i agree
Agree. Mick is WAY WAY WAY out of his league. Zhou has actually impressed the hell out of me. Even Yuki is doing okay; but Mick is just a bad driver. Having the name Schumacher doesn't guarantee any success.
Do you not have any kind of recording service? I have all the races recorded on YT TV and always go to the range on Sunday mornings to shoot and come back to watch the race later. Avoid the socials so you dont know won.
The circus organizers that want it to be viewed during prime time in Europe.
Again, I wish you fellows would quit sugar coating your remarks and come right out and say what you mean, how you feel about the absolute worst idea of a race since they tried to run the INDY 500 on dirt in 1909.
Yeah. I can always watch it on F1 TV later. Had to do that for a couple of the races this season already. I just enjoy watching it live. Usually up at 0500 on a Sunday with a cup of coffee left all alone to watch F1 without kids bugging me. It's a peaceful time on Sunday morn. Get up early, watch F1 race, get annoyed at something that happens, some dumb shit driving mistake, or the commentators, then watch the podium, go grab gear and then head to the range to decompress. It's a routine that mother's day is interrupting. That and then hosting the race at 1230.
Lando has been a bit of a disappointment as of late. I think he has potential; but IMO Ricciardo is actually hindering the team's progress. And yes, I know Stroll is there permanently. Heck, they were much better as a team when Checo was driving for them.
Toss Alonso in there.
I almost put him on the list; but hesitated. Your analysis proves that he should be added as well. He has moments of "young Fernando" but too few and far between. He knows the car sucks and that this is his swan song. I'd still love for the old man to be on the podium and I'd still choose him over Vettel any day of the week (and I used to be a Seb fan until he went all woke - not to mention whatever that is on his head).
I agree with that. Especially Alonso who absolutely cannot develop a car and Seb who's not been able to develop/adapt (Newey kept him going at RBR). Though, I'm not 100% sure about Hamilton's ability on that front. I'm ALMOST (not quite) thinking Nico helped develop the car substantially (and I cannot stand Nico) and perhaps Valteri (as he's doing quite well with Alfa, but still making boneheaded errors like he did yesterday pushing his cold tires too hard) helped more than we'll ever know.
This is what is so bad, they charge thousands for city tracks, and the people watching the race can’t see anything.
I was there for the first race in 2000. Was sharing a house with a bunch of the track workers, so it was cheap, and had gotten a weekend pass with grandstand seat for Sunday. Friday and Saturday practices and qualifying I just roamed around to watch from different vantage points in the infield...some good viewing but those esses were pretty Mickey Mouse. The grandstand seat was towards the end of the front straight...and my seat was so low I only saw the airboxes going by because the guardrails were so high.
Sounds similar to my experience in '04, it was great to roam around the whole place. Our stand seats for Sunday were near the top row so we had a decent view. I made a video of it, but can't find a copy. The most memorable thing besides the speed standing alongside the fence was the sound of the gearshifts as they came out of that first corner complex, it was like shotgun blasts.
You Too! Those gearboxes were small enough to hold in one hand and the sound of the upshifts were shocking. Just like you said, sounded like shotgun blasts. And that, coming over the sound of those screaming V-10’s.
I was almost in that same area in 2001 race. Even with the turn 1,2,5 about 5/8 way up the bleachers. You could see damn near everything. That was good; but the track itself sucked. It was nice being able to walk out during quali and practice to the straight between turn 7 and 8 and those downshifts going into turn 8 - (insert Batman effects). Freaking V-10s screaming like hell - fantastic!!!!!!!!
I went to the '86 Detroit GP, sat where we could see the Turn 1 from bleachers AFTER the turn, between Turn 1 and 2 - Altwater St I think. I don't recall seeing anybody pass there but surprisingly Turn 2 had quite a bit of action. Long time ago. Senna won, of course as always I was for Prost. That was the last time Lotus was the JPS livery. Prost was third. I remember that; but I don't remember Jacques Lafitte being second. The irony thta Prost would end up with Ligier isn't lost on me today.
I was there with my father and brother with the Ferrari club.
That would be interesting. I thought they had to compete in all of the races. If they have to skip because of cost they need to choose the best track for their cars to win and skip the ones where there might be more competition. Or it might just be a bunch of whining to get the caps raised.
Didn't Binotto do that last year? Wait...are you talking THE TEAM or just principles skipping? That'd be insane and would definitely make the WDC and WCC interesting. But I think they HAVE to have a car in all races as part of the Concorde Agreement.
Oooooooooooooooo...nothing like adding some drama here of small teams vs big teams. Maybe that's why they're small though Gunter; you'r enot spending enough on development and "bending' the rules a tad. Kind of like Porsche 935 Moby Dick which "interpreted the rules exactly instead of as 'intent'."
I was disappointed to see Haas failed to score points. I was expecting them to at this track. I would add Haas to that list of teams not in F1 anymore in 3 years. As much as I dislike Hamilton, he rallied and drove a very impressive race to score points. Looks like Merc is back in the hunt as their cars had the pace to hang with RB and Ferrari.
A Marlboro sponsored Ferrari would bring back major flashbacks.
