2018 F1 News Thread

[FLRacingFan]

https://www.google.com/amp/www.espn.co.uk/f1/story/_/id/25202362/f1-confirms-vietnam-grand-prix-2020%3fplatform=amp

This looks...interesting? Kinda goofy, I'm not really sure what to make of it. I'll give it a shot because Baku has turned out okay, but this is a weird one in a lot of ways. Two sectors of straights and one little sector of twisty bits? Will they actually get locals to go?

 

[DUN24]

I'm thinking it'll be more Australian bogans than locals.

I don't hate the track. Tilke's hands are still all over it and roundabouts are about as lazy as 90* turns but it could be cool. Location is weird though for sure.

 

[Marcingak]

I, for one, welcome our Vietnamese overlords.

 

[donthaveanickname]

This looks...interesting? Kinda goofy, I'm not really sure what to make of it. I'll give it a shot because Baku has turned out okay, but this is a weird one in a lot of ways. Two sectors of straights and one little sector of twisty bits? Will they actually get locals to go?

This track looks like AVUS on steroids.

 

[Greg]

If it has Vietnam Bikini Airlines girls on the grid to piss off the no fun MFers it will be the best thing since 14 miles at Nuremberg.

 

[FLRacingFan]

Dan Ticktum wins the F3 race at the Macau GP again. Hard not to see him being the next annoying Toro Rosso driver in 2020.

Hope Sophia Floersch (and any marshals/photographers) is okay after a horrific crash early on.

 

[donthaveanickname]

Hope Sophia Floersch (and any marshals/photographers) is okay after a horrific crash early on.

That looked ugly. What on earth happened there?


Five people have been transferred to hospital, all of them (including Flörsch) are conscious.

 

[Greg]

That looked ugly. What on earth happened there?


Five people have been transferred to hospital, all of them (including Flörsch) are conscious.

Macau

 

[FLRacingFan]

That looked ugly. What on earth happened there?


Five people have been transferred to hospital, all of them (including Flörsch) are conscious.

Sausage kerbs. So dumb. Race tracks shouldn't have launch pads unless it's Stadium Super Trucks.

 

[StewartHaas-Gibbs Racing]

That crash was insane. It's amazing nobody was killed.

 

[Yogisd1]

I don't think it would have been as bad as it was, if they weren't on a temporary street course.

 

[StandOnIt]

ESPN Sees Viewership Growth, Positive Momentum in Formula 1 Return

https://espnmediazone.com/us/press-...growth-positive-momentum-in-formula-1-return/

 

[gnomesayin]

Actually these ratings are pretty solid.

 

[donthaveanickname]

Three times World Champion Niki Lauda was hospitalized last week. He is now in critical condition after a lung transplant.
https://www.welt.de/sport/article18...1-Legende-offenbar-in-kritischem-Zustand.html

Unfortunately Lauda was hospitalized again last week, this time for pneumonia.
https://www.focus.de/sport/formel1/...nscheinend-einen-rueckschlag_id_10154820.html

 

[Kiante]

Bottas lost Wihuri, his primary personal sponsor. Niko Kari, Finnish F3 driver, lost them as well.

 

[FLRacingFan]

Not what I would've guessed on the TV side, but interesting. F1 have certainly made big improvements digitally since the end of Bernie's reign.

F1’s TV and digital audiences up in 2018
https://racer.com/2019/01/18/f1s-tv-and-digital-audiences-up-in-2018/

 

[Kiante]

Not what I would've guessed on the TV side, but interesting. F1 have certainly made big improvements digitally since the end of Bernie's reign.

F1’s TV and digital audiences up in 2018
https://racer.com/2019/01/18/f1s-tv-and-digital-audiences-up-in-2018/

Their YouTube and Twitter are great. Liberty has been great on the marketing and social media side.

Bernie really had F1 behind the times for a long time.

 

[rd45usa]

ALONSO/JOHNSON CAR SWAP

 

[FLRacingFan]

Incredible.

 

[Kiante]

Incredible.

The key is Mick just needs to be himself and not attempt to emulate his father. Give him time and do not rush him. He's still got a lot to learn.

 

[StandOnIt]