November 4, 20223 yr Red Bull in Bellagio Wynn: Pussies. Let’s hear the v12 in the Bellagio. Pulled this off Reddit too. How is that even possible? Tire whisperer.
November 7, 20223 yr On 11/4/2022 at 3:43 PM, Anton Chigurh said: TBH, this is pretty standard for the top tier guys when driving to a delta. It of course requires driving mostly in clean air too. VER and HAM VER and ALO (you can mostly ignore ALO’s second stint since that is when he started having the engine issues). VER and various others. LEC was a little more erratic at the end here, but still very good. It is still obviously impressive, but it happens fairly often. Yeah, being given a time to drive to and nailing it within a tenth every single lap is the name of the game in F1. I don't even think it's limited to the top tier drivers - if you can't do it in general you're not getting into the sport. Mileage may vary from race to race, but over the long arc of a season or a career, that is the one metric in which any given team will be the most interested.
November 7, 20223 yr 4 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said: Sprint race in Brazil. To be honest, I kind of forgot about those. Honestly, I don't hate them like some others around here do. It's more racing, and I like racing. Two months from now, all you jackwagons are going to be BEGGING for just a lil' sprint race, to tide you over. Edited November 7, 20223 yr by utee94
November 7, 20223 yr 2 hours ago, utee94 said: Honestly, I don't hate them like some others around here do. It's more racing, and I like racing. Two months from now, all you jackwagons are going to be BEGGING for just a lil' sprint race, to tide you over. If it didn't set the grid for Sunday, I'd have no problem with a sprint race. The way they do it now, it just makes the race on Sunday even more predictable. It's like running a portion of the GP, then red-flagging it and doing a standing restart the next day. Let Qualifying set the GP grid the way it always has, then use something else to set the Sprint grid, like points, reverse points, whatever. Then you have added value to the weekend imho. Qualifying isn't diminished, and the cars who Qualified 'out of order' get to start the GP that way rather than being shaken out in the Sprint.
November 7, 20223 yr I don’t like the sprint race over the regular qualifying format. Even the best guys can screw up a one lap best time. Sprint race is basically a parade, minus Hamilton charging the field last year in a much faster car.
November 7, 20223 yr sprint should be reverse grid and of a length that either the tires will fall off or be a bit too slow. think another thing they need to do with tires is build them to a 2 second delta instead of 1.
November 7, 20223 yr 35 minutes ago, wood said: If it didn't set the grid for Sunday, I'd have no problem with a sprint race. The way they do it now, it just makes the race on Sunday even more predictable. It's like running a portion of the GP, then red-flagging it and doing a standing restart the next day. Let Qualifying set the GP grid the way it always has, then use something else to set the Sprint grid, like points, reverse points, whatever. Then you have added value to the weekend imho. Qualifying isn't diminished, and the cars who Qualified 'out of order' get to start the GP that way rather than being shaken out in the Sprint. Currently, the top 6 cars are going to make it into the top 6 regardless, and within just a few laps. (Unless that useless prick Russell gets overly aggressive again). So I don't really see it as changing the drama very much, at all. Agree to disagree with you on this, but I'm fine with the sprint race qualifying.
November 9, 20223 yr In a small conundrum here…booked plane tickets today for Japan next Sept and having a real crisis on how to handle the race. Our company will let us modify our package through the end of this month…we currently have two champions club tickets with grid-walk access on Saturday only.Is rain pretty normal for Suzuka? Sept is right in the middle of typhoon season. Wondering if we should modify to Saturday only and save some $$ or just stick with the sat & sun package we booked.
November 9, 20223 yr 4 hours ago, McCroskey said: In a small conundrum here…booked plane tickets today for Japan next Sept and having a real crisis on how to handle the race. Our company will let us modify our package through the end of this month…we currently have two champions club tickets with grid-walk access on Saturday only. Is rain pretty normal for Suzuka? Sept is right in the middle of typhoon season. Wondering if we should modify to Saturday only and save some $$ or just stick with the sat & sun package we booked. Yep, rain is pretty normal for Suzuka, but it's not always the monsoon we've seen sometimes. Sounds awesome either way though. Congrats!
