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marsh

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Everything you see there, the wing, the nose and the sidepods, looks very generic.

Presumably a whole pile of supercomputers doing CFD non stop for 18 months with all the teams has found the optimum shape for this generation of rules. So next year all the cars will look the same.

We started the season with a needle nose on the Red Bull and a super wide nose on the Renault. They have now converged to, presumably, the optimum width.

Likewise Ferrari started the season with wing mirrors on th top of vertical wings and now everyone has copied them.

This, it looks incredibly dull bar the sidepods which have larger than what I percieve to be normal extensions on the floorpan. Out of the new teams I do expect USF to come up with something and of course Lotus. Unless Manor and campos play a card before christmas I'd think it'll happen.

Trulli as a driver? is he doing it for nothing? even then it's too much.

I was watching Senna in Brazil from 94 last night. I didn't realise he'd completed so many laps before spinning out. I reckon he'd still be racing now you know.

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Dudley

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The GP is sold out which is amazing when you see all those grandstands and look where it is in the world.

I went to a sold out Bahrain GP in 2008. The stand I was in remained near empty except for the middle third of the GP.

So I wouldn't put stock they've been sold to anyone who gives a shit just yet.

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Bruciebabie

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This, it looks incredibly dull bar the sidepods which have larger than what I percieve to be normal extensions on the floorpan. Out of the new teams I do expect USF to come up with something and of course Lotus. Unless Manor and campos play a card before christmas I'd think it'll happen.

Trulli as a driver? is he doing it for nothing? even then it's too much.

I was watching Senna in Brazil from 94 last night. I didn't realise he'd completed so many laps before spinning out. I reckon he'd still be racing now you know.

Manor will be interesting. They are not using wind tunnels!

They are trying to do it just using CFD.

http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headlines/news...007154817.shtml

It is worth noting, on a similar vein, that Fiat don't use car prototypes any more for their road cars, they go straight from CAD to production. And it works.

This saves them many millions and many months with each new car design.

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Bruciebabie

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Massa gets his relationship with his new team mate off to a good start:

"Massa spoke to Brazilian media during a get-together in Sao Paulo on Wednesday and, during the lunch, he said he was in no doubt that Alonso had to have been aware of the plans for Nelson Piquet to crash deliberately in the Singapore event last year to try and help him win."

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mexos

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It's absolutely stunning. I cannot believe he said it. Alonso will be f-ing fuming! Probably in Luca's office right now demanding his head.

"What is certain is that this episode will not mar in any way the relationship I'll have with Fernando when we will be team-mates."

Oh dear sonny, your in for a world of pain.

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Bruciebabie

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Well, there's 13 teams so 26 cars. Potentially 28 if the teams agree to let BMW Sauber back in. Although the first request was denied.

The limit appears to be the pits at Monaco which can only take 26 cars.

The only way round this, other than demolishing a few buildings, is to move the FIA into an already crowded paddock.

In times past, when anyone could turn up and race, they had pre qualifying and the 107% rule.

It would have to be more like 101% these days!!

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The limit appears to be the pits at Monaco which can only take 26 cars.

The only way round this, other than demolishing a few buildings, is to move the FIA into an already crowded paddock.

In times past, when anyone could turn up and race, they had pre qualifying and the 107% rule.

It would have to be more like 101% these days!!

With the high number of untested teams potentially joining next season I'm wondering if we'll start to see some sort of 107% style rule in the mix.

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p1nseeker

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Ok then for a bit of fun lets have a go this weekend with a set-up i have used in the past. See if it works / any tweaks are needed.

Anyone who wants in will need to pick:

Any two drivers. (Don't have to be on the same team)

One team. (Doesn't need to be connected to the drivers)

Optional:

A driver / team for each bonus category

Points are awarded thus:

Qualifying

1st 40 - 2nd 36 - 3rd 32 - 4th 30 - 5th 28 - 6th 26 - 7th 24 - 8th 22 - 9th 20 - 10th 18

11th 16 - 12th 14 - 13th 12 - 14th 10 - 15th 8 - 16th - 6 17th - 4 18th 2 - 19th 1 - 20th 0.

Race Result

1st 100 - 2nd 80 - 3rd 70 - 4th 60 - 5th 55 - 6th 50 - 7th 45 - 8th 40 - 9th 35 - 10th 30

11th 27 - 12th 24 - 13th 21 - 14th 18 - 15th 15 - 16th - 12 17th - 9 18th 6 - 19th 3 - 20th 0.

Calculations

Drivers will be awarded the full points won.

Teams will be awarded the average of the teams two drivers.

Bonus Points

Named Drivers improve Position - 6 points per position.

Named driver gets fastest Lap - 10 points.

Named driver wins the Hat-Trick: Pole, Race Win and Fastest Lap - 20 points.

Optional bonus catagories.

First Retirement - 5pts

First Pit stop driver (scheduled or otherwise) - 5pts

First Pit stop team (scheduled or otherwise) - 5pts

-------------------------------------------------------------

Example entry post:

Driver 1: L Hamilton

Driver 2: F Alonso

Team: Red Bull

1st retirement: T Glock

1st pit: J Trulli

1st team pit: Force India

All entries to be posted before the light goes green in the first session of quali. And please one entry post per person only, if you want to amend your entry please edit your post.

Any questions?

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McSpeed

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Any questions?

Can we do this in a seperate thread, and save this one for Formula 1 discussion? :lol:

That pit exit is fucking crazy!

edit: After watching it all, the circuit looks like it was designed for a game, more than racing. Very strange layout, just showing of all the nice buildings they've built

This. Pit complex looks mental indeed, but that'll make it interesting. The track itself seems to have a lot of runoffs, so I'm curious what the actual F1-style course will look like.

Although a bit different, still a typical Tilke track though. When will some other track designers pop up?

Massa gets his relationship with his new team mate off to a good start:

"Massa spoke to Brazilian media during a get-together in Sao Paulo on Wednesday and, during the lunch, he said he was in no doubt that Alonso had to have been aware of the plans for Nelson Piquet to crash deliberately in the Singapore event last year to try and help him win."

Nah, they already had a great start way earlier on:

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