F1 2023 season

[TinFoilHat]

Russell clips Verstappen on the exit of turn 2 and by dint of said collision is able to get his nose in front.

I think anyone would be a bit pissed at that.

Let's see if Max retaliates when the safety car goes off.

 

[lonestay]

So all a sprint race gives you is the chance to fuck your car up for the real race, and give your pit crew a later night than they would normally get . Assuming that you are allowed to fix any problems/damage you may get from the sprint race .

 

[ultimateharold]

Max and red bull being nice....

 

[TinFoilHat]

Max and red bull being nice....

He'll be focused on pissing the proper race tomorrow.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

Verstappen behaving like a twat in front of the cameras trying to give it out to George Russell. You are going to get contact like that on this track with cold tyres.

 

[dave_blue12]

Fair play to Max that was a lot of damage on the side of his car.

 

[BlueMoonday]

Sprint races are shite. Just stick to P1, P2, P3, qualies and the race. Don't fix something that wasn't broke.

 

[BlueMoonday]

So all a sprint race gives you is the chance to fuck your car up for the real race, and give your pit crew a later night than they would normally get . Assuming that you are allowed to fix any problems/damage you may get from the sprint race .

All to appease the younger generation who have a short attention span. It's Moronic

 

[eversince 76]

Verstappen behaving like a twat in front of the cameras trying to give it out to George Russell. You are going to get contact like that on this track with cold tyres.

So he behaves like a twat. And the next thing you say is exactly what Verstappen said to Russell. It was Russell blaming it for having no control. That imho was a shit excuse. And it’s what Verstappen told him. Like you perfectly described in you last sentence.

 

[Gaz76]

All to appease the younger generation who have a short attention span. It's Moronic

TL:DR

 

[crooky]

Just reading through the last few pages is why I've significantly cut down on my F1 watching. There's just too much nonsense getting in the way of the actual racing.

- Too much talk about what drivers / team managers / parents of drivers etc are saying

- The format of the race weekends. Sprint races sound good on paper but just feel like a waste of time in F1 where it's always been a combination of strategy, long run pace, wheel to wheel racing etc not just a straightforward 30 minute race with no meat on the bone.

God knows what's happening this weekend as well. Proper qualifying on a Friday afternoon.. a bunch of pointless sessions on the Saturday and then Sunday's race sort of spoilt by seeing what happened with the Red Bulls looking considerably faster than the Ferrari.

I could go on. DRS, the toxic social media aspect, some of the odd stewarding, the cars becoming more and more similar making it harder for teams to catch up throughout a season etc...

It's still a fun sport in some aspects and I'll tune in tomorrow at midday for the main race as I do like Baku as a circuit.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Just reading through the last few pages is why I've significantly cut down on my F1 watching. There's just too much nonsense getting in the way of the actual racing.

- Too much talk about what drivers / team managers / parents of drivers etc are saying

- The format of the race weekends. Sprint races sound good on paper but just feel like a waste of time in F1 where it's always been a combination of strategy, long run pace, wheel to wheel racing etc not just a straightforward 30 minute race with no meat on the bone.

God knows what's happening this weekend as well. Proper qualifying on a Friday afternoon.. a bunch of pointless sessions on the Saturday and then Sunday's race sort of spoilt by seeing what happened with the Red Bulls looking considerably faster than the Ferrari.

I could go on. DRS, the toxic social media aspect, some of the odd stewarding, the cars becoming more and more similar making it harder for teams to catch up throughout a season etc...

It's still a fun sport in some aspects and I'll tune in tomorrow at midday for the main race as I do like Baku as a circuit.

Liberty media slowly but surely americanising it.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

So he behaves like a twat. And the next thing you say is exactly what Verstappen said to Russell. It was Russell blaming it for having no control. That imho was a shit excuse. And it’s what Verstappen told him. Like you perfectly described in you last sentence.

Verstappen needs to understand you live by the sword you die by the sword. This guy parked a car on top of Lewis Hamilton’s head in Monza and then fucked off without an apology, not a fan of how he conducts himself and all of a sudden he can behalf like he’s beyond reproach.

 

[eversince 76]

Verstappen needs to understand you live by the sword you die by the sword. This guy parked a car on top of Lewis Hamilton’s head in Monza and then fucked off without an apology, not a fan of how he conducts himself and all of a sudden he can behalf like he’s beyond reproach.

Ah you simply don’t like Verstappen. Just say so next time instead of staying the silly.

 

[Dannyblue52]

A strange place to start a sprint race. It'll be either cataclysmic or dull.

As an aside I wonder if F1 are grooming Bernie Collins to take over from Ted or Brundle?

A strange place to hold a race. Not seen anything about the appalling human rights there. But it's not football is it!

 

[crooky]

Verstappen is going to breeze past this lap...

DRS is awful.

Edit - How predictable. How long until kick off?

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Commentators positively gutted that there wasn’t a crash at the beginning.

This obsession with crashes and “excitement” gets on my nerves.

 

[Akai]

This is gonna be another boring race

 

[blueinsa]

Race over yet again.

F1 has turned to shit.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

LeClerc not even trying to defend. Sad to see but probably the right call tbh.