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Post by damagedinc on Mar 9, 2024 18:29:54 GMT
Yeah up there with one of the best rookie drives. Incredible performance.
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Post by Wizzard_Ook on Mar 10, 2024 8:45:39 GMT
Fantastic drive from Bearman. Probably aged his dad by about 10 years mind you.
For those that are interested, the first WEC race at Qatar is now on YouTube (official world endurance championship channel). Also moto gp season starts today.
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Post by muddyfunster on Mar 10, 2024 10:47:51 GMT
Couldn't watch live but managed to avoid the result and watched it back in full late last night.
Amazing from Bearman. Far exceeded expectations. When he got swamped a bit at the start I feared for him as that was exactly the scenario he struggles with in F2, but he collected himself and put in such a calm measured performance.
Those final 10 laps were so impressive under intense pressure. Controlled his pace beautifully. Then rather than fist pumping and screaming after crossing the line to score his first F1 points he was reflective and self critical.
Spare a thought for Felipe Drugovich who convincingly won F2 and has to watch Stroll Jnr repeatedly drive into the walls in the car he should be in.
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Post by mastercracker on Mar 10, 2024 20:35:20 GMT
Couldn't watch live but managed to avoid the result and watched it back in full late last night. Amazing from Bearman. Far exceeded expectations. When he got swamped a bit at the start I feared for him as that was exactly the scenario he struggles with in F2, but he collected himself and put in such a calm measured performance. Those final 10 laps were so impressive under intense pressure. Controlled his pace beautifully. Then rather than fist pumping and screaming after crossing the line to score his first F1 points he was reflective and self critical. Spare a thought for Felipe Drugovich who convincingly won F2 and has to watch Stroll Jnr repeatedly drive into the walls in the car he should be in. There’s always been dross in F1 (Jos Verstappen says hi) but Stroll is surely on course to break all records for longevity of being complete cack, courtesy of his dad having to buy him a team.
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Post by damagedinc on Mar 10, 2024 21:02:31 GMT
Fresh reports that horner being sacked before Australia. Take it with a pinch of salt but that's the latest gossip. Shareholders getting twitchy.
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Post by muddyfunster on Mar 11, 2024 9:19:13 GMT
If I've understood correctly it'll be down to the Thai side backtracking on their support. He can't be sacked without their blessing.
You'd think he won't go quietly and will want a massive pay off, but I guess at some stage the reputational damage is worse.
Obviously Horner deserves to be sacked, but if you were choosing between Horner and Marko on their merit for running an F1 team it would be Horner all day long. It was Horner who moved heaven and earth to poach Newey. They're friends and Newey's godfather to one of Horner's kids. It's not coincidence that they've had for the best aerodynamic package for 90% of seasons since then.
The order of importance to that squad is Newey, Horner, Max (several hundred other employees) Marko.
Horner and Newey to Williams?
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Post by dangerousdave on Mar 11, 2024 13:30:23 GMT
Horny and newer?
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Post by damagedinc on Mar 16, 2024 6:07:49 GMT
And it rumbles on....
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Post by Whizzo on Mar 20, 2024 18:24:37 GMT
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Post by muddyfunster on Mar 20, 2024 19:06:49 GMT
Maybe they used that independent lawyer that Red Bull's HR department had just finished with.
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Post by damagedinc on Mar 20, 2024 19:45:56 GMT
Nothing like marking your own homework
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Post by PatrickEwing on Mar 20, 2024 21:18:25 GMT
Nice one Susie W. Go after those corrupt fucks.
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Post by damagedinc on Mar 20, 2024 21:26:58 GMT
Nice one Susie W. Go after those corrupt fucks. Brilliant she's going all the way with it, lovely timing aswell.
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Post by muddyfunster on Mar 21, 2024 4:27:32 GMT
Fair dinkum Valtteri.
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Post by Whizzo on Mar 21, 2024 11:03:05 GMT
The question is does VB drink VB too?
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Post by Wizzard_Ook on Mar 22, 2024 12:15:21 GMT
Seb Vettel testing his hairline in a Porsche hyper car today. Been rumours he could be joining the championship for a while. Be great if he makes the jump. Wouldn’t be surprised if he does Le Mans. m.youtube.com/watch?v=h1bVRu-k9sI
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Mar 22, 2024 13:39:11 GMT
I'm not really a fan of Sargeant whatsoever but binning him off out of his own car is incredibly harsh.
