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Skeeter said:
I don't get it?
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Steedie said:
Me neither :(
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*sigh* ;)

Kimi said:
Looks like hes running some camber on the car and lifting the low side up with his foot?
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Yeah, that'd be about right!

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Note to self - must remember audience when talking about NASCAR :o

Not camber exactly (though it would have been involved), but he and the team would have almost certainly gone just a little bit beyond the point of reason with the asymmetric setup that day. And anything that you can get past the tech inspectors is all good in NASCAR. It might have been ride height, it might have been spring settings, it might even have been a wildly reshaped front clip. And I don't think Junebug has said whether nor not the car as seen in that photo actually passed tech inspection :D
 
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At first I assumed he was lifting the car to make it lighter, but then wondered why anyone would intentionally run a car heavier than regulations allowed. Plus, lifting a NASCAR with one foot isn't going to make much difference, unless your super strong :p.
 
http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12...urers-agree-to-lower-cost-of-customer-engines

Can someone explain how engine supply is "guaranteed"?

Does that mean the re-introduction of the idea of getting a standard FIA PU made by a third party, or is their some sort of gun held to the current engine manufacturers heads?

Manor - "Hi, we need an engine for 2017"

Merc - "nah, sorry mate. Already been there this year"

Ferrari - "la chiamata è importante per noi . per favore tenere."

Renault - "Ffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
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I expect it will be like the 3rd car rule, where it's written into the regulations that if pushed to it, the FIA could force someone to supply a customer team with an engine. But it will be ambiguous enough to mean it will almost certainly not happen and if it did it would be a prior year engine.

The dismissal of refueling (again) is good news.
 
Probably something along the lines of 'an engine manufacturer must be willing to supply up to four teams on the grid if requested 180 days before the start of the Next season'. So Mercedes, supplying themselves, Manor, Williams and Force India would be exempt but Ferrari would have to or Renault/Honda would have to if asked.
 
Only in America, spend $400 million, have a stand with 101,500 permanent seating and you have the renovated speedway Daytona International Speedway:

 
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/122590

Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo set the quickest time on the first Formula 1 test day of the 2016 season as Pirelli tested wet tyres at Paul Ricard.

He was the fastest of the three 2015-spec cars taking part in the two-day session at the sometime French Grand Prix venue.

McLaren test driver Stoffel Vandoorne was 0.4 seconds behind and second quickest ahead of Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari at a cool and overcast Ricard.

Both Red Bull and Ferrari completed 10 sets of 10-lap runs on a full-wet prototype tyre.

In total 285 laps were covered across the three teams.

McLaren didn't finish its programme from Pirelli as Vandoorne stopped out on track shortly before the close of play due to an engine problem. His McLaren returned to the pits on the back of a flat-bed truck.

The two-day test has been organised by Pirelli so it can test new full-wet tyres.

The track was artificially soaked by sprinklers and each car left the pits at 10-seconds intervals, circulating for roughly 10 laps before returning to the pits so the track could be soaked again.

Pirelli has been working on a combination of different compounds, different tread depths and configurations, but as the temperature at the south of France venue never rose about 10 degrees centigrade conditions were not ideal.

The second and final day commences at 9.30am local time on Tuesday.

Sebastian Vettel will take over driving duties from Raikkonen at Ferrari, while Daniil Kvyat replaces Ricciardo at Red Bull.

Vandoorne will complete the second day for McLaren.
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Looool!
 
Is my googlefu incredibly weak today, or has autosport not done their usual live commentary of the Pirelli test? (presumably because its the Pirelli test, rather than a proper test day)
 
Reaper 392 said:
Is my googlefu incredibly weak today, or has autosport not done their usual live commentary of the Pirelli test? (presumably because its the Pirelli test, rather than a proper test day)
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Its not a proper test. The cars are sent out at set intervals with specific instructions on the number of laps to do and the speed to do them at, then they return to the pits so they can go and wet the track again, and then repeat.

Theres no development parts allowed on the cars, and the teams do not know the details of the tyres they are using. Theres also only 3 cars there.

There would be no point commentating on what is little more than a manufacturers product test.
 
"Italian Automobile Club head Sticchi Damiani voiced the amount to be spend by Azerbaijan for hosting "Formula-1" race in Baku."

"Damiani, our country will pay the head of "Formula-1" Bernie Ecclestone $ 150 mln for the three races in the period from 2016 to 2018. "

"Damiani also said that Ecclestone claims $28 mln a year from organizers for hosting the "Formula-1" in Italy, but the Italians are willing to pay only $20 mln."

http://news.az/articles/sports/104601

How much :eek: glad our government doesn't give Bernie a bean.
 
Skeeter said:
I wonder if you will remain 'glad' once we no longer have a British GP?
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If F1 lose Silverstone due to way high prices that Bernie wants to pay teams for rubbish racing, then so be it.

I can go and watch MotoGp at a 3rd of the cost.
 
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