C Plinius Secundus wrote:turbof1 wrote:I know this is the speculation topic and there is no real news about the car, but can we please find it in ourselves to talk about something else then the whiting of the car? One day guys, and it'll be over.
OK.
But you said it, there's no real data about the car, and maybe the speculation thread is almost "bone dry" because the teams are, IMHO, more efficient than in the past in keeping the secrecy around their projects. There are amost no leaks, no inside info, and when there is, it's usually a red herring... It would be interesting to know the companies in charge of their security.
IMO, that would actually be a much better discussion then what currently is. A few pages back (or in the team thread, don't remember exactly), we had a different discussion about the white part of livery: how it is hidden, subliminal tobacco advertising. That was actually a very functional discussion. The current discussion about the livery really gives me, and other members too for that matter, the impression it's solely there to have something to discuss. I think we can do better than that, no?
The off-season is admittingly also taking a long while. A few years back launches were one full month earlier. I'll be glad when we are tomorrow and the car is launches. Which by the way reminds me:
So tomorrow will be the official car launch. At that point I will close this speculation topic and open up the official car topic. The exception is when the car has a high suspicion to be the 2015 car. Either way, once we switched more stringent rules will come into place:
-Absolutely no livery talk in the car topic. Liveries are by nature topics assigned to the team thread, and should be discussed there. Posts about liveries in the car thread will be removed.
-Discussion about the car's hardware only. No discussion about the laptimes (should be discussed in the testing or race threads). No speculation or rumors towards future features of the car; no speculation about the competitive performance (car beats car B but car C, etc.). Such discussions will be removed as well.
-Discussion about the Power Unit should belong in its respective PU topic. How the car's chassis and bodywork is adapted to it remains in the car thread, but pure features of the PU don't go there. Since this is quite a grey area, we will not remove transgressions on that front, but will move them when appropiate.
Gents, that might sound strict and is infact so, but this is done to safeguard the topic quality. We will be very thorough about that this year! If you don't find anything worthwhile to post, please resist the urge and do not post. There is nothing wrong with that and is infact the better option when there's nothing new. 
