The Firestarter
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And horner knew nothing about it yeah?verstappen has been found guilty of 115 f1fp charges and the mods are scrambling around, trying to contain the news.
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.
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.
Apparently hamilton wants a 5 year contract with mercedes taking him to 2028 when he will be 43.
Apparently hamilton wants a 5 year contract with mercedes taking him to 2028 when he will be 43.
At this pt I'm thinking Newey will want to make the zero pod design work just to stick it to the copies. Which frankly- would be cool as heck from an engineering perspective.This will be interesting...
If thats where i think it is, thats so stupid and removes a overtaking opportunity
I don't seem to remember anyone cutting turn 2 to overtake someone and getting away with it? Although my memory is pretty shit..
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.I don't seem to remember anyone cutting turn 2 to overtake someone and getting away with it? Although my memory is pretty shit..
I dont get this either , first they took 1 minute to see there is a stopped car, now its gone, wtf is the issue10 minute red flag for a simple break down that was cleared 9 minutes ago
Poutine break.23 minute red flag for what exactly?
Embarrassing
It really is. Camera work is amazing too, so many closeups.Best FP ever. Edge of your seat stuff.
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.
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.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.