Formula 1 2022

[cookster]

Quite confident Max will cheat tomorrow.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Report out, as expected whitewash. Human Error when interrupting the rules under pressure.

Interpreting surely?

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Hamilton fan bois must be weeping into their hankies after his and Russell’s pitiful qualifying.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Can someone please give me a quick idiot guide to whats new this year?

Lots!
Free tyre choice to start the race to start with. That means the faster teams qualifying in Q2 on a longer-lasting tyre can be matched by others.
Much bigger tyres (18 inch compared to 13 inch) which will reduce overheating so hard racing can last longer (hopefully) - but also a lower pressure is likely (lower temperature blankets, smaller sidewall) so outlaps may be a bit different.
Aero changes - grooved floor to make cars hug the ground (or if they're a Mercedes, make it bounce merrily on straights), fins over the front tyres, wing changes

The claim is that 'dirty air' downforce loss drops from 35% at 3 car lengths to 4%, and 50% at 1 car length to 18%.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

Hamilton fan bois must be weeping into their hankies after his and Russell’s pitiful qualifying.

in a car that's a second a lap slower and he's still only half a second off the champion* who contrived not to take pole in a car that's 3/4 tenths quicker than its competition. Easiest, most guaranteed pole he'd ever have and he bottled it.

 

[crooky]

Hamilton fan bois must be weeping into their hankies after his and Russell’s pitiful qualifying.

Will be worse when Bottas takes him out on the first lap... :P

Will be very interesting to see how they fair. Hamilton is a brilliant driver in the races so you know he'll maximise whatever they've got. Hard to imagine them being too far off the pace after all these years but all era's come to an end eventually.

I'm hoping to see Russell keeping closer to Lewis in the races than Bottas did but that's not a particularly easy task for a newbie to the team.



Bottas ready for battle.

 

[cookster]

Interpreting surely?

Well yes, predictive text...

 

[cookster]

Hamilton fan bois must be weeping into their hankies after his and Russell’s pitiful qualifying.

Long season, the first race ain't even started.
Max with the best package out qualified by LeClerc so it's all gravy.

 

[mccity]

The Leclerc/Sainz dynamic could be really spicy if Ferrari stays competitive all season. Leclerc is better but Sainz is much closer to him than Bottas was to Hamilton or Perez to Verstappen.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Bit of a pisser that it’s on the same time as the match. Will have to go radio-silence to watch it on catch-up.