didcot Posted March 11, 2022 Author Share Posted March 11, 2022 Just watched the first 3 episodes of Drive to Survive. A definite anti Mercedes undertone and bias to Red Bullsh@t. Horner quoted as saying " I want that effing driver out of this race" at Silverstone. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
didcot Posted March 11, 2022 Author Share Posted March 11, 2022 Even Karun Chandok quotes as saying "Go f the Mercedes ". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Stuart A Posted March 11, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 11, 2022 10 hours ago, Andrew P said: Unwell Daniel Ricciardo misses another day of F1 testing. https://www.espn.co.uk/f1/story/_/id/33475225/unwell-daniel-ricciardo-misses-another-day-f1-testing And has now tested positive for Covid. Will be out of isolation in time for next weekend though. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 17 minutes ago, Stuart A said: And has now tested positive for Covid. Will be out of isolation in time for next weekend though. I cant remember who their reserve driver is, I hope Danny will be fit as well as out of Covid for next week. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
didcot Posted March 11, 2022 Author Share Posted March 11, 2022 Just goes to show Covid is still prevalent. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted March 11, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 11, 2022 30 minutes ago, didcot said: Just goes to show Covid is still prevalent. According to a report on the 6 o'clock news, one in 25 of us currently has it. The highest UK infection rate since the pandemic started. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejstubbs Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 3 hours ago, didcot said: Horner quoted as saying " I want that effing driver out of this race" at Silverstone. Spoiled child syndrome: obviously Nanny never told him "I want doesn't get". I rather got the impression from the Red Bull "he never said that, to anyone...in fact he never said anything to anyone, er, ever..." comment that Horner had defaulted into whinge mode as usual and the team was having to sit on him as discretely as possible (for which read: having to lie about it, apparently). IMO one of the best things that could happen for F1 at the moment - and even for Red Bull* - would be for Horner to go completely rogue and "off-message" and be given the boot (preferably literally). * Though his attitude does seem to chime somewhat with the team's owner, who also seems to be a bit of a posterior orifice - at least going by his company's typical marketing style and its rather toxic affinity with so-called "extreme sports". 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
micklner Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 Just watched the just released Netflix No 4 series, for the first time. I recomend the Hass programme very interesting scenario. Well done to Kevin Magnussen a good time on his return, I dont think the Russian would have been even close, to his time !!. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 4 minutes ago, micklner said: Just watched the just released Netflix No 4 series, for the first time. I recomend the Hass programme very interesting scenario. Well done to Kevin Magnussen a good time on his return, I dont think the Russian would have been even close, to his time !!. Well even the GREAT Mick wasn't close, and he was twice as good as Marzipan. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 (edited) Ooooooo Formula 1 @F1 New design, new fastest time! @SChecoPerez clocks a 1:34.733 in his first flying lap on Day 3 His @redbullracing RB18 is sporting new sculpted sidepods Red Bull's 'few bits and pieces' Andrew Benson BBC Sport’s chief F1 writer The new Red Bull parts that team principal Christian Horner called "a few bits and pieces" have emerged. It turns out these were new side pods and a new floor. The bodywork changes slim down the lower part of the side pod to enlarge the already large cutaway even further, and cut away some of the upper part of the pod about halfway along, while the floor features a new section of waves and cuts at the widest point of the side pod. Teams are using these to set up vortices that "seal" the floor edges and prevent air leaking into and out of the underfloor, thereby making the underfloor tunnels work better and maximising downforce. Sergio Perez went out on the C3 tyres and set the fastest time of the day so far on his first run. NO WONDER HORNER BACK TRACKED ON THE MERC SIDE PODS YESTERDAY. Edited March 12, 2022 by Andrew P 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Vettel removes image of disputed flag from “No War” helmet after complaint to FIA. https://www.racefans.net/2022/03/11/vettel-removes-turkish-republic-northern-cyrpus-flag-helmet-fia-complaint/ 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Posted at 8:538:53 Is it really 'tough' for Mercedes? Andrew Benson BBC Sport’s chief F1 writer. Are Mercedes in a bit of trouble? Ferrari's Carlos Sainz doesn’t think so - he made that clear on Friday. But after climbing out of his car on the same day, Lewis Hamilton