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Red Bull and Mercedes are rumoured to have used up a lot of their budget so far.

I'm all for letting the other teams catch up while they stand still for a while.

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It's not getting better is it.... I don't know what to make of it. I think at this point we pretty much have to accept that what we're seeing is what there is, and Norris is simply a faster driver than Ricciardo. I believe Norris is faster, but at the same time I don't feel like we are seeing Ricca...

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Looking forward to seeing the race around this track with the new cars.

Hopefully we have another installment of Verstappen v Leclerc to show us, as I heard Verstappen's long runs were better than the Ferrari's.

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DRS trains are not new. These cars are better for racing than the last generation of cars. Porpoising was very much a problem in the old days of ground effect, the term was coined by Mario Andretti in the 70's.

Overall I see 2022 as a big improvement.

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I actually think the track is alright. Not amazing, and I think the hype works against it in that respect, but overall an OK track, the super tight section needs a rework though. I have mixed feelings on the surface. On the one hand I don't like that off line seemed to be more treacherous than usual...

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The cars looked great around here, I'm looking forward to seeing them on some of the more traditional fast flowing tracks later this year. S1 at Suzuka will be beautiful.

Overall a decent track and a decent race.

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It does seem that since the success of Baku, super fast 'street' circuits have become sought after by Liberty. The fast blind corners may look spectacular but I do wonder if we are only one nasty accident away from tracks like this and Jeddah coming under some serious scrutiny. Feels like it's just...

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It does seem that since the success of Baku, super fast 'street' circuits have become sought after by Liberty. The fast blind corners may look spectacular but I do wonder if we are only one nasty accident away from tracks like this and Jeddah coming under some serious scrutiny. Feels like it's just ...

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FormulaFun wrote: ↑
Sat May 07, 2022 9:20 pm
Tell you what though I certainly wouldn't mind seeing some more of Danica in future races that's for sure

Behave, this is a family friendly forum

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The hype is starting to get to me. They seem to be giving the impression that Miami is some sort of world destination on par with Monaco, London, or maybe New York. It's not. Miami is the retirement community of the Midwest. For all its faults, Vegas is ten times as glamorous. I know what you mean....

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Regarding what Fabregas said, the Spanish translation apparently is a change of drivers from the same team, to me we may see Red Bull drivers as being the same team they just have more teams, a driver swap between Gasly and Albon. With Perez performing well it's looking unlikely that Gasly will get...

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Isolation restrictions are not what I'm talking about. I agree they'll be dropped in time. What I'm interested in is are they actually testing everyone all the time as they once were? Or are they only testing people now inline with entry requirements? If they visited a country where you need not pr...

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Since we have a rumour thread now... Very, very vague rumours of some upcoming movement in the driver market. Unclear whether this is talking about a mid season swap, or negotiations underway for next year. 1518299916875055105 Translation: The market is already moving. Something is happening, but I ...

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Whatever you do Gasly do not overtake Albon Exactly he was obviously so much faster than Albon but needed the DRS to stop any progress for Hamilton, there's still a fear that Mercedes might bounce back, this is the inter team collusion I wonder about. The mental gymnastics to think that Gasly was d...

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Good weekend for the championship fight.

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FormulaFun wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 24, 2022 2:08 pm
What's going on with this race? Nobody want to do anything? Nobody want to put for softs or try something

Difficult track to overtake on and the crossover from inters to slicks came at a time which allowed everyone to go onto mediums which would last until the end.

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Yay DRS.

F1 will never be rid of this gimmick, sadly.

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Croft doesn't irritate me half as much as he seems to irritate others but god he's unbearable at the moment.

We get it, there's no DRS, you've said it already now shut up about it.

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JN23 wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 24, 2022 1:39 pm
Surely can get DRS open now?

Hopefully they forget to turn it on at all. The racing has been fine without it.

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I call that a racing incident, where could Ricciardo go after being squeezed by Sainz, you've got to factor in the track conditions. He was left plenty of space. Got on the curb and understeered into Sainz. Completely Ricciardo's fault, but first lap, first corner incidents regularly get chalked up...

