[forzaferrari]

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Paps, you legend!!! this has brightened up what has been a really sh1t day, really made me laugh, keep it up

[morini]

Papa, Jody wants to send you to a Swiss clinic. Better brush up those tech skills quick sharp fella!

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I know when I'm beaten!!

[forzaferrari]

Just finished reading about the all new, all sing and dancing F1 TV, seems like it got off to a great start...not!

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/f1-tv...t-1037438/

[Jody Barton]

I can actually offer some feedback on F1TV. I was part of the Beta they ran from Bahrain onwards... and it was shit. The UX was awful, I gave feedback on the interface, and quality of the feed and the all-round crapness of it all. I really thought they'd not bother launching in Spain because it was clear it wasn't ready.

On another note, after being part of the Beta, I was informed when the service went live I'd be unable to access it as it would be blocked in my territory. So all in all, it's just plain crap.

[Monster Hesh]

haha, jeez, Jody that has to be one of the worst Beta experience I've witnessed, the blocked in your country just tops it off.

So happy to hear you slatted them about the UI/UX. Thhe whole thing got torn apart on social media too. Can't believe it took them five races to get it started and even then it was a massive failure. WTF is going on...UI should be the easiest thing of any digital product, yet all I find myself is constantly hurling constructive criticism at companies that fail so badly at it. Games, especially DICE are one of the worst, Now a sport which it really shouldn't be an issue for is providing the worst I have ever witnessed.

[forzaferrari]

Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen should be able to avoid an engine change for Formula 1’s Monaco Grand Prix after the problem that caused him to retire in Spain last weekend.
Raikkonen failed to finish the Spanish GP after suffering a loss of power on lap 26. The Finn was initially instructed to stop the car, but he was able to nurse it back to the pits.

It is understood a wiring problem cut the power to the left-hand cylinders on Raikkonen’s Ferrari V6.

As this is not a terminal problem with the unit itself, it should continue to be used in Monaco, having only just been introduced at Barcelona.

Ferrari replaced Raikkonen’s internal combustion engine, turbocharger and MGU-H after a problem in Friday practice in Spain.

Those components should have lasted until the end of the Monaco race before being replaced for the seventh round in Canada, where Ferrari plans to introduce its upgraded engine.

This means Raikkonen is likely to have to wait to receive the performance boost, with the German GP in July the next logical opportunity.

Waiting until Germany would mean Raikkonen completes six races with the engine components fitted in Spain.

That cycle of races should be Ferrari's minimum target given drivers are limited to three of those components over the 21-race season before being penalised for more changes.

Raikkonen would still need to take a fresh, fourth engine before the end of the year, but this strategy would likely restrict him to just one race with a grid penalty.

However, it would mean Raikkonen contests four races with an older-specification engine than Sebastian Vettel, if his teammate can get Ferrari’s upgraded unit in Canada as planned.

Raikkonen’s Spanish GP retirement was his second non-score in five races and leaves him 47 points adrift of championship leader Lewis Hamilton.

[Jody Barton]

That's great news on the engine front for Kimi, crap he had to take a new engine in Barcelona of course, but brilliant news that his new engine isn't dead too!!!

I have to be honest and say I thought the most logical place to take a new engine would be Paul Riccard in France, but ho him, I guess I'm not a highly paid engineer. I know a new engine would be a boost in a place like Canada, and by the time Canada rolls around these engines will have done a lot of mileage, I just think if you take a new engine their, the likelihood is you need a new engine cone Hungary at the latest given you have high impact circuits like Paul Riccard, A1 Ring, Silverstone and Hockenheim all after Canada, and the heat in Hungary is usually an engine killer... Then right after the break there's Spa and Monza. Any team that can hold off that engine change until France or maybe even Austria is most likely sitting pretty.

[forzaferrari]

I thought we should mark this momentous occasion when Marcus Ericsson, in his 81st GP actually went wheel to wheel and done himself proud for a lap or two...

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Massa...."and then Claire said we have a great line up for 2018"

[Jody Barton]

Ericsson 81 races and holding Sainz up for 1.5 laps at the easiest circuit bar Monaco to defend is all he has to show for it... that's it. Why is he still in the sport.

As for the Massa joke... utterly savage, but fair.

[PapaofGags]

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/merce...p-1038208/

"Mercedes has admitted that the decision not to pit Valtteri Bottas for a second time in the Spanish Grand Prix was "extremely marginal" and that the Finn was close to being "in big, big trouble".
Bottas stopped for medium tyres on lap 19 in Barcelona - six laps before teammate and race winner Lewis Hamilton - and had to run 47 laps to the chequered flag.
Mercedes opted not to bring Bottas in for new tyres when Vettel pitted under the late Virtual Safety Car, preferring to jump the Ferrari and gain track position, which ultimately paid off in securing second place.
"It's fair to say that it was extremely marginal," chief strategist James Vowles explained in a Mercedes video.
"It's fair to say that if the race had been a lap or two longer, we could have been in big, big trouble."
Vowles admitted the call left Bottas in a "very difficult position" and gave credit to the Finn for managing to bring the car home in second, maintaining a gap over Red Bull's Max Verstappen and Vettel.
"The last few laps of the race for Valtteri were very, very tense," Vowles recalled. "We knew that the front left tyre would be very much down to zero rubber remaining. And it's a very difficult call as to what's going to happen.
"But he had eight seconds of race time relative to the Red Bull behind, and what we were trying to do was very delicately use up some of that race time to slow down in some of the key corner sequences to make sure we looked after that tyre whilst not losing temperature in the rubber that was still actually left on it.
"It's a very, very delicate balance, and I really can't understate this, Valtteri did an absolutely incredible job. We put him in a very difficult position, and he dealt with it absolutely perfectly, taking that tyre just to the end of the race as we asked him to do."
Explaining why Mercedes had opted for the strategy in the first place, Vowles said he was confident Red Bull was "absolutely going to make the one-stop work" and did not want to give up track position.
"What we concluded based on all the evidence that we had is there was as strong possibility of Vettel taking it [the stop], and it's extremely unlikely that anything else would have happened if we took it, rather than just staying behind Vettel, and Red Bull, and therefore finishing lower than the P2 that was the potential in the car.
"We decided to take the risk, we took the tyres to the end of the race. It was extremely close, it was a very tight judgement call, but it ended up on the right side for us on that occasion."