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Isn't threatening to leave step #1 in all Concorde Agreement negotiations?
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If they are going to leave, I would think it might be after Mercedes secured Lewis's 8th WDC, beating Schumacher's record and winning the next two WCCs, or at least try to.
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Formula 1 is looking at introducing artificial late-race restarts after the dramatic final laps of last weekend's Brazilian Grand Prix. A NASCAR-style format, where cars are bunched up before the finish is being examined, said Ross Brawn, F1's managing director of motor sport. Writing in his post-race column, Brawn said that officials were looking at ways of recreating the Brazilian spectacle, where two safety cars compressed the field and provided the catalyst for frenetic wheel-to-wheel racing, bold overtaking and spectacular misjudgements. Brawn https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/n...e-brazil-drama |
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He’s losing his marbles. Maybe he should have stuck to team management? Let’s face it, this rule hasn’t exactly helped NASCAR’s viewing figures, so why it would for F1 I don’t know
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Wow, that's not at all what he said.
The actual words he said, and what he has repeated a few times was looking at what Verstappen did vs other drivers and what the other drivers did. It's not just the cameras but actually what he did and how others reacted. All of this to consider if the rule should be changed to require the leading driver to continue at a controlled pace to the line OR leave it up to the driver on track to determine pace. Nothing like a reporter driving a Brawn sucks agenda and rewriting what was said. NOTHING Brawn said addressed adding safety cars for the hell of it. |
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Looks like he got hold of the wrong end of the stick there. It might not be the writer has an anti Brawn agenda they may just be little dim, or just knows people like to read about F1 going down the pan.
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im guilty of it at times but it is definitely the latter!
just cant help but click on those outrageous clickbait headlines myself. i particularity like the ones that turn into slideshows. but seriously, shouldn't they be examining each race from as many perspectives as they can? its just F1's version of analytics. not doing so was a complaint against the old regime. |
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* Mercedes selling to Penske! * Brawn to implement random safety car periods! * Ferrari to fire Vettel! * (Insert name here) to leave F1! Richard |
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Back in them there olden days, a fortnightly motor racing mag here in Oz used to regularly run banner headlines across the whole front cover with a question mark tacked onto the end.
Modern F1 version might be something like “Bernie buys back F1 - Ferrari banned?” Mostly illogical headlines but as an early version of click bait, used to pump up the mag’s circulation! |
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Seems an opportune moment to mention Betteridge's Law of Headlines:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bett...w_of_headlines In short: the answer to a headline which ends in a question mark is almost always "no" |
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Some tweeks for next season. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/50668906
I presume the piece about the chequered flag being reinstated as the official end of the race means that whatever the light panel shows, drivers keep racing until they see a human being waving a flag! Can’t remember TV coverage showing the light panel at any GP, as the camera shot is usually from the other direction..... |
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didnt want to take the tributes thread off topic with my rant but i really think the helmet change rule is idiotic.
at speed or at a quick glance, the colour of the t-cam is the more reliable way to tell drivers/cars apart anyways right?...more so now because of the halo. my personal feeling is that the rule exists because FOM and teams dont want the drivers to be able to monetize a space for themselves. in that i can understand why FOM and the teams may not like it (a driver might take on a sponsor that undermines the sport or brand in some way) but while i understand the issues facing ownership and management, i side, as always, with the athletes (workers) and their rights. a drivers' helmet is an extension of their racing persona, it is the face that fans connect with. like warriors of olde, those helmets tell stories of life and death, of loss and victory, so in this the drivers should have maximum freedom and creativity to express their own story. imo, this is a rule that needs to be changed. with the advent of social media, creative helmet design is an aspect of the sport which demands to be popularized. |
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… and oppressive and controlling. Probably brought in because the drivers' helmets were monopolizing more media time than the racing and other hoopla, so I guess symptomatic of F1's relevance, and the true reason people follow it - the drivers. |
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the world motor sports council just met and agreed to a bunch of things.
https://www.fia.com/news/fia-announc...l-decisions-17 they support the FIA/Ferrari deal (obviously) and more details about the cost cap for next year (will wait for a journo to pull out the important details)...but the bit i liked and given what we were recently talking about here: A change to the 2020 Sporting Regulations was approved to allow for unrestricted variations to driver helmet designs between races. a small thing in the grand scheme of things but i'm really looking forward to the drivers having some fun with this. |
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I can understand why the FIA put the restrictions in though, got confusing after a while when people like Vettel changed them race by race. Sort lost a bit of identity that way
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I liked the different helmet designs. It makes a difference, what with the rigid uniformity of team liveries. I think Vettel has the record, with 11 different designs in 2017.
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