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Well, that delivered!

Was an exciting session and a great pole lap. Poor Valterri   Small mistake, huge price. Not an ideal start. Anyone think the cars are sounding better this year? Maybe its the microphones, but there was an on-board of Hamilton (in practice session 2 I think it was) where the car sounded wonderfully metallic and hard edged. The on-board camera was mounted lower than today during P2, so much so that the Halo completely obstructed the view (but the sound it was pickling up was great).

Be interesting to see the true race pace picture tomorrow. Looking forward to it.

You can see it from space.

Motorsport website has now introduced a prime feature, which just seems to be applied to any 1 in 3 articles. Autosport has their limited articles and prime subscription to read a little more insight in a sport. Increasing levels of PPV for sports, free viewing is being eradicated or seriously compromised as we are seeing with C4 this year with F1 and MotoGP in C5.

How is this level of greed going to be good for the sports world?

With F1 pursuing more and more changes to appeal to the younger audience, since when do 12 year olds have the level of cash flow to be able to follow the sport. If they do, they are spending it on twitch streamers etc.

The way I see it, is they are just shutting off sports from people. We all know about F1 because it was just cropping up in our lives? We all had readily available access to it, so it was easy to get interested, easy to stop watching after Schumi and Ferrari dominated. Yet, easy to come back to it. Now, no chance.

A real shock is on the horizon for Liberty and the Motorsport world. We've already seen the first waves of no more pay wall shit in the Star Wars Battlefront II release.

No wonder they are only taking surveys and focusing on race crowds, because the future is, they are going to be the only ones war

Soooo...

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/headl...-team.html

What really weird is that he's to stay in post until June and perform his current duties apparently. Then work straight into Maranello...

After the stink Ferrari kicked up over Renault and Budkowski (they're the team that threatened legal action) methinks Enstone my try for some payback. Can't see Mercedes or RBR being happy either. Surely he has to go on gardening leave?

Ok, it's game time!

Follow the link, then register and you should be added to the F1 Banter league.

https://sportsdeck.com/au/f1/dreamteam/#...ode=195335

Name your team. Lists in the league as team name, and real name below as "manager" (See note)
Budget $120m.
Buy 4 drivers, 4 Cars.
Select 1 driver as 'Captain' for double points (Highest driver automatically selected if you forget).
Unlimited trades for the first round, to get your team sorted. To trade: hover over the driver/car symbol, a red 'T' Icon appears click to initiate, trading.
Rounds "lockout" at the start of qualyfing.
Results and round re-open usually the Monday after the race (unless there is an Australian holiday).
Totally of 26 trades available for the season.
2 trade maximum, per round.
Prices begin to fluctuate after the third round. Using the sites formula to calculate the price change, based on recent result and averages.
More details can be found on the right hand side of the screen under the '?' tab.
Emblem that's next to your team name, design can be changed.
You can use an alias for your name when registering.

Note, its a bitch to change some details in personal details, mainly name, postcode and D.O.B. Just thought I'd give you a heads up in case you want an alias name instead of your real name.
Put "none" in postcode
Ignore Phone Number
Use any name you wish (keep it civilized)

Tips:

• Drivers and the teams get 4 points for every position gained from their qualifying position. If a top team driver is at the back of the grid for whatever reason, they could be in for a mega points haul if they make it up to the front few positions.
  
• There is a 20 points bonus for fastest lap, this goes to the driver and to the cars.
  
• This can be a money game. The more money you can make the better cars you can get. Notice consistently high scoring drivers and cars, check it against their avg scores. Some teams could be vied as investments. but as with investments, one retirement could result in a big price loss.
  
• There aren't enough trades for two for every race, careful use in required (something I never learn).
  

I see no reason why we can't invite others from outside the forum.
If you can't issue those with the link above, just tell them to search 'sportsdeck', register, and under leagues put in the league code 382165

Any other questions, give us a shout.

