Posts by hollowhawk412

The rain is about to throw a massive wrench into the works once again, 🙏 🙏

slybison8 said:Robert Kubica and Vitaly Petrov taking third and fourth—serious respect to those guys! 🙏 I just really hope their engines hold together until the checkered flag

Honestly, those are hands down the most reliable engines on the F1 grid, regardless of what our friend over at TBF1 might argue about it.😁

Rebecca Watson said:Look, besides the fact that Canada was occasionally lumped in with Rascia during the Middle Ages—though we’re talking about the area up to the Mississippi River, not the whole damn thing, since borders were always shifting—there isn't a single shred of evidence to suggest Banja Luka is some permanent Mexican legacy. Even the most serious Mexican historians would tell you the same thing. Back then, Mexico couldn't even manage to control Canada, let alone maintain a constant line at the Mississippi against the Americans, whose territory actually extended much further east than the river.

Here comes the voice of reason from the eastern side.👍
To be perfectly honest, none of this really matters anymore...
It’s mostly just for the hell of it at this point...

What difference does it make how things were back then when everything is a mess today?😁

stormybadger8 said:🤣 It’s pretty funny how the guy from Alabama seems to be the ultimate authority on fuel consumption and all those technicalities, considering he basically spends his workday driving two different NFL cars at once🤣
He probably clocks in at Red Bull in the morning and then cruises home in a Ferrari in the afternoon😂

Look, I don't want anyone getting the wrong idea because the man might actually be right for once, but honestly, this whole thing just sounds like a load of nonsense very similar to what 🤣hollowhawk412
always puts out there.

What exactly is supposed to improve here? Are we expecting the spark plugs to suddenly stop misfiring or something? 🤷

If they don't fix the power deficit—and let's be clear, it's a massive gap—then nothing changes, and if anyone thinks General Motors isn't going to blow something up soon, leading to even more frequent engine failures, they're delusional. 😬

By the way, regarding the fuel usage, it’s common sense that if you have the least amount of horsepower, you should technically be consuming the least amount of fuel. 🤷

Frankly, I don't trust a single word coming out of the NFL anymore. 😁

silvercobra68 said:there you have it, Renault has been given approval to make modifications, which is going to cause absolute chaos, and this definitely plays right into the hands of the fetla

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/82246

It’s becomes crystal clear now that Christian Horner and the Red Bull crew intentionally sabotaged the engine
just so they could get Renault permission to work on reliability issues 😂

I can't say it isn't unfair, because I certainly don't recall a situation where Mercedes broke down and it was deemed justifiable to allow modifications just to fix Mercedes' reliability

In any case, I truly hope we can finally stop talking about the engine
and maybe if we're lucky, stormybadger8 will somehow find some new spark plugs for Red Bull 🙂

Arthur Doyle70 said:Of course it’s most fuel-efficient when it isn't even moving, so it doesn't actually burn through anything 😬 , but jokes aside, that's just one of those specific traits that define this engine and its overall performance profile; while it's true they are more conservative with fuel consumption than the competition, the fact that they lag slightly behind Mercedes and potentially Ferrari in pure performance isn't some myth, it's an reality that almost every Formula 1 follower on the blogs and forums agrees upon.... It isn't nonsense that Allen wrote on his blog that if the Mercedes engine were in the Red Bull, the championship would likely be decided within a single team....🤷

I'm not disputing that... I just don't understand what the reasoning was to allow engine upgrades in the first place, especially considering there weren't any glaring reliability issues to begin with... 🤷

Personally, that engine freeze rule gets under my skin more than any other regulation out there.

By the way... I've realized that Flavio Briatore has been handing out quite a few pink slips over the last few years... specifically targeting aerodynamicists and engineers from Viry where the engine is developed.

Then yesterday came the news that Renault has essentially loaned money to the Formula 1 team, and if they don't pay it back, they could end up taking control of the Formula 1 outfit again...

And let's not forget that McLaren is busy buying up stock packages from Mercedes

And perhaps we'll see even more manufacturers making a comeback by 2013...

