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  Fantasy/Dream Team 2018 season

Posted by: Monster Hesh
01-12-2017, 02:40 PM
Forum: F1 General Discussion Board
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Hi folks,

Great to see you all here, I know I'm a little late to the party.

A little early:- I was thinking it would be great if we could get a bit of competition going between us all for the 2018 f1 season. I've tried a lot of F1 fantasy/dream team, the best one I have come across is,

https://sportsdeck.com/au/f1/dreamteam/lobby

It works very well, beginning salary to choose 4 drivers, with one captain (x2 points) and 4 cars, 20 trades for the season, fluctuating driver & car prices based round and average performance, comprehensive stats, public and private leagues.

So come the start of the new season, I will create a private league for 'F1 Banter' and will post the league code in the forums with a friendly reminder.

Hesh

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  Further Kubica confirmation

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn
29-11-2017, 07:08 PM
Forum: F1 General Discussion Board
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unashamedly lifted form someone else with bigger brains than me:

"He ran with a red-colored rear light -  during the tests these two days instead of the green-colored rookie driver light, meaning he is in possession of a Superlicense, something he didn't have before testing and it's something that is applied for by a team. The only reason a driver needs a Superlicense is, because he is (going to be) an F1 driver. "


does this make sense to yous guys?

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  CONFIRMED!!! Alfa Romeo are back.

Posted by: Jody Barton
29-11-2017, 11:19 AM
Forum: Team Gossip
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So there you have it, all the rumours were right, and Alfa will be back on the grid, so four red cars on the grid next year:

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/133337...ith-sauber

Thoughts?

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  Tracks? again

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn
27-11-2017, 08:09 PM
Forum: F1 General Discussion Board
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an old one I know, and I know we've hashed this out before, but given that god awful race, would like to put a different spin on it. rather than just saying which ones we like and which ones we don't would be interested to know how peeps would actually design the calendar itself.  Bearing mind, continents, flyways, fans, i.e full grandstands etc

should we even start in Oz? and if so, should it be Melbourne, don't they have another?  - all and any track suggestions, from 1st to last

will have to do some research myself for a proper calendar but would be interested to know others calendar's? Smile

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  Will Red Bull be up to the task in 2018?

Posted by: Antilochos
27-11-2017, 07:16 PM
Forum: Team Gossip
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So, I'm quite curious about Red Bull to be honest.
They are a great team with good people, but because of a engine with bad reliability and a lack of speed (compared to Mercedes), will they be a title contender for next year?

Normally, I would say no. But the fact that Verstappen signed a new contract puzzles me. Verstappen is a driver wanted by all teams, why choose a team that is not fighting for a title and nothing points in the direction that they will be for the next two years.
Does Verstappen know something that we do not (obvious, but you know what I mean)? Or did he the smart move to give Red Bull that extra year, in exchange that he is free to leave earlier if the team does not reach certain goals?
Don't see Ricciardo signing anytime soon.

Then I read Horner saying Newey will be involved in the new design in same amount like 2017 design. Didn't Newey get involved only a little bit and when it turned out the design at start season wasn't that good at all, he returned to finish the job? This phrase of Horner worries me.

And then the engine. What about that? Renault, Honda. Are they really capable of getting up to Mercedes niveau, or even Ferrari niveau? Will they get that reliability?

Would love to see this team fighting again for the title, but it is keeping me puzzled...

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  What were the Force India bobble hats about?

Posted by: Purple-banana
27-11-2017, 03:29 PM
Forum: F1 General Discussion Board
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I wasn't able to watch any of the practice sessions, qualifying or much of the pre-race build up this weekend due to various circumstance - so I may have missed the explanation...

Can anyone fill me in on what the Force India bobble-hats were about?

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  Wow, what a lap Valterri!!

Posted by: morini
25-11-2017, 03:01 PM
Forum: F1 General Discussion Board
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Wasn't expecting that one. Respect!

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  Who should Sauber pick?

