2017 Formula 1 Season Paddock

Wow, not very encouraging for McHonda. Hopefully Honda's famous rapid turnaround time for fixes will come into play.

 

Test 1 , Day 3 Ted's Notebook

https://youtu.be/DDfdCKNtzj0

 

If you mute this video, that's what the cars sound like now.

 

Canada extends its F1 contract through 2029

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/canada-extends-formula-1-deal-until-2029-878539/

 

Test 1 , Day 4 Ted's Notebook

Development Corner

https://youtu.be/ElV2Pvg0lx0

 

"Racing’s Gonna Suck This Year"
http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/racin...2910897#_ga=1.203600016.1095968464.1487908962

 

Yep. Parades suck ass no matter how fast the floats go or how cool they look.

 

There have been complaints about the cars not being able to follow each other closely for years and I've found the racing pretty exciting the last couple seasons

Seems a bit premature to write off the upcoming season holy shit

 

I'm sure Max isn't going to let a little more Aero keep him from passing like a boss.

 

And just think how much easier it will make his blocking moves.

 

http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2017/03/04/f1-shouldnt-get-hung-up-about-its-looks-or-sound/
“Ugly” shark fins and T-wings. “Terrible” engine noise. An insufficiently orange McLaren.

Launch season used to be when the new cars appeared and everyone tried to figure out what the designers were up to, how the cars work and how quick they might go.

This year it seems as though Formula One has become obsessed with its appearance. And it isn’t just objections from fans; Lewis Hamilton railed at the “terrible” engine sounds in two separate interviews ahead of the Mercedes W08 launch. In one he added for good measure that his new car “looks like a boat”.

He’s not alone: Christian Horner has been complaining about the reappearance of shark fins and revealed he tried to get them banned.

Somewhere along the lines Formula One forgot it is supposed to be the technological pinnacle and started chasing an arbitrary aesthetic standard. This is futile, as it invariably comes down to being a matter of taste.

I couldn't agree more.

 

The cars are a technological pinnacle in motorsport . That doesn't mean that the shark fins aren't ugly , they are there to maximize the downforce in corners allowable by the current regs , if they changed the rules to remove them or lessen the allowable area , the engineer's would generate maximize downforce with those regs

They just aren't attractive

 

It could be worse:

 

I'm not too concerned about it

 

Well when Kia and Hyundai are more reliable then Honda according to Consumers Reports then you're doing something wrong.

 

Honda fires ex-Ferrari engine consultant , Miller

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/honda-to-part-company-with-f1-engine-consultant-simon-880031/

 

Felipe Massa showing all the young bucks how to put a solid days work in, pretty impressive for a retired guy I must say. And at this point we can just write McLaren off for the rest of the season, I'm confident they're not going to win any races at all.

 

Barcelona Test 2 , Day 1 ~ Ask Crofty

https://youtu.be/VGXC5vpDuVs

 

Clean starts will be even harder to achieve in 2017

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/128411

 

Interesting