re: Formula 1 2021 Season Thread

Watched this youtube video a couple weeks ago that give a little insight.

Obviously their duties are fulltime plus what they do on Sundays. They could do everything from breaking down equipment to driving the semi trucks to the next site.

I also don't think the pay for pit crew positions is standard across the board. Each tire carrier might get the same bonus for being on the pit crew, but their everyday job puts them at a different base.

RBR relationship with Alpha Tauri is different than Merc and Williams.

RBR and AT are owned and operated by the same entity. They have to act autonomously, but what oversight is there really when Helmut, and to a lesser extent Racey Spice, have open access to whatever they like. Red Bull owns all the seats and can swap them at will. They can experiment with AT for what may work at RBR.

Williams and Aston are customer teams with long relationships with Merc. Like Mclaren these relationships date back to before Merc was a constructor. Merc can buy seats, but they don't own seats in those teams. These teams act autonomously from Merc in all aspects, but IP can be traded for seats and other goodies. They bend to Merc a lot when it comes to helping Merc.

Ferrari has Alfa and now Haas in the same aspect as Merc. The teams are truly separated; but get favorable treatment since they are customer teams.

Mclaren is really the last true customer works type team left. They do their own thing and Merc doesn't appear to have a ton of influence any longer.

See the votes for regulation changes to see where loyalties lie.

Obviously, it comes down to money as well. Merc throwing out free engines can get their customer teams to be lap dogs.

They might have sent him out with a lower setting from the start.

They can still make moves, but engine modes have to remain the same from the start of quali now. RBR had a detuned engine for rounds 2-4 because of an issue they saw. When they took their 2nd engine they were able to return the power to what they had in the opening round.

Some rumors floated for Mercs renewed performance is that they found a way to turn the engine mode up to quali mode for the entire duration of the engine and not risk reliability. Toto said last year that the goal was to run "party mode" for the entire time since the rules change outlawed quali engine modes.

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So who’s all going next week?

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Have a pair of GA but considering selling. Friends backed out and don’t know shite about parking and the likes.

We're in, dropping the kid off at daycare Thursday morning then hitting the road from Lafayette. Our seats are in turn 12 and we have a parking pass for lot F right behind there. We're skipping the track Friday to do some things around Austin, then will be at the track pretty much all day Saturday & Sunday.


Does anyone know if there's a schedule of events? About all I could find is the F1 schedule but was curious about the support series races.

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Does anyone know if there's a schedule of events? About all I could find is the F1 schedule but was curious about the support series races.

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full schedule

I can’t go to the race, but going to watch the Red Bull show run in Dallas onSaturday, looks like Checo will be there with RB7

Nice, happy that I guessed right on the dates for my Airbnb for the CoTA race next year. Got a place 5 minutes from the track for about $200 a night.

The drivers do hot laps before the sessions for promo stuff, usually a celebrity with them. They have been known to get a little crazy through the last turns just to frick with the rider.

Lando and Jimmy Butler

Hamilton and Millie Bobby Brown

Max driving Jos in Monaco

So Danny driving early before pre-race stuff is a definite possiblity. Not sure if Mclaren will want to film a lot of promo stuff to go with it though, which may mean they film it the next day or something.