Motorsport Off Topic Thread
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Soldato
It's not just that they'd remove the wheel.. they'd remove it, and then in three years they'll introduce us to the Apple Steering Circle, which is really just a wheel but they'll claim they invented it.
Soldato
Interesting article about the life of an F1 mechanic on the BBC.
Divorce, fire & 22 hour days... - BBC
I knew it was gruelling but I'd imagine you'd want to be really driven (no pun intended) to want to do it for what is a fairly modest salary, given the weekly working hours. It appears there aren't as many perks as you'd hope given the jet set life.
Divorce, fire & 22 hour days... - BBC
I knew it was gruelling but I'd imagine you'd want to be really driven (no pun intended) to want to do it for what is a fairly modest salary, given the weekly working hours. It appears there aren't as many perks as you'd hope given the jet set life.
Thats a really interesting article, although I doubt majority of the teams pay as low as the suggested £30,000pa for a mechanic (maybe a couple of the teams right at the back).
Can imagine its really tough for 9-10 months a year, at least they now get a 2 week summer break.
Maybe Im going back too far, but always thought some of the mechanics / pit stop crew (the article appears to refer to them as the same) had other jobs within the team ?
Soldato
I believe they do - the pit stop crew are the mechanics at the track, and moreover will hold a function at the factory/base as well during the winter down time.
Would be interesting to get the insight of some of our resident F1 employees.
Would be interesting to get the insight of some of our resident F1 employees.
http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/m...hybrid-racing-car-performs-london-street-demo
In case anyone didn't see it. Some of the pictures sprouting up are very cool.
In case anyone didn't see it. Some of the pictures sprouting up are very cool.
Am I the only one who is drawing a connection between the reversal of the radio ban in F1 and the improvement in form of Nico Rosberg? We saw similar as the coaching got more and more hands on before his form went from strength to strength. Then the ban got brought in and he slumped clearly. Then the ban was over turned again this year and his form is on the rise again. To me this is a perfect example of why the ban was a good thing, it went a little to far but could have been scaled back to appropriate levels.
I personally am not a fan of driver coaching and that is the element where the driver used to make the difference but the gap can be closed by such open radio and that's a shame.
Maybe I am just reading to much in to this.
I personally am not a fan of driver coaching and that is the element where the driver used to make the difference but the gap can be closed by such open radio and that's a shame.
Maybe I am just reading to much in to this.
Soldato
It's as much to do with Hamilton ballsing things up and having little niggles as it is Rosberg having an upturn in form.
Rosberg's form has either been excellent or average across his Mercedes career, especially so since the new engine rules when they suddenly became title favourites. He blows hot and cold for months at a time. It's nothing new.
Agree with you on this, much as I detest Rosberg, he's simply doing a better job than Lewis and therefore you can't really take that away from him.
to be fair Ive heard Hamilton asking questions about settings on the wheel mid race that the engineer cant tell him now because of the rules...... (Im not picking LH out, Im sure it happens to others also)
Soldato
Honda have spent the last 2 years talking the talk without backing it up on track. This seems like just another one of those times.
Soldato
That has brought up a question with regards how the upgrade/token system is implemented.
Option 1) The engine design engineer is sitting doing nothing. The team decide they need to improve the combustion efficiency, so say "we are going to use 1 token on combustion". At this point the design engineer starts creating designs for new things, and when they have something that works, it gets put on the car.
Option 2) The design engineers are constantly designing and redesigning the parts of the engine, and when they come up with something that works, the team then say "We have a new design, so we are spending a token to put it in the car".
So which option is actually occurring in all these cases of changes and tokens?
surely option 1 is not guaranteed to produce results, as it is only after they decide to spend a token that they find out if they can do something.
On the other hand option 2 is guaranteed to produce results, but the constant design work is surely expensive and goes against the whole cost-cutting exercise.
This was before the radio ban was reversed, and was a direct result of the radio ban. However we saw it before, rosberg used to be fed a lot more information on how to driver better, at least that was how it came across from what us peons were drip fed by FOM.
It could be a completely moot point, but it does feel that some of the natural driver skill and feel is taken away when you can be told exactly where to gain time by braking later etc, which to my knowledge is now allowed again.
Soldato
Was just reading an article on Pitpass about Alonso taking a new engine and a penalty as a result of Honda spending some tokens and saw this comment:
I've not seen anything about any rule changes in this area although the issue was raised after Lewis took his 7 billion place penalty and filled a warehouse with spare engines at Spa. Has anyone got any detail that they can link me to?
I've not seen anything about any rule changes in this area although the issue was raised after Lewis took his 7 billion place penalty and filled a warehouse with spare engines at Spa. Has anyone got any detail that they can link me to?
Sounds like you are splitting hairs to be honest, LH was asking how to drive the car also just in different respects
Was mentioned on the BBC yesterday referring to LH's "stockpiling" (as they called it) parts that were not intended for the race weekend he was currently attending.