2016 F1 News and Prediction Tournament

[PeteC]

^ Your in automatically, no approval needed. Glad you're back. Pete

[Pleng]

Just days after being announced, the new qualifying format has been shelved at least until Spain, possibly until next season, hopefully for ever...

[jjbones]

Thanks Pete, and good luck to all for the new season.

[Pleng]

Aaaannnd the new qualifying format is *back on* for the first round, with a couple of changes...

[PeteC]

Aaaannnd the new qualifying format is *back on* for the first round, with a couple of changes...

Really crazy. It's going to be a mess IMO. Pete

[Pleng]

A lot of debate going on about how dull the F1 liveries are these days; an awful lot of black and grey cars out there over the last few years.

Flow-Vis paint is a special paint that's used in testing (and some times in free practice session) to assess the way the air flows around the car. Here's an example of it in action on the McLaren in today's test (the McLaren is a black car; the red and green areas are the flow-viz paint).

mclaren test.jpg (148.92 KiB) Viewed 1230 times

Now if only they'd paint their car like that on race day!

[Alfasteve]

Help me out here, guys! What's a good place to watch F1 next sunday?

[PeteC]

Help me out here, guys! What's a good place to watch F1 next sunday?

No one has answered your question. Probably because most watch it on their systems at home. Check out El Murphy's on Soi Selakam, and see below quote from an old thread about sports bars:

"Half a dozen bars in Soi 80 all have foobtall on (they must subscribe to CTH for EPL),eg, Exotic, Mona Bar, JJ's, Dragon Bar, Whippet Inn, Bokey Bar etc.

You can also check out the below for your home system:

http://www.huahinforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=30045

Pete

[PeteC]

The first race is upon us with qualifying in Australia on Saturday. I haven't received an email reminder yet from Superbru but expect it will arrive later today. Pete

[pitsch]

I have already made my picks, but I also got no email.

[Terry]

No email as yet - so made my picks.................

[pharvey]

Never seem to get the Emails myself... aside from those ripping the pi$$ into my 6N predictions (one of which I'm expecting soon)..

I shall however leave my picks until later today to see what's happening with Vettel and the Red Bull duo. Sounds good, but doubt it'll make my chances any better!!

[PeteC]

^ The second practice starts in about 5 minutes. I usually wait until after that to pick. No email for me yet either. I'll notify them if it doesn't show up today. First race bugs in their system perhaps. Pete

[PeteC]

Just made my picks and received a confirmation email, so appears their system is working, although their 1st pick reminder should have been received earlier today at the latest, and it wasn't.

When you receive your pick confirmation email, go to the bottom and click the link to "email preferences". In there you can tick or un-tick all the boxes depending upon the notifications you want to receive. Pete

[PeteC]

I watched some of the qualifying on FOX and I can't say I fully understand it. More watching and study needed. Also, some thought has to be given to the Superbru early bird and qualifying points, and if worthwhile not to pick early under this new format, but wait until after qualifying? Pete

Australia Qualifying

Driver Team Fastest Lap
1 HAM Mercedes 1:23.837
2 ROS Mercedes 1:24.197
3 VET Ferrari 1:24.675
4 RAI Ferrari 1:25.033
5 VPN Toro Rosso 1:25.434
6 MAS Williams 1:25.458
7 SAI Toro Rosso 1:25.582
8 RIC Red Bull 1:25.589
9 PER Force India 1:25.753
10 HUL Force India 1:25.865
11 BOT Williams 1:25.961
12 ALO McLaren 1:26.125
13 BUT McLaren 1:26.304
14 PAL Renault 1:27.601
15 MAG Renault 1:27.742
16 ERI Sauber 1:27.435
17 NAS Sauber 1:27.958
18 KVY Red Bull 1:28.006
19 GRO Haas 1:28.322
20 GUT Haas 1:29.606
21 HAR Manor 1:29.627
22 WEH Manor 1:29.642