The Official Bahrain Grand Prix Thread

Now imagine if those "super smart" engineers and designer got their hands on a completely new set of regulations like...NEXT YEAR! 

Even next year is not a clean sheet design.

Neil Peart of Rush said it best with these lyrics:

When I feel the powerful visions
Their fire has made alive
I wish I had that instinct
I wish I had that drive
Spirits fly on dangerous missions
Imaginations on fire
Focused high on soaring ambitions
Consumed in a single desire
In the grip of
A nameless possession
A slave to the drive of obsession
A spirit with a vision
Is a dream with a mission

If their lives were
Exotic and strange
They would likely have
Gladly exchanged them
For something a little more plain
Maybe something a little more sane
We each pay a fabulous price
For our visions of paradise
But a spirit with a vision
Is a dream with a mission

EXACTLY I've known alot of super smart people that had zero ability to think outside the box. I tell the story of my cousin and his stent company trying to solve the problem of them becoming clogged up over time due to the way they expand and have 'edges' that the stuff clings too over time...I asked my cousin, one of their top Design Engineers 'why not coat the metal with something that super slippery so you either extend or eliminate the stuff sticking to the stent?' He looked at me like a light bulb went off and his company was the first to market with the coating!!! Now I get NOTHING for this except the ability to tell the story but it does show how some people can't see the forest because those damn trees are in the fricking way!!

Bottas says the car is undrivable - send in my favorite dog George Russell.

I keep getting this feeling that without Mercedes showing where they spent their tokens and with them still running their test configuration there's something they are still holding back on. It's like an extended test session and there's data gathering for a box of parts down the road.

I wouldn't be surprised if they ran a few hundred hours of "testing" on their chassis dyno in the last two weeks dialing everything in.

Actually I think they are looking further ahead. Bahrain means nothing to them in terms of the full season.

Same thing with the container ship jammed in the Suez canal, for decades traffic increased and ships got bigger yet no one pulled the trigger on dredging a second channel in that narrow section. Now 75-100 ships a day are backing up cutting fuel, goods and materials off from Europe and the US east coast. People that know what to do and people that know how to do it don't automatically share the same space in the world.