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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Aug 5, 2019 12:55:37 GMT -5
I've been getting into F1 lately for some reason, despite the fact that it's probably somehow even more morally bankrupt than most other sports. Anyone else have opinions on the world's most popular racing series? The Hungarian Grand Prix was pretty good, I thought.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Aug 6, 2019 15:59:28 GMT -5
I kept track of F1 for a while and even talked about it with a couple of posters at TOC but some of the rule changes and Mercedes dominance made me less interested. Definitely starting to get drawn back to it, though, mainly because of hearing about Hamilton’s win there and a bit of stuff about him before, though I have a lot of catching up to do.
Without big, special cable (and while I have happy memories of getting up early to watch Monte Carlo and such as a kid, but from following tennis even the Euro/Pacific Time gap is a bit harder than from the east coast) though it’s more or less grapevine/does it show up in other news for me, though. Any recs on sources besides, idk, the Guardian and random tweets?
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Aug 6, 2019 17:06:47 GMT -5
I kept track of F1 for a while and even talked about it with a couple of posters at TOC but some of the rule changes and Mercedes dominance made me less interested. Definitely starting to get drawn back to it, though, mainly because of hearing about Hamilton’s win there and a bit of stuff about him before, though I have a lot of catching up to do. Without big, special cable (and while I have happy memories of getting up early to watch Monte Carlo and such as a kid, but from following tennis even the Euro/Pacific Time gap is a bit harder than from the east coast) though it’s more or less grapevine/does it show up in other news for me, though. Any recs on sources besides, idk, the Guardian and random tweets? Oh, so if you have ESPN/ESPN2, you should be able to watch all the races this season (and I think a couple of the races are scheduled to be on ABC), so if you have ESPN and a DVR, that might be the best route. Outside of that, I think you can subscribe to stream the races through F1's website (I just checked and apparently if you're cool with not watching live it's $2.99 a month). As far as other sources to follow the sport go, I've started listening to the Shift+F1 podcast, which is pretty good imo, has hosts that (I think) seem pretty well-informed and more importantly aren't reactionary pieces of shit. I started watching this season during the Canadian Grand Prix (I've watched on and off a little bit in the past, although prior to now I'd most closely followed the sport the year that Rosberg beat Hamilton for the championship), and then just listened to the podcast episodes from that point to catch up with the season. But yeah, that is my main source of F1 coverage and analysis outside of watching on ESPN, although ymmv, and I also say all this with the caveat of I really don't know shit about the mechanics of racing beyond the really basic stuff, so it's certainly possible that these aren't good recommendations. But there's no races until the end of the month, so if "listen to a podcast for background noise while doing work around the house, or driving and the like" isn't something that sounds totally unappealing to you (which obviously that's not everyone's cup of tea), then you've got plenty of time to start with their season primer (I just checked and that is apparently episode #59) and have a pretty good idea of what's been going on in F1 this season by the time the midseason break is finished. And yeah, while as far as the dominant racers go, I actually like Hamilton (while there's some things to not like about him personally, that's probably true of 99% of F1 drivers, and it's nice that there's a successful driver out there who isn't the son of another F1 driver or of some mega-rich business magnate or what have you), I agree that the Mercedes dominance makes the sport less interesting. Especially now that Rosberg has retired, because I think Valterri Bottas makes for a less competitive teammate for Hamilton. And it would honestly be pretty shocking if Hamilton lost this season. But Max Verstappen (who drives for Red Bull) is also really good, to the point that he might be the best driver in F1 at the moment (if someone does miraculously beat Hamilton this season, I honestly think it'd be Verstappen even though Bottas is slightly ahead of him in the points and has a better car), and his car is good enough that he was able to win two of the last four races, and get his first pole in Hungary last weekend, although his teammate Pierre Gasly is not very good and is way behind all the other Mercedes, Ferrari, and Red Bull drivers in the points. And Ferrari also has a car that's capable of winning races, and I think the next race is in Belgium at Spa which is said to be a track that their car should do well at, and their drivers are both good (Sebastian Vettel, the guy who won four straight championships for Red Bull a few years back and who lost to Hamilton at Canada this year only after a controversial penalty was assessed, and Charles LeClerc, a promising young driver who hasn't won a race yet, but should be one of the dominant drivers in years to come