Formula 1 2023

[Brainy]

Must be the worst two races to start a season in a long time. 

[UniFox21]

2 hours ago, UniFox21 said:

Alonso with a 10s penalty for not serving the 5s penalty correctly. That's twice in two races we've had a starting error penalty and a penalty for incorrectly serving a penalty. Could be an interesting year.

Now a suggestion Alonso keeps his podium? Unsure what's going on, but FIA making a pigs ear of it 

 

 

 

[Super_horns]

34 minutes ago, UniFox21 said:

Now a suggestion Alonso keeps his podium? Unsure what's going on, but FIA making a pigs ear of it 

 

 

 

Might well be right..
 

 

Edited 19 March 2023 by Super_horns

[Legend_in_blue]

 

In order to maintain the entertainment value, decisions are made well after the event itself it seems.

 

Total farce ever since Masi made up the rules.

[UniFox21]

So 4 hours later we get confirmation of the race rankings, ****ing hell. 

[goody2028]

What an absolute farce this sport is becoming 

[The Quick Brown Fox]

Does touching the car before penalty constitute breaking the rules or not? It's their rules they should know. 

 

Absolute joke they are going on team agreements rather than the rules they are trying to implement. 

 

Making VAR look capable 😂

[moore_94]

Aston Martin went in with 7 different instances of the same incident where there weren’t any penalties given

 

Edited 20 March 2023 by moore_94

[Brainy]

Didnt Ocon get a 10s penalty for the same thing last week? 

[moore_94]

8 hours ago, Stinky said:

Didnt Ocon get a 10s penalty for the same thing last week? 

With Ocon they messed up their timings and started actually working on the car after 4.6 seconds

[Brainy]

 

 

Merch in the new f1 exhibition in Madrid. Very strange to celebrate a moment that 1, they admitted they'd ****ed up (eventually) and 2, severely tarnished the reputation of the sport 🤔

[Super_horns]

Good for Mercedes on getting  2nd and 3rd on the grid .

Hamilton v Alonso might be a bit spicy.

Suspect Perez is hiding in the Red Bull garage somewhere.

As for Ferrari - less said the better maybe ?

Great qualifying  by Albon .

Edited 1 April 2023 by Super_horns

[Nick]

You never know it may actually be a bit of an actual race tomorrow.

[grobyfox1990]

Hope Piastori has a terrible race, more so for his home race, but generally this season 

[Zear0]

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/apr/01/verstappen-warns-he-wont-be-around-too-long-if-f1-make-more-race-changes

 

Well said Max.  Need the big names in the sport to call out these "added time multi-ball" gimmicks that are slowly being shoe horned into the sport for the Netflix lot.  The issue with retention of fans is not going to be solved by farting around with the format of the race weekend.  The new rules on aero and ground effect havn't exactly gone to plan, but they were well intentioned and what need to happen. Improve racing is the only thing and should be the sole focus.   Whilst the end of 2021 was what people remember, the racing for the season was phenomenal because it was competitive racing.

 

Reading about extending the Sprint format gives me cold flashbacks to when Bernie said they wanted to randomly spray water on the circuits.  No sir.

[The Horse's Mouth]

Format of weekend should stay sacred, sprint races haven’t really worked but it’s all about the money 

[The Horse's Mouth]

Incredible by Russ

[UniFox21]

Brilliant start to the race

[The Horse's Mouth]

Merc have proper shafted Russell

[Brainy]

How is this red flag tyre change rule still a thing!? 

[VinceNoir]

4 minutes ago, The Horse's Mouth said:

Merc have proper shafted Russell

Only cos it became a red flag. If it’s just a safety car, it’s potentially the right call if Hamilton could hold up Verstappen.

[Jimothy]

6 minutes ago, The Horse's Mouth said:

Merc have proper shafted Russell

Red flag seems a little overkill tbf. Tend to agree with Jenson Button, safety car would probably have been fine, and that wouldn't have shafted Russell.

[The Horse's Mouth]

Just now, Facecloth said:

Red flag seems a little overkill tbf. Tend to agree with Jenson Button, safety car would probably have been fine, and that wouldn't have shafted Russell.

This has to be the daftest red flag I’ve seen for a while tbh 

[The Horse's Mouth]

Also they have ****ing ad breaks in aus during the race, I’m getting flashbacks to itv 

[UniFox21]

7 minutes ago, Facecloth said:

Red flag seems a little overkill tbf. Tend to agree with Jenson Button, safety car would probably have been fine, and that wouldn't have shafted Russell.

 

6 minutes ago, The Horse's Mouth said:

This has to be the daftest red flag I’ve seen for a while tbh 

Exactly, didn't look severe enough a hit into the barrier to warrant a red flag.