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I've changed my mind, more sprint races please: https://talksport.com/sport/motorsport/1381482/formula-1-max-verstappen-quit-sprint-races/
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Apr 4, 2023 12:05
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Thanks Ants posted:At the risk of being too Nah, this is trying to gin up more sessions with “stakes” but it’ll just continue to strangle the golden goose. The sprints and that weekend format is way too busy as it is, especially considering how many races there are now. 20+ races when a season was 16-18 just a few years ago, it’s just too much.
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I'd rather the sport is run as a sport and not to provide extra opportunities for F1 Sprint Sponsored By Subway or whatever the gently caress the current owners are trying to do
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Charles Leclerc posted:I've changed my mind, more sprint races please: https://talksport.com/sport/motorsport/1381482/formula-1-max-verstappen-quit-sprint-races/ https://clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-know-just-made-a-gr-1825121606/
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Was Rokit still with Williams after Dorilton? I don’t doubt it’s possible legally but it seems hosed up to seek damages from a company where none of the management/owners are the same anymore. They should sue Claire and George, is what I’m saying.
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https://www.si.com/fannation/racing/f1briefings/news/george-russell-red-bull-is-sandbagging-to-hide-true-performance-from-fia Pernicious austrians trying to hide their strength? Possible. Worry for europe tbh
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I don’t know that I’d call “getting a 3 second gap in about 4 laps and then just cruising” sandbagging, but ok George.
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Anime Store Adventure posted:I don’t know that I’d call “getting a 3 second gap in about 4 laps and then just cruising” sandbagging, but ok George. Extremely basic strategy, honestly. No sense in pushing when a SC can completely delete your advantage. Just get out of DRS range and bring the car home. Could also build enough of a gap so you can gently caress up a corner, run wide through the grass, and still be 8 seconds ahead. Seems to be a winning strategy.
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Apr 4, 2023 16:09
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Better ban Red Bull just to be safe.
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Sunk Dunk posted:jealous of your attention span to read i'm looking for a new job lately so it's not much of one. i end up reading a couple chapters here and there
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Charles Leclerc posted:I've changed my mind, more sprint races please: https://talksport.com/sport/motorsport/1381482/formula-1-max-verstappen-quit-sprint-races/  ArmZ posted:https://clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-know-just-made-a-gr-1825121606/ oops beaten
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Man no wonder their car is slow when he's got that much extra drag
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Anime Store Adventure posted:I don’t know that I’d call “getting a 3 second gap in about 4 laps and then just cruising” sandbagging, but ok George. I was curious about it after the race, and Max went from half a second back from Hamilton to 2 seconds ahead in one lap, then picked up 2-3 tenths a lap from there on. I think it's a pretty fair theory that Red Bull weren't working particularly hard on Sunday, and the car has a lot more pace when wanted.
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Apr 4, 2023 16:39
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Sprint races are loving dumb for a pinnacle sport based on endurance of technology and driver under the most demanding conditions. It's what the support classes are for, now gently caress off FIA.
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Simplex posted:I was curious about it after the race, and Max went from half a second back from Hamilton to 2 seconds ahead in one lap, then picked up 2-3 tenths a lap from there on. Max had DRS for the full zone right after passing, and Lewis didn't. The delta between RB and Merc with RB DRS open and Merc closed was 36 kph, with both closed it's iirc 7 kph. Almost all of that 2 seconds was in the window where Max's car was like almost 20% faster in a straight line.
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The sprint races make sense when you realize that the only part of modern F1 racing that doesn't suck is the starts and FOM understands that which is why we have an excuse to have another one. It's exactly why every spare rock on the track is an excuse to red flag the entire loving race and grind everything to a halt so they can have more of them
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Gerblederp posted:Better ban Red Bull just to be safe.
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toadee posted:Max had DRS for the full zone right after passing, and Lewis didn't. The delta between RB and Merc with RB DRS open and Merc closed was 36 kph, with both closed it's iirc 7 kph. Almost all of that 2 seconds was in the window where Max's car was like almost 20% faster in a straight line.
