Good technical sites for new season?

Good technical sites for new season?

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Some Gump

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12,671 posts

185 months

Monday 17th February 2020
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A few years ago, there were loads of great sites on the net giving fantastic insights in pre season launch stuff:
ScarbsF1 - the ever entertaining Craig Scarbrough, who's output is now paywalled on autosport.
Somersf1 - featuring great drawings and insight from antonio panullo. Or maybe georgia piola.
The "other one" of georgio p and antonio p was also on another site, but i binned the old laptop and don't have the link anymore.

Now, although somersf1 is still good, he's gone down the youtube route. It's understandable, presumably there's no money in niche heavy tech analysis of launch cars in "traditional" form.

Is anyone else doing them these days? I miss the explanations of why wing x was there, or how a change to a bargeboard proves that the front wing is a placeholder and will be different on race day etc. Hell, i think these type of sites identified the f duct lre season (although they didn't identify how it worked until after the testing).

Any links gratefully received smile

TheDeuce

21,274 posts

65 months

Monday 17th February 2020
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I think most of the guys worth listening to have taken their knowledge and place it on youtube or podcasts etc, as you say, it's the easy way to monetise their contributions.

Did you watch pre-season last year? Sky's own coverage went fairly deep in the cars design and what's working and why. They had so much airtime to fill, they had no option but to resort to giving the technical lowdown in a good amount of detail.

also youtube (sorry) https://www.youtube.com/user/F1Elvis is currently putting up videos looking at each new car in detail.

ajprice

27,319 posts

195 months

Monday 17th February 2020
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Seconded for Marc Priestley's (F1Elvis) youtube channel. Craig Scarborough posts videos on Peter Windsor's channel https://www.youtube.com/user/peterwindsor/videos

C2Red

3,961 posts

252 months

Monday 17th February 2020
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ajprice said:
Seconded for Marc Priestley's (F1Elvis) youtube channel. Craig Scarborough posts videos on Peter Windsor's channel https://www.youtube.com/user/peterwindsor/videos
Marc’s also quite quick in responding to questions I’ve found; quite enjoyable videos

Some Gump

Original Poster:

12,671 posts

185 months

Monday 17th February 2020
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Thanks guys smile


Piginapoke

4,736 posts

184 months

Tuesday 18th February 2020
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F1technical.com is the place if you like the detail.

Scarbs on YouTube is also excellent.

dunc_sx

1,607 posts

196 months

Tuesday 18th February 2020
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TheDeuce said:
https://www.youtube.com/user/F1Elvis is currently putting up videos looking at each new car in detail.
Good shout had missed this thanks

andburg

7,214 posts

168 months

Tuesday 18th February 2020
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another vote for Elvis, had 2/3 questions picked up by him now.
Just tweet with #askelvis for any specifics

rdjohn

6,135 posts

194 months

Tuesday 18th February 2020
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If you like to get really technical, then http://mccabism.blogspot.com is a must. Also includes views which are not about F1, but he always has an interesting viewpoint.

Definitely not someone just looking at a a Sutton images and second guessing what the effect of a new turning vane might be for.

AlexS

1,550 posts

231 months

Tuesday 18th February 2020
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TheDeuce said:
I think most of the guys worth listening to have taken their knowledge and place it on youtube or podcasts etc, as you say, it's the easy way to monetise their contributions.

Did you watch pre-season last year? Sky's own coverage went fairly deep in the cars design and what's working and why. They had so much airtime to fill, they had no option but to resort to giving the technical lowdown in a good amount of detail.

also youtube (sorry) https://www.youtube.com/user/F1Elvis is currently putting up videos looking at each new car in detail.
Be interesting to see what technical coverage Sky provide this year as they providing live coverage of each test day instead of just a catch-up at the end of the day.

TheDeuce

21,274 posts

65 months

Tuesday 18th February 2020
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AlexS said:
Be interesting to see what technical coverage Sky provide this year as they providing live coverage of each test day instead of just a catch-up at the end of the day.
More than the 5 hours they managed each day last year? If they have to do the whole day that's a lot of air time to chatter through!

Bring it on. I decorated two bedrooms last year listening to the coverage smile