Again makes Andretti being refused entry on grounds of not being competitive enough utterly ridiculous when one team can't even get a second car together with a day's leadtime and has so little faith in one of their drivers they get booted out of their own car.
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Post by Wizzard_Ook on Mar 22, 2024 13:53:10 GMT
Aye. Incredibly harsh on Logan. He didn’t bin the car. Albon did. Shouldn’t have to give way like that. Yeah Albon is the quicker driver but it’s one that Alex should have to take as a lesson learnt.
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Post by muddyfunster on Mar 22, 2024 13:56:50 GMT
Ordinarily I'd have sympathy but hasnt he been out qualified and out raced by Albon about 30 times in a row by this point? He doesn't really have a leg to stand on in terms of arguing it's not in the best interest of the team. They aren't exactly going for the driver's championship either.
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Post by damagedinc on Mar 22, 2024 14:16:24 GMT
Harsh but completly justified, along clearly better driver and they need points at a track they think they can do well at.
What would be funny is if he stacks it again.
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Post by muddyfunster on Mar 22, 2024 14:29:00 GMT
Even on that front Sergeant's track record goes against him. He's binned more cars than Albon in their time together as well.
This one is not exactly an unjustified 'Fernando is faster than you'.
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Mar 22, 2024 14:31:04 GMT
Shit precedent to set in terms of your actions having consequences and a shit way to motivate a driver you deemed worthy enough to hand another season just a few short months ago. I will find it funny if and when they get 0 points for their troubles this weekend.
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Post by grizzly on Mar 22, 2024 21:22:01 GMT
I don't even know who Logan Sergeant is and I think this is a rude move.
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Post by Whizzo on Mar 23, 2024 9:51:50 GMT
I'll spoiler protect this already vague line just in case anyone wants to catch up with the action from the early hours. Glad to see quali means I'm not going to waste my time setting the alarm clock.
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Post by Whizzo on Mar 24, 2024 15:40:16 GMT
Fucking typical the first race that's even a bit interesting is the one that's in the early hours of the morning to its biggest audience.
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Post by damagedinc on Mar 24, 2024 16:29:33 GMT
I'm a huge hamilton supporter but you do have to wonder if they're making the right choice here. I'm sure he will do great in a competitive car but seems harsh on Carlos.
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Post by muddyfunster on Mar 24, 2024 19:28:18 GMT
I'm still yet to watch a 2024 race live. This time was on a flight, so only just caught up.
Thought it was a decent race but not a great one, almost a pity that Max retired so early that we didn't get to see if Ferrari were legit faster for once. First weekend in a while where he seemed under some threat on long run pace. Can we please have some of those failures on the weekends where he's totally dominant?
Sainz superb obviously, I really hope he gets either the Red Bull or Merc seat. Aside from that one spell of crashes at Ferrari when the car was horrible, he's performed like you'd want a top line driver to.
Very pleased to see the stewards penalise Alonso for his antics. They've been way too soft on erratic driving for too long. There's intelligent defending and then there's just being dangerously unpredictable like a teenage kid in an online lobby.
He was obviously trying to prevent Russell getting a run through the apex, and there are legit ways he could have done this. However you still have a responsibility to prevent massive closing speeds Vs a following car taking the normal line.
I think he just totally misjudged the distances to the corner and behind to Russell. Russell was a bit too far back to safely box him in though the choke point with a more typical small lift. Braking 100m earlier than usual is absurd in a world where 10m is a lot. Obviously Russell should probably have reacted to the surprise better but that was just way too erratic from Alonso and Russell shouldn't need to anticipate such a huge deviation from prior laps when following a healthy car.
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Post by zisssou on Mar 25, 2024 9:33:48 GMT
They're just applying penalties based on the outcome of an action, instead of the action itself.
This was the first race I watched in full in forever, and the excitement of Max going out.. didn't make things any more interesting. It was an entirely dull afternoon waiting for some action, then perhaps I missed something getting a drink to keep myself awake.
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Post by Gruf on Mar 25, 2024 9:38:23 GMT
Dunno, I watched the highlights on C4 Sunday, maybe they edited it into a good race cause I enjoyed it Whole lot better than the RB's lapping half the field Alonso's incident was a bit naughty, could have been a lot worse for Russell
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Post by zisssou on Mar 25, 2024 9:41:44 GMT
Definitely edited to make it better than it was haha. It just made me laugh watching all the build up, with the presentation from SKY, and hyping it up.. to then, yeah it was an average race. I should probably stick to watching the highlights, but seeing as I pay for the football, I thought I'd give it a whirl.
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