F1 2022 thread - see post 1 for rules

I’m looking at going Barcelona next year. Is it worth the premium to get into a grandstand or are the general admission tickets good enough? Any other general tips or advice from someone who’s been recently? Never gone to an F1 race before but I’ve been to Barcelona 6 or 7 times at least.

Spain (or maybe catalonia) has some strange laws around selling booze at events. So I think they don't sell booze, but you can buy a ticket which includes booze. A friend goes to pre season testing in Barcelona and they get the premium ticket which includes an open bar.

I don't know the details. Maybe someone knows exactly how it works.

Beating team mates that have put it up to him for the majority of his career is a big statement. Personally I don't agree with it, I think at a push Rosberg and Button were the only two that may have pushed him a bit but not anyway consistently.

The point of my post was just for information purposes anyway.

Button scored more points than Hamilton over their seasons together. People expected Button to get absolutely trampled on by Hamilton but it was far from the case.

I'm not the biggest fan of Hamilton - I admired him early on in his career.

We can't have it both ways though. We can't say he has had a massive car advantage and at the same time say he has never really had a decent teammate to challenge him, and when he did he was beaten.

Obviously, the new regulations and car design could mix things up, but I fully expect Hamilton to outperform Russell without relying on team orders.

I don't agree that he has had a team mate that has pushed him for the majority of his career like the original post claimed, that's all.

If you apply the point made by established, respected and knowledgeable poster El_Dude that younger drivers are far more adaptable. Take the old men out in alonso and button, who are five users older than him.

That leaves Rosberg. Same age, same car in 3 seasons.

Rosberg history:

17th (2006), 9th, 13th, 7th, 7th, 9th, 6th, 2nd (hybrid 2014), 2nd, 1st.

So we can see here that a pretty average driver can perform extremely well in the Hybrid car. So is Hamilton just a better driver than one that is "okay" overall when they are not in a vastly better performing car?

Nope, I left my opinion out of the info post for that very reason, I didn't have an agenda. I didn't want to open the door to accusations of down playing his career or trying to prove you wrong. Nothing in that post was fabricated or info withheld to stear opinions.

You made a claim, I posted info around that claim.

Then you went on to question me, I answered and disagreed, then you made another point that I didn't agree with.

I disagreed with you and explained why. Up to you where you go with my reply.

Right lads, 2022…yeah?

I also hope for better fortunes for Aston Martin, still a soft spot for them with them being Jordan etc.

Guys, 2022 season. Put the end of the 2021 season to bed.

Red bull could have pushed for the race to end under safety car because they had no warning on the tyre blow out, or a red flag and no restart

Instead they asked for a red flag to allow everyone change tyres before the race restarted.

The only any way comparable incident we have and they wanted a motor race.

But to be fair, it's ages ago anyway. Maybe time to let it go?

"The first week of testing in Barcelona, scheduled for 23 to 25 of February, will be attended by journalists, but the sessions will not be broadcast live on TV. Instead, a 60-minute summary will be broadcast via F1 TV each day.

The second week of testing in Bahrain, from 11 to 13 March, will be broadcast live via F1 TV."

If testing is end of Feb, when do the cars get launched?