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Post by muddyfunster on Jul 8, 2023 15:26:48 GMT
Yeah Piastri doing his job too. He's having a good season.
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Jul 8, 2023 15:28:21 GMT
Ah, TV had him down as purple, yellow I think. It's the hope that kills you, but it at least lasted for around 15 seconds.
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Post by muddyfunster on Jul 8, 2023 15:28:58 GMT
Paolo Dybala here too whilst his agent hawks him around the Premiership.
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Post by muddyfunster on Jul 8, 2023 15:37:47 GMT
Danny Ricc must feel a bit conflicted right now. Hell of a day for his chances of returning to F1.
Perez continuing to be crap: yay!
Piastri showing it is possible to qualify within a few tenths of Norris: boo!
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Post by Red_Bool on Jul 8, 2023 15:41:24 GMT
For a second I thought Lando had it. Would have been awesome. I'm starting to enjoy qualifying more than the actual races, even though the outcome continues to be the same.
Also, Checo, wtf are you doing?!?
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Post by TheSaint on Jul 8, 2023 15:46:32 GMT
Was it just me or did they cut the crowd audio as Max set the pole lap? It sounded like a second of very loud booing and then it got cut off.
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Post by muddyfunster on Jul 8, 2023 17:09:49 GMT
Not on the feed I was watching at least.
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Post by damagedinc on Jul 8, 2023 18:51:57 GMT
Fun qualifying. Max touched on it in interviews but he basically said there was more time on the table for them, wasn't on the edge.
Fantastic performance for mclaren. Hopefully they have decent race pace. Once max sails away be a very decent fight behind him.
And perez........truly lost it. Got the red bull jitters
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Jul 8, 2023 19:03:24 GMT
It's a shame P1 has become Formula Verstappen as the way the teams behind are nosing ahead of each other update to update and suiting different conditions better on different weekends is actually quite brilliant. Aston one week, Mercedes the next, now McLaren having their day in the sun and Williams even looking racey.
I hope they don't move too far away from the spirit of these regulations in the future as when you take away the two cyborgs who designed and drive the car up front there's some really intense competition developing at the moment. and if Red Bull can just throw on a couple more updates this season, Perez might even be able to join that battle to reach Q3.
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Post by muddyfunster on Jul 8, 2023 23:06:16 GMT
I sort of agree although I still think these cars are fairly unspectacular to watch. They don't sound fast and don't look fast compared to pre 2014. They're just too planted.
Yes it's good they can follow more closely and the racing has improved but the way they deliver lap time doesn't do it for me. The cars look too stable and LMP like in their attitude.
Single seaters should look twitchy, aggressive, agile and hard to drive with drivers sawing at the wheel while the engine screams at some absurdly high rpm.
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Jul 8, 2023 23:36:48 GMT
Yep, I've been re-watching a lot of mid-2000's races lately and while it was a bit of a dark period for wheel-to-wheel action, the cars just look infinitely more primal going around a track. Some of the snaps they had to deal with lap to lap would be getting 10 minutes of analysis on the Skypad nowadays. It was just racing then.
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Post by muddyfunster on Jul 8, 2023 23:43:56 GMT
I'm up to 1987 now on my F1 archive gradual watch through and it's just great to watch the drivers properly wrestle the cars around.
The F2 still has some of this stuff tbf. They just don't quite have enough horse power. Actually if they just did an F2 car with 30% more horses that would be great.
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Post by muddyfunster on Jul 8, 2023 23:50:09 GMT
The current F1 cars do get snaps, the Merc at times looks bloody awful, but it's usually mid corner and the whole moment seems slower somehow.
Other thing that doesn't help is that everyone is driving around 4-8s per lap off the true limit thanks to tyre saving anyway.
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Post by muddyfunster on Jul 9, 2023 9:41:31 GMT
F2 stewards half asleep. Pretty obvious case of Martins taking the lead off the track on lap 1, took them until lap 19/29 to decide there was a penalty due. I'm glad they eventually got to the right decision but taking that long totally changed the shape of the race. It was such a simple one too.
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Post by Whizzo on Jul 9, 2023 14:04:52 GMT
What a fantastic start from Lando.
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Post by TheSaint on Jul 9, 2023 14:10:57 GMT
Fun for four laps anyway.
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Post by starchildhypocrethes on Jul 9, 2023 14:12:07 GMT
Didn’t put up much of a fight there.
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Jul 9, 2023 14:13:04 GMT
Thankfully Norris has got far enough ahead of the pack he can actually have a normal race from here on out.
Piastri looking good too. Please don't be another false dawn, McLaren.
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Jul 9, 2023 14:13:49 GMT
Smart move from McLaren, use the DRS in tandem and consolidate.
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Post by Dougs on Jul 9, 2023 14:19:34 GMT
Arses, only just turned on. What have I missed?
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Jul 9, 2023 14:21:21 GMT
Max was 100% giving his good pal a tow for 8 or so laps there.
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Post by muddyfunster on Jul 9, 2023 14:21:39 GMT
Max just turning everything down and managing.
Quite interesting to see how Mercs split strategies play out. Russell certainly faster at the moment.
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Post by muddyfunster on Jul 9, 2023 14:27:06 GMT
Norris needs to be careful about track limits. Has two laps deleted already.
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Jul 9, 2023 14:32:02 GMT
Softs look pretty mega today. Shame Merc have forgotten how to do straight lines.
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Post by muddyfunster on Jul 9, 2023 14:32:42 GMT
Pace of the Williams is a bit disappointing.
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Jul 9, 2023 14:33:18 GMT
Ferrari putting Leclerc on Hards, fucking chickens.
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Post by muddyfunster on Jul 9, 2023 14:35:54 GMT
Leclerc not much faster on new tyres. Maybe undercut not too big today.
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Post by muddyfunster on Jul 9, 2023 14:46:49 GMT
Are people using the hards because they don't have any softs? Russells have done 30 laps and there's 24 laps left.
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Jul 9, 2023 14:47:15 GMT
Compound selection looks to have completely missed the mark this weekend.
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Jul 9, 2023 14:48:27 GMT
Russell should make mincemeat of the hard runners here.
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