What we did is we photoshopped the Mercedes, Red Bull and Force India noses into a single image. It was so ugly we all said yes, that's the one, anything that horrible has to be worth at least a second a lap.
NOOT NOOT! Ferrari have some funky new halo mounted wing mirrors https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/...-trial-radical-halo-mounted-mirrors-in-s.html
Now those look like they can block a driver's vision. I can see halo mounted mirrors being banned just as quickly as they were allowed if that's the first try, imagine how crazy Red Bull and Merc's halo mirror wings will be.
There has already been rumblings regarding Ferrari's Mirrors legality prior to this. Mirrors was a topic that was being discussed after TV footage of the Haas car showing noticeable vibrations that would make the mirrors useless. BBC Article with performance charts for the first 4 races of the season. Includes qualifying battle and time differences for those battles
So FP1 is over, Mclaren appear to have jumped up around 0.5 sec behind the top three (roughly level with Haas), whilst Kubica went 1.2 faster than stroll, but that still only put him 19th, the Williams really is the knackered old white van of the season.
Spainish EDIT: Also, just because it's fun to beat on him, this is how I imagine Stroll's technical debriefs go: Engineer: Ok Lance, so how was the balance in T7/8? Stroll: Well it was OK - sometimes I turned the wheel left and the car went left a little, but sometimes I turned the wheel left and it kept going straight... Then on one lap, I turned the wheel left and it went right! Can I have a sandwich?
In my head Spainish sounds better when said with a strong lisp. Somewhat of an embarrassing schoolboy error though. That Williams must be terrible to drive. Its not down on power an you have the saubers over two seconds ahead of him. Even the Hondas who are down on power are ahead.
Kubica said he was "embarrassed inside the car cause it was so slow". If he's embarrassed going at that speed then by logic Stroll should be humiliated.
Least he has the excuse of being his 1st season. Either way neither Williams driver deserves to been in F1. I haven't seen a pairing as bad since Simtek in 1994 or Max Papis or Taki Inoue for Arrows/Footwork in 1995.
Stroll is only there for the same reason Chilton was at Marussia, 'cos daddy [partially] bank-rolls the team. Sirotkin is more a oil-backed pay-to-driver a la Maldonado.
Hartley did a good impression of a Christmas cracker with his Torro Rosso - I wonder if it was him or the recovery truck driver who got the toy... Hartley being on the grid in the first is obviously the joke.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwaDezlZFh4 Keerunch! He is in good company, Hamilton, Vettel, Alonso and Button have all visited that wall over the years.
FIA has banned them from Monaco on: http://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12...rraris-halo-mounted-mirrors-banned-for-monaco
Magnussen summoned to the stewards again for dangerous driving during free practice resulting in a reprimand. Boy isn't just content with skating on thin ice he's actively jumping on it he seems.
A few shots from yesterday, heading out soon to drive up to the track for the race today. 06B0B77A-92B8-459E-982E-0B85832E7505 by Brett Dunsmore, on Flickr 9C89823F-B3FE-4238-8DD5-F15BF0A4E572 by Brett Dunsmore, on Flickr 09F1ECAB-2C63-44A9-A93B-B818C587B514 by Brett Dunsmore, on Flickr
Another boring Spanish Grand Prix tho like Australia I kinda expected it to be. Alonso fairly entertaining and Leclerc doing things with that Sauber. Vandoorne looks to be getting worse and Grosjean has found ways of imploding not seen since his return for Lotus. Random incidents for both Williams Drivers. No idea how Verstappen hit Stroll as I went to make a cup of tea at that point but I'll assume it was Strolls fault and Serokin deciding a parallel escape road looked faster than the track. A few PU problems for teams starting to show too. Ferrari had a quiet race, looked second best but the decision to pit dumped Vettel in the middle of the RB's. RB too seemed in their own little race. Front teams definitely are closer this year. Analysis of the third sector should tell who will be strong for Monaco. Just need to wait for the inevitable dice roll that mixes things up and hope it will happen multiple times during the race otherwise we'll be set for your typical Monaco GP in 2 weeks time.