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tony quidtana posted:The sprint races make sense when you realize that the only part of modern F1 racing that doesn't suck bring back refueling
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Diet Crack posted:bring back refueling  occasional fuel explosions could really spice things up
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Diet Crack posted:bring back refueling Unironically this. The sport is too straitjacketed. Let teams fight on extreme fuel strategies with tyre compounds that range between bubblegum and concrete with no middle ground and no arbitrary requirement to run multiple compounds. But also, more sprint races so Max fucks off and more refuelling so maybe they get Jos second time around.
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Charles Leclerc posted:I've changed my mind, more sprint races please: https://talksport.com/sport/motorsport/1381482/formula-1-max-verstappen-quit-sprint-races/ I hate sprint races, but if it gets Max to gently caress off forever then I will reluctantly approve 23 sprints every year.
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Charles Leclerc posted:But also, more sprint races so Max fucks off and more refuelling so maybe they get Jos second time around. Lmao goddamn
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Charles Leclerc posted:Unironically this. The sport is too straitjacketed. Let teams fight on extreme fuel strategies with tyre compounds that range between bubblegum and concrete with no middle ground and no arbitrary requirement to run multiple compounds. Unironically think that having refueling back now theres multiple ways to pass cars on track regularly would be cool and good. The biggest issue with the previous refueling era was that there was just no way to pass reliably to justify the extra pit stop.
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I remember an actual F1 strategist on maybe a Reddit ama(?) saying that refueling never added any interesting strategy from his point of view, because it functionally capped any potential strategy to a maximum number of laps instead of having opportunity for drivers to extend stints and make new strategies viable. Perhaps “from his point of view” is holding the water here though because he wasn’t speaking as a spectator certainly.
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Anime Store Adventure posted:I remember an actual F1 strategist on maybe a Reddit ama(?) saying that refueling never added any interesting strategy from his point of view, because it functionally capped any potential strategy to a maximum number of laps instead of having opportunity for drivers to extend stints and make new strategies viable. He's right refuelling does exactly 2 things. 1 - Makes all tyre changes the same time because it's fuel limited. 2 - Means every car is basically the same the entire race and there's no worn tyres (because you'll hit the fuel first and can't extend stints) and not burning 100kg fuel (because at most you'd put 50 in). So you've removed 2 of the biggest variables in the sport to gain a small chance of an exciting fire. It actively makes racing worse even if overtaking is marginally easier now. No-one will try outlandish strategies because the quickest one will almost always be obvious.
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Charles Leclerc posted:Unironically this. The sport is too straitjacketed. Let teams fight on extreme fuel strategies with tyre compounds that range between bubblegum and concrete with no middle ground and no arbitrary requirement to run multiple compounds. drivers these days win too many wdcs I agree
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Ban the safety car and do red flag every time imo but don't let the drivers change their tires
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get better at applying the rules in a timely manner imo. More rules will just confuse the fia more.
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Anime Store Adventure posted:I remember an actual F1 strategist on maybe a Reddit ama(?) saying that refueling never added any interesting strategy from his point of view, because it functionally capped any potential strategy to a maximum number of laps instead of having opportunity for drivers to extend stints and make new strategies viable. yeah because the strategy in the sport is so dynamic and vibrant now. we really should listen to these morons lmao
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Dudley posted:No-one will try outlandish strategies because the quickest one will almost always be obvious. This post brought to you by Amazon AWS
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The invisible fuel fires were incredibly funny and we need them again.
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Thanks Ants posted:OVERTAKE DIFFICULTY F1 has this great habit of throwing around whataboutisms whenever something that can actually fix the racing gets proposed. I am sure inevitably someone will bring up how overtaking should take skill when something gets proposed down the road even though we have loving 4 DRS zones at some tracks. F1DriverQuidenBerg fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Apr 4, 2023 |
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Why does refueling work in the American car series’? Because the pit stops are so much longer?
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Look getting your race ruined by a stupid fia decision is just part of the show, I mostly watch F1 to see rich failsons cry on live television and this year has been great so far.
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Thanks Ants posted:OVERTAKE DIFFICULTY Good times in AD21 
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f1 should use the wec full course yellow procedures
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Serjeant Buzfuz posted:Look getting your race ruined by a stupid fia decision is just part of the show, I mostly watch F1 to see rich failsons cry on live television and this year has been great so far. If I wanted to see rules randomly decided on the whims of the producers and people desperately clinging to some tenuous amount of fame I'd watch Survivor.
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