Formula One 2020

[wood 11225]

New onboard video shows areas of COTA that were resurfaced recently...with varying degrees of success. Unrepaired areas still very bumpy.

 

Edited February 4, 2020 by wood

[wood 11225]

 

[Lidig8r 1870]

21 hours ago, wood said:

 

Meh. Whelmed bordering on underwhelmed.

We have Ferrari red, the Silver Arrows, the McLaren orange, the old British racing green of Lotus, Renault's yellow ... and Haas ?

Uninspiring and mediocre... perhaps that is perfect for the Haas team.

[wood 11225]

2 hours ago, Lidig8r said:

Meh. Whelmed bordering on underwhelmed.

We have Ferrari red, the Silver Arrows, the McLaren orange, the old British racing green of Lotus, Renault's yellow ... and Haas ?

Uninspiring and mediocre... perhaps that is perfect for the Haas team.

Yeah and I will never be able to take them seriously as long as they stick with that shit driver lineup.

[Hawndoh 2386]

Keeping Grosjean means they really have no ambition beyond what they've done so far. Gunther might want to win but Gene must be happy to just participate. 

[wood 11225]

 

Edited February 9, 2020 by wood

[Hawndoh 2386]

What exactly are we looking at there?

[Anton Chigurh 3319]

Zandvoort’s final banked turn. They’re cutting it close with construction but should be done in time.

[wood 11225]

 

[elfenix 34221]

just so long as one of ineos's plants on the ship channel doesn't explode

[Anton Chigurh 3319]

Saw that this morning. I hate the non-airbrushed Petronas teal, but this reply seems to indicate the actual car will have it. I hope so.

[utee94 15797]

22 hours ago, Anton Chigurh said:

Saw that this morning. I hate the non-airbrushed Petronas teal, but this reply seems to indicate the actual car will have it. I hope so.

 

 

 

 

Yeah, the teal stripe is WAY too solid and clunky.  I much prefer the subtle airbrushed look.  Hopefully they work it in there.

 

The red is ok, guess I'll get used to it.

[utee94 15797]

Speaking of red...

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.vettel-and-leclerc-reveal-ferraris-2020-f1-car-the-sf1000.XQ64BRkNj4fo1jHG0V7on.html

[Dutch 4465]

Chinese GP postponed due to Coronavirus (probably not to be rescheduled) and Vietnam GP reportedly in doubt also. Other reports say it's unlikely to be rescheduled. 

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article.chinese-grand-prix-postponed-due-to-coronavirus-outbreak.3g2y5Ngyrk1MbNxQB9hj4s.html

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/feb/12/f1-chinese-gp-set-to-be-called-off-due-to-coronavirus-with-vietnam-race-at-risk

[wood 11225]

[wood 11225]

Test livery, I guess, but I'd love for this to be their actual livery.

[utee94 15797]

I'm not seeing those imgur photos above @wood, which team were they?

Here's a tweet from RBR, livery looks basically the same to me I guess?

 

 

[wood 11225]

Gah. This board & imgur. It's Renault. Here's a link to the gallery.

https://imgur.com/a/fMNjyxm

Edited February 12, 2020 by wood

[Anton Chigurh 3319]

[Prepuce of Doom 21052]

I wish they would turn that snout upside down and then go with a Toad from Mario Kart theme. 

[Goofyboy 3268]

Renault current car launch:

[Lidig8r 1870]

7 hours ago, wood said:

Gah. This board & imgur. It's Renault. Here's a link to the gallery.

https://imgur.com/a/fMNjyxm

So, they are going with the old Lotus John Player Special look?

[wood 11225]

Welp, other than going matte, which I love, that's a step backward in terms of livery, imho.

Looks huge, like the Mercs have been. Hope that's not where the similarities stop...

 

[faps 806]

I am pretty ok with that Mclaren livery.

The side shot vs the 3/4 front shot is interesting though. It looks nicely proportioned from the side and a Merc style boat from the 3/4 shot.

