F1 2023 Season Spoiler Filled Race Talk

Yeah, and Mercedes has basically ceded after a single race.

Yeah... I do think that's a bit of Toto's gamesmanship to lower expectations but they do know they can't fight for the title or regular wins and getting beat by another car with the same engine is bad.

Well, that would have been extremely interesting if you pretend Red Bull didn't exist. What a bummer of a race.

My only consolation is the F1 TV intro where George Russel does the boy-band look for his bit. Priceless. So funny.

Congratulations to Ferrari on their best win in a decade.

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(That's former Ferrari Team Principal and FIA President Jean Todt.)

Chuck Leclerc has an engine penalty this weekend as his Ferrari will be on its third ECU of the season. In race two.

Ferrari releasing their fans early from the prison of hope this year.

Mr Bismarck wrote:

Chuck Leclerc has an engine penalty this weekend as his Ferrari will be on its third ECU of the season. In race two.

Ferrari releasing their fans early from the prison of hope this year.

Welp

We've already had one engine!
Yes, but what about second engines?

Don't generally watch F1 but flipped it on because I'm up late writing. Is the gist always "the people in charge are making everything up" or is that just today
Prederick wrote:
Don't generally watch F1 but flipped it on because I'm up late writing. Is the gist always "the people in charge are making everything up" or is that just today

Yes.

Michael Masi was in the paddock. Ted Kravitz was saying in his Qualifying Notebook, that the FIA are considering bringing him back.

Are there that few people in the world who can read a rule book and call the race according to the procedure described? There is a lot of motorsport happening in lots of countries, there must be a lot of people who have went through the training.

Pre-Little Brown I was a British Rowing Umpire, even in that amateur sport with no money, there was a ladder of qualification for the officials from Regional, National, Multilane and International (FISA). Seems insane that FIA doesn’t have something similar.

Edit: Just to point out that an umpire in rowing are the ones doing the rules judgements and refereeing races which is different from the marshalls who are doing the getting competitors into correct places for starting, pulling capsized crews out of the water, doing first aid, etc with umpires auditing the marshals rather than directly supervising them. There are much fewer umpires than marshals at a regatta.

I just saw the track design for the Las Vegas Grand Prix, and sh*t looks like it sucks ass.

More experienced F1 knowers, please correct me, but GOD does that course look boring as sh*t.

It looks similar to Azerbaijan, but a bit shorter. Racing down the Strip seems to be the priority.

Prederick wrote:

I just saw the track design for the Las Vegas Grand Prix, and sh*t looks like it sucks ass.

More experienced F1 knowers, please correct me, but GOD does that course look boring as sh*t.

What would you consider an exciting track?

To me it looks fine - lots of long straights, a couple of technical sections. Should be pretty fast. My complaint is the time they are running. Too late for old folks!

Spa? Imola? Suzuka?

Like, this one is giving me big Baku vibes, which is another snoozer of a track (albeit nothing is as bad as Monaco now).

Baku. Whoopty doo.

Here for watching FI drivers simultaneously be athletic but also look hilariously non-athletic.

No matter how many times they call it the Miami International Autodrome, it’s still the parking lot of Hard Shark Land Dolphin Robbie Pro Rock Stadium.

All 3 Spanish or Hispanic drivers have qualified 1-3 for Miami. That would be an awesome podium.

Didn't watch the qualifying because it's the middle of the night, but saw the grid and what the hell? Magnussen and Gasly?

Now I need to go watch.

Leclerc did his qualifying party trick meaning some drivers didn't get a fast lap in.

I enjoyed the race. Good fights down the order and no real incidents made for a good watch and one could get the sense of exactly where the drivers and cars belong.

Obviously Red Bull's domination makes for a pretty boring race for the lead, but that's always been the nature of the sport. I haven't watched much in the last 9 years because I worked almost every Sunday, but since I've been watching in the 90s the sport has been dominated at stages by (purely from memory) Benetton, Ferrari, Williams and McLaren.

The fun has almost always been down the order.

It was showbusiness writ large in Florida but was not welcomed by some drivers. “It is distracting because we’re on the grid for half an hour in all our overalls in the sun,” said the Mercedes driver George Russell, who is also the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association director. “I don’t think there’s any other sport in the world that 30 minutes before you go out to do your business that you’re out there in the sun, all the cameras on you and making a bit of a show of it.”

What are you talking about, George? This is literally every NASCAR and Indy Car event.

Not saying it's necessarily a good thing, but that's not a very well informed comment.

Boooooring... I had to just skip through the actual race once it started to do the usual.

I have found the qualifying races far more entertaining this season rather than the actual races.

I like the battles on the bottom, but it's not enough to watch the whole race. That stuff works better for me in the Drive to Survive format.

McLaren might have done it in 1988 if Nigel Mansell didn't get chickenpox.

Prederick wrote:

Red Bull could become first team to win every race in a season, says Verstappen

If nothing breaks, they will, I think.

Yay. *waves tiny F1 flag*

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