/f1/ - Formula One

Salty Mexifags edition.

LGTSS

>The city of Lewis Hamilton

>Eric's Son the useless swede not holding up hamilkek

>button not even trying

oh shit

>All the nerds in the other thread.

There's a chance for a Ricky penalty after that divebomb

I am so fucking buttblasted I can't stand it

Fuck this race

Rosberg is going to be "mentally destroyed" after this

>>17709

Was a pretty good race all things considered.

Well not in terms of actual racing, but in terms of excitement it was pretty good.

>>17713

>Tennorman = Mexifag

>Cartman = Me

Nigga was so mad today LMAO.

Only two good things about this result is that the nigger won't win and GOATLONSO in 5th

>>17714

I agree, it was fun to watch. And no Mercs on the podium.

>Vettel wins

wew

Too bad Vettel winning isn't gonna mean shit in the grand scheme of things. Hamilton is still gonna win the hip.

>That speech

;_;

>These marshals

Fucking hell m8

muh feels :_:

>>17730

;_;7

>>17730

and in french nonetheless

;_;7

>Marshals

>cancan

top lads

What's with the drunk marshalls dancing?

>Knows how to lead a grand prix, doesn't he

Yes, it's the one thing he's good at.

>>17741

>being this butthurt

>>17743

What, he's made a career out of leading a Red Bull procession.

>>17745

>being this butthurt

Red Bull Young Driver program wins lol

>>17749

>Hurting my feelings this much

D-Don't make me filter you, you big meany head :'^(

>One month until Spa

>ONE MONTH

I missed the championship standings, can anyone post the updated driver points please?

>I PREFER ANGRY PIZZA

>Sky being so fucking solemn about Jules' death.

Fucking come on, the last thing Jules would want is for people to lament so heavily over his passing.

First Russian on an F1 podium?

>>17762

Petrov was first

>>17765

Ah right

>>17764

>Implying literally any rabid fan of literally any driver isn't the exact same way.

Name one driver whose fanbase is bearable. Don't worry, I'll wait.

>>17768

Button

>>17768

I wasn't implying that. Any fanbase is shit, and that goes for anything.

Thanks for pointing me to the right thread Australianbro.

>>17768

Hamilton fans are the worst by far

>RUSSIAN DRINKING FIRST

Cheeky trips for England's Brave Will Stevens.

>>17777

And by trips I mean quads.

Pls don't be mad, Stevens.

>>17777

Yes

>>17777

Fucking Britcucks

>>17777

those are quads, nice job you monumental retard.

>>17783

>Mad

>Brundle predicting no champagne today

Good call, dumbass

>>17784

>call him out on his retardiness

>hurr durr you mad

also heh, german win, german interviewer.

Doesn't Germany hate this TV guy?

Who's this cunt? why don't they have old drivers anymore?

>>17786

>Mad

>not pouring one out for Jules

>Ebel interview

pls no

Is Kvyat legit autistic?

I thought the old eastern bloc countries didn't have any faggots? Who the fuck is this guy doing the interviews?

>>17792

I think he's just Russian

>honey badger

Vettel is now closer to Rosberg than Rosberg is to Hamilton in the standings, and that makes me very very sad. You can't possibly think that's a good thing for the sport.

Really sad for Nico, I hope he can get some form back soon. Maybe the birth of his kid will help out

>>17797

Nico had his chance last year, and he blew it. Well technically his car blew it, but still.

He's never gonna be given another champions hip opportunity again after this season, and will retire bitter and angry at Hamilton.

>>17797

if it wasnt for Ricciardo he would be leading the WDC.

>Vettel tying the Senna win record before Hamilton did

my sides

>>17798

He will then start doing politics and make a 4th reich, building ovens to burn niggas from the UK.

ANOTHER 3 WEEK BREAK

Just fucking shoot me now

Indian build quality ended up saving us from the mercs. You can thank me on behalf of all of us anons

I can't wait to see Rosberg's interview

>he gone be mad

>>17807

>plebbit

>>17807

kek

>>17803

It's not a three week break.

It's four.

>>17807

pretty much lol.

>>17807

Only at the end.

He had a 27 second lead over Rosberg when Foreskindia fucked everything up.

Alonso driver of the race.

Didn't have a top car and managed to finish ahead of both Mercs

It was easy for Vettel

>>17815

>mercs shat the bed therefore alonso is great

>>17814

Given how Rosberg looks in this interview I would be worried for that babys health

>>17817

What a terrible argument. Let's say the mercs didn't shit the bed, that still means he would've been in 7th. Not bad at all for that car

The attempt at historical revisionism now that Vettel is at Ferrari trying to make Alonso out as anything but the greatest driver of his generation is just a bunch of silly gooses being silly

>>17819

Button also finished in 9th so that car can't of been that bad today.

>Ecclestone comes out of nowhere to jump on the BBC forum

God dammit Bernie

>>17821

it seemed like a senile old man just wandering onto a set

also holy shit eddie's 72? I didn't realise he was that old.

