Gruf
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Post by Gruf on Mar 25, 2024 9:43:59 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. Oh, totally agree, deffo lipstick on a pig from SKY and C4 with F1, its been shite for the last 2 seasons. The C4 coverage, cannot stand the Welsh guy presenting, and 30 mins into the coverage and its still driver interviews and puff pieces. I never watch it live on C4, FF is your friend
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Post by nazo on Mar 25, 2024 9:58:19 GMT
Heh, I put the TV on when I got up on Sunday and caught the last couple of laps of one of the replays, saw Ferrari in 1,2 and that Lewis and Max were out and wondered if there had been some epic race and if some big incident had occurred. Watched the next replay and nope, just as dull as ever.
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Post by muddyfunster on Mar 25, 2024 13:24:45 GMT
It's just not a great track and hasn't been for ages now. Modern F1 cars are too wide, too fast and have too short braking distances for a narrow track like Melbourne Park.
The changes a few years ago helped, but it's lipstick on a pig. If you have to put three DRS zones in to enable overtaking the layout's probably fundamentally flawed.
We also haven't talked about how increasingly screwed Ricciardo is looking. Tsunoda seemingly has no chance of a Red Bull promotion yet is thrashing Danny, so what now? What's the point of their junior F1 team?
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Post by damagedinc on Mar 26, 2024 7:27:42 GMT
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Post by muddyfunster on Mar 26, 2024 9:01:14 GMT
Yeah horrible position to be in, he sounds terrified. Fast with not great sightlines at that point, though you'd at least like to think that with that amount of debris and dust strewn everywhere following cars would get some warning.
Probably had Hubert's accident running though his mind.
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Post by damagedinc on Mar 26, 2024 22:36:37 GMT
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Post by mothercruncher on Mar 27, 2024 7:37:01 GMT
I just saw Christian Horner’s buttered richmond sausage
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Post by damagedinc on Mar 27, 2024 8:47:12 GMT
I just saw Christian Horner’s buttered richmond sausage I absolutly don't want you to send me the link
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Post by tincanrocket on Mar 27, 2024 8:54:38 GMT
I just saw Christian Horner’s buttered richmond sausage Geri? Or are you the unnamed graduate? Or the somewhat jilted and jaded Joss Verstappen?
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Post by mothercruncher on Mar 27, 2024 9:26:55 GMT
Digging around after finding out about it on Reddit. God, really letting his horne(y)r little 14 year old out.
Cannot take a focussed dick pic though apparently.
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Post by Wizzard_Ook on Apr 1, 2024 17:20:58 GMT
The worst day to possibly ever announce anything but it seems Liberty Media has brought Moto GP. I think haha.
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Post by muddyfunster on Apr 2, 2024 10:04:38 GMT
Another good Mark Hughes article providing context around Sainz to Red Bull and how Horner knows exactly what buttons he's pushing by not discouraging the idea: www.the-race.com/formula-1/mark-hughes-how-carlos-sainz-fits-into-red-bull-f1-power-struggle/Easier to understand Max when you read what his father and Marko were doing from his very first race weekend in the sport. Especially at such a young age when we generally don't question our parents and just want to please them. That Marko went over Tost's head to instruct Max's engineers to ignore the teams instructions is absolutely extraordinary and shows the lengths he'll go to for his favourites. No wonder Max is so invested in supporting him that he threatened to walk - that's always been their playbook. Certainly not the first to use a political power to gain a sporting advantage over a teammate, but the first I've heard to have preferential treatment from the get go and before on track dominance has been established. Without the Jos-Marko axis in the background it's reasonable to suggest that Sainz may have been perceived as edging that first year as teammates, and combined with being a bit older, got the callup when Kvyat struggled, been an immediate hit and never left Red Bull since. Who knows whether he'd even have been able to edge a title by getting under Max's skin? What a shame we were denied the opportunity to see this play out. Marko getting elbowed aside, and Sainz going back to Red Bull on genuinely equal terms would be the dream. I have no love for Horner but from a sporting perspective him engineering this outcome would be both hilarious and poetic justice.
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Post by A46Matt on Apr 3, 2024 20:02:32 GMT
The worst day to possibly ever announce anything but it seems Liberty Media has brought Moto GP. I think haha. Really hoping this doesn’t change the presenting/commentary team that we’ve currently got on TNT. If F1 on Sky is any sort of precedent then hopefully it won’t. I have the MotoGP practice sessions on all day on Friday in the background while I work, don’t even need to be watching as listening to them is great, they all know what they’re talking about and have very good connections in the paddock it seems. If it brings more eyes to the sport then great as it is far far more exciting than F1, and I’m a F1 fan.
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Post by muddyfunster on Apr 5, 2024 10:50:26 GMT
Not a great start for Ricciardo again, missing FP1 then FP2 being a wash out. I do feel for him a bit given the mounting pressure. Home race for Tsunoda too so he'll be strong.
A prediction: he's got three races to establish himself over Tsunoda or he's done for. Up to Miami where DR's marketability will be quite handy for Visa. However Imola after that is a home race for the team so it would make sense to slot Lawson in and get him comfortable before the one lap Saturday race that is the Monaco GP.
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Post by muddyfunster on Apr 5, 2024 12:01:20 GMT
Also this Vettel comeback chat appears to conveniently overlook the fact that he wasn't really at the required level when he retired. The frequency of mistakes and margin to Stroll illustrated that his powers were waning. I don't really see a sporting case for putting him in a car over a young talent on their way up.
