F1 2023 Season

Quite a cheerful podium

Have they shown no replays of the pit pane fiasco or talked about it again?
 
BusbyMalone said:
Perez is so good on these street tracks, great race from him. I think Max will be happy with the second as he was never catching Perez there, regardless of what happened with the safety car. As he said "It is what it is"

Sometimes it just isn't your day.
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Yeah great race from Perez.
 
Perez is such an average driver 80% of the season, but yet he is excellent at some of these street races. Great driving today.

I guess at least people can't complain that Red Bull allowed their number 2 driver to win the race ahead of Max.
 
Hernandez - BFA said:
Horner sounding disappointed that Max finished second. His nose couldn’t be further deeper up Max’s ass.
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Noted that. ‘Checo got lucky with the safety car.’

Feck off you little rat. Can’t stand either Horner or Verstappen. Both bellends.
 
Checo had an awkward embrace with Marko, Checo went for the hug and Marko did the ol' finger tips.

Great drive from Perez but apart from Alonso it was pretty dull. I recall more action at the end of the straight under the old regs but obviously had time to mature a bit. Hopefully Merc upgrades can turn it into less of a snow plough and we can get some action, the two drivers were trying at least.
 
DRS is definitely the biggest pile of shit we have at the moment in F1 racing.
 
Have the new regs enabled closer or more exciting racing on any metric?

They’ve given one car with the world expert in such designs a huge advantage as intended, but everyone else seems to rely on DRS or struggles with tyre blistering following the car in front.

And we can’t even race in the rain anymore.
 
Gringo said:
And without it we would have even less overtaking.
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I don't really care, today's race would be far more intense without DRS. I am sure we would have overtaking, it's just that drivers' don't risk anymore and just wait for easy overtake with DRS.
 
Well we saw today even with DRS it's not always a formality to overtake. You'd have thought Ocon would be a sitting duck with all those cars behind him but nope, managed to keep them off lap after lap. I personally believe the slipstream effect without DRS is too weak.
 
Gringo said:
Well we saw today even with DRS it's not always a formality to overtake. You'd have thought Ocon would be a sitting duck with all those cars behind him but nope, managed to keep them off lap after lap. I personally believe the slipstream effect without DRS is too weak.
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It is, and I agree that it's worse than they thought the new rules would make it out to be. But drivers simply don't need to push in certain sections of the lap because they know they get easy overtake at straights. Regarding Ocon and mid grid overtakes, DRS trains in mid grid are another big problem that stops quicker drivers behind overtaking slower cars ahead of them because they too have DRS.

Another problem is energy and engine saving as we saw today with Hamilton:"Do you have any more power saved for me" or whatever was one of the saddest showing what an F1 has become, because they are saving power because he needs to have his engine saved for next race, even though we just had pointless 15 laps race yesterday and extra qualifying session for no reason.
 
FIA moved the detection zone for today GP forward by 100 metres without consulting the drivers, which lead to less overtaking.

FIA are a mess.
 
The cars are too big, cumbersome and the tyres temp sensitive to do any racing on tracks like Baku, same story as always. Can't follow anyone within a second through sector 2 for more than 1 lap without it destroying the tyres.

To be fair the track has always been trash, the only reason we've ever had exciting races there is because of crashes and tyre blowouts and 2 lap shoot outs after red flags.
 
Amar__ said:
It is, and I agree that it's worse than they thought the new rules would make it out to be. But drivers simply don't need to push in certain sections of the lap because they know they get easy overtake at straights. Regarding Ocon and mid grid overtakes, DRS trains in mid grid are another big problem that stops quicker drivers behind overtaking slower cars ahead of them because they too have DRS.

Another problem is energy and engine saving as we saw today with Hamilton:"Do you have any more power saved for me" or whatever was one of the saddest showing what an F1 has become, because they are saving power because he needs to have his engine saved for next race, even though we just had pointless 15 laps race yesterday and extra qualifying session for no reason.
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But Ocon didn't have DRS. How can a car that had 50 lap old hard tyres and no DRS manage to defend lap in lap out on the circuit with the longest straight in the calendar.

Totally agreed on engine saving modes.
 
DRS has become a major crutch for car designers as well as the drivers, believe it or not before DRS drivers passed in the corners as well as the straight, maybe not as much during the v8 era. It’s time to get rid of the engine boosts and DRS and go back to straight up racing.
 
Gringo said:
But Ocon didn't have DRS. How can a car that had 50 lap old hard tyres and no DRS manage to defend lap in lap out on the circuit with the longest straight in the calendar.

Totally agreed on engine saving modes.
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I can't rember who it was behind Ocon, but I am sure that someone used DRS to defend against quicker driver behind as he didn't have pace/didn't want to risk and attack Ocon, as it always happen in DRS trains, when the driver behind the slowest one is not that quick.
 
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Amar__ said:
I can't rember who it was behind Ocon, but I am sure that someone used DRS to defend against quicker driver behind as he didn't have pace/dodn't want to risk and attack Ocon, as it always happen in DRS trains, when the driver behind the slowest one is not that quick.
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Hulk maybe? He was also on 50 laps old tyres.
 
Max had some nice things to say about Checo yesterday:

Really Checo this year, he's really been on it. He's really been performing well, that's really great to see. He's feeling more and more confident in the car. For the team as well, we are really enjoying it. Checo and I, we're having a good time. That is also what is very important. You need to acknowledge and appreciate when someone has done a great job. That's exactly what happened today, and we'll continue fighting for the rest of the season but that's normal. We've done that our whole lives.
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Nice to see Perez doing well. He's a little bit disrespected, IMO. Just because he's not as good as Max I think people give him a hard time, but he's a great driver in his own right.
 
He had a good start last season too. Let's hope he can continue this time.
 
Two more street circuits this month so he should be aiming to be leading the championship after Monaco
 
hp88 said:
Can only hope he wins another title this year, gets bored so fecks off to another racing series.
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Doubt that will happen. It's not much of a chore to turn up and drive the best car by a mile, get paid a fortune and take all the plaudits.
 
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