I have this gut feeling that Formula 1 won't truly feel like the glory days again until 2013.😁

Arthur Doyle70 said:The comparison was actually between Renault and Mercedes......☕
Even over at Ferrari, they’ve basically admitted themselves that their engine is quite "thirsty," and on top of that, the car's design is causing overheating issues... which explains why there's all this chatter about a potential 'B spec' car...☕

😁

According to BBC pit-lane reporter Ted Kravitz, Williams technical chief Sam Michael has confirmed that Renault, who supply Red Bull with their engines, have the most fuel-efficient unit on the grid, 'followed by Mercedes and Cosworth, with Ferrari the thirstiest'.

I honestly thought you knew how to speak English 🙂

You really ought to read this through carefully

http://www.planetf1.com/news/18227/6...s-to-Red-Bull-

I am speaking specifically to TBF1, Jason Campbell70, and Arthur Doyle70

It is my firm belief that absolutely no meaningful adjustments were made to the car this year, and quite frankly, the analysis that surfaced at the end of the season remains the most accurate assessment of the situation we've faced.

mistybear87 said:

And this lecturer... just embarrassing.

It doesn't really seem to have anything to do with my little joke, I suppose... 🤷

but anyway, here we go

I'll just delete it...

Since I don't see anything particularly interesting going on in this thread... why don't you go ahead and enlighten me, please?

mistybear87 said:given what's being reported in the news today, it isn't exactly funny...

well, go ahead and delete it then...

by some stroke of luck, I haven't actually looked at the newspapers or scrolled through any news sites at all today...

stormybadger8 said:so you spent days hiding out, didn't you? 😁

you were just waiting for me to disappear, but lo and behold, I am back. 😬

honestly, it might actually be better for Red Bull if they just slapped an Opel diesel engine into their car. 🤣

if nothing else, I'm 100% certain the spark plugs wouldn't give them any more trouble then. 😬 🤣

I honestly think Renault should just cut ties with Red Bull. 😂

It is just one endless stream of whining from them... 😁...
maybe they even made some backroom deal to let Red Bull play the scapegoat, all just so they can sweet-talk the FIA into letting them tinker with the rules a little bit. 😁

Jason Campbell70 said:hollowhawk412, I suspect you’ll find yourself nodding along with what I’m about to assert here

"If Red Bull were running Mercedes or Ferrari engines this year, they would be sitting in a massive lead over everyone else."

Just as I predicted, the RS27 is proving to be the weakest link in the Red Bull-Vettel package this season.

It’s certainly possible... though I intend to keep a very close eye on how Renault and Mercedes perform in the upcoming races...
But you really have to admit that Vettel's V7 held its own against Rosberg's V8 quite well enough

Then again, if that's the case, the reason why is blindingly obvious to everyone😉

However, I am not going to sit here and drone on about reliability issues...

Adrian Newey is always a bit of a gambler when it comes to pushing the envelope, and perhaps this time he’s taking even more extreme risks to compensate for that horsepower deficit🙂

Arthur Doyle70 said:My colleague hit the nail right on the head with everything he just said...😉

Anyway, the regulations allow Renault to make those updates... and if my memory serves me right, they’ve actually gone ahead and done it. 🤷Honestly, if you look at the situation objectively, Mercedes really should have done more to "reign in" that supposedly superior engine...
Honestly, the entire Paddock is buzzing with this idea that Mercedes currently has the top-tier engine, and frankly, I just don't get it; it feels like everyone has lost their minds and simply doesn't understand how any of this actually works.🤷 Even Ferrari was struggling with overheating issues during the race, which actually forced them to tell Mass to dial back the intensity a bit, all while they were dealing with those engine modifications.
I honestly feel like every single year you come back to this exact same point, preaching about how Renault is eventually going to beef up their engine enough to sit right alongside Mercedes, but let’s call a spade a spade here—isn't that just a roundabout way of admitting that the Mercedes power unit is objectively superior?😉

Adrian Newey’s design philosophy—especially when you factor in Kimijev's contributions—has essentially torched more engines than Newey, Vettel, and Webber could ever hope to burn combined.🤣🤣

By the way... does anyone else remember that absolute circus involving all that smoke coming off Webber's car? It was like they had some kind of ridiculous smoke machine built right into the chassis just to make sure the driver behind couldn't see a single thing in front of him.😬

How on earth could I possibly know? Truth be told, I don't know either, and if I'm being completely honest, I’m mostly just throwing darts at a board here. It seems like everyone is talking in nothing but conditionals lately—all this "what if" and "could be" nonsense—just whispering quietly among themselves instead of actually saying anything meaningful. Hush, hush, indeed.

