Sports 🏎️ Official Formula 1 Thread

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Audi, Porsche to join Formula One, VW CEO says

Volkswagen's premium brands Audi and Porsche will join Formula One after convincing the German automaking group that the move will bring in more money than it will cost, VW Chief Executive Herbert Diess said on Monday.

www.reuters.com

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

Audi, Porsche to join Formula One, VW CEO says

Volkswagen's premium brands Audi and Porsche will join Formula One after convincing the German automaking group that the move will bring in more money than it will cost, VW Chief Executive Herbert Diess said on Monday.

www.reuters.com

This is super interesting, I wonder if McLaren will sell. So they're both going to join as separate teams rather than be a joint Audi/Porsche team? My first question was who's going to make the engines, so a partnership with RB makes sense considering they're new to the engine game.

Audi is ready to offer around 500 million euros ($556.3 million) for British luxury sports carmaker McLaren as a means to enter, a source told Reuters in March, while Porsche intends to establish a long-term partnership with racing team Red Bull starting in several years' time. read more

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

It's still really weird to me how the drama around teams, engines, drivers and championships is like 100x more interesting than the races themselves.

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

McLaren was trying to sell awhile back, wonder if they'd take it. I'd expect Audi and Porsche to run separate teams, but they should also enter VW as a fuck-it team and try all experimental parts on that shitbox.

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

McLaren was trying to sell awhile back, wonder if they'd take it. I'd expect Audi and Porsche to run separate teams, but they should also enter VW as a fuck-it team and try all experimental parts on that shitbox.

It just seems so prohibitively expensive to go from zero teams to two teams for what is still one company (VAG). I could totally see mclaren selling, they do not sell many cars at all (like 5k a year iirc) so the marketing value can't make much sense.

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

The best part about them joining is.....drumroll....FEWER PAY DRIVERS which I think we can all get behind. Factory teams DGAF who your daddy is.

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

I think the entry fees to JOIN F1 and the approval from existing teams is fucking stupid.

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

This seems the most logical

Report: Lawrence Stroll Set to End Aston Martin’s Painful F1 Stint Amid Rising Audi Interest

Lawrence Stroll is planning to recoup his investment in Aston Martin with the VW group looking to enter Formula 1 under the Audi brand.

www.essentiallysports.com

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

I feel like Porsche would want their own car, not just jumping into a part ownership with Red Bull, unless it'd be Red Bull and AlphaTauri would turn into a Porsche car.

 

[Mr Baytchos]

And what ever happened with Andretti starting a team? Did he get his approval?

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

I feel like Porsche would want their own car, not just jumping into a part ownership with Red Bull, unless it'd be Red Bull and AlphaTauri would turn into a Porsche car.

I'm sure RB wouldn't mind some help with the engine development as honda transfers over the infrastructure and IP. IIRC Honda is still heavily involved for another year or two even though it's all in RB's name now

Could end up being a joint Porsche/RB engine program that 3-4 teams use (RB, Alphatauri, porsche, audi if they have a team)

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

I'm sure RB wouldn't mind some help with the engine development as honda transfers over the infrastructure and IP. IIRC Honda is still heavily involved for another year or two even though it's all in RB's name now

Could end up being a joint Porsche/RB engine program that 3-4 teams use (RB, Alphatauri, porsche, audi)

I'd be down with that. We need a few more cars/teams on the grid. Mercedes needs a nice mid-back field car to race against.

 

[SleeperLS]

I just heard that formula 1 might be coming to the Vegas streets. Have any of you heard this at all? IDAFC21 let’s go to a race

 

[IDAFC21]

I just heard that formula 1 might be coming to the Vegas streets. Have any of you heard this at all? IDAFC21 let’s go to a race

YUP. November 2023

 

[SleeperLS]

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

I just heard that formula 1 might be coming to the Vegas streets. Have any of you heard this at all? IDAFC21 let’s go to a race

Yeah, a few pages back is the discussion about it.

 

[IDAFC21]

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

This Miami track is fucking embarrassing. I don't see Las Vegas being any better. They need to get some road courses up to FIA-1 grade and run them. Enough of this street circuit garbage.

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

This Miami track is fucking embarrassing. I don't see Las Vegas being any better. They need to get some road courses up to FIA-1 grade and run them. Enough of this street circuit garbage.

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At least Las Vegas will be running on the fucking strip. This "Miami" race is retarded.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

You could pick almost any of the non-street circuit tracks from this list of FIA-2 tracks, make them FIA-1 and they'd be 1000% better than Miami.

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

I'd love to see Road America, but heard it's because they don't have a big enough pit lane.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

Traffic management would also be a headache. But I'd still go.

 

[Jimy Bilmo]

Traffic management would also be a headache. But I'd still go.

With the amount of setup F1 does for their races, I'm sure they'd figure shit out. But, yeah, I'd love to see a race there. There'd be some prime spots for passing. Hell, I'd love to see a MotoGP race there, the MotoAmerica races are fun as hell to go to.

 

[SpeedSpeak2me]

With some improvements they could do MotoGP. They used to run WSBK there, same weekend as AMA, just like the Laguna Seca round.

 

[Caleb515]

Miami F1 practice today at 1:30pm!

Agreed the track is embarrassing, but I am excited to see the drivers take on a track they've never driven before. Should make for an interesting race.