Dev Chaphekar

petrol head/ motorsports/formula student

[kd🚀 @mercsogyny]

Those stupid fucking cars robbed us of 4 years of Hamilton at this level my head is steaming

[evo magazine @evomagazine]

It's official. The incoming Mercedes-AMG CLE 63 is getting a V8 as a successor to the iconic 4-litre C63 coupe, and we've spotted it testing.

[Autosport @autosport]

"Mercedes had shown it was possible to successfully combine customer racing with F1, but Audi deemed it necessary to strip away its other programmes."

After ending its factory involvement in GT3, did Audi 'give up' too soon?
https://t.co/p5JOYXfoRu

[///M-Bouy💙❤️ @MohlaleGCR]

"BMW designs a car ahead of it's time. They've seen the direction we're going aesthetically and they've leapt ahead to the stage after the next one. While we're recalling in horror, slightly overtime we bow our heads in shame and admit that it has always looked good."

[🗽🍻💍 @Light_2610]

I grew up with this on my wall bro what are they doing 💔

[JoshWest247 ⚡️ @JoshWest247]

My friend in the exotic automotive space just sent me this regarding the Ferrari Luce and Mercedes GT:

“I was chatting with some Mercedes people at their event last week and journalists about why manufacturers keep dropping these electric cars that nobody asked for — and it actually makes a lot of sense once you hear it.

The EU has this rule where every car brand’s ENTIRE lineup has to average below a certain emissions number. Not per car — the whole fleet. And if they miss it, they get fined like €95 for every single gram they’re over, multiplied by every car they sold that year. We’re talking hundreds of millions.

So every EV they sell pulls that average down. Which means they can keep making the V8s and AMGs and ICE cars we actually love without getting destroyed by regulators.

So that MB electric GT 4-Door and the Ferrari Luce? Those aren’t passion projects. That’s compliance math. The irony is those EVs you hate might literally be the reason your favorite ICE cars still exist.

Mind-bending but that’s the game right now.”

[woah!_mungus.MP4 @2Hugh2Mungus]

I can’t get over it, this is one of the most beautiful cars of all time

[Dev Chaphekar @ChaphekarDev]

@FDataAnalysis @LewisHamilton @Charles_Leclerc @ScuderiaFerrari @F1 Did he actually have power issue or was it down to the deployment settings

[Formula Data Analysis @FDataAnalysis]

Hamilton was right: he had NO POWER to defend from LEC and RUS! 🪫

LEC reached 317 km/h without slipstream or overtake mode, HAM just 307 (Lap 42)
And that's nothing: LEC reached 330 when in HAM's slipstream, but the latter didn't exceed 306 when the roles inverted! (Lap 43, and RUS overtook him)

Behind HAM, LEC gained 0.391s on the main straight. Behind LEC, HAM LOST 0.250s (while RUS gained 0.529s)

So:
-For some reason (bug?) HAM didn't have the ERS power needed to defend ❌
-RUS could overtake HAM more easily than LEC did... even though he was 0.144s further behind on the straight! 🚀
@LewisHamilton @ScuderiaFerrari @Charles_Leclerc #F1

[evo magazine @evomagazine]

We need a reset: @DickieMeaden on why the modern supercar has finally gone too far - https://t.co/NlWEg1W8dE

[Fifth Gear @NotFifthGear]

I can tolerate the FIA director not following the rules and porpoising that break drivers' backs but I draw the line at F1 cars that overtake

[Dev Chaphekar @ChaphekarDev]

@cytrusf1 🤣🤣

[Motor1 @Motor1com]

This is what we used to make btw

[Mercedes-AMG Passion Club @MercedesAMGPCF1]

James's interview in 2020 🥹 :

"I was very, very fortunate to be granted a place in a team that is extraordinarily one-hearted. (Mercedes)opened their arms to me, and made me feel welcome, provided a space for me to work"❤️🫂

"I was conscious as I walked through the door for the first time that I was walking into a team that I hope I could play a part in, but that that team would definitely be blisteringly strong whether or not I showed up. That knowledge is already a sobering one."

James was conscious of this pressure to perform, but remained "something of a wreck" upon arrival at Mercedes just months after the death of his wife

"I'm still grieving today, four years on, but then I was crying in the car on my way into work and crying on the way home,"

"I hoped that I would be useful at work, that I would find my feet again, and that I would be able to carve out some sort of world after Becca died. But that was more of a hope than a certainty."

"I didn't know what the right thing to do was at the time. Most of me was just wanting to crawl into a hole and never come out again,"

"But Toto gave me this opportunity, and I hoped as time passed that I would start to feel like I would want to re-engage with the world."

"By the time I was walking in the factory gates at Brackley, I was feeling a little stronger and a little more useful, and was able to get a sense that despite the pain of losing Becca there was still some use in me"

"As the weeks rolled by, turned into months and eventually years, that gamble that Toto took on me, I hoped I repaid by being useful."

"In a part of my life where everything was turned completely on its head, and where nothing felt normal, the most familiar part of it was my work,"

"There, the rhythm of the racing reason, the pressure to get a car out, the pressure to develop it, the thrill of winning, the challenges the season throws your way - all those things felt familiar, and they were about the only part of my life that did."

"I was very, very fortunate to be granted a place in a team that is extraordinarily one-hearted, and with a group of people who didn't need me, but nevertheless opened their arms to me, and made me feel welcome, provided a space for me to work"

"Mercedes created an environment for me where I could be useful, and where I could grieve and recover, while having the most enviable and brilliant job in the whole pit lane."

"It's a team that I feel particularly close to for having provided that for me."❤️

[Craig Scarborough @ScarbsTech]

An @Ohlinsracing #F1 spec damper.
F1 dampers used to use fixed valving, swapping the entire unit for a different spec, rather than adjust it
But, with the bouncing problems since 2022, they returned to being adjustable, to react to the cars behaviour through the weekend.
#F1tech

[Ford Racing @FordRacing]

First sounds of history.

Ford Racing Hypercar coming 2027.

[George Russell @GeorgeRussell63]

James May, Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond in the airport to Las Vegas :O

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

❤️

[Goodwood FOS @fosgoodwood]

You don't need an introduction to this mighty, mighty #BMW. But just in case you're unfamiliar, this is the #BMW M3 GTR and we can't think of many other cars that epitomise Petrolhead heaven. Is this your favourite run from #FOS day one?

[Autocar @autocar]

⚠️ Lancia has confirmed a new Delta HF Integrale is coming next year 👀 https://t.co/CwoVzYPNR7