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[Redliner]

Typical Tilke bullshit :bigthumbdown: Why the fuck can't he design a track that flows and doesn't look like some abstract bullshit...

I"m going to give this one a chance...it really doesn't look all that bad. It has the high-speed chicane of Silverstone and the big 4-apex turn of Istanbul. The only part I don't like is the lead up to the 4-Apex turn w/ that small kink..

[Nacho]

I"m going to give this one a chance...it really doesn't look all that bad. It has the high-speed chicane of Silverstone and the big 4-apex turn of Istanbul. The only part I don't like is the lead up to the 4-Apex turn w/ that small kink..

The overhead looks pretty different. I'm not sure which is more accurate.

[yonson]

The overhead looks pretty different. I'm not sure which is more accurate.

I do like this view much more than the other.

[Nacho]

I do like this view much more than the other.

Turn 12-15 complex still looks fucking miserable though.

[yonson]

I'd rather see something like this there...

[Redliner]

I'd rather see something like this there...

That looks like a penis

I'd just connect the back straight with a turn directly to the 4 apex corner, and get rid of that little piece of juxposting into the middle of the track. More corners, less of these rinky-dinky turns. The rest of the track isn't bad IMO tho.

[DrDickAction]

That looks like a penis

Yonson and his Freudian race tracks

[yonson]

I thought that after I drew it and said to myself nahhh it's just me no one else will see that

[Nacho]

On the engine side, draft regulations were circulated among teams a few weeks ago and the latest plan is for 1.6-litre four-cylinder turbo engines to become standard [in F1].

http://www.autosport...rt.php/id/86341

F1 to use B16s! Honda makes stunning return!

[kngrsll]

http://www.autosport...rt.php/id/86341

F1 to use B16s! Honda makes stunning return!

[AErrorist]

Team F1:C is closer to reality, let's start stripping my Si to pieces!

[_R_]

Team F1:C is closer to reality, let's start stripping my Si to pieces!

They were also talking about using less fuel per weekend... Nacho and I got this one

[vietlol]

WMSC hearing is todayyyyyy

Monza is this weekeeend

[DrDickAction]

No 13th team and a 20 race calendar

The 2011 Formula One World Championship calendar is confirmed as follows:

13/03 Bahrain
27/03 Australia
10/04 Malaysia
17/04 China
08/05 Turkey
22/05 Spain
29/05 Monaco
12/06 Canada
26/06 Europe
10/07 Great Britain
24/07 Germany
31/07 Hungary
28/08 Belgium
11/09 Italy
25/09 Singapore
09/10 Japan
16/10 Korea
30/10 India*
13/11 Abu Dhabi
27/11 Brazil

[yonson]

Need to book our rooms on crescent TODAY!

[DrDickAction]

Need to book our rooms on crescent TODAY!

[Redliner]

It's going to be epicness all over again!!

[Nacho]

Ferrari escapes without further punishment.... shocking.

FIA to 'review' team orders ban...... blatant....

[MrHahn]

I think they should have just swapped their results at the GP. That would have put the burn on Ferrari.

[Nacho]

Dang, Stirling Moss calling out Schumi and Senna for dirty driving

I'm quite aware that Formula One has changed since my day but one thing that is never excusable is dirty driving. I was appalled to watch Michael Schumacher nearly drive Rubens Barrichello into the wall at the Hungarian Grand Prix and the photos show that he got within inches of causing a major accident.

He was punished with a 10-place grid penalty in Belgium, but for me that only proves that the FIA has got no teeth. In my view he should have been banned for a year, maybe more. If somebody had been coming out of the pits it could have been an enormous shunt and that kind of risk is inexcusable.

The irony is that the improvement in safety in our sport has created a devil-may-care attitude among some of the drivers. Schumacher was willing to push Barrichello into a wall at 180mph, but I can't believe that if you gave him a loaded gun he would consider shooting him. There is an underlying assumption that things will be OK, and for the most part they will be nowadays, but we are still talking about a concrete wall and a car travelling at very fast speeds.

I experienced dirty driving when I was racing, for example Nino Farina was very aggressive. He put me in a very compromising position in 1951 at Bari but I just backed off and it backfired on him; he ended up oversteering wide and lost more time than I did. Juan Manuel Fangio passed us both and I remember as he went by he was grinning because Farina's move had been silly and it hadn't paid off. That's the thing with these desperate moves, they seldom work.

But in the 1950s if you touched wheels with another car you were likely to be killed. As the cars became safer that attitude went out the window and of course that allowed drivers like Ayrton Senna to take bigger risks. I'm sure most readers will recall his [Senna's] actions at the Japanese Grand Prix in 1990 when he took out Alain Prost in the first corner. That sort of thing would have been unthinkable 30 years earlier, let alone accepted. Since then safety has improved markedly and with it the acceptance of dirty driving.

There is an argument that says if you discipline drivers then you discourage overtaking, but I don't see that as a good reason not to punish them appropriately. In my mind you're either a dirty driver or you're not, and the difference is quite obvious to anyone who understands the sport. What's more, I don't remember any dirty drivers who tidied up their act later in their career.

http://en.espnf1.com...tory/27557.html

Although, to be fair, he's right: in his day touching wheels usually = death, so it was much less accepted to cause, or even put cars in a position to cause, an accident.

And, as a bonus, no one can really say shit about guys who won championships because they were the only ones skilled/lucky enough to live through a season.

[Nacho]

Then he talks shit about Monza being bitchmade now.

This column is awesome.

[vietlol]

No punishment for Ferrari wasn't really expecting any

Let Fernando pass for the championchip

[yonson]

I was serious, they are all fucking booked and unavailable now

[Redliner]

I was serious, they are all fucking booked and unavailable now

Whut?! :FUCK:

[yonson]

The ones on Crescent are at least as far as I can tell, I did find one fairly close, but 250/night