Official 2023 Season Formula 1 Thread

[R3L3NTL3SS]

Lmao so reading the official FIA document, basically AM showed them a bunch of videos of jacks making contact with cars while serving penalties and were like “so why was it ok alllll these times but now it’s not?”
Then the FIA was like “dang, you’re right.” And gave the place back.




Basically it still just goes to show Mercedes has way too much power when it comes to bitching about something for the FIA to have been so fast to strip Alonso of third over something they let go a hundred times before.

[R3L3NTL3SS]

Lmaooo

[macmoney]

and too think we thought RB was good enough to get max first every race. wow were we high

I think ferrari and Mercedes are in for a long trip. Dont see them getting that much better, all while I see mclarren and Alpine improving a lot.

[Gringo12]

I think the mclaren car needs more sponsors. I can still see some orange

[Weightaholic]

Good race. RB are a lock for Constructors Championship, put your house on it.

Nice to see AM at the pointy end of the field again, Alonso looks like a man who's enjoying racing, moreso than at any point in his career so far I think. The whole penalties thing makes the sport look a bit silly though. Alosno wasn't the only one out of his grid box at the start though, the cars are so limited in visibility these days I'm wondering how many are having real problems. Not an excuse though, they're all supposed to be the very best.

For you Ameribrahs, early days but Sargeant may be a decent racer, hopefully you can finally have a decent F1 driver again.

Liked Strolls move on the outside of Sainz at the beginning of the race. Love to see that sort of thing.

Ferrari are nowhere near good enough, nor are Mercedes. Merc will work on it and undoubtedly improve with typical German efficiency, Ferrari will run around in circles going nowhere in typical Ferrari fashion.

Sad to see Williams and McLaren being reduced to also-rans, two once mighty teams. Norris is too good to be driving that piece of sht.

Russell once again beating Hamilton handily, he's making a habit of it.

Magnussen looked capable as always, Hulkenberg is not really impressing at all!

Final note - Jos Verstappen's face at the end when Perez was celebrating with his team, and Jos' face was like thunder. Bet he went home and kicked the dog. Dickhead.

[macmoney]

Good race. RB are a lock for Constructors Championship, put your house on it.

The whole penalties thing makes the sport look a bit silly though.

For you Ameribrahs, early days but Sargeant may be a decent racer, hopefully you can finally have a decent F1 driver again.

Liked Strolls move on the outside of Sainz at the beginning of the race. Love to see that sort of thing.

Ferrari are nowhere near good enough, nor are Mercedes. Merc will work on it and undoubtedly improve with typical German efficiency, Ferrari will run around in circles going nowhere in typical Ferrari fashion.

Magnussen looked capable as always, Hulkenberg is not really impressing at all!

you have a governing body, yet it takes you that long to govern a small infraction. To think the penalty they wanted to give Alanso is the same as what they give out to people that cause major crashes.

I think we'll see a lot more passes like stroll around sainz once alpine and Mclaren get up to speed. (Lando imo will be back in top 7 runnings again like last year)

this.... for the sports sake, i sure hope Ferrari doesn't implode.

Magnussen needs to get quali's figured out..... they at least already have points and had both cars running close to points.

[superfunk]

you have a governing body, yet it takes you that long to govern a small infraction. To think the penalty they wanted to give Alanso is the same as what they give out to people that cause major crashes.

The rumor is that it came about because Mercedes complained about it near the end of the race. The matter had already been looked at and deemed ok until the rumored complaint came in. Sneaky kents, it gave Alonso no opportunity to extend a big enough gap.

[macmoney]

The rumor is that it came about because Mercedes complained about it near the end of the race. The matter had already been looked at and deemed ok until the rumored complaint came in. Sneaky kents, it gave Alonso no opportunity to extend a big enough gap.

why they cuck themselves to teams is beyond me.

no other sport does this

[HMFIC_BROWSIN]

why they cuck themselves to teams is beyond me.

no other sport does this

The FIA looks so stupid LOL.

Seems like the people setting the rules/penalties have never actually raced a car, or worked for a team.

[Weightaholic]

you have a governing body, yet it takes you that long to govern a small infraction. To think the penalty they wanted to give Alanso is the same as what they give out to people that cause major crashes.

I think we'll see a lot more passes like stroll around sainz once alpine and Mclaren get up to speed. (Lando imo will be back in top 7 runnings again like last year)

this.... for the sports sake, i sure hope Ferrari doesn't implode.

Magnussen needs to get quali's figured out..... they at least already have points and had both cars running close to points.

The one thing you can guarantee about Ferrari is... implosion incoming!

I like Magnussen, he's always racey, but yeah, he needs to get quali happening. Still think Hulkenberg is dead weight though, hopefully he'll come good as the season progresses.

The FIA looks so stupid LOL.

Seems like the people setting the rules/penalties have never actually raced a car, or worked for a team.

They fck themselves by trying to make the rules too "lawyery". Simple wording would be "whilst serving a penalty no member of the team other than the driver may make physical contact with the car until the penalty is served". Simple and neat, and no more of this sort of rubbish.

[macmoney]

the way f1 does their schedule is the dumbest ****.....outside of not being by the beach in miami

and then to be mocked at with their "net zero" bs.

could easily make the schedule be uniform to a bi week between every race with no summer break, or no have any bi weeks with better sectional racing months.
Would add another promotional piece for them and/or drivers/constructors.
Americas Cup, Euro Cup, Middle East Cup, Pacific Islands Cup etc.

[HMFIC_BROWSIN]

the way f1 does their schedule is the dumbest ****.....outside of not being by the beach in miami

and then to be mocked at with their "net zero" bs.

could easily make the schedule be uniform to a bi week between every race with no summer break, or no have any bi weeks with better sectional racing months.
Would add another promotional piece for them and/or drivers/constructors.
Americas Cup, Euro Cup, Middle East Cup, Pacific Islands Cup etc.

I guess there's a race on April 1, then none until April 30? Lmao. I guess it's 'spring break' for F1.

[R3L3NTL3SS]

I guess there's a race on April 1, then none until April 30? Lmao. I guess it's 'spring break' for F1.

Yeah I don't get it. I guess they're trying to spread the races out as much as they can so it's not such a strain on everyone.

[R3L3NTL3SS]

Midnight quali and midnight race for my time zone.

I'll probably catch the quali as soon as I wake up Saturday morning and stay up Saturday night with the wife and watch the race live.

[macmoney]

I guess there's a race on April 1, then none until April 30? Lmao. I guess it's 'spring break' for F1.

I take it this was supposed to be when China race was going to be? Them failing to fill the race is pretty funny/ embarrassing.

maybe instead of worrying about net zero they coulda pissed money into a slush fun for emergency race circuits or something like that.