For sure! We need more Kimi leg breakers!
F1 2023 Season
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For sure! We need more Kimi leg breakers!
Fully agree
McLaren's third big update which was due for hungary maybe delayed till after summer break. If anyone has a chance of beating Max in the RB this season, it might be mclaren in the latter half.
Delighted for them, as they have two drivers who could be potential WC in the future, be good to see them try to hunt down Maxs RB.
https://www.planetf1.com/news/mclaren-upgrade-plan-revealed-brown-stella/
Delighted for them, as they have two drivers who could be potential WC in the future, be good to see them try to hunt down Maxs RB.
https://www.planetf1.com/news/mclaren-upgrade-plan-revealed-brown-stella/
Another Sprint weekend at the Belgian Grand Prix.
Qualifying while most are still in work
Full 2023 Belgian GP session timings
Friday 28 July 2023
Free Practice 1: 12:30pm-1:30pm BST
Qualifying: 4:00pm-5:00pm BST
Saturday 29 July 2023
Sprint Qualifying: 11:00am-11:44am BST
Sprint Race: 3:30pm-4:30pm BST
Sunday 23 July 2023
Race: 2:00pm BST
Qualifying while most are still in work
Full 2023 Belgian GP session timings
Friday 28 July 2023
Free Practice 1: 12:30pm-1:30pm BST
Qualifying: 4:00pm-5:00pm BST
Saturday 29 July 2023
Sprint Qualifying: 11:00am-11:44am BST
Sprint Race: 3:30pm-4:30pm BST
Sunday 23 July 2023
Race: 2:00pm BST
shiteAnother Sprint weekend at the Belgian Grand Prix.
Qualifying while most are still in work
Full 2023 Belgian GP session timings
Friday 28 July 2023
Free Practice 1: 12:30pm-1:30pm BST
Qualifying: 4:00pm-5:00pm BST
Saturday 29 July 2023
Sprint Qualifying: 11:00am-11:44am BST
Sprint Race: 3:30pm-4:30pm BST
Sunday 23 July 2023
Race: 2:00pm BST
I agree, I am lucky that , yes I will be in work but can still watch qualifying, 4pm Friday is a mental time
Another Sprint weekend at the Belgian Grand Prix.
Qualifying while most are still in work
Full 2023 Belgian GP session timings
Friday 28 July 2023
Free Practice 1: 12:30pm-1:30pm BST
Qualifying: 4:00pm-5:00pm BST
Saturday 29 July 2023
Sprint Qualifying: 11:00am-11:44am BST
Sprint Race: 3:30pm-4:30pm BST
Sunday 23 July 2023
Race: 2:00pm BST
LOVE sprint weekends. Other weekends I just turn in for Q and ignore practice 1 to 3 completely. (its still mostly Toto & Lewis saying the Merc is the worst car in 50 years after P1, P2 and P3 before having a great Q like this previous weekend - repeat over and over again)
With the sprint I watch more sessions, so its definitely a win win for me. I also just watch the sessions afterwards if busy when it takes place, in todays modern society thats not an issue.
Bugger off and go ruin another sport
Why are you discriminating against people who like the sprints? Should not everyone be entitled to their own opinion?
I stopped watched practice sessions in 2006 when Schumacher topped each session while Alonso was saving himself for Q and the race.
But seriously I watch F1 to see drivers compete, not drive around 3 sessions testing, I do get there is some fascination about that but me personally I rather see more wheel to wheel racing!
For most things yes but not for this - the scum was too harsh though. Apologies for that.
Then for you the weekend is win win.
The last sprint race was actually OK , I just think they are pointless, FIA are banging with the cost cap and less tyres and wanting to be carbon neutral ( all good , well not the cost cap ) and they decide that on some weekends, they decide to have an extra qualifying and race, along with all the risk they involve and expense if there is a crash.
Looking at the BBC weather, looks like wwe are in for another wet weekend.
Thunderstorms Friday and Sat and maybe a wet race.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2786318
After the the tragic death of 18-year-old Dutch driver Dilano van 't Hoff in some dreadful rain, I can see the FIA being red flag happy
Thunderstorms Friday and Sat and maybe a wet race.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2786318
After the the tragic death of 18-year-old Dutch driver Dilano van 't Hoff in some dreadful rain, I can see the FIA being red flag happy
The weather at Spa is notoriously changeable, so equally there could be no rain and bright sunshine
I'm going Spa so it better not rain too much as they will understandably be reluctant to run at all in the rain with recent events.
Don't fancy having a couple of grand wasted like those poor feckers a few years back
Don't fancy having a couple of grand wasted like those poor feckers a few years back
To be honest, I think I preferred (but still disliked) when the Spirnt race acted as a qualifier for the main race, too. I understand the objections, but from a viewer's perspective, at least it had a bit more on the line.
Having qualifying on a Friday is just fecking nonsense.
Having qualifying on a Friday is just fecking nonsense.
Sprints are utter dog shite. I refuse to watch them. Feck the FIA.