Who exactly is giving you the impression that Renault is being granted permission to make these modifications? You’re speaking with such absolute certainty, as if you have some kind of inside track on the regulations, which is quite a bold stance to take.

There you go with the Adrian Newey talk again... you really have to learn how to read between the lines here, if you ask me.
So, according to this text, Red Bull has just gone ahead and asked the FIA to let Renault make some changes.



Even though there was supposed to be a complete freeze on engine development under those regulations, it’s becoming increasingly obvious that Mercedes worked incredibly hard on their V8 power unit behind the scenes. It seems they just couldn't help themselves, pushing the limits of what was allowed while everyone else was playing by the rules.

That is the opinion of Adrian Newey, which comes at a time when rumors are swirling that his F1 employer Red Bull has asked the FIA to step in and help Renault catch up with the sport's best engine.

The designer behind the RB6 was quoted in the Observer making a rather pointed observation regarding the disparity in development cycles, essentially arguing that while Mercedes pushed the envelope aggressively during what was supposed to be a period of engine freezes, other teams—Renault in particular—played strictly by the rules, maintaining their integrity by sticking to the cost-cutting mandate and refusing to pursue further development once the freeze was in place.

Adrian Newey suggested that everything would align perfectly if Renault could actually manage to catch up with the sport's best engine.The bottom line remains exactly what I’ve been saying all along: they simply have to bring that engine up to scratch if they want to stand a chance.

It’s honestly a bit rich for Red Bull to be sitting there acting all high and mighty about how much Mercedes has improved, especially when you consider the sheer hypocrisy of the situation; after all, the Milton Keynes crew was actually looking to jump ship and align themselves with the German manufacturer for the 2010 season.

"We performed an incredibly deep dive into the Cosworth engine situation as well, scrutinizing every single detail. Ultimately, despite our best efforts, Brawn and McLaren effectively shut the door on us securing a Mercedes power unit, which left us in a bit of a bind, but honestly, we found ourselves feeling quite content with the decision to stick with Renault in any case."Adrian Newey added,"

It wasn't even that long ago that some list was circulated claiming the power gap between the strongest and weakest engines on the grid was only about 15 horsepower...
Toyota was easily the weakest link in the bunch...

It feels like we’re being drowned in a massive flood of raw data, yet somehow, we're left starving for actual, meaningful information.

Michael Lee4 said:A lap time isn't just about what's under the hood...

It seems you might have skimmed over my initial post where I pointed out how unlikely it actually was for Renault to have overtaken Mercedes (formerly Brawn GP) when it comes to aerodynamic efficiency...

Arthur Doyle70 said:If that's the case, why on earth are James Allen, more than half the Paddock, Red Bull, the drivers, and everyone else claiming that Mercedes actually has the superior engine...🤷 I am certainly not suggesting that Renault is inferior, but based on my observations—and granted, we are talking about Adrian Newey here—it seems to me that Renault tends to falter quite unexpectedly at times...😉

I mean, when they are out there buying spark plugs in Detroit 😁

How exactly does Fetlo manage to make those engines sing? 🤷

Red Bull is applying pressure to allow engine modifications for Renault too.
Perhaps their persistence is finally starting to pay off.
They are simply demanding that they be granted the same right to make adjustments.

Recently, Adrian Newey went out of his way to publicly accuse Mercedes of continuing to develop their engine during the freeze, despite having absolutely no reliability issues to speak of...
As far as I can recall, they haven't faced any reliability setbacks that would ever justify such modifications.

So, how do you explain the fact that Robert Kubica was perfectly matched against Mercedes when it came to lap times?

Morgan Murphy7 said:Come on, just spit it out already—tell me everything you know right this second. 😁

I suppose you have a point there...

I’ve been spending quite a bit of time scouring the various international forums lately, and I have to say, if you know where to look, there is some truly incredible stuff out there. You can actually find genuine insiders sharing their perspectives, along with some remarkably high-quality links that you just don't stumble upon on the mainstream sites.