>>17824

67

Still old

>>17825

God that's depressing. Really hope Nico can get it together before he gets a full case of the Wobbles

>>17829

hahaha poor mana.

>>17829

Did Nico Mana joint ISIS?

>barker durka bakka barker durka mohammad jihad barker barker

>>17831

Bad google translate of Baka (fool/idiot/stupid)

>>17832

>>17831

Essentially translating in terms of meaning as

>Wow ah ah ah

>FUCK fuckfuck fuckfuck

>FUCK

>Noooooo (;_;)(;_;)(;_;)(;_;)(;_;)

>Fuck (;_;) (;_;)

>What the fuck

>Seriously fuckfuck

>DC teasing Felipe

>The stewards were very strict on driving

Pastor two of your penalties were for speeding

Hoe can you possibly blame it on the stewards

>>17835

>racetrack

>speeding

pick one

:^)

Day 0 :

Hungarian GP just ended.

1 month until the next race.

Here starts the long road to Spa.

>bully bullying his trophy

>Ricciardo wanting to drink scotch out of his trophy

Pretty clear that Ricciardo was at fault for that incident with Nico in my opinion. He ruined the chance for the championship to be exciting again as well

>>17840

yerp

Rally Finland is coming to my locale next week. Time to prep for awful traffic.

>>17842

>Finland

>rallyposting

>be me

>want to download race to watch it again

>DSL internet down

>too much data to download it on my 3G

FFFFFFUUUUU-

Ted's Race Notebook

>internet edition, not the one that was on TV

>>17846

thanks.

>>17836

>pit lane

>racetrack

pick one

>>17859

>awesome awesome awesome

That's one word

Just watched the race, nicely chaotic, overtaking everywhere, easily the best this year.

Bit unfortunate from a Finnish standpoint, both drivers would've gotten good points and had to retire essentially not because their own mistakes.

Hamilton's antics were hilarious to see, I guess he has forgotten how to race and thinks he is invincible so he just pushes like in a noob in playstation, going off the track all the time or crashing to others. Although I'd say his crash with Ricciardo and following clusterfuck of a track presence by him lead into Verstappen going too close to Bottas and slashing his tire so fuck you Hamilton. Even secondberg had bad luck while he could've easily made the gap smaller in standings.

Tribute to Jules was nice in the beginning, and it didn't even bother that they started playing the national anthem since it actually fit very well on the background (whereas Canada style would've been disastrous), very emotional scene.

Hadn't seen the BBC's montage, it's nice

>>17865

I've done that way to many times

>>17860

>Being this fucking pedantic.

>>17868

That looks like it was taken directly from a tv feed so I doubt there is a bigger one

>>17869

cock, i need something similar with higher res, vettel crossing the line finger high or something.

Google and F1fanatic are not help, the Formula 1 galleries are super low res

>>17870

Give me a minute.

I've got an autosport subscription so can access their highres galleries.

>>17872

>>17871

you da goat, that works, thanks man.

>>17874

Only 150 sleeps till christmas Mexibro

>>17876

it's also 250 days till the first race next season.

Which coincidentally is exactly twice the amount of days till the end of the season.

>Home Alone 3

Mexibro…no…just no

>>17877

>only 125 days till end of season

damn…

Home Alone 3 is the third best Home Alone.

Home Alone 2 and 1 are on a league on their own but 3 is not half bad.

2 is the best tho.

>>17876

>Home Alone 3

>Good

You have shit taste in cinema, and should be ashamed.

>>17879

Now if only they could modify the rest of the track to be good, that would be greeeeeeeaaatt.

>>17872

Is that the best res they can come up with? I'm always trying to find topical motorsport wallpapers, and most sites release pictures in shitty res. Fuck this.

>>17876

home alone 2 and 3 are trash. go watch it's a wonderful life.

>>17882

oh shit, thanks France those are great.

>>17883

i hope Vettel wins the Mexican GP, would be awesome.

>>17891

Did you kill him?

>>17892

I t-tried anon, but he was too fast ;__;

>>17893

Is he actually in aus right now? Hes been posting pics on twitter that hes somewhere scenic

>>17893

Also shouldve probs talked to him through a corner, wouldve gotten distracted and at most youd get manslaughter

>>17897

Dirty immigrants

>>17656

Wait, is the schumi image in the op '94 san Marino? Because that's fucked but also hilarious.

>>17899

Oh fuck, it is

>my sides

"Tamburello 1994 by Oleg Konin"

http://www.imagekind.com/art/Tamburello-art_art?IMID=feb03b1c-ee9a-4948-9f09-bca4099b49f3

>>17900

>my sides are in the SAFER barrier

i wonder if the "Widows" have given him shit for it.

I saw a brazilian youtube video a while ago where a Nelson Piquet fan explained that sennafags are called widows in portuguese which this made me recall fondly.

