In the round-up: Lando Norris says F1’s midfield is so close that even a poor practice or qualifying can leave a team able to “surprise people” in race trim.
What they say
I guess the first few races it was probably a surprise but we’ve been there or thereabouts. It always changes things – what the fans think of the team and I guess me as a driver. Everyone knows how close it is in the midfield and sometimes you can have a bad friday, a bad saturday and still surprise people because it’s so close.
Quotes: Dieter Rencken
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Notable posts from Twitter, Instagram and more:
Some interesting numbers on economic impact of motorsport events in the areas they are held.#Indy500 – €267 million#F1 Mexican Grand Prix – €250 million#F1 Spanish Grand Prix – €163 million#LeMans24 – €82 million#ABBFormulaE #MexicoCityePrix: €63.5 million https://t.co/b1kPUvuz7X
— Peter Leung (@BaronVonClutch) June 17, 2019
Lots of people wondering what @alo_oficial will do next. I think we found the answer. Pizza delivery guy. pic.twitter.com/Hu8zScVcaV
— Jordan Taylor (@jordan10taylor) June 17, 2019
Bit of a crazy @CarreraCupGB weekend @Croft_Circuit. Great racing, strange weather! My first time using only @SonyAlpha gear too, very impressed especially considering the conditions! pic.twitter.com/XKBhH7Hpna
— Dan Bathie (@danbathie) June 17, 2019
Hmm. Not sure Alonso would have won Le Mans in that car @Reuters 🤔 https://t.co/aP57H0k41E
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Who wore it better? @taylorswift13 or @AlexanderRossi? #Debate. pic.twitter.com/WLbu0Mf9fQ
— Indianapolis Motor Speedway (@IMS) June 17, 2019
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Links
More motor racing links of interest:
#85 Keating Motorsport Ford Loses GTE Am Win To Fuelling Rig Issue (Updated) (Daily Sportscar)
"The Le Mans dream has turned into a nightmare for Keating Motorsport with the news breaking this evening that the GTE Am class winning Ford GT effort has been handed a 55.2 second time penalty after post race technical inspection found the fuelling rig delivered a full load under the minimum 45 second time allowed."
Buxton: The driver I’m most impressed by right now (F1.com)
"The results speak for themselves. From Canada 2018 to Canada 2019 Max Verstappen has never seen the chequered flag after his team mate. Not once. No other driver can claim that. Had it not been for the five-second penalty he incurred in Monaco, he’d wouldn’t have finished a single one of those races in a lower position than he’d started them, either."
Celebrating the 40 Years of Renault’s first F1 victory (Renault F1)
"In typical 1980s style, we look back at how F1 cars were made at that time. From chassis and engine construction to driver cockpit installation as well as aerodynamism without forgetting the famous turbo-compressor that Renault brought to Formula 1 for the first time in 1977, dive into the story behind the success."
Electric World RX Plans Change Again; Mixed Grids Now Planned (Eracing365)
"Now, World RX’s top class is set to include ICE and electric cars side-by-side, with a push for existing privateer teams to electrify their entries. A combination of EVs and ICEs will compete for at least one year in 2021, with electric privateer teams using an identical specification powertrain and battery kit in order to retrofit and electrify existing ICE Supercars."
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Comment of the day
GT Racer rules telemetry out of Vettel’s penalty review:
The stewards already have full access to all of the telemetry from every car.
Teams no longer use there own systems to transmit/receive the data or team radio communications now, It all goes through the FOM system along with the OnBoard camera feeds so FOM, The FIA & stewards have access to everything.
It’s all transmitted through the communications unit in the center of the T-cam on the roll-bar, Goes through the FOM/TATA fibre network setup around the circuit which sends it to the FOM TV tent where it’s stored on a server which the stewards have access to via some software where they can view any camera angle, Listen to any bit of team radio or view any piece of timing or telemetry data they wish to.
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On this day in F1
- 30 years ago today Ayrton Senna’s McLaren failed four laps from home at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve and Thierry Boutsen grabbed his maiden win
Robbie (@robbie)
18th June 2019, 1:25
Great article on Max by Buxton.
KiwiUK (@kiwiuk)
18th June 2019, 15:01
Agreed, I hadn’t appreciated quite how consistent Max has been. That said, the article was curiously silent on the 5 DNFs related to reliability that Ricciardo suffered post Canada which certainly helped Max!
Robbie (@robbie)
18th June 2019, 15:59
True but he does mention that after the first six races, the next six races saw both drivers with 2 dnfs each and yet Max still highly outpointed DR in those 6 races. And dnfs are race related for the most part whereas unquestionably Max outqualified and outlead DR over each season they were together. I don’t think Max really needed the ‘help’ of DR’s issues to show his talent.
