re: 2024 Formula 1 season Thread

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Since they will never redo the car size

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I know it's a snippet from your sentence but in 2026 the cars are getting smaller. Not a ton but a step in the right direction.

Domenicalli supposedly said they are looking at no hybrid for 2030 to reduce the size and weight of the cars.

And Grid Girls. Don’t forget the Grid Girls!

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Domenicalli supposedly said they are looking at no hybrid for 2030 to reduce the size and weight of the cars.

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No way, with how much F1 is pumping the carbon neutral environment bs, there’s no way they will go back. Even though every single fan wants the v10s back

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2nd in the Formula-E race.

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For a long time, the Monaco field was limited to 16 cars

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It was yesterday as well for 77 laps.

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Albon:
"It's annoying because he had pace, he had so much pace," Albon said about Tsunoda after the race. "I was like, we can all manage, I'm happy to manage. We don't need to manage this much. We were managing so much. I was like, 'Man, I could get out and drive my Vespa around here.'

"I mean, it was so slow. It was so painful. It's actually hard to stay focused when you're driving that slowly because you're just not even near anything. You're not near any limit. He absolutely cleared off at the end of the race, and I was like, 'You could have done this the whole time!'"

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I was on Yuki's onboard the whole race, so I have some perspective about Albon's comments. After the red flag, I thought Yuki had a chance to move up because it looked like Russell, Verstappen, and Hamilton would have to pit at some point because they switched to mediums. So I thought Yuki would try to stay within pit stop range. But the team decided that they were just going to hold station, and told Yuki to go slow to preserve the tires. Yuki went so slow, about 1:20 lap times vs. maybe 1:17 average lap times from the leaders, that near the end of the race he went a lap down on Hamilton, the guy just in front of him.

In the latter parts in the race, the team told Yuki he can push again because the tires were in good shape, but then they became concerned that Albon's gap to Gasly was getting big enough that Albon could get a free pit stop during a safety car. So they told him to slow down again to manage Albon's gap to Gasly. Albon stayed on Yuki's arse almost the whole race, until the last few laps when he eased off.

I think it was when Albon eased off, Yuki's team told him that he was free, but I think they cautioned him to not overdo it. But Yuki started whipping off personal fast lap after fast lap, and on the last lap of the race he did a 1:14.720. Hamilton had the fast lap of the race of 1:14.165, which he did on Lap 64 with 12 laps on his hards. Yuki did his fast lap with 76 laps on his hards. Only three others did a lap time in the 1:14 range: Sainz, Verstappen, and Zhou who put on softs at the end of the race to try to get the fast lap but came up short at 1:14.718 (which is pretty funny, new softs and he barely beat Yuki with 76 laps on hards).

Indycar has 2 engine manufacturers- not a spec series

plus the ability to develop dampers and a few other components of the car

LINK

wouldnt put it past liberty media

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Indycar has 2 engine manufacturers- not a spec series

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Being able to change the shocks/valving does not change the fact they are spec cars.

And the two engine choices are regulated.

Nascar is a now a spec series as well.