insisted the world champions were having a "tough" test. Hamilton said Mercedes are still struggling with the aerodynamic "bouncing" or “porpoising” that appears to have afflicted them more than many other teams, even if all have it to some degree, and was not happy with the car. "I mean, you can see on the on-board, tank-slappers left, right and centre," Hamilton said. "And then bouncing and bumping. It’s not quite happy at the moment. But we're trying to tame it." When it was suggested to him that his rivals thought Mercedes were hiding their true pace, Hamilton said: "We would be really, really, really good if we were, like, having all these oversteer moments and having this tacky driving, just to hide our cars [pace]. It’s not the case. We have things that we're trying to get through. I think, as I said, others are struggling less but who knows? Maybe when we get to next week, we'll have a better understanding." 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Posted at 9:139:13 Post update We've dipped below two hours left of the morning testing session. Sergio Perez is leading the pack, eight tenths quicker than Alfa Romeo newbie Guanyu Zhou. The Alpha Tauri of Pierre Gasly makes the top three with a time of 1:34.865, just 0.04secs ahead of Carlos Sainz in the Ferrari in fourth. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Posted at 9:439:43 Williams hoping for better season Andrew Benson BBC Sport’s chief F1 writer. Williams lost most of a day’s running on Friday with the brake failure and subsequent fire that afflicted Nicholas Latifi. As a result, they have changed their programme today to give the Canadian more time in the car, to make up for the laps he lost. Latifi is running this morning, and team principal Jost Capito says he will also get the afternoon. In between, "just after lunch", Alex Albon "will get a qualifying session because he hasn’t done that and so they end up with about the same number of laps." Williams, Capito said, is suffering for their decision not to take part in the Abu Dhabi tyre test at the end of last season, when teams tried the new 18-inch tyres. This was made in 2020, before the takeover by new owners Dorilton Capital, on the basis of resources. "I was sure this was a disadvantage and it turned out it was quite a disadvantage," Capito said, explaining that it meant the team had a lot of learning to cram into a short space of time on the behaviour of the five compounds. Capito said Williams had a sense of the competitive order - but this was different to what it had been in Barcelona two weeks ago because of the rougher track and warmer, windier conditions. "Nicky says the car is easier to drive," he said. "That doesn’t mean it’s quicker but if a driver has better confidence he will drive quicker. And Alex is very happy with how the car drives. What he experienced in the simulator is very similar to what he experiences on the track." Williams’s target? To improve over last year - and also through the season to come. "Last year we had the ninth fastest car,” Capito said. "The objective is to be better than we were last year so we have to be seventh or eighth. And if we are the fifth now, we have to be the third or fourth (by the end of the year). It is more the development through the year than where we kick off from." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted March 12, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, Andrew P said: Ooooooo Formula 1 @F1 New design, new fastest time! @SChecoPerez clocks a 1:34.733 in his first flying lap on Day 3 His @redbullracing RB18 is sporting new sculpted sidepods Red Bull's 'few bits and pieces' Andrew Benson BBC Sport’s chief F1 writer The new Red Bull parts that team principal Christian Horner called "a few bits and pieces" have emerged. It turns out these were new side pods and a new floor. The bodywork changes slim down the lower part of the side pod to enlarge the already large cutaway even further, and cut away some of the upper part of the pod about halfway along, while the floor features a new section of waves and cuts at the widest point of the side pod. Teams are using these to set up vortices that "seal" the floor edges and prevent air leaking into and out of the underfloor, thereby making the underfloor tunnels work better and maximising downforce. Sergio Perez went out on the C3 tyres and set the fastest time of the day so far on his first run. NO WONDER HORNER BACK TRACKED ON THE MERC SIDE PODS YESTERDAY. So, has Horner dropped so far out of the loop that the team are not even telling him what they are up to any more? Or maybe he just didn't bother asking before shooting his mouth off? Could he be on the way out? We can only hope.... Edited March 12, 2022 by Dunsignalling 2 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejstubbs Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 (edited) Drive to Survive: Producers say Formula 1 is 'not run for Netflix' Quote ...some within F1 have suggested the show creates, or at least exaggerates, narratives. Wolff was quoted this week as saying: "They create a spin to the narrative. They put scenes together that didn't happen. I guess you'd