Tex Arcana commented on the post, F1 2021: Liberty's masterplan for Formula One's future uncovered 4 years, 9 months ago
Sitting in the NASCAR offices.
Tex Arcana commented on the post, F1 2021: Liberty's masterplan for Formula One's future uncovered 4 years, 9 months ago
Make it a straight 6. With pushrods.
Might as well, if Liberty dumbs down the technology, it’ll become “F1-NASCAR Edition”.
Tex Arcana commented on the post, Analysis: Why Bottas couldn't pass Vettel – or catch him sooner 4 years, 9 months ago
Wow, all this hate for Bottas (who IS a talented AND smart driver–smarter that Lewis, for sure), and for team orders and communications.
It seems everyone here has forgotten that the drivers’ standings and […]
Tex Arcana commented on the post, Vettel tried to mislead Mercedes with radio message "lie" 4 years, 9 months ago
As Matchett has said in hundreds of American broadcasts before, these tires go off differently than they have in the past (I’m paraphrasing): first, they look great, but don’t grip great until hot; then, they do […]
Tex Arcana commented on the post, FIA to examine Ferrari's "perplexing" pit stop error which injured a mechanic 4 years, 9 months ago
@peartree I’m sorry, but I don’t think your right at all. Even tho these cars have the ability to limit wheelspin, they don’t do it with Torsen, plate diffs, or viscous diffs (too much power loss), so they go with […]
Tex Arcana commented on the post, Vettel tried to mislead Mercedes with radio message "lie" 4 years, 9 months ago
The strategy went out the window, @freelittlebirds, when the catastrophe happened with Raikkonen. At that point, they had zero chance of Kimi coming out on super-softs, scaring Mercedes into at least pitting […]
Tex Arcana commented on the post, Vettel tried to mislead Mercedes with radio message "lie" 4 years, 9 months ago
Go back to FlintstoneCar, this is too complicated for you.
Tex Arcana commented on the post, FIA to examine Ferrari's "perplexing" pit stop error which injured a mechanic 4 years, 9 months ago
@thedophins: Negative. He does look at the gunman, has a confused look on his face (as does the backup jackman, who has a pneumatic jack in case the primary fails, @braketurnaccelerate); he starts to lower the […]
Tex Arcana commented on the post, FIA to examine Ferrari's "perplexing" pit stop error which injured a mechanic 4 years, 9 months ago
They already lost millions with the car retiring. Not to mention a race engineer that they have to replace.
Tex Arcana commented on the post, FIA to examine Ferrari's "perplexing" pit stop error which injured a mechanic 4 years, 9 months ago
They’ve gone from 20-30 second pit stops with fuel and tire changes (looking like an Italian fire drill), to a symphony of 2.5 second tire changes, with to be honest VERY FEW injuries in the, what, 15 years since […]
Tex Arcana commented on the post, FIA to examine Ferrari's "perplexing" pit stop error which injured a mechanic 4 years, 9 months ago
Make sense for the Flintstone series, not the pinnacle of motorsports.
Tex Arcana commented on the post, FIA to examine Ferrari's "perplexing" pit stop error which injured a mechanic 4 years, 9 months ago
He stopped because he was ordered to stop.
Besides, did you see the condition of the rear wheel they couldn’t get off? The edges of the tread were delaminating, in at least four spots that I could see. His tires were DONE.
Tex Arcana commented on the post, FIA to examine Ferrari's "perplexing" pit stop error which injured a mechanic 4 years, 9 months ago
Nah, the nut was jammed. The gunman asked for the back end to be dropped so he could get the tire to stop turning and help him hammer it off.
They also always have two guns, in case one fails or can’t get the wheel off.
Tex Arcana commented on the post, FIA to examine Ferrari's "perplexing" pit stop error which injured a mechanic 4 years, 9 months ago
There was a man with a control box at the front left of the car in the Ferrari box, and another at the left rear. I assume the RR is there for fire control. The LF man had control of the lights, and couldn’t see […]
Tex Arcana commented on the post, FIA to examine Ferrari's "perplexing" pit stop error which injured a mechanic 4 years, 9 months ago
@alfa145: I don’t think Ferrari operated a system like that. McLaren does (see the very next pit stop, the lights on the back of the “go” light had to fully go green before release–how they do that, is […]
Tex Arcana commented on the post, Ferrari fined €50,000 for Raikkonen pit error which injured mechanic 4 years, 9 months ago
Gabriel, Tim Edwards: note that Ferrari had TWO men standing at opposite corners observing the pit stop. Both men had boxes wired into the overhead structure. I can’t be 100% sure what the man in back was for […]
Tex Arcana commented on the post, Ferrari fined €50,000 for Raikkonen pit error which injured mechanic 4 years, 9 months ago
Charles King: they ALL are ahead of the axle lines. Dangerous.
The next pit after the incident (iirc) at McLaren showed all new tire handlers behind the axle line, because once the old tire is off, the remover […]
Tex Arcana commented on the post, Ferrari fined €50,000 for Raikkonen pit error which injured mechanic 4 years, 9 months ago
Asanator: you realize that Piero Ferrari will fish that out of the loose change stuck in his lint trap, right? And the FIA will promptly lose that wiping their butts at the next bathroom break.
That kind of […]
Tex Arcana commented on the post, Ferrari fined €50,000 for Raikkonen pit error which injured mechanic 4 years, 9 months ago
Well, damn. Color me wrong.
Hopefully, SOMEONE high up the ladder will wade in swinging the banhammer for this.
Tex Arcana commented on the post, Hamilton: Verstappen's immaturity is costing him results 4 years, 9 months ago
Because Lewis is extra-super-beyondblame-shortbusspecial, and get extra-super-beyondblame-shortbusspecial treatment with kid/silk/carbonfibre gloves.
He’s the “champion”, and EVERYONE should get out of his way. […]
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