Also… hax!!
Aw snap! I did not even make picks!
EDIT: oh, here is the email… I guess like McLaren I have the whole season to catch up…
Ricciardo still finished ahead of his old team, Red Bull.
Jirre, I am heartbroken for the Maccas
So chuffed for Charles and Sainz, Lewis got very lucky with those redbulls. For me Kmag and Zhou are my drivers of the day…
Smiling Gunther… What is this!?
is netflix doing a 2022 season? coz im sure that will be the first episode. (since it started with him and with that double non finish at opening race after qualifying 5-6 and terrible season from there)
DtS season 5 has been confirmed, I haven’t seen any indication of which teams they’ll be tracking with which weekends.
Round 2 - Saudia Arabian Grand Prix
Last year’s inaugural Saudia Arabian GP was quite eventful…
Will things be a little less frenetic and drama-filled this year? Was the Ferrari 1-2 in Bahrain a flash in the pan, or are they genuinely leading on merit? Will Seb Vettel return to take his seat in the Aston Martin? Will he even want to after their poor showing last weekend? And what about those McLarens? Lots of missing potential there.
Top two questions though, of course, are if Red Bull will have resolved their Bahrain fuel pump issues? (Has that been confirmed as the cause of their engine woes yet?) And will Mercedes arrive in Saudia Arabia with a competitive car, or will they be relying on Hamilton’s #blessings again?
The guys at /r/F1Technical does not have a consensus om what they think the root cause is. There is much bickering.
My money is on hydraulics. It’s not smart, money, though, and not a lot of it.
Quite looking forward to the return to Jeddah, especially after the fascinating start to the season this year.
Anyone know if changes have been made to the Red Flag rules? Haven’t had a chance to check if that “park your broken car with its crappy tyres in pitlane, leave pit lane with all new tyres and a bunch of broken bits fixed” part of the rule has been changed.
There’s a chance of us finding out this weekend.
It has not been changed - changing tyres under rrdnflsg conditions is still allowed.
I hope Vettel is recovering alright.
F1 races on. No damn drone strike / missile attack / raging inferno at a fuel storage depot is going to stop FOM from cashing that juicy Saudi oil cheque.
Seb must be twitching uncomfortably in his sick bed.
The worst of it is that apparently all of the drivers want the race cancelled. The team principals are following their principles, though, and so the show goes on. https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/torwwd/de_telegraaf_f1_drivers_initially_unanimous_for/
It’s absurd, in my opinion, we should not be racing in Jeddah. We shouldn’t have been there in the first place, with their lack of human rights record, but now we definitely should not be there.
Tonight’s quali also highlighted how terribly dangerous this circuit is. A twisty, quick street circuit? We’re building it from scratch? Why yes, lets surround it with concrete.
Jaddah makes no sense.