Wasn’t that the SS Minnow Harbourside? Toot Toot,
Ahoy Mateys!
It’s a strange world we live in, although suppose
I should be glad that Formula One’s finally being recognized Stateside.
Although it makes me wonder how come I discovered it Wayback in Gory 1986, Huh?
Whilst if I did ever come across Der Terminator’, nee Michael Schumacher in the
U.S. during the late ‘90’s or early oughts’ I totally would have recognized Him,
Ja Volt!
http://www.nofenders.net/2009/11/schueys-legend-is-born.html
Whilst it now seems like a lifetime ago I was
attending my Debutante Formula 1 race, the maiden Iceberg Grand Prix in The
Valley of The Sun some Gory 33 years ago, Crikeys!
http://www.nofenders.net/2014/06/retro-phoenixs-debutant-formula-1-race.html
I have Never pretended to be an Engineer, and
No, I Don’t typically stay at Holiday Inn’s either, Hya! But it seems somewhat
Apropos that F1 is headed to Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium’s Parking lot racetrack,
where Porpoising is the current Buzz Word in Formula 1! Since after all, Don’t
the Miami Dolphins play some ‘lil ‘Ol Pigskin games Thar, Botta Boom, Chuh
Ching!
What bothers me most about this Pogo Stick phenomenon
of bouncing Up ‘N Down race circuits straightaways, is that Formula 1 bills
itself as the Pinnacle of Motorsport! And this Bouncy Bounce routine, which Austin
F1 Sherpa Claudio’ told me you could see All of the cars doing repeatedly at
Imola is simply embarrassing for such a Technological Sport!
For Mwah, the easy fix would be for the FIA to
mandate the chassis being raised slightly off the ground, which I know would
alter the intended Ground Effects and potentially slow the Cars down, slightly.
Although F1 Engineers have a reputation of prodigiously clawing back Speed
yearly…
Whilst I believe that Racer’s Marshall Pruett
said that Indy Cars solved this similar problem by simply installing stiffer
springs to cancel out the Porpoising…
Yet that sounds like a Horrible solution for
the Drivers! While I take Mercedes George Russell’s comments seriously about
how the F1 Drivers cannot sustain the physical effects of Porpoising over an
entire 23 Grands Prix season! With the lanky Englishman noting how He’d
suffered real Back and Chest Pain at Imola inflicted by the Mercedes W13’s
Harsh Porpoising tendencies.
As this made me wonder out loud, are Old Racing
Drivers like Cripled NFL Players afterwards, needing Walkers to get round? Not
to mention having top line Dentists on Speed Dial to fix All of Thar teeth and
fillings lost over the Bumps!
Along with Back Specialists, meaning I guess it’s
a good thingy’ they get the Mega Millions contracts up front, El Correctomundo?
As something technically needs to be mandated
in order to solve this Aerodynamic problem, which apparently Didn’t show up in
All of the Super Computer CFD Modeling and Wind Tunnel testing, which seems a Wee Bitamyte’ Odd to
Mwah. Although perhaps we’ll All be noticing the Bogo Stick routine more along
Hard Rock Drive vs. those incoming waves and Sea Breezes Harbourside, Ahoy?
So did Y’all notice Lake Rock Hard’s scenic Harbour
trackside Sunday? As the Turn 7 Faux Marina has to be the Silliest part of the entire
race circuit layout for Mwah!
As I’d already read about the various pleasure
Yachts Not being able to go Anywhere, since Thars No Bloody lake! But then I
read that there’s Not even any water in this Artificial lake, and it’s just
some Faux Seafoam Blue material instead. With the land locked Yachts having
been trucked in just for this event!
Thus being Blind, I won’t be able to discern if
there were any Party Goers aboard these Mega Yachts? Although they would make a
novel “grandstand” Seating option for the weekend. As why not “Plumb” them with
lavatories and Bars for those who can afford them, Eh?
Especially due to the exorbitant F1 ticket prices!
Since after all, this is a Parking lot race circuit, although Hopefully NO Caesars
Palace Rinky Dink layout!
Whilst I believe I’ve read somewheres’ that the
inaugural Miami Grand Prix is Sold Out capped at 80,000 Attendance and that tickets
started at $900.00, aye Karumba! Having just read that Friday Only’s General
Admission ticket cost $300!
Although I do recall the excitement and desire of
attending an inaugural Grands Prix which I’ve Done twice, i.e.; Arizona’s 1989 June
4th “Sweatfest” and the 2012 Circuit Of The Americas F1 “launch”
event!
But I certainly Hope that they won’t pull
another El Stupidio rope A-Dope Let’s Get Ready to Rumble in the Jungle Red
Carpet Drivers intro like Liberty Media pulled once in Austin, which was Epically
Dumb!
And having “watched,” Err listened to the
various Formula 1 teams Drivers in Thar Stetson Hats participating in lassoing
competitions at COTA, does this mean F1 Drivers will be required to Wrassle
Gators inMiami?
Thus for Mwah, I’m more intrigued over the two
differing Chassis Designs currently leading the way in F1. Which once again,
Not being an Engineer, I only have a rudimentary understanding of the
differences between the de riggour Push Rod Front suspension layout vs. Pull rod
suspension, which presumably the latter sits lower on the chassis’s “Nose” and
gives “cleaner” Aerodynamics for the rest of the Car?
I only bring this up since our current F1 Constructors
and Drivers Points leader Scuderia Ferrari is running the conventional Push Rod
layout vs. second place Red Bull’s Pull rod layout. But as we also know, it’s the
entire package layout that makes a racecar successful, i.e.; Chassis, Aerodynamics,
engine and Driver, albeit Don’t know which is most important?
Much has been made over Ferrari’s resurgence being
tied to their engine’s “Power” revival. Whilst Red Bull’s Honda derived lump’
isn’t No Slouch either, with the mighty Mercedes powered teams seeming to be
suffering most so far this season…
And with two dare I say it? Fairly equal
drivers at Thar respective keyboards, Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Red Bull’s
Max Verstappen were knotted 2-2 in Grands Prix victories prior to Miami.
Hence, with All of the Gimmickery of Faux Harbours
and monumentous Hype being engineered by Liberty Media for it’s debut Miami
race, far away from it’s intended Downtown Waterfront Haunt. I sincerely Hope
the race lives up to All it’s being made out for. Since it seems a long ways
from the Downtown Streets of Phoenix, Arizona and nearby Ostrich Festivals. For
which when I think of the words Miami Grand Prix, I immediately think of the
CART/PPG IndyCar races at Tamiammi Park and Arse-sumedly where Liberty Media
wanted to be; On Biscayne Bay Boulevard, where the late Ralph Sanchez first
brought IMSA GTP Sports Cars in 1983. Which even saw ‘Ol Hollywood’, aka Danny
Sullivan starring in another typically ludicrous episode of Miami Vice as a racing driver No
less! As Queue the Miami vice theme music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jswHsTJQL_c&t=4s
Not to mention a short lived spell of CART/PPG IndyCar World Series races run thru Tamiami Park in the mid-1980’s, before Sanchez’s permanent Homestead Miami Speedway facility opened in November, 1995, serving as Indy Cars season finale for several years…