donthaveanickname
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I'm not impressed. Can't just tell the drivers to run over the kerbs at their own risk?
FIA mandates maximum 18-lap stints in F1 Qatar GP due to tyre issues
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OTOH, if you win 10 races in a row the championship should have already been over.Isn’t there another dumb sprint at the next race at Austin? Great idea, add more sprint so whoever is dominating can win it by early September next time.
OTOH, if you win 10 races in a row the championship should have already been over.
I'm not really a Verstappen fan other than to admire what he has achieved. I'de rather see someone else win, but I can't take away from what a fitting champion he has been the last two years.
No, but after winning 10 races in a row you should have enough points to put it away. Has anyone ever won 10 races and not the championship?Winning an x amount of races consecutive shouldn’t mean you automatically win it.
No, but after winning 10 races in a row you should have enough points to put it away. Has anyone ever won 10 races and not the championship?
Looks like Perez has a pit lane start. There's a poor guy who can't get a break.
Hamilton, 2016.
And to be clear, I’m not arguing that the driver with most wins shouldn’t win, I think the results speaks for themselves.
Most teams at this point wouldn't consider second place to be a downbeat day.I’m mainly talking about the useless sprints rewarding points making it even more easy to win championships on a downbeat day.
Things are happening very quickly. Sainz has a leak and may not race according to Albert.
Completely wrecked himself and blames George.Hamilton's biggest bonehead move of his career
Pretty sure he will view it differently when he sees a replay.Completely wrecked himself and blames George.
Getting tires into the window is part of the sport. If there was no wear every race would be a Monaco-esque procession.If the FIA let Pirelli make the best tire they can, without the engineered fake deg, they wouldn't take so much heat every race. Every week it's nothing but what is wrong with the tires or how teams can't get them to "switch on" or get into the right "window. It's not good publicity for them, especially since IMSA and WEC drivers brag about getting three stints out of them and how great they are in the wet. Which brand would you put on the wife's car? I honestly don't see what Pirelli gets out of it except a lot of complaints.
It's not always the driver. Look at the trouble Haas has getting the tire to work. Look at how Ferrari was fading earlier in the year on tires. It's just another artificial, phony thing they use to "spice up the show." I don't care for spice. I want racing to be real, and if that means it a procession, that's pretty much what we have now anyway.Getting tires into the window is part of the sport. If there was no wear every race would be a Monaco-esque procession.
And I highly doubt anyone stops buying Pirelli tires because they don't last 300 km in F1. With that logic the Goodyears in NASCAR need to last 600 miles.
The good news is they are in position to go one better next weekend. No one has even remotely challenged Red Bull, but McLaren are getting closer.There we go McLaren! A team podium. Man I am happy for them .
And there it is: https://racer.com/2023/10/08/hamilton-shoulders-blame-for-turn-1-clash-with-russell-in-qatar/Pretty sure he will view it differently when he sees a replay.
At this point, I think I'm with you. Especially as it goes with F1, where I've yet to see a race determined by pit strategy that I was happy about. I've much more often seen teams use pit strategy as a way to enforce team orders, which I sometimes feel as though I am a lone soldier fighting a war against.It's not always the driver. Look at the trouble Haas has getting the tire to work. Look at how Ferrari was fading earlier in the year on tires. It's just another artificial, phony thing they use to "spice up the show." I don't care for spice. I want racing to be real, and if that means it a procession, that's pretty much what we have now anyway.
Goodyears were fine for 500 miles in 1987, so I don't know why they can't do it 30 years later. Michelin flat dropped out of the tire bidding vendor because they want to make the best tire they can, and you see the results of that in WEC.
How exciting is it to see one car take a position because the other is stopped in the pits? Get rid of the tire game and make them race for it. I mean, if you love pit stops that's ok, but I'de rather see racing.
One final thing on the sprint races, there was talk of having a sprint championship. If they did that at least they would have a good reason for it.
He did.Pretty sure he will view it differently when he sees a replay.
I think in general Hamilton is a stand-up guy, but at least in this case he was so blatantly wrong he had no choice. No one here is arguing right or wrong because this was all on Hamilton at worst, and more likely it was just because race cars crash.He did.
These things are kinda ridiculous. It won’t be so ungodly hot in March, but hopefully the curbs are dealt with before the WEC opener next year:I'm not impressed. Can't just tell the drivers to run over the kerbs at their own risk?
FIA mandates maximum 18-lap stints in F1 Qatar GP due to tyre issues
www.motorsport.com