Gasly podium is a nice surprise.
F1 2023 Season
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Hamilton cannot overtake without DRS. That car has no top speed.
Need Lewis 5th for my prediction so far only Ocon and Max in the right place
Alonso p2 and fastest lap.
9 on the bounce is a mean feat ever with that car.
All prediction except Ver gone out of window.
My fantasy is a huge mess, only have Max right
You and I are very close in prediction points.
Happy for Alonso, worked hard for it .
Gasly another cracking drive.
Gasly another cracking drive.
I love Alonso.. what a driver!
You are .5 ahead
Give you the second part
I've got Max and Ocon, needed Lewis to pass Sainz. Also have Max's pole
You don’t like him? What a yoke.
Nice to see crowd cheering for Alonso.
Has a driver yes, his past seasons rants leave a sour taste, but I said earlier I would not be unhappy with him winning.
Max impressed by Alonso overtaking at the start of the race.
In a season where rule changes were meant to bring closer racing, Max winning 9 is a joke, can’t take anything away from him, best car, best driver and best team right now.
12.5 super bru points for me
Live national anthem sounds better.
It's nice to see some new faces on the SuperMax podcast this week.
what is that trophy?
An ugly one.
I'm up to 32nd in the McLaren league, I've got exactly the same breakdown as rpitroda in the Red Cafe league but he's got more bonuses and is clear like Max
Slow down. It's irresponsible driving.
Why would they die? Just drive slowly. It's rain, not sheet ice. Red flags are daft. No need for childish comments like yours
We went car racing mate
Double yellows and safety cars - isn't that enough? It's only not enough if the drivers aren't mature enough to slow. Which the rules say the have to.
Two problems,
1) when you have so much water on the track and arent on full wets the tyres get overloaded, there is more water going through the tread than they can get rid of and you aquaplane.
2) Under safety car the tyre temps drop off too much.
I do get the whole, just go racing its water. But times gave changed and this isnt the F1 of 20/30 years ago.
Other sports manage it. And I didn't say just go racing, I said don't red flag a race because a car is being towed - just get them to slow down.
I don't think it's progress making everything idiot proof. It just making the world more suitable for idiots.
After what happen wth Jules Bianchi, F1 will never take that risk again. That was under a VSC or a safety car (cant remember) and he slid off and hit the recovery vehicle.
F1 have the drivers on their side on this issue as well.
On a sidenote there have been plans muted, to change the rules to not allow a free tyre change under red flag conditions. I hope they go through.
Take away Red Bull and the rules are actually keeping everyone competitive relative to each other.
Red Bull owe it to the sport to put Fernando in the car for a year.
What could they change so we get more chances for them to actually go racing in the rain? I swear they used to keep going in wetter conditions in the 90s, how can we return to that?
I remember some very wet races, Senna at Monaco and Donnington instantly come to mind.
I agree after Jules, there will never be cars on the track, while one is being removed and rightly so.
No free tyre change under a red flag, excellent idea.
I seem to remember Martin Brundle nearly dying at Suzuka in 1994.
I remember Jules Bianchi actually dying at Suzuka in 2014.
Not sure we really wanna go back to racing in weather where they're aquaplaning off unsuspectingly. I'd rather they stoppped.
Besides, we got perhaps the best race ever in Canada 2011 after not running for 2 hours+ due to rain.