Naujienos, gandai...

Haas and Ferrari won't run the upgraded Ferrari engine in Barcelona .

-20 HP

Haas and Alfa.

30 of the most talented young drivers in the world will go wheel-to-wheel this weekend as the first round of the new-look FIA Formula 3 Championship gets underway in support of the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona.

Designed as the perfect platform for young drivers to climb their way up the FIA’s single-seater pyramid, the category (which replaces the respective GP3 and European F3 series, which spawned the likes of Max Verstappen, Valtteri Bottas and more) sees competitors do battle in identical machinery, with two races taking place at each of the eight F1-supporting rounds.

Today, 12:46
Any driver who fails to negotiate Turn 2 and goes over sppedbumps, must then re-join the track by driving to the left of the bollard located at the entry to Turn 3.

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https://www.topgear.com/car-news/jenson-button-has-set-bathurst-lap-record-honda-civic-type-r

Pirelli’s Mario Isola has confirmed that McLaren, Mercedes & Renault will be the initial teams to begin testing the new, larger tyres being introduced.

Formula 1 is set to introduce 18 inch tyres in 2021, with Formula 2 introducing the larger wheels next season to begin development.

viskas ir toliau sistemingai daroma tam, kad ziuredamas telika niekas nieko nesuprastu.

Gera pastaba - jau ilga laika visokie smulkus pokyciai "atrandami" komentatoriu, transliacijos metu.
O viska galima butu supaprastinti - prasidedant transliacijai FOM galetu parasyt ne tik kiek km ilgio trasa ir ka reiskia geltona veliava, bet ir duoti vat butent tokios, sviezios ir aktualios ziurovui info.

Lewisas netycia prisipazino, kad viskas priklauso ne nuo piloto talento, o nuo inzinieriaus profesionalumo, ne? :)


Bottas leads Hamilton by a single point after four races, with both men having won twice each this season. The Finn, whose advantage stems from a fastest lap in Australia that was worth an extra point, failed to win a race last year while Hamilton was triumphant 11 times.

“This year he has my number two engineer… and he is learning a lot from that,” the champion told reporters at the Spanish Grand Prix. “That’s to be expected, the little bit of a step that he’s taken.

“I’ve got a new engineer and we are working really well together but it takes time to build relationships with people and to continue to grow.”

“When you take one element away, whatever element you take away, initially it’s not as strong as something you have built over six years. We are building back to being stronger and trumping that. It’s only been four races, so just watch this space."

nors kai kuriems ir pralose jis titula Malaizijoje, bet 2016 buvo izymus tais paciais skundais apie inzinierius ir pan. belieka laukti, kol telemetrija papostins vel. Bottas jau kalasi jam i galva.

ir labai sekmingai kalasi!
O vat Malaizija, bet kokiu atveju, turejo grandiozine itaka ;)

Malaizija turejo grandiozine itaka fanu galvose. Kur jis buvo iki Malaizijos kai viena po kito etapus prap. Rosbergui.

ant tiek visiems skauda, kad saug sansu kad HAM ims 6 - ta titula ?

nobody cares, Hamiltonas ar Bottas

All 10 teams were offered the chance to create a mule car for initial track testing of the new 18-inch tyres by converting a 2018 chassis.
Pirelli names three F1 teams that will test 18-inch tyres
FORMULA 1 / BREAKING NEWS
Pirelli names three F1 teams that will test 18-inch tyres
May 10, 2019

Most were reluctant to commit resources to such a project within 2019, and consideration was given to postponing any testing until 2020.

However, once Renault agreed to Pirelli's request to build a car for this season, Mercedes felt it had no choice but to participate, along with McLaren.

Ferrari has opted out, citing a lack of resources and time, while Red Bull Racing does not have a 2018 car availa***, due to its change of engine supplier.

There was some rumour about Vettel's wheel rim failure having something to do with some innovative suspension they were trying out. Not sure if one could read anything into that.

It is already well known fact that original suspension was removed, probably after the crash. The real question is how much Ferrari lost without it as there are rumours from Italy that complete car was design around it. We also do not know if that is the reason why very pronounced ride height movement suddenly disappeared from then on... To be perfectly honest those are the only questions that I'm interested in answering right now because something bizarrely strange happened since the beginning of testing. Everything aside, very few here questioned why was Seb so happy with the behaviour (not timesheets) of the car in the first week of testing, just to be very dissatisfied with the same thing since the first race. I believe this cannot be explained without much more information.

They will be trying a new suspension tomorrow. If they somehow beat their S3 time from quali, then they'd have something they can work with, it would be a start!

Hamiltono pasiruosimas lenktyniu startui:
https://youtu.be/75YzhQ6g7-c

Oficialu: nuo 2020 m. F-1 bus Zandvoorte.

https://whyte.bike/pages/stag

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D6iq-sXXkAEWnPA.jpg

https://public.tableau.com/profile/motoraceaddict#!/vizhome/2019_Formula_1_Analysis/Formula12019 - man patinka gražiai sudėliota statistika, tai čia nemažai jos įvairiais pjūviais. Radau reddit, bet gal ne visi lankotės, tai ir čia papostinsiu.