provided he stays with a good team). And there's some interesting midfield stuff going on, but yeah, this season, Hamilton's almost certainly going to win, so among the good teams, it's more a matter of who comes in 2nd through 5th place, and if Bottas and Gasly keep their seats for next season, and then how things shake out among the rest of the teams (although Williams will definitely finish in last as their car is astoundingly bad this year). Most of the races I've seen this season (with the exception of France) have been pretty exciting in spite of Mercedes' dominance, though. There are also supposed to be rule changes coming up in the 2021 season to make overtaking easier and possibly to more equitably distribute resources between the teams, so that will also hopefully lead to an F1 where there are more than 5 drivers who could realistically win a race. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Aug 6, 2019 21:30:44 GMT -5
Yeah, no ESPN/2 for me but I’ll def. start catching up via other means, esp. with Spa coming up.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Aug 30, 2019 8:04:37 GMT -5
Yeah, no ESPN/2 for me but I’ll def. start catching up via other means, esp. with Spa coming up. Did you end up catching up on the season in time for this weekend's Grand Prix? |
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Post by The Spice Weasel on Aug 30, 2019 10:11:38 GMT -5
I've been getting into F1 lately for some reason, despite the fact that it's probably somehow even more morally bankrupt than most other sports. Anyone else have opinions on the world's most popular racing series? The Hungarian Grand Prix was pretty good, I thought. Racing in general is my favorite sport. F1 is my favorite series with IndyCar a close second. IndyCar languished for years and I tuned out for some time, but they have gotten their act together in the last few years and the racing this year has been fantastic. There are only two races left in the season but if you can, you should checkout the race in Portland on Sunday afternoon and Laguna Seca in a couple of weeks. Funny to see the words "The Hungarian Grand Prix was pretty good" because that track usually doesn't produce good racing unless it rains. The Austrian GP this year was nuts if you haven't watched that. Actually, the MotoGP race in Austria was equally as nuts as the F1 race. Both worth watching. Super excited for Spa as it is my favorite track on the calendar. I hope we get a bit of rain for the race this year. It always makes things interesting. As for the moral bankruptcy, yeah. I wrestle with that occasionally because F1 can be such an over the top waste of money. I soothe that fire with the knowledge that almost all of the safety developments in the automobile industry have their roots in racing. Racing has its roots in R&D, so as long as they are innovating, I'm cool with it. |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Aug 30, 2019 14:01:49 GMT -5
I've been getting into F1 lately for some reason, despite the fact that it's probably somehow even more morally bankrupt than most other sports. Anyone else have opinions on the world's most popular racing series? The Hungarian Grand Prix was pretty good, I thought. Racing in general is my favorite sport. F1 is my favorite series with IndyCar a close second. IndyCar languished for years and I tuned out for some time, but they have gotten their act together in the last few years and the racing this year has been fantastic. There are only two races left in the season but if you can, you should checkout the race in Portland on Sunday afternoon and Laguna Seca in a couple of weeks. Funny to see the words "The Hungarian Grand Prix was pretty good" because that track usually doesn't produce good racing unless it rains. The Austrian GP this year was nuts if you haven't watched that. Actually, the MotoGP race in Austria was equally as nuts as the F1 race. Both worth watching. Super excited for Spa as it is my favorite track on the calendar. I hope we get a bit of rain for the race this year. It always makes things interesting. As for the moral bankruptcy, yeah. I wrestle with that occasionally because F1 can be such an over the top waste of money. I soothe that fire with the knowledge that almost all of the safety developments in the automobile industry have their roots in racing. Racing has its roots in R&D, so as long as they are innovating, I'm cool with it. I've been watching F1 this year since Canada, so I saw Austria. Good race, looking forward to more Verstappen-LeClerc head to head stuff in the future. And yeah, I've heard Hungary can be a bit dull with how hard it is to pass, but the Verstappen-Hamilton strategy duel was pretty great. Re: Belgium, what would your reaction be if it was like 1998, and less than half the field finished the race? I've been watching that race in bits and pieces over the past day or two, and it was really wild. As for IndyCar, I've heard good things, but I typically only watch the Indy 500 most years. I'll definitely try tuning into the Laguna Seca race, though; that track is good as hell. And re: the moral bankruptcy, yeah I think it's more that every sport is morally corrupt and involves people who have more money than anyone should really have a right to owning teams, etc. But also, stuff like being funded by the tobacco industry for years, or being funded by oil companies, or sort of promoting car culture in general in a world that desperately needs to find transportation solutions that aren't so heavily dependent on individualized transport and the like. A lot of it boils down to "My very left-wing politics make me feel very ambivalent about this whole sport, on top of people sonetimes dying while doing it." But anyway, like hockey or football, two other morally bankrupt sports that I watch, I'm still watching it, so make of that what you will. |
