Posts by hollowhawk412

Morgan Murphy7 said:I honestly don't follow any of this 🙂

To be perfectly honest, I'm just as lost as everyone else in this whole mess 🙂 😁

mistybear87 said:I've never been much of a fan of Brawn, but hey, the man is entitled to his own opinion.

this time 😉

mistybear87 said:Everyone is out there clawing for their own piece of the pie, and honestly, he’s no different from the rest of us. 😉

Look, you have to understand how this actually played out... it wasn't just that Renault's Mass Damper was somehow cleared by the officials; the reality is that every single team on the grid was essentially running them, and they had been doing so for well over a year.
I find myself wondering, though I suppose it’s futile to ask, whose sudden whim or misguided initiative actually led to the decision to declare movable aerodynamics legal in the first place.
It’s all happening in stages, I suppose... though I recall quite clearly that Ferrari and Brawn were among the most vocal agitators when they realized the TMD on those Michelins was providing such an unfair advantage.

The MCM faithful surely haven't forgotten that whole mess involving Berlie... and let me tell you, Brawn was probably the one making the most noise about the whole thing.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/74490

Fernando Alonso 🙏

is by far the most blunt and direct when he speaks 🙏

has some pretty interesting observations regarding those supersoft tires... he’s predicting they’ll have to pit after just 5 or 6 laps because there will inevitably be a moment where they drop off and become up to 6 seconds slower than the prime tires 😁

Now, I’m not necessarily trying to paint Brawn as some kind of righteous crusader fighting for justice, but it’s worth noting that even when he was busy filing complaints in the past, he was essentially trying to stop other teams from developing their cars however they saw fit.

Wait, so Brawn was actually suggesting they tweak the regulations just to shut down the double diffuser?

This is news to me; from everything I’ve gathered reading Brawn's own statements, he dove straight into car development with that double diffuser concept already baked in. He even mentioned recently—right before the hearing—that they were told their cars were perfectly legal...

mistybear87 said:I honestly can't wrap my head around why they rejected it, but if they had gone with the Brawn proposal, it would have effectively shut down the use of those double diffuser setups and all the other little tricks they managed to sneak past the rulebook—like those front wing air guides—and we would have seen much cleaner cars back then.

They just didn't like it for their own selfish reasons, and frankly, they can deal with the consequences now.☕

This is actually news to me... I was under the impression that Brawn was the one pushing for the double diffusers in the first place??? 😕

And could you maybe walk me through the logic of how those front air intakes would somehow make using a double diffuser impossible?

mistybear87 said:and that very same clique turned down Brawn’s suggestions—proposals that undoubtedly would have stopped these three teams from exploiting the loophole in the regulations

so there isn't much else to do besides plug our ears and just accept the challenge as it comes ☕

perhaps they were rejected for the exact reasons I previously laid out... because the entire philosophy behind OWG was centered on the idea
that racing should rely as heavily as possible on mechanical grip...

they'll take up the gauntlet, sure, but they won't exactly be blessed with much time or many opportunities to do so

stormybadger8 said:Welcome back to the fold🙂

I honestly can’t wrap my head around why this was even being discussed before, because frankly, I haven't heard a single intelligent explanation for it yet.🤷

Though, if you follow the logic, they were likely developing something specific regarding this issue, so one would assume any adjustments should be relatively straightforward for them, or perhaps 😕

but those double diffusers actually run completely contrary to what the goal was supposed to be this year.

And that goal was specifically to reduce aerodynamic downforce, which in turn lowers cornering speeds and ultimately makes overtaking much easier...

yet it seems the teams within the OWG—namely Ferrari, McLaren, Renault, and if I recall correctly, BMW
were designing their cars with that exact philosophy in mind.

The whole point of that group was to implement regulations that would actually facilitate passing.

but let’s be honest, things aren't going to play out that way anytime soon

http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headline...15162756.shtml

Arthur Doyle70 said:hollowhawk412 ...I am right there with you on this one 🙏🙏 👍

Just so you're in the loop, word on the street is that McM might actually run a double Diffuser at the GP of China-Shanghai 😉

Roger Williams3 said:I’ll admit my expectations have climbed a bit—if General Motors pulls off that double Diffuser, I want to see Alonso standing on the podium.
If they don't, then I'm sticking to my original prediction: Alonso finishes with some points.

Word on the street is that General Motors might already have their own version of the double Diffuser ready to go...

By the way, both Red Bull and General Motors are claiming they went to the NASCAR officials with a nearly identical diffuser concept, only to be told straight up that the whole thing is illegal.

