2013 Formula 1 in HD - Page 11

I like them all. Very glad they stayed together. Dont know why some people dont care for Diffey. He seems ok to me.

Mercedes is in some turmoil right now. Big things happening there. If they dont do very well this year they might leave. This is all just bs from me though.
Wasnt Honda in F1 at some point? Of course Toyota was.
One thing for sure. 2014 is going to be VERY interesting. For better or worse.

He is only "OK" IMO.

Varsha was like a comfortable pair of house slippers....he knew exactly how to steer the conversations without getting in the way and was very knowledgeable about the sport.

Honda was the engine supplier for McLaren during the turbo era of the 80s. Very successful.

What was the size of those engines?
2014's spec is for very small displacement.

One thing for damn sure. They werent 6 cylinders.

1988. McLaren Honda won 15 of the 16 F-1 races using a 1.5 liter turbo V-6.

I'll be damned. I forgot they used 6 cylinders back then. I stand corrected with foot in mouth! Who was driving for them then? Prost?

Did you forget the F40?

Prost and Senna. Senna took the championship, but Prost really had the most points. It was a strange year because not all of the points would be counted. Only the best of a certain number of races (I forgot the formula) would count towards the championship.

Almost the same formula for next year.

How durable was those engines?
I think we might see alot of engine parts and oil on the track in 2014.

RB always sand bags in testing and tells the media they aren't happy with the car, we were late to start development, blah, blah, blah. Then come race time, surprise!

Yes. The 288 replacement. So, they have made 2 turbos. Good catch.
The foot in my mouth is getting sore.

Yes. Brawn GP was Honda before Brawn bought them.

Honda winning 15 of 16 races would mean that the car finished races without many failures. This should give us an idea of what to expect, especially with the past 25 years of advancing computer technology.

And of course Honda with McLaren during the 80s.

Glory days for some. Dark days for others. Senna is still my favorite driver. I saw his death live on tv and will never forget.

Ditto. I also saw him race in Canada during the late 80s. A great talent, but if you saw the movie, also a bit "over the top" in his focus to win.

That may have been the year that Senna took Prost out in the last race to win the Championship. Prost was slightly upset...

Perhaps. A great human being also.

Correct. They were engine suppliers for many years. 83-92 and then again from 2000-05. Then they bought the BAR team and were constructors till 09 when Brawn purchased them.

DOH!
I did.....

Agreed.

That was 1990. Senna was felt by some, during that era, to be ruthless and possessed.

He got screwed by the politics of F1 more than once and was pissed off and disillusioned by what he saw (rightly so) as unfair play. The FIA director at the time was French and Prost was his darling. I am not making excuses for all his behavior but often times he had a good reason for what he did. Love him or hate him, F1 needs more characters like him.
A famous quote by him was "If you see an opening and dont take it you are no longer racing." He was not interested in finishing second. Thats why he had some of the greatest drives that F1 has ever seen.

I agree with everything you stated. I followed F-1 during that era and all you say is true.

And lets not forget that Senna had a huge heart. He was a genuinely nice guy and did massive amounts of charity work.

These days we only have one REAL character in F1: Kimi.
I loved it last year when he told his crew over the radio to "leave me alone, I know what I'm doing!"
LMAO.

I guess last week he had another bout of "food poisoning" and missed a day of testing.....

True.

Brief history, from memory, on the turbo era. The rules had a 2:1 ratio for turbo motors. Rule had been there forever, like some old law no one pays attention to. It was thought the ratio was so extreme there would never be a successful turbo motor.

Technology marches on, and Renault came out with a v6 turbo that had about the same power as the NA cars. And so it began.

The most powerful (short-term) car was a straight 4 (BMW) that it was said could put out at least 1000 hp in qualifying trim.

Each team had their own fuel chemist, coming up with all kinds of stuff that would kill you if you breathed it

It was said Senna would blip the throttle mid corner to keep the turbo spooled.

I thought this was a fun promo vid from Ferrari. Specs on this thing are insane - 2800 lbs. and 950 hp and 9250 RPM.

Thats freakin awesome! Active aero underneath the car. Cant wait to find out more about it. Thanks fjames.
Ferrari reminds you to obey all posted traffic laws!
I guess that makes gears 3-7 useless.