The Formula One Thread

Is Haas the only team with no watch sponsor? They gotta get on that!

 

Red Bull has Tag, Mercedes has IWC, Ferrari has Hublot, Renault has Bell & Ross. Haas did have Richard Mille on the cars in 2018, but I didn't see any reference to them on the 2019 car.

 

Got to search for it but it looks like Richard Mille is with them again.

 

Is Haas gonna have Ferrari engines in 2019?

 

Try searching for info on the shady af Rich Energy drink company. Little things like chief officers, employees, physical location, basically anything that shows it exists.

 

They were with Alfa in 2018 as well. Wonder if they will be back at Alfa too. I guess spreading your name over a few second tier teams vs. one top team is just as good? I'd like to see the economics and data behind it. Someone email Hodinkee and have have them do an article on watch sponsorship in the F1 world (partnered with someone like crash.net). Would make for a very interesting read.

 

Yes. And their aero development

 

They don't go into what the brands are spending but this article was okay. https://www.watchonista.com/articles/depth/watch-brands-spending-millions-formula-1

 

Williams and Toro Rosso released their cars today.

Not bad liveries so far for 2019.

 

The Williams looks like the slower younger special brother of the Mercedes. They're going to look amazing when getting lapped.

 

So you're saying it's the Alex Marquez of F1?

 

The steering wheels are truly fascinating...

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156568118174442&id=263938209441

 

Damn, the Red Bull is an evil looking thing.

https://www.crash.net/f1/news/912875/1/red-bull-unveils-hondapowered-rb15-f1-car

 

It looks like a retarded lobster. And they've said that it's a one off livery, so probably just a testing livery.

 

Looks like Indycar is running a test at COTA this week. I took a look at the times and the fastest Indycar was 13 seconds slower than the last place McLaren from last year's qualifying. I realize that this is the first time Indycar has been to COTA and their times will drop some, but damn that's a lot slower.

 

Well the are about 100million dollars cheaper per year so...

 

And the IndyCars are running a different course. They know they are slower, but put on a MUCH better show.

 

I didn't realize there were multiple layouts of COTA. What's are the differences?

I understand they're slower and I don't think anyone would debate that, but I was just trying to put it into perspective.

 

I know they added a corner, not so sure what else they might have added.
I believe the last track that they both raced on was at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, and the F1 cars were around 5 seconds a lap faster.
To put it into perspective how fast an F1 car is, they're around 20 seconds a lap faster than a MotoGP bike on some of the tracks they share.