Join Grace and me as we both sit in a hotel room in St. louis (the middle of America for those international listeners…you know, the big arch?), and review the key stories we found interesting in 2018 and also offer our 2018 Most Likely awards. Who is Most Likely to run off with a circus? You’ll have to listen to find out.
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"You can't take F1 to America, you have to take America to F1."
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I’m hearing a little feedback, like you’re in an empty room in a brand new house. It’s probably the acoustics in that hotel room. I didn’t go for the F1 TV (and it sounds like I made a good decision). Sounds like McLaren is trying to be Wal-Mart (or maybe Amazon). As I recall, they ended refueling when some pit mechanic caught fire. Look, it doesn’t matter how you present things. Everything has an upside and a downside. If you make something better in one spot, it’s gonna get worse in one spot. It’s the Law of Unintended Consequences in… Read more »
Yes, in a hotel room with very high ceilings and a few times in the cast, the heater comes on and we all know how loud those are. Tried to do a little active noise reduction to remove that noise but hopefully it’s ok. Just a little echo due to high ceilings. I haven’t learned how to bend sound waves yet. ;)
I understand the rant for refueling but to make it sound like you’re not a race fan if you didn’t like it made me laugh. There was a few reasons why it went away, safety, too expense for small teams and too predictable. In the last part of the refuelling era the teams were made to report how much fuel they had qualified on and it was shown on tv. so everyone knew when the pitstops were going to happen, because drivers started the race on fuel they qualified on and went to parc ferme pole position didn’t always go… Read more »
There’s certainly the case to be made that eventually the strategy was figured out on the refueling rig times, pit strategies and tire strategies for sure. Eventually you could predict it. But for a time, it was unpredictable and you could be faster at the end of stint than you were at the beginning of a new stint because of fuel weight and tire management. I agree with you that ultimately it became passing in the pits and everyone had sussed out the advantages. I’m less concerned over the safety, I think they can control that these days. Indycar and… Read more »
I agree. Look at the Indy 500. More passes than you can shake a stick at, and yet ALL of the suspense is generated from fuel strategy.
I think we’ve reached a point of being safe with refueling, it’s the systems that were over engineered that presented danger. Pressure injecting at incredible rates etc. Give them NASCAR fuel cans and let them do it the old fashioned way. :)