FIA Formula One 2018 |OT| Halo: Racing Evolved

Great OP. Like looking forward to seeing how many times the Williams drivers crash their beautiful new car into each other.

NICE!

cya guys on the opening races.

McLaren, please be fast.

Engine rules and grid penalties are beyond a joke now. Drivers aren't pushing it to the limits anymore because they need to save literally everything. Despite this, it's still the best motorsport in the world.

Can't wait to see the car reveals. I wonder how different they're going to look with the halo?

YASS,

I notice you didn't shop the Halo into the OP pics :p

Please don't be a procession this year.

I quit midway last season, what is the reason for Alonso's stay at McLaren?

Very excited for this year!

Hopefully ferrari develops more responsive front-end so Kimi doesn't look like a complete push over on his final season.

Nice OP, can't wait for this season to start. Lets hope we see some nice racing this year.

F1 is one of those sports i want to get into but dont know where to start. It seems enjoyable to watch

It would be amazing if after ditching the Honda engine, McLaren gets beaten this year by Toro Rosso who is now the sole Honda engine customer.

I'm really interested to see how Sirotkin performs. With all due respect to Stroll Williams most surely hope that at least one of their drivers can help push them up a bit further. Wonder if Mercedes will keep an eye on him as a poachable driver once they punt Bottas out at the end of the season!

I also hope McLaren beat Red Bull. Very unlikely I know but it's mainly so I can see Christian Horner's face and hear how he'd turn it around to blame Renault.

Can't wait for this new season to start ! This is the year ! Ferrari got this one !

I hope Toro Rosso do well with the Honda engine. I hope Honda can restore some of their reputation.

Genuinely curious as to how much of a fight it's going to be this year. Last years Mercedes was unbeatable in the races where they got it properly dialled into the track. If they can iron out it's few kinks and ally it to their new engine, which I'm fairly sure will break the 1000hp mark this season, then it could be another steamroller year for them.

I'd love to see Merc, Ferrari, RB & especially McLaren (well, Alonso!) all fighting it out at the front end but I'm not hearing anything on the grapevine that'll upset the status quo. Fingers crossed Renault can make an engine reliable enough that it can operate at full power this year.

Great OP.

May there be many Hamilton salt piles yet again.

When do we see the new cars?

Mercedes will unveil their car on February 22nd, same day as Ferrari.

Unveil will be at Silverstone, followed by the first car shakedown

Anyone got any other sources for this Vietnam race thing?

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/f1-...la-One-Vietnam-Street-Race-Grand-Prix-F1-News

I hope Mercedes dominates so I can tune out for the entire season and don't have to watch the cars race with those awful halo constructs.

Couldn't be less excited for a Formula 1 season, and I'm a huge fan. Rule changes seem dumb, halo is really odd, even less engines sounds horrible, and it seems like they learned nothing from last season's low amount of passes. Hopefully it'll be a great fight for the championship at least that doesn't end in Verstappen's sidepods at 3/4ths of the season.

2018 Launch dates:

Mercedes - February 22
Ferrari - February 22
Red Bull - TBC
Force India - TBC
Williams - TBC
Renault - TBC
Toro Rosso - February 25
Haas - TBC
McLaren - February 23
Sauber -TBC

Cautiously curious about the season now. Let's see if that changes with the first races.

GrizzleBoy said:

It would be amazing if after ditching the Honda engine, McLaren gets beaten this year by Toro Rosso who is now the sole Honda engine customer.

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No it wouldn't, weren't the last 3 years enough suffering? :(

just make front and rear wing generate no downforce. Keep them for looks but move almost solely to mechanical grip. Should help overtaking as less issues sitting in turbulent air, and mitigate significant engine performance advantages as you can't put that power down as easily.

Nice first post car pics, it's a shame their looks will be ruined soon.

Nice OT. Love that it isn't so picture-heavy. Please consider users of the light-theme, though. They can't see the header.

Very nice!

The new restriction on number of engines could make end of season interesting.
Also; what's the point of super hard? No one will use that in F1.

I'm using light, I can see it just fine.

Last two seasons have been awful.

If first few races this year don't impress, I'm out.

Halo is shit.

If RB have a car in contention, I can see that team imploding, and Mercedes and Ferrari eating their lunch.

