Formula 1 Discussion - And favourite driver?

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Chad Holdenford said:
Do people bitch this much about Monaco and demand its exclusion from the F1 season after every race there, or is it just after today?
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They do this every time and they absolutely do have to be reminded that this is something even people as money-hungry as Bernie Ecclestone would never even consider. F1 and Monaco Grand Prix is part of the sport's core identity. If anything, Monaco is the casual filter and anyone who suggest it should be removed can be safely assumed as people who want every race to be some NASCAR-tier shitshow.
 
Chernabog3000 said:
the same ilk who made dts successful at this point.
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Yeah because the DTS lot are the ones interested in the sports heritage and not just fake drama and one car driving round another on a straight with DRS, wow such great overtaking.

Sorry that it's not a marvel film with just nonstop action.

Chrnabog3000 said:
the two things everyone hates about modern f1. The team game and the lack of on track overtaking.
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Have you ever followed this sport before?

It has always been a team game and always will be, no idea why anyone would be upset about that.

"Oh wow DRS overtake, how amazing" - fucking casuals who think overtakes are the only thing that makes a race good.
 
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Chad Holdenford said:
Do people bitch this much about Monaco and demand its exclusion from the F1 season after every race there, or is it just after today?
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Miami should have built its track near the waterfront. Then all the rich people could watch the race from their yachts and we wouldn't need Monaco anymore.

If it was about tradition, they wouldn't be trying to get rid of tracks like Spa.
 
Monaco would never leave, it's part of their heritage like Silverstone, it's on since 1929, and it's critical to the country's economy like that casino, otherwise Monaco would still be a independent fishing village.

I think they just need to expand it's layout, or force the cars to be smaller for fucks sake, even formula E can have overtakes and drama on there.

If you're a fag who keeps bitching about it, watch the last 5 laps of the 1992 race.
This had more drama and adrenaline than the last 2 races combined.

Heck if you want to cope about it being 33 years ago, then just watch this 2008 race on the old small V8 cars:
 
AN/ALR56 said:
Williams shenanigans holding up the entire grid is kinda shitty though, I think there should be some regulation in place to avoid that shit.
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Mercedes literally started doing the same damn thing when Russell got his initial penalty, to try and protect his track position if he got a 5 second penalty.

I totally get his, and everyone else stuck behind Williams, frustrations. But let's not pretend that if the roles were reversed, Russell wouldn't be explaining post race how team strategy is part of the race craft.

Its no different than Lewis demanding that Alonso give up his position in the 2021 Hungarian Race, so that Ocon could be overtaken.

Some of the best racing in this sport is because of team orders to protect a driver. The problem is that Monte Carlo makes it so obvious.

I also loved Carlos on the radio responding to the order to flip spots. The guy has more maturity and understands strategies better than his years behind the wheel
 
It wasn't even Williams doing the shenanigans. Racing Bulls did it first and Williams just copied them. Of course it helped the big 4 immensly while hamilton just had a "I am alone out here" race. But he got another dose of Ferrari being Ferrari when he asked if he was within a minute (!) of the first 4 and his track engineer gave him an entire novel of what is happening leading Hamilton to snap "Can you just answer my question?" Still funny that Hamilton was slower then the 4 in front of him despite the Verstappen rolling chicane. And Leclerc is so far the Ferrari driver who gets the real podiums. Let's see how Spain goes
 
Gasly got a reprimand for his crash since only he suffered the consequences and not have any impact on Tsunoda. Hilarious they tried to blame Tsunoda for that one, it was Gasly's fault all day long.

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On the Williams strategy, good for them it worked and got 2 cars in the points, same for VCARB.

On the merc strategy, what strategy?! It could not have worked in any circumstances. If they got a red flag then the cars ahead would have changed tyres too and stayed ahead, if there was an SC the cars in front had already stopped so they couldn't jump them with a cheap stop. They needed to go bold on strategy to have a chance of points, they chose to give themselves zero chance of making something happen for their drivers.
 
monaco wasn't great however i thoroughly enjoyed 78 laps of george russel suffering so overall, good weekend.
 
As per usual, gay made up rules cant create great racing, this current ruleset car is a fat fucking pig. Next year looks less worse size wise, but not enough.
As a McLaren guy, that was nailbaiter for those last 20ish laps, why do I get the feeling Max is the type of guy that would gleefully sell his Grandma to the glue factory for a World Championship point?
Caught some of the 500 today while I was working some OT, lots of action, but yeah, caused by lots of amateur hour stuff going on.
Almost forgot, even though Im not the keenest on Lando, I do love when an English driver wins in a McLaren...
 
Lapsus of the bepsus said:
because its true, he has the schumi mindset and hes the only driver on the grid who does
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Eh I don't see he pulling a Spain 97 nor Austrália 94 move on Lando, nor did he do that in the 4 championships he did.

Also schumi never liked or tried anything else after he joined F1 and he rage quit but later regretted it in 2006.

I can see verstappen having a gigantically long career in endurance racing, maybe setting up his own real life team based on his virtual iracing career.

He's just a good driver who was beaten by his father into being a complete autist over it.
Maybe the Joe Jackson/Jos verstappen school of making prodigies is a good thing.
 
JoseRaulChupacabra said:
Alright, technical directive hits this weekend. We'll see what that McL is really made of.
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I wouldn't be worried about that, I'd be more worried about that TD on the brake cooling.

The flex wing was the red herring they needed to keep the brake cooling advantage for as long as possible.
Reminder it was the McLaren third brake pedal that allowed for partial brake steer and better cornering that made them the only non Ferrari V10 driver and constructor's champions until Fernando Alonso came long in 2005, and that was only because the FIA deliberately kneecapped Ferrari by making tyre changes ilegal for that season.
 
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