F1 2022 thread - see post 1 for rules

Yeah the size of the cars is a bit catch 22. They need to be the cutting edge of motorsport technology in order to be relevant, but that makes them bigger and totally unsuitable to a place like Monaco.

Monaco is going nowhere. The race crap but that’s not relevant.

It takes 6 months of the year for Monaco to build up then remove the GP facilities.

It's not so much chaos as having learned to live with it pretty much continuously.

Its far shorter than that. 6 weeks for the construction.

4 zones sounds like a lot but then Melbourne is usually a very poor track for overtaking. Between the track changes, the new cars and the DRS zones it could be an interesting race.

For all the moaning about Monaco, the pole sitter has only won 2 of the last 6 races there and it often throws up interesting races. Yes you don’t get much overtaking but you can still get good racing. Mistakes really get punished and drivers have to be absolutely perfect, which means unpredictable things can happen and you often see the competitive order shaken up a little as the track is a little bit of a car leveller and drivers can shine.

Last year we saw Vettel in the Aston Martin overtake Hamilton in the Mercedes and stay ahead - that wouldn’t happen at other tracks where the driver has less influence and the faster car could just blast past on the straight.

Albert Park is a street circuit with really poor overtaking. They've redone some corners and now they're fiddling with DRS to crea

Te overtaking opportunities. Can't fault the effort. It's just not a good track for racing. Great Decision to move it from the first race of the year. It used to be a massive disappointment after waiting for the season to start, then you'd have to wait another 2 weeks for the season to really start.

Hopefully these changes will make it a good race. Fair play for trying something new to make it work.

It doesn’t strengthen the argument that there isn’t good racing though. Number of times faster cars fly by on a straight thanks to DRS is not a metric for a great race. Sometimes a driver pushing to the absolute limit against the walls in a slower car on their in lap so they can squeeze ahead of the faster car and keep them behind is just as exciting if not more so.

There should be a Grand Prix in Summer Bay, with Alf Stewart waving the chequered flag.

Vettel should be well motivated to go this weekend after missing two races of his own choice or because of Covid whatever you want to believe.

I can not wait to see if he can get more out of the car than Stroll and Hulkenberg.

I seen somewhere someone saying poor Vettel out of one Tractor and into another but I have seen people say he will lift the team and help then to get ahead. They seem to have the same purposing problem as Mercedes.

Some people say he choose not to go to the race in Saudi Arabia as he was against F1 going there. He just used Covid as an excuse because Aramco sponser Aston Martin F1 team.

I wouldn't have any time for that. Why miss the other race too?

He missed the first race because of Covid which he had a positive test on the Thursday before and then he missed race two because of Covid as well.

Exactly.

If he skipped the Saudi race because of some sort of protest, he will be pissed off when he sees the Aramco stickers on his helmet and car!