In the round-up: Robert Kubica said his Williams felt much better in the first practice session but it didn’t last.
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What they say
[icon2019autocoursempu]Kubica said he was much less happy with the balance of the car in the second practice session.
It started pretty well I would say. I was quite happy with the balance and the things we were trying, more for the next year I think. Surprisingly there were some areas in the car which never felt so good.
But to be honest in FP2 everything which was positive disappeared for whatever reason. So we have to now go through. We didn’t really change set-up or stuff like this, or whatever we changed, we came back. But we couldn’t get back the behaviour of the car and the feeling I got in FP1.
Normally FP2 is always a better session, cooler conditions, track temperature much lower. But for us, for whatever reason, it was opposite.
Quotes: Dieter Rencken
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Formula 1 is launching an official line of perfumes next year.
Which of these do you most want to smell like? #F1 #AbuDhabiGP pic.twitter.com/ovhyXPZDGK
— RaceFans (@racefansdotnet) November 29, 2019
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F1 is to launch a range of….fragrances. Unreal.
"Formula 1® today announces an exciting collaboration with Designer Parfums, to create a unique fragrance collection, which will go on sale in March 2020."
— Ben Hunt (@benjhunt) November 29, 2019
Here’s the giant TV we get to see along with live timings and also mini sectors at @ymcofficial. There’s no way we can watch the cars for real on track as the media center is sealed with no windows! #AbuDhabiGP #F1 pic.twitter.com/In6M11GzBW
— Darshan Chokhani (@DarshanChokhani) November 29, 2019
More yachts in #AbuDhabiGP marina than recently seen in Monaco? Certainly seems so… pic.twitter.com/nSYIqabAwZ
— Fritz-Dieter Rencken (@RacingLines) November 29, 2019
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Links
More motor racing links of interest:
Kevin Magnussen: "He obviously had damage with Bottas crashing into him, he has to go to another floor – the same one as me. I’m hoping that wasn’t the reason he was so fast, we’ll see."
Alexander Albon: "The balance was OK and we know we need to improve a little bit here and there but Max looked quick so let’s see how things go tomorrow. I think I’ve got a little bit of fine tuning to do on my side, especially in sector three, but we’re chipping away."
An encouraging Friday in Abu Dhabi (Racing Point)
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Jody Eggington: "We ran the Option first followed by the Prime, which was never going to help flatter us, and we came here with a number of test items, which were unfortunately interrupted by the red flags."
Alan Permane: "As always we seem competitive on high fuel and we will be looking at various settings overnight to have the car in the right configuration to make some headway in final practice and qualifying tomorrow."
Pioneering resurfacing work at Silverstone (Earth Movers Magazine)
"Although the SmoothRide 3D analysis hadn’t previously been used on a race track, Tarmac, NRP and Dromo recognised the potential of the precision technology which had proven itself on highways and airport runways. It was to be the first use of the technology in the UK."
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Comment of the day
We need to look past Grosjean’s complaints, says Ben:
When the right words are focussed on, you can see that Grosjean isn’t always moaning. From the footage of Bottas’s onboard, I’d say Bottas has to be pretty much fully responsible for this. Grosjean looked twice and this was while Bottas was behind him. It effectively was a lunge down the inside by Bottas which really isn’t a good thing to be doing here.
Bottas did apologise, and once he had, Grosjean accepted it and didn’t keep moaning. Grosjean appears to moan a lot about his own car, but I feel the praise for it and other comments that help the team out are kept too hidden.
They won’t have kept him for nothing. He’s certainly looking good so far this weekend and I think he should have been one of the star performers last time out. that was an excellent weekend, but he had an MGU-K failure which pretty much took him out of what very likely will have been a chance to get far closer to Magnussen in the standings. He’s had a better season in my opinion anyway so is unlucky to be this far behind.
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Xcm
30th November 2019, 0:31
Yet another terrible cotd. Nobody is saying he never has the right to cry. People are saying he cry’s CONSTANTLY. Which he does. There is a difference.
Don’t they call that a straw man argument? Good enough for race fans though…
Jockey Ewing
30th November 2019, 3:19
F1 perfumes: Smokin tyres, Burnin oil and The Badger.
socksolid (@socksolid)
30th November 2019, 6:33
Smell of kerosene, blue exhaust smoke and bonfire of thousand dollar bills.
faulty (@faulty)
30th November 2019, 3:52
Judging by the preview, the Racing Point article must be taking microblogging to a whole new level!
Eoin (@eoin16)
30th November 2019, 4:24
Surprisingly sloppy article for RaceFans…thought I was at Planet F1 for a second
Phylyp (@phylyp)
30th November 2019, 6:50
Seeing Keith’s tweet, I thought he was pranking us. It took Ben Hunt’s tweet to convince me that this is indeed real.
Is this the moment F1 jumped the shark? It might well be.
I can understand circuits and teams releasing co-branded items, since that is a natural outcome of sponsorship. I can even get F1’s sponsors hopping on the F1 bandwagon (say, a Rolex F1 timepiece), since F1 is projected as this huge brand, and ‘others‘ associating with it should only be a good thing.
Flip it around, though, and for F1 to go out and release a line of products like this just seems so… tawdry. F1 is supposed to be this super-rich sport, aggregate finances run into the billions (with a ‘B’), and they have to resort to flogging co-branded wares like this? Sigh.
Well, since this seems to be the direction F1 is headed, let me propose a few fragrances (should we spell it f1ragrances?) that is more befitting F1:
– The elixir of success: (comes in a silver arrow-shaped bottle)
– The tears of Maranello: (caution, attempting to spray this will likely misfire and dunk it in your eyes)
– The bull’s brow: (comes in either an orange bottle, or in a bottle with changeable nozzles)
– The redolence of resurgence: (a scent mocked previously but adored presently)
– The aroma of (missed) aspirations: (yellow and black)
– The calf’s brow: (failed QC for the bull’s brow, so is cheaper)
– Pink mist: (you get paid to use this)
– The cow’s brow: (this is a wannabe bull, but it stops working halfway through)
– “Leave me alone, I know what I’m smelling”
– The scent of motivation and defeat: (comes in a classic and ornate bottle reminiscent of better days gone by)
ColdFly (@)
30th November 2019, 7:11
So this smells like a f1agrant miss? @phylyp
Phylyp (@phylyp)
30th November 2019, 7:18
Indeed, they really ought to wave the checkered f1ag on the whole endeavour, @coldfly.
Jere (@jerejj)
30th November 2019, 7:45
Re Darshan Chokhani’s tweet: A nice set-up for watching a session at the Yas Marina Circuit.
bob (@riptide)
30th November 2019, 11:46
There is and only will ever be one F1 (motor racing) perfume. Castrol R
RocketTankski
30th November 2019, 13:48
Fragrant Violation (of the rules), the new parfum from Liberty Formula