re: 2022 Formula 1 Season Thread

What the frick Ferrari, finally build a good car again and start blowing up engines.

Great race for Latifi with one of his best finishes in 15th even with the time penalty

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hope the FIA doesn’t make any regulation changes to help with porpoising. Would be a kick in the junk to other teams that have it mostly figured out.

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Teams can fix it, just have to give up the performance. FIA will stay out of it unless there was no way to fix it.

Mostly boring race. Season has changed from promise to runaway.

The DRS zones are in bad spots - too far down track to help make a pass. Need to be closer to corner exit.

Haas season had so much potential and for many reasons is complete crap now. Mick can’t drive and engineers are worthless.

Ferrari had a chance to make it fun but reliability has killed them.

This race course is horrible. Tight corners not allowing passes and long straights with DRS too far down to allow passes (some but not many).

F1 had great momentum to start season but I think they have some issues that will reduce the huge fan viewership potential. They have had some great increases thos year but snoozefests like today won’t help.

They need to hope next weeks race can get back on track being in North America means a bigger potential audience. Cannot have another snoozefest..

Racey Spice on the rivers of tears coming from Mercedes;

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“It would seem unfair to penalise the ones that have done a decent job versus the ones that have perhaps missed the target slightly.”

Red Bull seems unencumbered by bouncing relative to Ferrari and particularly Mercedes, and when asked what he’d tell his drivers to say if the RB18 had displayed the same characteristic, he said: “I’d tell them to bitch as much as they could on the radio, and make as big an issue out of it as they possibly could. It’s part of the game.”

Asked then whether he thought that’s what some teams were indeed doing, he said: “Of course it is. I mean, look, you can see it’s uncomfortable – but there are remedies to that. But it’s to the detriment of the car performance.

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https://the-race.com/formula-1/horner-rival-f1-teams-urging-drivers-to-moan-about-bouncing/

Were we watching the same Silverstone crash? Max took a very powerful impact that would knock the breath out of anyone and would have them seeing stars for a few minutes.

Honestly now that Merc is struggling and Lewis isn’t strutting around like a peacock crushing everyone, I kind of like him more.

Dude is talented, and I know he had a couple of bitching moments this year but someone else in his position (on top for so long to struggling now) might be more prone to blow up (Max).

And I like Red Bull but I think if this shoe was on max’s foot he would be blowing up at people on the radio

Edit: and I do like Russell as a driver

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Hamilton playing it up for the cameras is what he does… yeah, I’m sure he’s hurting, but man up and walk off like every other driver.

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I used to play competitive golf, as in, low single digit handicap, win some tournaments, play for the city amateur title, stuff like that. Once I developed that lower back problem and it put me into the hospital on a morphine drip, everything changed and not only did my golf game suffer, I could no longer ride in premium rides at Disney, Universal or Six Flags. Sometimes the pain and stiffness is so bad just from sitting that it makes walking difficult. I completely sympathize with Hamilton. Bumping around in that car for several hours and the muscles tightening from the stress in his lower back had to hurt. I feel sorry for him.

Hamilton is far from the only one bitching, but he will be the most covered because the media loves him and people seek out the opinion of those they don't like to bitch about bitching.

If you have an disadvantage you want your competitors advantage removed.

I want the teams to fix the problem within the rules, but if you want more competition up front maybe you allow those behind an advantage to close the gap.