New song by the chemical brothers "we've got to try" for F1 2019.
I love it.
https://youtu.be/mRfSM-lv55I
Who really cares about the parts of the car we cannt really see being standardised. So what if gearboxes, suspension parts, and other internals are. If this means a fairer, more sustainable sport fair enough. In few years, we could loose some teams. And will not attract others as the cost are sky high, just to compete mid field or the back. That is not a good for the whole product, no new teams, no close racing, no cap on costs will not do the sport/product any good at future fans, teams or even sponsors.
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The complete economic layout does not allow f1 to continue on this financial path if it is to survive into the future it's current is as follows the have and the havnots and we all know the pecking order of this current mantra for sure something is going to give I hope that when all changes come into play that the winner is f1 and the fans.
Drivers being paid a lifetime worth of Millions in one year and then having a bad year anyway, knowing deep down the pay is there waiting anyway. Final results should have something to do with final pay.
Point taken Greig, but I wouldn't be too quick to write off Mclaren as this year's car looks to be a vast improvement. Of course we've already lost many iconic teams like Lotus, Brabham, Tyrrell, Matra, the list goes on and those were the days, those V8/V10/V12 engines that sounded so magnificent just a distant dream! Shame if it happens to Williams, and I think the FIA has to stand up to Liberty media if F1 is to continue as we know it, it's already being turned into a circus.
Leave the engine "the heart" of the car alone. Merc and Ferrari Renualt make them. But the rest, fuel systems, gearbox the gearbox internals, suspension parts. Put out to vendors. Reduce the costs that ways. As i said in above post. The costs the teams are spending on, lets face it, parts that the average fan doesnt see and maybe do not really care about is silly. As long as Ferrari makes the engine and the car, thats fine with me. If they source out other parts as mentioned, fine aswell.
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RE: the Mission Winnow logo
MotoGP is underway at Qatar and both Ducati's with the Mission Winnow logo are on course. Investigation is still going.
It's not how start but how you finish.
So you're going to use Greig's approach of "who cares"? Apparently a lot of fans care judging by the posts in this forum and others. You can't see the engine either...
The thing is, why now? Most people never really ask the right questions. Why not prior to the 6th Concorde agreement in 2009? Why not prior to the 7th Concorde agreement in 2013 (the current one)? What has really changed except for the ownership of F1 changing? Well, some fundamental things have changed. Like Ron Dennis and Frank Williams not running McLaren and Williams anymore. They have handed them over to incompetent hacks who most likely will run them into the ground no matter what. Say what you will about Ron and Frank but at least they knew how to run their teams. We also have Haas coming in, a restructured Sauber into Alfa Romeo and Renault throwing more money attheir F1 project than before. Haas, a new team has beaten McLaren two years in a row. So it's not about new teams not being able to do it. They can if they are run be the right people. All of this is a threat to McLaren and Williams in the long run and they obviously can't handle it. So they have to be saved by socialistic "hand-outs" by dumbing down the sport. Why wasn't F1 "saved" so many time before (Lotus, Brabham, Tyrrell etc)? Did F1 die because they went away? What is so bad about survival of the fittest? That's how nature works so why shouldn't the pinnacle of racing work like that as well? We already have enough spec. series in racing.
You're right Wisepie and Ferrari have always "rolled their own" so our reputation and history stand to lose more than other teams except maybe for MB but they have only dipped their toes into F1 (as full constructors) from time to time while Ferrari has been all in since day one of the modern era (1950).
Mclaren and Williams have been rooted in F1 for the last 60 to 45 years respectively and in the state they are in.....it's an alarm bell. More so than Lotus, Brabham and Tyrrell not to mention this hybrid formula is thee most costliest and most complicated formula's and Mclaren and Williams are paying for it. Naturally, they might have a say if F1 goes standard on some parts along with other teams.....I'm sure Lawrence Stroll and his consortium would'nt mind.
If that Honda engine performs, then RedBull will stop their crying...stay in F1 and would'nt mind either on standardized parts.
Ferrari, just recently, said it's willing to accept the logic of cutting F1 prize money's share; saying that the money distribution is unfair.
Something is definitely going on behind the scenes with standardized parts and one of the greatest icons in F1 history accepting the logic of cutting its F1 prize money share.
If things stay the way they are, then Ferrari and Renault will be the only cars on the grid from a long term perspective. I don't see MB staying since they already have a car in Formula E.
