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I've also seen a pic with Mazepin having the DRS open yesterday. This begs some questions: - Did anyone else do that? - Weren't they supposed to be there, but not used? - If he managed that bad a time with the DRS open, then can we safely assume that he is truly terrible (assuming the rest weren't ...

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There have been a couple of things which have caught my eye, suggesting the racing may indeed be better with these new cars. This tweet saying Sainz was following Verstappen and staying well within a second. Around this track that's very encouraging to hear, though we don't know how representative t...

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https://the-race.com/f1-testing-2022-barcelona-day-1/

The race is offering live text coverage and timing chart with analysis, if people want to follow along. I believe other outlets e.g. Autosport are doing similar.

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I certainly wouldn't want a forum rule that we can't say or infer that someone is biased, for any reason. And it's clearly not xenophobic to suggest someone is biased due to their nationality. That said I have noticed recently with a lot of this 'British bias'/'British media bias' stuff that people ...

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As if overtaking around the outside wasn't difficult enough these days, some people now want to make it all but impossible.

A healthy reminder that no matter how bad the people in charge may be when it comes to setting the overtaking rules, it could always be worse.

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He should be. This is honestly a terrible direction for racecraft to have taken in the last few decades, and as a racer myself I deplore it being considered acceptable at the highest level. The idea that you can just run the other car off track as long as you're a finger ahead past the apex is the ...

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Both replacements are awful :lol: Not had bad as Masi though who changed the direction of the F1 WDC to suit himself who would have never won without his intervention. And now Max fans are fully aware its a fake title. I know you want to engage in a trolling war with me, but I pass. I’m just here t...

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He did wrong. He was "removed". Max is not a real WDC. He did not do enough, throughout the season, to clearly convince me of this - (dirty driving, brake check). Hamilton is an 8 times WDC. Unfortunately for you, reality disagrees with 2 of these statements. Maybe your reality, is based on cheatin...

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RayceBoye wrote: ↑
Thu Feb 17, 2022 3:52 pm
He did wrong. He was "removed". Max is not a real WDC. He did not do enough, throughout the season, to clearly convince me of this - (dirty driving, brake check). Hamilton is an 8 times WDC.

Unfortunately for you, reality disagrees with 2 of these statements.

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Going to be offered a new role in the FIA, no confirmation on what that is yet, but you might want to change the thread title, as 'sacked' suggests he is no longer employed by the FIA. It would be more accurate to say he has been removed from the Race Director position.

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Absolutely beautiful. Best looking Ferrari in years.

That dip in the bodywork is fascinating too. Really glad we are seeing such a wide variety in approach to these new regs by the teams.

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An apparent leak of the new Ferrari, officially launching tomorrow.

Not sure it's legit, but hidden anyway in case people don't want to see before the official unveiling.

Spoiler (click to show)

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So the FIA is not going to make the report public? I wonder why Do you have a source for this? I've looked online but I'm struggling to find anything. There's a guardian article with that as a headline, but nothing in the article to substantiate it. The article appears to be taking the fact that fi...

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So the FIA is not going to make the report public? I wonder why Do you have a source for this? I've looked online but I'm struggling to find anything. There's a guardian article with that as a headline, but nothing in the article to substantiate it. The article appears to be taking the fact that fi...

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Didn't anybody tell the teams that their 'shakedowns' should be at Barcelona this year.

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https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/will ... n/8198962/

Aston Martin are starting to look like a real outlier with their sidepods/rear packaging.

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Tue Feb 15, 2022 12:10 am
The FIA have admitted the rules were broke. I don't get why you can't. It's no longer a question of if they were. They were. The FIA have stated that. It's what do we do to stop it happening again.

Genuine question - have they? Could you give a link? I can't find anything from google.

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If the leader has completed more than two laps but less than 25% of the scheduled race distance, the top five finishers will be awarded points on a 6-4-3-2-1 scale. Does it say if those two laps are under normal racing conditions or not? Because the whole issue with Spa was that the laps were behin...

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I feel like this could feel a little farcical if it happened on a sprint weekend. Where 20 odd racing laps have taken place on the Saturday but no points awarded because a further 2 couldn't be completed on the Sunday. I would have no problem with them giving points just based on qualifying position...

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Tufty wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 12, 2022 12:00 am
I'm not a massive fan of the livery, but I can't put my finger on why. It'll probably grow on me through testing.

