Motosport General discussion tread --- Formula1, MotoGP, WTCC, ETCC, DTM.....

[ziyaaa]

I more liked Mercedes silver livery than this black. But for me 2021 design looks better than 2020. Added red looks good, and green color of their sponsor looks more bright.
BTW, how do you like Aloine F1 design?:
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For me it's probably best looking car, especially because most teams haven't made significant changes. Also, it looks very similar to Manor F1 car, one of worst teams in last decade . It will be a bit strange to not see that yellow-black Renault car on the grid.

I think it is absolutely the best designed car in F1 right now. I loved every details of it. Fernando Alonso is really lucky that he will have a very nice-looking car like this by coming back to F1 after a long time. 

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Aston Martin is out too!



Source: https://twitter.com/astonmartin/status/1367132698268082178


Remember this is the old Pink Mercedes, Racing point, Force India.

[Expecto]

Aston Martin is out too!

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Source: https://twitter.com/astonmartin/status/1367132698268082178


Remember this is the old Pink Mercedes, Racing point, Force India.

I never loved the pink car to be honest. The new looking is absolutely better now and I liked the green color. So far, the design I like the most is Alpine's. I can add this to the second place in my list. And the third is the new design of Haas which was revealed today. You can find it on the link below btw.

https://twitter.com/HaasF1Team/status/1367386180388593664?s=20

[tokeweed]

Aston Martin is out too!



Source: https://twitter.com/astonmartin/status/1367132698268082178


Remember this is the old Pink Mercedes, Racing point, Force India.

Classic British racing green!  That’s sooo nice.  I think it’ll hard not to root for Vettel to do well with his new team.    Wishing him at 10th and up at the grid every week.

All these cars are nice looking.  Can’t wait to see what RBR looks like...

[swogerino]

The designer himself posted a pic in instagram asking which from the four designs was the best and I voted for a really bright green which surely would have been awesome to be on track.Nevertheless I see they decided to go with good old ex Jaguar livery in F1 and that is great too.

Alpine for me has the best design so far from all the cars of F1 and I am saying this objectively as I am not one of their fans.

[AakZaki]

Even though I was a little late, I was happy with the style of Vale and Morbidelli's motorbike. It looks bright and attractive. I hope Vale is still able to compete at its old age. Another news Yamaha had the arrival of former Honda racer Cal Crutchlow. He's recently retired, and he's arrived as a test racer for Yamaha this season. Maybe this will provide good input for the development of Yamaha.
In addition, I heard about Vale thinking about retiring by looking at the results of this year's race. He will make a decision during the next summer vacation.

Source: https://www.motogp.com/en/news/2021/03/03/at-42-years-rossi-s-desire-to-compete-stronger-than-ever/362306

[tokeweed]

The designer himself posted a pic in instagram asking which from the four designs was the best and I voted for a really bright green which surely would have been awesome to be on track.Nevertheless I see they decided to go with good old ex Jaguar livery in F1 and that is great too.

Alpine for me has the best design so far from all the cars of F1 and I am saying this objectively as I am not one of their fans.

Yup me too..  and I’m not a fan of their numero uno driver either.    For some reason Alonso puts me off.  Maybe it’s his vibe or something.  He seems stiff and snobby irl.  Lol.  I’m looking forward to watch Ocon tho.

Edit:  Does anybody want to play the F1 prediction game in Superbru?  Just for fun.

[Koal-84]

Even though I was a little late, I was happy with the style of Vale and Morbidelli's motorbike. It looks bright and attractive. I hope Vale is still able to compete at its old age. Another news Yamaha had the arrival of former Honda racer Cal Crutchlow. He's recently retired, and he's arrived as a test racer for Yamaha this season. Maybe this will provide good input for the development of Yamaha.
In addition, I heard about Vale thinking about retiring by looking at the results of this year's race. He will make a decision during the next summer vacation.

Source: https://www.motogp.com/en/news/2021/03/03/at-42-years-rossi-s-desire-to-compete-stronger-than-ever/362306

That's also my opinion and think the Petronas Yamaha looks better than the factory team. And petronas makes many merchandising money with Rossi this years. And hope for good results for Petronas team.

[LTU_btc]

Aston Martin looks more less similar like I imagined. Classic their green, it should look great on track. But how guys do you like Haas design? Nikita Mazepin won't be allowed to use Russian flag because of ban by WADA. So, they decided to paint whole car with Russian flags:

All these cars are nice looking.  Can’t wait to see what RBR looks like...

I don't want to disappoint you, but their car will look almost same like last year, it would be difficult to spot 10 differences:
https://www.racefans.net/2021/02/23/first-pictures-red-bull-reveals-its-new-rb16b-f1-car-for-2021/

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I like the Haas. They are keeping the similar wing of Ferrari.
If I'm not mistaken Alfa changed to a "Mercedes" similar front wing with a flat nose. So will have only Ferrari and Haas with this kind of nose now.

Ferrari also is the last car presented and it will be on the 10th of this month, not clear the reason, are they late?

Tomorrow is the turn of Williams.

