Official 2023 Season Formula 1 Thread

[LargePeter]

2 laps to go and Verstappens quickest lap is 1 second better than anyone elses

Fuk

[R3L3NTL3SS]

Verstappen finishes 19 seconds ahead of Norris and wasn’t even trying.

[Gringo12]

Ok I've got max, lando and oscar to podium @7.32


Legggo oscar

Cha ching

[Tuga88]

Perez doing all he can to make RB ditch him for next year.

[Gringo12]

[Tuga88]

Actually felt a little bad for Russell this weekend.

Screwed up on the last lap last race and this weekend Mercedes told him to get fuked lmao.

[LargePeter]

Actually felt a little bad for Russell this weekend.

Screwed up on the last lap last race and this weekend Mercedes told him to get fuked lmao.

Fuking Mercedes borrowing ideas from the Ferrari tactical team

[HMFIC_BROWSIN]

For Japan:

I have McLaren to pole
I have Oscar to podium
I have Norris to podium

Oscar to podium will pay a lot more.

If Norris podiums, Oscar misses, and RB wins Quali, I break even on the weekend.

fuk yeah. Very stress-free race to watch after Perez's second crash LMAO. Kinda thought Leclerc would was gonna put pressure on oscar at the end, but Oscar opened up the gap and it was EZ mode to the end.

If you aren't betting on F1 this year, you are seriously missing out.

[LargePeter]

One more lap would have had Sainz get past Hamilton, lulz

[Weightaholic]

Perez doing all he can to make RB ditch him for next year.

I want to know what dirt Perez has on Marko and Horner, it has to be something, because RB have dumped drivers for being WAY less terrible previously. Albon and Kvyat spring to mind. They get dumped for a few bad races, and Perez is zooming around trying to collide with every car in the race on the opening lap.

[Gringo12]

I want to know what dirt Perez has on Marko and Horner, it has to be something, because RB have dumped drivers for being WAY less terrible previously. Albon and Kvyat spring to mind. They get dumped for a few bad races, and Perez is zooming around trying to collide with every car in the race on the opening lap.

Mexican red bull sales. Remember, the team is only a marketing tool. The job is to increase sales of red bull


They're only keeping yuki because Honda are making them, sucks for Lawson but apparently he's been promised a 2025 seat

[HMFIC_BROWSIN]

I want to know what dirt Perez has on Marko and Horner, it has to be something, because RB have dumped drivers for being WAY less terrible previously. Albon and Kvyat spring to mind. They get dumped for a few bad races, and Perez is zooming around trying to collide with every car in the race on the opening lap.

I watched the highlight content from Suzuka and it seems like he is purposely trying to get fired.... Surprised he didn't get into another wreck when they let him back out to serve his penalty. He was even worse than Logan this weekend.

[HMFIC_BROWSIN]

Good read:

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/t...-car/10525546/

The four key concept changes that transformed McLaren's MCL60 F1 car
McLaren has gone from Q1 elimination candidates to podium finishers in a matter of months with Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri flanking Max Verstappen at the Japanese Grand Prix. After such a remarkable turnaround, here are some of the ways that the team has achieved this

Those directions have emerged over the course of what has been an impressive resurgence for the squad, which secured a double podium finish at last weekend's Japanese Grand Prix.

Ahead of the race in Suzuka, and off the back of a major Singapore upgrade, Stella offered some fascinating insight into what the key areas of design change were.

Here is a rundown of what he explained.

[HMFIC_BROWSIN]

The actual GOAT of Formula 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnIn_x2SZLQ

[greenleaf]

How come Max hasn't been crowned the 2023 WDC title yet? I don't think it's mathematically possible for runner-up Perez to catch up in points after Japan.

[HMFIC_BROWSIN]

How come Max hasn't been crowned the 2023 WDC title yet? I don't think it's mathematically possible for runner-up Perez to catch up in points after Japan.

There's still a chance that PEREZ could win every sprint race, win every race, set every fastest lap, and max would also DNF for the rest of the season.

[macmoney]

Actually felt a little bad for Russell this weekend.

