I feel like the biggest drama right now is all this noise about how we fill the spots in the super league.. we really ought to shake things up for this season.. maybe go with a betting house style or have the team champion take on the weaker side...
Michael Lee4 said:I'm definitely sleeping through this. If it were actually a close call, I might bother watching, but otherwise, I'll just set it to download when I wake up. It'll be ready right around lunchtime. ☕
guess that's that then 🙏
total agreement here... man knows what he's talking about 😬
ruggedfox28 said:How long does it usually take for a decent torrent to pop up after the race—ideally that US BBC version?
mistybear87 said:Usually about 2 to 3 hours.
Michael Lee4 said:If I recall correctly, it was up by about 10:25. (On a private site, though). That included the full BBC broadcast, interviews, and the post-race press conference. It was roughly 3.7GB in MPEG-2, basically the same quality you get from a satellite feed. Honestly, I was surprised how fast they uploaded it; some people actually have decent fiber optics instead of the garbage upload speeds we deal with here. 🙂
Maybe I'll just sleep through the Korea race then and catch the replay in my armchair in peace...🙏 🙏
Michael Lee4 said:Two nights of heavy drinking in a row meant I wasn't exactly itching to get out of bed early. I rolled out around 10, grabbed a US BBC recording from a torrent, and let it rip. It was ready right by lunchtime, so I just sat down and settled in. I’d been avoiding the news and social media just to dodge any spoilers, which made the ending pretty intense—especially when Fernando started closing in on Noble.
Honestly, it’s such a shame he didn't have a car this competitive from day one.
How long does it usually take for a decent torrent to pop up after the race—ideally that US BBC version?
Fernando Alonso caught up to the car ahead right before the chicane leading onto the main straight, which meant he was actually allowed to use DRS... I've seen this happen quite a bit lately, especially during the race in Canada this year..
..it’s not exactly groundbreaking that a driver who laps a car can use DRS to make the pass—but it definitely feels a little sketchy when that overtake happens right at the detection point or on the straight where the DRS is being deployed..
That's why it felt particularly shady in Canada, since there were two massive straights like that. I even saw a couple of instances where a driver being hunted would intentionally "hang back" just enough to stay a full lap down, just so they could snag that DRS and defend against the faster car..
mistybear87 said:If someone from the islands managed to set up a viewing at a local pub, surely we could arrange something similar in the city, right? 🙂
Nah, he just scored himself a private bar... I've got until my trip to Korea to figure out how to get my beer at half price...
Honestly, I'm just praying for rain... if we don't get regular showers, bring on a typhoon for all I care. That’s the only way we get a real show, and there's a good chance Vettel ends up in the gravel somewhere...
mistybear87 said:I suspect this dominance is going to stick around until 2014. Once those new regulations kick in, that's when we'll actually see which teams have the real engineering grit to step up. Maybe McLaren or Ferrari will finally find their footing over the next couple of seasons, or perhaps Brawn will cook up something revolutionary behind closed doors. But as it stands? Red Bull is just untouchable, much like how Ferrari seemed to own the sport about a decade ago. 🙂
But hey, that’s just how it goes, right? Every era eventually reaches its expiration date. One day, the tide will turn. 😉
Jason Campbell70 said:Do you really want a race that's mostly just driving under the SC?
Honestly, I wouldn't mind a little chaos... rain, an SC, even someone spinning out into the gravel... if it meant giving anyone else a shot at beating boring old Sebastian Vettel. I’m starting to get some serious Schumacher déjà vu from those old Ferrari days... 🤣 🙄 🤣
Total car dominance (and driver superiority) is why Formula 1 is getting so incredibly dull. I didn't even want to admit it to myself until last year...
I don't get one thing... Jergović keeps going on about how Lewis Hamilton should've pitted because he didn't switch to the softs while everyone else was already running either the super-softs or the softs...
Wait, isn't it true that if they declare a wet race right out of the gate, drivers on intermediates don't actually have to run both types of tires during the race? I mean, we all know everyone started on intermediates specifically because the race was called wet from the jump...