re: Formula 1 2021 Season Thread

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1) They are cheating
2) They ran the engine at a different mode because they were in a must win situation

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Id think its the latter, but you never know... Rear Wing and all


But as others have pointed out, with that much power gain, Merc should just take new PU's in the next two races, face the grid penalty, and make it up with the quickness.

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I have someone willing to open early if I can get a group of people together. Just have never tried to put it together.

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I wouldn’t be opposed

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But it’s a 7a race,

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I said early

Saudi is supposed to be at 11:30a, so it isn't too bad. But NFL can get in the way.


Usually we do breakfast of the host country and sometimes have a couple people over. Would be nice to have a go to spot to watch.

LINK

Christian Horner says everyone should lay off Max, and should be encouraging him for bringing the fight to Hamilton.

Probably deserves it's own thread, but Frank Williams has died

F1.com

True titan of the sport. He epitomizes a lot of what F1 was and still is.

Sir Frank's Hot Lap

Oh no! A legend I got in to formula one as a BMW fan when they were with Williams. They were the first team I ever pulled for and still do. Becoming a fan of them helped me learn some of history of the sport. They came up with some insane innovations over the years.

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Oh no! A legend I got in to formula one as a BMW fan when they were with Williams. They were the first team I ever pulled for and still do. Becoming a fan of them helped me learn some of history of the sport. They came up with some insane innovations over the years.

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The 92-93 Williams might be my candidate for most awesome F1 car ever.

As a team, I only recently came to understand their downfall, and it lies directly at the feet of Frank Williams and Patrick Head. Even at the time, I thought they treated Damon Hill poorly, but now I know their terrible mismanagement of people in the 90s sent them on a downward trajectory. It started with pissing off Mansell after he won the '92 championship. You could argue that it worked out just fine for '93, but this was just the first symptom of their mismanagement. They hired Frentzen to replace Hill before Hill's '96 championship season even started. And most significantly, they unnecessarily pissed off and lost Adrian Newey, who I consider the single most valuable person in F1 of the last 30 years (on the technical/sporting side, that is: engineers/drivers). Williams saw a bit of a revival with BMW, but they never returned to their early/mid 90s glory. I think Frank was a good guy, just not good at the people-side of management.

the-race.com/formula-1/the-1990s-mistake-williams-never-recovered-from/

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I’m shocked at the people commenting on that video. I like Damon Hill and don’t think he said anything wrong

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Hill can be a wanker sometimes. Think Horner was waiting for the opportunity to go after Hill because of the previous couple weeks. Was Horner's first opportunity not necessarily his best.

Horner looking for a pat on the back after taking 8 years to bring a fight to their rival.

Damon Hill kinda was bitchy about it and put him on the spot. I though Horner responded well.

Lewis is living in constant fear of covid