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Post by The Spice Weasel on Aug 30, 2019 15:44:30 GMT -5
I've been watching F1 this year since Canada, so I saw Austria. Good race, looking forward to more Verstappen-LeClerc head to head stuff in the future. And yeah, I've heard Hungary can be a bit dull with how hard it is to pass, but the Verstappen-Hamilton strategy duel was pretty great. Re: Belgium, what would your reaction be if it was like 1998, and less than half the field finished the race? I've been watching that race in bits and pieces over the past day or two, and it was really wild. As for IndyCar, I've heard good things, but I typically only watch the Indy 500 most years. I'll definitely try tuning into the Laguna Seca race, though; that track is good as hell. And re: the moral bankruptcy, yeah I think it's more that every sport is morally corrupt and involves people who have more money than anyone should really have a right to owning teams, etc. But also, stuff like being funded by the tobacco industry for years, or being funded by oil companies, or sort of promoting car culture in general in a world that desperately needs to find transportation solutions that aren't so heavily dependent on individualized transport and the like. A lot of it boils down to "My very left-wing politics make me feel very ambivalent about this whole sport, on top of people sonetimes dying while doing it." But anyway, like hockey or football, two other morally bankrupt sports that I watch, I'm still watching it, so make of that what you will. On one hand, I kind of miss the attrition in auto racing. More so in longer distance races like the 500 as it was really down to the driver on how hard they wanted to push early. But I also understand how not burning through multiple engines in a weekend is essential to the cost saving process in modern F1. Also, it looks better in person and on TV when there are more cars on track. F1 used to be a 90 minute sprint. It still is for the most part, but there's a lot more management of tires these days. I hear a lot of older guys grumble about it and I get it to a point. But as someone who watched faithfully through the Schumacher years, there is WAY more on track action than there was then. I'm willing to give a little to get a little. |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Aug 31, 2019 12:33:20 GMT -5
Qualifying was quite good imo. Looks like Ferrari might finally win a race this season (am I wrong to roll my eyes at Vettel still claiming that he won in Canada?). If a Ferrari wins, I hope it's LeClerc. Felt bad for Sainz getting denied a last chance to make it into Q2, though.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Aug 31, 2019 22:21:17 GMT -5
I will watch F1 if its on, but I prefer Indycar due to the variety of tracks, races being easy to watch on Saturday night or Sunday morning, as well as what feels like more variation in the race winners.
That said, while I understand the historical importance of the Indy 500, its is actually one of least favorite races of the year, both because big oval tracks seem to produce less interesting races, but also you end up with a number of drivers and teams who enter only that race, and end up getting in the way of other drivers in the pits.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Sept 1, 2019 7:37:46 GMT -5
I will watch F1 if its on, but I prefer Indycar due to the variety of tracks, races being easy to watch on Saturday night or Sunday morning, as well as what feels like more variation in the race winners. That said, while I understand the historical importance of the Indy 500, its is actually one of least favorite races of the year, both because big oval tracks seem to produce less interesting races, but also you end up with a number of drivers and teams who enter only that race, and end up getting in the way of other drivers in the pits. F1 race on ESPN at 9 am this morning if you happen to read this in the next 30 minutes or so. Realistically, barring some massive accidents wiping out most of the top of the grid, there's only 5 drivers who could realistically win this one, but Ferrari qualified first and second yesterday, they're looking for their first win of the season, with Charles LeClerc, the guy on pole, looking for his first win ever, near-certain-to-be-this-year's champion Lewis Hamilton starting third, and the extremely talented Max Verstappen in fifth, so it should be an interesting race. Looks like I really should look into watching more IndyCar though, given what you said (also Laguna Seca is a really cool track and Spice Weasel said that's the last race of the season). |
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Sept 1, 2019 20:51:09 GMT -5
