re: 2024 Formula 1 season Thread

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What do we know about this circuit?

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It's a Tilke track.

The layout was inspired by the Chinese character shang ? which is the first character in the city name Shanghai.

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Think Haas is fastest top speed.

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We think, therefore we are.

Yet another former F1 driver is putting in his two cents over Danny Ric's struggles. This time it's three-time race winner Johnny Herbert, kind of the Sergio Perez of his day. Herbert has a bizarro theory that I don't think makes much sense.

Herbert thinks that the younger drivers' embrace of sims gives them an edge over the older drivers?

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Discussing the similarities between champions Michael Schumacher and Max Verstappen, Herbert emphasised how important simulation work is to a modern F1 drivers’ performance.

"I remember Michael used to do a little bit of sim work at Ferrari. And he was quite sick when he was doing that. So he really suffered doing the sim work. When Max does it without problem whatsoever when he’s doing the Formula 1 sim. But also when he's doing his racing sims like Lando Norris as well. And it's a skill that has become a seventh sense in Formula 1. They’ve gotten better as time has gone by, but they are very, very much now an important part of a driver's feel with the car itself. Not a feel with your fingertips, but a feeling within your brain, your brain adapts to it without thinking about it.

“I think Daniel Ricciardo when he was with Lando at McLaren, for example, suffered, because Lando was the ‘sim man’. And Daniel wasn't. And I think that's where the struggle was.”

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Coming up on Shanghai, let's look at some facts:

1. Danny has raced in Shanghai eight times, and won one race.
2. Yuki has never raced there.
3. There is only one practice session before sprint qualy.

Given Danny's vast experience and previous mastery of the track, and the fact that there is just one practice session before the first qualy session, Danny should have a significant advantage for sprint qualy. Given Danny's qualy record so far this year, just qualifying ahead of Yuki will be seen as a "win," but for me, unless he has a significant gap (at least 0.3s I guess), it won't be very impressive. After the sprint race, I'm not sure what to expect, whether Danny "should" still have an experience advantage going into the main race qualy.

Max is like Jokic in basketball. The best in the sport but just seems like he would much rather be doing something else.

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But because Danny is backed by Horner, I think he gets more races, maybe 8-12 total to show improvement.

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I know Horner has an inexplicable hard-on for Danny, but isn't Helmut in charge of drivers and determines who is getting what seat?

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don't know if the previous schedule was to try to create more chaos, but I'm sure the teams hated it.

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Sprint weekends are the absolute worst!!
I hate that teams don't get a chance to sort their cars... sure, at tracks like Silverstone, it works out ok, but China this year???.... fricking Miami??? Really? fricking stupid!!!

F1 is determined to ruin their own sport... and dont get me started on Andretti

F1 2023 was the free game of the month for March on PlayStation. I haven’t played it a ton, but I have enjoyed firing it up the week of a race to get familiar with the tracks. I think it has made the races more interesting.

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Like you mentioned, I think if he gets blown out by Zuki despite his experience at the track, we won't see him in Miami.

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I agree that if Danny Ric is outperformed this weekend, and puts on a bad performance, he needs to go.