Formula One 2023: McLaren fans are dark energy

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It seems like they'd have Max back off before they put that much of a gap between him and the field, no point in pushing at all / risking anything past a pit stop delta when a safety car could nullify it.

I saw Sargeant let Max past with the blue flags on the last lap at the end of the last straight before the start-finish straight. It's moot because he was in 12th, but I wonder if he would have tried harder to stay ahead of being lapped if he was in 11th in the hopes that some car in the top 10 would break on the last lap

# ¿ Mar 6, 2023 17:46

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 11:49

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It's extremely funny to me that Ferrari managed a slick double stack in Bahrain yet still managed to have something else fail

# ¿ Mar 13, 2023 21:06

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MustardFacial posted:

I hear the F2 season has been a banger so far. I'm going to watch the F2 race this weekend and if the rumours are true I'm turning this into the F2 thread for good racing.

They've been more entertaining than F1 so far I think (low bar). Martins looks like the perfect junior driver where he's fast, aggressive, clever, and prone to making random mistakes and spins.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2023 18:45

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opposable thumbs.db posted:

They've been more entertaining than F1 so far I think (low bar). Martins looks like the perfect junior driver where he's fast, aggressive, clever, and prone to making random mistakes and spins.

Just watched the F2 feature race and haha Martins how do you crash someone else out during a safety car?

They apparently gave Martins only a ten second penalty, which will surely drop his finishing position down from already-last

# ¿ Apr 3, 2023 04:03

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the milk machine posted:

i posted awhile ago that oval racing was boring but i watched the texas indycar race and it was pretty entertaining (plus i just finished the part of adrian newey's book where he talks about indycar)

i want to apologize to the thread for posting incorrectly

Plus, in a doubly-fitting event, the race
- ended with the last two laps under a safety car
- after Grosjean crashed on lap 248/250

# ¿ Apr 4, 2023 04:27

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MustardFacial posted:

Is it race week yet?

Yes, if you want to watch more chaotic racing with worse production values (Indycar Long Beach)

# ¿ Apr 12, 2023 22:26

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Leclerc's penalty was for control electronics right? So that theoretically is unaffected by this change.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2023 17:30

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Loooool KMag 4th, Max 9th

# ¿ May 6, 2023 22:00

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Shame that they didn't send Bottas out on a set of used tires for a lap at the start of Q3

# ¿ May 6, 2023 22:06

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Musk getting more and more dismayed as his conversation with Adrian Newey continues and he realizes that Newey's science deals with *car* races

# ¿ May 7, 2023 02:12

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Please crash into each other tia

# ¿ May 7, 2023 21:44

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The point for KMag seems significant because it's hard to see too many scenarios where the bottom 5 teams can get easy points without some of the top 5 teams DNFing

# ¿ May 7, 2023 22:26

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Rinkles posted:

Was that race (or was it just qualifying?) that got him the spot just a fluke?

It was Monza with a Williams that was the fastest car in a straight line but couldn't corner. Turns out "beating Latifi" is not the most predictive characteristic of immediate success

# ¿ May 12, 2023 22:26

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Thanks Ants posted:

Give us a street circuit that is a figure 8, build a ramp, you cowards

The Saudi (or Qatari? I don't remember which and tbh it doesn't matter) race was "supposed to be replaced" with a monstrosity of a design that had a figure 8 design and something ridiculous like 37 "turns". Of course no one with a brain ever thought that they'd actually construct that track.

# ¿ May 24, 2023 21:07

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Dynamite Dog posted:

That was Saudi, yes. Jeddah is supposed to be temporary

Yeah the new site is supposed to be Qiddiya, "will be ready" in 2027.

https://imgur.io/gallery/Qwt3esx

# ¿ May 24, 2023 21:14

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the milk machine posted:

they should do the indy 500 simultaneously with an f1 race on the road course and yes they should still overlap on turn whatever

This is an even better idea when you realize that the road course uses the bits of oval track clockwise whereas the 500 runs counterclockwise

# ¿ May 26, 2023 04:31

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Lol Sargent being literally stopped

# ¿ May 28, 2023 14:05

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Sargent just running tyre tests now on the softs

