F1 2023 Season

christy87 said:
Perhaps F1 can ask endurance racing regulators how it’s more entertaining, watched a fair bit of it and it was better than anything I’ve seen this season from F1.
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Endurance racing has a thing called Balance of Performance to make the cars in each class more evenly matched, for example yesterday in the Hypercar class Toyota had a 37kg weight penalty, Ferrari 24kg, Cadillac 11kg and Porsche 3kg. It does bring it's own problems though with teams sandbagging and everyone being annoyed their team is punished more than necessary etc.

But I don't know if endurance racing in general have been any better than F1 when it comes to entertainment, Audi, Porsche and Toyota have all dominated over the last 15 years just like RB and Merc has done in F1. Yesterday's race was the best one in absolute ages though and hopefully it will become even better with more manufacturers coming in over the next couple of years.
 
Le Man was fantastic but the adverts on Eurosport were absolutely infuriating. It seemed they would do 5 minutes of racing, 5 minutes of adverts, rinse and repeat.
 
Zlaatan said:
Endurance racing has a thing called Balance of Performance to make the cars in each class more evenly matched, for example yesterday in the Hypercar class Toyota had a 37kg weight penalty, Ferrari 24kg, Cadillac 11kg and Porsche 3kg. It does bring it's own problems though with teams sandbagging and everyone being annoyed their team is punished more than necessary etc.

But I don't know if endurance racing in general have been any better than F1 when it comes to entertainment, Audi, Porsche and Toyota have all dominated over the last 15 years just like RB and Merc has done in F1. Yesterday's race was the best one in absolute ages though and hopefully it will become even better with more manufacturers coming in over the next couple of years.
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That's exactly why Hypercars have appeared. They were supposed to be easily built, low cost cars that would all be similarly paced and translate to a company's road cars. The latter didn't quite work out but its still been enough to attract manufacturers in their droves, F1 had a similar idea but they ballsed it up by allowing teams to fiddle the regulations without punishment.
 
Apparently hamilton wants a 5 year contract with mercedes taking him to 2028 when he will be 43.
 
dinostar77 said:
Apparently hamilton wants a 5 year contract with mercedes taking him to 2028 when he will be 43.
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That's great.

All while he is already talking about how he wouldn't turn up the chance of going filming TV shows while the season is running.
 
dinostar77 said:
Apparently hamilton wants a 5 year contract with mercedes taking him to 2028 when he will be 43.
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i’ll look forward to him driving round the track with an indicator constantly on, shaking his fist and shouting “maniacs!” at the whippersnappers who fly passed him whilst he’s crawling along the straights. the team radio, full of meandering stories that go nowhere. him being hoisted out of the car at every pitstop to use a heavily branded commode. him asking if every other driver is his grandson during interviews in the paddock.
 
Zlaatan said:
I don't seem to remember anyone cutting turn 2 to overtake someone and getting away with it? Although my memory is pretty shit..
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Definitely not somewhere I remember people gaining any advantages while passing. Only in terms of not having their races ruined after running wide.
 
10 minute red flag for a simple break down that was cleared 9 minutes ago
 
Zlaatan said:
I don't seem to remember anyone cutting turn 2 to overtake someone and getting away with it? Although my memory is pretty shit..
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Neither do i. As you come off the start/finish straight, going into T1, theres an opportunity to outbrake the car ahead. If you get it wrong your going across T2, rather than around it. But you get crap on your tyres, you have to re-jin the track safely and you probabky cant attack again for a lap or two while your tyres clean up. I domt see an advantage that neccesitates a wall at T2.
 
dinostar77 said:
Neither do i. As you come off the start/finish straight, going into T1, theres an opportunity to outbrake the car ahead. If you get it wrong your going across T2, rather than around it. But you get crap on your tyres, you have to re-jin the track safely and you probabky cant attack again for a lap or two while your tyres clean up. I domt see an advantage that neccesitates a wall at T2.
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The bold part might be the reason for the wall as IIRC drivers didn't really re-join safely before, they just continued straight out onto the track and whoever was coming round T2 had to make sure not to hit them.
 
Zlaatan said:
The bold part might be the reason for the wall as IIRC drivers didn't really re-join safely before, they just continued straight out onto the track and whoever was coming round T2 had to make sure not to hit them.
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That is a good point, there were some near misses over the years, but also some collosal crashes from failed overtakes going into T1. Shame if we lose the balls to the wall overtaking there.
 
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