🏟️ Sports 🏎️ Official Formula 1 Thread

[SpeedSpeak2me]

You're welcome friend

 

[Mook]

 

[IDAFC21]

FP1 and 2 watched. Man that turn 4 is a spicy one this weekend

 

[IDAFC21]

Also I love that Norris's helmet is a tribute to the trophy he broke last year

 

[Mook]

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

Spoiler

perez is gone. They’re gonna terminate his contract due to performance.

 

[IDAFC21]

Well that quali was all over the place

good god fucking Perez...... HOW can they continue to let him drive that car.

And jesus, I still haven't seen a good replay of Yuki's crash, I have no idea what the hell propelled him into the air at that spot he went off. Crazy shit. If he woulda gone just a LITTLE bit higher.......

And bad luck for Russell. He and the team got that ALL wrong.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Perez must be shitting his pants, waiting for the axe to fall. Listening to the F1TV feed, they just love to gargle on Perez's nuts, and I have no idea why. The younger talent pool is huge, bring someone else up. Hell, throw Ricciardo in the seat after the summer break, bring up someone from Formula 2 into the VCABS*#LN2W car to see how they do. Who is the RB reserve driver, use them even.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

MV is such a petulant shit.

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

so I skip through most of these races…what happened that Norris had to give up a 6 second lead to let his teammate win ?

 

[Jimbo]

so I skip through most of these races…what happened that Norris had to give up a 6 second lead to let his teammate win ?

McLaren shit strategy

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Pretty much.

I thoroughly enjoyed watching MV go into full meltdown.

 

[IDAFC21]

wow. wowowow.

wow.


Mostly boring race, but also still somehow not


Jesus christ Verstappen just

Unless he's 30 seconds ahead of the pack all he does is

And good ol Hamilton, complaining about the tires as hes setting fast lap after fast lap


But man. McLaren..........they REALLY did not make it easy on themselves. I feel bad for Norris and Piastri. The team's strategy did that to them and it didn't have to be that way. I can see both sides of it. By all rights, Piastri earned that 1st spot right from the start of the race, and he was in control the entire time. Piastris drive was flawless. Once Norris was ahead, he certainly proved he could maintain that spot, and hes in the fight for the championship, tho, i use the term "fight" loosely. I can definitely understand his reluctance to listen to the teams orders, especially when it was the teams decision that put him there in the first place, but I'm glad he was able to come around and listen to reason (after about 10 laps of nonstop pleading from the team ) And hearing him speak about it afterwards I'm surprised at how well he's able to reason w/ it and accept it already.

And I always still loves me a good Max/Lewis battle

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

wow. wowowow.

wow.


Mostly boring race, but also still somehow not


Jesus christ Verstappen just

Unless he's 30 seconds ahead of the pack all he does is

And good ol Hamilton, complaining about the tires as hes setting fast lap after fast lap


But man. McLaren..........they REALLY did not make it easy on themselves. I feel bad for Norris and Piastri. The team's strategy did that to them and it didn't have to be that way. I can see both sides of it. By all rights, Piastri earned that 1st spot right from the start of the race, and he was in control the entire time. Piastris drive was flawless. Once Norris was ahead, he certainly proved he could maintain that spot, and hes in the fight for the championship, tho, i use the term "fight" loosely. I can definitely understand his reluctance to listen to the teams orders, especially when it was the teams decision that put him there in the first place, but I'm glad he was able to come around and listen to reason (after about 10 laps of nonstop pleading from the team ) And hearing him speak about it afterwards I'm surprised at how well he's able to reason w/ it and accept it already.

And I always still loves me a good Max/Lewis battle

"Then tell him to catch up."

IIRC they had Piastri sacrifice a win for Norris, so this evens them up. I could be mistaken. Listening to Coulthard talk about it, man he was not happy with McLaren.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Jesus christ Verstappen just

Unless he's 30 seconds ahead of the pack all he does is

And good ol Hamilton, complaining about the tires as hes setting fast lap after fast lap

Like I said, a petulant little shit. His true colors are showing, inherited right from good 'ol dad.

 

[IDAFC21]

oh and WTF even watching the F1TV feed I STILL CAN'T ESCAPE ROSBERG.

Who the fuck gave him a mic to do the post race interviews!!

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

What the fook did mclaren do lol

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

I think it’s called “shitting the bed”.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Spa this weekend! FP1 just started. Last race before the summer break.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Ocon is going to Haas:

 

[IDAFC21]

And the Alpines are doing their best Ferrari impressions this weekend w/ the Deadpool liveries.

Bout halfway thru FP2 right now

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

So, if I am hearing this correctly, no Renault engines in 2026. Right now the only team they are powering is Alpine.

 

[IDAFC21]

Yeah, thought i heard them say Alpine going Merc power, and Aston Martin going Honda. Should stir the ol PTSD for Alonso

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Watched qualifying. No spoiler tag needed. Nothing of a surprise happened.

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

Ocon is going to Haas:

Ridiculous, it really seems like the Formula One teams will do anything to not bring young talent up from formula 2. Why would you hire this shit bag instead of bringing somebody up?

It seems like Driver selections never makes sense anymore, so I have to assume it’s just political