[Anton Chigurh 3319]

Well they kept the solid stripe. Don’t like it as much but it does look better here than on the livery reveal car.

 

 

 

I do think most of the Mercedes changes are under the skin this year.

 

[Huckleberry 32839]

I guess I'm just one for nostalgia because I almost never think livery changes are improvements. And so far that's the case this year as well.

I dislike the McLaren change the most.

[Anton Chigurh 3319]

[wood 11225]

3 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

I guess I'm just one for nostalgia because I almost never think livery changes are improvements. And so far that's the case this year as well.

I dislike the McLaren change the most.

Yep. Both McLaren and Mercedes went noticeably backward with their liveries this year.

[Anton Chigurh 3319]

I even like Ferrari’s less than last year, though it’s still really similar.

[Dutch 4465]

Alfa's testing livery.

Edited February 14, 2020 by Dutch
User fail. Final livery isn't finalized yet.

[Goofyboy 3268]

Alpha is testing livery only. Not sure what they are going with for the year

[sidis 9819]

i personally think mercedes is a slight improvement.  ferrari took a step back.  wtf with the tiger stripes.  i really do not like mclaren's look.  alpha tauri looks good, haas is meh, i think renault's is fucking sweet and the top improvement.

[texas08 1599]

ToroRosso...now AlphaTauri.

DROOL.

[Capn81 372]

This looks fantastic.

[wood 11225]

2 hours ago, sidis said:

i personally think mercedes is a slight improvement.  ferrari took a step back.  wtf with the tiger stripes.  i really do not like mclaren's look.  alpha tauri looks good, haas is meh, i think renault's is fucking sweet and the top improvement.

 

4 hours ago, Anton Chigurh said:

I even like Ferrari’s less than last year, though it’s still really similar.

Yeah Ferrari just seems to miss it year after year, after having some amazing , clean liveries in the past. They don't even really seem to care. They have so many sponsors, the car is like a rolling billboard.

Completely agree re: Renault. Just great imho. But I've heard conflicting reports that it may or may not be a testing livery as well. Shame if it turns out that way.

[wood 11225]

1 hour ago, texas08 said:

ToroRosso...now AlphaTauri.

DROOL.

Nice. Simple and powerful. 

Edited February 14, 2020 by wood

[Constant 6723]

3 hours ago, texas08 said:

ToroRosso...now AlphaTauri.

DROOL.

Beauty

[wood 11225]

40 minutes ago, Constant said:

Beauty, eh?

fixed.

[wood 11225]

 

[elfenix 34221]

mindari knocked it out of the park

[Dutch 4465]

Trailer for Drive to Survive Season 2 dropped.  Can't wait...

 

[Anton Chigurh 3319]

Williams doesn’t look half finished anymore. Probably not enough to be not-last, but we will see.

[PittsburghTiger 6174]

 

[PittsburghTiger 6174]

 

[Pato del Muerto 52484]

Alphatauri needs to lose the red paint for Honda. 

[Anton Chigurh 3319]

Alphatauri needs to lose the red paint for Honda. 

No way, that’s a classic look.

[wood 11225]

Drones are cool ...

https://streamable.com/ou97v

 

Edited February 17, 2020 by wood

[elfenix 34221]

i'm guessing that's not a quad copter

[Hawndoh 2386]

Could be, but those big ones they having racing leagues for and the pilots control with VR headsets. 

[utee94 15797]

Mercedes solid teal stripe is terribad.  Like, a 3rd grader on MS Paint bad.

I like the Alphatauri-- a lot-- but I don't like it as much as STR's livery from the past couple of years. That was just beautiful.  But I'm all for simple and clean and Alphatauri nailed that for sure.

McLaren just continues to look bad.  Maybe it's the sheer size of the new cars compared to vintage, but the papaya orange just doesn't work on these cars.  And mixing it with the weird blue doesn't help.  Looks much more indycar than F1 car IMO.

 

 

Edited February 17, 2020 by utee94