Formula 1 2019 Season - Car Launch Dates

[andburg]

not watched but seen a pic...someone confirm this is a 2018 spec car with 2019 wings? the bargeboard are seems too complex for a 2019 car to me

[l354uge]

andburg said:

not watched but seen a pic...someone confirm this is a 2018 spec car with 2019 wings? the bargeboard are seems too complex for a 2019 car to me

Yep not the 19 car.

[ajprice]

[Vaud]

That's a mess...

[Supersam83]

SportPesa Racing Point F1 2019 livery:

[l354uge]

There's certainly alot going on

[Supersam83]

Photos of the Red Bull Honda RB15 on track:

[DanielSan]

Well it runs

[PeXy]

Really don't like the little hole at end of nose..... reminds me of a little fish.

[StevieBee]

37chevy said:

Third title sponsor I’ve never heard of!!!!

But you have now. And that's sort of the point, is it not?

[37chevy]

StevieBee said:

But you have now. And that's sort of the point, is it not?

It is. Wasn’t necessarily a criticism, usually I’d see a title sponsor as a minor sponsor for a few years first though!

[Some Gump]

HustleRussell said:

These front wings are too wide and too long. Suspect we're going to see a lot of battles ended prematurely by front wing damage and punctures.

If it's on Grosjean, does it matter how wide it is? 😉

[Some Gump]

Googled sportpesa. First few links were.established bookies with advert text below the link.

Sportpesa, result 5, description "this site uses cookies"

Great work chaps, great work.

[tigerkoi]

37chevy said:

l354uge said:

So racing point now have a betting site (sportpesa?) as a title sponsor.

Liberty have already done a deal with a gambling site so It looks like the cancer of in match betting and accas is coming to F1. Ray Winston will be on the grid as a hologram in no time.

Third title sponsor I’ve never heard of!!!!

Rich Energy, ROK-whatnots etc you can potentially lump in with Leopold Energy and stuff like “eyesite” (the ‘interesting...’ sponsor of last years Austrian GP). But sportpesa is a well known brand sub-Sahara.

“Pesa”, Swahili for money. Sportpesa is just one of the many initiatives and businesses that flourished when a really innovative Kenyan effort cracked the code for easy banking in the bush. There’s a long history of British banks (just one example) trying to explore banking in countries like Kenya. Barclays with the old DCO, StanChart etc.

In the early 2000s, some clever guys just came up with their own banking network, piggybacking off the mobile phone operators, all managed from your Nokia whatever. Move money easily, pay off items in shops, etc. M-pesa is/was a game changer for underbanked countries, to the point that the big banks in the U.K. looked to them to launch their own easy tools, things like PingIt etc. that came out from 2012-on. A rare case of western companies learning something new off people just fixing a problem and African inventiveness.

sportpesa is legitimate. As in it’s a proper business. But just likely looking to permeate the brand in the West, as you’re unlikely to see the Mombasa GP or a race in Tanzania anytime soon.

@StevieBee - what do you think of “eyetime”? Do you think they’re credible?

[Some Gump]

Well, you learn something new every day!

Better tell the boys in the bitcoin thread that the solution they are claiming bitcoin will bring in future already exists, lol

[Sixpackpert]

tigerkoi said:

sportpesa is legitimate. As in it’s a proper business. But just likely looking to permeate the brand in the West, as you’re unlikely to see the Mombasa GP or a race in Tanzania anytime soon.

Sportpesa also sponsor Everton FC I believe.

[JonChalk]

tigerkoi said:

@StevieBee - what do you think of “eyetime”? Do you think they’re credible?

Not @StevieBee (obvs), but eyetime have been throwing themselves at MotoGP for a couple of years - Googled them once, saw the b*llocks rumours of a front for a Ponzi-like scheme, never thought of them again.

Got to admire their tenacity.

edit: This was the reddit thread I found last year: https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/8v8rpr/...

Edited by JonChalk on Wednesday 13th February 20:05

[tigerkoi]

Some Gump said:

Well, you learn something new every day!

Better tell the boys in the bitcoin thread that the solution they are claiming bitcoin will bring in future already exists, lol

Bitcoin and the blockchain...that’s soooo 2016 mannnnnnn!

For me, the problem with many of these bitcoin, ethereum whatever conversations, are that people are often say too quick and get entrenched in a ‘fundamentalist’ debate.

The thing with stuff like M-pesa was that people needed a solution, and just cracked on. There was no pursuit of ideals, just what could work. Just get it built.

An ex-colleague of mine left to become the “President and CEO” of a reasonably well known ‘new money, digital currency type” company. Loads of fanfare etc. But since then, you read all the murky reviews on places like Reddit, or mumblings that requests to return customers money haven’t been answered and you just want to shy away from this whole brave new world and stick to gold

There was Quadriga the other day, Startup season 3 is out now on Prime...enough!

It’d completely passed me by that sportpesa sponsored Everton. The power of advertising eh? I must have Sky Sports on most days and I swear I couldn’t tell you who sponsored who if you put a gun to my head.

[tigerkoi]

JonChalk said:

tigerkoi said:

@StevieBee - what do you think of “eyetime”? Do you think they’re credible?

Not @StevieBee (obvs), but eyetime have been throwing themselves at MotoGP for a couple of years - Googled them once, saw the b*llocks rumours of a front for a Ponzi-like scheme, never thought of them again.

Got to admire their tenacity.

edit: This was the reddit thread I found last year: https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/8v8rpr/...

Edited by JonChalk on Wednesday 13th February 20:05

Thanks JC. Tbf, my question was a leading one, in that I’d seen the same stuff as you about eyetime. And referring to StevieBee’s note about how F1 sponsorship propositions would be sifted through for credibility etc...well it’s something that I’d love to be further convinced on...

When taking in how umbrella bodies like FIFA or the IOC have operated in the last few years, then you’d have to hope the FIA & co are also run like some boy scout enterprise

Let’s be honest: we live in a world where image is everything, and anyone can create a YouTube video that talks of how they’ve made their millions in three easy steps, yet you have no idea who they are or where they’ve come from.

‘Credibility’ is such a stretchy word. After all there must be dozens of museums around the world that think they have Modiglianis. Yet they’re all de Horys. Some ‘expert’ curated that lot...

Funny old world.

[Bradgate]

The Racing Point livery is just a complete mess.

The car is pink, white, dark pink, red, navy blue, bright blue, yellow, grey & black.

It must be the worst F1 livery since the infamous Winfield Williams of the mid 90s.