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It's not how start but how you finish.
OT: Just watched Moto Gp season opener, what a race (I'd say better than last years which was also spectacular). Overengineered aerodynamics really killing F1, bring back active suspensions and ground effect cars. Make it more mechanical.
You be happy with 2 Mercs, 2 Ferraris 2 RBRS and maybe 2 Torro Rossos on the grid if all the other teams are run out of the sport from being to expensive? No team, no new manufacturer will look at F1 and think, hell yeah lets spend millions and millions to run mid field and not race for wins or poles. Sport is changing, F1 needs to wake up and see that. Stop being so "pinnacle of motorsport snobbery" that t wll attract sponsors and manufacturers. Done so well with Audi over the years, oh wait. Manufacturers like that, will look at the costs, F1, LMP2, DPi, LMP1 or even the new hyper car rules for WEC/Le-Mans and will see that F1 for the money spent isnt money spent well. See endurance racing the better off option.
Didnt Tyrrell, Brabham, Lotus and other earlier teams from around the same era, all use the same standard engine? which 97% of all the grid used. The Ford DSV engine.
You would rather have maybe 2-3 teams on the grid and rest made up of customer cars? then hell, we would have racing series like DTM, and so much team orders and games going on be worthless watching.
Times are changing, as i said. F1 needs to wake up and realise this. Costs have gone through roof since hybrid era started.
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Watched moto go also boy that Ducati has some grunt what a Stella race absolutely thrilling mission wino great come back from the doctor to finish 5th from 14th 6tenths separated top 5 that racing.
You didn't answer my question. Why now, why not prior to 2009 or 2013? F1 has always been expensive in terms of the current money value. F1 has always been about "snobbery", that's what sets it apart from other racing series. It's also a totally illogical and irrational invention in the first place but there has to be room for something like that. Why do people climb Mount Everest, why do people sky-dive, who do people use drugs etc? With all that in mind F1 doesn't have to wake up at all. If waking up means killing it then it's better F1 never wakes up. Sadly, the world is filled with psychopaths who come into power and have to change things just for the sake of changing them.
Let's say two or three teams fold (McLaren, Williams and Racing Point) and we're left with Ferrari, Mercedes, Red Bull, Renault, Toro Rosso, Haas and Alfa (for the time being in the 2020's), then just let everyone who wants to use a third car use one. If only two or three teams could afford a third car then only the first two in every race would score points in the WCC. All three would score points in the WDC. Problem solved. If manufacturers like Audi and Porsche would have any balls they would have entered F1 permanently a long time ago, but they have always been scared.
So what? If McLaren and Williams want to use an outscourced engine today (or gearbox, or any other part), let them. They are already doing it in the sense that they don't build it themselves (except for Williams' gearbox). But they don't have to use a Mercedes or a Renault, use something else, something cheaper. Just don't force it on Ferrari and Mercedes to use the same.Didnt Tyrrell, Brabham, Lotus and other earlier teams from around the same era, all use the same standard engine? which 97% of all the grid used. The Ford DSV engine.
As I said above. There is a breaking point when the grid shrinks to 12-14 cars then a third car must be allowed. Ask yourself this, would you rather have F1 as a spec. series with the teams we have now or F1 without standard mechanical parts and with Ferrari, Mercedes, Red Bull and Renault running third cars?You would rather have maybe 2-3 teams on the grid and rest made up of customer cars? then hell, we would have racing series like DTM, and so much team orders and games going on be worthless watching.
In reality times are not changing. The talk of change in F1 is manufactured like all stupid changes in society in general. Costs have always gone through the roof in F1. It was always ludicrous yet it has survived since 1950. I've heard rumors that Ferrari and Mercedes are willing to change the distribution of money more evenly compared to the current structure if the freedom of development of the mechanical parts are left as it is. Neither Ferrari or Mercedes actually need the extra cash. If that's not enough for the powers that are then there's no plan B. Which means the end of F1 any way you look at it.Times are changing, as i said. F1 needs to wake up and realise this. Costs have gone through roof since hybrid era started.
Why now? because if not now it will be late when F1 has no teams left, then you might ask why did we not act sooner LOL.
You might want F1 to never wake up, very good. Sadly for you the teams do want to keep F1 going and there will be new fans to replace you. They won't care that you stopped watching because the fire extinguisher is standard....
