2023 Bahrain Grand Prix - Sakhir, March 03 - 05

[fourmula1]

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Expecting RB to run away with this one, but Fer and Merc don’t seem too troubled by it. I get the sense they genuinely think they can catch up in season.

[johnny comelately]

[Stu]

Tick, tock; tick, tock; tick, tock….

[search]

looks like f1.com has disabled the "old" live timing, leaving us only with the more fancy new one. Not a good start

[InsaneX_Badger]

The first practice session just has that something extra feeling, the show and circus is about to begin

[InsaneX_Badger]

How much green do you want your helmet to have George?

George: Yes.

[johnny comelately]

All this because:
Internal combustion engines date back to between the 10th and 13th centuries, when the first rocket engines were invented in China. Following the first commercial steam engine (a type of external combustion engine) in 1698, various efforts were made during the 18th century to develop equivalent internal combustion engines. In 1791, the English inventor John Barber patented a gas turbine. In 1794, Thomas Mead patented a gas engine. Also in 1794, Robert Street patented an internal-combustion engine, which was also the first to use liquid fuel (petroleum) and built an engine around that time. In 1798, John Stevens designed the first American internal combustion engine. In 1807, French engineers Nicéphore and Claude Niépce ran a prototype internal combustion engine, using controlled dust explosions, the Pyréolophore. This engine powered a boat on the river in France. The same year, the Swiss engineer François Isaac de Rivaz built and patented a hydrogen and oxygen-powered internal-combustion engine. Fitted to a crude four-wheeled wagon, François Isaac de Rivaz first drove it 100 meters in 1813, thus making history as the first car-like vehicle known to have been powered by an internal-combustion engine.

[organic]

[SiLo]

FP1! FP1! I am excited.

[organic]

they have mounted Max's helmetcam upside down

[Big Tea]

All this because:
Internal combustion engines date back to between the 10th and 13th centuries, when the first rocket engines were invented in China. Following the first commercial steam engine (a type of external combustion engine) in 1698, various efforts were made during the 18th century to develop equivalent internal combustion engines. In 1791, the English inventor John Barber patented a gas turbine. In 1794, Thomas Mead patented a gas engine. Also in 1794, Robert Street patented an internal-combustion engine, which was also the first to use liquid fuel (petroleum) and built an engine around that time. In 1798, John Stevens designed the first American internal combustion engine. In 1807, French engineers Nicéphore and Claude Niépce ran a prototype internal combustion engine, using controlled dust explosions, the Pyréolophore. This engine powered a boat on the river in France. The same year, the Swiss engineer François Isaac de Rivaz built and patented a hydrogen and oxygen-powered internal-combustion engine. Fitted to a crude four-wheeled wagon, François Isaac de Rivaz first drove it 100 meters in 1813, thus making history as the first car-like vehicle known to have been powered by an internal-combustion engine.

There was a version of 'Hero's engine' heated by hot coals inside a barrel with 'jets', surely that counts as an internal combustion?

[proteus]

they have mounted Max's helmetcam upside down

https://i.imgur.com/7ufSmW3.png

They probably just used the wrong camera, this one was intended for Australian GP

[bas550]

I'm far from a Lewis fan but since the FIA has refused to apply their own rules, just needs to change their wording in the regs: "we do not recommend the use of piercings due to risk x y z, by entering events with piercings you accept any and all damage done is at your own risk".

Done and dusted.

[InsaneX_Badger]

they have mounted Max's helmetcam upside down

https://i.imgur.com/7ufSmW3.png

How kind for the Australian and New Zealand viewers

[mzivtins]

FP1 of the first race of the season and we already have pundits talking directly over team radios.

This is going to be another painful year.