*** As with last season's thread, we'll be talking freely about races without spoiler tags, so please beware if you watch races on a delay! ***
How to watch in the US:
- ESPN carries races live both on their various broadcast channels, but also on their various apps as long as you’ve got a TV provider login with the appropriate access to ESPN.
- F1TV is an official streaming service that offers two tiers. The “Pro” tier lets you stream races live for about $80 a year, but you can get on demand streams of all races for a much more reasonable $26 a year if you don’t fancy waking up at 5 AM or something for like 2/3rds of the races. There are also month to month subscriptions available, and there might be promos available as we approach the start of the season.
- The official F1 YouTube channel doesn't offer full replays, but they do have great highlights packages for every practice, qualifying, and race session throughout the year, as well as great interview an analysis coverage throughout race weekends, and a variety of other miscellaneous interesting video clips in between.
Can I get a concise overview of where the sport stands at the start of the season?
I'll update with a video as soon as I see one pop up.
When and where are the races?
I mean, who could really say?
For now, this is what the tentative schedule looks like -- as with the last two years though, don't be surprised if things change as the season progresses and the world continues to fail to properly handle the ongoing pandemic.
Winter testing:
February 23 - 25: Barcelona
March 10 - 12: Bahrain
UPDATE 1:
The Russian GP has been cancelled because they invaded Ukraine. I'll update the graphic here whenever it becomes clear what replacement (if any) is found.
Who are the teams?
Car launches are complete, so here's (mostly) what the grid will look like this year:
I say mostly because Haas won't be using that livery. In response to Russia invading Ukraine, they dropped Uralkali as a title and livery sponsor, and the car looks like this:
Once I find an updated graphic, I'll replace the current one to reflect this change.
As for drivers, here's a quick infographic showing how drivers changed from last season.
Worth noting: In addition to Haas likely needing a new livery, they also dropped Nikita Mazepin, whose seat was only secured by the Uralkali sponsorship. Also, he's the sh*tty fail son of the company's owner, who is one of the oligarchs in Putin's inner circle. Indeed, a few weeks into Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine both he and his father were added as individual targets of economic sanctions, so there's no world in which it would have been tenable for him to remain as a driver in any international racing series.
Other Useful Links:
GWJ F1 Fantasy League: https://fantasy.formula1.com/league/...
The invite code to join is: bc10216117
Official Site
Drive to Survive, Netflix's excellent documentary series about the sport, an great way to introduced yourself to the sport. You'll learn all about the sport in general, meet the current drivers, and get an abridged recap of the 2018 through 2021 seasons of the sport.
Shift-F1, a podcast about F1 hosted by video game media personalities Drew Scanlon (Cloth Map, formerly of Giant Bomb), Danny O’Dwyer (No Clip), and Rob Zacny (Waypoint).
Fantasy Formula 1
F1 Reddits: Formula 1 , Formula 1.5 , Formula 1 Posters, Inspector Seb
Good youtube fan channels:
Chain Bear
The F1 Word
Haas showing off tomorrow. I'm curious if it'll be the full car or just the livery.
Still not sure how DRS works on those wings. Also I really wish they wouldn't let them use the blatant Russian flag. But it is hilarious to me considering that it's an American team, after all the Russia bullsh*t that has happened in recent years.
Still not sure how DRS works on those wings.
See starting at 6:10 in this video.
This is a render, not the actual car, and just like their show car, it doesn't have the DRS system. I hope they can get rid of it, but I'm not optimistic.
If it was anything else, probably, but if you're gonna switch to any number, #1 is pretty good.
The grills on the sidepods are interesting. I wonder if those sidepod intakes are interchangeable somehow. Also, the car looks so much less aerodynamically complex without the barge boards.
I wonder if they'll just have a season of farting around, since they'll have to wait before they can copy the Mercedes design again.
It's interesting how different the side pods look from each other. The Aston looks a lot less skinny or slim than the other two.
I was trying to figure out whether the shark fin is gone because of design or regulation and I found an interesting bit in this article that relates to the grill on the Aston's side pods:
And keep your eyes peeled for the return of cooling exit louvres on the bodywork, which were banned post-2008, but are permitted again for 2022 and will be a key area of freedom for the teams to exploit.
I wasn't sold on the warehouse shots, but I like this look quite a lot.
Williams sidepod is also pretty wild - they're the size of a Sarlacc pit and then I imagine the weird Ferrari-style air sculpting is happening inside, instead of out where you can see it.
If you look at the Williams sidepod front on from well-lit shots you can see it's divided top and bottom, so I think the bottom is cooling and then the top is... witchcraft.
They had the most air tunnel time of any team since the restrictions came in, so it sure would be nice if they've found some trick that'll vault them back up the pack. I can't see them flying to the front the way H̶o̶n̶d̶a̶ Brawn did in '09, but it'd make my century if they did.
This has nothing to do with Max. Max did everything a driver would do given the opportunity he was given. And he's a great competitor. But no issues with him. I don't hold any grudges with anybody.
I appreciate Lewis for saying this, and yet I feel 100% sure that if he had his druthers, he could strangle Masi do death with his bare hands, and is going to try and annihilate Max next year.
Sponsored by Yahoo! might be the weirdest thing I've seen in any of the reveals so far.
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