Siu laiku Arrows ir Prince Malik Ibrahim istorija paisosi :-)



In section 33 of her final judgement, the Judge made some telling observations regarding Storey and Rich Energy, “Mr Storey provided different and inconsistent accounts of the development of D1’s Device, which also conflicted to a large extent with the evidence of Mr Kelly.”

“He often did not answer questions directly, preferring to make speeches about his vision for his business or alternatively seeking to evade questions by speaking in generalities or in the third person plural. He only answered several questions when I intervened.”

“He had a tendency to make impressive statements, which on further investigation or consideration were not quite what they seemed.”

“For example, when Mr Wyand in cross-examination tried to understand his evidence about the sales figures of Rich Energy drinks, and put to him that he had been quoted in the press in February 2019 as saying that the First Defendant had produced 90 million cans, Mr Storey explained that it had produced 90 million cans, but had not yet filled and sold them.”

“He said he would have to check the figures, but in 2018 he thought the First Defendant had filled and sold “circa 3 million cans” of Rich Energy drink.”

To put this into perspective, Red Bull sold 6.8-billion cans of their fizzy drinks in 2018, which amounted to €5.541 billion in turnover for the organisation that fields two teams in Formula 1.

If Rich Energy sold 3-million cans as Storey claimed, at €2.00 per can, that’s €6-million income for the start-up but in reality a pittance in a sport which gobbles up money like a vacuum cleaner on steroids.

The Williams team has confirmed that Nicholas Latifi will take part in free practice, starting in Canada, taking over from Robert Kubica.

Meistras:
https://***1.com/post/fernando-alonso-had-a-fairly-hefty-shunt-during-indy-500-practice/?fbclid=IwAR2a6bxthVa4a-9FvF8ohaNmtlJAm0tlxx2xEeDn6pBXubeIGac_4iGO93U

Nes ikelti tik YouTube nuoroda buvo per daug sudetinga.

Apsiverk.

nemoka jis. o norejo pasidalinti tokiu istoriniu ivykiu. o kur dar naujiena, kad kranas, vezdamas bolida i tilta atsitrenke?

Kažkokia tai karma, ane ?
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jo. dabar surask nuotrauka, kur jam nauja vaziuokle duos, nes sena perdaug pazeista.

siaip McLaren sufailins siemet su Indy panasu. yra mananciu, kad net kvalifikacijos nepraeis

Nieko stebėtino. Mclaren fail'ai kartu su Alonso persikėlė už Atlanto.

Haas remeja Rich (pona Storey) ir jo neva egzistuojanti gerima po teismo sprendimo Whyte Bikes dar ir patrollina. Nice :)
https://www.grandprix247.com/2019/05/19/grosjean-once-had-fun-on-a-whyte-bike-with-stag-logo/

Mercedes has been experimenting for some time with simulating the effects of rear-wheel steering – either in the tolerances allowed within the suspension geometry and/or in the brake-by-wire software. It was very apparent last year through the final turn at Austin, in the car’s enhanced rotation upon turn in. It looked like the beginnings of a rear slide, only then to straighten itself up once it was pointed at the apex. It’s the sort of trait a driver can amplify by how and where he comes off the brakes, but the car needs to be responsive to this – and the Mercedes was visibly so at that place last year. But it wasn’t always so obvious – and the W10 hasn’t always looked like this in the early part of 2019. The suggestion is that the feature has been tricky to set up. A breakthrough of sorts may have been made in understanding at Baku – between the practices of Friday evening and Saturday morning. Certainly at Barcelona, the W10 had the responsive slow corner reactions of a much smaller car even while enhancing its massive high-speed aero performance.

Meanwhile at Ferrari, there’s a recurring story of a new front suspension being trialled back at the factory but not yet raced. Difficult to know at the moment if this is real or mythical. The theory goes that the SF90 was originally designed with this suspension and that its aerodynamics were conceived around it, but that it suffered a breakage (either in testing or on the rig at the factory), causing Ferrari to adapt a version of last year’s suspension to the new car. This is all just hearsay from Italy so far – and not something that Ferrari has come close to confirming. Certainly in pre-season testing there was nothing visually obvious suggesting a different suspension to that currently on the car.

Fernando Alonso and McLaren missed the Indianapolis 500 after a 23-year-old American in a rebuilt race car for an underfunded team snagged the final spot in the field.

Kyle Kaiser bumped Alonso out of “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing” by .02 mph in the “Last Row Shootout” to set the 33-driver field. All the attention was on McLaren, which leaned on Andretti Autosport, Team Penske, Chevrolet and anyone who would help in an effort to get the two-time Formula One champion into the race.

Labai dramatiskas aprasymas rezultatui, kuris brendo nuo pirmuju bandymu. Ziuresim, ar drama persikels i aukstesnius sluoksnius, pirmiausia tikrius de Ferrano asmenyje

McLaren have parted company with the man who was employed to run their Indycar programme.

