F1 2022 thread - see post 1 for rules

100%, no way the sides would go over a kerb as mush as they could last season anywhere without sausage kerbs was vulnerable. However, now in qualy Im guessing its a major thing of they skirt a kerb and incurre no damage, lap time is still gone.

What about overtaking off the race track? Like lap 1 in Abu Dhabi?

Regulations are clear in that regard (Bahrain for example) but they were manipulated in Abu Dhabi with a "give up the advantage" crap.

I'm assuming the pic was taken on the other side of the car, and was flipped to match for comparison.

Grand Prix thread is open.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058237697/f1-2022-round-1-bahrain#latest

It would be the exact same story but in reverse. The same people would swap scripts, from team principals and drivers, to fans and even Drive To Survive. DTS would always prefer to tell the underdog being shafted story and it would be even easier to sell of the underdog was the young guy with 0 World championships rather then the old guy with 7 championships. But, they worked with what they had.

I don't think these things to need to be viewed along the really basic tribal lines.

The officiating was all over the place last season, and both Wolff and Horner had a role to play in that with their constant hounding of Masi. The culmination of which was an incorrect procedure being applied in the last lap that resulted in Max winning in the title. However, there were plenty of other incidents involving these two, this one is obviously just the most high profile.

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.