Motorsport Off Topic Thread

Looks like Kubica will be back with Williams next year, will be glad to see him on the grid again. But I wish he had a better benchmark than Stroll to properly assess him.

Kubica's already gone quicker in testing than Stroll did in Qualifying, so probably could go quicker still with lighter fuel load and full engine mode.
 
Thoughts with MSC as he turns 49 today, although we may never see him again I'll always remember him like this:

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JRS said:
On a more sombre note - gutted at the passing of Henry Hope-Frost, long-time staff member of Autosport and commentator at Goodwood, who died in a collision on his motorbike yesterday :(
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Yeah it's tragic, he had an unbridled enthusiasm for motorsport whether on 2 wheels or 4.

Truly appreciated his daily dose of #fever that he brought via twitter.
 
If you get a spare hour there's a really good podcast with Martin Brundle previewing this season:


Pretty much agree with everything he says and there's a lot of interesting stories along the way.
 
this_is_gav said:
While impressive, if you gave the Mercedes a similarly free reign on regulations I'd bet it would sail off into the distance too.

You've got to wonder why... improving by 12 seconds by bending regulations to beat an F1 car which sticks to regulations? What an odd project by Porsche.
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Oh yeah that's for sure, but it's still going faster round Spa with a much less powerful PU. Spa is a very much a power circuit.
They added more powerful aero and unrestricted fuel flow but it still resembles an LMP1 car.

F1 also gets far more sticky rubber for a Quali lap.

It's Porsche's swan song to retire the car and doing stuff like this gets people talking, marketing exercise.
 
Some clips of the 919 Evo at Spa:

I would love to see the onboard, with the tyres they use they could probably maintain those lap times fairly long too.
Kinda makes me want to see a sprint race using this spec.
 
drunkenmaster said:
I'm not sure where you get the idea it's a much less powerful engine, it's not. The standard Porche for LMP1 had a 500bhp ICE output driving the rear axle and 400bhp from the mgu-k driving the front axle. It's a 900bhp car as standard, well actually they themselves described it as an over 900bhp combined engine and hybrid system combined, they removed the fuel flow limit and had 720bhp from the ice and 440bhp from the mgu-k including a 8MJ battery.
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My mistake, I read the motorsport article and they didn't mention the MGU-K power, I only saw the ICE numbers:
Jani reaching a top speed of 359km/h (223mph) thanks to the 2.0-litre V4 engine being tuned to produce around 720bhp - compared to the 500bhp it had previously due to LMP1 fuel flow regulations.
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Entai said:
They will have had ultra sticky specialist tyres for this lap too.

With all the other changes there is no way on earth they would have stuck standard rubber on it.
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Hopefully this gets confirmed later, would be good to know.

Edit: I read this has been confirmed, special tyres from Michelin.
Also Porsche are aiming to go faster still by a few seconds, they have a few more days at Spa.
 
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I honestly couldn't believe my eyes for the first half of the lap, just was so fast that it didn't seem real.

Whilst dangerous yes I wish there was a motorsport series that gave that same WOW sensation when watching an onboard.
 
Hulkenberg and Alonso both have significantly more retirements than their team mates yet are still outscoring them by large margins.

Alonso you've come to expect this from, but Hulkenberg really is having a blinder. Sainz is no slouch, he largely kept Verstappen honest. I just hope Renault are competitive next year as the Hulkenberg/Ricciardo pairing is my favourite on the grid.
 
The change will be much better.
You might hear teams moan about the allocation by Pirelli that weekend, but that happens now anyway.

MotoGP have utilised this system for a while and it works perfectly well.
 
vanpeebles said:
They will still have to explain that the soft used here, is different from the soft used last time, because the make up is different, yet they are called the same.
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Will it matter that much though? They'll just say the allocation from one weekend to the next is softer/harder due to the track surface. Once the weekend is underway saying soft/medium/hard will be much simpler for newcomers to the sport.

It's far better than commentators saying "X driver has pitted from his hyper-softs and now has super-softs which aren't providing much grip, perhaps he should have gone for the ultra-softs". Anyone trying to get into the sport would be :confused::confused::confused:
 
vanpeebles said:
Because you will get derps sending twitter messages to sky f1, asking why the soft from last weekend, does something entirely different to the soft at the current race. Watch it will happen :)
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A soft tyre this year will perform completely different at Barcelona than say Monaco.
 
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