Motorsport Off Topic Thread

jonneymendoza · 1 Jul 2023 at 19:25

cuke2u said:
Oh dear, you're right I could have easily used McLaren as well, so what! Just keep on creating a fake agenda and reading into something that's not there.
Your being overtly sensitive, I wonder why?

Your being very defensive. I wonder why also?

Give it a break.

cuke2u · 1 Jul 2023 at 19:32

jonneymendoza said:
Your being very defensive. I wonder why also?

Give it a break.

Not even going to waste anymore of my time. You're obviously sore because your 'team' has underperformed so life must suck sometimes doesn't it? Personally I don't care for a team like a football supporter.
Swings and roundabouts, what goes around comes around..

jonneymendoza · 1 Jul 2023 at 20:36

cuke2u said:
Not even going to waste anymore of my time. You're obviously sore because your 'team' has underperformed so life must suck sometimes doesn't it? Personally I don't care for a team like a football supporter.
Swings and roundabouts, what goes around comes around..

You win. Happy now? Lol

imtoooldforthis · 3 Jul 2023 at 01:59

Shane van gisbergen is an absolute beast. First ever time he's raced a NASCAR (yes i know its a series, not a car

) and he's in the running to win in Chicago with 10 laps to go. Would be an amazing achievement, especially as it's the first-ever NASCAR street race.

Jenson Button qualified 8th as well but got yeeted whilst trying to enter pit lane anad has been bumming around in the midfield since

chrismscotland · 3 Jul 2023 at 08:31

imtoooldforthis said:
Shane van gisbergen is an absolute beast. First ever time he's raced a NASCAR (yes i know its a series, not a car ) and he's in the running to win in Chicago with 10 laps to go. Would be an amazing achievement, especially as it's the first-ever NASCAR street race.

Jenson Button qualified 8th as well but got yeeted whilst trying to enter pit lane anad has been bumming around in the midfield since

Didn't see him win but did catch quite a bit of the race last night before bed and saw he was running in 3rd, cracking racing actually, I've always kind of dismissed Nascar a little as ovals for hicks but its come on a lot since I last saw it!

booyaka · 3 Jul 2023 at 08:52

SVG wins.... What a guy - Watch a lot of him over the last few years - Brilliant to see him go there and win on his debut - yes a "specialist" track but drove brilliantly for the win

Mad_Jay · 3 Jul 2023 at 18:06

I wanted to watch it, but with the delays I couldn't justify staying up.

Some longer highlights here:

Great to see the big lump V8 Nascars going around a road course, I loved seeing the Nascar going around Le Mans last month too.

Seeing SvG turn up for his first race and then sweep up is impressive too. It's like he was biding his time and just pounced at the end. He's won in a lot of categories he's entered and it's a great advert for Aussie V8s as well.

Hearing other Nascar drivers say "Hes going to head home and say how bad we all are" made me laugh too

chrismscotland · 5 Jul 2023 at 15:20

New calendar released for 2024 including the first two (Bahrain & Saudi) being on a Saturday to accommodate Ramadan.
Japan moves to April with Azerbaijani going to September.

Much more geographically sound calendar..... if you ignore Miami!

cuke2u · 5 Jul 2023 at 15:23

Or Canada's insisting on it June place. They tried to twin the events but the Canadian organisers refused to change.

chrismscotland · 5 Jul 2023 at 16:08

cuke2u said:
Or Canada's insisting on it June place. They tried to twin the events but the Canadian organisers refused to change.

Ah missed Canada!

cuke2u · 5 Jul 2023 at 16:11

F1 to test rain guards at Silverstone

Formula One teams will test a bolt-on wheel cover aimed at reducing spray in wet conditions next week.

www.espn.co.uk

Stu999 · 5 Jul 2023 at 16:24

chrismscotland said:
New calendar released for 2024 including the first two (Bahrain & Saudi) being on a Saturday to accommodate Ramadan.
Japan moves to April with Azerbaijani going to September.

Much more geographically sound calendar..... if you ignore Miami!

It's because Canada wanted a June date still, I don't know why they couldn't have moved Miami to after Monaco though? Definitely makes more sense to have a more 'regional' approach to the calendar from a logistical point of view and an environmental one.

I wish they would drop the four Middle Eastern races, soulless circuits.

Flibster · 5 Jul 2023 at 23:17

Start the season with Australia and end it with Brazil.

Both great places who know how to party.

chrismscotland · 6 Jul 2023 at 00:32

Flibster said:
Start the season with Australia and end it with Brazil.

Both great places who know how to party.

I miss the days when money didn't rule all with the races, the Middle East countries just willing to pay way more

MissChief · 6 Jul 2023 at 07:09

Flibster said:
Start the season with Australia and end it with Brazil.

Both great places who know how to party.

I had a tradition of sorts of always staying up for FP1 at Melbourne to mark the start of the new season. That doesn't happen now.

413x · 7 Jul 2023 at 20:03

cuke2u said:
Or Canada's insisting on it June place. They tried to twin the events but the Canadian organisers refused to change.

This is why the world will never stop climate change. If you can't make easy decisions like this you'll never make the big ones that actually hurt

b0rn2sk8 · 8 Jul 2023 at 17:31

To be fair, there is absolutely nothing climate friendly about F1, even the thought of them being carbon neutral in 2030 is ludicrous given they air ship thousands (at least many hundreds) of tons of freight around the world every other week.

That’s before all the fans that come to watch.

I totally get offsetting will be a part of that formula but off setting can be very disingenuous at best. Many off sets follow the concept of paying someone else to promise not to pollute who otherwise would have if you hadn’t paid them and calling it climate neutral. It’s totally bonkers this practice is even acceptable if you really think about it.

413x · 8 Jul 2023 at 20:01

b0rn2sk8 said:
To be fair, there is absolutely nothing climate friendly about F1, even the thought of them being carbon neutral in 2030 is ludicrous given they air ship thousands (at least many hundreds) of tons of freight around the world every other week.

That’s before all the fans that come to watch.

I totally get offsetting will be a part of that formula but off setting can be very disingenuous at best. Many off sets follow the concept of paying someone else to promise not to pollute who otherwise would have if you hadn’t paid them and calling it climate neutral. It’s totally bonkers this practice is even acceptable if you really think about it.

Its ridiculous.
If they somehow get a certification of carbon neutrality, you'll know it's a load of BS.

CaptainRAVE · 8 Jul 2023 at 20:03

b0rn2sk8 said:
To be fair, there is absolutely nothing climate friendly about F1, even the thought of them being carbon neutral in 2030 is ludicrous given they air ship thousands (at least many hundreds) of tons of freight around the world every other week.

That’s before all the fans that come to watch.

I totally get offsetting will be a part of that formula but off setting can be very disingenuous at best. Many off sets follow the concept of paying someone else to promise not to pollute who otherwise would have if you hadn’t paid them and calling it climate neutral. It’s totally bonkers this practice is even acceptable if you really think about it.

It’s laughable, it just devalues the whole concept.

413x · 11 Jul 2023 at 15:50

https://www.planetf1.com/news/daniel-ricciardo-returns-f1-nyck-de-vries-replaced-red-bull/

Is this for real?