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Was that on the BBC coverage?
I've been out all weekend and not seen the race properly yet.
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Where exactly are these words of VW / Audi coming from?
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Ok so yes, the engines are sealed by the FIA. You may joke but this is essentially a tag between the block and the head gasket, signed by the FIA. If a team needs to open it an FIA official has to be present. They cannot be stripped down and rebuilt, no. Not entirely sure how much can be worked on between races (not my area) but a few things can be done, oil changes etc. The main objective of the sealed units is to prevent major bits of hardware getting changed. I’d have to dig out the engine tech regs to find out exactly what can and can’t be done.
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Ok to answer a few questions.
Yes Lotus F1 Team (Enstone) used to be the Renault F1 Team that won Drivers and Constructors Championships in 2005 and 2006 with Fernando.
Engines get supplied to Teams as compete units, on a crate if you like. At the races, with Merc I’m talking now, they provide engineers that do everything to do with the engine. The race team will strip the car down and the Merc engineers will take off the engine and deal with it.
Customers will get upgrades a little later than the Merc Works Team, when depends on various things. Generally all the customers will get exactly the same engine unit as the Works Team – this parity is written into the contracts.
Where the performance differs is all in the mapping, which is done by the individual teams. Merc Works Team have very good mapping that seems to work better for them than customer teams.
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I highly doubt Audi will enter into F1.
Sadly.
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Of course they can not. Like has been said, you cannot run the engine on full the whole race(s) as they will simply expire sooner or run out of the allotted fuel before the end of the race.
I think GA2G thinks the speed they have when they 'turn it up' for a few laps is their 'true speed' and if they wanted could run like that all the time.
Not so.
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The idea of sandbagging in F1 these days is ridiculous. No one sand bags. If anyone says teams sand bag they frankly don't know what they're talking about. Likewise with talk of letting other teams win. You can't get more ridiculous than that.
I thought it had already been announced that Merc won't give RB engines based on how they treated Renault. Ferrari have said they would.
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After the first lap I went out on my bike.
Is it worth watching a re-run for any juicy action?
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It's hardly game over. I bit of a setback maybe but not game over.
McLaren and Honda are far to big to not be able to make a significant comeback.
Every F1 team experiences difficult seasons, I should know, yet a team like that is bound to bounce back, even if it does take a couple or few years.
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A goldmine of vintage Australian bicycle cool here:
http://www.brainpickings.org/2012/02/22/vintage-australian-bike-culture/
Enjoy.
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RIP Justin Wilson.
Very sad news after his Indy car accident.
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Some sideways action from Ricciardo today at the races
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Wow! With all the sh!t going on it feels especially sweet to get that podium. Great drive from Romain! Yes mate! Thank you!
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Make that 105 steps backwards.
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Entirely depends on the nature and extent of the damage. At the moment we're repairing as much as we can on most damage as we have zero cash for new parts. This though carries a weight penalty obviously. All structural parts are proof tested regularly for strength before racing again though of course.
If cash were no object as I'm sure it is for teams like Merc, Red Bull etc they'd just replace with new.
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When you try to race wheel to wheel with Maldonado...
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Incredible race!
Just about everything you want from F1.
Well done Vettel and Ferrari. Fitting tribute to Jules.
Big shame for Kimi.
Has Maldonado won some kind of record for number of penalties taken in one race!?
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No, that's to show that the program is showing in a public place or business location, like a pub or something. Hence the pint glass icon shape.
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No, that's the roll hoop. Designed specifically to protect the drivers head in just such an incident.
The roll hoop has to withstand a static force of 130 kN for something like 30 seconds without failing in the FIA test before the car can run on track.
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Ok I've read the BBC article now.
Well, if that happens it would be really good for the sport. Especially if they buy Cosworth as well and turn that into an operation to rival Brixworth.