The Motorsport Thread 2016

I wonder how many suspensions will snap tomorrow.

^ wow. all of that sounds bizarre.

6 Hours at the Glen is this weekend, too.  And the Daytona night race is about to begin.  Good weekend!

Man With Hat wrote: ^ nice. Love the 6 at the glen. Hope they show it here.

You can stream the full race off of the IMSA website for free.

Hamilton's got the lead now, so I think we can call it.  And I'm genuinely thrilled that Button had a very solid, consistent race today to finish 6th.  Nothing fluky about it, either.  

Oh, he does.  Dammit, ESPN, fix your stupid app. 

Edited by MillsLayne - July 03 2016 at 17:03

sleeper wrote: Man With Hat wrote: ^ nice. Love the 6 at the glen. Hope they show it here. You can stream the full race off of the IMSA website for free.

I'd say Wehrlein was the biggest winner. I hadn't realised when watching but the Mannor team had mistimed his pitstop under the safety car and he was 12s off the back of the field when the lights went green, and he still got it back inot the points and was fighting Bottas Williams for 9th right at the end. Pretty impressive considering where Manor are, and Haryanto ran last pretty much all race.

It's been an excellent start with their biggest problem basically being a general lack of experience so it's taking them a little longer than other teams to get arround problems, but that will change in time.

As for next year, not sure. There are significant rule changes for next year and the problem here is that they rely on Ferrari for so many of their parts. Ferrari wont tell them what the dimensions and tollerances of these parts are until there design is locked down, and like all front running teams they leave that as late as possible to push things as much as they can. This leaves Haas designing a car around Ferrari parts that they aren't entirely certain of the size and weight of.

Ferrari have already said they're focusing on 2017 now so that could be a good thing for Haas, potentially getting important information relatively early, beyond that they seem to have a good team of engineers that have created a very good, usable car, if they can keep that up they should do nicely next year as well.

Honestly, not many more. There big chances to score points came in the first two races where Gutierrez had mechanical failures whilst in points scoring positions. Since then the team has had set up problems in working the tyres so hasn't really had much more chance to score points but he probably should have done so in Austria.