November 11, 20223 yr ted: it's hot here it's 25° [that's 77° in non-napoleonic units] Edited November 11, 20223 yr by elfenix
November 11, 20223 yr Which one of y'all is the guy at the end of FP1 getting his Horns up for the camera? Black shirt, black hat. 3 hours ago, elfenix said: ted: it's hot here it's 25° [that's 77° in non-napoleonic units] LOL. Yeah, and 85F is always 'scorching hot' to them.
November 11, 20223 yr Goatifi with 11 straight sessions not making it out of Q1. The man is trying to set records on his way out of the sport.
November 11, 20223 yr JFC. Leclerc the only one out on Inters to start Q3 while it’s completely dry. Now Russell beaches his car and it’s red flagged. If it keeps raining Leclerc will qualify P10. Ferrari always inventing new ways to fuck up and screw Leclerc over. Also F1 needs to adopt the IndyCar rule for a crash in quali. No way Russel should get to qualify P3 after ruining the session. Edited November 11, 20223 yr by Burt Macklin
November 11, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, Burt Macklin said: JFC. Leclerc the only one out on Inters to start Q3 while it’s completely dry. Now Russell beaches his car and it’s red flagged. If it keeps raining Leclerc will qualify P10. Ferrari always inventing new ways to fuck up and screw Leclerc over. Also F1 needs to adopt the IndyCar rule for a crash in quali. No way Russel should get to qualify P3 after ruining the session. Indy Car rule is basically if you crash in quali, your time is deleted so you roll basically to the back of whatever session it is, right? so in this case George would be starting 10th not 3rd?
November 11, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, Burt Macklin said: Also F1 needs to adopt the IndyCar rule for a crash in quali. No way Russel should get to qualify P3 after ruining the session. Yep. That sucked. Thanks a lot, George.
November 11, 20223 yr 22 minutes ago, NoName said: Indy Car rule is basically if you crash in quali, your time is deleted so you roll basically to the back of whatever session it is, right? so in this case George would be starting 10th not 3rd? Basically, I think they delete multiple times, depending on the severity but they also usually set more times than in an F1 quali, so I think deleting the best lap time would be fair.
November 12, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, deft said: Gods, stroll is an idiot Motherfucker is gonna kill someone. Fuck that asshole. Fuck Ocon too. No penalty, when we've seen multiple penalties for moves that weren't as bad in the same scenario. Alonso had to stop for a wing and still beat the priuck by 2 positions ... so I guess there's a little bit of justice there.
November 12, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, Anton Chigurh said: It was actually Alonso’s fault. Maybe so. Too bad they let Ocon get away with the earlier force-off. I would only fault Alonso on the straightaway incident for just not realizing he needed to leave more room between him and Ocon than he would with a normal F1 driver.
November 13, 20223 yr 2 hours ago, Chewbacca said: Yeah that was Ocon's 31. ETA: Did I happen to mention Fuck Ocon? Can't wait to watch him and Gasly have at each other next year. They already don't like each other. Edited November 13, 20223 yr by wood
November 13, 20223 yr 2 hours ago, dieucla98 said: Love or hate the concept, that was a fun race to watch. So much action. Yep. Now relax the Parc Ferme rules so teams can set up for Qualifying in FP1 and set up for the Sprint and the GP in FP2, then just take away the GP grid-setting aspect of the Sprint, and you've got something worthwhile. You have a better weekend imho, with meaningful sessions every day.
November 13, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, utee94 said: Just finished the qualy and sprint sessions. Stroll is an absolute menace. Yep. And as long as they keep slapping him on the wrist, he's gonna keep being a menace until he straight up murders someone on the track. Jacques was right. Lance needs a big time out. Look at his comments after the Austin incident. He clearly has no idea why what he's doing is wrong, or how dangerous it is. Eddie Irvine got a 3-race ban for an incident that wasn't as bad as either of these incidents.
November 13, 20223 yr Carnage out there! We may end up with an unexpected winner if this stuff keeps up.
November 13, 20223 yr 2 minutes ago, Hawndoh said: I'm surprised Max got a penalty for that. I'm not. The Hamilton blind eye.
November 13, 20223 yr I'm surprised Max got a penalty for that.Even more surprising that British commenters don’t agree that VER should have gotten the penalty
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