The Formula One Thread

That's awesome....should be good. He has created a lot of good attention from the F1 crowd.
It was interesting what Michael Andretti said that maybe Kimi and Lewis might be the only drivers that would consider trying high speed oval racing. Most consider it too dangerous.

 

F1 "purse" payouts released for 2017.

THE FIGURES, AS REPORTED BY AUTOSPORT

1. Ferrari - $180m

2. Mercedes - $171m

3. Red Bull Racing - $161m

4. McLaren - $97m

5. Williams - $79m

6. Force India - $72m

7. Toro Rosso - $59m

8. Renault - $52m

9. Sauber - $49m

10. Haas - $19m

Read the full story from Autosport here: www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/129388

 

No wonder its the big guys then everyone else.

 

Hass also didnt get a very large check that everyone else did because it was their 1st year.

 

It's not all money. Toyota was spending the most money and never won a race.

 

Agreed, but chicken and the egg, if sauber or Reneault had an extra 100 mill, could they run high-midpack? Maybe. Could that get them extra sponsorships? Probably. Could Force India use an extra 100 mil and get podium level drivers/cars and get extra sponsorships, I think so. So I would say it plays a fairly significant role, just down the line.

 

Forget Crutchlow, if I had talent and/or billions of dollars, I could be winning races!

 

Or give kickbacks to officials to bend the application of the rules in your favor, like Ferrari

An extra 68 mil in the LST column must be nice. What gets you that bonus? How long has Williams been around to only get 10 mil?

 

Yeah cause untill this year Ferrari has really been lighting the world on fire

 

Imagine how bad they'd be if they didn't have help at every grey rule application. Flexible wings, in race penalties, starting grid alignment, etc

 

Wasn't it red bull that had the flex wings?

 

All teams have flexible wings, red bull and Ferrari just took it to the next level and forced the FIA to put a limit to aeroelastic bending.

Ferrari did have the mass damper though, but I look at that in the same vein as the double diffuser or f-duct - cleverly engineering around loop holes.

 

Can you imagine the CFD that went into figuring out the location, length, angle of each one of these flicks on the new Ferrari rear diffusor???

 

New T-wing elements too:

 

I bet if half of them get knocked off the driver couldnt tell lol

I guess if the T-wings are allowed only for this season they're going to use them to the max

 

AMG gets a ton of updates- Shark fins have the drivers numbers, three character FIA abbreviation and country flag shading. The front gets a snow plow nose.

 

OMG all that carbon fiber. Is this what a woman feels like when she walks into a jewelry store?