I will watch F1 if its on, but I prefer Indycar due to the variety of tracks, races being easy to watch on Saturday night or Sunday morning, as well as what feels like more variation in the race winners. F1 race on ESPN at 9 am this morning if you happen to read this in the next 30 minutes or so. Realistically, barring some massive accidents wiping out most of the top of the grid, there's only 5 drivers who could realistically win this one, but Ferrari qualified first and second yesterday, they're looking for their first win of the season, with Charles LeClerc, the guy on pole, looking for his first win ever, near-certain-to-be-this-year's champion Lewis Hamilton starting third, and the extremely talented Max Verstappen in fifth, so it should be an interesting race. Looks like I really should look into watching more IndyCar though, given what you said (also Laguna Seca is a really cool track and Spice Weasel said that's the last race of the season). Ack! I meant Saturday night or Sunday afternoon, not Sunday morning, which tends to be more difficult (sometimes I will watch a rerun of the race). Anyway, today was spent evacuating Florida, so I missed both races today. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Sept 2, 2019 10:57:37 GMT -5
Yeah, no ESPN/2 for me but I’ll def. start catching up via other means, esp. with Spa coming up. Did you end up catching up on the season in time for this weekend's Grand Prix? No—been quite busy and the other tony hard-for-me-to-follow-due-to-cord-cutting-and-cheapness Eurosport (tennis) got in the way to boot. |
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Post by dＬᵒ on Sept 3, 2019 1:28:20 GMT -5
Are there any decent F1 or Indycar video games?
Also I should mention that I got kinda interested in this stuff when a new race track was built in Utah and was looking like it could be host to a big race ... but of course it went bankrupt, Geely of China tried to invest in it, but that upset local politics, and it's been languishing in the desert ever since.
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Post by The Spice Weasel on Sept 4, 2019 13:31:08 GMT -5
Are there any decent F1 or Indycar video games? Also I should mention that I got kinda interested in this stuff when a new race track was built in Utah and was looking like it could be host to a big race ... but of course it went bankrupt, Geely of China tried to invest in it, but that upset local politics, and it's been languishing in the desert ever since. Depends on if you are talking console or PC. There are no IndyCar games on console. The Codemasters F1 series is quite good. In recent years they have really gone all-in on career mode making the R&D decisions and testing almost RPG like. If you are a PC gamer and feel like going heavy sim, there's rFactor and iRacing. As far as officially licensed IndyCar or F1, it isn't really there, but the tracks and the cars are. There are lots of user made mods out there that can get you close though. I played the original rFactor and it was quite good. I just don't have that much time to sink into it so I stick to Codemasters' F1 on my Xbox. |
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Post by The Spice Weasel on Sept 4, 2019 13:33:48 GMT -5
Qualifying was quite good imo. Looks like Ferrari might finally win a race this season (am I wrong to roll my eyes at Vettel still claiming that he won in Canada?). If a Ferrari wins, I hope it's LeClerc. Felt bad for Sainz getting denied a last chance to make it into Q2, though. The Canada decision was a tough one, but yeah, it's over, move on. LeClerc deserved a win and had a great race. Shame about the kid in GP2. Glad to see that Spa is trying to get improvements to that run off area done for next year. |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Sept 7, 2019 0:12:40 GMT -5
Changed the name of the thread to "Motorsport Thread", given there seems to be a decent amount of interest in IndyCar as well as F1 among the thread participants.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Sept 7, 2019 0:20:58 GMT -5
Qualifying was quite good imo. Looks like Ferrari might finally win a race this season (am I wrong to roll my eyes at Vettel still claiming that he won in Canada?). If a Ferrari wins, I hope it's LeClerc. Felt bad for Sainz getting denied a last chance to make it into Q2, though. The Canada decision was a tough one, but yeah, it's over, move on. LeClerc deserved a win and had a great race. Shame about the kid in GP2. Glad to see that Spa is trying to get improvements to that run off area done for next year. It was a good race, but yeah, my own enthusiasm was certainly dampened by Anthoine Hubert's death at the same track the day before. I hope Juan Manuel Correa, the guy who was seriously injured when his car struck Hubert's, will be able to make a full recovery, but that's got to be a traumatic thing to experience psychologically as well as physically. Also got to be tough for LeClerc (or really for any of the drivers there, given the risk of racing and the fact that a lot of them personally knew Hubert), given that this milestone accomplishment follows a day after the death of a guy who was by all accounts at the very least a close acquaintance of many years. |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Sept 8, 2019 7:21:45 GMT -5
Wow, what a bizarre Q3 at Monza. I know it wasn't realistic with the combination of his McClaren and nobody's slipstream to take advantage of, but it would have been hilarious if Sainz had taken the poll at the end there.
