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Passinwind
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Toto Wolff, Lewis Hamilton and George Russell take flight in Barcelona with Ben Ainslie’s INEOS Britannia
Today, Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team drivers Lewis Hamilton and George Russell with Team Principal and CEO Toto Wolff visited INEOS Britannia at their base in Barcelona as preparations continue ahead of the 37th America’s Cup.
www.ineos.com
I know Max took a ride on the Swiss/Red Bull boat as well.
Those are the first pics I've seen of the new AC 75 spec. Wow, those are rocket ships on water (barely). Too bad the coverage for US-based viewers appears to be either 24-hour delay streaming from the AC website or subscribing to ESPN+.
Passinwind
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You can watch all of it in real time for free with a VPN. The one built into the Opera browser works OK, but a real one like Proton, etc. works even better. The YouTube feed tends to be more consistent for HD streaming, but the AC site still gives me 1080P on a modest (100 MB) interweb pipe. First races have mostly been at 5AM here though, but full race replays are enabled very quickly. If you go back to the last couple of days before today those were among the windiest races and the sea state was pretty gnarly too.Those are the first pics I've seen of the new AC 75 spec. Wow, those are rocket ships on water (barely). Too bad the coverage for US-based viewers appears to be either 24-hour delay streaming from the AC website or subscribing to ESPN+.
Thanks for that info. I guess I'm just a little sad they aren't making much effort to try and expand their audience anymore as I thought they'd made some pretty good inroads with some of the past events and the excellent coverage provided, like in Bermuda. I kind of figured part of the intent behind the mods to the AC 75 spec was to make the boats better able to handle low wind situations and in so doing mitigate the potential dullness factor for TV. FFS I see "Tag" as a "sport" broadcast on ESPN/ESPN2 but people racing $10M boats at ~50+ mph isn't appealing enough? Maybe if they ran into each other more and then got into fights on the docks afterwards, you know NASCAR-ize it. Oh well, it's just the way things are I suppose.
Passinwind
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This generation of the AC75 can get going in 7.5 knots of wind and keep foiling down to around 5 in lulls. But it’s been windier than expected in Barcelona much of the time and they’ve actually had to wait for the wind to calm down a few times. As a longtime high wind windsurfer, quitting at under 25 knots makes me laugh a little, but those guys have no small foil options and only so much latitude on sail size.
After Bermuda the AC50 boats were repurposed in one design format for Sail GP and Larry Ellison took the awesome proprietary graphic analysis package over there, for better or worse. Sail GP runs fleet races with 8-10 boats and they are comparable to the AC 75 in top speed. Lots of carnage! The AC50s have alternate wings for low and high wind days, and they can also run non-foiling and still make somewhat better headway than the 75s. But yeah, still a hard sell to the NASCAB crew.
Oh right, I've followed them but it was my understanding that this AC (and all the preceding LV) was based on a tweak to the AC 75 (AC 75 V2.0, if you will) with one of the primary intents being improved abilities for light wind sailing (while reducing crew size). Of course Mother Nature never cares what our plans are so it stands to reason that HIGH winds would be the order of the day now that it's time to sail.
Each time the AC 50's were here I walked over to Navy Pier to watch. The first year the provisional practice rounds on Friday (with high winds and at least one capsize, not all that far from the pier's viewing area) ended up counting because by Sunday all the races were scrapped due to doldrums. That's Chicago weather for you!
I'm waiting the ink to dry and Andretti stepping out of the shadows saying "by the way it's gonna be called Andretti F1 Racing."
Will he have top 'merikan drivers in the team. His own F1 driving career was a disaster!
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The can buy the same moveable talent as anyone else if their pockets are sufficiently deep, and if they actually follow through on forming F2 and F3 feeder teams, as they say they're going to do, that's a whole lot of moveable talent they're going to need to buy!
I don't know of any genuinely F1 worthy American drivers right now, do you? Personally, for the time being I'm more interested in seeing where the Toyota/Haas connection goes.
Entertaining race. I really don’t like that massive 10 second pit on Lando considering it was effectively 34 seconds total. That’s bordering on meddling.
He would not have gotten a penalty that big if he had caused a crash.
He would not have gotten a penalty that big if he had caused a crash.
There were lots way too big a hit, penatly-wise throughout the race IMO. What's up with the new racing director? Yeah, it's the stweards who make the call but this seems way out of line, overall.
Disregarding all that it was a fantastic race.
Disregarding all that it was a fantastic race.
Lots of highs, lows and surprises on Sunday and this entire season. I am appreciating that the Constructor's will not be decided until the last race, keeps things so much more interesting at this point of the season.
Who had McLaren and Ferrari on their bingo card?
Or that ridiculous 10 second stop go? Even the commentators were confused if the yellow flag was out and they ain't driving a car at 200+ mph.
Who had McLaren and Ferrari on their bingo card?
Or that ridiculous 10 second stop go? Even the commentators were confused if the yellow flag was out and they ain't driving a car at 200+ mph.
Got some spare cash?
www.citizen.co.za
Bernie Ecclestone to sell historic F1 car collection worth millions [VIDEO] | The Citizen
Ecclestone, known as the Godfather of Formula 1, built an original collection of F1 and Grand Prix cars during his 70-year career.
www.citizen.co.za
Got some spare cash?
Bernie Ecclestone to sell historic F1 car collection worth millions [VIDEO] | The Citizen
Ecclestone, known as the Godfather of Formula 1, built an original collection of F1 and Grand Prix cars during his 70-year career.
I've already got my Ferrari F1 car.
Cadillac did well in Prototype racing. I look forward to seeing a new team. I was pretty sure for a while that Haas was just a tax dodge. They were not being at all competitive.