>rumours that Jenson is going to present Top Gear

What fucking world do I live in?

>>17903

>Why does that cake look a bit shit?

IKR

I think it's because it doesn't have any icing

>perhaps because Romain has to watch his weight

>>17904

He could do jokes about the reasonably priced car being faster than his mclaren

>>17903

It looks delicious to me! I think its a brownie.

>>17907

Yeah but you would like anything with two flaming towers in the middle of it.

It almost certainly is still delicious just presentationally it looks kinda poor

>>17908

It reminds me of the sort of quick cake my mom used to make me as a kid. It makes me feel comfy.

If you are bored right now you can watch a bunch of people live underwater for science

http://aquarius.fiu.edu/media/watch-live/entry-lock/

>>17913

i'd rather watch SGDQ but thats cool.

>>17897

>Roscucks are this obsessed with HamilGOAT

>>17910

>no one in the house liked desiccated coconut

Fuck you all, I love coconut.

>be me

>be at an intersection in some 80's shitbox.

>see same car, same license plate

>oh shit its hamilfag.

>decide to act smug, ask him to roll his adjacent window down.

>shit he actually does it.

>just as the light turns green, I follow him into the right lane.

>I start yelling random shit at him.

>Suddenly, his car begins to light up like a christmas tree.

>I notice red alarms and sirens begin to spasm on the hood of his overpriced shittierbox.

>"DON'T TALK TO ME THROUGH THE CORNERS, DON'T TALK TO ME THROUGH THE CORNERS, DON'T TALK TO ME THROUGH THE CORNERS." Begins to intermittently shoot from outside the aforementioned sirens.

>Hamilton, taken off guard, launches the throttle, his car spins of the road.

>He launches into a nearby ditch.

>The car erupts into flames, however the siren still emits a distorted version of his warning call.

>I take a closer look at the crash, and observe a red liquid oozing from the crash.

>Oh shit he ded!

> However, something doesn't seem right. I take a closer look.

>The red fluid turns out to be gear lubricant.

>…hehhehe… he drivers an automatic…. hehehe….

>"Then what happened to our brown antagonist?" I then thought.

> I feel a nudge of some sort of cool metal against my shoulder.

>I turn around to see a short figure pointing a hi-point at my head.

>OHSHITIT'SHAMILTON.JPG

>But even worse, to his side I see Emilia, in bondage (lel), To his left.

>Her age may appear to be 8 online, but in reality… she's a majestic 6…

>Hamilton's large lips open, "yo, since you talked to me through the corners, I'm gonna cap her. But if you listen to my mix-tape, homie, then maybe ill let you treat her like the spice girl she really is."

>He pulls some archaic device and loads it with that auditory atrocity.

>…If i don't make it out of this alive… tell Bottas his hunting skills may have finally paid off…

>>17918

>>17918

Well memed!

(you shouldn't have talked to him through the corners)

http://www.foxsports.com/motor/story/jenson-button-top-gear-report-join-chris-evans-replacing-jeremy-clarkson-hammond-may-f1-072915

>>17924

>Giving a shit about old Top Gear

>Not being hyped for Toppest Gear®. coming to Netflix™ Fall 2016

>>17925

>no wanting to watch the train wreck is going to be

>>17927

>implying they both won't be train wrecks but everyone will try and go along with the netflix top gear even though it got worse without the BBC production values.

It's going to be like current simpsons

>>17928

Top Gear on Netflix would have a much larger budget than anything the BBC could have provided them.

>>17929

House of cards is $4.5m an episode.

BBC was a black cheque and conservative figures put it at £7m an episode.

Plus the BBC has a ridiculous music licensing scheme whereby they could get just about anything for free as well as the best connections and production crew in the world.

You are overestimating how much netflix spends and the quality the Beeb has.

>Susie getting thrown around by a proper man and making funny noises.

That was pretty fun

>>17932

>racecar driver being taken for a hot lap

That's pretty cuck

>>17928

Yeah, and people will love because Netflix.

>>17934

Yeah at least they don't dodge tax as much as Amazon so I do use them occasionally.

Still it would be the only thing worth using Netflix for outside of capeshit

>>17932

I was going to say:

>proper man

>felipe massa

>implying

but then I realized it was bottas and thus an actual proper man.

>>17940

Get a program that uses layers

>Germany figured it out

>>17942

>>17940

Paint.net is fucking free France

>>17942

>>17943

i'm lazy

SkyF1 Midweek report

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9GWJdmAS5FmZWEya0RiVmZ4NnM/view

>09:15 they finally talk about a driver that isn't Lewis

>naturally it was to talk shit about Nico

>11:00 they finally talk about the guy who actually won the race

canal+ onboards for huangry

https://vimeo.com/134884298

>>17936

goddamit why Clarkson what the fuck is Amazon video

>>17949

Something that is only available in the US, UK and Germany

>>17951

Amazon will either expand or sell it to a local broadcaster who will almost certainly edit it and then cancel the show when they start insulting mexicans again.

