FORMULA 1 GRANDE PRÊMIO DO BRASIL 2016 PRACTICE 1/2/3 ***SPOILERS*

We forgot FP1. Whoops.

 

And Verstappen .1 down...

Rain predicted for FP2 and 10c colder.

 

That Red Bull looks astonishing here.

A great battle all season.

 

Kimi under investigation for not impeding Sainz.

Lol

 

Merc faster than expected (nothing between the 2) Williams much faster than we've seen all season and right there with Ferrari and RBR.

I expect Red Bull to be quick tomorrow in cooler temps.

 

Great words from Bob Fernly (Force India) said that Vettel/Ricciardo was just great racing and FIA shouldn't have meddled.

 

Brake issues for Kimi

 

+1

Was watching some bits of the revived Formula Thunder 5000 series for next year. It looks bloody awesome. The cars look great, sound great. Shame it's all down under for now.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffp0Qg-zurw[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foJEyYG2lHI[/ame]

But seeing this, actually got me to think. Can you imagine a series with more or less the same idea as this, but primarily european based? I'd make a few tweaks though:

BIG horsepower coming from quad rotor turbo (complete engine cost less than 50K with ancillaries)
Manual 5 speed gearbox. Thick cogs so cost is kept down by not ripping them apart every session.
More or less same basic aero

Free coverage with youtube (they where already interested in an F1 team so could easily be open for this). Paid Youtube Red for full access, any camera(s). Couple of decent commentators (surely a few around). Races would also be watchable at whatever time you want so no real issues with time difference for the Americans or Aussies.

Keep costs in check with F3 to Formula Renault 3.5 (between 600-800K per season). With more viewers from Youtube (most popular platform + free) it's save to say that Sponsors would be more interested in getting their driver in a series like this than F3 or FR3.5 surely.

Avon makes tires in the width necessary. Dallara can supply chassis and bodywork in bulk is easily sorted. Gearboxes are no problem with several manufacturers making such boxes.

It would be a series based on pure skill, no nonsense. Stupidly fast, no cheating or dumb sounding engines...and again, with the Youtube people watching it'll be pretty popular so when it comes to a track near them people will be keen to check it out.

RE tracks, I know F1 has rules with current F1 tracks that they can't host a series F1 says no to (so any rival basically). Luckily for us there are MANY great tracks that aren't used by F1 at this moment .

Mugello
Zandvoort
Brands Hatch
Jerez
Misano
Nurburgring
Hockenheim (either of these 2 german tracks are constantly on the verge of dropping out)
Imola
Magny Cours
Paul Ricard

Those are just from the top of my head, and only European based. Tracks such as Laguna Seca and Watkins Glen could be done for an American ''tour'', Sepang could be dropping out from F1 making that available (connect that with Dubai). Smaller series such as the 24h series (almost all privateers if not all of them) can afford travelling to such places so larger budgeted series as this should to.
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And for anyone wondering what a 1200hp turbo rotary sounds like:

http://youtu.be/rVCjTNVNKbk?t=73

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcgQ0Ymi6Q8[/ame]


https://youtu.be/5NZmUkA5rGQ?t=104

Rotaries always flame like crazy (free bonus points ). They sound ridiculously awesome (even with turbo they sound incredibly close to the Mazda 787B Le Mans car). You can over-rev Rotaries without the penalties of a piston engine. So even with a limiter installed, a miss-shift will not require a new engine necessarily.

 

Absolutely insane is my guess.