Malaysian Grand Prix 2015, Kuala Lumpur - Race 2/19

I quite like the Sky F1 team apart from Simon. He's not even interested in the sport. He is so awkward when talking to Totto and the like. I'd prefer someone else in there that actually likes F1...

Quite like Herbert and Hill. Hill has definitely improved since his first stint.
 
this_is_gav said:
But if the closest we've got is Tom Clarkson it's a non-contest. Ted was never perfect, but that didn't stop him from being brilliant. He was the upside of James Allen replacing Murray.

His scoff at Irvine in one of his notebooks was the stuff of brilliance too.

I know Gary Anderson and his A4 pads got a lot of stick, and he wasn't a TV guy in the slightest, but he did have a knowledge few of the other tech reporters in F1 did, and knocked Kravitz into oblivion when it came to details.

To be honest, as infuriating as he could be when employed by a team, I thought Mike Gascoyne would be a shoe-in for replacing Anderson on the BBC or adding to Sky's otherwise bland panel. He always seemed to be perfectly comfortable talking to the media, was never afraid of giving an opinion and would have been better than either Herbert or Hill, who are much of the same in my opinion, and offer nothing in they way of technical insight, despite their 280 GP between them.
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As the BBC got rid of Gary Anderson because they didn't want to push the technical side it would have been very unlikely for him to be replaced.

Skeeter said:
Indycar are trialing LED displays of car positions, which seems like a decent idea.

Endurance racing have had lights for the top 3 in class for a while which works well.
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Some of the GT3 championships have been using an LED number display for the position for a while now.
 
Alibaba99 said:
Some of the GT3 championships have been using an LED number display for the position for a while now.
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Its quite surprising just how far behind the curve F1 is with some things.

The 'new' Virtual Safety Car system is just a tweaked version of the Code 60 rules that some GT series' have been using for a while.

What annoys me though is the extents F1 will go to in oder to massively overcomplicate something that should be simple. The best solution to make cars easily identifiable is to mandate large, easily visible car numbering on the nose and rear wing side plates, just like GP2 and many other series do. But because the teams want to sell that space to sponsors we instead get rules around helmets and stuff which just remind me of that NASA/Space Pen story...
 
Skeeter said:
What annoys me though is the extents F1 will go to in oder to massively overcomplicate something that should be simple. The best solution to make cars easily identifiable is to mandate large, easily visible car numbering on the nose and rear wing side plates, just like GP2 and many other series do. But because the teams want to sell that space to sponsors we instead get rules around helmets and stuff which just remind me of that NASA/Space Pen story...
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There is actually a very good reason why NASA developed a pen instead of using a pencil. However, it make a far better story if you ignore that and just assume that an establishment staffed by many thousands of talented engineers would overlook the obvious.
 
*bzzzzttt!!!!*

Sorry Skeeter and Alibaba99, thanks for playing but you're both wrong ;)

NASA never did develop a pen for use in zero gravity. They did a bit of work on the idea early on in the space program, but reverted to using pencils like the Soviets. The Fisher Space Pen Company, ran by Paul Fisher, developed the pen that they would eventually use (no NASA money was spent on it, the Fisher company was solely responsible for development). Both NASA and the Soviet space agency bought them.
 
I never belived that story to be true anyway, hence calling it a "story". Its just a good way to demonstrate and example of spending lots of time and money trying to solve a problem with a complicated answer, when there's a simple answer staring you in the face.

Although Toto mentioned it in an interview on Sky. They did actually table the idea of mandatory large numbers, but a number of teams refused due to wanting the advertising space.
 
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