F1 2026

[TinFoilHat]

They didn't do anything wrong? Unless something happened in the earlier part of qualifying that I missed.

I meant more during the race.

Qualifying this season they've been very good, only for it to get undone during the races.

Would be nice to see them giving Mercedes a run for their money.

 

[crooky]

I meant more during the race.

Qualifying this season they've been very good, only for it to get undone during the races.

Would be nice to see them giving Mercedes a run for their money.

It would indeed. I was hoping for Russell to be stuck in the garage in Q3 and start in 10th. Then the two Ferrari's with their rocket starts could've hassled Antonelli. It could still be possible be definitely going to be trickier fighting two Mercs.

What did they do wrong in the sprint race though? They had to double stack the cars otherwise they'd have been sitting ducks on old tyres during the restart after the safety car. It was just circumstancial that they were right next to each other on the track it wasn't engineered by a strategic blunder.

 

[crooky]

This tickled me.

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/satire/f1-movie-sequel-confirmed-ultra-realistic-plot-follow-predictable-one-team

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Sky playing some poem about China as a place of 'openness', lol.

I suppose they had to say that, or they'd get arrested and thrown into a gulag by the secret police.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

This tickled me.

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/satire/f1-movie-sequel-confirmed-ultra-realistic-plot-follow-predictable-one-team

Haha I saw that, I love the Top Gear magazine satire articles.

Until you see the comments on their socials full of illiterate idiots who don't know what the massive 'satire' label means...

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Half the grid still in the garage, what a farce.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Hammer time!!

 

[Davidbrightwell88]

Want Hamilton to do well in the Ferrari

 

[svennis pennis]

Half the grid still in the garage, what a farce.

Not good this.

Aware it’s early days but it feels like this switch to 50/50 is miles off.

It’s a bit fast and furious this stuff. Artificial over taking.

 

[Gray]

What pisses me off about F1 these days more than anything else is the bloody Safety Car.

Just a ploy to close the field up and make the race look more interesting.

 

[SWP's back]

Exactly. What does "bending the rules" even mean? It's a nonsense phrase with no meaning.

It's an engineering competition, something is either legal or it's not. You play by the rules as they are written.

Ferrari and Mercedes read the rules word by word and designed an engine and a car around them. They deserve to reap the rewards of that. End of story.

Yep only some one new to F1 or just without a fucking clue would say it’s cheating.

 

[SWP's back]

What pisses me off about F1 these days more than anything else is the bloody Safety Car.

Just a ploy to close the field up and make the race look more interesting.

No. It’s to ensure we don’t get another Jules Bianchi type death.

 

[SWP's back]

Hamilton’s racecraft and experience far in excess of Russell’s

 

[waspish]

Like the new changes been interesting these races

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Ocon taking over Grosjean's old title of token French crashy idiot.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Another retirement, Max haha.

Have they all done special ‘made in China’ versions of their cars for this weekend?!

 

[crooky]

Hard to dislike Piastri imo. He seems one of the few normal characters in the F1 paddock. He must be gutted inside not being able to crack on with his season after what happened at the back end of last season.

 

[crooky]

Another retirement, Max haha.

Have they all done special ‘made in China’ versions of their cars for this weekend?!

The new regulations are actually a engineering challenge again. You can see that by the big gaps, car issues etc.

The last regulation cars with the underfloor, limo length cars were boring AF because beyond aero they were hardly any different to the cars before then. That's one of the reasons the races felt so sterile the last few years imo.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

The new regulations are actually a engineering challenge again. You can see that by the big gaps, car issues etc.

The last regulation cars with the underfloor, limo length cars were boring AF because beyond aero they were hardly any different to the cars before then. That's one of the reasons the races felt so sterile the last few years imo.

Yeah, just odd how all the gremlins seem to be appearing this weekend instead of the in Aus though. Maybe it’s an endurance thing, with the back to back races the cars are held together with gaffer tape..

 

[crooky]

Yeah, just odd how all the gremlins seem to be appearing this weekend instead of the in Aus though. Maybe it’s an endurance thing, with the back to back races the cars are held together with gaffer tape..

Yeah it is a bit odd. Maybe something to do with the lack of practice sessions and more competitive sessions putting more stress on the cars and mechanics etc.