By the way how did that whole saga go down over there?

Was it just laughing at the stereotypes? There wasn't any legit anger from the normal people?

>>17952

when that happened i wasn't a top gear fan but like no one really cared, only a very small portion of people said something but it really didn't generate any big controversy from regular people.

Amazon started operations recently here in Mexico(by that i mean they started selling products instead of just ebooks) and i don't think Video is coming anytime soon.

I'm sad.

Want to buy an f1 team?

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2015/07/30/vintage-racing-team-in-a-box-one-of-three-formula-1-scarabs-to-cross-the-block-alongside-its-transporter/

>>17955

2017 looks good but i want to hate it.

>>17955

>still shitty overregulated hybrids

>still overregulated aero centric formula

>still going to sound like shit

>still going to be uncompetitive/mwl

Its definitely a huge improvement to go back to 2 meter width, and undo a major issue of post 1997 f1, but still really depressingly crap

>>17957

>Its definitely a huge improvement to go back to 2 meter width

And dem fat rear tires

>>17957

The appeal of the improvements is definitely not lost on me, but f1 needs to do some soul searching and be an open 3 liter formula.

DRS also has got to go, it's no small part of how good tracks like catalunya produce shit races with the current cars.

>>17955

>Making them longer

For what purpose?

Make them shorter. If we have these eco engines using even less fuel we don't need a huge fuel tank so make them shorter.

>>17960

>For what purpose?

I'd assume it's for visual reasons

>long and flat, as opposed to tall and boxy

Lewis BTFO

B T F O

T

F

O

>>17961

Yeah but it looks shit.

We want flat and boxy

>>17963

Long is fine as long as the paint scheme is good. Most cars are fine, but the Marussia/Manor always looked longer than the others.

>>17960

longer car, especially by way of longer wheelbase makes a more stable car (which is often a disadvantage on difficult technical tracks of which we pretty much have none) and, more importantly allows a narrower car and thus better aero.

The aero improvement is likely the reason.

This year's cars and last years cars have (in recognition of the power deficit that these cars have) become longer.

>>17964

the marussia's are longer because iirc they had difficulty engineering a fuel tank that would allow a shorter car.

>>17964

Maybe it's just because I've finally seen an F1 car up close and been able to walk around it but fucking hell they are big.

Before I saw them at donington I never had a proper sense of scale.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/29/8822041/closed-cockpit-f1-concept-car-open-wheel-racing

It's cool that there are occasionally articles aimed at mainstream readers authored by long-time fans but it's too bad this one has gone full reddit. His premise is that the sport is dying, but in the US at least that isn't true. Closed cockpits are a knee-jerk reaction, even the Bianchi so-called investigation said the aim should be to reduce the impulse on the car/driver during a crash rather than try to make the car even more rigid. What's missing from that fighter jet metaphor is the presence of an ejector seat, which would also be ridiculous and Bond-esque. Once we have 3D 400kph "rainbow road" tilkedromes with loop-de-loops and other junk there can be enclosed cockpits but there are so many other factors at play in the Massa/Bianchi incidents that they really shouldn't be invoked arguing to newfags such as that article is intending.

>>17969

>linking to a vox media publication

>not archiving

The sport has been fucked beyond recognition since senna, its not like we need it to be mangled more.

Here's the Finland Rally live stream if anyone is interested:

http://cricfree.sx/watch/live/fia-world-rally-championship-live-streaming

Has 8chan fixed itself yet?

I've been trying to post all day and the cat has tried to skin me.

>>17972

Sweet merciful god I'm alone in the world

>>17973

sup

>>17974

>It's got to the point where my mind is creating fictional posts to entertain itself

>All it can manage is a simple "sup"

This ends now.

>>17975

go watch SGDQ before you kill yourself.

>>17976

It's alright Mexibro I don't care that much about games.

Also I think I tied the bandage too tight around my arm as my fingers are starting to tingle.

>>17980

Well as long as the little bastard hasn't given me tetanus I should be fine

>Sauber trying their hardest to be likable again

>>17983

sorry CurryTits, but no amount of slavic looking hotties will make up for your being a bitch, having nonexistent business ethics, and hiring (getting paid by) both a swedecuck and a sandnigger to drive.

also, it bothers me that CurryTits cant stop bitching about costs when a more open formula with non hybrid engines would cost much much less.

>>17971

Own prediction: Latvala makes mistake, Sebastien mark 2 wins.

>>17992

I got something out of that vicariously.

>>17986

Never mind, Latvala actually managed to do everything right for once.

http://www.wrc.com/en/wrc/news/august/latvala-wins-finland/page/2678--12-12-.html

And in DTM wolfgang Ullrich tells his driver to push the mercede off

>>18002

>Toto wants Ullrich to be banned from all racetracks

"Wenn es den Funkspruch gab, dann sollte derjenige, der das gemacht hat, nie wieder auf eine Rennstrecke dürfen"

>>18003

I imagine Toto must have looked like Susie had just announced she was pregnant with triplets from Hamilton.

