Formula 1 2024

[Crazed_Insanity]

Money can always buy technical stuffs!

Anyway, I think it’s clear RB has reached the end of its development curve with Adrian’s exit. It’s clear McLaren’s the one that can consistently stay with RB. Considering Perez’s performance, I wonder if Checo really suck that badly or perhaps Max is just driving the heck out of his car already?

As for George, maybe he’s just ‘at the moment’ kinda racer? Just focusing on who’s ahead at the moment and doesn’t have enough bandwidth left to think longterm? The same mentality that he thought he can pass Bottas in a Mercedes while driving a Williams is the same kind of mentality that helped him pass Lando and Max at turn 1!

I can’t say for sure George will be a multi-champ, but one has to be an above average racer to pull that kind of move off. George is also ahead of Hamilton in points, just as Rosberg was ahead of Schumacher, an old timer multichamp… so I think George is probably at Rosberg level? Rosberg and Kimi are probably at similar level…

[Tom Servo]

Michele and I have taken to watching the race at the same time while she's in AZ and then we chat back and forth. We both fell asleep.

Not a great race.

[FaultyMario]

if you were watching live, do not feel bad... i also feel asleep after Hamilton overtook Russell for third. that was 8:30, local time.

i guess my anger against f1 comes from the lack of a palatable product, after all is said and done.

[Kchrpm]

I like the solution they have for track limits this week at Austria. They have made the strip of curbing past the line narrower than the width of the cars, and put a strip of gravel past it. So it's impossible to extend entirely past the white line without getting into the gravel, but it's easy to remove it and just get back to acres of paved runoff for all of the other events where vehicle damage avoidance is more important than track limits enforcement.

[Rare White Ape]

I thought the new gravel section was permanent. It's good though, because a vehicle can cross it perpendicular to the direction of travel really easily, while really affecting the ability of a vehicle to travel along it for a distance. Win-win!

[Kchrpm]

Maybe the new gravel piece is permanent, I just assumed that the reason for not having them previously (motorcycles? amateur track days?) would still be a factor.

I hadn't thought of the "oh shit!" vs "track extend" having such different results with the way it's setup now, great point.

[FaultyMario]

i think they're temporary. Spanish pundit/insider Albert Fabrega mentioned it's an FIA project that had been trialed for China before.

i do not remember that.

[Tom Servo]

I wonder if it was mostly just used at that final corner in China, though I thought that always had gravel there.

[Kchrpm]

Oh shit, what a race!

[FaultyMario]

There's you very mature all-time great.