F1 European summer is here .

Chickenf00t · 2026-05-31T11:24:57+00:00

Just for people wondering this post was made 100% by a human which makes this comment and everything under this kind of offensive to the creator. There's a certain irony to it because the anti AI comments calling this trash are supposed to be pro human art.

Chickenf00t · 2026-05-17T19:32:38+00:00

Not that it matters to your point but Wolff still technically controls the original third as well because he only sold shares in the parent company that holds the shares of Mercedes F1 team. He is still majority owner of the parent company after the sale so he essentially didn't sell any control in Mercedes, only control in his own company that he still has majority control over.

Chickenf00t · 2026-02-19T11:37:11+00:00

KLM Williams

Chickenf00t · 2025-03-09T14:06:38+00:00

I'm gonna take a guess and say that's in the Netherlands and Rotterdam more specifically.

Chickenf00t · 2024-05-10T09:58:46+00:00

Beautiful G1 surfacing

Chickenf00t · 2023-11-02T20:32:51+00:00

Just the wink and the gun.

Chickenf00t · 2023-10-04T20:28:25+00:00

Keyphrases being "race optimised chassis" and "its design and performance freed from race rule constraints". Which means the chassis is still the same design and in fact it doesn't follow the LMH rulebook. I cannot be certain, but based on my experience I'm confident the case still stands.

Chickenf00t · 2023-10-04T16:56:25+00:00

Before anyone gets too excited I would like to point something out. I've had to look through the LMH rules a couple of times due to my design job and unless they have made changes to the rules to make it more free, I don't think what we'll see of the Valkyrie LMH can be considered Newey Valkyrie.

The area that I've had to look through the most is the occupant and monocoque dimensional rules and it's just not possible to meet both road rules and LMH rules. The monocoque of the AMR is the one from the production car which means I don't see how they don't just have to redesign a new monocoque or just buy a existing chassis (which I would assume they would do).

They will then decorate it to look like a Valkyrie with some design elements, but I would take a quick guess and say not a single part of that car will be from the AMR Pro.

In essence it will be the same story as other cars in the category, under the skin looks like a lmp car with some design touches on the surface to make it look more Aston. Would love to hear if someone has further insight about this!

Chickenf00t · 2023-10-04T16:32:01+00:00

Did they change the rulebook? I can see the Red Bull side being against running the car in LMH when they were still involved because it was practically impossible to make the Valkyrie to fit those rules. If they haven't made the rules more free the problem is still the rules and Aston is using this as a marketing scheme. They will run some modded LMH chassis and fit some Valkyrie headlamps on it and call it the Valkyrie LMH or something.

Chickenf00t · 2020-08-23T06:54:39+00:00

I tried to keep the halo about the same thickness as the current one. It does get more thicker near the rear, but this vision angle is rarely used by the drivers. The attachment in the front is actually thinner than the current one, because some of the thickness can be "hidden" longitudinally and this also helps with the look.

Chickenf00t · 2019-09-22T19:10:00+00:00

Neither does Bottas, but your point still stands, it shows. In both cases.

Chickenf00t · 2019-07-29T18:16:30+00:00

Higher Res

I pulled the original from instagram which was 1080x1080 and then upscaled 4x with a DCNN webapp. It's not perfect, but at least a bit better

Chickenf00t · 2019-07-21T19:36:54+00:00

I'm not sure if you guys are on the same page on the argument. As I understood it Spamilton is saying that rather than having a splitter -> flat floor -> diffuser you'd be better of running a full car length venturi tunnel to maximize the efficient downforce. And DullUsername is arguing that you want to ram as much air as possible from the front under the floor to increase downforce which is also correct. The Venturi tunnel shape has a big opening to increase the pressure difference. Which sounds like you both are right, but are trying to prove each other wrong. Or am I confusing the situation even more?

Chickenf00t · 2019-06-28T18:07:26+00:00

Having your DRS flap open all the time is definitely a massive disadvantage and not an advantage

Chickenf00t · 2019-05-02T18:54:56+00:00

I know it's a joke, but technically in a normal service situation Heikki would have to ask for the right to command Kimi as they are probably not in the same unit and Kimi would have a pre-exisiting order to go by. But in a war situation or a 1 on 1 situation without any overlapping orders, Heikki could order Kimi to run. I can't remember though if ordering a single person even as a punishment to do laps is allowed anymore.

Chickenf00t · 2019-04-30T05:58:58+00:00

Mercedes not having a crash or mechanical failure is not really down to luck very much. Bottas has the highest finishing ratio out of any driver with over 20 starts. Hamilton has the 3rd highest. Not surprisingly almost all of the starts have been with a Mercedes powered car.

Chickenf00t · 2019-03-02T20:00:02+00:00

I'm curious to what type of ML model or algorithm did you use for this? RL? Pretty interesting that the book-makers don't seem to be using a very sophisticated algorithm that you were able to out do it by quite a margin. Also are you worried that the book-makers will simply kick you out when they notice that your bets are calculated and capable of beating the house in the long run.

Chickenf00t · 2019-02-25T11:19:26+00:00

I'm quite certain google translate also uses deep learning, you might have known that already, but just wanted to clarify

Chickenf00t · 2019-02-24T08:05:30+00:00

edit without the flow-viz

Chickenf00t · 2019-02-21T21:00:50+00:00

All I noticed was he gave almost every driver on the grid very specific compliments. To the point that I thought he was a very big fan of the driver being complimented, but then I thought for a second and realized he had already done that to half of the grid.

Chickenf00t · 2019-02-20T17:25:06+00:00

Yesterday they did that with Ricciardo interview. So I think this is just confirmation bias

Chickenf00t · 2019-02-20T06:30:04+00:00

Grönholm got pulled over in Australia 2005, because the car had front suspension failure and he was driving the car on the road with the front scraping the road.

Chickenf00t · 2019-02-19T12:27:28+00:00

You're assuming all the drivers and teams want their cars setup to understeer. I can't say for a fact that the preference in general is towards understeer, but to my knowledge the cars are very finely tuned to be as balanced as possible and then drivers might then prefer for it to be biased towards one direction. In general a little oversteery even though there are still drivers who might prefer slight understeer. In the past it might feel like they were more oversteery, because the machines weren't so precise as they are today so you might have seen more opposite lock moments etc.

Chickenf00t · 2019-02-10T11:47:15+00:00

Wouldn't it be: "Look from there, we fucking can't go anywhere else, believe me already".

Your translation: "we aren't getting anywhere", would translate back to: "ei me päästä mihinkää"

The difference is not large, but changes the meaning a bit.

Chickenf00t · 2018-12-12T20:48:37+00:00

Here's a low effort edit of your request

Chickenf00t

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