Is there a video?

Anyone else fascinated by the start of the Hungarian GP? I keep binge watching the start and the incidents that happened shortly after. Yeah, I am a Ferrari fan but still, I would expect anyone to find this shit hype. F1 is NOT dead, and it will probably be even more fun after the '17 rule changes.

>>18005

Only the most stubborn Hamilton fan wouldn't love this first lap. Sure it was a shit lap for him, but there were battles all over the place and unexpected events. It's just great.

And it really shows that the worst thing about the current formula is the huge gap in relative performances between the cars. Ferraris were as fast as Mercedes that weekend so we had fun. At Silverstone, in the beginning the Williams were about as fast as the Mercedes and it was a good show.

I'm pretty sure that even on the most boring Tilkedrome we can have some good racing if the cars are comparably fast.

Also,

>they got so close

>how they didn't touch

They know their jobs maybe.

>>18003

>>18002

Scheider disqualified

>>18002

Fantastisch!

>>18005

>sees one race in which the drivers of the artificially dominants cars fuck up repeatedly on a short track where power deficits matter less

>f1 isn't dead guys, this formula isn't bad

>first post in thread.

mkay

>>18017

>sees one race in which the drivers of the artificially dominants cars fuck up repeatedly on a short track where power deficits matter less

Not exactly. Mercedes have been repeatedly fucking up on the start and it is becoming more of an issue from them. Generally, if merc fuck up at the start, they do bad throughout the entire race.

>f1 isn't dead guys, this formula isn't bad

It isn't, and that's not based on my opinion in the post you responded to. The new clutch rule at the start will change everything about the usual starts you are used to. Then in '17 Formula 1 will be reborn imo.

>first post in thread.

You must be new here. The IDs change after a certain amount of time. Then you have to take into account people who use VPNs, like myself.

>>18024

Why does he feel the need to look like an ex-prisoner?

>>18024

Why does he feel the need to look like an ex-prisoner?

>>18027

>>18028

gah stupid chins giving me errors

>>18030

i actually like that, its kinda cool, its like one of those futuristic movies where things are already integrated into things.

>>18030

At least it works, unlike a proposal made by some Hamilton that was so shitty you couldn't see anything.

I'm not against it, but I don't see any point. DRS is clearly visible on the car unlike push to pass, and F1 is the sort of sport where you basically only care about where are the first 5 drivers so you don't need to know which position which driver is in.

But introducing that pretending it will raise TV ratings is bullshit. On TV you have the rankings and pit stop times and usually if someone on screen enables anything commentators will comment, because it's their job. It could be interesting for on-track spectators though.

>>18034

>>18030

It was for spectators at track.

And from what I heard it worked well

I don't see why you are so mad australia?

>>18030

fuck this

>>18031

>liking more gimmicky items that make this more a show and less a sport

>>18037

Boggles the mind that people are okay with this.

Drs and the straightaway into hairpin complexes that tilkedromes are composed of create the massive grid spread that makes the grid line up harder to identify.

>instead of solving these problems that are at the crux of what is wrong with f1 today, lets put another gimmicky spec bandage on it.

How long until we get fanboost? ;P

>>18038

It's not a gimmick that really affects anything, that's probably why people don't care. At least that's why I don't care about some flashy lights on the roll hoop. It won't fix any of the issues, but at least it won't make it worse.

If F1 was to trade away DRS for an LCD screen I would be very happy. I can't understand why FIA/FOM/teams/whatever are scared of removing DRS though. It's probably the #1 complaint people have on F1, and disabling it seems easy and wouldn't have a huge impact on the racing.

>>18039

>If F1 was to trade away DRS for an LCD screen I would be very happy.

a LCD screen that flashes PP

as in "Push to Pass"

>>18039

It further establishes the idea that F1 exists to entertain first, and to be a sport second.

For instance, complaining that the cars are ugly may be a legitimate complaint, but asserting that the solution to that is to have f1 cars that are more spec, or "styled" by the FIA is insulting to the sport.

This gimmick further normalizes shit like push to pass.

neither marathon runners, nor tour de france participants, nor olympic sprinters are required to wear a sign demarcating their current position. And while it may be easy to see where the sprinter is in the field, it may be difficult to visually identify the front runners in a marathon or endurance event. Even so, they have not disparaged the sport by adding anti drag flaps to helmets that can only be engaged on straight aways and number signs indicating their current position.

Sure the tour de france is entertaining, but it is entertaining because it is a competitive and pure sport (save for the doping), not because it is artificially made better for the spectators or tv audience.

>>18040

I don't care about the screen, I didn't imply I wanted push to pass or anything like that.

