Cold
Get a grip
Cold
Get a grip
Cold is better than wet.
Norris acts like he's still at school half the time, which is ironic given he barely went.
Just tuned in for a bit of the testing [scintillating stuff] - why is there an ostensible omerta on how many laps Hamilton ran? The BBC livetext makes mention of virtually every other driver's total laps but seems to conspicuously omit Hamilton's info. Best I can decipher is somewhere between most [74] and least [40]. Odd.
Maybe it's not just an ostensible omerta. Bloke with dark glasses. 'We count Hamilton's laps now, capisce?'
They've finally had the nod, 70 laps.
And now the lights have gone out.
This is a beautiful circuit you've got here . . .
At home with the lurgy today so have testing on, and what a gratifying sight to see Red Bull with the veterinary screens up around their garage, presumably turning Liam Lawson and/or his car into sustainable fuels.
That little start sequence at the end there was a bit odd.
I might be losing my touch, but to my eye the Ferrari looks like an understeering dog and the macca looks pretty good. Time sheets say exactly the opposite.
Race programme runs seem to back you up. Ferrari about 1s per lap down on McLaren.
Obviously engine modes and fuel modes unknown, but surely it's not that much difference.
McLaren looking good in pre season testing. Makes a change - dominant title inbound.
My takes from watching all this:
- Macca best car
- Alpeen better than expected
- Antonelli not good - I wouldn't want Bottas sitting as reserve driver, if I were him
- Sainz will destroy Albon with effortless ease
- Aston Martin is a tractor
Let's see how right or otherwise I am come Aus.
Lando's year?!?!?????
The Alpen being good is nether here nor there, failure is baked into that team at every level. In the same way that modern mclaren will win nothing without a serious car advantage.
Next week this all starts. I want to get everyone's predictions and keep it all logged. Me and the lads are putting a £5 on the line, with the most correct predictions at the end of the season. Winning all the pot. Some of the questions I have gone with can be found below. Any of you lot want in? Any questions I may have missed that could make it more interesting?
https://forms.gle/FGHpEMGRKLQjYFKF6
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MERICA BABY.
It's now official, fuck knows how Monaco will cope with another two boats on the tiny streets.
Yeah! Build the front of that thing like a Cadillac Cien. To hell with downforce.
This is just Andretti with a Cadillac badge right?
So its got a bit weird. It seems Andretti has pissed off everyone in the paddock and so they've only accepted the bid that is 'Andretti with a Cadillac badge' if Andretti himself legally cannot financially benefit from the entire enterprise.Originally Posted by Disco
That's what I thought, we'll see how serious they get with the engine side. I wonder who'll be driving, probably some deeply uninspiring veteran like Perez and whoever is acceptably american and can scrape together the super licence points. Most like Herta or O'Ward would require much better Indycar seasons than they look like having, Crawford isn't completely terrible I suppose and has at least some experience in F2/3.
Pato O'Ward being an american driver does come across as something straight out of a japanese megadrive game.
He's on American tv so is therefore American.
Isn't Palou the best Indy driver?
Too Spanish for the American slot but I'd take him over someone like Perez in a heartbeat. If this were a European based outfit they wouldn't touch him with a bargepole but Andretti might.
Isn't O'Ward Mexican?
I watched the Tampa indy race the other day and although it is a silly series with silly cars and largely shit drivers, Palou did look a bit head and shoulders. Hard to imagine how he would get to F1 in an era when even Toto Wolff is signing miniature teenagers out of FOMO.
I'd have thought Herta alongside some grizzled veteran. Bottas, perhaps.
Not grizzled enough. They'll take a 46 year old Fernando Alonso on the proviso he gets to try Indy again.
In the latest DTS, which I was watching last night as I just feel a bit too intelligent and need to liquefy my brain a bit, Toto Wolff incorrectly states, while he and Suzy speculate about driver hire over a greek salad on a Monaco roof terrace, that Fernando Alonso is 45. Not a day over 42 at time of filming.
Later in the same episode, Toto is seen on a diving yacht in Monaco harbour telling a shirtless George Russell that 'It's time to stop making mistakes George' and it was at this point that I had to make hasty use of the off button.
I couldn't finish the second season.
Haven't watched in a while, but I enjoy Indy. Pure entertainment. Like WWE to F1s Olympic wrestling or something.
I'm glad it exists, but I wish more over-25 F1 rejects went there instead of sports cars or the execrable Formula E. The people they have on the current indy grid are 80% absolutely rubbish.
I suppose a lot of them don't fancy fiery death on an oval.
Formula E's getting influencers behind the wheel now. That feels like a death knell.
I watch Indycar to track the progress of Scot(ty) Mclaughlin and to try and work out why, against all discernable logic, it's better than Super Formula. Both are better than FE if only because you can tell the tracks apart. Oval racing is fun but an acquired taste, it's a completely different discipline and I cannot argue against the idea that you only need to watch the last 1/4 of the race at most. On that subject NASCAR did their COTA race last week, which I am yet to watch but is always worth it to see 30-odd guys (less Shane van Gisbergen who knows what he's doing) try and work out what a braking point is.
For the first time ever, during an early morning start. Me and a group of lads are getting together to watch the first race...
I am going to try and make the 4am start. Amazing what a bit of parity can do.
4am seems way early even for Kangaroo land. Although I'm probably getting that mixed up with the slightly more sensible Japan start times.
I think it was last year when they changed it to 04:00 (GMT). Something to do with complaints about running it so late in the evening over there.
That would be 3pm down under. Sunset is after 7pm so those aussie cunts could make it later if they wished but its global now and all nations needs to be considered.
In the truly good old days it always used to be a 3am start for Michael Schumacher to piss the season opener by 40 seconds.
First one I remember watching was the one when Martin Brundle was upside down at turn three of lap one.
Unsurprisingly, Australia is great for me. Midday for quali and 11am for the race. I may even treat myself to a fancy full English in the city.
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I was thinking to myself the other day that for a sport that now considers itself to be both MASSIVE and GLOBAL that having the big kick off in some backwater nowhere [apologies Australia] at a time where literally no one that matters [apologies JA] can comfortably watch it is a bit odd.
Saturday 9pm on the west coast. Primetime, baby. Yee hah.
Given that all of their own major sporting events are much earlier than even that suggests that other than the Honolulu market this arrangement is equally bad for the US as it is everyone else outside of the whackjob timezones.
In reality I think they've just punted the camel races back because of Ramadan, so what's a girl to do.
Suzuka round 3 is all kinds of wrong. Should be the finale.
Growing up, it was always down under for the season opener before those guys who play in the sand came in.
I missed the Spanish GP moving from Catalunya to another fucking street circuit in Madrid.
I think I've realised that the problem I have with street circuits is the identikit high fences which mean you can't actually see any backdrop (and the fact that the fuckers seem to like doing the street races at night). The day races where you can see the backdrop (Monaco, Baku) are far less objectionable. FP1 Singapore is the most underrated session of the season, you can actually see Singapore.
Does anyone like them? Presumably some people must do or they wouldn't do them.
Corporate sponsors presumably, as they remove the need to go out into the wilds where the actual people / fans / race tracks are.
We need to start going back to properly out of the way places to piss the sponsors right off.
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