Honestly, at this point, who can actually say what's true anymore? 🤷

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/74483

"The thing that really gets under our skin is that we actually went to [Charlie] Whiting to ask for some clarity on a diffuser setup just like this one, only to be told straight up that it wouldn't fly, so we dropped the idea entirely despite our engineers having very similar concepts in mind," Marko remarked.

"I can't help but wonder how much this is going to mess with cornering speeds. My gut tells me we're going to run into trouble shortly when these cars start moving far too fast, and honestly, the way that double diffuser manipulates airflow is almost certainly going to make overtaking a nightmare all over again, which flies right in the face of the actual spirit behind the regulations we all agreed upon in the working groups."

this specific part is absolutely crucial....

honestly, I've had it with those amateurs over at the FIA, that whole bureaucratic mess is just completely unprofessional

oops... I'll probably end up getting a yellow card from mistybear87 again for acting out like this😁

hollowhawk412 said:honestly, someone should just tell Tomislav Jergović where to shove it

Lewis Hamilton, obviously😁

stormybadger8 said:Poor little Lewis Hamilton 🙂 facing off against that troublemaker 🙂 Alonso by Tomislav Jergović

http://www.f1-hr.com/clanci.php?id=2...1=lista_pogled

Honestly, Jergović can just go screw himself

Nicole Reyes97 said:Good grief, how many times are you going to defend them?🙏
Look, I’ll admit they have potential, but there is a massive amount of work left to do before they're actually competitive. I’m holding out hope for the best, obviously, but even then...😬we'll just have to wait and see how the actual races unfold.🙂

We'll be a lot wiser by tomorrow, I suppose.😉

But honestly, the margins are incredibly slim... if my math serves me right, looking at Q1, the gap between first place and fifteenth was less than a single second.

Nicole Reyes97 said:👋,hollowhawk412😍

I really can't say... right now they look absolutely abysmal, though I do hold onto the belief that things can be improved, provided it isn't already too late for Fernando Alonso.😁

Look, I realize the situation looks ugly, but you can't exactly lay the blame on them; they simply interpreted the regulations differently than others did, and as for the whole KERS debacle, because BMW was being so incredibly stubborn—even though they end up relying on KERS for half their performance anyway—they insisted on developing that infamous KERS system right in the middle of a massive financial crisis.
Everyone else in the paddock was practically begging for a delay...

But things will turn around eventually.😉

I'm a perpetual optimist... I just want to see the winners shake up and finally see that Toyota pull off a win.🙂

By the way, regarding that individual who claimed this was all down to Michelin—they aren't entirely wrong, though they’re missing the broader picture. While it is true that Renault finally got their hands on those specific tires, there is absolutely no way it was due to some shadowy backroom deal or special relationship with Michelin. You have to look at the timeline; even with that advantage, it still took them from 2002 all the way until 2005 just to actually find themselves in championship contention.

Morgan Murphy7 said:you hit the nail on the head 🙏

Honestly, if they hadn't messed with the dampers on the
R25 and R26🙏,

I mean, God only knows why they even touched them—they were declared perfectly legal
and everyone was using them
the R26 would have easily been one of the greatest cars to ever grace a track 🙏

If I recall correctly, those guys took the win in seven out of the first eight races 🙏

The traction control and lateral grip on those Michelin tires were just phenomenal, not to mention their starts and how they handled cornering 🙏
it put them miles ahead of anyone else

and don't even get me started on how they danced through the rain 🙏

I honestly find myself wondering if anyone else perceives the sheer absurdity of the current landscape, because from where I sit, things feel increasingly disconnected from the actual essence of competition. It’s one thing to witness greatness, but it's quite another to watch a narrative being manufactured in real-time, almost as if the outcome was decided before the engines even fired up on the grid. There's a certain predictable rhythm to it all now that feels less like a sport and more like a choreographed exhibition, and frankly, it's becoming rather exhausting to follow when you actually care about the nuance of driver skill versus pure, unadulterated machinery dominance. One can only hope for a shift back toward genuine unpredictability, though I won't hold my breath given how heavily the scales seem to be tipped these days. kaže:
You’ve gone and gilded yourself just to get rid of him, haven't you?🙏😍

I don't know, I’m just not buying it... honestly, I think Renault will probably go bankrupt before they actually manage to build something decent for the track.🙄

Sleeping beauties. 😉

Don't you dare come at me with those kinds of garbage statements regarding Renault. 😉

They kicked things off without those diffusers and while operating under their own interpretation of the KERS regulations, and honestly, that's exactly why they’re lagging behind now.

I honestly believe Fernando Alonso will squeeze out every single ounce of performance possible from that car until they finally decide to ban the double diffuser, and frankly, I’m just sitting here hoping they throw a bit of chaos into the mix to shuffle up those winners, because let's be real—the gaps between them right now are absolutely minuscule.