For the Bill Burr fans.....
F1 2022 Season
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It’s so true about the commentators, even today they went very quite and spoke low like someone had died when Lewis missed out on Q2.
The engine is not the problem. The car is just a bit of a dog and they've clearly fecked up the desing. The engine is probably what's keeping them from being a bottom half team right now.
They may get a couple of wins this season but Ferrari and Redbull are battling it out this year.
What's everyone thinking about Mick's chances of racing today?
They've already announced he isn't, HAAS are running one car
the main problem for mercedes is their engine. there are a lot of wannabe engineers thinking they know what they talking about with their purposing and airo mumbo jimbo but the real reason russell and hamilton’s heads are bobbing up and down on the straights is that they’re having to fred flintstone their car to try and get any speed up. it’s just their heads bobbing as a result of their running. you try and run fast whilst keeping the top half of your body completely still. it’s impossible.
I dont see kmag lasting the entire race either. He said he didnt have required neck fitness for the g forces around the track and was barely holding on in qually. 50 odd laps might just be too much for his neck.
The one saving grace will be it won't be 50 laps in one go. Plenty of red flags and safety car periods etc to rest a bit.
Interesting to see how Verstappen handles trailing LEC with 26 points already, if he risks it all at the start today and retires he could be 50 points behind after today and pretty much game over. Thats one of the most interesting things to watch this season, can Verstappen play the long game?
Its only one race, no need to panic at all. Max can win this one and Leclerc can go into DNF all of sudden. Max wont change a thing i guees. He is who he is, its up to others to not giving a damn inch either to Max. If come summer break he is still trailing Leclerc by some margin then we might see sloppy Max again.
It wouldn't be game over yet. The season just started, plenty of more races to come.
Tbf, might be redbulls solution too over the season if last weekend is anything to go by
big contract over the winter, out of the points last week, out qualified by serial bridesmaid perez this week. it’ll be a miracle if he even bothers to turn up to the next race. he’s basically the united of f1.
In the Channel 4 highlights Lewis did say his side tried to gamble on some changes and it went wrong. Seems like he could've been around where Russell was if they just left it.
Will be an interesting aside from the main action up front to see if Lewis in this Merc can at least get some slipstream passing done and get to 5th-8th or not.
Will be an interesting aside from the main action up front to see if Lewis in this Merc can at least get some slipstream passing done and get to 5th-8th or not.
We are all interested to see how he does. His lack of maturity and patience could see him make some mistakes. Both will come with experience though.
His swearing in qually at his team isnt becoming of a team leader, definitely needs to improve on that aspect.
Alot depends on whether they take the penalties to re-do his car setup andnbreak parc fermme rules. Which i think they should. Not much difference between starting 16th in a car with a bad setup and dead last in a car with a better setup.
Source: The Race website: https://the-race.com/formula-1/we-need-a-rethink-mercedes-saudi-gp-misery-explained/
...The reason for its pace problems are no secret because it’s no different to what Mercedes was grappling with during pre-season testing and in Bahrain – porpoising. As frustrated Russell explained after qualifying, the Mercedes still can’t access the lap time the team believes is in the car because it can’t run low enough.
“It’s exactly the same as we’ve seen since day one,” said Russell when asked by The Race about the limitation Mercedes is suffering from.
“The only way to run is to raise the car very high. And obviously, with this ground effect car, we lose all of the downforce.
“We know that if we can get the car on the ground, there’s a huge chunk of laptime there but we can’t achieve that at the moment.
“It’s all well and good saying that, but we can’t physically achieve that right now. So we need to have a rethink.”
...The reason for its pace problems are no secret because it’s no different to what Mercedes was grappling with during pre-season testing and in Bahrain – porpoising. As frustrated Russell explained after qualifying, the Mercedes still can’t access the lap time the team believes is in the car because it can’t run low enough.
“It’s exactly the same as we’ve seen since day one,” said Russell when asked by The Race about the limitation Mercedes is suffering from.
“The only way to run is to raise the car very high. And obviously, with this ground effect car, we lose all of the downforce.
“We know that if we can get the car on the ground, there’s a huge chunk of laptime there but we can’t achieve that at the moment.
“It’s all well and good saying that, but we can’t physically achieve that right now. So we need to have a rethink.”
Just hoping everyone moves safely on to Oz.
Also both alfa cars expected to lose places at start of race for next few races. They have a clutch start problem which affects 50% of starts and means they are slow getting off the line.
Fix will take a few races to be tested, manufactured and installed.
Fix will take a few races to be tested, manufactured and installed.
He will have to start from the pits undo whatever they have done to the car, there's no point in going out with the same car from yesterday. Starting from pits is probably safer to do so at track if you are starting from the back to avoid getting getting tangled up with other cars driving straight into another accident.
What time is the race guys ?
Lovely, cheers.
UX-wise that's actually well done. It displays how much time is remaining rather than the actual time of start. Which would confuse lots of people because of timezones.
They really haven't bothered their arses making any effort to redcue the travel burden on the teams never mind the collated carbon footprint of the sport.
From Saudi to Oz back to Italy then the USA then back to Spain then from Monaco to Azerbaijan then back to Canada and lots more needless air miles and expense....The schedule is terrible.
From Saudi to Oz back to Italy then the USA then back to Spain then from Monaco to Azerbaijan then back to Canada and lots more needless air miles and expense....The schedule is terrible.
Hadnt looked at the schedule before but this is a shambles. Should have kept it similar to last year.
The pit crews will be fuxked with Jetlag
thats not a good schedule, think they have more that one pit crew and the European leg is don with trucks I think , but you are right does nothing to help the Carbon foot print and cost.
Mick cars is nothing but scrap now, cant see them managing to use anything off it.
The left mirror looks pristineMick cars is nothing but scrap now, cant see them managing to use anything off it.
OK the left mirror
Miss the days when drivers could go and get the spare car. His dad is the last time I remember a driver running back for one.
Aye, that was always good for a bit of drama.
Mick cars is nothing but scrap now, cant see them managing to use anything off it.
Most importantly, the halo is completely intact. From some of the replays it stopped a tyre going fully into Mick's head. To think that some people were against it due to the aesthetics.