Formula 1 2021 - General Discussion Thread (Read 1st post rules)

Anyway back to the racing.

“Tilke said the race track on the coast of Jeddah, which is 6.17 kilometers long, is the second longest circuit on the calendar during the 2021 Formula 1 season after the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium.

The track, which comprises of 27 turns, including some high-speed corners as well as long straight lines, was completed in record time in less than 12 months. The event will be held in cooperation with Formula 1, the International Automobile Federation, as well as the Saudi Automobile and Motorcycle Federation.

Tilke said they designed an exciting circuit for fans and drivers alike, without the usual restrictions of any downtown circuit, which makes the Jeddah Corniche circuit special.

Tilke, who is designing the circuit with his father Hermann, said it gave him the freedom to design, and all restrictions that controlled the usual street circuits were removed, adding it was built on land designated for it.

Tilke also revealed that the Jeddah Corniche Circuit has an estimated speed of 252 kilometers per hour, which is the highest average speed compared to any Formula 1 street circuit.”

No, just one with probably the highest hosting fee in F1 excluding Abu Dhabi.

The street track is in Jeddah, the permanent track will open in 2022 in Riyadh.

Slave labour in action.

With the Paralympics on at the moment, I decided to Google 4 time Paralympic gold medalist and former Jordan racer Alex Zanardi to see if there was any update on how he's doing over a year on from his horrible accident . Article from back at the start of July from his wife states he's doing OK but still has a long way to go.

He mis-spoke, he meant to say 'migrant workers'

Happy he'll get another year and it's done nice and early

The incident in W Series today, plus the injury to Jack Aitkin earlier this year, plus the loss of Atoine Hubert a couple of years ago has me concerned that there might be consideration by the FIA in slowing the Eau Rouge/Radion complex in the years to come.

nasty crash.

halo definetly helped the first driver. the whole front of the car came down on the top of the halo. definetly could have been lethal there without it

the slow mo is very frightening with the followoing cars plowing in on top

I think Gasley dirtied his bib with the way he reacted to his Red Bull struggles — by all accounts he put a lot of blame on engineers, the car rather than take accountability.

No question he’s a fast driver and is flying in Alpha Tauri, but for Red Bull, he also needs to deal with adversity and pressure.

Kvyat only got 1 go in the Red Bull, unless you mean 2 seasons and he got dropped what 5/6 races in for Max

Perez is now doing better than Gasly did, it mightn't be good enough but they're taking the simpler solution, I can see why they're not changing it up

You're right though Gasly is on a stormer last year or so, someone will nab him for sure in 2023

Is he though? When comparing Gasly/Albon/Perez people seem to forget that this is the first year that the Red Bull car is the joint fastest on the grid, compared to a distant second in previous years, so naturally Perez has finished in higher positions. I'd be interested to see the stats comparing each team mate's qualy times and race finish times vs Max.

One caveat to this is that Verstappen is still only 23 years old and he's improved massively as a driver in recent years - he's not a static benchmark against which each of his teammates can be compared. Obviously Gasly is young and will still be improving too while Perez at 31 years old will already be at his peak. But to me it just seems obvious that Verstappen is such a complete driver at this point that nobody Red Bull hire would get close to him, short of getting hold of Alonso and a time machine. Perez was well established as one of the fastest drivers on the grid before Red Bull hired him and he's doing about as well as anyone would, while showing maturity and also being particularly strong on tyre management which opens up more tactical possibilities for the team. Chopping and changing the driver line up again would just hurt stability without having any real likelihood of improving anything.

Back to the popularity shtick again :D

Its a part of the race weekend at this point these utter rubbish hot takes. Same as when Crofty gets drivers wrong mid race.