THE Formula One Thread

[Saabingti]

I'm excited for the season to start so that we can see who's made leaps and who's made marginal gains. Lots of cars with multiple aero changes, and consider the reverse-order wind tunnel allocations. Maybe the Williams and AT escape the relegation zone. Maybe Ferrari found two-tenths more than RB and will secure more poles. Maybe Ferrari hired some reliability engineers and predictive maintenance specialists.

Maybe Newey was sandbagging last year and we'll see Verstappen win races where 18 other drivers are 1 or 2 laps back.

 

[g-magoo]

.... Maybe Ferrari hired some reliability engineers and predictive maintenance specialists....

Ferrari might want to add some strategists to the list too.

 

[snobrdrdan]

I'm excited for the season to start so that we can see who's made leaps and who's made marginal gains. Lots of cars with multiple aero changes, and consider the reverse-order wind tunnel allocations. Maybe the Williams and AT escape the relegation zone. Maybe Ferrari found two-tenths more than RB and will secure more poles. Maybe Ferrari hired some reliability engineers and predictive maintenance specialists.

Maybe Newey was sandbagging last year and we'll see Verstappen win races where 18 other drivers are 1 or 2 laps back.

Spoiler alert: Williams gonna win it all

 

[hans611]

All of the liveries....

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edit: The Ferrari from last year was way more glossy than previous years, but is it me or is it more matte again? Why cant they do it glossy like that Alfa or Merc, it would look so much better.
I don't dislike black cars (obviously lol) so the black Merc is nice but I do like the silver as well... imo the biggest downgrade (over the years) has been the Alpha Tauri livery, and they are supposed to be a fashion brand.
McLaren needs to somehow bring back the Gulf livery.... and the Haas one is as boring as usual, but they are promoting their brand..... overall, there has been way worse years, Livery-wise...

 

[g-magoo]

A different angle of the different cars/liveries, not as bright or large, but cool to see nonetheless. Maybe we'll see more color as the cars get closer to/below the min weight.

 

[hans611]

The Alpha Tauri is terrible honestly... its not even an actual livery imo, its just the logo.. there is no structure to the colors, like all the other cars...

Only other one thats kinda of a "not livery" Livery is the Red Bull one, also a giant logo over matte blue.. but at least they have some red lines going down the car here and there.

 

[mwoodski]

The Alpha Tauri is terrible honestly... its not even an actual livery imo, its just the logo.. there is no structure to the colors, like all the other cars...

Only other one thats kinda of a "not livery" Livery is the Red Bull one, also a giant logo over matte blue.. but at least they have some red lines going down the car here and there.

re: the red bull. you dont create an iconic look by futzing around with it all the time.

the haas looks like a minardi

 

[g-magoo]

I'm just glad that even with all of the black on the grid, each team is easily identifiable.

I personally love the green of the Aston, kinda reminds me of the Caterham CT05.

Also, times for today. Max with 157 laps, 14 laps shy of 3 race distances at Bahrain. WDC incoming.

 

[torga]

I hate looking at practice results/times. I can never keep myself from getting a little bit excited when I see something like "ALO +0.029"

 

[hans611]

re: the red bull. you dont create an iconic look by futzing around with it all the time.

the haas looks like a minardi

They did go Purple with the Infinity sponsorship in 2013-2014 though....

I personally love the green of the Aston, kinda reminds me of the Caterham CT05.

Same here, green racing cars are very elegant...we just need some yellow in the grid, did Alpine really have to rebrand like that....

Actually talking about Alpine, I cant wait to see how the Gasly v Ocon season progresses, probably the most interesting new pairing...

That team is like 110% french now....

 

[g-magoo]

The real question is, how many races until the two of them make contact with one another?

 

[torga]

I will bet no more than 3

 

[torga]

Results from last year's Bahrain testing

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/results/2022/bahrain-march-testing-546278/?st=Test+1

 

[g-magoo]

So currently 1-2 sec faster than last year. Curious to see how far the times drop over the next two days.

 

[mwoodski]

They did go Purple with the Infinity sponsorship in 2013-2014 though....

purple flashes.

base was still blue.