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Postby dodint » Sun Mar 25, 2018 1:23 pm

Yes. Although the Ferraris seem to pull it off the best, and the Williams the worst.

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Postby dodint » Wed Mar 28, 2018 10:51 am

https://twitter.com/HillF1/status/977677574653599744
The sooner @MercedesAMGF1 and @ScuderiaFerrari breakaway the better as far as I’m concerned. These massive industrial complexes are ruining the sport. They don’t want to play. They want it all, and all the time. The @fia have lost grip of @F1 @SkySportsF1 #f1

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Postby tifosi77 » Wed Mar 28, 2018 10:55 am

To quote Ron Dennis from the early 90s: A team that exists to win should not be worried that it is winning too much.

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Postby tifosi77 » Wed Mar 28, 2018 10:59 am

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@MercedesAMGF1 -- ‘Massive industrial complexes ruining the sport.’ We don’t remember you complaining when you were winning all those races with top of the line Renault-power, Damon.

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Postby dodint » Wed Mar 28, 2018 11:01 am

Sick burn.

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Postby CBear3 » Wed Mar 28, 2018 11:12 am

This all stems in my mind from the cost of engine development. If there was a cheaper customer solution things would probably be in a better place. The problem with that is Red Bull is the loudest complainer, and they unfortunately complain about everythign so its ahrd to take the whole movement seriously. It's like shad with the gays :slug:

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Postby tifosi77 » Wed Mar 28, 2018 12:31 pm

lol

Think back to the days before the tobacco money went away. When manufacturers came in, how much of their F1 spend could be buried under R&D for the parent company? And this was when the publicly available figures put teams like Ferrari, McLaren (Mercedes), and Toyota were all spend half a billion a year to build a car that would be effectively obsolete by the time it started its first race.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Sat Apr 07, 2018 9:23 am

Grid girls saga continues as Monaco defies F1 ruling
https://t.co/rYQIXd6Ken https://t.co/EYrhagjpie

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Postby dodint » Mon Apr 09, 2018 7:11 pm

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Postby tifosi77 » Tue Apr 10, 2018 1:04 pm

Is it just me, or has there been something of a spike in unsafe releases from the pits since all the teams switched to the traffic light system?

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Postby tifosi77 » Fri Apr 13, 2018 11:17 am

So it looks like the OTT streaming service will be ready for the Spanish GP. And they'll be using NBC's tech. Which is very funny, since NBC got out of the F1 business because they didn't want to compete with themselves when the OTT product came out.

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Postby dodint » Fri Apr 13, 2018 11:19 am

With the WatchESPN App having commercial free start-on-demand race coverage I'm pretty sure the Liberty media offering is dead in the water for me. Thanks Mothers!

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Postby Shyster » Fri Apr 13, 2018 6:23 pm

Does anyone know if that service is only for live streaming, or would it also allow one to watch races after the fact? At the moment, I definitely watch F1 races using purely legal methods and totally not anything that would violate anyone's copyrights, but I might be willing to pay to use that service if it's on-demand.

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Postby tifosi77 » Fri Apr 13, 2018 8:02 pm

Hmmm, the press release isn't super clear. It says the top tier product will have on-demand 'content', but it doesn't specify if that includes races in their entirety.

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Postby dodint » Thu Apr 19, 2018 4:15 pm

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Postby tifosi77 » Thu Apr 19, 2018 6:32 pm

Amazing

Is there a hasverstappenshuntedintoanyonetoday.com yet?

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Postby dodint » Sat Apr 21, 2018 12:10 pm

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A letter Jochen Rindt sent Colin Chapman.

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Postby tifosi77 » Sat Apr 21, 2018 2:32 pm

Wow...... not just that, it's dated a year to the day before his fatal crash at Monza. (Unless he's doing European date format, which in hindsight seems likely)

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Postby CBear3 » Sat Apr 21, 2018 3:32 pm

Yep, it’s was a “nice” thought, but they did not hold Monza and Indy in September. :)
Pretty sure just about everybody who got behind the wheel the of one of Colin’s cars felt the same way. Kind of impressed he sent it to the HoJo.

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Postby dodint » Wed Apr 25, 2018 11:43 pm

Neat tidbit: The No. 46 Team TGM Mercedes-AMG GT4 team truck driver had a family tragedy during the race weekend and Owen Trinkler happened to still have a CDL so he drove the team truck back from Sebring.

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Postby dodint » Thu Apr 26, 2018 2:31 pm

Had to turn down a small but paid driver coaching gig today because it's finals time and I can't spare an evening. I hate school with the fire of a thousand suns.

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Postby CBear3 » Thu Apr 26, 2018 4:14 pm

Moving up in the world. :thumb:

Enjoyed listening to Joey Hand on Dinner with Racers during my flight.

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Postby dodint » Thu Apr 26, 2018 7:44 pm

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Postby tifosi77 » Thu Apr 26, 2018 10:10 pm

Beautiful. I feel shame that I had to look up where it was.

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