F1 2019

[Parra]

Makes me feel like a winnow

 

[madunit]

Alfa released their livery

 

[madunit]

Red Bull have also shown off their race livery. With any luck, given the lack of changes, that they spent their budget on reliability.

 

[madunit]

And here's how the tyres will look

Pirelli will take three compounds to every race, just like last season. But the colours denoting which tyre is which have changed slightly - with just a hard, medium and soft in action.

For testing, all five compounds are available to the teams - and here is how you recognise them...

 

[madunit]

I assume they are
C1 - Hard
C2 - Sorta Hard
C3 - Medium
C4 - Sorta Soft
C5 - Soft

I was kinda hoping for a tyre softer than the hyper, just to hear it's name

 

[Parra]

Red Bull have also shown off their race livery. With any luck, given the lack of changes, that they spent their budget on reliability.

Written this season off already? Hopes for some results for Ricciardo

 

[Parra]

I assume they are
C1 - Hard
C2 - Sorta Hard
C3 - Medium
C4 - Sorta Soft
C5 - Soft

I was kinda hoping for a tyre softer than the hyper, just to hear it's name

Aren't they just taking three compounds to each race and calling them H/M/S regardless of the compound?

No more adjectives. f**king really soft would've been good though. Or marshmallows.

Then again, I want quali tyres and engines back.

 

[madunit]

Written this season off already? Hopes for some results for Ricciardo

I don't think, in my feeble brain, that engines were Red Bulls problems. Renault team had no issues with Renault engines, But RB constantly had issues, which made me think they were pushing the engines too much.

 

[franklin2323]

I don't think, in my feeble brain, that engines were Red Bulls problems. Renault team had no issues with Renault engines, But RB constantly had issues, which made me think they were pushing the engines too much.

It was an easy out to blame the engines. Even the Renault's in McLaren were lasting better.

The times for testing always hard to gauge given teams at different stages. McLaren being 2nd bodes well for Renault engine pace

 

[Parra]

I don't think, in my feeble brain, that engines were Red Bulls problems. Renault team had no issues with Renault engines, But RB constantly had issues, which made me think they were pushing the engines too much.

Seems so. Or was car design sub optimal for the engine layout as with Mclaren/Honda?

We'll see what happens if Red Bull turn up the Honda's as well. I believe Honda will get it right. 2019? No idea.

 

[franklin2323]

Seems so. Or was car design sub optimal for the engine layout as with Mclaren/Honda?

We'll see what happens if Red Bull turn up the Honda's as well. I believe Honda will get it right. 2019? No idea.

The Renault backed McLaren was infront of them 1st up with testing. I guess over the course of the season will decide if it was a good or bad decision

 

[madunit]

Red Bull just needed a new auto-electrician, not a new engine supplier lol

 

[franklin2323]

Ricciardo P2 with 1.19 today. Softer tires than yesterday and decent times.

Maybe he wasn't crazy taking that deal

 

[madunit]

So long as the Renault has good aero like the RB did, he'll be fine I reckon.

I think it was more a safer move than a risky one for him to go to Renault. The engine is the same, so he knows its capabilities.

 

[franklin2323]

So long as the Renault has good aero like the RB did, he'll be fine I reckon.

I think it was more a safer move than a risky one for him to go to Renault. The engine is the same, so he knows its capabilities.

If he believes that Red Bull can't catch the top 2 like he said then Renault makes sense

 

[madunit]

Renault posting some impressive data in testing (I know that most of this means f**k all as most teams will be sandbagging)

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/...lls-us-from-day-4.1IeP1ibRQoToJ4u2IpnvnZ.html

 

[franklin2323]

Renault posting some impressive data in testing (I know that most of this means f**k all as most teams will be sandbagging)

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/...lls-us-from-day-4.1IeP1ibRQoToJ4u2IpnvnZ.html

Even they are sandbagging means nothing if the Renault's are shit. So atleast it looks decent that is a start

 

[Life's Good]

Definitely not rocket science from me but I seeing a similar pecking order to last year with Merc, Ferrari & RB leading the way.
A quite jumbled up middle order that Renault, Racing Point(such a silly name)or Alfa R could lead. You then get Haas, STR & McLaren(too late for James Key to influence them this year to a great extent)capable of challenging those 3.
Williams, forget about it. Their decline is very sad I can’t see their much heralded saviour, Paddy Lowe, lasting for much longer save a dramatic turnaround.

 

[madunit]

Williams are at a point where they'd probably be better off wheeling out their 2014 car lol

 

[madunit]

A few rule changes, mostly about improving overtaking opportunities and ridding the farce about fuel saving.

A lot of common sense stuff to be honest.

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/...at's-new-for-2019.2DIt7TEs9YqI8IY6mEcwsM.html