F1 2022 Season

pauldyson1uk said:
I disagree WWE is massive worldwide.
Saudi paid something like $500m for it to be in Saudi
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Do you disagree that trapping F1 drivers would be a bigger story than what happened to WWE? Seriously?

I didn't even know about that WWE stuff and I don't think I'd be able to tell you a single current WWE athlete.

Not to diminish whatever happened to them by the way, it's awful all around. But to argue that doing it to F1 would not be a bigger story is a bit odd to me.
 
Watching the F2 sprint race and, just like last year, there are constant stoppages and some nasty crashes. This track is not safe for racing and with all these stoppages, does not provide any entertainment. I expect that if the race goes ahead on Sunday, it will be full of SC and VSCs.
 
VorZakone said:
Do you disagree that trapping F1 drivers would be a bigger story than what happened to WWE? Seriously?

I didn't even know about that WWE stuff and I don't think I'd be able to tell you a single current WWE athlete.

Not to diminish whatever happened to them by the way, it's awful all around. But to argue that doing it to F1 would not be a bigger story is a bit odd to me.
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Let me put it this way, this story isn’t making any waves at all outside motor racing circles, just as that one didn’t outside wrestling circles. If you were to ask Joe Bloggs on the street they’d have no idea who, say, Charles LeClerc is.

You’re looking at this from the angle of it being bigger because it’s causing ripples where you look/read/listen whatever, but that’s a very blinkered way of considering it. It wouldn’t be a bigger story because it just isn’t. They’re both huge stories in their niche.
 
Didn't know about the WWE people being given special Saudi treatment but if you are into that I'm sure you would have, likewise F1. Don't know about you but if there was a hint if anything like that I wouldn't be going back. Hotel California stuff.

The Russians arm the Houthis, and the UK arm the Saudis. We're all as bad as each other until we've been weened off the Go juice. What then? The wind?
 
flameinthesun said:
Pretty much an ultimatum of race or you aint leaving from the government it sounds like. Lets see which drivers speak up once they are out of the country.
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Personally, driving on that track at 330km/hr or the chance of getting hit by a missile... I think I would take my chances with the missile.
 
telstar96 said:
Watching the F2 sprint race and, just like last year, there are constant stoppages and some nasty crashes. This track is not safe for racing and with all these stoppages, does not provide any entertainment. I expect that if the race goes ahead on Sunday, it will be full of SC and VSCs.
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Agreed it's a shit show of a track. So called "propose built"
 
telstar96 said:
Watching the F2 sprint race and, just like last year, there are constant stoppages and some nasty crashes. This track is not safe for racing and with all these stoppages, does not provide any entertainment. I expect that if the race goes ahead on Sunday, it will be full of SC and VSCs.
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Yeah, it's a mess. Not helped by Race Control having no control either...

 
telstar96 said:
Watching the F2 sprint race and, just like last year, there are constant stoppages and some nasty crashes. This track is not safe for racing and with all these stoppages, does not provide any entertainment. I expect that if the race goes ahead on Sunday, it will be full of SC and VSCs.
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I thought the track was fantastic personally last year. Fast and with a hint of danger to it. What we want from f1 tracks.
 
phelans shorts said:
Let me put it this way, this story isn’t making any waves at all outside motor racing circles, just as that one didn’t outside wrestling circles. If you were to ask Joe Bloggs on the street they’d have no idea who, say, Charles LeClerc is.

You’re looking at this from the angle of it being bigger because it’s causing ripples where you look/read/listen whatever, but that’s a very blinkered way of considering it. It wouldn’t be a bigger story because it just isn’t. They’re both huge stories in their niche.
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Okay mate, WWE is as big as F1. You're completely right.
 
VorZakone said:
Okay mate, WWE is as big as F1. You're completely right.
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Didn't liberty buy f1 for $4.4 billion.... and wwe is listed on the stock market and valued at over $5 billion

Wwe is shown in 180 countries and viewed apparently by over 1 billion households a week (average global viewership 70 million worldwide for 2021 gps) for comparison

So erm yeah I think it's likley wwe is bigger by some metrics
 
sun_tzu said:
Didn't liberty buy f1 for $4.4 billion.... and wwe is listed on the stock market and valued at over $5 billion

Wwe is shown in 180 countries and viewed apparently by over 1 billion households a week

So erm yeah I think it's likley wwe is bigger by some metrics
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No, 1 billion households have access to WWE if I recall correctly, not exactly watching it. And stock market value, really?
 
Would be a shame if every car had some technical issues right after the lights go off tomorrow so they would all have to DNF.
 
VorZakone said:
No, 1 billion households have access to WWE if I recall correctly, not exactly watching it. And stock market value, really?
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Really? It's not top trumps, the point was it happened and wwe has a massive world wide audience as does F1, you having no interest in a product doesn't make it less worthy on any potential outrage scale in your head
 
Grib said:
Really? It's not top trumps, the point was it happened and wwe has a massive world wide audience as does F1, you having no interest in a product doesn't make it less worthy on any potential outrage scale in your head
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Where did I imply this?
 
We need quali to start to save us from WWE v F1 talk.
 
Macern said:
Merc a second off the top, incredible.
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What’s more incredible is look at the last 5 cars currently… All merc powered. I’m sure in Aus and definitely Imola we’ll start to see improvements and it was to be expected given the bouncing issues and the long fast straights.
 
phelans shorts said:
Let me put it this way, this story isn’t making any waves at all outside motor racing circles, just as that one didn’t outside wrestling circles. If you were to ask Joe Bloggs on the street they’d have no idea who, say, Charles LeClerc is.

You’re looking at this from the angle of it being bigger because it’s causing ripples where you look/read/listen whatever, but that’s a very blinkered way of considering it. It wouldn’t be a bigger story because it just isn’t. They’re both huge stories in their niche.
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It's not like sporting events taking place 11km from a missile attack during war time are common place so I seriously doubt this "isn’t making any waves at all outside motor racing circles", and while I have no way of comparing I would be shocked if it's not bigger news than a bunch of WWE staff not believing the official story that there's something wrong with their plane and having to wait for a while.
 
Zlaatan said:
It's not like sporting events taking place 11km from a missile attack during war time are common place so I seriously doubt this "isn’t making any waves at all outside motor racing circles", and while I have no way of comparing I would be shocked if it's not bigger news than a bunch of WWE staff not believing the official story that there's something wrong with their plane and having to wait for a while.
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The Jeddah strike was frontpage news here where I live for a moment and solely because of the F1 connection I'd reckon.
 
Putting it down here for the record to quote later. I think we could see a Merc not get out of Q1 on speed alone, not just as a result of bad luck.
 
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redbull and ferrari neck and neck. Looks good for quali. I feel one of max or charles touching the curbs from going too hard in q3
 
Shows the crazy times we are in that a car race is happening nine miles from where a missile landed just a day or two ago.
 
I think it’ll be Max on pole, Leclerc 2nd, with a surprise like Bottas or Gasly P3, followed by Sainz and Perez. Russell out in Q2 with Hamilton scraping into P9 or 10.
 
JamesB__ said:
I think it’ll be Max on pole, Leclerc 2nd, with a surprise like Bottas or Gasly P3, followed by Sainz and Perez. Russell out in Q2 with Hamilton scraping into P9 or 10.
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They have the 3rd quickest car. They will probably make 5th and 6th. It depends on whether in q3 they were setting the car up for qualifying trim or race trim. Sometimes its better to give up a position or two in qually to have a car in race trim for the GP.
 
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