# ¿ May 28, 2023 14:36

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Yuki nooooo

# ¿ May 28, 2023 15:40

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F1 should adopt two quali rules from Indycar:
1. If you cause a red / yellow flag that causes people to lose laps, you lose your fastest lap so far
2. Move the timing line to before pit entry so that cool down laps are unnecessary

# ¿ Jun 18, 2023 17:39

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In Buxton's defense (ugh) apparently the Netflix producers explicitly told him to treat the audience like they're idiots, that they know absolutely nothing and that they can't figure anything out

# ¿ Jun 27, 2023 20:56

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PhoenixFlaccus posted:

Couldn’t remember if it was Lawson that was caught using “gamer language” on a stream but it was Vips, who he replaced. Vips is now eyeing Indycar, which is very fitting for a edgelord (at best) rich kid.

Specifically Vips had a heated gaming moment while on Liam Lawson's public stream, in what was possibly a masterfully arranged setup by Lawson

# ¿ Jul 10, 2023 20:43

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Max himself is currently up 52 points on Mercedes and if you were to remove Perez from existence then the Merc drivers would only gain like 24 points from the resultant bump in the races and sprints so far

e: and Max would gain 15 points as well

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# ¿ Jul 12, 2023 00:00

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I love sassy GP

# ¿ Jul 28, 2023 17:00

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To be clear, that happened to the driver in first place lol

# ¿ Jul 29, 2023 13:44

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the milk machine posted:

what's the race from a couple years ago that had rain but it stopped, so all the drivers went in for slicks but lewis stayed out on inters and expertly wore them down to slicks and won

2020 Turkey?

# ¿ Jul 31, 2023 19:13

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I'm the pit lane

# ¿ Aug 4, 2023 05:45

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I feel like "let me know what I need to do so that we can win the race" is a silly thing to say because I'm pretty sure they were already planning on doing that!

# ¿ Sep 18, 2023 16:46

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the milk machine posted:

suzuka has the best fans

this is the only pure truth to have ever been posted in this thread

# ¿ Sep 23, 2023 22:51

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The FIA control the races themselves but FOM controls everything else, so the comedy option is that Andretti cars participate in the race but get no logistics support and the TV cameras shoot around them to avoid ever showing them

# ¿ Oct 2, 2023 18:07

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Tennis has Hawkeye decide in/out calls instantaneously, but the pinnacle of motorsport requires like 15-20 minutes haha

# ¿ Oct 6, 2023 19:54

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marshalljim posted:

Hinchcliffe is the only IndyCar mediocrity the USGP needs.

Hinch is great, and also Canadian for anyone who wants to grumble about Americans.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2023 21:09

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Leclerc DQed as well

https://twitter.com/williamsracing/status/1716248518040473720 lol

# ¿ Oct 23, 2023 01:25

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So they randomly tested four cars, two failed, and they're...just not going to test the rest?

# ¿ Oct 23, 2023 04:12

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I think refueling also led to worse racing on track? It seems like it's better to have the decision to pit making you faster (new tyres) rather than slower (more fuel)

# ¿ Nov 5, 2023 17:01

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PhoenixFlaccus posted:

It allows for a wider variety of strategies. Not sure what your “it makes the cars slower” argument is. They need enough fuel to finish the race either regardless of when you put it in. Not sure how that negatively affects racing.

Cost and reducing pit lane injuries seem like good enough reasons to not do it.

If you require refueling then cars become slower when you pit because you're adding fuel. This means that you can't actively do anything to gain an advantage over cars around you, as opposed to "fresh tyres". But yeah there are multiple reasons

# ¿ Nov 5, 2023 17:50

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Hahaha wtf happened

# ¿ Nov 5, 2023 18:02

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Just need a few more retirements for Sargeant to have a chance at points

# ¿ Nov 5, 2023 18:13

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Don't mind me just getting lost in Gasly's eyes

# ¿ Nov 5, 2023 18:28

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 11:49

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It seems like the sprint weekends often have at least one team just messing up the setup entirely due to only having one practice session

# ¿ Nov 6, 2023 04:40

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