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Evitzee
·Roll call. If you’re watching the Japan GP weekend while wearing one of these, check in.
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Felix_La_PuBelle
·Not one of the originals, but an Adam Lewis modded version indistinguishable from the original. I have the correct bracelet for it, too, but it is still in the vacuum pack, never mounted it.
And great strap.
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arturo7
·Lando Norris:
“Honestly, some of the racing… like, I didn’t even want to overtake Lewis,”
“It’s just about the battery deploys, and I don’t want it to deploy, but I can’t control it. So I overtake him, and then I have no battery, so he just flies past. This is not racing, this is yo-yoing."
“When you’re just at the mercy of whatever the power unit delivers, the driver should be in control of it, at least, and we’re not."
“Honestly, some of the racing… like, I didn’t even want to overtake Lewis,”
“It’s just about the battery deploys, and I don’t want it to deploy, but I can’t control it. So I overtake him, and then I have no battery, so he just flies past. This is not racing, this is yo-yoing."
“When you’re just at the mercy of whatever the power unit delivers, the driver should be in control of it, at least, and we’re not."
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Jakeys
·I stand by the previous negative comments I've made about this regulation set, it's absolutely terrible. More drivers have spoken out against it since, too, it's no longer just Max. I feel the sport can't continue like this, they even hid 130R in Antonelli's pole lap video to hide the super clipping. The FIA's claim is they couldn't show that section due to a data issue, but apparently the footage of that corner was already available during the session in the onboard live stream.
The incident with Bearman and Colapinto demonstrates the safety issue with it as well, which I think is what the FIA will use as justification to backtrack somewhat. Their official statement from a couple of days ago indicates this is at the very least being looked at.
On the positive side, the cars are slightly smaller and look better, and they do seem to be able to follow more closely so I think the aero side of things is a real improvement. There have been signs of good racing this year. All they need to do is address the disastrous energy recovery problems. Drivers should not be having to coast through corners to go faster on straights and having their cars automatically decelerate without their input.
The incident with Bearman and Colapinto demonstrates the safety issue with it as well, which I think is what the FIA will use as justification to backtrack somewhat. Their official statement from a couple of days ago indicates this is at the very least being looked at.
On the positive side, the cars are slightly smaller and look better, and they do seem to be able to follow more closely so I think the aero side of things is a real improvement. There have been signs of good racing this year. All they need to do is address the disastrous energy recovery problems. Drivers should not be having to coast through corners to go faster on straights and having their cars automatically decelerate without their input.
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texasmade
·Idk how Mercedes keeps doing all these cheats/innovative interpretations and the FIA keeps on agreeing with it. First it was compression ratio. Then it was the front wing slow closing. Now it's the sudden shutoff of the MGU at the end of qualifying. Used to be a Red Bull thing to do all of these cheats/innovative interpretations of the rules.
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arturo7
·Idk how Mercedes keeps doing all these cheats/innovative interpretations and the FIA keeps on agreeing with it. First it was compression ratio. Then it was the front wing slow closing. Now it's the sudden shutoff of the MGU at the end of qualifying. Used to be a Red Bull thing to do all of these cheats/innovative interpretations of the rules.
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Jakeys
·Idk how Mercedes keeps doing all these cheats/innovative interpretations and the FIA keeps on agreeing with it. First it was compression ratio. Then it was the front wing slow closing. Now it's the sudden shutoff of the MGU at the end of qualifying. Used to be a Red Bull thing to do all of these cheats/innovative interpretations of the rules.
It's literally the job of these teams to extract the maximum possible performance out of the car within the regulations, and to do that they have to look for things other teams may not have found. Every team does this, it's part of what makes the sport great.
This year, the other teams have complained to the FIA about the Merc and so far the FIA has found no wrongdoing. To the other teams, I would just quote Christian Horner when he was responding to Toto complaining about the other teams being better in a previous year: "You've got a problem, change your fυcking car."
