The 2020 F1 Season

[window-licker-65]

Helmut Marko being a dick as usual:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/52091905

Suggested drivers and other team members should deliberately get the coronavirus!

He is a loon, perhaps an overdose of Red Bull(sh*t) is the cause

 

[Tony Lockhart]

I suspect most today would be reticent to race in one tones?

They're raced, but with modern spec FIA cages.

 

[Tony Lockhart]

Brands, 2018

 

[cutting42]

Brands, 2018

I think I am having a crisis

 

[Tony Lockhart]

I think I am having a crisis

Awwww. Virtual hugs being sent.

 

[cutting42]

Always had a thing for 60's and 70's sports racing cars.

 

[Tony Lockhart]

I can’t think why

 

[tones]

I suspect most today would be reticent to race in one tones?

But a wonderful-looking machine (here with Jo Siffert at the wheel):

The two cars bore different designs (the other one had one orange arrow), so that they could tell which one was which far off in the Sicilian mountains.

 

[davidjt]

Jo would have felt safer on the Targa, starting at intervals: on a circuit he used to complain that Pedro was homicidal.

 

[RJohan]

Recently I finally saw a 917 at the Porsche museum. God, they where loooow!

According to a test drive in a Swedish magazine in the early 1970's you could by one from the factory for something like £30000. Take in inflation, but you simply can't buy an F1 performance car today for that kind of money. No mention of gas filled frames, though.

 

[tones]

Recently I finally saw a 917 at the Porsche museum. God, they where loooow!

When I watched them compete at Le Mans, I always thought of them as a "big" car. When I visited the Deutsches Museum in Munich in 1975, they had one there on display. I was amazed when I nearly tripped over it.

 

[tones]

Jo would have felt safer on the Targa, starting at intervals: on a circuit he used to complain that Pedro was homicidal.

I remember their mutual terms of affection being "crazy Swiss" and "Mexican bandit". But two of the best sports car drivers in the business. Sad that we lost both to racing accidents.

 

[davidjt]

Yes, I lost interest for a while. The toll was horrendous.

 

[mand]

I think footballers should follow Lando and Carlos’s lead.
Furlough all round.

 

[canonman]

Congrats to 89 year old Bernie Ecclestone. He will welcome his first son with his third wife, 44 year old Ms. Flosi.

Ecclestone's 65 year old daughter Deborah has volunteered to babysit

 

[Yank]

Congrats to 89 year old Bernie Ecclestone. He will welcome his first son with his third wife, 44 year old Ms. Flosi.

Ecclestone's 65 year old daughter Deborah has volunteered to babysit

I hope there are some tall genes on her side of the family.

 

[cutting42]

Amazing job by Mercedes reverse engineering a CPAP device in 100 hours and getting regulatory approval (this is hard) last week. They are currently producing 1000 units per day

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/52189430

 

[peter bj]

funding is going to be down for all the F1 teams with no races and sponsers likely to pull out so some teams likely to fold

 

[Eyebroughty]

I wonder if the powers that be allow three cars per team as a possible solution if some teams fold and nobody buys them to keep them going.

 

[cutting42]

I think they will be desperate for any idea that keeps the sport solvent. Shared cars, technology and limited seasons.