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Formula 1 2020 (Will Contain Race Day Spoilers)

Yes Frank is (was?) the TP and Claire the deputy TP. There have been calls for a few years now to have Claire replaced as she was running the team and the buck stopped with her. She has to be ultimately responsible for the teams lack of performance. She did try to turn things around by hiring Paddy Lowe from champions Mercedes but 'his' car was even worse and we all know how that ended.
 
bob6600 said:
Yes Frank is (was?) the TP and Claire the deputy TP. There have been calls for a few years now to have Claire replaced as she was running the team and the buck stopped with her. She has to be ultimately responsible for the teams lack of performance. She did try to turn things around by hiring Paddy Lowe from champions Mercedes but 'his' car was even worse and we all know how that ended.
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I’m not sure how much influence Paddy Lowe had over the design of the Williams car. They have struggled since they let Adrian Newey go. Their current car is better than what they have been running in recent years, but is still clearly lacking somewhere. Most likely problem IMHO is their aero package. I’ve no idea who their design guru is these days, but they really need a step up from somewhere.
 
GeeJayW said:
I’m not sure how much influence Paddy Lowe had over the design of the Williams car. They have struggled since they let Adrian Newey go. Their current car is better than what they have been running in recent years, but is still clearly lacking somewhere. Most likely problem IMHO is their aero package. I’ve no idea who their design guru is these days, but they really need a step up from somewhere.
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The FW41 was under his watch and the FW42 was also his responsibility. I agree that after Newey it went downhill but when Lowe was appointed, the car seemed to be worse than the preceding one. It definitely needs some fresh input. They have the best engine but are at the back of the grid. This year's car is definitely the best in the last 4-5 years as they can get a car into Q2. Whether that is down to Russell being brilliant or the likes of Alfa Romeo and Haas producing an average car along with a Ferrari PU with reduced power. :dk:
 
Artificial intelligence ranks the top twenty drivers of the last forty years.

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It took F1 and Amazon Machine Learning Solutions Lab a full year to build the algorithm that led to ‘Fastest Driver’, the latest F1 Insight powered by AWS, which uses machine learning to compare drivers’ qualifying performances over time versus their team mates to establish an ultimate ranking – meaning that a driver of a backmarker car has just as much chance of showing up well as a driver who was fighting for pole positions.


The team behind ‘Fastest Driver’ – headed by Formula 1’s Director of Data Systems Rob Smedley and Director of Broadcast and Media Dean Locke, and Amazon ML Solutions Lab’s Principal Scientist and Senior Manager Dr Priya Ponnapalli – also found ways and means to detect and protect against outliers like crashes, car failures, changing weather conditions in a qualifying session and even age in the data to create a fair ranking.

more...

I'll leave you to read it and find out who they say is number one in qualifying.
 
I know! Lies, dam lies, statistics...then artificial intelligence conclusions....

However, going for the fastest driver over one lap, not the best driver ever, I might just have got a similar order having first hand experience of the driver ranked at number one.
But again, it is just one more opinion.

Despite being the first person to run Senna in an F3 car and having him as opposition for the classic 1983 F3 season, it is the words of my friend and racer Andrew Gilbert-Scott that stick in my mind.
Following Senna around Brands in the wet in a Formula Ford car he observed that Ayrton was actually controlling slides before they started. He was that far ahead of the car.
Andrew himself was no slouch in a car winning the FF Festival in 1983.
 
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Mactech said:
I know! Lies, dam lies, statistics...then artificial intelligence conclusions....

However, going for the fastest driver over one lap, not the best driver ever, I might just have got a similar order having first hand experience of the driver ranked at number one.
But again, it is just one more opinion.

Despite being the first person to run Senna in an F3 car and having him as opposition for the classic 1983 F3 season, it is the words of my friend and racer Andrew Gilbert-Scott that stick in my mind.
Following Senna around Brands in the wet in a Formula Ford car he observed that Ayrton was actually controlling slides before they started. He was that far ahead of the car.
Andrew himself was no slouch in a car winning the FF Festival in 1983.
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Senna's opening lap around a soaking wet European Grand Prix at Donnington in an asthmatic McLaren, showcases his driving talent to a tee.
 