I'm not sure if I'll follow. I mean, I love F1 and I think it's good that the drivers have more head protection, but gosh, the halo is really fugly, and since there's no Brazilian driver on the grid this year...

AlsoZ said:

I hope Mercedes dominates so I can tune out for the entire season and don't have to watch the cars race with those awful halo constructs.

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HAHA, I guess I'll be on the same train.

Aiii said:

THERE ARE DOZENS OF YOU.

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Thank you. You're the best FIA Formula One 2018 |OT| aka The Race To See Which Team Can Reach Their Engine Supply Limit First thread creator on ERA. <3

Halo: Race Evolved

The logo is awesome.

Aiii said:

All credits to deim0s

I'm gonna to steal that for the thread title, well done.

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Ahah :D

Nice Op.
I expect some fuckery with penalties and engine components due to the new restrictions.

The race season is getting way too long IMO

DreamMakers said:

F1 is one of those sports i want to get into but dont know where to start. It seems enjoyable to watch

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Full disclosure before I go into this: I fell out of F1 last year a bit, so if anything is wrong in this I apologize and hopefully someone can correct me.

If you're in the UK you can sign up for their streaming offering and that might be the easiest way. If you're in the US I'm not sure what to recommend because NBCS just lost their contract and the team there was pretty good for US audiences. Other than that this thread or the F1 subreddit is REALLY good. I don't know if I'd recommend going back and watching whole past seasons, but I'm sure some can point to some good "history of" type videos.

Qualifying can be really exciting since the structure works 3 sessions: The first session has every drive, second session drops the bottom 5(?) and the final session drops another 5(?) drivers so it's positioning for the final 10 spots. IIRC each session gets shorter too. There is a lot of strategy to this because if a driver releases too early they may put themselves in an odd spot to secure a good spot because they may not have a time to work against. meaning if you're first out and set a time, it may take 2-3 minutes to see your time eclipsed which could then have you not get back out in time. Yes, drives can pit during qualifying and either sit still (if they set a really good time early on) or return back out. In session 3 you'll see the best/fastest drivers try to time out it so they can do a warm up lap right into their qualifying lap to time it out so Session 3 completes as close to them finishing.

The races can be either really dull or really exciting, with a sprinkling of interesting full races. The more dull races can be places like Monaco (extremely narrow, few passing spots) or Russia (very wide, fast); that said Monaco CAN be interesting depending on how aggressive drivers get. No matter what the first 1-3 laps can be super tense, and the final 10 laps can be really exciting. The real interesting part of races comes in the fact teams are required to use 2 sets of tires (soft, medium, hard, wet); I believe the tires you qualify on are still required for starting the race. So strategy aspect is setting up the correct tire from qualifying and changing out at the right moments based on team choices. This comes even more difficult because track conditions can change based on weather (wet, cold, hot). On top of all this there is no refueling, ever. And with requirements for fuel consumption this adds another element of strategy. This is completely indapendent of DRS zones and power unit strategies.

HOWEVER, all that said and laid out with strategy you can still end up with some very boring races. So my recommendation would be to definitely catch the first 1-5 laps and the final 10, but keep the race on as you do other stuff so you can hear when things might get interesting. Sometimes the middle pack battles can be so intense it keeps you engaged the whole time.

Sauber should be able to get double digit points this year right? Lol

I honestly cannot imagine engine parts lasting 7 race weekends(!) or more without severely turning down power, but they'll need to. The only way I can see that working is if Mercedes has room to spare like in 2014-2016 or if a Merc customer runs in a highly conservative mode. Probably Williams.

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I honestly cannot imagine engine parts lasting 7 race weekends(!) or more without severely turning down power, but they'll need to. The only way I can see that working is if Mercedes has room to spare like in 2014-2016 or if a Merc customer runs in a highly conservative mode. Probably Williams.

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we could bet which team will be the first to burn through allocation :P

DrM said:

we could bet which team will be the first to burn through allocation :P

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Extrapolating from 2017, Honda and one Renault-powered team could reach that number by Spain.

AlsoZ said:

Extrapolating from 2017, Honda and one Renault-powered team could reach that number by Spain.

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That is a possibility. But imagine Ferrari burning through their allocation in the first half of the season :D