RadioactiveWaste Posted April 20, 2022 Author Share Posted April 20, 2022 21 hours ago, Gaspode said: A few of the teams have raised concerns regarding how similar the Ferrari and the HAAS cars are - Gunther couldn't care less: "You have to work hard for envy. You get pity for free." It's nowhere near as blatant as the pink Mercedes was. True some Ferrari staff have had new jobs at Haas but I don't think there's anything particularly concerning. They're only upset because Haas jumped from backmarker back to midfield team - and hope this will hobble a competitor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioactiveWaste Posted April 21, 2022 Author Share Posted April 21, 2022 So, with it being "sprint qualifying" this weekend (still don't like the way it sets the grid and doesn't offer a lot of points, so it's actually a very risk averse approach for most of the drivers) the qualifying is tomorrow at 4PM. I like the idea of having F1 sprint races, but, bite the bullet, let it be a sprint race, drop the sprint qualifying element and give it some points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePrisoner Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 A very damp practice today. Lots of slipping and sliding will create quite the slow race. Hopefully weather picks up a bit. RadioactiveWaste 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioactiveWaste Posted April 22, 2022 Author Share Posted April 22, 2022 Hopefully qualifying is dry or at least drying. Weather looks ok for tomorrow and probably Sunday. Who is going to be the jackass who brings out the red flags though? Looking at you Latifi...(he's totally addicted to walls) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePrisoner Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 44 minutes ago, RadioactiveWaste said: Hopefully qualifying is dry or at least drying. Weather looks ok for tomorrow and probably Sunday. Who is going to be the jackass who brings out the red flags though? Looking at you Latifi...(he's totally addicted to walls) Latifi in the wall, Stroll in the gravel. RadioactiveWaste 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioactiveWaste Posted April 22, 2022 Author Share Posted April 22, 2022 25 minutes ago, ThePrisoner said: Latifi in the wall, Stroll in the gravel. It was Albon's magical exploding break disks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioactiveWaste Posted April 22, 2022 Author Share Posted April 22, 2022 And Sainz bins it. He's trying to hard - needs to calm it down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alph Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 Latifi needs to try WRC RadioactiveWaste and EtoileSportiveDeDerby 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioactiveWaste Posted April 22, 2022 Author Share Posted April 22, 2022 11 minutes ago, Alpha said: Latifi needs to try WRC Or NASCAR...no wait...too many walls... Anyway, that was interesting. Verstappen, Leclerc you probably have guessed at, but good effort from Lando to get P3 and from K-Mags to get P4. Alondso P5 (good job) and Danny Ric P6 (ok, not bad), Perez P7 (c'mon man, the car's better than that), Bottas P8 despite stopping with a technical problem in Q3, and Vettel P9 (fair play, good job in that car) and oh dear, Carlos Sainz, P10 celebrated his new contract by binning it in Q2 whilst he was comfortably through. More bad news for Mercedes, Gergie boy P11 and Lewis P13 with mich schumacher in between. Zhou, Stroll, Yuki, Gasly (! seems the AT car is just bad), Latifi, Ocon (technical problems) and Alex Albon's Magical Exploding Break Disks Fortunatly for everyone who did a bad a job today, it's a "sprint" weekend where folks in fast cars who are rubbish at qualifying get to move back torwards their natural place in the order before Sunday's grand prix (eh, Carlos, Checo?). ThePrisoner 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alph Posted April 22, 2022 Share Posted April 22, 2022 What's happened with Sainz. If you give a consistent driver an inconsistent car then he does everything he gets the full potential out of it Give that same driver a consistent car... C'mon man. Let's make sure Horner doesn't get that constructors EtoileSportiveDeDerby and RadioactiveWaste 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioactiveWaste Posted April 22, 2022 Author Share Posted April 22, 2022 (edited) 58 minutes ago, Alpha said: What's happened with Sainz. If you give a consistent driver an inconsistent car then he does everything he gets the full potential out of it Give that same driver a consistent car... C'mon man. Let's make sure Horner doesn't get that constructors I dunno, I think some of it is trying to hard because he really doesn't want to have that ferrari no2 straitjacket thrust upon him and Leclerc is a bloody hard match, and, the new cars are different to drive and it's responding how he expects. It's bit like Riciarrdo last year, good drvier but really can't get the best out the car. I think Sainz will get up to near Leclerc's level again, but by the time he does the racing gods will have have put that big "2" on his hat. I could be wrong though, I often am. Edited April 22, 2022 by RadioactiveWaste Rev and Alph 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alph Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 5 hours ago, RadioactiveWaste said: I dunno, I think some of it is trying to hard because he really doesn't want to have that ferrari no2 straitjacket thrust upon him and Leclerc is a bloody hard match, and, the new cars are different to drive and it's responding how he expects. It's bit like Riciarrdo last year, good drvier but really can't get the best out the car. I think Sainz will get up to near Leclerc's level again, but by the time he does the racing gods will have have put that big "2" on his hat. I could be wrong though, I often am. I hope he gets to grips with it soon. Seems like one of the nicest guys in the sport and we know he's better than this RadioactiveWaste 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TigerTedd Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 22 hours ago, RadioactiveWaste said: Hopefully qualifying is dry or at least drying. Weather looks ok for tomorrow and probably Sunday. Who is going to be the jackass who brings out the red flags though? Looking at you Latifi...(he's totally addicted to walls) I went go karting a couple of days ago. And it was me that had the red flags out. In a running battle with some 12 year olds, and caused a 4 car pile up while we all span out. Fun times. Alph and RadioactiveWaste 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioactiveWaste Posted April 23, 2022 Author Share Posted April 23, 2022 8 minutes ago, TigerTedd said: I went go karting a couple of days ago. And it was me that had the red flags out. In a running battle with some 12 year olds, and caused a 4 car pile up while we all span out. Fun times. Last time I went go karting i finished last. However, I had my racing driver's excuses well prepared. I was over 17st at the time and the power to weight ratio was adversly affected. TigerTedd 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePrisoner Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 Looking forward to the Sprint. Not even entirely sure why I enjoy the format, it’s not perfect but does add a little bit of extra thrill before the Sunday I suppose. RadioactiveWaste 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioactiveWaste Posted April 23, 2022 Author Share Posted April 23, 2022 Just now, ThePrisoner said: Looking forward to the Sprint. Not even entirely sure why I enjoy the format, it’s not perfect but does add a little bit of extra thrill before the Sunday I suppose. It's kind of too compromised to just be "have at it lads" because it sets the grid for the GP for most of the drivers there's more to lose than to gain by taking risks. I like having a sprint race, but would rather it was straight forwardly just a sprint race. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioactiveWaste Posted April 23, 2022 Author Share Posted April 23, 2022 Well, I quite enjoyed it, although it did remind my why I dislike DRS passes. Big wins for both Perez and Sainz who should've qualified better all told. Alonso and Magnusson dropping back quite badly. But as ever this season, it's Max v Charles, fizzy pop v Ferrari, and whole bunch of interesting midfield battles. Oh, and another stinking day for Mercedes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioactiveWaste Posted April 23, 2022 Author Share Posted April 23, 2022 Although, of course, the pampered world of F1 has nothing on go-kart endurence racing! Alph 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePrisoner Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 Whoever has the right tyres today at the right time for me. Looking forward to this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePrisoner Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 Great start from Russell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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