>>18041

IMO it's really a non-issue, and I don't see why a bunch of flashing lights normalizes gimmicks that actually influence racing. The point of watching a sport for entertainment is the sport itself, and fixing that would require removing all the other stupid things that have an actual influence on racing.

>>18042

I'm not attacking you as if you were are fan of push to pass, I'm just pointing out that this idea that we're willing to modify the cars for perceived viewer enjoyment is the last thing that f1 needs right now.

>The point of watching a sport for entertainment is the sport itself

You're right, but the dangerous fact is that there are noob or just retarded fans of f1 that legitimately think it is a show and a show only. A quick skim through plebbit (which is one of the largest f1 boards on the internet, retarded as it is) produces numerous threads asking why f1 isnt as close or exciting as GP2 or indycar.

>>18043

And we could put propulsion fans on the back of sprinters or exoskeletons that accelerate foot movements on marathon runners.

Just because we can doesn't mean we should. Putting KERS on tour de france bikes defeats the whole point because it is no longer the same sport. It misses the point.

Imagine a mutant league baseball, where everyone could use whatever drug, and cyborgs could compete, and every possible thing that wasn't already covered in sponsor stickers, is now.

It would probably be entertaining for a bit, people would be curious for sure. But it would fall off and die eventually (or at least suck in its zombie state) because it would no longer be a sport, it would be a shit show.

The WWE tried something similar to this. It was called the XFL (WWE football league). The whole thing was officially not staged, and was somewhat competitive, but it was so artificial in that there was made up trash talking, and announcers that hyped conflicts that werent there, and "Storylines".

Even vince mcmahon admitted it was a mistake.

Shame that it's been 15 years and motorsport can't learn from this.

>>18045

I was being semi-sarcastic.

Anyway I prefer my cycling in a velodrome.

>>18046

>I was being semi-sarcastic.

I know, I was just making it a teachable moment. There are so many opinions made facetiously that idiots actually support. F1 is no exception.

>velodrome

I don't know all that much about velodromes, but I do know of board track racing, which is pretty fucking wild

>vid related

>>18047

Same sort of thing just smaller with slightly more wacky variants such as the sprint (1v1 dogfight at 1mph for 90% of the race before a ridiculous sprint) and the Keirin (Follow the safety bike for a load of laps as it builds up speed and then a ridiculous sprint)

>>18049

Inb4 plebs who dont know the difference between newman-Haas and Haas-Ferrari

>>18049

That's sort of cool, too bad it's used for advertising. That's some futuristic looking shit

>>18052

>That's some futuristic looking shit

>futuristic

>14 years ago

pick one

Also, I feel old now.

>>18053

Sorry I didn't know about it. But it looks sort of cool.

>>18053

Yeah futuristic is having an underwater hamster cage.

>I'm not trying to shill for his project but you can donate on his blog http://hampture.blogspot.co.uk/

>He wants to make inter connected ones with tubes that he can close off and detach if needed

>After that he would have them live at a much deeper depth in a pond where he would tend to them with scuba gear and maybe find a way to re-stock a feeding system with a small RC sub

>>18055

That's quite neat, let's hope no one hears about this project. If it becomes well known the bitching animal rights activists will be mad

>>18056

IIRC they already have at one point.

It's stupid because the system has multiple safety backups and he makes sure that he caters for their needs (wheel, water bottle, food)

He doesn't even keep them down there constantly and puts them in an outdoor hutch for a few weeks.

Never killed a single one.

>>18058

>>18059

Hamilton can continue to #RISE all he wants, but he'll never catch up to how far my sides are in orbit right now.

>>18058

>>18059

>This man has 2 (two) Formula One World Driver's Championships

Isn't there a middle ground between the sort of "coldness" of the german drivers and a guy grinding his dick on some whore's butt?

>>18059

>this man will the knighted once he retires Formula 1

the british are devolving. They were a country full of gentlemen and manners and now this.

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/08/03/watch-migrants-chant-open-the-border-and-storm-past-police-in-calais/

Gonna get worse. A lot worse.

>>18064

No one cares

>>>/pol/

>>18065

Thought it was relevant to mexibro's comment. Plus pol isn't even politics, its circle jerking neo nazis.

>>18069

>yfw he thinks a customer team that cant do short track aero for shit will overtake a manufacturer

Count me in.

>>18076

still better than Hamilton's new mixtape

>>18077

>implying the producers Hamilton pay aren't already hard at work sampling Ricciardo

>>18078

Ricciardo confirmed for doing country rap on his first single.

>>18078

Ricciardo is the most American driver on the grid today. I'm okay with this.

>>18083

>spec series

>3rd rate drivers

>artificially close in more ways than one

>embarrassing pack racing

>drivers now under gag rule

>look guys aero kits, its almost like we have manufacturers

>this totally makes up for killing CART right?

>>18084

>>drivers now under gag rule

I detect massive sarcasm in this post as was expected. But what do you mean by the "gag rule" thing exactly?