[Spack17]

Aston Martin looks more less similar like I imagined. Classic their green, it should look great on track. But how guys do you like Haas design? Nikita Mazepin won't be allowed to use Russian flag because of ban by WADA. So, they decided to paint whole car with Russian flags:

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I think it can be quite weird for Mick Schumacher to drive an F1 car with a Russian flag on it as he is German.    He doesn't seem like he is unhappy about the new design according to his tweet yesterday but he could maybe not very content with it.

SOURCE: https://twitter.com/SchumacherMick/status/1367435085956407296?s=20

[Koal-84]

Very good news for MotoGP fans from Eastern Europe. There will be a Grand Prix in Hungary from the 2023 season. As far as the new built Grand Prix looks, it could turn out to be an exciting live Grand Prix. It is supposed to be located near Debrecen and will also be easily accessible for fans from Slovakia, Ukraine and Romania.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/racing/top-stories/hungarian-gp-gets-green-light-for-motogp-2023-season/articleshow/81335103.cms

[dre1982]

Aston Martin looks more less similar like I imagined. Classic their green, it should look great on track. But how guys do you like Haas design? Nikita Mazepin won't be allowed to use Russian flag because of ban by WADA. So, they decided to paint whole car with Russian flags:

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I think it can be quite weird for Mick Schumacher to drive an F1 car with a Russian flag on it as he is German.    He doesn't seem like he is unhappy about the new design according to his tweet yesterday but he could maybe not very content with it.

SOURCE: https://twitter.com/SchumacherMick/status/1367435085956407296?s=20

Well Haas claims that the design was already approved before Mazepin signed at Haas. https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/haas-claims-russian-flag-car-livery-not-a-result-of-wada-ruling/5578405/

[Cnut237]

All these cars are nice looking.  Can’t wait to see what RBR looks like...

Yes, I'm waiting for Red Bull, too. They're being really secretive... so either they have some amazingly innovative new design that they don't want anyone else copying, or else they want to pretend they have
But I think we are all suspecting that once they start racing, Mercedes will pull away from the rest. Remember that the main reason Red Bull were able to close the gap in the second half of last season was that Mercedes had already stopped developing their 2020 car to start on the 2021 iteration... so Mercedes, the best developers, already had months of headstart on the other teams...

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We now have Williams too, missing only the Ferrari they will be the last team next week 



Source: https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12476/12236441/williams-reveal-new-look-for-f1-2021-with-fw43b-car-images-online-after-vr-launch-hacked

[Bilgent]

We now have Williams too, missing only the Ferrari they will be the last team next week 



Source: https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12476/12236441/williams-reveal-new-look-for-f1-2021-with-fw43b-car-images-online-after-vr-launch-hacked

I have seen some people on the internet who didn't like this new look but I actually liked it. The car seems more vivid now. Btw, the new look was already leaked before the introduction of Williams but I still wanted to see it officially. 

[swogerino]

All these cars are nice looking.  Can’t wait to see what RBR looks like...

Yes, I'm waiting for Red Bull, too. They're being really secretive... so either they have some amazingly innovative new design that they don't want anyone else copying, or else they want to pretend they have
But I think we are all suspecting that once they start racing, Mercedes will pull away from the rest. Remember that the main reason Red Bull were able to close the gap in the second half of last season was that Mercedes had already stopped developing their 2020 car to start on the 2021 iteration... so Mercedes, the best developers, already had months of headstart on the other teams...

On the contrary, I expect some competition at the very beginning of the season, and then again the superiority of Mercedes, because it really has the best engineers and its own engine, the capabilities of which they know best. Red Bull with all due respect is still a customer team about the engine and I'm not sure that the support of the engine on its own due to the departure of Honda will go smoothly and without consequences.

As far as I know Honda will be staying until the year 2024 at least this is what I read all over a simple google search.So from this point I think Red Bull has chosen the best partner for their engine as we know Honda has improved a lot lately and even won a few races.

[AakZaki]

Very good news for MotoGP fans from Eastern Europe. There will be a Grand Prix in Hungary from the 2023 season.
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Two more years is a little longer. Even though the original plan, if I'm not mistaken, was ready for 2022. It looks like the effects of the pandemic are making things change. I'm curious about the character of the circuit, because I haven't found the image yet. Debrecen looks like the location of a newly built circuit. Hopefully their circuit is more challenging than ever. In addition, I read that there was a MotoGP in 1992 at the Hungaroring Circuit. Surely they have been waiting for almost 30 years. With the agreement that this will certainly have a positive financial impact for Hungary and Dorna.

[Cnut237]

I expect some competition at the very beginning of the season, and then again the superiority of Mercedes

I want to see real competition, but have a feeling that the advantage of best 2020 car plus most development time on the 2021 version will give Mercedes a big headstart which will mean easy initial victories, and then, if they cease development midway through the season, we'll see the same second half as 2020, with other teams starting to close the gap.

I hope to be proven wrong of course, as a one team procession does not make for the most exciting racing.

[coinlocket$]

Reminder, 5 days at the only test session of this year.

From this year for cutting costs, we will have only 1 session of 3 days of test.
In my opinion, this is a bulls**t, if a team will ending with 1 problem they will need to skip almost every available test before the start of the season.

It makes no sense.

The start of the season in 3 weeks-ish.