F1 2023 - Round 16 - Singapore

rameire

Singapore

Fri 15th Sep

Practice 1 - 10:30am

Practice 2 - 2:00pm

Sat 16th Sep

Practice 3 - 10:30am

Qualifying - 2:00pm

Sun 17th Sep

Grand Prix - 1:00pm

Andrew76

New track layout this year too - they've gotten rid of some slow corners towards the end of the lap after the turn 15 bend. Will make for a faster lap and looks like it might be an overtaking opportunity.

Old layout:

New layout:

This footage from the F1 game shows the difference - coming out of turn 14 (1:17s) it looks like a decent blast down to the next proper corner at 16.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dugvLvCl9Y

rameire

Track Details

flazio

While Max can't clinch the drivers title here. Red Bull could become beyond reach if Mercedes-Benz have a mare.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CxGUPiFtP-G/?igshid=MWZjMTM2ODFkZg==

PsychoPete

New Mclaren "livery" this weekend and for Japan aswell

https://twitter.com/McLarenF1/status/1701879661536440721?t=LRhIX2yofVVEVXGK6_vylg&s=19

Captain_Crash

Hate those videos with a big wanky buildup! Just show us a pic of it and get it over with 😂😂😂

It’s like those you tubers with a big dramatic intros when you know dam well what’s happening cause it’s said in the effing title, nice livery tho! Rant over 😂

flazio

If any of you remember TWR Arrows from the late 90s early 00s and wonder what they would look like today.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CxIDuZNorv8/?igshid=MWZjMTM2ODFkZg==

dulpit

McLaren liveries have been poor this year...

dulpit

The Williams looks tasty though...

Frank Bullitt

Bonkers looking sidepods on the AT this week. Those are aggressive.

PsychoPete

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121108560#Comment_121108560

All the liveries have been poor this year

Andrew76

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121110441#Comment_121110441

It would be nice if those upgrades bumped them up a few places and hopefully Lawson and Yuki have a clean weekend so we can better compare them. Liam doing a decent job so far to be fair to him.

Longing

I don't like the new changes. The took away ironic part of the track for me represented Singapore GP. Its like taking out 130R Suzuka , Eau-rouge at Spa or taking away the tunnel in Monaco.

Longing

Sky at it again another dig at Max from that tool Ted.

PsychoPete

Didn't they change it because there was some kind of building work going on ?

Burkie1203

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121112458#Comment_121112458

Wat dd he say?

Burkie1203

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121112641#Comment_121112641

Yeah it's for redevelopment work IIRC

Vicxas

That Gulf livery is just beautiful

Andrew76

Red Bull with a bit of work to do tonight to close the gap to Ferrari, 7 tenths off the pace in FP2 there I see. Bit of a bogey track for them.

Frank Bullitt

We could have a great qulay on our hands. Not making any guesses on the race though, this is a bit of a lottery.

I would expect RB to improve, but Ferrari look to have the upper hand, and Merc and Alonso not too far off either.

This is it

All well and good getting pole but Ferrari will fall off in the race, will be lucky to have one in the podium.

flazio

Annual reminder of what can happen at the start if Verstappen is sandwiched between 2 Ferraris

https://youtu.be/x-LzhRV8nXw?si=4g3bbiWvibf2QfzZ

KillerShamrock

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121117045#Comment_121117045

yeah we really need another omnishambles to give this dead season a bit of life/excitment for its last few races but sadly we all know it wont happen and max will go crusing off into the distance and win by like 40 seconds or something

Busi_Girl08

The 2 red bulls have been struggling since yesterday with car updates (wing changes I think?). Could shake things up a bit today and tomorrow?

NinjaTruncs

Based on past experiences with the Ferrari's is still expect Max to win even if he's starting 3rd with the two Ferrari's ahead. His biggest risk will be getting out of turn 1 without incident.

Worst case for Max would be for Russell to be either alongside or on the row behind him.

Jordan 199

Metallica....yeah!

ctrl-alt-delete

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121112458#Comment_121112458

Brundle seems to balance it off at least. I didn't hear Max's comments, but it must have been something along the lines of the car not being acceptable.

Martin said it could come across as petulent but that it is one of the reasons why he is a multiple world champion.

Most of the drivers out there come across as great guys on the radio when it is going well and the opposite when it is not.

Andrew76

Looking at the free practice sessions Max will do well to get onto the second row of the grid, proper struggling they are.

ctrl-alt-delete

Some close times among the top runners here, might see someone visiting a wall giving it all for pole.

Andrew76

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121118234#Comment_121118234

Yeah this is very tight. Going to be a great quali, up there with Monaco this year maybe.

Itssoeasy

For some reason my post didn’t eh post but yeah the closeness of the times with the top 16 covered by a second and it was haas saying the track improvement of over half a second.