F1 2022 thread - see post 1 for rules

Yeah that's true. There were regular calls for Masi to be fired in the F1 2021thread. In fact, some posters wanted Masi fired, but when they found out Toto and Lewis also wanted him fired, they changed their minds and wanted him to remain.

Great soap opera, to be fair. Liberty media won't mind any of this one bit.

I see the FIA have changed the rules to allow floor stays for teams suffering from porpoising. As predicted, good news for Mercedes in their attempts to try and get back closer to the front.

That was allowed from last week during testing. Sky had a thing on them and basically they offer nothing other than prevent the floor from flexing. If anything the tiny bit of drag they cause is not optimal either.

I'm sure it's very complex but you would imagine even crudely limiting ride height would be better than what Mercedes are running at the minute.

Masi hung out to dry by a multi billion dollar sport which uses pen and paper to identify lapped cars

No, I feel he has been hung out to dry by a multi billion dollar sport which gave him very little support which they admit they failed in and he was having to identify lapped cars manually. That's insane.

F1 got it badly wrong way more then Michael Masi did.

I never said he didn't do things correct, the narrative around that was "Lewis was robbed" completely ignoring anything else that went before (which IMO is very relevant) and even yesterday Damon Hill on Sky was pushing the narrative in the interview with Christian Horner.

The upshot has been clarifying what constitutes the race track, a hugely improved system for race Control, rules clarifications and a beefed up team overseeing race weekends. If F1 had got this right to begin with maybe the end in Abu dhabi would have been different.

This is it. I was delighted when max won, but I acknowledge that Hamilton was robbed. If the normal rules were followed, it would have been a boring finish, huge anticlimax and Hamilton would have won race and championship.

But they came up with a unique interpretation of some rules and failed to follow other rules in the name of making the show better. The championship was decided in that process and it happens that Hamilton was shafted. I don't think there was any anti Hamilton or pro Max bias. They were just collateral damage in the showbiz.

First qualifying was interesting as we all thought and it does indeed seem to be between Red Bull and Ferarri for now, Mercedes never got near the sort of times they were posting, I don't think P9 was representive of Russell's pace as he was giving a tow to Hamilton but he will have a tough job tomorrow.

I suppose one of the main talking point is Haas are looking punchy as does Bottas too, and that Aston Martin could be in for a long season, Mclaren way off the pace too.

Won't know really untill tomorrow have these new regs improved the cars ability to follow in dirty air, hopefully we are in for a good race.

To be fair to checo he was "relatively" close to max today compared to last season.

Is she replacing someone from last years coverage I wonder? One of the generic former drivers?

4 out of 5 of the teams disqualified in q1 wee Mercedes powered. One Honda and no ferrari powered car. That's pretty telling. The

After all the sh1t-talk people did about Bottas, I doubt many noticed that Bottas beat Russell. Great performance from the ferrari powered cars.

It's only the first race so its only one data point, but it was an interesting quali.