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*****OFFICIAL FORMULA ONE GRAND PRIX THREAD***** (4 Viewers)

I've been watching a bit of F1 Academy races this year, and "watching" now, and the rain looks miserable. Not sure they will let them go racing, and rain is expected to get worse.


No idea what the weather looks like for the F1 race.
 
Skipdog77 said:
Eephus said:
Skipdog77 said:
TennesseeJed said:
lol - Ferrari's only entertainment value toady was Hamilton on the radio
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Hopefully they had a plate of cheese waiting for him in the garage to go with all that whine. My teenage daughter is less of a drama queen than Lewis.
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He had a point. The mediums were the faster at the beginning of the stint.
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His comment about if he should just let Sainz pass too was toddlerific.
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I chuckled :oldunsure:
 
Red Bull protested the results after the race, claiming Russell did not slow enough during a yellow flag.

Stewards rejected the protest, and Russell keeps his 3rd place finish.
 
My boy Albon continues to put in strong drives. Too bad his points got wiped out in the sprint race. Would have been nice to see Sainz pass Hamilton.
 
Doohan wait!!!

It sucks for Jack to be out after seven F1 starts but he was never the choice of the current management team at Enstone and Doohan didn't seize the opportunity when he had the chance. I'm not convinced Colapinto will do any better but the rumors are he's bringing some Argentine sponsor money to the team which is good business for Flavio Briatore.

Piastri was very lucky to escape that nuthouse.
 
More Alpine organizational chaos with team principal Oliver Oakes resigning after less than a year on the job. Flavio Briatore will assume his TP responsibilities which just shows the old piranha still has sharp teeth. The timing suggests it has something to do with the Doohan-Colapinto switch but whatever it was, Flavio won out again.
 
Eephus said:
More Alpine organizational chaos with team principal Oliver Oakes resigning after less than a year on the job. Flavio Briatore will assume his TP responsibilities which just shows the old piranha still has sharp teeth. The timing suggests it has something to do with the Doohan-Colapinto switch but whatever it was, Flavio won out again.
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It turns out Flav was being truthful when he said Oakes' departure wasn't related to the Doohan decision.

Oakes' brother and business partner in the Hitech F2/F3 team was arrested in the UK and charged with transferring criminal property. Rather than rushing to his brother's defense, Oliver skedaddled off to Dubai which doesn't have an extradition agreement with Britain.
 
Eephus said:
Skipdog77 said:
TennesseeJed said:
lol - Ferrari's only entertainment value toady was Hamilton on the radio
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Hopefully they had a plate of cheese waiting for him in the garage to go with all that whine. My teenage daughter is less of a drama queen than Lewis.
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He had a point. The mediums were the faster at the beginning of the stint.
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Ferrari still Ferrariing even with Lewis in the camp. Lewis was right about the need to switch right away - while he still had life in his tires enough to possibly catch Antonelli. The dawdling was ridiculous. Then they managed to screw up and dawdle again with flipping them back as they told Charles first before giving the order to Hamilton and frittering away a lap.

Was really as simple as saying right at the get go "Charl, Lewis is on a different strategy so swap positions please - we'll swap back later if he can't get Antonelli". Instead they manage to maximize the number of laps the slower car was ahead on both sides of the swap.

On a different note at least these F1 teams are giving the editors of the opening video enough time to swap out the drivers. Poor Doohan.

-QG
 
QuizGuy66 said:
Ferrari still Ferrariing even with Lewis in the camp. Lewis was right about the need to switch right away - while he still had life in his tires enough to possibly catch Antonelli. The dawdling was ridiculous. Then they managed to screw up and dawdle again with flipping them back as they told Charles first before giving the order to Hamilton and frittering away a lap.

Was really as simple as saying right at the get go "Charl, Lewis is on a different strategy so swap positions please - we'll swap back later if he can't get Antonelli". Instead they manage to maximize the number of laps the slower car was ahead on both sides of the swap.
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This would be a bigger issue if the red cars were more competitive instead of fighting for 6th, 7th and 8th.

It does point out the complexity of the chain of command of a F1 team. Ultimately the buck stops w/ Vasseur but the decision making process likely involves multiple people on the pitwall, garage and factory.
 
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Race weekend--the first of a tripleheader. They're back at Imola/Emilia-Romagna/San Marino for perhaps the final time. It's an old school circuit w/ old world charm but it's narrow and not ideal for the giant F1 cars of today.

Pirelli is bringing the softest three compounds in hope of making a one stopper impossible. The C5 was the soft in 2024 but it's the medium this year so it'll be crucial to make them last on Sunday. I'm a pessimist so I expect a dull first stint as everybody manages their mediums but maybe an early safety car will liven thing up.
 
In Monaco through Wednesday for work. It’s pretty cool to walk along the course, the paddock, starting grid, etc. i can see all of the semi rigs lined up to start unloading into the garages. The yachts are all active with crew cleaning and getting ready for their owners to join. A lot of fans just wandering around, snapping photos. Just a week from today and things will be much more active! I’ll be gone by then and watching from the comfort of my home. I will be looking out for all of the spots that I walked along a week earlier.
 
Senor Schmutzig said:
In Monaco through Wednesday for work. It’s pretty cool to walk along the course, the paddock, starting grid, etc. i can see all of the semi rigs lined up to start unloading into the garages. The yachts are all active with crew cleaning and getting ready for their owners to join. A lot of fans just wandering around, snapping photos. Just a week from today and things will be much more active! I’ll be gone by then and watching from the comfort of my home. I will be looking out for all of the spots that I walked along a week earlier.
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They put up all the temporary facilities and barricades at the end of last month for the Formula E doubleheader two weekends ago. They now race the full grand prix circuit and because the FE cars are smaller and less aero dependent they can actually pass in Monaco. We can only hope that the F1 race is half as good as the Sunday FE race.
 
So with Monaco coming up and the new two pit stop rule; you think anyone tries a pit stop during a safety car, then pitting again under the same safety car?
 
The Gator said:
So with Monaco coming up and the new two pit stop rule; you think anyone tries a pit stop during a safety car, then pitting again under the same safety car?
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It depends on when the safety car(s) fall and how long it takes to pack up the field.

Last year everybody pitted after the lap 1 crash to get off the mediums and they just managed the hards for the entire race distance. The hard last year was the C3 which is one step harder than what they're running this year. The big question this year is how long they can run on the C4s (or how slowly do they have to go to make them last).

I definitely think we'll see some teams pitting very early regardless of whether there's a safety car. That'll get them some running in clean air and some hop of lucking into a well-timed safety car for their second mandatory stop.
 
It probably won't work but I support F1's attempts to improve the rules for Monaco. At least it'll prevent the specific case of what happened last year which made for a terrible race even by MC standards.
 
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