I'm not a Mercedes fan, but they're no different from anyone else, they've just executed better by finding a solution the other teams missed to get a faster car. If it's legal, they deserve their advantage. McLaren had some sort of funky tyre advantage last year, Red Bull had the blown diffuser, Ferrari tried the same thing in 2019 by bypassing a fuel flow sensor but pushed the limits a bit too far and the FIA came down on them for it.
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Felix_La_PuBelle
·What a strange month April has been. What watch will you wear to herald the return of racing in Miami next weekend? I haven’t decided myself.
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Jakeys
·What a strange month April has been. What watch will you wear to herald the return of racing in Miami next weekend? I haven’t decided myself.
Something with at least 50% battery. 😉
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vbrad26
·Anyone going to be in Miami this weekend?
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Snooz
·Remembering Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger over the next few days. I remember watching F1 in the 80's as a young
lad and disliking Senna - always some kind of controversy, always stopping who I wanted to win, from winning. But by the early 90's he'd earned my respect as imo the goat. I don't mind admitting I burst into tears when I heard of his passing, refreshing Ceefax for 3 hours after his Imola crash - i was inconsolable. That was Senna! Wearing the Tag Heuer F1 in his and Ratzenberger's honour.
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vbrad26
·Alright well read this.
Drove the 4 hours to Miami. Got to the hotel (the JW about 6 miles away from the track).
I drop off my stuff in the room and immediately go down to their mediocre restaurant.
I walk in, led to my table and the first person I see….
Sergio Perez. All alone at a table. My wife says “ok don’t be weird”
We make eye contact. I don’t say a word.
His family joins him minutes later.
They eat dinner. We eat dinner. They leave. We leave.
The end.
Drove the 4 hours to Miami. Got to the hotel (the JW about 6 miles away from the track).
I drop off my stuff in the room and immediately go down to their mediocre restaurant.
I walk in, led to my table and the first person I see….
Sergio Perez. All alone at a table. My wife says “ok don’t be weird”
We make eye contact. I don’t say a word.
His family joins him minutes later.
They eat dinner. We eat dinner. They leave. We leave.
The end.
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arturo7
·Alright well read this.
Drove the 4 hours to Miami. Got to the hotel (the JW about 6 miles away from the track).
I drop off my stuff in the room and immediately go down to their mediocre restaurant.
I walk in, led to my table and the first person I see….
Sergio Perez. All alone at a table. My wife says “ok don’t be weird”
We make eye contact. I don’t say a word.
His family joins him minutes later.
They eat dinner. We eat dinner. They leave. We leave.
The end.
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vbrad26
·Hah I really had a hard time. But I’m not the type of guy to bother people when they are just out and about minding their own business.
Especially when his wife and kids showed up.
No one in the restaurant clocked him.
It was still so odd to me to see him THERE.
I mean there have to be nicer hotels around and then to be at the mid-tier restaurant on top of it.
Maybe that Caddy salary isn’t that great lol.
Part of me was thinking it was intentional on his part. Maybe he was making an effort to be more low key.
But the Caddy team wear and gaudy RM on the wrist wasn’t helping his case lol.
But like I said, I think he still managed since no one bothered him.
Especially when his wife and kids showed up.
No one in the restaurant clocked him.
It was still so odd to me to see him THERE.
I mean there have to be nicer hotels around and then to be at the mid-tier restaurant on top of it.
Maybe that Caddy salary isn’t that great lol.
Part of me was thinking it was intentional on his part. Maybe he was making an effort to be more low key.
But the Caddy team wear and gaudy RM on the wrist wasn’t helping his case lol.
But like I said, I think he still managed since no one bothered him.
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dsio
··Ash @ ΩFIt's looking pretty interesting so far, I was fully expecting George to run away with it but now there's at least what looks like a battle going on and if anything George is a bit on the back foot with a pretty damn good teammate
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redpcar
·Looking interesting today
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Evitzee
·Race pulled back to 1 pm EDT to try to beat the rain. Lame.
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