Interesting differences on tyre selection for Melbourne:

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/headl...egies.html

I thought Mercedes were supposed to favour the harder tyres? Or maybe they're going to do some belated winter testing on the Ultrasofts?

https://formulaone21.wordpress.com/2018/...aas-vf-18/

PB wrote in other thread:

I think it's crazy that we can have alcohol. . .  everywhere - yet tobacco sponsorship is banned.
If people are so weak-willed as to take up smoking just because they saw a logo on Lewis' car. . . . . . ."

I thought this was worth a proper discussion, but didn't want to do it there.

The Alcohol comparison is unfair, not everyone who decides to drink will become an alcoholic, but every single person who starts smoking will become addicted, with very few exceptions


1) As an ex smoker, I certainly didn't start because of advertising, but that's another story.  However Tobacco companies are and have been some of the most insidious companies ever to exist.  They didn't give out free cigarettes, during the war out of patriotism, they saw a captive market and once soldiers returned, customers for life.  Now it's becoming more socially unacceptable in developed countries, they have for many years now been flooding under developed countries with cheap and indeed free cigarettes once again.  Personally I would ban the manufacture of them.  Not in it's entirety as there are cultural reasons to smoke, but those aren't rolled up little white sticks with god knows how many chemicals added.  Also with vaping there is a relatively less harmful substitute.  And just to add, I'm no advocate for the nanny state as they say, at all, even though it may seem that way.  They should legalise weed and tax it, oddly enough the states are actually leading the way on this, perhaps we could get the Rizzla sponsorship back then



2) "Just because they saw a logo on Lewis' car . . . ."

Advertising is an incredibly powerful tool, hence why the spend millions on it, if they weren't getting a return, they wouldn't do it.  I think someone said that Marlborough are secretly still paying SF, hence the bar code on the car, if this is true, I think that should tell you all you need to know about how important this is to them.  

3) I think PB's real issue, is actually because of the loss of ad revenue for teams, so what's the solution?  Yes we need more free to air broadcasting to attract more sponsors to the sport, and we now have some very smart cookies working on this, Zak Brown at McL, and Liberty themselves.  Again they have inherited the current mess, and I think they are the right people to fix it in this regard

The danger lies in going too far & down a fully Americanised model, I have heard that F1 in the states is virtually unwatchable due to the frequency of ads during races

4) And finally as I know this was sparked by Martini's withdrawal from the sport, yes we'll miss the livery, but as PB said himself about the Halo, it's not a beauty contest.  Bacardi's board took the decision as it is no longer in keeping with their overall strategy, I wonder if this could herald other drinks companies withdrawing as well over time, as it has always been a bit paradoxical, for alcohol companies to sponsor motorsport, hence the FIA anti drink drive campaign.  And if this does happen who could take their place?

https://formulaone21.wordpress.com/2018/...-analysis/

https://formulaone21.wordpress.com/2018/...-analysis/

Cars Technical Specification (kind of them)

https://www.mclaren.com/formula1/2018/ca...n-1174967/







Well as stated by McLaren its a basic launch. All with testing with a stable platform for the new engine. to learn the Renault, its traits, its operations, learn the mapping, all with the knowledge on how the car is handling to fully focus on integration of the engine.

Hope it work for them, to of turned up with a new aero package and new engine, they would be getting all sorts of readings not probably no know exactly what the causes of the readings were.

Like the addition of the blue, but Papaya orange really is a bad shade of orange. it lacks awe and justs looks dirty, needs to be a more vivid orange, similar to what they had last year. anyway...

Serious lack of large sponsor brandings, as we saw on the Ferrari. Which I guess I'd like if they were a bit more creative with the livery.

So the car:-

Still the same, insanely small airbox inlet. Completely against the grain of the other cars.

Suspension, crazy stuff again, look at the front view on the car and see how they are quite thick and arc down into the rear wheel.

That rear wing looks very narrow?

Slots in the floor. This is how they got around the regulation last year.
Interesting to know how they've done it this year. So McLaren and Williams are the ones where we have seen interesting floor slots. I believe Williams are towards the rear of the car, seen in the overhead view.

Lets see how testing goes, and if we get any indication of run plan.

https://twitter.com/McLarenF1/status/966979280814133248

Alonso couldn't wait to floor it, tail out in the put lane.