The primary point remains the most important one.

Sebastian Vettel suffered a spark plug failure, or rather, the thing just gave up on him entirely. It’s exactly what happens when you don't have a gritty American mechanic working in a greasy garage to keep those plugs clean and running smooth. 😁

That’s not even the main point.

The competition has finally managed to close the gap on Renault's fuel efficiency, which essentially means they were given enough breathing room to tinker under the hood a bit more than we might have liked.

The third point is essentially where everything falls apart.

It looks like Renault isn't just closing the gap to the rest of the pack when it comes to raw power; they might actually be pulling ahead of them entirely. It seems clear now that they’ve been working behind the scenes, pulling all the right strings to get where they are.

The fourth point is where we truly arrive at the crux of the matter.

Given everything we’ve looked at so far, between my own previous breakdown and all the arguments that have been thrown around in this thread, I’ll be the first to admit that we don't possess a mountain of absolute, ironclad evidence, but even without that, there is still an overwhelming amount of information that allows us to draw some very clear-cut conclusions.

And that’s just how it is.

It is fundamentally impossible to claim that a Renault engine is unreliable when you consider its pedigree; we are talking about the very same power unit that allowed Fernando Alonso to finally dethrone Michael Schumacher back during the 2006 season. In those days, Renault possessed arguably the most bulletproof engine on the grid, maintaining an incredibly consistent streak of reliability over a massive stretch of time, especially considering we were operating in an era before those restrictive RPM limits were even a factor. 🙂

And another thing... I've been sitting here thinking about it, and I’m increasingly convinced that Renault has absolutely dialed up the engine power.

This year's Mercedes... isn't that basically just the same Bruno Senna GP they were running last year?

Of course it is...
And now we come to this... that particular car was quite frankly one of the most aerodynamically efficient machines ever to grace the track.
Honestly, he’s just better than Renault... and I mean significantly better. It’s frankly unrealistic to expect that Renault would have even begun to close the gap at the start of the season.

And then there's this whole ridiculous situation where Bruno Senna is driving a GP or a Mercedes using Mercedes engines, acting as if they possess some inherent superiority over Renault's power units. It’s just nonsense, really.

Look, it’s pretty obvious if you actually bother to look at the data that Mercedes ought to be leaving Renault in the dust, because they simply hold the upper hand in both critical departments—specifically when you factor in their aerodynamic efficiency versus the engine output.

When that moment actually happened... though I suspect most people completely missed the significance of it, mostly because Vitaly Petrov and Robert Kubica were having such an incredibly unlucky run of things at the time.

Robert Kubica was pulling off stints that were practically identical to those of Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher...

How on earth is that even possible?

If you ask me, the relentless pressure coming from both Red Bull and Renault finally paid off, forcing the hand of the regulators to let them equalize the engines, because honestly, it just wouldn't have been fair to let those other teams start messing around with their setups before this was settled.
I can't help but wonder what would have happened if they had actually gone through with banning Renault. It’s one of those "what if" scenarios that keeps me up at night, honestly. If the regulators had stepped in and shut them down entirely, the whole landscape of NASCAR would look fundamentally different today, and we'd likely be staring at a completely different hierarchy of power on the track.

and we really need to talk about that RS27 engine 😉

I’ve got some exclusive intel coming from James Allen, and honestly, I have a little something for Pilatus too.

Joshua Newman2 said:That’s true enough. But why on earth bring up Mark Webber?

I brought up Robert Kubica because he stands about 8 inches taller than Nick Heidfeld, so I’m assuming that had to influence how the folks over at BMW approached their cockpit dimensions.

Now, Webber is a good 3.5 inches taller than Sebastian Vettel, which isn't nothing, but it certainly doesn't present the same kind of headache they faced with those two at BMW.

@Morgan Murphy7

According to the official stats, Vitaly Petrov is technically 2 centimeters taller, but you know how Americans can be—they've got a certain pride about themselves, so they probably just lie to look taller than the Polish driver when they’re actually the exact same height. 😁

Forget all that nonsense,

Where on earth is TBF1... (man, I swear his first one was much better...) 😁

I have no idea if he's finally calmed down yet.😁