The Official F1 Fans Thread

Yup, don't recall seeing an F1 engine let loose like that in a while. Concur on liking the Vegas track better this year than last year.

 

Not my first choice in manufacturers, but damn, what a mighty big F-U to Andretti!

 

Andretti is still involved but it is a small nut punch. F1 can be so petty…

 

And that’s still only an agreement in principle. Still not definite

 

Senna is airing on Netflix today should be good.

 

Who would of thunk that a dislodged wing mirror laying in the middle of the straight for 4+ laps would add so much drama to a pretty boring race

 

That race was a mess. I haven’t followed F1 long enough to know if all the penalties being levied were fair, but the announcers sure seemed to think the stewards were stoned.

Otherwise a boring race on a very boring track. That track, both the course itself and the broader scene, just looks like something for running karts at a summer beach town.

 

The 10 sec stop and go penalty for Norris is what has been given in the past, twice in Austria 2021, and once in 2017 to Kimi. All 3 during race session, not practice or qualifying. Pit lane speeding that I recall during a race session have only been 5 seconds or something, but since the safety car was leading the field through the pit lane whilst the pit straight was being cleaned up might be why the drive-through was given.

The penalty for Max in Qualifying was unprecedented. Never given before when a driver wasn't on a push/fast lap. Zhou impeded Max in Spa this summer, and no penalty given.

The bigger issue was that Race Control seemed to not want to make a decision, and their inaction as well as inconsistent display of the double-waved yellows on the pit straight led to most of the controversial issues with penalties. There were inadvertent yellow flags at Qatar in 2021, and they've come out at other circuits. It is on the driver to pay attention and take appropriate action, whether or not the flags should be displayed or not. Double-waved yellow = slow the fuck down right now, period.

They could have avoided a lot of issues had they closed the pits, issued VSC, all cars through pit lane while the then-intact mirror was removed from the track, before BOT destroyed it a couple of laps later.

 

LETS GO LANDO!

 

Interesting race...fun to see Lando own it from the start, watch Leclerc and Hamilton storm from the back and see Gasly and Haas showing speed.

And now for a boring few months.

 

I think Drive to Survive for this season starts Feb 23 ... that should be really good.

 

You didn’t see anyone crashing into Max when his driver’s championship was at stake. He should’ve shown the same respect to the two teams going for the constructor’s championship. Damn near cost McLaren.

 

1000% agree. But that’s Max. It’s his race series (world) and the rest of the drivers (and spectators) are just props

 

Totally forgot that comes out soon. Should be epic