| F1 viewers 09:55 - Mar 29 with 971 views | FrimleyBlue |
I know its a sport many dont enjoy
But for those that do on this forum. What are you thoughts on it this season.
For me its a bit of a joke so far. |  |
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| F1 viewers on 10:07 - Mar 29 with 930 views | Swansea_Blue |
I’ve been paying attention to results and followed a bit of the pre-season buildup in an effort to find out a bit more after all the changes. They don’t half race at silly times though! It sounds like Antonelli (who I’d never heard of until pre-season) was lucky with a pace car and Piastri could/should have won.
Have the changes introduced more racing/overtaking. That’s always been the weakness for me. |  |
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| F1 viewers on 10:22 - Mar 29 with 896 views | pelles321 |
I think qualifying is not as good. Maybe because Mercedes are so ahead, but also doesn’t seem natural that they can’t go flat out. Hopefully the change they made for this weekend will help.
From a racing perspective, I’ve enjoyed it. More exciting than previous years, and the driver can be more creative with overtaking. I was never a fan of the drs era where cars would wait and pass at the same place. Last year in Japan it was so dull. The top 6 a finished in grid position. This year was much more exciting. |  | | |
| F1 viewers on 10:28 - Mar 29 with 870 views | FrimleyBlue |
| F1 viewers on 10:07 - Mar 29 by Swansea_Blue |
I’ve been paying attention to results and followed a bit of the pre-season buildup in an effort to find out a bit more after all the changes. They don’t half race at silly times though! It sounds like Antonelli (who I’d never heard of until pre-season) was lucky with a pace car and Piastri could/should have won.
Have the changes introduced more racing/overtaking. That’s always been the weakness for me. |
Its fake overtaking unfortunately. Its all been about battery deployment.
Today resulted in a massive 50g crash when bearman was going over 200kph towards ocon I think who was harvesting his battery and was because of that going 50ph slower. Thankfully it wasnt a street circuit as honestly that could habe been a fatal accident.
Occasionally some good racing. Mainly between Ferrari drivers tbh. They've had a good scrap between each other.
But overall imo the new regulations are rubbish and whilst f1 has always had a form of energy saving this new reg is painful to watch. Drivers going full throttle at times down a straight or a full throttle corner but this season youre moving down the gears before yoi even get to a braking zone.
Its not f1 for me. | |
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| F1 viewers on 10:42 - Mar 29 with 830 views | Hong_Kong_Bluey |
| F1 viewers on 10:28 - Mar 29 by FrimleyBlue |
Its fake overtaking unfortunately. Its all been about battery deployment.
Today resulted in a massive 50g crash when bearman was going over 200kph towards ocon I think who was harvesting his battery and was because of that going 50ph slower. Thankfully it wasnt a street circuit as honestly that could habe been a fatal accident.
Occasionally some good racing. Mainly between Ferrari drivers tbh. They've had a good scrap between each other.
But overall imo the new regulations are rubbish and whilst f1 has always had a form of energy saving this new reg is painful to watch. Drivers going full throttle at times down a straight or a full throttle corner but this season youre moving down the gears before yoi even get to a braking zone.
Its not f1 for me. |
Maybe indeed it's not. Just depends which F1 we are talking about.
I've been watching since the 80's, but lost total interest the past 3-4 seasons. Last season began to recover some excitement.
And this season so far has been rather exciting with plenty of overtaking. Different tools and toys, but that's the nature of evolution. And at least they're racing each other again.
The drivers themselves seem to be more excited post-race talking about the things that happened, and actually having fun racing against each other. |  | | |
| F1 viewers on 10:54 - Mar 29 with 806 views | FrimleyBlue |
| F1 viewers on 10:42 - Mar 29 by Hong_Kong_Bluey |
Maybe indeed it's not. Just depends which F1 we are talking about.
I've been watching since the 80's, but lost total interest the past 3-4 seasons. Last season began to recover some excitement.
And this season so far has been rather exciting with plenty of overtaking. Different tools and toys, but that's the nature of evolution. And at least they're racing each other again.
The drivers themselves seem to be more excited post-race talking about the things that happened, and actually having fun racing against each other. |
Nah the drivers arent happy with it. Some likes the cars themselves being smaller and lighter so more nimble. And they can follow closer because of the aero reg chances but there no drivers that are happy with how you have to drive the car. The harvesting etc. Leclerc describes it as Mario cart.
The overtaking aspect is mixed. You have some good moves because the cars are smaller and more nimble. But those moves are happening because of the battery and MOM mode.
Looking at leclerc getting passed Russell today at one point Russell lost 40kph in one straight which leclerc just overtook by accident.
Imo theyve got the size of the car right. They got rid of Drs which imo didnt work in the sport.
They sort out this harvesting stuff and weve got proper f1 back imo. | |
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| F1 viewers on 10:55 - Mar 29 with 799 views | Swansea_Blue |
| F1 viewers on 10:28 - Mar 29 by FrimleyBlue |
Its fake overtaking unfortunately. Its all been about battery deployment.
