The F1 Thread

[Paddingtonwolf]

Penalty for Sainz. Hulk could get a podium finally!

 

[t3ch]

What a shit show

 

[jlo]

I don't know, the replay did put Carlos at quite a large portion of blame. I don't think Max was out of place either, plus they slightly relaxed that rule after the first two races I believe

 

[jlo]

After Abu Dhabi, they discussed the option of putting lap of fuel into cars and adding an extra lap with a late red flag to ensure the race finishes as a race. Can't help but think that might have been nice today. Either way, despite the end it's been a pretty entertaining race

 

[jlo]

OK Max was closer than I realised to being outside the grid box; I'd consider that out but Crofty says not if the wheels touch the white line

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

They expanded the box by 20cm today to help the drivers. Max should be fine.

 

[jlo]

They expanded the box by 20cm today to help the drivers. Max should be fine.

20cm wider (correct me if i'm wrong!), which is what I first initially thought was the issue. But twitter has pointed out how advanced in the box he was. Technically in the rules though, so no disputing it's OK.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1642432247461543937

 

[The Bear]

As pissed off as I was at the time, that's a very harsh penalty for Carlos.

Max was out of his grid position at the restart too.

I think you're wrong on both counts. First corner or not, Sainz comes over and wipes out the back of Alonso. 100% his fault and deserves the penalty as he alone cause the incident.

And Max had his tyres on the line, which is fine.

 

[Kenny]

Race Weekend in Baku will be a bit different

Friday; Practice Session and Quali for Main Race
Saturday: Quali for Sprint Race and the Sprint Race
Sunday: Main Race

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

So the sprint effectively becomes only about points and the big issue (the huge jeopardy of a prang utterly wrecking the GP starting position meaning nobody dares overtake much) should be eliminated. Might make the sprint more watchable. The only decent one I can remember is Hamilton coming through the field in Brazil.

 

[Kenny]

Teams aren't happy about the Sprint Race being in Baku though. Event already one of the expensive ones with regards to car damage so popping in an extra chance of destruction when all on tight budgets not gone down well.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Crash in Baku tends to be expensive and the circuit could burn through engines

 

[Kenny]

Ferrari looking good today. Different format today. 1 practice session this morning and straight into Quali for Sunday now. Tomorrow is sprint race quali and the sprint race

First lap in Q3 and Max and Charles get identical times but Max gets 1st as he did it first


Merc looking shite. Russell will start in 11th but Lewis looking a bit stronger in Q3

 

[Kenny]

2nd laps in Q3 and Charles edges out Max for Pole

1) Leclerc
2) Max
3) Perez
4) Sainz
5) Lewis
6) Alonso

Lewis has done well to drag the Merc up to 5th. Looked like a dog of a car in Q1 and 2

 

[Kenny]

Baku normally has loads of action...not today.

Dull, dull, dull.

Highlight is Max losing the race as he pitted about 30 seconds before a safety car.

Down the grid not much happened as over taking seemed almost impossible unless a mistake was made. Hamilton one of the few to make moves as he lost 5th place, as like Max he pitted before a safety car and found himself in 12th. Got back up to 6th and spent a lot of time being less than a second behind Sainz, buy couldn't make that move.

Ocon did almost take out a host of photographers as he made his only pit stop with 1 lap to go and the dozy fuckers we were all gathered in the pit entry.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Monaco levels of yawn.

 

[The Bear]

I didn't like the new sprint format either. A quali session on Friday, followed by another almost identical quali session on Saturday. Yawn.

Can't they just use the GP quali places to decide the Sprint order somehow? Like invert places 1-6, then 7-13 and lastly 14-20? That way you'd have three blocks of quicker cars behind slower cars all throughout the field and pretty much every one would be attacking those in front.

 

[pavlosmacwolf]

Boring as buggery and on a go cart track.
No atmosphere from the drivers or the crowd.

 

[jlo]

I didn't like the new sprint format either. A quali session on Friday, followed by another almost identical quali session on Saturday. Yawn.

Can't they just use the GP quali places to decide the Sprint order somehow? Like invert places 1-6, then 7-13 and lastly 14-20? That way you'd have three blocks of quicker cars behind slower cars all throughout the field and pretty much every one would be attacking those in front.

Feeder series reversing the top 8 works pretty well, that's what I'd do. Or BTCC used to (or still does?) uses both a ballast system to weight down quicker cars in the championship, and does a random number system to reversing one of the race grids to stop people gaming the system. (Now I wouldn't do the ballast approach but we need ideas on the table)

 

[Kenny]

Bit of a freak result in P1. Merc 1-2. George leading Lewis.

Impressive from George as he missed a large chunk of the session have work done on his car.