If Masi says it can fly then it can fly.Do the regs specify that you have to be on the ground while racing?
F1 2022 Season
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10th Feb is the first I think, Aston Martin. Then McLaren the day after.
Imagine if you had some secret thing like an Fduct, blown diffuser you wouldn't want to give anyone a chance to complain about it in the practice sessions and leave it for the first race so the FAI won't make any real changes to it for the season like the mercs a season ago
Yeap that also, they broke no rules, just interpreted them in a different way
Unless you're predicted to be a back marker like Brawn
''Don't worry about these guys, it's just practice''Formula E season about to start. Anyone watching?
Watched one or two races last season, found it weird as feck, but there's no other sports on
Watched one or two races last season, found it weird as feck, but there's no other sports on
His actions were wrong and he and the FIA know this.
But the outcome is not going to be and nor should be changed.
I dont have a problem with his staying, just make sure he follows the rules correctly and not change them mid race.
He should have let all the lapped cars pass and that would have been the end of the race, OK so not the ideal way to end a championship winning race, but rules are rules, he was pressured by who ever, to make the call he did.
Does it still piss me off, yeah sure it does, but it wont change so no point in harping on about it, Lewis for me has done the right thing and said nothing and far play to Max he has done pretty much the same.
Excited for the season and what the new cars and regs will bring.
Formula 1 may have to abandon plans to stage Sprint events this season due to an ongoing stand-off over costs, with teams set for a crucial vote on the format appearing on the schedule.
F1, encouraged by the Silverstone, Monza and Interlagos experiments from last year, had wanted to double the amount of Saturday sprint races from three to six in 2022, increasing the action over a Grand Prix weekend.
But their plans are yet to be approved, and the teams they need approval from are still locked in a dispute over money.
McLaren boss Zak Brown - who has slammed some teams' pleas for more money being added to F1's cost cap as "ridiculous" and "nonsense" - says F1 is facing a fight against time to resolve the impasse.
With the season just two months away, F1 require at least eight of the 10 teams to agree on the details before they can push ahead.
Sprint races will need to be passed by an e-vote, which will take place before pre-season testing begins on February 23. The season starts on March 20 in Bahrain, where F1 had hoped to run a Sprint.
F1, encouraged by the Silverstone, Monza and Interlagos experiments from last year, had wanted to double the amount of Saturday sprint races from three to six in 2022, increasing the action over a Grand Prix weekend.
But their plans are yet to be approved, and the teams they need approval from are still locked in a dispute over money.
McLaren boss Zak Brown - who has slammed some teams' pleas for more money being added to F1's cost cap as "ridiculous" and "nonsense" - says F1 is facing a fight against time to resolve the impasse.
With the season just two months away, F1 require at least eight of the 10 teams to agree on the details before they can push ahead.
Sprint races will need to be passed by an e-vote, which will take place before pre-season testing begins on February 23. The season starts on March 20 in Bahrain, where F1 had hoped to run a Sprint.
Good - they are dumb
Yeah, pretty uninspiring again in terms of the racing.
They’re just drip feeding the news now to soften the blow, FIA will never come out and make big announcements. They’ll make the change and hope it all blows over. The changes were announced in the org structure on the FIA site earlier this month.
yeah, I thought I would enjoy them more than I did.
Eh? I wasn’t even thinking about what happened, let alone thinking it would change the outcome / harping on about it? I was just literally passing on the news
I was not posting about you, but reading it , yeah it looks that way , my apologies.Eh? I wasn’t even thinking about what happened, let alone thinking it would change the outcome / harping on about it? I was just literally passing on the news
It was more a post about the F1 fans I read on the net, they wont let it rest.
Any of our Dutch cohort fancy translating/transcribing an episode of RTL GP magazine for me? I've just got a subscription to it for 14 days so I can see Frits van Eerd's collection episode. I keep a big spreadsheet of the cars from 89-99 and he's got a ton of them (think it's the largest collection of F1 cars in one place in the world), certainly the largest private collection, supposed to be around 75 cars) so interested to see exactly which chassis of which car he has if he says it.
Is there no way to turn on subtitles or auto-subs? If it's in Dutch, I suppose most of what is said would get mangled by auto-subs, but not the names of cars maybe? (I don't how long the episode is, but I anyway wouldn't have the time to do a full translation/transcription myself.)
He should be fired because he's bad at his job and easily influenced by the top teams.
The last incident just took it to a whole new level of shittery when he forgot his job is to enforce the rules and not make things up for entertainment.
FIA MAKES FIRST ADMISSION MASI COULD BE REPLACED
https://the-race.com/formula-1/fia-...rmula-1-race-director-masi-could-be-replaced/
https://the-race.com/formula-1/fia-...rmula-1-race-director-masi-could-be-replaced/
All that needs to be said about last year. Utter joke that the people acknowledging this also say Masi has done a "super job".
This will be a farce of a sport for some time to come.
Yep, Masi needed replacing even if Abu Dhabi hadn't happened. His performances throughout the year were frankly stupid.
Consistensy is vital, and he was SO wishy washy. It felt like he flipped a coin with every decision.
Consistensy is vital, and he was SO wishy washy. It felt like he flipped a coin with every decision.
People still conflate decisions by the stewards vs decisons of the race director.
You talk as if Masi has zero input
he can decide what's sent to the stewards, whether it's a deemed a penalty or no further action.Maybe he isn't in charge of the total outcome of a penalty, but multiple times he's decided to investigate something which shouldn't.
They literally defended the farce that was the end of last season by saying it was in his power as race director to overrule the rules
The comment was about the Masi performance over the whole year, not the Abu Dhabi race.They literally defended him by saying it was in his power as race director to overrule the rules
I don't know how one would possibly judge his performance over the whole year without taking into account the defining decision of the season.
Yep. It was a farce even leading up to the final race.
From half points benefiting Max to Brazil overtaking rules being changed also benefiting Max. Its a joke. The sport needs some big changes. Bigger than just changing Masi. The lack of accountability is poor. I fear change won't be forthcoming.
American team with the Russian flag on the wing. Still can't wrap my head around it.
Thats looks goddamn awful. Especially the front view, horrendous.
Proper hideous.
It reflects the sponsorship of Uralkali, the Russian potash and fertiliser exporter and producer which in 2013 was taken over by Uralchem, the company of which Mazepin's father Dmitry is chairman. but a Russian flag on a US team is strange, even more so now with the on going tension between the 2.
The HAAS car look fecking horrible, lets hope the others look better.
Hopefully its not another 2014 cars. Even F1 version of new car looks better compare to Haas.
Yep I know the backstory thanks to DTS. Awkward nonetheless.
Wtf is going on with some of those shapes?? Looks like it has a gentleman's moustache.
Most of the launches this year will be dumbed down visually, they won't reveal any unique aero until the first test.
13 pages in already! My, I may have to do some catch up for some gems in here.
Just love this thread. Nice to see Masi may be getting the boot. Any other interesting developments?
Just love this thread. Nice to see Masi may be getting the boot. Any other interesting developments?