say as an insider: 'Well, that's different than how it was.' ... Paul Martin - one of the show's creators - takes a different view, telling BBC Sport: "Over the four series, Drive to Survive hasn't over-editorialised anything." Verstappen is another from within the sport to have voiced some criticism for the documentary - and he doesn't give original interviews to its makers. He said of the series: "They faked a few rivalries which don't really exist." Has no-one pointed out to Netflix or the show's producers that even just its title - though containing a superficially pleasing assonance - is both misleading and unnecessarily melodramatic? Maybe they feel that the show itself has to try to live up to the warped expectations that the title seems to set. Interesting that Max doesn't seem to want to give them the time of day. Edited March 12, 2022 by ejstubbs 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Interesting, is the Alfa good, or is this Rookie the real deal? We shall see next week no doubt. Posted at 10:3110:31 Top five 1. Sergio Perez (Red Bull, 32 laps) - 1:33.105 2. Guanyu Zhou (Alfa Romeo, 70 laps) - +0.854s 3. Pierre Gasly (Alpha Tauri, 81 laps) - +1.76s 4. Carlos Sainz (Ferrari, 59 laps) - +1.8s 5. Fernando Alonso (Alpine, 54 laps) - +2.223s 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted March 12, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12, 2022 Having watched a bit of testing this morning, this remains the year of the porpoise. In-car shots of Alfonso's bonso bouncing up and down towards the end of the straight - before the braking zone -are not indicative of a car doing as required. Plenty of other teams suffering too, although Red Bull does not appear to be among them, which is ominous. Was it only a year ago that Tsunoda wowed us in the pre-season test, and spent the rest of the season trying to repeat that? Whatever, Zhao in the Alfa appears to be on the same positive mission, so the car must be much improved. Bottas's forced decision, at this stage, may not have been the come-down we had feared for an above-average driver. It may well be that some teams are testing this and that, motors detuned, and running with varying fuel-loads, but I do wonder whether this afternoon will see a final unleashing of potential, and give us a better idea of what to expect for the season opener. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Andrew P Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Posted at 10:4710:47 Post update A red flag test is taking place, so everyone comes back into the pits. Posted at 10:5310:53 Post update Two minutes to go until "the race will resume" with a standing start. 10:54 Post update Pierre Gasly leads out the drivers, followed by Sergio Perez, Guanyu Zhou and Lance Stroll. Let's go racing! Maybe... 10:55 Post update The man in charge of the buttons looks ready to activate the standing start... Posted at 10:5610:56 Post update I'm nervous. 10:57 Post update Ah no. The start has been aborted and the excitement levels have been dialled back down. Posted at 10:5810:58 Post update Extra formation lap for our four drivers out on track. Best to get a move on as there are only two minutes left of the session. Posted at 10:5910:59 Post update Go! Go! Go! Pierre Gasly leads heading into Turn One... Posted at 11:0011:00 Post update That was thrilling. System works, so tick that off the check list. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Posted at 11:0511:05 Top five 1. Sergio Perez (Red Bull, 43 laps) - 1:33.105 2. Guanyu Zhou (Alfa Romeo, 82 laps) - +0.854s 3. Pierre Gasly (Alpha Tauri, 91 laps) - +1.76s 4. Carlos Sainz (Ferrari, 68 laps) - +1.8s 5. Fernando Alonso (Alpine, 54 laps) - +2.223s 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sidecar Racer Posted March 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 12, 2022 Interesting bit from the Sun . https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/17921321/f1-news-drive-to-survive-hamilton-verstappen/ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Jonboy Posted March 12, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted March 12, 2022 11 minutes ago, Sidecar Racer said: Interesting bit from the Sun . https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/17921321/f1-news-drive-to-survive-hamilton-verstappen/ To be fair it’s a snip of CH watching a press conference, and no more than most of us on this threads saying the same about CH himself most weeks 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Posted at 12:0012:00 Go! Go! Go! Green light. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew P Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 Posted at 12:1312:13 No Ricciardo on Saturday Unfortunately, we wont get to see Daniel Ricciardo at all today after McLaren confirmed the Australian has tested positive for Covid-19. He's promised team-mate Lando Norris a gallon of milk for shouldering the responsibility over the last three days. McLaren say Ricciardo should be released from isolation in time for next week's season opener. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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