I would have picked first and second, don't know what I would have picked after that though.
 
Mactech said:
Following Senna around Brands in the wet in a Formula Ford car he observed that Ayrton was actually controlling slides before they started.
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I was listening to a podcast at the weekend and your mate Martin Brundle said something similar. Paraphrasing, he said that Senna knew where the grip was before he entered the corner and in the middle of it, while he and the rest of the drivers knew where the grip was once they were in the middle of it and after the exit. Senna really was extraordinary.
 
st13phil said:
Pathetic, but totally predictable.
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Just to add...

Any and all engine manufacturers could have run a higher power "party" mode on their engines if they wished. The only reason(s) they don't are that either a) they can't get any more power out of their engine, or b) they know it would blow up if they did. So, in typical F1 politics fashion, they moan about the one engine manufacturer who does it to get it banned - all for 25-30 extra bhp.

People have short memories. Back in the days of the turbo engines they would typically be running around 850bhp in race mode, but produced an extra 450bhp in quali mode. Now that was a really significant party mode.
 
st13phil said:
Just to add...

Any and all engine manufacturers could have run a higher power "party" mode on their engines if they wished. The only reason(s) they don't are that either a) they can't get any more power out of their engine, or b) they know it would blow up if they did. So, in typical F1 politics fashion, they moan about the one engine manufacturer who does it to get it banned - all for 25-30 extra bhp.

People have short memories. Back in the days of the turbo engines they would typically be running around 850bhp in race mode, but produced an extra 450bhp in quali mode. Now that was a really significant party mode.
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Yes, I remember watching drivers helmets like involuntary nodding dogs as they shifted gears (manually) in those cars:cool:
 
Mactech said:
Yes, I remember watching drivers helmets like involuntary nodding dogs as they shifted gears (manually) in those cars
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Haha 🤣

It must have been petrifying having driven the car through practice with 850bhp to suddenly have 1300bhp available in quali, on front tyres that were too cold for the first third of the quali lap and rears that had gone off for the last third. I guess that's (at least one of the reasons) why there was often 10 seconds or more from the front to the back of the grid.
 
Final races added, compete 2020 calender

The final 2020 F1 calendar
COMPLETED: Austrian GP, Red Bull Ring
COMPLETED: Styrian GP, Red Bull Ring
COMPLETED: Hungarian GP, Budapest
COMPLTED: British GP, Silverstone
COMPLETED: 70th Anniversary GP, Silverstone
COMPLETED: Spanish GP, Barcelona
August 30: Belgian GP, Spa-Francorchamps
September 6: Italian GP, Monza
September 13: Tuscan GP, Mugello
September 27: Russian GP, Sochi
October 11: Eifel GP, Nurburgring
October 25: Portuguese GP, Portimao
November 1: Emilia Romagna GP, Imola
November 15: Turkish GP, Istanbul
November 29: Bahrain GP, Sakhir
December 6: Sakhir GP, Sakhir
December 13: Abu Dhabi GP, Yas Marina
 
^^That should read 'complete' lol

Apparently, Williams was sold for around 152m Euros and out of that 112m Euros would go to the shareholders which means Sir Frank should get around £50m as he held 52%

www.motorsportmagazine.com

Williams F1 team sold to private investment firm

Sir Frank Williams has relinquished control of the Formula 1 team he founded 43 years ago, as Williams Grand Prix Engineering is sold to the private investment firm Dorilton Capital
www.motorsportmagazine.com www.motorsportmagazine.com
 
www.skysports.com

Renault withdraw appeal against Racing Point punishment

Intensive and constructive work between the FIA, Renault ... and all Formula One stakeholders has led to concrete progress in safeguarding the originality in the sport
www.skysports.com www.skysports.com
 
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