If I'm being more absurd with trying to keep up some humour right now it's because my partner has covid.
My brain is a chaotic mess of worry about her and my health anxiety beating me with a club.
Constant distraction and silliness is all I can do to not have a breakdown.
Because it's supposed to.
With modern materials I assure you it is possible to make a car which can take that impact and be almost completely undamaged, but guess what, the driver will die instantaneously every time.
All of that damage is using up energy so that the driver isn't.
"Circuit Gilles Villeneuve will have kerbs painted in tribute to Ayrton Senna"
Come on now, enough.
The damn track is named for another incredible driver who died in F1 competition.
We don't need to be doing this every weekend for gods sake.
Have some perspective.
The first chicane at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve will have green and yellow kerbs this weekend, as a tribute to Ayrton Senna 🟢🟡
📷 Jean-François Savaria
#F1
#CanadianGP
Laguna Seca was built in 1957.
I'm pretty sure 99.9% of people who live within earshot moved in after then.
Which means they can all shut the fuck up and move.
Same as anyone who moves near an airport and then moans. In the nicest possible way, go fuck yourself.
The Highway 68 Coalition, a group of nearby property owners, has filed a legal complaint against Laguna Seca.
The group is suing to end racing entirely, arguing that the circuit doesn’t abide by environmental ordinances, they claim the circuit is “a public nuisance".
Waking up to this.
Tsunoda and Hulk getting the same penalty as Sainz for these incidents is absolutely disgusting.
Sainz was a rolling roadblock all day in the most dangerous ways possible.
Carlos should be starting in fkin Toronto.
Aston Martin will also run a big upgrade package at Barcelona. Both cars will be fitted with the full kit according to our information. Last parts to arrive at the track this evening.
#AMuS
#F1
SpanishGP
The De Vries situation is exactly what I'm taking about with F1 driver skill. What actually is it?
-AT is 10th car garbage and Yuki is killing it.
-AT is 6th car and Nyck sucks.
-AT is about 7th/8th, Yuki's improved a bit and Nyck has difficulty adapting.
Only one can be true.
Assuming no more calendar changes, or rather cancellations at least, and no DNS for Kimi, by seasons end he will have competed in 33.2% of all grand prix ever held.
I don't think
@HaasF1Team
should run plain white.
I wonder if
@AlpineF1Team
could offer up some blue and, admittedly the wrong shade,
@AstonMartinF1
could offer some yellow.
Of course there won't be full spray capability there but I'm sure there's a few touch up cans around. 🇺🇦👍
The whole F1 Academy situation regarding live coverage is, frankly, atrocious, literally nothing live.
This is a series by the FIA, specifically to increase the visibility and progress of women in racing.
WTF1 managed to have full live coverage of a karting race years ago ffs.
Haas showed disloyalty to me going behind my back and working with my opponents. I hope they don’t also do the dirty on Mazepin who has worked hard for the team and done nothing wrong. Loyalty is a tremendously important characteristic for people of quality
#F1
#Haas
#Mazepin
Lauda?
The same Lauda who withdrew from a race on a "very rainy day" due to the danger involved and gave up the title as a result?
What a pitiful effort to cite 'the good old days'.
You once had a voice of common sense for safety that was ignored, don't go this way, Martin.
It’s races like Qatar and very rainy days which make F1 drivers look the heroes and athletes they are. Absolutely don’t buy into the weak view we shouldn’t put them through this kind of challenge. Check out Senna in Brazil, Stewart at rainy Nurburgring, Lauda post crash, etc etc
1. Well played Red Bull mechanics, 100% the way to go about it. Wind them up even more. 👏
2. These fuckwits not even capable of flipping the bird properly. The fuck is this? 🤣🤣
The funniest part about this argument is that prior to Malaysia 2010, minor moves to break a tow were never a problem.
Weaving became an issue when one driver did it in a dangerous way.
Guess who?
If the job of the stewards is to review significant new elements, Verstappen weaving down the main straight should have also been brought into question—not by Mercedes, but by the stewards themselves, seeing as it is their job to police on-track activity.
Shami with the killer idea.
Not just the UK, give IndyCar a European tour.
- Donington Park or Brands Hatch
- Monza
- Spa
- Nurburgring GP
- Istanbul Park
I'm not joking when I say that I believe
#IndyCar
around Spa would be the best race anyone has ever seen.
The words "you never expect to see a car or crash there" should not be in the vocabulary of anyone involved with track design, safety or race control.
Cars can and do get anywhere. That attitude killed Bianchi.
None.
Give the teams that extra week between two triple headers which also happen to be ten thousand kilometres apart between just those races alone, never mind the travel back to base.
The worst thing in F1 right now is the FIA.
What we've seen today is tantamount to gaslighting the very drivers themselves.
Its high time the GPDA took a strong stance and truly bit back.
No drivers means no race, fight incompetence with confidence and united front.
One of the most egregious safety mistakes I've seen in a while. I'm certain it's an oversight because of the last lap stop but it shouldn't be happening regardless.