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Post by The Spice Weasel on Sept 8, 2019 10:17:05 GMT -5
Wow, what a bizarre Q3 at Monza. I know it wasn't realistic with the combination of his McClaren and nobody's slipstream to take advantage of, but it would have been hilarious if Sainz had taken the poll at the end there. That was a great race this morning. Was hoping Bottas could make a go of it as I have money on him in fantasy racing, but Leclerc deserved that win and an opportunity to celebrate after last week. On a slight tangent, I went to my first dirt track event on Thursday. Indianapolis Motor Speedway has added a dirt track inside the main track and now have a big event the week of the Brickyard as a tribute/fundraiser for the Bryan Clausen foundation. It was a lot of fun and better than anything that'll happen there today in the NASCAR race. |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Sept 8, 2019 10:46:28 GMT -5
What the fuck, dude?
Also ridiculous (and, given how mediocre he appears to be at this point in his F1 career, predictable?) that Stroll did the exact same thing to Gasly (albeit, Gasly didn't get hit) when he was reentering the track. What the fuck, dude?
But yeah, good race. LeClerc was aggressive but didn't egregiously cross any lines, it was exciting watching Hamilton and Bottas take a shot at passing him, some drivers I like on the middling teams that don't have good enough cars to win (Ricciardo, Perez, Norris) got points, and we're one race closer to a lifetime of Vettel claiming to have won a race in 2019 without actually having done so.
What happened to Sainz, by the way? I missed what it was that went wrong with his car. Was it power unit failure again?
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Post by The Spice Weasel on Sept 8, 2019 20:15:08 GMT -5
McLaren didn't get one of Sainz' tires on all the way during a pit stop. Realized it exiting the pits and he was done.
I have no idea what Vettel was thinking or if he was at all. He hasn't really been the same since Danny Ricky took it too him at Red Bull. And now that Leclerc is putting it together I expect more unforced errors.
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Post by The Spice Weasel on Sept 28, 2019 16:14:20 GMT -5
Didn't watch Singapore but I have it DVRed, but doubt I get to it. Doesn't sound like anything particularly exciting. Only caught part of the Indy finale at Laguna Seca as I was at the Colts game that day and they decided to start that race while the 1pm NFL games were going on. Haven't watched the replay since Rossi didn't win but plan too.
Not a fan of the Sochi circuit but am looking forward to coffee and F1 tomorrow morning.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Sept 30, 2019 7:49:18 GMT -5
Didn't watch Singapore but I have it DVRed, but doubt I get to it. Doesn't sound like anything particularly exciting. Only caught part of the Indy finale at Laguna Seca as I was at the Colts game that day and they decided to start that race while the 1pm NFL games were going on. Haven't watched the replay since Rossi didn't win but plan too. Not a fan of the Sochi circuit but am looking forward to coffee and F1 tomorrow morning. I'm glad that Singapore happened in the sense that it's cool that Mercedes can end up off the podium entirely (and I say this as someone who supports Hamilton out of the drivers on the teams with a car that can win), but yeah, it was really a pretty dull race. Not much interesting happening, outside of LeClerc being fucked over by strategy and Ferrari basically telling him to fucking deal with it instead of explaining that it was to guarantee the team a 1-2 finish, and Bottas being like "Um, you want me to hold up traffic so Hamilton can come out of the pits ahead of me, and you're giving me the time you want from me on this next lap to the nearest tenth of a second? Why?" and then Mercedes explaining that it gives the team a 4-5 finish instead of a 4-6 or 4-7 finish and Bottas consequently dealing with it. Ferrari seems bad at dealing with their drivers (I mean, I'm sure all the teams are pretty shady about this to some extent). There was the weird thing after Monza where apparently Binnotto gave LeClerc a public "All is forgiven," message for not giving Vettel a slipstream in Q3, even though the Q3 debacle at Monza seemed to be mostly the fault of the all the teams collectively waiting too long to head out onto the track, and even though LeClerc was their only driver with any wins and was ahead of Vettel in the points on merit. And then they just tell LeClerc to get over losing out with Ferrari's strategy, even though it was pretty understandable that he was pissed about it. |
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Post by monodrone on Aug 3, 2020 9:04:36 GMT -5