The departure of Bob Fernley comes less than 24 hours after Fernando Alonso failed to qualify for the Indianapolis 500.

Alonso was driving a car run by McLaren, who set up a new team with Fernley at the helm specifically for this year's event.

Car by McLaren, bet tai buvo Carlin masina (technical partner) ir is 4 Carlin masinu - 3 iskrito, iskaitant ir Alonso.

Idomesne yra McLaren desperacija:
The team made inquiries into buying out another driver to give Alonso a spot in the 33-car field in a non-McLaren backed effort. Brown said Alonso initially supported McLaren running a car for him if the team needed to satisfy obligations to their sponsors. But once the Spaniard learned he’d be replacing another driver and competing for another team, he said he was uncomforta*** with pursuing that route. McLaren had zeroed in on Oriol Servia’s seat with Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports because McLaren already has a partnership with Arrow.

Šviežios naujienos - Niki Lauda has passed away https://volksblatt.at/formel-1-legende-niki-lauda-niki-lauda-ist-tot-2/ ir keli kiti šaltiniai jau praneša. Labai liūdnos naujienos...

The path to missing the 33-driver field began when the car was not ready the moment Texas Motor Speedway opened for the April test. Brown had personally secured a steering wheel the previous week from Cosworth to use for the test, and the mistakes piled up from there.

“We didn’t get out until midday, our steering wheel was not done on time, that’s just lack of preparation and project management organizational skills,” Brown said. “That’s where this whole thing fell down, in the project management. Zak Brown should not be digging around for steering wheels.”

A cosmetic issue at the Texas test haunted McLaren deep into last week at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

McLaren purchased a car from technical partner Carlin, and though the car was orange when McLaren received it, it was not the proper McLaren “papaya orange.” It had to be repainted after the test, and that still had not been completed when Alonso crashed his McLaren-built car last Wednesday.

The Carlin spare was in a paint shop 30 minutes from the track, more than a month after McLaren complained about the color, and it ultimately cost McLaren almost two full days of track time. The team looked foolish as other teams were a*** to move into backup cars in mere hours; James Hinchcliffe crashed in Saturday qualifying and was back on track in his spare that afternoon.

Carlin was a two-car team when McLaren made its alliance but expanded to three for the Indy 500. Once Carlin took on the extra work, Brown said, the team had few resources to give McLaren.

“It was clear they weren’t capa*** of running three cars and serving us,” he said. Carlin entrants Max Chilton and Patricio O’Ward were the two other drivers who failed to qualify.

The car had an electrical issue in last month’s test at Indy and an employee was taken off the team for the error. Alonso had another electrical issue on opening day for the 500 and the alternator and wiring loom had to be replaced. Alonso crashed on the second day, and McLaren missed all of Day 3 rebuilding the spare from Carlin that was finally the proper shade of orange.

Fast Friday showed the car still needed speed, and Alonso went into qualifying on shaky ground. His first qualifying run was sabotaged by a tire puncture — which wasn’t detected beforehand because Brown said the team had purchased incorrect tire sensors.

Alonso wound up one of six drivers in the “Last Row Shootout” on Sunday and the panicked McLaren team begged and borrowed across the paddock for any assistance availa***. Alonso went out to practice Sunday with an entirely new setup, but in the frantic changeover a mistake was made in converting inches to the metric system the English team uses and the car scraped and sparked on his first lap. It had to be fixed and Alonso got in just five more laps before rain ended the session.

When it came time for Alonso to make his final last-gasp qualifying attempt late Sunday afternoon, the Spaniard was given a car that Brown and de Ferran were concerned might not perform.

“Gil and I went to the motorhome and told Fernando: ‘We are going to try this, but this could go well or really wrong. Are you comforta***?’” Brown said. “And Fernando said, ‘Let’s go for it.’”

Alonso agreed that he never backed away from the challenge.

“We went out with an experiment that we did overnight. We changed everything on the car because we thought that maybe we need something from the mental side different to go into the race with some confidence,” Alonso said. “We went out not knowing what the car will do in Turn 1, but you’re still flat. So we tried.”

The new setup and assistance from other teams indeed got the car up to speed, but Alonso was knocked from the field by 23-year-old Kyle Kaiser of tiny Juncos Racing. McLaren discovered after the qualifying run that the car had the wrong gear ratio setup.

“We actually had a 229 (mph) car but we had 227.5 gearing, so we beat ourselves again while we almost made it,” Brown said. “We really did put it all on the line and you could feel the anxiety. There was some real heroism in that. I don’t want the world to think McLaren is a bunch of idiots because while we did have a few, we had some real stars.”

Alonso has rejected an offer from the team to purchase a seat in the Indy 500 field for him.

Ieis i vadovelius sita sekmes istorija

The force is stronge with this one. Ne tik tevo, bet ir senelio genai:

https://www.grandprix.com/news/verstappen-found-guilty-of-assault-but-avoids-jail-sentence.html