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KingVoid wrote: ↑
Fri Apr 22, 2022 6:00 pm
Best wet weather driver on the grid
Qualifying was on slicks unless I missed something.
This is a valid point

Are we talking about this weekend here? Because Verstappen's pole lap was on inters.

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They should remove DRS for tomorrow. This was my issue last year too. Quali pace is not always representative of race pace so even without a wet quali mixing things up, quali often put the odd car out of position which makes for good TV on a Sunday All this race is doing is move Perez and Sainz, th...

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They should remove DRS for tomorrow.

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F1 just posted this excellent beginners guide to F1 fuel tanks on YouTube. It might not be of much interest to those with technical knowledge of this sort of thing, but for a layman it's really good. Timely with all the fuel related issues teams are having. https://youtu.be/YQsvU8_bb4Q YQsvU8_bb4Q

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is it true that that crash was actually caused by the hydraulics issue? Do the breaks get effected? He shifted down to 4th but couldn't shift down further. Means he didn't have as much engine braking he was expecting and so couldn't slow down enough for the corner. Got a snap of oversteer as he was...

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It's so irritating to me when the commentary audio and feed are out of sync, hearing Brundle react to things that show up on screen half a second later.

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Vettel might be able to get a lap in thanks to Stroll. Das Plan?

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If you accept, as I hope everyone should, that nobody should have the authority to decide for you what is acceptable for you to to see, or for you to hear. Then it becomes self evident that nobody should have the authority to decide what is acceptable to be shown, or said. On topic, while there are ...

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I think the engine is a part of it, as well as the concept being quite aggressive. They will get ontop of the car eventually no doubt, but the longer they take the more time Red Bull and Ferrari have to develop their own concepts. Interestingly Steiner said Haas initially went with the no sidepod co...

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Unpopular opinion but I'm not a massive fan of COTA. That's not to say I dislike it, it's a fine track and produces some good races, but it has a sort of hollow feel to it that I can't put my finger on. It might just be that it's a new circuit and so has no history, which it obviously will with time...

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https://twitter.com/DrivenByData_/statu ... UVM5A&s=19

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With Horner some of the things he says are outright nasty like childish name calling, he himself no doubt thinks it's hilarious, I don't believe that Wolff lowers himself as much as Horner does. They're unlikable in different ways. Horner comes off as mean and petty, while Wolff comes off as arroga...

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TheGiantHogweed wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 27, 2022 9:04 am
Does anyone know who is taking schumacher's place?

Haas are only running 1 car.

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Why might it be difficult to leave? Is this in terms of not enough planes currently there until after the race, is it a safety thing or something else? The non-sinister interpretation is they simply mean logistically it might be difficult to leave before they're scheduled to anyway, so may as well ...

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I’m still astounded by the line in that BBC article that suggests it would be difficult for teams/drivers etc to leave Saudi Arabia if the race did not go ahead. Latest update: https://twitter.com/f1/status/1507643809886138374?s=21&t=6IAC6xP3QnYbgfhqvOf9ew GPDA statement: https://twitter.com/alex_w...

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It's clear that serious discussions are happening behind the scenes right now.

https://twitter.com/AlbertFabrega/statu ... fK6jA&s=19

Feels like this might get called off to me.

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Yes, still no negative test. Vettel could be in trouble. Some people are positive for 3 months. So, are F1 demanding that you get negative results, regardless of how long it's been since the first positive? I work in a school (England) and tested positive on Monday this week. My day zero was Sunday...

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Max's wing I assume is the smaller one. The interesting bit is the side panel how it cuts earlier to the main beam so its like a mini DRS to the end elements. Could be the angle of the photo though. They're probably trying high/low down force for comparison. I'm sure if the smaller wing is faster o...

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Race Control is going to stop giving advice to the teams to give back places, this is the most important part of all this. It will stop all the confusion for people who don't understand that Race Control is not the stewards. It will be up to the teams to decide if they should return the position (o...

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I think Max, and all the other drivers, will push the limits of these guidelines this year. If the FIA actually have the bottle to come down hard on it, then he will adapt. The wording of the guidelines I've seen doesn't seem all that different to the wording that was there before, which is fine, bu...

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