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Two things: This is shaping up to be a nice season, and Redditors aren't people.
Formula 1 Discussion - And favourite driver?
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I thought Australia couldn't be beat in terms of being a fever dream but here we are
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LET'S GO LANDO! (fuck Joe Biden)
This one's pretty good actually.
Max looks like he's getting touched under the frame.
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And Sainz was penalized for slightly hitting Piastri. Fuck me that wasn't even intentional, Sainz had a light slide in that corner. And on the flipside Piastri did send Sainz into the off a few laps prior but of course THAT wasn't penalized. F1 stewards have become a joke
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Looks like the bollard did cause floor damage for Max.
Though it does look like the Mclarens took a step forwards in being able to fight with them. Hopefully that carries over to future tracks so we get a competitive championship.
Though it does look like the Mclarens took a step forwards in being able to fight with them. Hopefully that carries over to future tracks so we get a competitive championship.
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Piastri wasn’t running a full upgrade package only Lando did so hopefully we see more from both cars when in full spec. What was concerning was the lack of pace following Perez for Lando but once in clean air the car really worked, which was confirmed by the qualifying pace.
espressoskull
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As a Sainz fan - he deserved that penalty. He was absolutely all over the place and frustration got the better of him, leading him to ruin Piastri's race.
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I kind of feel like we are going back in time when the aerodynamics were so fragilke you coudln't keep your car behind the frontrunner less you loose all stability. That or Perez simply had a less draggy setup. Hamilton couldn't overtake Perez either despite being faster and having DRS all the time
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We've had thay since about race 3 of 2022. The commentators like to pretend the new rules solved all problems in the sport but they just made the 1.5 gap into a 1.2 gap, now with added DRS trains.
There's some retarding going around about maybe if we increase DRS to 1.5 it will give overtaking. Which obviously it won't as it doesn't currently when they're 0.9 behind and it would make DRS trains worse and the Sainz singapour strategy the go to.
The track is trash , Riccardo pocketted Sainz and Piastri in the sprint
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Damn I didn't know there was a thread for F1 in KF. Trump derangement syndrome is still going strong, huh? I didn't know some of the bongland populace were affected by it.
espressoskull
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Only the faggots as you can imagine, literally no one of any sound mind cares otherwise. Lando even gave him thanks for taking time out to meet him... Pewis Pamilton on the other hand would probably have given some DEI approved response had Bad Orange Man wandered down to Merc.
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And right when Lando was already claiming Piastri as a challenger
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Yep, he deserved a penalty but it is surprising that Checo didn't get one for his Stuka impersonation in the first corner.
espressoskull
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Checo got so lucky, turn 1 madness rarely gets penalties tbf... because he didn't destroy anyone they would just write it off as a racing incident. Would have loved it if he'd took Max out though, nothing against him just for the pure chaos.
I'll be fair I enjoyed Miami this year, for perspective the only other race I've enjoyed in the last 2 seasons was Brazil and that's because Fernando put in a legendary shift!
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Why would he get one? There was no collision to be causing a collision. If we're going to start penalising overly optimistic lunges that hurt no one then we may as well pack up the sport and call it a day.
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I read an opinion piece some time ago called make racing great again or something like that. The author basically blamed the ever growing complexity of aero for the lack of overtaking, and suggested that less aero = longer braking zones would do wonders for overtaking. Then to make up for less downforce with a stronger engine.
I fail to see how that would be different from what we had in the past when aero wasn't as complex as it is today. Isn't overtaking or a lack thereof more an issue with car size and track layout?
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One also has to remember that these current drivers are not encouraged to take risks because the worst that can happen can really screw over a team compared to a single win's potential benefit. DRS has been somewhat beneficial for competition but these days, you can't really pull off those defensive masterclasses like the racers of old could do. People focus too much on overtakes as a statistical phenomena where more = better. Practically, people want to see a hard-fought daring overtake for first than guys just zooming past each other on a straight where the guy ahead has no answer to a faster car and can't even do a Trulli train.
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That plus going for a gap and having it not go perfectly resulting in the other car driving into the 20 miles of tarmac run off, losing zero time and getting no damage will probably give you a 10 second penalty plus superlicense points these days.
I fully blame the smoothbrains over at reddit for "overtakes=good race". Every race thread there'll be some moron complaining there wasn't enough for it to be a good race or someone claiming a dull race was amazing due to the huge number of DRS flybys they call overtakes.
I once saw a thread where the OP did the number of ontrack overtakes in the refuling, no refusing eras to "prove" refuling made worse races. Pointing out that means nothing lead to massive downvotes and idiotic comments about being an idiot for loving processions.