One thing that I will always bear in mind and find interesting about that Monaco turning point for Max is that the brush with the barrier and the resultant crash was one thing (others have done it), but the inability for the mechanics to fix the car in time for quali was another. Not blaming them whatsoever as they are not miracle workers, but had they been able to get Max out for quali this perhaps might not have been such a teachable moment for Max nor a turning point. In a way the garage did him a favour by not being able to fix his car on time…again, not meant as a slag towards them whatsoever.
grat
18th June 2019, 17:17
That’s the thing– take out the DNF’s, and Max still outscores Ricciardo, but only by about half a point per race on average. It’s certainly not the crushing defeat that’s often expressed.
And Gasly just hasn’t been performing the way he should.
Max is a very good driver– if he starts learning from his mistakes, he’ll be a truly great driver. Otherwise, he’s another Jacques Villeneuve.
Carlos Medrano (@carlosmedrano)
18th June 2019, 19:05
If you look at the stats of the total time they spent together it still evens it out, also ricciardo at least proved he could score poles in the same machinery and matched max in all the other areas over the whole time together
maiagus
18th June 2019, 2:54
On economic impact of sport events, I would like to see it dissected in private consumption and private/public expenditure.
For instance, the superbwol in Atlanta demanded a huge change in the arena roof, but I am almost certain that the gross of that 400m is from 70000 travelling to a city to spend a week around the event.
In Mexico, how much of that impact was just what was spent on the new circuit.
I mean, what is just money flow and what is marginal return on investment.
Sometimes, the celebrated conomic impact of a sport event is more related to the cost of holding it than properly the disseminated gains it brings to a region.
Carlos Medrano (@carlosmedrano)
18th June 2019, 3:01
Lando has a really cool stream on twitch were he plays iracing and answers f1 questions its really cool
Hazel Southwell (@hazelsouthwell)
18th June 2019, 10:55
@carlosmedrano – I was trying to find a way to include that in the roundup the other day but couldn’t quite think of a way to shoehorn it in that didn’t seem weird; it’s a great side-gig from Norris though!
Carlos Medrano (@carlosmedrano)
18th June 2019, 19:07
Its so cool he even makes public iracing lobbies so you can race against him and his friends. Coolest moment of iracing was lapping behind a f1 driver and hearing him goof on twitch had a big fan boy moment there
Levente (@leventebandi)
18th June 2019, 6:43
a second technical infraction, for the car exceeding the maximum fuel capacity, has resulted in the car’s disqualification altogether.
The GTE AM story already turned worse, before the publication of the round-up
RocketTankski
18th June 2019, 6:57
● Raikkonen’s favourite…
needs to be a weekly feature
Islander
18th June 2019, 19:53
I second that
Jere (@jerejj)
18th June 2019, 8:22
I thoroughly agree with the COTD. Furthermore, this whole review thing is more or less entirely pointless anyway this much afterwards.
Robbie (@robbie)
18th June 2019, 16:09
Perhaps not entirely pointless for Ferrari or they wouldn’t be using this avenue that has been afforded them by the rules. Will be interesting to hear what comes of this if in fact we get to hear. Perhaps it might still go nowhere and just be dropped again without us knowing what more Ferrari brought to the table.
Nulla Pax (@nullapax)
18th June 2019, 8:45
Interesting stats on Max there. Keep it it up dude.
I have no idea what the Kimi thing is about but that image of “The Last Supper” is awesome :)
If Alonso starts delivering Pizza it wont end there.
He will want to be the first ever delivery guy to deliver every different type of fast food to the same address faster than anyone else ever has!
Jimmi Cynic (@jimmi-cynic)
18th June 2019, 9:47
LOL! @nullapax
At your door in under 3m18.021s or it’s free!
StefMeister (@stefmeister)
18th June 2019, 11:18
COTD.
The telemetry going through the FOM system was briefly mentioned in Ted Kravitz OnBoard camera feature last year.
At 4 mins: https://streamable.com/lhrga
StefMeister (@stefmeister)
18th June 2019, 11:23
Sky also did a behind the scenes feature in the stewards room where they looked at some of the software & stuff they use.
https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/f1/11069148/exclusive-access-with-the-fia
@HoHum (@hohum)
18th June 2019, 13:27
Too bad that they didn’t learn any of it themselves.
MarcusAurelius (@marcusaurelius)
18th June 2019, 19:15
Thank you for that Renault F1 link! Great behind the scenes footage I’ve never seen.