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amigafan2003 said:
Is it just me or does anyone else think it looks pretty cool with dayglo flow vis paint?


They should lacquer over it and keep it!
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http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=28013465&postcount=50

pics with red flowvis paint. Also just because they used it at the front it gave it the ALonso really did hit the front jack man look :p

Could still do without the second red whatever it's called on the nose, but the red/blood edge on the wing, brake ducts, nose and sidepods looks brilliant. If they added that to the actual livery I would be impressed.

Of course, if you have a flow vis paint style livery.... it would make using flow vis paint for it's intended purpose much more difficult :p
 
OldCoals said:
Geri Halliwell arrived for her wedding in a Rolls Royce. A huge relief for Christian Horner, it wasn't powered by a Renault engine.
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Speaking as someone who has seen more than his fair share of what R-R/Bentley would deem as good car design - a Renault would be more reliable :D
 
Watched parts of the N24. Seemed to be more small fires when refuelling than teams managing a refuel without a fire. Some good stuff though, the new R8 is quite a looker and the pace it had made it deserve the win. Shame BMW are keeping the M6 till next year.
 
amigafan2003 said:
Is it just me or does anyone else think it looks pretty cool with dayglo flow vis paint?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v25/amigafan2003/11260538_735678203205503_5153972828298681688_n_zpsvl4vlnlt.jpg~original[img]

They should lacquer over it and keep it![/QUOTE]

A bit too close to going back to the Earth Dreams car though...
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Seems we are spoiled for choice this weekend, lots of racing on...

F1 (obviously)
Indy 500 (Sun 4:00pm ESPN)
GP2 (Feature- Fri 10:10am, Sprint- Sat 3:05pm SSF1)
FR 3.5 (Sun 10:20pm Eurosport, that's the only showing I could find in their TV guide but I may have missed something)

All except the Indy 500 are at Monaco too!

Should be good, I think those times/channels are all correct.
 
Blancpain Endurance Series at Silverstone, WRC Rally of Portugal, and World RX at Lydden Hill too.

And the Masters Historic Festival at Brands Hatch which I will be at.
 
Are the GP3 at Monaco?

The 500 could be interesting. At the moment it looks like the winner will be whoever is last to arrive backwards into the turn 2 wall...
 
Next GP3 race is Red Bull ring in June.

I'd love to see the full schedule for all the series over this weekend at Monaco see how much spare time they have to play with in between, there can't be too much time without having cars on track.
 
Anyone really keep up with Indycar or even have a clue how the Indy 500 works?

http://www.indycar.com/Schedule/2015/IndyCar-Series/Indianapolis-500

The race is on the 24th but practice starts on Monday 11th. 5 hours practice Monday, 6 hours a piece on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, an hour on Saturday. Sunday has 40 mins in the morning, an hour in the afternoon, then 2 hours of qualifying followed by another 45 mins of qualifying. Monday they are back to having more practice. Friday another practice then Sunday a long race. What I can't get my head around is that much practice for an oval track.

Anyway, there have been a series of pretty bad crashes. Latest one has a driver having surgery on a thigh injury, nasty impact into the wall. Several cars hitting walls then flipping over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlbdpXb3FSg

That being the crash, bad and lots of debris on track that the cars behind came incredibly close to hitting as they went through, very lucky. Crazy they race on ovals in cars like that.
 
Considering that it took a broken suspension to injure Hinchcliffe (it was actually a Massa-style incident with a piece hitting his leg), I'd say the chassis did a good job of protecting the drivers.

I remember when Nigel Mansell moved over to CART\Indycar in 1993. He was injured before his oval start at Phoenix, then came back the next race, won 3 times on ovals and took the championship. Then again, that is Mansell. Not any ordinary racer.

Motorsport is never 100% safe, there's always a degree of risk racing motorised vehicles at speed - in this case a part failure caused a crash. Jules Bianchi showed us that even F1 isn't 100% safe.
 
Flibster said:
There is something very wrong with the new aero packages they've got this year.
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When you trim your car out and are doing 240mph on the straight immediately preceding, it isn't going to be a small crash.

With regards to the aero, Indycar asked all of the teams to change their cars prior to qualifying. Since on the face of it, only Chevrolet appeared to have the catching air problem, some have said that Honda got shafted (although Honda have been inferior all year regardless). I'm not an aerodynamicist, but Helio's crash looked a lot like an LMP blowover.
 
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