Screwed up on the last lap last race and this weekend Mercedes told him to get fuked lmao.

I didn't one bit, his bull **** against hamilton is dumb and then he tries to play victim. (and im a hamilton hater)

[macmoney]

Mexican red bull sales. Remember, the team is only a marketing tool. The job is to increase sales of red bull


They're only keeping yuki because Honda are making them, sucks for Lawson but apparently he's been promised a 2025 seat

damn, didn't even realize that.... makes a lot of sense. Be interesting if they give the seat to Danny in 25' or Liam..... cant imagine them making Liam go up to the top car right away. But at the same time Danny will be 36 by then....

[LargePeter]

I didn't one bit, his bull **** against hamilton is dumb and then he tries to play victim. (and im a hamilton hater)

That was fukin funny

At least Hamilton can defend unlike Russell - they would have had a better chance running as Russell/Hamilton with the DRS/defend strategy until the last lap and doing the switch if necessary - instead they gave Ferrari necessary points

[ProudKraut]

I didn't one bit, his bull **** against hamilton is dumb and then he tries to play victim. (and im a hamilton hater)

U wot m8?

Brb driving straight trough a chicane, gaining two places off track and impeding my own team mate until the stewards tell me to fukk off

Brb going ultra wide into spoon, pushing my own team mate into oblivion, almost causing a double dnf for the team

Brb its the other guy's fault

[Weightaholic]

If anyone's interested, the Beyond the Grid podcast has a great interview with Adrian Newey up. Really good stuff.

[Gringo12]

If anyone's interested, the Beyond the Grid podcast has a great interview with Adrian Newey up. Really good stuff.

Red flags podcast is the goat f1 podcast

[HMFIC_BROWSIN]

If anyone's interested, the Beyond the Grid podcast has a great interview with Adrian Newey up. Really good stuff.

I didn't know he was the race engineer, AND car engineer in 1996 (williams), and 1998 (mclaren). He WON both of those championships LOL. Arguably some of the "least talented" F1 champion drivers. Just a MOGGER car, and apparently he is an A++ race engineer as well.

[R3L3NTL3SS]

I wish Alpha Tauri would finally upload their "Whatever It Takes" documentary to their YouTube like they said they were going to do weeks ago...

[R3L3NTL3SS]

If anyone's interested, the Beyond the Grid podcast has a great interview with Adrian Newey up. Really good stuff.

Adrian Newey is truly a fkling race car God. Don't think anyone else just "gets it" the way he does. Also humble AF in every single interview or podcast I've ever heard him in.

[Gringo12]

God dam lando norris has such sick taste in cars. Seen driving around monaco in a Lamborghini miura.

His fiat jolly is epic too. And then a mclaren 765 Lt spider as a daily.

Might be my dream garage right there

[Gringo12]

Bros $7.00 for Hamilton to beat perez in WDC points lmao that's fckn tempting

[HMFIC_BROWSIN]

Bros $7.00 for Hamilton to beat perez in WDC points lmao that's fckn tempting

McLaren will make it tough for Hamilton to score the big points.

Perez was so bad at the last race though..... I don't see a come back from that.

[R3L3NTL3SS]

Bros $7.00 for Hamilton to beat perez in WDC points lmao that's fckn tempting

If McLaren wasn't so fast suddenly, I'd say Hamilton will probably beat him. (Which is the most pathetic thing I've ever seen in my time watching F1.) Imagine letting Hamilton make that much of a comeback on you when half the season they were maybe 4th fastest, and the other half, second to third fastest on a good weekend. Meanwhile, you're in probably the most dominant car to ever race in Formula 1....EVER.

But I don't think McLaren will be letting Hamilton onto the podium any more this season. At least not without some bad luck or mistakes on McLaren's side.

[HMFIC_BROWSIN]

Odds became available for QATAR...

I'm seeing literally zero value right now.

Going to wait for a practice session to pass, and hopefully some value will appear.... Might be a no-bet weekend.

Implied odds for MAX to win quali and win the race is 71.43% (1.4)

Oscar to podium is 40.82% (2.45)

I suppose the bookies are all caught-up!