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You're wrong. If the factor of "too late" is about costs then it's been "too late" for decades...yet F1 is still here. Albeit some teams have disappeared and others have joined. You do know there was a time when neither McLaren or Williams were on the F1 grid? Also, why do you almost always end your sentences with LOL? Are you the kind of person who laugh at his own jokes?
There's no law (natural or unnatural) that states that F1 has to be kept alive on life support just for the sake of it. Because that's exactly what is going to be, if they enforce their plan. I'm sure many will still follow "F1" from 2021 onwards but it will be in name only. Also, you do understand that the fire extinguihser comment was a metaphor, don't you? You do know other car parts, along with the gearbox, will be out on tender? Pandora's box is the analogy that can be made.You might want F1 to never wake up, very good. Sadly for you the teams do want to keep F1 going and there will be new fans to replace you. They won't care that you stopped watching because the fire extinguisher is standard....
The sport is realising costs can't keep going the way they are so no it's not too late and no it does not make me wrong just cause you say so Yes I am fully aware teams have come and gone but now it's looking like teams will be gone and not be coming back, maybe you are happy to sit on your hands and accept the end of F1 but it seems like the teams and sport in general is not. So it's really up to you to decide if you want to follow it or not as whatever you feel is clearly the opposite of the teams and sport.
If you can't watch the sport because the fire extinguisher or the gearbox cogs are standard then there really is nothing much more to say is there, as that is what will happen.
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I don't support standardised gearboxes or any parts in general. It inhibits technical innovation which is what F1 should be about. We've been having this argument for as long as I've been following F1 - over 20 years - and I'm sure it was there before my time. F1 has never been sustainable which is one reason I keep watching. There's no sense in anyone spending hundreds of millions racing any car yet the fact they do is what makes F1 so special.
That's not to say nothing can't be done. The main problem is the barriers to entry - this hideously expensive V6 engine is at the root of all the problems in F1. It did not serve anyone but the manufacturers who wanted it in the first place. A NA engine with a hybrid component would have made a lot more sense. The current engine formula is a strong deterrent to new entrants.
As for Williams? In another time, they'd have been displaced by new teams with better innovation and run by people with ambition and talent and not nepotism. Williams have been stale for too long and the barriers to entry have preserved them too long. Williams should not be propped up based on any historic 'iconic' status as if they were some venerable patron saint of the sport.
Standardising innovation is going to ruin F1.
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Are gearbox ratios not already fixed anyway? so really what sort of innovation is this going to stop for gearboxes?
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There are many dimensions gearboxes could be improved further. Speed, size and weight being the most obvious ones. Gearboxes already have to last more than 5 races, reducing cost. Why close that off with standardisation?
What next? Suspension and dampers? Was the apparently significant innovation Ferrari did over the winter on those areas (according to reports) an appalling waste of time and cost? I don't want to watch a fixed formula.
Pretty sure most of that is already highly regulated, not like we can just put in a 10 speed box, casing and mounting of gearboxes would still be unique so again I am struggling to see the drama or the massive scope for innovation that would be lost.
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It's already overly regulated which limits the possibilities, so why inflict a standardised gearbox on everyone? A casual observer may not know the difference but it will be used to ram through other standardisation that will kill technical innovation in the sport.
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/r...ralia/4351175/
redbull is going to bring more of there big updates to AusGP instead of waiting for China where it was originally planned.
Red Bull’s motorsport advisor Helmut Marko told the company’s TV channel ServusTV that a ‘fully motivated’ Adrian Newey had pulled out all the stops to get the new parts ready early.
"Parts that were planned for the third race were brought forward, thanks to all the pressure he [Newey] could provide to get them on to the car for Melbourne,” revealed Marko.
Marko said that Red Bull was full of confidence about the competitiveness of the RB15, which he reckoned was the ‘best’ car his team had produced.
hockenheim 2018 / China 2018 : Never forget how quick Ferrari can lose it all, be humble.
Positivity doesn't win you championships, whining about people being negative makes you blind!
lol ignore the bitter old cows ;-)
I dont think we have a general f1 thread but this pic is so cool, glad Binotto stuck with Ferrari + Legend MS
hockenheim 2018 / China 2018 : Never forget how quick Ferrari can lose it all, be humble.
Positivity doesn't win you championships, whining about people being negative makes you blind!
lol ignore the bitter old cows ;-)
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