Today resulted in a massive 50g crash when bearman was going over 200kph towards ocon I think who was harvesting his battery and was because of that going 50ph slower. Thankfully it wasnt a street circuit as honestly that could habe been a fatal accident.
Occasionally some good racing. Mainly between Ferrari drivers tbh. They've had a good scrap between each other.
But overall imo the new regulations are rubbish and whilst f1 has always had a form of energy saving this new reg is painful to watch. Drivers going full throttle at times down a straight or a full throttle corner but this season youre moving down the gears before yoi even get to a braking zone.
Its not f1 for me. |
I’ll try and catch a full race when they reach a sensible time zone. It sounds a bit odd, but if it’s exciting the drivers like HKB says maybe it’s not a bad change.
Or maybe they’re not happy, as you say lol. It seems illogical to not be going as fast as possible at all times, but I suppose it’s similar to conserving tyres in that regard. [Post edited 29 Mar 10:57]
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| F1 viewers on 14:54 - Mar 29 with 642 views | TheBlueGnu |
I'd love to see Hillman Imps on the F1 circuit, it would be most amusing. |  |
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| F1 viewers on 16:02 - Mar 29 with 580 views | Radlett_blue |
| F1 viewers on 10:55 - Mar 29 by Swansea_Blue |
I’ll try and catch a full race when they reach a sensible time zone. It sounds a bit odd, but if it’s exciting the drivers like HKB says maybe it’s not a bad change.
Or maybe they’re not happy, as you say lol. It seems illogical to not be going as fast as possible at all times, but I suppose it’s similar to conserving tyres in that regard. [Post edited 29 Mar 10:57]
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I watched a full race for the first time this season on delay & the opening few laps were breathtaking, with the top 6 regularly interchanging positions. This had to be more exciting than the fastest 2 cars (Mercedes this year) driving off into the sunset together.
Yes, the battery recovery is artificial, but so was DRS & F1 had to try to reduce the number of processional races (such as Japan last year).
Not watched a qualifying session yet but I get that they can't be much fun if a driver can't go for a lap 100%. |  |
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| F1 viewers on 09:00 - Mar 30 with 441 views | Zx1988 |
I take a tangental interest from a distance, although I do watch the odd race.
What's the take on Verstappen's histrionics - threatening to leave the sport etc.,?
Does he have a legitimate gripe with the new setup, or is he not too happy with not being top dog any more, and is hoping to leverage his brand power to force the FIA to change things? | |
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| F1 viewers on 09:18 - Mar 30 with 393 views | Pinewoodblue |
| F1 viewers on 09:00 - Mar 30 by Zx1988 |
I take a tangental interest from a distance, although I do watch the odd race.
What's the take on Verstappen's histrionics - threatening to leave the sport etc.,?
Does he have a legitimate gripe with the new setup, or is he not too happy with not being top dog any more, and is hoping to leverage his brand power to force the FIA to change things? |
Vestappens histrionics are because he doesn’t have the fastest car..
Not a bad thing there haven’t been any coming togethers in those exciting opening laps which I suspect wouldn’t be the case if Vestappen was involved. |  |
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| F1 viewers on 09:48 - Mar 30 with 352 views | FrimleyBlue |
| F1 viewers on 09:00 - Mar 30 by Zx1988 |
I take a tangental interest from a distance, although I do watch the odd race.
What's the take on Verstappen's histrionics - threatening to leave the sport etc.,?
Does he have a legitimate gripe with the new setup, or is he not too happy with not being top dog any more, and is hoping to leverage his brand power to force the FIA to change things? |
There was always a risk once Max isn't at the top, he would leave.
Max is a racer, sometimes to the limit, sometimes over, but his enjoyment is winning or being able to compete to win, he does some other types of racing outside of f1 which shows he also has an enjoyment of racing in general but at that sport it's put the foot down and go. He's also on esports alot. He has a family now too, and he's won 3 titles, I will never credit him with 21, that's masi's title.
This crazy version of f1/f2/formula E doesn't allow drivers to be the best they can be nor get the most out of the cars they are driving, it's so bad that at times AI yes AI is in charge of what happens in the car!!!
There's lots wrong at the moment, from the mercedes hot compression % abilities, but that's another issue. The main crux is really, at the moment this is not Formula 1. | |
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| F1 viewers on 10:09 - Mar 30 with 321 views | Jon_456 |
| F1 viewers on 09:18 - Mar 30 by Pinewoodblue |
Vestappens histrionics are because he doesn’t have the fastest car..
Not a bad thing there haven’t been any coming togethers in those exciting opening laps which I suspect wouldn’t be the case if Vestappen was involved. |
I don’t particularly like Max but to be fair to him, even when he was winning WCs he had regularly said he can’t see himself spending his entire career in F1 and would like to try other categories.
Maybe he was giving himself an easy get out knowing he’s not going to have the fastest car every season but he clearly loves racing different cars. He’s often racing in different categories and sim racing, even through F1 race weekends.
FOM have a big decision to make around the future of these engines. Which is a shame because the chassis/aero regs are definitely better this year. | | | |
| F1 viewers on 10:47 - Mar 30 with 276 views | Powrigan |
I am just pleased to see Verstappen struggling. |  | | |
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