Though it would be very nice to have him back in F1 as an all round decent bloke and advocate. With him gone it's only really Lewis that can be relied upon to stand up to power and raise inconvenient truths. Red Bull could certainly use someone like him in a senior role.
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Post by muddyfunster on Apr 6, 2024 7:56:56 GMT
Great from Lando. Better from Perez and Ricciardo. Dire from Stroll, what a waste.
Strongly suspect the front three on the grid will finish in that order. Would be a better day for some Red Bull reliability problems than Melbourne was as it looks far more like they'll clear off into the distance round here.
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Post by grizzly on Apr 6, 2024 8:17:18 GMT
Just pretend Red Bull isn't there
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Post by muddyfunster on Apr 7, 2024 5:09:31 GMT
Could've stayed in bed!
Racing incident for me.
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Post by muddyfunster on Apr 7, 2024 6:18:32 GMT
Surely McLaren have just thrown away third place?
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Post by muddyfunster on Apr 7, 2024 6:38:54 GMT
Yeah, Sainz has done what Lando should've done. Reckon he'll come though to P3 now.
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Post by Dougs on Apr 7, 2024 7:04:51 GMT
Missed this but doesn't look like I missed much...
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Post by muddyfunster on Apr 7, 2024 7:10:34 GMT
Think that was race of the season so far. Really enjoyed the strategy ebb and flow despite a whole bunch of fairly unsatisfactory overtaking.
Ignoring the red bulls, it was another brilliant 'win' for Sainz and kudos to Ferrari strategists for making all the right calls.
It looked to me like the Ferrari was fractionally faster than the McLaren but not by enough to overtake them without engineering a tyre advantage.
Good effort from Russell too to recover from a poor qualifying to sixth in what looked like the fourth fastest car this weekend.
Some familiar issues further down the grid. Gasly drifting across the track into his teammate on restart. Stroll being crap and blaming everyone else. Sargeant almost ruining the race by preventing the strategies from playing out through his ineptitude. Glad he got it out the wall but surprised he wasn't investigated for reversing onto a live race track.
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Apr 7, 2024 10:12:54 GMT
I enjoyed that one. It's always nice when there's more than one homogenized 'meta' in play strategy wise. Probably aided by the early red flag but it at least made it worth getting up to watch.
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Post by Wizzard_Ook on Apr 7, 2024 10:38:07 GMT
It was a good race behind the two red bulls. A lot of different strategies at play. Mercedes seem to have a bit of the last few years Ferraris at the moment when it comes to strategy. It did kind of come back to them at the end but to put both drivers on the same alternate strategy was..well surprising. One should have gone with the other teams. They left themselves with too much work to do in the last third of the race. Saying that, if they had 5 more laps they could have picked up a solid 6 and 7th place.
Leclerc was great today, as was Sainz but that stint on the mediums for Charles was good.
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Post by muddyfunster on Apr 12, 2024 11:21:45 GMT
I'm a bit disappointed Alonso has committed to Aston. I was hoping for him or at least Sainz at Red Bull so we can get more context for how good Max actually is.
They are just going to go for the most underwhelming, safe option and renew Perez. It's their prerogative but it absolutely sucks for the sport that they are seemingly happy to stick with someone who has conclusively proved himself below the top level.
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Post by dangerousdave on Apr 12, 2024 12:41:16 GMT
Weirdly, I don’t really trust Red Bull to have two evenly matched drivers. Given the current dynamic struggle within the team it wouldn’t surprise me to see Max being favoured, regardless of team mate. And whilst I don’t ever remember a team doing this openly, I wonder if a team mate might be disadvantaged in some capacity, be it getting upgrades a race late, or not sharing set up information, or favouring the racing style of one driver when developing the car.
Not that I don’t rate Max, but like Vettel I don’t recall many instances where he drove great races in uncompetitive cars. He was regularly crashing into others with poor overtakes a few years back. The only thing that has definitively changed since then is that his car has become so much faster.
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Post by Lizard on Apr 12, 2024 16:48:23 GMT
You might say Perez has overachieved hugely. But then I have an utterly unjustified antipathy towards him because Kobayashi should have got his McLaren seat.
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Post by dangerousdave on Apr 12, 2024 19:25:35 GMT
Would love to have seen Kobayashi in a McLaren.
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Post by muddyfunster on Apr 19, 2024 8:30:20 GMT
I really thought Norris had ballsed that up again. He really pushes the limit in the rain which is a bit frightening as a fan but effective.
Hamilton and Bottas getting the most out of their cars on a slippery track no surprise either.
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Post by muddyfunster on Apr 20, 2024 2:51:38 GMT
Anyone else awake for a 4am race? I hadn't planned on it but I guess jetlag has one perk.
Bit gutted to flip it on and see dry conditions. Still if Norris can get out of slipstream range at the front before Max gets up to P2 he has an outside chance of taking the win.
Otherwise, suspect Red Bull's straight line speed advantage means Max and Sergio will time trial their way to a 1-2 courtesy of DRS freebies each lap.
McLaren were 17th and 18th in the speed trap yesterday so I don't see how they will be able to actually race anyone on track. Plus looks like their true dry pace may only be third best so chance they could get bullied/shuffled back like at Spa last year. A safety car could be dire for them this weekend.
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