Agree. The old one had been around so long it was an icon. Liberty do seem keen on change for the sake of it.

 

 

Edited 27 February, 20188 yr by camelspyyder

it doesn't even look like a 1

 

and it looks too similar to the ESPN logo

The news of the German Court facilitating the banning of diesels in cities is just another nail in the ICE coffin .

Time is running out for F1 cash to keep the circus running.

I’m all for e-cars but, to me, that can never be F1.

Clean Diesels have been a lie from the start. The EU pushed them at us and have now changed their minds.

However, if we all start driving EV's the powerstations are going to pollute Europe horribly too.

Any way, sorry for continuing the thread drift. 

 

F1's future anyone? - Liberty want to make it noisier and faster; the manufacturers don't like the proposed engine regs - who's going to get what they want?  As for money, they said F1 would die when the tobacco sponshorship went - 12 years later it's still going.

Edited 27 February, 20188 yr by camelspyyder

I’m with you Lewis, it is about engines......don’t decide a championship by way of grid penalties.

F1 is number 1 because it is expensive cutting edge engineering.

Socialising it will destroy it in the same way oval tracks would.

F1 has been a yawnfest for years.

They should go balls to the wall and rip up the 99% of the rule book.

 

Car must make min 1000hp/T

Must fit within a xyz box

Must be driven by a human within the vehicle.

Drivers must have consumed 3 pints, 2 glasses of wine and bedded at least two partners before the race (or clone James Hunt).

 

Or at least,

 

Remove all wings and make the cars slide.

 

F1 needs a bit of madness again. Right now it's like a convention of engineers and lab technicians, there is more overtaking and excitement in a Scalextric track.

 

 

I waited all day to watch on Channel 4 last night.  Made sure i never heard the result.

15 minutes of the race as shown and i switched off.

 

I watch the spearing crash, and the nonsense of the safety car and thought they need to build these car now with a rail all around them like a dodgem or hire karts. 

Supply the hoop like they supplied the laminated plank that is on the cars or was...

 

It is all a farce now and artificial & cars that protect drivers, carbon fibre so strong as we are told, and yet shattered all over tracks.

 

?

Do anyone notice that nose come sliding to the safety wall, just as well that was on the track and not in the air.

Lance Stroll is totally out of his league. Crashing Hartley like that at the corner where Panis almost lost his legs. What a buffoon.

Shame Williams would be out of business without Lance's daddy's money.

47 minutes ago, camelspyyder said:

Lance Stroll is totally out of his league. Crashing Hartley like that at the corner where Panis almost lost his legs. What a buffoon.

Shame Williams would be out of business without Lance's daddy's money.

Sadly it’s the crashes that are used to promote F1.

How can Williams be so bad with a Mercedes customer engine when Red Bull can be so good with a Renault customer engine. Surely not simply aero.

1 hour ago, Ryeman said:

Sadly it’s the crashes that are used to promote F1.

How can Williams be so bad with a Mercedes customer engine when Red Bull can be so good with a Renault customer engine. Surely not simply aero.

 

If you are inferring that MB and Renault don't give their customers equal treatment, then you're wrong.  The rules were changed for this season specifically to force the engine builders into giving their customers equality with their own works teams.  RedBull have the best chassis/aero team on the grid, which is why neither MB or Ferrari will sell them engines.

6 hours ago, camelspyyder said:

 

If you are inferring that MB and Renault don't give their customers equal treatment, then you're wrong.  The rules were changed for this season specifically to force the engine builders into giving their customers equality with their own works teams.  RedBull have the best chassis/aero team on the grid, which is why neither MB or Ferrari will sell them engines.

Maybe there’s a software development difference which provides Williams with an excuse - either way it’s a mystery.

They're only a bit slower than McLaren, the other great has-been team, Renault's favourite customer and rarely within a second of RedBull with the same engine.  Sad to think that those two are scrapping with Sauber, and what were Minardi and Jordan, in the back half of the field.

The prospect of more races over a shorter weekend and ‘run what ya brung’ ..........from American media’s Chase Carey.

drip drip drip.  😢

 

(it’s why I never watch indie of whatever)