in Q2 by 0.007s after coming across traffic on his final fast lap. He will start alongside Yuki Tsunoda in the AlphaTauri in 12th and ahead of Lando Norris, who hauled his McLaren up to 13th on the grid. Kevin Magnussen was 14th fastest, 0.617s off the time set by his Haas teammate Hulkenberg in Q2, with Nyck de Vries 15th fastest in the second AlphaTauri car. Oscar Piastri will start 16th at his first home race after missing the cut for Q2 by 0.046s in his McLaren. He will start ahead of Alfa Romeo's Zhou Guanyu, Logan Sargeant in the Williams and Valtteri Bottas, who encountered traffic on his hot lap and finished the session 0.174s off teammate Zhou. | |
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