To me it just looks a bit messy and unprofessional, like a generic livery you would be able to chose on a video game. At least it's colourful. Maybe it will look better on track.

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Hamilton in 2018 form clinches the title with the slight car advantage. Agreed. Verstappen hasn't yet reached the level of Hamilton's peak (17/18). Let's wait and see what happens in '22, but my gut feeling is Hamilton is in the decline from his peak and Verstappen is in his ascendancy toward his, ...

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Looks much slimmer at the back than the Aston.

Same engine so it's not to do with that. Just 2 very different concepts, very interesting!

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Aston Martin is now the latest to reveal their 2022 challenger, and it promises to be the most interesting yet: https://files.gpblog.com/news/2022/02/10/v2_large_4f8c2de8d7b96dec861be7172fc04f146fec1539.jpg RaceFans has a gallery of high resolution pictures that can't be posted here. Unlike the Red...

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But anyone who thinks that the FIA is going to act based on this "new evidence" is just fooling themselves. Not least because it's not new. It was posted on the official F1 YouTube channel 4 days after the race. That's why I put "new evidence" in quotes. It is not technically new, but was not disco...

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Thu Feb 10, 2022 2:26 pm
But anyone who thinks that the FIA is going to act based on this "new evidence" is just fooling themselves.

Not least because it's not new. It was posted on the official F1 YouTube channel 4 days after the race.

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She's a beauty!

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Aston Martin will be unveiling their "real race car" today at 2pm.

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Thu Feb 10, 2022 9:09 am
The biggest thing for me is the Oracle sponsorship. That has to be worth a pretty tidy sum.

$100m per year for 5 years according to the press.

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Iconic livery at this point, I don't think anyone expected much change. I like the change on the side from Red Bull to Oracle, I think the white logo makes it look better. Not a fan of how far up the nose the yellow goes though, it would be nicer if it cut off lower down, more like last years. Shame...

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Ready for the preseason to start in earnest. Very much interested to in the Mercedes unveiling. Hope Mercedes bring it for Lewis and this time they don’t give the FIA a chance to steal the title from him and he wins it in US or Mexico again. Indeed if it's close they will no doubt look to stage a H...

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WRT the thread title, I no longer care whether he competes or not, I just wish he would s**t or get off the pot. Yeah, if he chooses to not come back and compete in F1 this year, he's arguably screwing a number of others' futures by waiting until the last minute. Uck. Yeah, if he comes back and com...

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Successfully negotiating a re-start grid that was more favorable than the order before Verstappen's foul. That didn't happen though. There was never any negotiation. Masi gave Red Bull the option of moving Verstappen back behind Hamilton or it would be handed to the stewards. That's completely norm...

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It's pretty clear he didn't follow the rules, I don't know how anyone could honestly argue otherwise. The race director clearly doesn't have total freedom to do whatever he likes - that would be completely insane and obviously isn't how a sport is run. Has Fiki ever argued that Masi was within his ...

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It's pretty clear he didn't follow the rules, I don't know how anyone could honestly argue otherwise. The race director clearly doesn't have total freedom to do whatever he likes - that would be completely insane and obviously isn't how a sport is run. Has Fiki ever argued that Masi was within his ...

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Metallica for life. This artistic masterpiece embodies everything in its splendor. Easily one of my favorite songs since I was a child and still is today. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAGnKpE4NCI[/youtube] It's good to see theres someone else who stuck in the music time warp. While I wa...

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The Silverstone crash is the gift that just keeps giving (or the dumpster fire that just keeps burning). Ultimately, Hamilton wasn't holding any line, he was understeering and running wide. Verstappen had no reason to give him even more space. Was Verstappen a little hasty in tightening his line? P...

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As I recall at least, the term "dive bomb" means an incredibly aggressive move with very late breaking on the inside that has no chance of succeeding except to take out the opposition by contact or the opposition totally giving way in abject fear... I guess it's a question of interpretation. I'd ag...

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It's been confirmed that there will be no live coverage of the first test at Barcelona. No footage and no live timing, just a list of fastest laps at the end of the day. The official line is that it's because the Barcelona test isn't a test, but a 'shakedown' with all the teams in the same place, wi...

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Congratulations! After a long number of combinations, selection, and operating the data, you have finally created a version where Verstappen is No. 1. Now the purpose of this thread is achieved and we can all proceed. :thumbup: ;) :lol: Was the other version better? The one that Max gets downvoted ...

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