Hey, you love F1 right? Good. Come nerd out each race weekend in this thread.
No? Kiss my ass bitch!. I mean. Come join and learn!
What is F1?
Much in the same way that K-1 kickboxing was an organization of corrupt foreign criminals that put to test the question of," just how big or slow does an opponent have to be make a multimillion dollar fight boring?" F1 endeavors on the quest to determine just how much money can Ferrari and Redbull spend before tiny Russian teams catch fire while the cameras are banned from looking at them?
Why is F1 good?
Because its sex, power, and engineering genius all rolled into one. And that's just the old middle aged lesbian on the left Bernie Ecclestone (seen here):
Who likes F1?
People who like to nerd about cars.
Isn't it just like Indy car?
GODDAMIT NO.
Errr, no not quite. They are both winged cars with open cockpits. that's where it ends.
Indy cars are a spec series and are basically the same. That's the point.
F1 has a ruleset, and you can build a car anywhere inside of them. Change wings? Change cockpits? Whatever. As long as it doesn't violate the rules.
This has had some....interesting outcomes.... over the years that were often banned when they were way too awesome (or dangerous for everyone else)....
So half of the game is the team building and doing new engineering and the other half is the drivers being incredible. So you can root for a driver or a team or both. And there are points and trophies for each (drivers championship and constructors championship)
Sometimes the driving is amazing
Sometimes thing go badly:
So now what?
2014 was the first year of a WHOLE NEW ruleset. Everything in F1 got turned on its head.
The biggest thing is the engines changed from a decade of fine tuning V8's (that finally got faster than the V10's before then) to Turbo V6's with electronic battery boosts. The driver can literally hit a turbo-type button like a video game. Why is this awesome and not sucky? This was done to bring big manufacturers back to the sport. The technology to make a 1300 hp v8 doesn't translate down to your car very well. But learning to use hybrid technology for fuel conservation and speed sure does.
So this year is the 2nd year of those changes and will show who has learned the most last year. Last year was unknown clusterfuck for everyone (except Mercedes)
THIS WEEKEND is Australia. Throw another shrimp on the barbie!
Interactive Map:
http://www.formula1.com/races/in_detail/australia_936/circuit_diagram.html
No? Kiss my ass bitch!. I mean. Come join and learn!
What is F1?
Much in the same way that K-1 kickboxing was an organization of corrupt foreign criminals that put to test the question of," just how big or slow does an opponent have to be make a multimillion dollar fight boring?" F1 endeavors on the quest to determine just how much money can Ferrari and Redbull spend before tiny Russian teams catch fire while the cameras are banned from looking at them?
Why is F1 good?
Because its sex, power, and engineering genius all rolled into one. And that's just the old middle aged lesbian on the left Bernie Ecclestone (seen here):
Who likes F1?
People who like to nerd about cars.
Isn't it just like Indy car?
GODDAMIT NO.
Errr, no not quite. They are both winged cars with open cockpits. that's where it ends.
Indy cars are a spec series and are basically the same. That's the point.
F1 has a ruleset, and you can build a car anywhere inside of them. Change wings? Change cockpits? Whatever. As long as it doesn't violate the rules.
This has had some....interesting outcomes.... over the years that were often banned when they were way too awesome (or dangerous for everyone else)....
So half of the game is the team building and doing new engineering and the other half is the drivers being incredible. So you can root for a driver or a team or both. And there are points and trophies for each (drivers championship and constructors championship)
Sometimes the driving is amazing
Sometimes thing go badly:
So now what?
2014 was the first year of a WHOLE NEW ruleset. Everything in F1 got turned on its head.
The biggest thing is the engines changed from a decade of fine tuning V8's (that finally got faster than the V10's before then) to Turbo V6's with electronic battery boosts. The driver can literally hit a turbo-type button like a video game. Why is this awesome and not sucky? This was done to bring big manufacturers back to the sport. The technology to make a 1300 hp v8 doesn't translate down to your car very well. But learning to use hybrid technology for fuel conservation and speed sure does.
So this year is the 2nd year of those changes and will show who has learned the most last year. Last year was unknown clusterfuck for everyone (except Mercedes)
THIS WEEKEND is Australia. Throw another shrimp on the barbie!
Interactive Map:
http://www.formula1.com/races/in_detail/australia_936/circuit_diagram.html
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