The F1 2014 season

Kenai said:
Surely the 5 second penalty would be done the same as the 10 second penalty, as part of a drive through? They've just added a pointless extra level of penalty between drive through and 10 second for all those penalties they never bother to give out during the race anyway.
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As said, this is for minor infringements and would be below a drive through.
So 5second, driver through, 10 second stop.


They just don't have a clue how to implamnet it and i don't see how they can with out it being something stupid like applied after the race.
 
Skeeter said:
Thats not how I read it. I've read it as a 5 second time penalty, rather than a 5 second stop go (which is realistically a ~25 second penalty), based on them siting it as being a penalty for minor infringements, and not yet knowing how it will be implemented.
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Glaucus said:
As said, this is for minor infringements and would be below a drive through.
So 5second, driver through, 10 second stop.


They just don't have a clue how to implamnet it and i don't see how they can with out it being something stupid like applied after the race.
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I suppose I shouldn't be surprised but that's just flat out retarded.
 
Glaucus said:
As said, this is for minor infringements and would be below a drive through.
So 5second, driver through, 10 second stop.


They just don't have a clue how to implamnet it and i don't see how they can with out it being something stupid like applied after the race.
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If early in the race they could add it to the pit stop. Other than that you get the crap applied after the race situation.
 
englishpremier said:
If early in the race they could add it to the pit stop. Other than that you get the crap applied after the race situation.
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And then you would get the same incident being treated differently depending on when in the race it happened, which would suck.

I cannot see any way they can implement a 5 second penalty system that isn't utterly stupid.
 
Perhaps you could incorporate a 5 second stop/go during a pitstop?

As in, as soon as the car is ready to go, they then time 5 second stop?
 
Maybe the FIA could acquire a 2012 HRT, send it out with Charlie at the wheel and hold the naughty driver up for 5 seconds?
 
Skeeter said:
The 5 second penalty thing, as voiced in my head by Murray Walker...

"And Hamilton is now leading Alonso by 3 seconds, which means Alonso is leading Hamilton by 2 seconds as Hamilton has a penalty for rubbing wheels with Massa. If Hamilton can increase his lead to 6 seconds he will take the lead from Alonso who is currently leading. And Hamilton makes a mistake! Alonso is now right on his tail, meaning he is 5 seconds in front. The lead could change here but the actual leader is Alonso. And Alonso overtakes Hamilton for the lead, having already been in the lead, but now Alonso is ahead of Hamilton meaning Hamilton is now 5 seconds behind Alonso, but as Kimi was only 3 seconds behind Alonso, Hamilton has been passed by Alonso and gone from 1st to 3rd in a single overtake, but actually was only 2nd to start with despite being in the lead. So the order on lap 10 is Alonso, Hamilton, Kimi, which is actually Alonso, Kimi, Hamilton. But whats this! Alonso has been given a penalty for track limits while in the battle with Hamilton meaning after overtaking Hamilton for 1st Alonso is now 3rd. Hamilton in 2nd is the leader while Kimi in 3rd is now ahead of Alonso who is leading."

:p


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Only You would come up with that!!!!:D
 
Mario kart

Lit up boxes on the track

Lightning bolt = everyone's kers/drs off for a 2laps
Star = double your kers for 2 lap
Green shell = Sensor on each car, transmitter on each, if you line it up the car in front temporarily looses power
Red shell = no need to line it up
Mushroom = extra drs and kers for 1 straight
Banana = car behind looses power
Spiny shell = Vettel looses kers / drs for lap or 10 :-P

I'd watch
 
Skeeter said:
And then you would get the same incident being treated differently depending on when in the race it happened, which would suck.

I cannot see any way they can implement a 5 second penalty system that isn't utterly stupid.
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You get that now though.

If something happens early in the race it's investigated then a pentaly applied e.g drive through. If it happens late in the race it's investigated after the race and a 25 second penalty is given.
 
My thoughts on the latest round of inane gibbering from the governing body of the alleged pinnacle of Motorsport:

1) Cost cap - never going to be able to police it.
2) December tyre test - meh, going to wait and see what cars they end up being allowed to test to decide if it's going to be useful or not.
3) Driver numbers - only going to make sense if the numbers are treated the same way that they are in NASCAR, i.e. made very visible indeed. And with limited bodywork space, I don't see how they can make them prominent enough to be a part of the car-driver identity. When a team has the choice between using a nice, wide piece of bodywork (like the engine cover) to put a sponsor logo on or using that bodywork to put the driver number on, it's only going to go one way. Maybe they'll make it mandatory to dedicate the rear wing endplates to showing off the number.
4) The five-second penalty - reserving judgement on that one. If it's going to become an intermediate penalty between a drive-through and a 10-second stop and go then that's one thing. But some of the other ideas about how it could be done in this thread make no sense at all.
5) Double points in the final round - no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

No.







No.

I'm trying to think of anything they could have done that would be a worse idea, and I'm drawing a blank. It might actually be the single most retarded idea in the long, sad history of stupid crap that they have done to what was once my favourite sport.


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I don't always agree with the stuff Mike Lawrence writes for pitpass.com, but I don't think he's far off the mark with this one:

If you can recall a time when the sport has been in a worse state, or has been in less competent hands, I'd like to know.
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Some terrible ideas there. I was looking forward to the rule shake up next year but I just can't see the point in some of these. Double points at Abu Dhabi... yawn. If it was 2 separate races I could see the point but I really don't feel F1 needs things like this to shake it up when they are already bringing new rules in...
 
It just feels like they are trying to compensate for crap rules by adding more crap rules.

But then look at how they have managed their other global series. FIA GT1 series, dead. FIA WRC, as good as dead. FIA WTCC, a shell filled with private teams. FIA F1... lets see.
 
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