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Post by C00kiemonster »

New season starts this weekend.

I've not been a fan of the old format, but these new engines with a lack if downforce sound great. It might actually be unpredictable for a while so will watch it for a change (y)
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Tried to get into it last year and it just didn't do it for me, I'll watch the first couple of races this year see if I can get interested.
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Like Bratty I dipped into last season but didn't really follow it.

This year will hopefully be more open with the new designs and the fuel limits.

Let's see what happens.
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Listening on the radio yesterday, they recon the fuel limits that have been imposed will be the biggest challenge to both team and drivers.

I forget which driver they where talking to, but he reckoned that only up to 50% of the field could fail to finish the first race because they run out of fuel.
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Haven't watched F1 for years, but just last week I found out that as part of the Sky HD package you get the Sky F1 HD channel, so I might give it a whirl this year, see if these new cars make it interesting.
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Chris Evans was saying yesterday how crap he thought the new engines sounded. Personally i think they sound better...a little more like bikes. :D
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They sound just like the MV Augusta at the TT last year. I reckon they sound better. Plus they were too loud before IMO. Qualifying was very good and unpredictable. Long may it continue!
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They do sound very different.

I've not seen qualifying but I have looked at the grid. Nice and mixed up.
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Just watched qualifying. Looks good.
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Post by Flow »

Can't believe Ricciardo got disqualified!!!

I've been an avid F1 fan since the late 70's & haven't missed a season!

I felt devastated by the new noise (or lack of it), but by the end of quali & the race I'd got used to it and was quite surprised when I caught a few seconds of a classic race just how the old cars screamed. That said Sky do need to turn up the audio level in the track mics just to give us a better sense of what's going on, right now it's like watching the TT-Zero race. You know they're going fast but without the sound it somehow just doesn't feel like it.
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