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·Apr 26, 2021

Watching the highlights again, I have to say I think Bottas was completely blameless... his only move was to the left when he saw Russell was there. George should probably keep his mouth shut, I don't think his 'talent' is anywhere near proven yet. He seems to think he can be like Max, but Max gets away with being Max because he's fast as f**k.

 

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kappa_md

·Apr 26, 2021

What do you guys think of Sprint Qualifying on a Saturday? I think things will be more exciting 🍿

 

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·Apr 27, 2021

The argument against is that the cars will sort themselves into 'speed order' and there won't be any overtaking in the race.... on the other hand, the lower cars have less to lose so might try to take some risks to get a better grid spot. I reckon we'll have three trials and then it will disappear.

 

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·Apr 27, 2021

Not too keen on points for the sprint race, if this was every weekend it would just help the 'dominating' driver win the WDC sooner.

 

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kappa_md

·Apr 27, 2021

Hard to say this since we all know what can happen in a race. I’m still looking forward to this. Who doesn’t want an exciting race right? Let’s see first. We will never know until we see it happen 😀

I find the FP1, FP2, FP3 quite boring to be honest. Year in and year out, they know the same tracks already, 3 practices? Not too enticing for viewers. They also have simulation already. What more do they need? It’s basically just making two Free Practices, one FP converted to a grid for sprint qualifying. Then Sprint qualifying result for Race Grid on Sunday. It just means F1 wants to be relevant on a 3 day weekend and not just on Race Day Sunday 👍

Conversely, It will be much harder for the team if something became eventful. So it also means team staff preparation will also have more effect on race results, rather than usually, just driver and racecar 😉

 

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·Apr 27, 2021

It will be interesting to see how they approach it. Will they take risks or will they just pootle around protecting their position. Also, what if they absolutely destroy the car in the sprint race...

 

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·Apr 27, 2021

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It will be interesting to see how they approach it. Will they take risks or will they just pootle around protecting their position. Also, what if they absolutely destroy the car in the sprint race...

Exactly

 

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·Apr 27, 2021

I actually wonder, if the sprint race turns out to be really good, might they bring up the idea of 2 shorter GPs again?

 

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kappa_md

·Apr 27, 2021

I find the sprint and feature race of F2 to be quite exciting, even if I don’t know most of them. It’s just great to see young guns slug it out wheel to wheel with nothing but only their driving skills & guts 👍👍

(F2 cars are mostly the same across all teams) 😉

 

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·Apr 27, 2021

 

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·Apr 27, 2021

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Not too keen on points for the sprint race, if this was every weekend it would just help the 'dominating' driver win the WDC sooner.

I have seen an article where the writer suggested lower placed teams may just start as required and then pit to save wear and against damage and costs. They’re unlikely to gain any grid advantage from taking part completely.

 

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Pitfitter446

·Apr 27, 2021

Was it DTM or one of the bike series that had the top 6 drawn strings for grid? Kept the fastest at the front but in a slightly mixed order. Let’s bin most of the aero and drs and get back to slipstream and over taking, oh and drop the lapped cars passing the safety car, your lapped get over it.

 

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Jim Dollares

·Apr 27, 2021

Pitfitter446

I have seen an article where the writer suggested lower placed teams may just start as required and then pit to save wear and against damage and costs. They’re unlikely to gain any grid advantage from taking part completely.

Well that would be awkward and turn the whole thing into a bit of a joke wouldnt it.

 

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·Apr 27, 2021

Jim Dollares

Well that would be awkward and turn the whole thing into a bit of a joke wouldnt it.

And that's never happened in F1 before.... PF446 has a good point here, F1 teams are always looking to pull any sneaky crap they can. Can the lower teams be compelled to qualify? Maybe they will need something akin to the 110% rule...

 

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·Apr 28, 2021

Not going to draw me away from other weekend activities to watch the top teams getting further away from the rest, titles possibly decided even earlier in the season, not a great idea, I wasn’t a fan of big differences between 1-2-3 places anyway, sorry to be negative but I’m still more likely to attend my local circuit and watch club racing up close.

 

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Jim Dollares

·Apr 28, 2021

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And that's never happened in F1 before.... PF446 has a good point here, F1 teams are always looking to pull any sneaky crap they can. Can the lower teams be compelled to qualify? Maybe they will need something akin to the 110% rule...

Yes I wasnt disagreeing with him, my perfect English maybe made it sound like that. This weekend will be interesting to see. At least they test this first to evaluate, if it sucks hopefully they wont make it a permanent thing

 

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·Apr 28, 2021

Hubert can we have a Sarcasm emoji pleeeeeeeeez!

 

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Yago

·Apr 28, 2021

Can’t we just use your avatar?

 

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·Apr 28, 2021

Hahaha, might as well!