Formula 1

antipodean

That said, what happened on the track was a procession.

F1 has really lost its way. Yawn!

Disagree. This has been F1 forever - a team gets an advantage and dominates. The secret is to have rule changes at an increased pace. This needs to balanced with the cost of making such changes in what is the pinnacle of motorsport engineering.

That or ban Adrian Newey. Plenty of entertainment if you ignore the Red Bull procession.

antipodean

@Bones said in Formula 1:

Yeah shithouse that seemingly without even trying the leader can build a 30 fucking second gap before he even needs to pit. How?

Take the best aero engineer motorsport has seen and add a prodigy who has been trained since he was in nappies to do nothing other than drive a vehicle faster than everyone else.

Bones

How does Sargeant not get the ol' heave ho? Man he's cake.

canefan

@Bones said in Formula 1:

How does Sargeant not get the ol' heave ho? Man he's cake.

Must be commercial reasons because he's a rubbish driver. Same as Perez. Is he the only American driver in F1?

Bones

@canefan only one from the states. Perez is at least decent, not like he's constantly coming last and fucking up.

canefan

@Bones said in Formula 1:

@canefan only one from the states. Perez is at least decent, not like he's constantly coming last and fucking up.

He's driving for the champs, so presumably he's driving a very similar car to Max. So he's underachieving

Bones

@canefan said in Formula 1:

@Bones said in Formula 1:

@canefan only one from the states. Perez is at least decent, not like he's constantly coming last and fucking up.

He's driving for the champs, so presumably he's driving a very similar car to Max. So he's underachieving

By coming second? Righto.

antipodean

@Bones said in Formula 1:

How does Sargeant not get the ol' heave ho? Man he's cake.

Sponsors. Doesn't help that Williams are now owned by Americans, but he's a Formula 3 driver at best.

Bones

Love it. Even in practice - Sargeant goes to overtake someone on the straight and they eventually just let him past....he's so excited about actually overtaking someone, he forgets you've gotta do all the other stuff and completely overshoots the upcoming corner under no pressure.

Machpants

Apparently he's not a pay driver. Well Williams management and contracting are fucking morons then

Bones

Not sure Norris' lap being reinstated sits comfortably with me. If you're going to have the rules change depending on the track/conditions then surely you should have that clearly set out rather than an arbitrary decision in the moment?

MajorRage

Yeah, I know what you mean.

If it was any other team I suspect I'd be spitting tacks. But as it's Norris and McLaren, I'm ok with it as it is common sense.

Bones

Max throwing out laps 1.5 seconds faster than anyone else. F1 might die when there's finally a race where he laps 2nd place.

Bones

Can anyone tell me why the order of the cars in the pit is the way it is? Seems rather random.

Machpants

@Bones said in Formula 1:

Max throwing out laps 1.5 seconds faster than anyone else. F1 might die when there's finally a race where he laps 2nd place.

Damon Hill did it in the 90s, there were a few more crashes and breakdowns in those days

Bones

@Machpants yeah I'm probably pretty late to the party

Duluth

This season is really hard to get interested in

No Quarter

I enjoyed the sprint race, though it was inevitable Max was going to overtake Hamilton at some point.

Machpants

@Duluth said in Formula 1:

This season is really hard to get interested in

I was very excited when I found that I could watch F1 on my already paid for Sky sub. But only watched 2 races, processional stuff now. Crashes and breakdowns are much rarer, and the pit stops are sull as compared to when they used to refuel. Might as well wrap the season up now, save some environmental harm haha

MajorRage

It’s brilliant apart from Verstappen. Loads of actual races going on.

I do wonder if/when RB sponsors will get arsey tho as he gets less coverage than woujd be expected of the leader. The racing is simply elsewhere.

The Silver Fern

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