>>18085

The criticism was genuine, the compliments were facetious (aka you were right).

In a nutshell:

IndyCar (under CART sanction) used to be an open 2.65 liter turbocharged formula. It was very much like Formula 1 of past years in that there was much technical freedom, and many routes to success/performance. Over the years, it became very successful even outside the U.S. and demand became enormous. Countries in Europe and the Americas started building tracks (ovals and road courses) to accommodate Indy racing. Reigning f1 world champion went to CART to win the title, Michael Andretti went to F1 from Indy, Jacques Villeneuve won the last real indy 500, and promptly went to F1.

In 1995 Tony George (heir to the Hulman family, and owner of the Indianapolis motor speedway) threw a hissy fit that the sport was so successful and that he only owned the one track. He created a rival series called the Indy Racing League. Despite CART being far better racing with more talented drivers and better teams, the IRL won out for a number of reasons including control of the Indy 500 event.

Tony George's series claimed that they had more American drivers, an all oval schedule, and a cheaper to operate (not actually though) spec car.

In the end the IRL killed American open wheel racing and even with enormous money being brought in by the CEO of Hulman and Company (Mark Miles) the series is still crap.

Recently, there were a number of high profile crashes in practice for the indy500 that looked embarrassing as the aero kits (limited body work that Chevy and Honda are allowed) failed to keep the cars from flying into the catch fencing.

More recently than that, especially at Fontana (where the stands were empty), the racing became pack racing, where there are rows after rows of cars going around the oval three-wide. This is dangerous because one crash takes out the whole field (see Las Vegas Dan Wheldon crash, so much for making Indy safer Tony). Spec cars with aero that heavily incentivizes the draft will inevitably make these non-talent-rewarding deathtraps.

Large amounts of criticism from drivers came out making fun of the level of danger for a tiny crowd.

Ed Carpenter (step son of Tony George and driver) attacked the drivers that criticized IndyCar ( http://motorsportstalk.nbcsports.com/2015/07/01/ed-carpenter-driver-criticism-of-indycar-confusing-for-fans/ ). Promptly everyone called him a shill, and that was that.

Mark Miles (head of IndyCar) just passed a policy threatening nebulous charges and license suspension for any driver or team member that insults this rapidly dying sport. http://www.racer.com/indycar/item/119488-indycar-series-imposes-strict-guidelines-for-competitor-conduct#

When people called this a gag rule, Mark Miles claimed it wasn't a gag rule, but a rule providing IndyCar "authority to act when we feel it is required." http://www.racer.com/indycar/item/119493-indycar-miles-clarifies-competitor-conduct-rule

Yeah, so Indy blows and has a gag rule.

>vid related, it's the IRL's claim of being safer getting shattered.

Tell me more about the artificially close racing! I hear they have LCD screens on the side of the car now ;)

>>18086

And why are drivers even putting up with this shit? If it sucks so much they can just walk away.

>>18086

>everyone says the planned Vegas race is too dangerous

>IRL says it's fine

>race goes ahead

>fatal accident 4 minutes and 20 seconds after the green flag

>>18087

Because if you're racing in the IRL, you're out of options.

>>18086

>>18088

its racing , people die, get over it.

don't like it? go watch horse racing…oh wait people die there too, go watch bikes oh wait people die there too, go watch snowboard races… its fluffy soft sno- whats what? people die too? - nevermind then.

>>18091

Ping pong is viable option. I don't think anyone has died playing it

>>18092

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19020531&id=xH1hAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jEgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2188,7134467&hl=en

>>18093

>first ping-pong fatality reported in New York

Dammit.

>>18091

>its racing , people die, get over it.

There is a difference between an accident happening, and ignoring safety.

For example:

People should get over Bianchi's crash. It was a freak event, and no one could have foresaw it.

However, if they parked a tractor there before the race, and everyone told them it was too dangerous, but the FIA told them to shut up and said there was nothing to worry about, wouldn't that change your opinion of Bianchi's eventual crash?

>>18091

We love to bitch about f1's problems, safety really isn't one of them. Indycar however, is not only unsafe, its unsafe for stupid and predictable reasons (spec cars, spec aero, short ovals).

Tony kanaan (who ive never much been a fan of) said that he could accept the risk if there were actually people in the crowds, and I thought that was telling.

>>18097

That picture is fucking great

>>18083

>The thing I dislike about Indy currently is this "ghostly" push to pass shit. Why is it such a mystery, even for the commentators? It should be openly available to everyone and not be some mysterious thing that drivers use "behind our backs".

There was a genuine reason for this but I've forgotten it. The commentators used to (as in last season) know how many they had left and when they were using them.

>>18099

Shit they changed it before Toronto

>IndyCar will no longer display push-to-pass counts and usage on timing screens in an effort to encourage overtaking on road and street courses.

