F1 2023 season

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Oh well. There's only 22 other races to bore us.

Meanwhile there's the rather crazy Nurburgring 24 Hours. With 100+ cars competing, from full blown Ferrari, Porsche, Mercedes etc racing cars down to VW Golfs, Astras and Dacia's sharing the same bit of tarmac starting at 3pm on Saturday.

Qualifying throughout the next few days.

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TinFoilHat said:
Some new TV angles at Monaco this year now F1 have taken over the production.

Shame qualifying is the most exciting part about this race. As it's more of a driver's home seasonal piss up.
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It’s pretty special watching the drivers knit together a perfect lap in qualifying round Monaco.

On another point we saw Sebastian Vettel drive one of the old Williams cars round Silverstone using carbon neutral fuels. Is this going to be a way of making the cars smaller by keeping the combustion engine and removing the battery? Would be one way to keep Monaco on the calendar.
 
feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
It’s pretty special watching the drivers knit together a perfect lap in qualifying round Monaco.

On another point we saw Sebastian Vettel drive one of the old Williams cars round Silverstone using carbon neutral fuels. Is this going to be a way of making the cars smaller by keeping the combustion engine and removing the battery? Would be one way to keep Monaco on the calendar.
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Interesting.


They'll find a way a keep Monaco.

Drivers home gig they won't want to lose it. Probably at the expense of GB or Spa. Even though Spa has just spent shitloads upgrading the track and facilities to keep it.

Liberty seem hell bent on moving races out of Europe and replacing them with emerging markets such as India.

I'd like to see South Africa get a go again. I doubt the cash is there for them to do it mind.
 
TinFoilHat said:
Interesting.


They'll find a way a keep Monaco.

Drivers home gig they won't want to lose it. Probably at the expense of GB or Spa. Even though Spa has just spent shitloads upgrading the track and facilities to keep it.

Liberty seem hell bent on moving races out of Europe and replacing them with emerging markets such as India.

I'd like to see South Africa get a go again. I doubt the cash is there for them to do it mind.
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Paddy Lowe who was in charge at Mercedes back in the earlier days is developing a carbon neutral fuel. However the cost per litre to produce it is extremely high, with development surely they could bring the cost down in the future. Would solve an infinite amount of problems for the planet but for F1 we could see the return of a V10 engine with no hybrid tech attached.

Think Liberty are trying to extract too much out of the golden goose with too many races and these extra sprint sessions which devalue the Sundays.
 
I'm thinking watch qualy live and then skip the race unless there's rain in the air.

Qualifying is always a good watch at Monaco but the race has lured me into a early afternoon nap one too many times.
 
Agree qualifyings the best hour of the weekend, plus The commentary is worse than GN on city matches bunch of no marks giving us there opinions no thanks hits mute button And don’t get me started on that Niome woman!
 
TinFoilHat said:
Watch Max win qualification and unless he fucks up that pretty much the final result.

Monaco is more about looking good for Tele and the drivers piss up than a race.
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It’s going to be interesting today, maybe Ferrari could knit something together over one lap. There will potentially be a red flag with how drivers go through the final few sections fully committed right up against the barriers.
 
feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
It’s going to be interesting today, maybe Ferrari could knit something together over one lap. There will potentially be a red flag with how drivers go through the final few sections fully committed right up against the barriers.
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Hamilton was fastest in the first sector then fucked it up twatting the corner.
 
crooky said:
I'm thinking Leclerc on pole but Verstappen to still win.

(Basically hoping for something to happen)
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LeClerc on pole but nips home for lunch while the Ferrari mechanics after one too many cocktails in Monaco forget where the socket set is to undo the wheels, so Verstappen jumps him on the overcut and cruises to victory.
 
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