Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
Was the only application of four to make it this far, and I would’ve (naively?) thought that they’re at least professional enough to ease through the next step.
The 2023 Formula One Season
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Gaff (formerly Getgaff)
Active Member
Farcical end to Q3. This is supposed to be the pinnacle of motorsport?
How can Race Control be so quick to delete lap times in Q1 & Q2, and yet take an age to delete lap times from Q3?
How can Race Control be so quick to delete lap times in Q1 & Q2, and yet take an age to delete lap times from Q3?
It beggars belief doesn't it? I love this sport, but it's sure hard to love sometimes.
canonman
pfm Member
This is more like it
Congratulations to Max Verstappen, head and shoulders above the rest in 2023 and WC with 6 races to go. A good car, but Verstappen has made the difference (just compare his performances to those of his teammate)... a completely dominant season from him and it's been a pleasure to watch a true great emerge over the last few seasons. Now we just need other drivers to step up and challenge him.
Enfield boy
pfm Member
Second championship and a row 
Great sprint race result for McLaren, Piastri and Norris, a great driver pairing. The turn around for the team in 2023 has been phenomenal, bring on 2024. It's a shame that Piastri's win was eclipsed by Verstappen becoming champion, but congrats to Verstappen, hopefully 2024 will be closer for constructors and drivers champioships.
I am not sure what the etiquette for this is, but I did my first webinar for an Indian company that is organizing a training and development eco system for Asian students. The company is called the United Motorsports Academy and I was asked to be a volunteer on their advisory committee to try and make sure that their masters level students were taught what they needed to know. I volunteered as I like the people running it, a good friend of mine, Willem Toet is an aero specialist and is helping them, and I want to help students learn, without being a lecturer!
So as part of promoting the growing eco system in India I was asked to present some analysis based on public domain data that showed what McLaren had done to make their massive turn around in performance this year. It is this kind of analysis that I set up in F1 around 25 years to follow what competitors were doing and so I am very familiar with the process. It turns out that there is a data feed that some kind people have given access to and the basic data that you need to do help you understand vehicle performance changes is there (car speed, time, distance, throttle, DRS). So all it needed was my expertise to develop and deliver some coherent analysis.
I presented what I have done in a hosted webinar. Apart from my not sharing my screen to start with I am told that people are really happy with what I did, but I am open to feedback as I only 20 mins for the presentation and then 30 mins for answering questions.
UMA IanW Webinar on vehicle performance
I hope that some on here find it interesting.
Tony Lockhart
Avoiding Stress, at Every Opportunity
I’ll certainly be watching that later! Thanks Ian.
tones
Tones deaf
And I'll bet he wins most, if not all, of the remaining six. It seems there that we have a rerun of the season whern Sebastien Vettel won every single race from the mid-season break to the end. Newey had delivered a car that played perfectly to Vettel's driving style, and the combination was unbeatable. Yes, drivers need to step up, but if the designers can't step up and deliver the goods the drivers need, they can't. There were times in the past when brilliant drivers in inferior machinery have triumphed - Nuvolari's "impossible victory" at the Nürburgring in 1935 (no, I'm actually not that old, I only feel it sometimes!) and Moss at Monaco and the Nürburgring in 1961 - but those days are past.
Whaleblue
Southbound
tones
Tones deaf
Well and truly.
Southeastern
She called me baby, like an old romantic
George is getting a bit too big for his boots imo..he knew Lewis was on the Softs and he knew how much better they performed from cold from his run yesterday, he wasn't playing the team game today...
..admittedly, Lewis did chop that corner a little too tight, probably expecting George to back off for him.
..admittedly, Lewis did chop that corner a little too tight, probably expecting George to back off for him.