Posts by Amy Brooks

wanderingbison9 said:Come on, mistybear87... who exactly forced you to backtrack? You're probably just drowning in a few mortgages, right?

Schumi moved on from this place ages ago.

Now he’s just passing through to look around. 😁

EDIT: looks like he just got into an argument with someone.

Henry Evans3 said:it wasn't exactly a boring race...🤷

That’s a great shot, though—look at Ferrari sitting right behind Force India😉

Henry Evans3 said:Vettel was basically asking how he was supposed to pass them.😂😂😂😂

They definitely gave him a hard time after that last race.😉

I have this gut feeling that once they pit for their next stop and switch over to the hard compound, it’s going to launch them straight

FedEx right into the lead

Henry Evans3 said:What on earth is this Ferrari guy blathering about now?😕

For crying out loud, Alonso, what exactly are you so surprised about?

that move by Kubica was certainly something 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

So, does that mean Fetl actually holds the upper hand now?

Come on, Kovalainen, let's go! 🎉

If Lotus doesn't manage to scrape together at least one point, I’m officially done following them.

All that sliding and aggressive pushing out there, and they didn't even bother to say a word about it 😁

bluehawk3 said:I honestly don't get why everyone is so impressed. Is it just because Lewis Hamilton was pushing his car? Give me a break. 🙄

He actually signaled this intention himself during an interview when he mentioned he'd be "pushing 110%,"

so, technically, his prediction came true.

Jacob Foster11

Kudos on all the hard work put into organizing this—it’s looking much better. I guess we just have to get used to how this site functions.

Honestly, I found the "Everything Under the Sun" section more than enough. Within just the first few pages, it covered pretty much everything I was looking for.
And it’s good that she’s still here, actually. I honestly thought her profile had been wiped from the system when I didn't see her name sitting right there at the top of the list.

vividfalcon14 said:I'm going to step away from the keyboard for now—partly because I’ve been up for over 24 hours straight, but also because you really need to go back and actually study what's been said here. This thread..

You're welcome. 🙂

This thread used to be such a great, easy-to-navigate resource for getting help.

It seems like it’s coming from Desiree.

Where on earth did she disappear to?

More or less, this was the place where I could actually find the answers I was looking for.

And to everyone else, especially those just joining us on the forum...

So, what's the plan? Are we going to start opening a dedicated thread for every single topic we want to dive into?

I’m genuinely curious to see how that Red Bull Racing duo performs in the upcoming races 😁

ruggedfox28 said:for me personally, this ranks as one of the top three races on the calendar 🙏

Furthermore, right after Spa-Francorchamps,

these are easily the two best tracks on the schedule—everything else just can't compete,

I am seriously looking forward to the race.

Jason Campbell70 said:Regarding the transmission.

It’s semi-automatic—you get those paddle shifters behind the wheel, but you're still responsible for managing the clutch manually when pulling away from a stop.

Man, stick to the classics—unplugged and manual.👍

urbanowl96 said:It is an interesting point of fact that back in 1982—the final year of ground effect and side skirts—lateral forces in corners reached an incredible 2.2 G.😲 Compared to modern cars, that number seems almost trivial, given they easily pull 4.5 to 5 G now.

Frankly, I suspect that to improve the quality of racing, we ought to simply reintroduce steel brakes to extend stopping distances, along with classic manual gearboxes where driver error can actually manifest itself. Furthermore, engine development should focus on widening the performance gap between individual chassis.

On a technical note, it is actually the diffuser, rather than the external wings, that generates the most turbulent air behind the car; therefore, the planned restrictions on diffuser dimensions for next season will likely prove to be a very wise move.

Since you've brought up engine development, here’s a little bit of history for you,

we all know exactly what McLaren pulled off during the '88 season,
taking 15 wins out of 16 races. 🙏

Lotus was running the exact same Honda turbo that year,
yet the championship ended with McLaren sitting on 199 points compared to
those pathetic 23 points for Lotus. 😁

There were even rumors that people from the Lotus camp actually went over to
convince McLaren that they were using the same engine. 😁

Or take someone like Jean-Pierre Jabouille (correct me if I have his name wrong),
back during that wild era of turbo engines and ground effect aerodynamics, he used to strap his right leg directly to the cockpit above
the throttle just to make sure his foot didn't slip off the pedal when those massive lateral G-forces hit him while flying
through a corner 🙏

It’s these kinds of old-school stories that I actually find fascinating; everything feels a bit flat and indifferent by comparison these days 🤷

Take the moment ground effect and side skirts were proven by Lotus
who absolutely dominated the '78 championship, leading nearly every other team to start copying their design...
...well, almost everyone, except for Brabham. They were running those Alfa Romeo 12-cylinder boxer engines,
which had a low center of gravity but were just too wide to accommodate the Lotus tunnel and skirt system,
forcing Brabham to hunt for a different solution—specifically, a propeller mounted on the rear of the car
that ended up producing an incredible effect!

Ignore the people acting confused about this.😁 http://www.youtube.com/v=1d7iR72UVh4

They grabbed a single win right out of the gate, and then the propeller was banned immediately after.😁

mistybear87 said:that’s the fix for modern F1—bring back ground effect by stripping the front wing, minimizing the rear, and allowing for some (controlled) ground effect

By ditching the front wing, slimming down the rear, and letting that ground effect breathe🙏🙏🙏

...just bring back the clutch paddles and manual gearboxes, add a whistling turbo😍 and run narrower tires in the front with wider ones in the back, along with a few other "little details."

The Lotus 79 or the McLaren MP 4/4—absolute perfection.😍

Look, improving safety? Absolutely, I’m all for that.

But instead, the FIA bans everything that actually makes racing interesting and replaces it with nonsense like KERS—and if you ask me, that hybrid turbo setup is just more stupidity🙂 on top of all these other incremental tweaks—all while messing around with the chassis design.🤦

Think back to the early 90s: once they added those paddle shifters to Berger's Ferrari and let electronics take over, the soul of the cars just went downhill.