I had a rare chance to watch a whole race uninterrupted by children or household tasks yesterday and I thought it was good. Not an exciting race up front for the first 48 laps or so but there was plenty going on in the middle order to keep things interesting with Grosjean defending like a rookie driver and the Mclaren's coming through the field before things kicked off with the tyres in the last 4/5 laps. Hope to get another opportunity to see a race in 5 or so years time.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Aug 5, 2020 9:32:36 GMT -5
I had a rare chance to watch a whole race uninterrupted by children or household tasks yesterday and I thought it was good. Not an exciting race up front for the first 48 laps or so but there was plenty going on in the middle order to keep things interesting with Grosjean defending like a rookie driver and the Mclaren's coming through the field before things kicked off with the tyres in the last 4/5 laps. Hope to get another opportunity to see a race in 5 or so years time. Yeah the end of the race was very interesting (although obviously it sucked for Bottas and Sainz). There were two Grand Prixs in Austria to start off the season because of Covid leading to a weird schedule where the FIA wanted to try to ensure the bare minimum of races for a valid F1 Championship or whatever, and those have been the best races thus far, mainly for the midfield action (Lando Norris passed three drivers on the last lap in the second one) since Mercedes is clearly going to dominate this season. But my main reason for replying to you is to ask: what is your opinion of Norris' helmet? |
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Post by monodrone on Aug 5, 2020 10:20:33 GMT -5
I had a rare chance to watch a whole race uninterrupted by children or household tasks yesterday and I thought it was good. Not an exciting race up front for the first 48 laps or so but there was plenty going on in the middle order to keep things interesting with Grosjean defending like a rookie driver and the Mclaren's coming through the field before things kicked off with the tyres in the last 4/5 laps. Hope to get another opportunity to see a race in 5 or so years time. Yeah the end of the race was very interesting (although obviously it sucked for Bottas and Sainz). There were two Grand Prixs in Austria to start off the season because of Covid leading to a weird schedule where the FIA wanted to try to ensure the bare minimum of races for a valid F1 Championship or whatever, and those have been the best races thus far, mainly for the midfield action (Lando Norris passed three drivers on the last lap in the second one) since Mercedes is clearly going to dominate this season. But my main reason for replying to you is to ask: what is your opinion of Norris' helmet? Yeah, I saw references to the Styrian GP which made me do a double take to make sure it didn't say 'Syrian' which would have been a bold new market move for F1. It's a good helmet. The hanging S is something I see a lot in the work of the 5 year old child that lives in my house. |
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Aug 23, 2020 18:54:32 GMT -5
It was the first race I watched this year, but another anti-climatic finish for the Indy 500. But there is no real great solution to late crashes, especially since right before the crash it looked like they were going to fight for the lead in traffic of those who were a lap down. A red and a restart would have also completely changed that dynamic.
Congrats to Takuma Sato for his second Indy 500 victory.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Sept 6, 2020 12:37:46 GMT -5
Italian Grand Prix Spoilers: Me, at 9am this morning: Eh, I know Monza is good, but it's just going to be another Mercedes 1-2, and you'll be fine skipping the race and watching the highlights later.
Me, checking Twitter at 1:30 pm: Wait, what the fuck? How??? |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Dec 18, 2020 8:00:04 GMT -5
Watched the last race of the season a couple of days back. Weird how this season was even less competitive than last season in terms of who would win the championship (in that it was almost immediately obvious that Mercedes would run away with it, and didn’t take long for it to be clear that Bottas was struggling to compete with Hamilton), and yet four different teams won at least one race (none of them Ferrari). Would have been cool if there’d been fewer Mercedes 1-2s, but it was nice to see a lot more midpack teams with a real hope of landing on the podium on merit rather than because most of the better cars DNF’d. Also, when I first started following F1, I picked Sergio Perez as a midpack guy to support so I’d have a rooting interest in something other than which of half a dozen drivers won an often not that exciting race, and hey, he actually won a race this season (and is rumored to be replacing Albon at Red Bull in 2021)!
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