Alonso was also great, he is much better than that horrible car

the worst was Aston Martin, what a shitty team, from poor calculations with the fuel to bad driving from Vettel

taking out his protegé Schumacher...

 

Alonso has been driving good this year but just been unlucky but he was pretty ragged yesterday I thought. 2 avoidable collisions with Hamilton & especially Gasly then another 5 second pen for something else (they didn't even mention what) pushed him out of the points yet again. Ocon now has a 5-0 against him in races this season.

 

And I've not seen the onboards for Vettel Schumacher but it 100% looked Schumacher's fault to me.

Actually there was so much chaos in the midfield in the last 3 laps but I watched the entire coverage on Sky F1 afterwards and they literally showed nothing aside from a replay of the Mercedes dual. I get why they miss stuff during the race itself but to not even show replays of everything in like a 3 hour show is shocking.

Alonso has been driving good this year but just been unlucky but he was pretty ragged yesterday I thought. 2 avoidable collisions with Hamilton & especially Gasly then another 5 second pen for something else (they didn't even mention what) pushed him out of the points yet again. Ocon now has a 5-0 against him in races this season.

 

And I've not seen the onboards for Vettel Schumacher but it 100% looked Schumacher's fault to me.

 

I put the Schumacher/Vettel collision as a racing incident. In no way was it down to Vettel

the worst was Aston Martin, what a shitty team, from poor calculations with the fuel to bad driving from Vettel

taking out his protegé Schumacher...

 

 

Schumacher clearly made the mistake in that corner and Vettel's pass on Latifi was one of the few that wasn't DRS assisted, occurring where you shouldn't be able to pass. It's still not certain why they had a problem with the fuel temperature so it may not even be the team's fault

 

 

 

Alonso has been driving good this year but just been unlucky but he was pretty ragged yesterday I thought. 2 avoidable collisions with Hamilton & especially Gasly then another 5 second pen for something else (they didn't even mention what) pushed him out of the points yet again. Ocon now has a 5-0 against him in races this season.

 

 

Alonso was all over the place yesterday.

 

First penalty was for hitting Gasly, as you say, and the second was for leaving the track and gaining a lasting advantage.

 

Ocon did well yesterday considering the huge 51G shunt he had on Saturday.

Alonso had to do what he had to do to compensate for the shitty car and the shitty team, he has to fight sometimes a bit unorthodox but otherwise he'd be last

 

Ocon might be ahead of Alonso in the championship but thats pure luck, if something Ocon is showing he doesn't have the ability to lead a team

I'd rather replace him with Piastri pronto :o

If the car is as shitty as you say then Esteban has got the maximum result possible in 4 out of 5 races, he's doing an excellent job so far this season. Bottas, Ocon, Magnusson and Albon the best of the rest from the opening races (and Russell if you include Merc in 'the rest').

There are at least four, maybe five cars that are definitely worse than the Alpine this year and there's no way it would be last under normal circumstances. Alonso has driven well this year, as well as been unlucky at times but for whatever reason, he was well off form on Sunday

It was a meh weekend I reckon. It’s better than some carparks but the only part of the circuit I actually rate is where it interacts with the freeway on/off ramps. It’s got some elevation changes and harshly punishes mistakes (although I agree with Sainz and Ocon that it should have some form of Techpro barrier there as the impact is way way way harsher than it need be - hopefully they can move the concrete back the necessary distance to throw the techpro into the corner)

 

It was a bit eyerollingly American in it’s most tacky form, but so is COTA and god only knows how grim Vegas will be given it’s already the tackiest place on earth. Holding it as a 3:30pm local time start though was garbage. I appreciate that Miami gets a bit swampy in the midday sun but that be solved by throwing it earlier or a lot later in the calendar so that we have a race that makes sense for the one part of the globe that still overwhelmingly makes up the TV audience. Yeah I know it’s a euro-centric view but we are the main TV audience. Plus it was even worse the further into Asia you went. I didn’t watch the end of the race because I fell asleep (and not just because it was a bit boring)

 

 

Nothing really happened when I watched as I missed Alonso vs Gasly and all that followed but it was a bit of a forgettable weekend tbh. (And for what it’s worth, Alonso vs Hamilton is standard opening corner nothingness. No one even spun and it’s par for the course when everyone is so compact like that that when a car has a spot of under/oversteer it’s easy for a little wheel tap that results in no damage. Basically happens every weekend.)

I'd argue you're not going to have any chance of growing the western audience for the sport if you don't have more 3:30 local time starts and less 8am on Sunday over here. 3:30pm on Sunday is when the biggest NBA, NFL, Golf, NASCAR, NHL, etc. games are usually televised in North America so that's when sports fans are watching TV.

 

TLDR - Expanding your global audience involves "suffering" for the ol' school fans.

 

 

It's already doing wonders for North America and the Premier League who've had NBC/TBS take on their biggest matches in the past decade and always make sure to have matches in the afternoon local time.

Edited May 11, 20223 yr by DJHazey

I thought the schedule was ok, it was 9:30 in the evening in Europe, not 3am :D

Charles Leclerc, driving at the Historic Monaco event, managed to put Niki Lauda's iconic 1974 Ferrari in to the wall.

 

For someone who literally drives those roads everyday, why is he incapable of not crashing there?

Or us he tactically getting this years obligatory accident out of the way now?

Edited May 15, 20223 yr by Severin

Maybe the latter haha. His Monaco curse is absolutely mindblowing though. Even worse than Barrichello in Brazil!

F1 has confirmed that the atrocious Sochi circuit will not be replaced on the calendar and now 2022 will just feature 22 races instead of 23

Aston Martin have just revealed this years latest Red Bull.

 

 

Joking aside it isn't really a surprise given the aero designer left Red Bull to join them and they've been working on this concept for a while

The Pink Merc is now the Green Red Bull.

 

Stroll has absolutely destroyed that team. They’ve gone from punching above their weight every year to the arse end of the grid, bloated, and plagued by repeated illegal copying scandals

As yet there's no suggestion of illegality. Dan Fellows left RB for AM and was a crucial part of the design team. If you look at the overlaid images they're not as similar as you think at first glance, but merely a close design concept. Unless Fellows gave them blue prints its all legit. He helped create the RB concept and has brought his skills across to AM.

 

Red Bull doubtless let their former Merc staff use their technical knowledge too.

 

 

I don't think it's going to be a particularly good race, but maybe an interesting one? Temps are crazy.

 

Run to T1 as crucial as ever.

Maybe it's not a done deal after all for this season! I'm surprised Verstappen has managed to catch up with and overtake Leclerc so soon. It's not as if Leclerc has been doing badly in the last two or so races either.

wow amazing race, wasn't expecting that, lots of ups and downs

Verstappen was sublime and Leclerc was pretty unlucky, same with Hamilton being hit by that useless Magnussen

Very disappointing race for Saenz, with a bad start and a spin