The F1 Thread

[Todd_is_God]

Hope Verstappen and Hamilton stall

[The Golden God]

They should do the podium now and let someone else do the final “lap”

[Todd_is_God]

Ted is such a knob

[Mackie The Staggie]

Sainz going to drop out of the points here I would imagine....

[Todd_is_God]

A 5s penalty in a 15s race is harsh

[JamesP_81]

This finish is going to be carnage behind sainz! 

[Todd_is_God]

Rolling start booooo

[doulikefish]

That 5 sec penalty is pretty inconsistent from early races in the first couple of corners from a start 

[Mackie The Staggie]

Massi's mere presence at a race is enough to cause chaos......impressive

[Boo Khaki]

If there's a way to make something shit and farcical regardless of circumstance, F1 will find it.

[V.Aye.R]

20 minutes ago, Boo Khaki said:

Utterly pointless parade lap. Just call it a race ffs

F1 getting tangled in their own rules. 

[Todd_is_God]

Krofty banging on all race about Zhou potentially setting a record for finishing 3 races in a row in the same, non-first, place whilst completely ignoring Alonso has finished 3rd, 3rd, 3rd

[Sarto Mutiny]

6 minutes ago, Todd_is_God said:

Krofty banging on all race about Zhou potentially setting a record for finishing 3 races in a row in the same, non-first, place whilst completely ignoring Alonso has finished 3rd, 3rd, 3rd

Renowned racist Nelson Piquet finished 2nd in four consecutive races in 1987

[Todd_is_God]

3 minutes ago, Sarto Mutiny said:

Renowned racist Nelson Piquet finished 2nd in four consecutive races in 1987

So he spent the whole race talking pish? Never change

[doulikefish]

Result stands...Haas protest thrown out and no action on the Gasly/ocon incident 

[Miguel Sanchez]

This sport is a farce.

[MrWorldwideJr]

Not sure what was more painful there.

The utter nonsense of throwing an unnecessary red flag in the first place, the completely predictable outcome of the restart or having to sit through 10 minutes of the Croft and Kravitz brains trust trying to work out what would happen next.

It's obvious and shouldn't need said, but the race director should be making decisions based on safety, not entertainment value. It's been clear for a few years now that that isn't the case. And given there have been 3 race directors in that time it's clearly a series decision. None of the three have these issues in other series they've looked after.

There should have been no red flags today and wouldn't have been in any other series (bar maybe NASCAR). A red flag to sweep up some gravel and debris FFS.

Edited April 2, 2023 by MrWorldwideJr

[Iminavest]

Tbh, I'm all for the red flags given they immediately cause the Sky Sports Hamilton presenters minds to turn into playdough

[V.Aye.R]

5 minutes ago, MrWorldwideJr said:

Not sure what was more painful there.

The utter nonsense of throwing an unnecessary red flag in the first place, the completely predictable outcome of the restart or having to sit through 10 minutes of the Croft and Kravitz brains trust trying to work out what would happen next.

It's obvious and shouldn't need said, but the race director should be making decisions based on safety, not entertainment value. It's been clear for a few years now that that isn't the case. And given there have been 3 race directors in that time it's clearly a series decision. None of the three have these issues in other series they've looked after.

There should have been no red flags today and wouldn't have been in any other series (bar maybe NASCAR). A red flag to sweep up some gravel and debris FFS.

Agree, years gone by a few laps under the SC would have seen a handful of guys with brushes sort that easily. 

See watching the highlights, it probably looks amazing but watching it live is a labour of love a lot of the time. 

[Miguel Sanchez]

8 minutes ago, MrWorldwideJr said:

Not sure what was more painful there.

The utter nonsense of throwing an unnecessary red flag in the first place, the completely predictable outcome of the restart or having to sit through 10 minutes of the Croft and Kravitz brains trust trying to work out what would happen next.

It's obvious and shouldn't need said, but the race director should be making decisions based on safety, not entertainment value. It's been clear for a few years now that that isn't the case. And given there have been 3 race directors in that time it's clearly a series decision. None of the three have these issues in other series they've looked after.

There should have been no red flags today and wouldn't have been in any other series (bar maybe NASCAR). A red flag to sweep up some gravel and debris FFS.

The Albon crash I could kind of see the point in since there was the car, bits of the car and gravel spread out over a fairly large area. Plus they probably thought the barrier was damaged. The others were a joke and the restart with two laps to go had the most predictable outcome possible. It's "entertaining," but what do Alpine think now they've gone from a good result to no points? One day this will piss off a big team and hopefully it all blows up.

Still, my condolences to anyone who got up early to watch this and suffered through Crofty and Kravitz' latter-day Alan Partridge tribute act. More fool you if you're actually paying for Sky.