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Striker
After one pole?
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F1 2026
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Well whilst it doesn’t bode well for a close championships never thought in the 14-20 domination period I ever thought it’d be nice to see Mercs up front but I find them a lot more likable these days, not technical enough to know how a car looks translates to performance but purely looks wise it’s the nicest looking F1 car in years imo
Better for AM/Alonso than anticipated but still would’ve been considered a disaster a few weeks back if you heard that’s what would happen
Hadjar starting off like Red Bull going to have 2 cars in the conversation for first time in a while
Better for AM/Alonso than anticipated but still would’ve been considered a disaster a few weeks back if you heard that’s what would happen
Hadjar starting off like Red Bull going to have 2 cars in the conversation for first time in a while
Waking up to see Hadjar 3rd. Impressive.
wakey
Midfield
I just meant the general dominance of that car against the field
Dexter
Striker
He’s odds on favourite without a doubt.
If he wins tomorrow by a minute it’d be the equivalent of Man City turning up next season and winning their first game 8-0.
danthemanSAFC
Winger
Just watched qualifying. What an absolute crock of shite that was. Downshifting at full throttle on the straights just sums it all up. Would look terrible for Formula 1 if 5 or 6 cars retire tomorrow.
L18SFC
Striker
Or not
jarrowdiamond
Striker
What's he been given?Or not
Wow a £6500 fine! They caused more damage to landos car than that...that is quite unbelievable
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Mace
Midfield
Which the customer teams only received this weekend. Will take them time to optimise it.
Toronado
Winger
I thought the superclipping made qualifying horrible to watch and can imagine the race will be even worse !
The top corners throughout the world are gonna be farcical and ruined 130r 75kph down in 5th gear, maggots becketts and chapel down about the same the spectacle of high speed change of direction has gone already !
The top corners throughout the world are gonna be farcical and ruined 130r 75kph down in 5th gear, maggots becketts and chapel down about the same the spectacle of high speed change of direction has gone already !
Beau Peep
Striker
I think it might be quite a bit more than that in a 2 hour GP. They were having all sorts of glitches and cut-outs in practice, not to mention Verstappen crashing in his first braking zone attempted in Q1.
Engine cutting out at the end of the pitlane is inconvenient in practice, but race ending on Sunday.
Didn't watch Quali live but will definitely watch the race live!
MadMackem10
Winger
Sorry but these regs are going to kill this sport. You have two of the best drivers to ever do it massively impacted by software issues. Max was put in a wall because of the software glitch and Lewis has major deployment issues throughout qualifying which I doubt Ferrari fully fixed before the end of q3.
This is the pinacle of motorsport and you have cars losing 30mph+ on a straight. Sack of this 50/50 power split and chuck a big V10 in the back and run it on sustainable fuels. If you want a battery, have a small one in it for this overtake mode but make it small enough that driving the lap normally fully recharges it.
This is the pinacle of motorsport and you have cars losing 30mph+ on a straight. Sack of this 50/50 power split and chuck a big V10 in the back and run it on sustainable fuels. If you want a battery, have a small one in it for this overtake mode but make it small enough that driving the lap normally fully recharges it.
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HoxtonMackem
Striker
They had the option of this (and was fully doable) but decided against it.
Sport is a bore fest of a spectacle now.
Has been since the v6 era began with the exception of a muted finale in 2014 and what should have been a memorable season for the right reasons for generations ending in utter farce in 2021.
2022 regs we were promised would deliver brilliant racing but what we got was the most boring period starting in history of sport.
Most corporate sporting series now on earth, with plastic personalities who are all clones, and a total lack of colour and flare.
To think people used to give Tilke crap for the revised hockenheim and turkey, and now we’ve got a heap of shit tracks.
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PTR
Striker
I do understand the concept, that lap time is the only thing that matters, so if that makes you quicker then it's good
But yup, totally agree that something big has been lost. Watching the cars go quicker and quicker on a straight is pure racing.
Exactly. They're about 8 cars using that engine isn't there? At least 6.
If you were putting money down, it's a good a bet as any after today
Dunno about that. Those corners were ruined years ago. Largely flat out and handled as straights.
These cars have miles less downforce so it's yet to be seen if they remain flat out. Hopefully not.
hahahaha, nice.
And Max can't win the H2H quali "to zero" now.
Hilarious watching him fly off the track though. He's always complained about downshifts, for years. Red Bull clearly don't listen to him about it.
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MadMackem10
Winger
Issue is with these new regs getting the battery performance mastered is key to laptime. Alpine seemed to be losing way more speed on the straight vs Mercedes. Plus they built the engine so will know how best to make it work.
Plus the customer teams only got access to this upgraded engine this weekend, mercedes were running it in testing. I think as Mclaren learn how to run the battery optimally they will close the gap but building the engine yourself will always give you an inherent advantage.
Beau Peep
Striker
If they're going to ruin the sport with a dumb unique formula, they could at least get their mates at AWS to come up with some graphics to tell us whether drivers are deploying or harvesting, and their battery state. Don't insult us, we want to know if that purple sector was because the driver deploying the whole straight, and we aren't surprised when he's two seconds off by the end of the lap because he's had to coast the last sector.
F1 audiences, DTS wankers aside, are some of the most technically literate and intelligent audiences of any sport. You don't overwhelm even the casual viewer if you give them basic battery related information (green for recharging, red for deploying, 20% charge state, boost on/off). And you insult the intelligence and frustrate the hell out of people who are dying to understand more depth and intricacy in what is a deeply unintuitive and unattractive formula, but you won't give them it.
F1 audiences, DTS wankers aside, are some of the most technically literate and intelligent audiences of any sport. You don't overwhelm even the casual viewer if you give them basic battery related information (green for recharging, red for deploying, 20% charge state, boost on/off). And you insult the intelligence and frustrate the hell out of people who are dying to understand more depth and intricacy in what is a deeply unintuitive and unattractive formula, but you won't give them it.
MadMackem10
Winger
Seems like battery issues ferrari had in Q2 impacted the mapping for Q3 which is why they didn’t take the step forward they expected. Think they probably should have both been between the Mercs and the Redbull.
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