Posted by: Jody Barton
25-11-2017, 10:13 AM
Forum: Driver Contract Gossip
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With Williams seemingly settling on Kubica for their second seat, that seemingly (barring any sudden retirements) leaves only the Sauber seats left. So, if you were Sauber which two drivers would you stick in your cars and why. I give some of the ins and outs of the options below:

Ericsson - pro: his daddy knows the owners / major financial backers very well, very, very well. Cons: he’s utter garbage. In a car that is 3 to 4 development steps ahead of his team mate he is regularly out raced and out qualified.

Weherlein - pro: he’s a very talented young driver, who apparently knows a lot about the technical side of the sport, also comes with a very large bag of cash from Mercedes. Cons: comes with a very large bag of cash from Mercedes, Ferrari won’t like that.

Leclerc - pro: arguably the most exciting young driver we’ve seen for a very long time (yes including Verstappen) he comes with a record that’s damn impressive and some drives under his belt that mark him out as something very special. Plus comes with a bigger bag of Ferrari cash.

Giovinazzi - pro: he too is talented, in many respects over a single lap probably more talented than his fellow Ferrari Young Driver Stablemate Leclerc. He too comes with a big bag of red cash, and potentially an Alfa Romeo link up that could genuinely propel the team much further up the grid. Cons: with his speed also comes errors, throughout junior formula his wish to push hard led him to being error prone, as was displayed in China.

Kvyat - pro: he’s a quick driver, with lots of Kremlin cash and experience, more likely to be able to help develop the car. Cons: he’s a torpedo.

PS the poll allows you to pick two drivers, let me know why you choose who you have, also if there’s a driver i’ve Missed off.

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  Shark fins finally banned

Posted by: Jody Barton
25-11-2017, 09:47 AM
Forum: Technical Talk
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So, the technical ruling clearly wasn’t enough (and I said it would just lead to shorter shark fins) soooo... they just upped and banned them. No technical limitations designed at stopping them, no measures, no angles, no deflection tests, no geometry calculations... just “if we eyeball your car and you have a shark fin, we’ll deem your car illegal”... job done:

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/shark...on-982404/

But who does this hurt and why? Well for that you have to understand what the shark fin, and it’s ugly little brother the T-wing were doing:

1) The main reason we saw the return on the shark fin in 2017 was because of the regs on rear wings setting them back and lower. This means that they no sit aerodynamically in a potential ‘dirty’ or ‘uncontrolled’ air area on the car, massively reducing the effectiveness of rear wings. The shark fin cleans that air up by forcing in along it’s surface and making sure it hits the wing perpendicular to it.

2) Given the larger / wider wheelbase and its aim to increase cornering speeds engineers needed a device or trick to allow cars to maintain stability through the corners and to counteract yaw and roll in the chassis. The fin does this by providing a counter force of pressure from the other side, like a sail on a boat.

3) The T-wings job was to direct clean air from higher up towards the rear wing to increase it’s effectiveness.

So who does this hit hardest? In simple terms points 1 and 2 will certainly impact on shorter wheelbase cars the hardest. Having less bodywork surface between the sidepods and rearwing gives the aero guys less surface to clean the air up and re-energise it. The same is true of the T-wings. There’s a reason RBR didn’t need one at the start of the season when their car ran longer, and why Mercedes still run the smallest T-wing of the lot. Point 2 however isn’t clear, as it depends on the nature of the corner, but generally speaking in high speed corners you’d expect longer wheelbase cars to cope better without the fin, as long as they can get the rearwing working efficiently. It shouldn’t matter as much in slower corners as there are less lateral forces trying to pitch the car.

So out of the current design philosophies you’d have to say the least effected would be Mercedes, Toro Rosso, Renault and McLaren... funny that. Whereas the teams who’ll suffer most are Ferrari, Red Bull and Force India, in fact given the work they put into their fins and T-wings Force India will probably take a big hit. Personally, from an aesthetics point of view I’m pleased to see them go, but from a pure speed and convergence point of view... well, it’s clear who it hurts, the big boys with the budgets will cope, and hearing how essentially it was Renault, Mercedes and McLaren who conspired to grind it to a halt, my guess is they have solutions already in the pipeline. Thoughts?

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  Abu Dhabi Free Practice

Posted by: morini
24-11-2017, 05:28 PM
Forum: F1 General Discussion Board
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Just watching my recording  of FP2 as home early this week (the traffic was kind for a change). I see Bottas well off Hamilton again.

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