You don't retrieve arrows on an archery range until all bows are known down, you don't take someone's word for it.
This is incredibly disingenuous from the FIA. It didn't 'generate misunderstanding' it was literally incorrect application of the rules. Everyone understood it except FIA personnel.
Just when I think I can calm a little bit, the FIA go and throw out meaningless platitudes.
The FIA says the SC use and related comms between race direction and the teams “generated significant misunderstanding and reactions from l Formula 1 teams, drivers and fans, an argument that is currently tarnishing the image of the Championship”.
#F1
#AbuDhabiGP
@mattuthompson
Word it accurately.
'Gary Lineker has been censored by the government for speaking out about their proposals to breach international law.'
Props for Nico here too.
As one presenter stutters and stumbles fearing a telling off from Darth Murdoch,
@NicoRosberg
chimes in with "I'll take it for you, ridiculous."
Time he had a permanent spot doing this I reckon.
One thing I want to make very clear, this-
"We are unable to comment as it is an internal matter."
- is a choice. It's not a law, it's a company policy that be foregone to add clarity or relevant detail.
Red Bull is choosing to perpetuate this story instead of adding accuracy.
BREAKING: Red Bull boss Christian Horner's accuser has been suspended following the investigation into "inappropriate behaviour" against the Formula One team principal, the PA news agency has reported.
Read more 🔗
This is a massively different situation to De Vries having trouble last year at Monza, that was after a full race distance as a substitute driver, this is FP2 for christ's sake.
This is not safe. Not for him and not for other drivers on the track.
FIA must step in.
This backs up an opinion I've held since 1994, no part of any race track should be without energy reduction barriers - tyres, tecpro, SAFER, whatever.
Cars can and do get anywhere.
#SkyF1
#F1
Whoa, yeah...
That's really bad. Teams want to celebrate as their driver finishes, of course they do and we see them climbing the fences and leaning over. That's ok, the chances of one going over are virtually non-existent but this?
Don't do it.
Tom Pryce shows what could happen.
Ok, deep breath and try to simplify my views for this whole thing:
- Lewis was robbed.
- If the result changes then Max will have been robbed.
How the hell do you even begin to balance that fairly to both drivers?
This is my biggest problem with it all, the drivers are blameless.
I've been thinking about this for a while. How close was Grosjean to dying here? Look at the safety cell, it's so close to failing due to the unusual angular force imparted, how much more energy was needed to go beyond it's threshold? I can't imagine it's very much.
It's incredibly hard to believe it's been three whole years since we saw Romain Grosjean escape the burning wreckage of his Haas at the 2020
#BahrainGP
🤯
Did you watch this race live? 🤔
#F1
"Agent 56 reporting. Six and a half hours in and darkness is giving me extra cover, only these 'regulation' door lights are a problem. Doesn't feel like freedom. I'm still on mission but they might find me by accident. Who races in the rain?!"
#LeMans
#LeMans24
#LeMansCentenary
Honestly, if the penalty stands for Sainz I would seriously consider packing up and going home if I was Ferrari and making all customer teams do the same.
2019 - Nico Hulkenberg not having an F1 seat next year would be nothing short of a travesty
2018 - Esteban Ocon not having an F1 seat next year would be nothing short of a travesty
2017 - Pascal Wehrlein not having an F1 seat next year would be nothing short of a travesty
#JustF1
Utterly disgraceful.
This has been manufactured to be a last lap fight. Race control ignoring regulations when it suited them and changing their minds at the last second when calls have already been made.
63.2 and 63.3: We don't like that drivers, two in particular, kept showing up our empty attempt at a message with the 'we race as one' crap so we're going to try to stop them from doing so.
We're also too stupid to realise that those two will just put it on their suits instead.
Some European F1 fans seem to be annoyed at how many races America has/will have - a reminder that this continent has 10 this year. Africa, which last time I checked was a bit bigger, has 0.
One last walk to feel the breeze and hear the birds, now she's gone. Look after my girl Ayrton, she likes fuss behind the ears, fluffy jumpers and tuna.
Goodbye precious ♥️ xx
Hey!
Remember that time when Lance Stroll spanked the entire field and scored pole position on one of the most difficult track surfaces F1 has ever been on?
Yeah, me too. 😁
No need to be a dick to this guy in comments and QRTs, he asked a very fair question and quickly accepted the correct answer when it was given. It's not that deep people.
This is not an unpaid internship, it's a job.
It's full time job (shifts does not mean part-time) expecting full flexibility, 7 days a week, including unsociable hours.
It's not for an 'unproven novice', they specifically state prior experience is needed.
This ain't it chief.
Dear F1 teams,
It's not like you don't have large, open areas at your facilities to carry out launches. Maybe just keep an eye on who is in there and, perhaps, ban devices from entering that area?
As for digital stuff, if you can't keep track of where it came from....yikes.
Look. I can't disagree with the penalty, you can't touch the car (even if I'm sure the rule says 'work' and what that constitutes is very grey) but there ZERO excuse for not having this done and dusted within a few laps of the alleged incident.
It's amateur stewarding at best.