Good luck!
What's the best place to watch at Spa, I reckon you can't see much except track apart from one or two corners at best?
Cheers mate. This is my first time at Spa so not sure what's the best but I got tickets for the new Stand at Eau Rouge which should be cool.
Can't imagine the views will match that of Austria turn 3 though.
I highly recommend if anyone in is thinking of attending a European Grand Prix to get Austria Turn 3 tickets. Had to be the best view on the entire Calendar. You can see like 80% of the track. It was amazing.
I was there few weeks ago, I was actually in the middle of that second DRS straight- Schönberg stand, and it was great, you can see most of the track. We had numbered seats, but we were free to wander during that straight wherever we want on the hill, and as you said, it's hardly better place on the entire calendar to follow the race.
What's the price of tickets for Spa?
615 for a 3 day ticket in the Eau Rouge stand.
Think there was some other stands a good bit cheaper but had my heart set on this one so I said feck it and spent the extra money.
Might be across the pond in the Netherlands the same weekend as the Zandvoort race. I want to see if I can join the orange madhouse. Anyone have any tips? Might only be able to attend one of the days. Possibly only Friday and Saturday and not the race unfortunately. Though there is an off chance i could in fact do Sunday
not cheap , but also not has expensive has I thought they would be.
https://dutchgp.com/en/tickets/#
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Bad thing is F1 quali is on while most are at work and even more so if you rely on C4 highlights, as for whatever reason since this sprint race thing started last season they don't allow quali highlights on Friday night. It wouldn't be so bad if they actually shown the fecking thing later as we're used to that and you could avoid the results that late afternoon/evening. I don't mind avoiding the results that day to watch in HD with a good presenter crew C4 have but I'm not avoiding the results for 24 hours while they shoehorn it in the sprint race coverage.
On any other weekend the Saturday quali is a big part of the big F1 event, it feels odd to shove it back Friday and kind of fall back to a 2 min youtube watch. I'm often a bit hazy on what happened in Friday quali on Sunday after the second quali and sprint race on Sat.
Maybe they should just keep Friday afternoon as a practice session and have Saturday quali used for both races. For the majority of viewers qualifying becomes a non event in sprint race weekend with it not being allowed to be shown or C4 don't have a slot.
On any other weekend the Saturday quali is a big part of the big F1 event, it feels odd to shove it back Friday and kind of fall back to a 2 min youtube watch. I'm often a bit hazy on what happened in Friday quali on Sunday after the second quali and sprint race on Sat.
Maybe they should just keep Friday afternoon as a practice session and have Saturday quali used for both races. For the majority of viewers qualifying becomes a non event in sprint race weekend with it not being allowed to be shown or C4 don't have a slot.
Reshaped sidepods for mercedes for this weekend. Swoop down towards the ends. Which you cant see in the tweet below but can on the linked webpage.
https://www.crash.net/f1/news/1032137/1/first-look-reshaped-mercedes-sidepods-break-cover-belgian-gp
https://www.crash.net/f1/news/1032137/1/first-look-reshaped-mercedes-sidepods-break-cover-belgian-gp
Somewhat hard to tell without the cover but it looks more and more like the RBs pods. Soon every car will look similar no matter how hard some of the other teams try to make their own designs work.
Didn't they change their sidepods just few races ago? After almost a year sticking with same sidepods and claiming it's difficult to update them with budget restriction, and now they changed it again after few races?
The rear end of the sidepods was very under developed to be fair. Even a armchair nobody like myself noticed how simplist it was. So that was a no brainer.
Most likely the new sidepods are yielding new data which is allowing them to tweak the sidepods to get the airflow to work more efficiently.
Krack says they they made mistakes. Improvement in one area had side effects on others.
Lets hope they can improve after the upgrade.
Lets hope they can improve after the upgrade.
looking at the weather, cant see the upgrades making any difference.
The Merc side pod look very simple compared to the previous race, but already said, very much a work in progress, over the past couple of season, some of Merc's upgrade have not worked.
Hopefully the rain will not be that bad so we can see these upgrade work.
The Merc side pod look very simple compared to the previous race, but already said, very much a work in progress, over the past couple of season, some of Merc's upgrade have not worked.
Hopefully the rain will not be that bad so we can see these upgrade work.
Isnt the actual race still supposed to be dry? Or has weather prediction for that day changed? A wet race with DRS disabled would be a advantage for anyone trying to get closer to max's RB.
Sunday is between 24% and 53% chance of rain, with a chance of some Thunder, hopefully it will be dry, but its Spa anything could happen.
Wet race with no DRS would be great, Max would be under fire for sure.
5 place grid drop, could be a problem for him if it is a wet race, we have seen that some are pretty close to the RB with out the aid of DRS
Yeah this could make the race far more interesting.
Yeah this could make the race far more interesting.
Max is an amazing wet weather driver so I still think he comes through to win personally.
Last time in wet qualifying he came out on track first and put the riskiest lap and left them all at least one second behind in first stint.