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It won't be free though, as no doubt I'll have to fork out over £100 to get a Sky Box and Dish installed to receive the channel in the first place.
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It won't be free though, as no doubt I'll have to fork out over £100 to get a Sky Box and Dish installed to receive the channel in the first place.
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It pretty much had to, there wasn't enough time between the two races in a sport as dysfunctional as F1 to make any proper change. Merely reverting to the previous system would have taken six weeks of on-again-off-again negotiating followed by a watered-down 'agreement' followed by an 11th-hour panicked re-think.
Cynical, moi? Naaah.
New teams joining F1 get a $10m bonus payment because they won't earn any FOM prize money until the end of their second year... Unless they are Haas, because Bernie has decided he doesn't want to pay them.
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Well, I can see that this will be it for me after this season. Too many bad decisions with no logic behind them in the past 2 or 3 years. Shame really, because there's some brilliant racing in amongst this stupid management.
If you need me I'll be over in WEC / Blancpain
If you need me I'll be over in WEC / Blancpain
Seems that Sky wrote this article on the GPDA letter, that has since 'vanished' from the Sky website...
"We will give you Exclusive TV rights, but take that GPDA letter down, it makes us look bad", said Bernie?
"We will give you Exclusive TV rights, but take that GPDA letter down, it makes us look bad", said Bernie?
Soldato
Just how is qualifying at Bahrain going to better than Melbourne with exactly the same new format rules?
Unless their are "gentleman agreements" to stay out until the end of the sessions, there will be an almighty uproar from media and fans.
But even then, the format is flawed if drivers cannot complete their current flying lap when the elimination timer reaches zero (which currently only applies at the end of each qualifying session).
Would love to know who is really responsible for the status quo.
gg Bernie & team managers that cannot agree (I suspect)... "Too many cooks" syndrome!
Unless their are "gentleman agreements" to stay out until the end of the sessions, there will be an almighty uproar from media and fans.
But even then, the format is flawed if drivers cannot complete their current flying lap when the elimination timer reaches zero (which currently only applies at the end of each qualifying session).
Would love to know who is really responsible for the status quo.
gg Bernie & team managers that cannot agree (I suspect)... "Too many cooks" syndrome!
Don't forget the ruling forcing drivers to neatly place visor tear offs in the glove box, lest they get told off for littering.
F1, tackling the big issues!
F1, tackling the big issues!
Laps of Bahrain are around ~10 seconds longer than Melbourne too, so the in lap/out lap/hot lap loss is going to be 30+ seconds more, so the problems with the Elimination format will be even worse.
I would say that I hope the fans boo it, but theres never actually anybody there at Bahrain anyway.
Now you are just ranting for the sake of ranting - the mentioned rule makes a lot of sense. No littering, no risk to blocking intakes on other cars.
Now you are just ranting for the sake of ranting - the mentioned rule makes a lot of sense. No littering, no risk to blocking intakes on other cars.
The rule has been around for as long as visor tear offs have existed though. Its not a new rule. The FIA have just suddenly decided they want to enforce it.
Covering the track with thousands of chunks of tyre rubber, sweeping scattered pieces of carbon fibre into the grass, and emptying entire systems worth of coolant and hydrolic fluids onto park land remains perfectly fine, though
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The rule has been around for as long as visor tear offs have existed though. Its not a new rule. The FIA have just suddenly decided they want to enforce it.
Covering the track with thousands of chunks of tyre rubber, sweeping scattered pieces of carbon fibre into the grass, and emptying entire systems worth of coolant and hydrolic fluids onto park land remains perfectly fine, though
Probably has to do with the several failures last year caused by visor tear offs. I think a couple of brakes failed due to tear offs blocking break ducts and someones engine failed due to overheating as one went into a airbox or sidebox also. The marbles aren't enough to cause cars to fail though chunks of rubber have caused problems with aero.
These cars are more sensitive to overheating and with ever smaller cooling solutions to get faster cars blocking any of the cooling becomes a huge issue.
Cars failing due to tear offs is an exceptionally good reason to sensibly ask the drivers to keep the tear offs within the cockpit.
If it helps you could stick a little bit of tape over your screen to cover the bottom 1 or 2 drivers, and pretend the elimination is effecting the 3rd to bottom driver? Which it is, really.
I'll give this a miss this time round, don't want to see another shambles of a qualifying session.
Bunch of incompetent fools the lot who run F1 are.
Any chance of a driver boycott happening next week?
The letter and now this stupid decision to continue with the qualifying format.
I'd love it to happen, just to show how absurdly out of touch the rule makers in the sport are, stay in the cars during qualifying just to prove AGAIN that this format is a shambles.
The letter and now this stupid decision to continue with the qualifying format.
I'd love it to happen, just to show how absurdly out of touch the rule makers in the sport are, stay in the cars during qualifying just to prove AGAIN that this format is a shambles.