>Previously, the series' standard timing screen had included both the amount of push-to-passes that each entrant had left, as well as indicating in real time when each driver was activating the system.

>That information will be removed for Sunday's race race in Toronto, with the change to remain in effect until at least the end of the season.

>"Unfortunately, the information given to the teams on the push-to-pass function has tended to be used as a defensive measure," said Derrick Walker, IndyCar president of competition and operations. "The driver being overtaken activates his or her own P2P [push-to-pass] to defend – which defeats the intention of P2P, obviously.

>"We will limit the availability of that information, which will make things interesting, particularly late in the race."

>The push-to-pass system adds an estimated 50 horsepower per use, with each engagement lasting 20 seconds. Drivers are allocated 10 push-to-passes for each street and road course race.

>Series officials will continue to monitor each car's push-to-pass usage from race control.

http://www.racer.com/indycar/item/117956-indycar-makes-push-to-pass-secret

>>18100

They had to add more gimmick to keep the gimmick working the the way it was intended.

I cant be the only one that sees this as a mild example of the slippery slope coming true.

Some french niggers just gassed Jenson And Jessica and stole their engagement rings while they were unconscious.

I swear to god France I will kill you

>>18104

Wow that's actually disgusting.

>>18104

>The criminals are believed to have pumped anaesthetic gas into the rented property through air conditioning vents before stealing more than £300,000 worth of belongings.

Goddamn jews pretending to be oppressed.

t. /pol/ack

>>18106

There are like no Jews in France, there are nearly no French people. Only north Africans.

>>18107

I'm surprised the daily mail didn't try and blame it on the calais migrants even if it is on the other side of the country.

>>18108

Ahhahaha. Fair point. That said, the north African migration has been a problem since the end of world war 2. Its just particularly accelerated now, and more topical for the rest of Europe.

>>18109

One of them almost managed to walk through the channel tunnel.

He was a few kms from the british end before getting caught.

>>18110

No kidding. That's insane. Well, good on the UK border patrol.

>>18111

The thing is he made it over half way (if he was less than 10 kms from the opening he was underneath british soil) and so got brought this end to get charged with causing an obstruction to an engine or carriage using the railway.

I assume deportation will happen.

>>18112

I would really be shocked if anything less were to occur, especially considering the level of attention this is getting.

>>18104

something is just super violating about being robbed while unconscious. I'll grab a bat or a gun if I hear the sound of a break in. something is just more…rapey about not getting to face your attacker.

>>18115

I get the vibe that they sleep naked because they're "sexual" people so to speak. This whole thing is totally fucked up. The cops in France must be incompetent because the stolen goods must be very difficult to fence (unless they're moving them out of country).

>>18116

She was lingerie model though so I would have thought a silk nightie

I imagine it's the same as the red bull trophies and they will just melt it down.

>>18118

Gems are the primary value in rings and those are graded and somewhat suspicious to be sold loose. I could be wrong.

>>18104

damn, poor Jenson.

>>18115

I hope they took photos of her sleeping

>with their dicks in her mouth

>>18123

At this point cvc and Donald McKenzie are the major beneficiaries of f1 money. Scots are also subject to the stereotype of cheapness sooo…

>>18123

At this point cvc and Donald McKenzie are the major beneficiaries of f1 money. Scots are also subject to the stereotype of cheapness sooo…

>>18104

Wow, that's the sort of thing you would find in some GTA mission.

>>18107

Stop watching Fox News :^)

>>18115

Perhaps she took her ring off to fist Jenson, or some other specific sexual act.

>>18116

It's a 2 hour drive to Italy. If the burglars were smart enough (and they probably were considering the shit they pulled) they were far gone before they even woke up.

>>18126

>Stop watching Fox News :^)

In all seriousness I'm glad that we're able to joke about this. Half of 8chan is a pol circlejerk at this point.

>It's a 2 hour drive to Italy. If the burglars were smart enough (and they probably were considering the shit they pulled) they were far gone before they even woke up.

Makes sense.

>>18127

>In all seriousness I'm glad that we're able to joke about this. Half of 8chan is a pol circlejerk at this point.

We still get the occasional tard in here

>"hurr hurr Hamilton dresses like a liberal" guy is a fine example

>>18130

He was leading until mclelen fucked up his pit strategy.

>>18129

>>18130

It's not all bad for Jenson

>be normal tier driver

>luck in to dominant Brawn drive

>win championship

>>18132

>Prove in later McLaren drives that on your day you are pretty equal with the top 3 (Dat Japan 2011) and the rest of the time best of the rest

>Got to be a playboy in the early part of your career before become this suave James Bond type

>Loved by loads of people because you really haven't done much wrong in your career.

>Also look handsome as fuck

To be honest if I could be an F1 driver I would be Jenson.

>Heidfeld just got kicked out of Formula E for Villeneuve

This is just getting fucking silly now. Quick nick will never win at this rate.

>Force India

>rear suspension arm failure under load in Hungary