F1 2022 thread - see post 1 for rules

Nope, not vaccinated at all...

Mercs porpoising again badly. Herbert talking about FIA intervening.

Di Resta replied saying they can stop it, but that means giving up lap time

Looking at the head cam footage of Lando seems that the MacLaren isn't immune either

They don't seem to be banging on about safety concerns either and Sky only seem to mention Russel and Hamilton when they speak about "extra physio" sessions etc

Mercedes again begging for off track assistance to help them. Píss off.

I'm surprised with how long its taking to get a handle on it for all teams.

You would think they would be able to control things to operate at close to optimum down force without going over limit and floor stalling.

There is an easy fix to porpoising, increasing the ride height. But it costs performance so teams don't want to do it.

If this a safety issue, forget about active suspension etc, just mandate that the teams use the available tools to reduce porpoising. If it costs performance, they need to find a solution within the existing rules. That's the sport.

The reason Malaysia stopped hosting was because they felt they reached the point of maximum exposure and the return on the investment dropped off

I'm starting to get worried that Red Bull will walk both championships now. You can never trust Ferrari to keep things exciting. They only way they could beat Mercedes in 2019 was with a dodgy engine, and now they can only keep up with Red Bull with a brittle one.

Ferrari is doing reasonably well and seems to have hit the ground running with a fast, albeit unreliable, car. I doubt they can really compete for long with the cost cap.

They're probably the worst value for money team on the grid. Even when they were at their peak with Schumacher, Brawn and Todt, they also spent outrageous money on testing and everything else. That was fine back then and fair dues, it worked. But the cost cap means they can't out-spend their rivals to develop.

Apart from a few peaks in their history, Ferrari have been a midfield team for most of their time in F1. They had the glory years in the mid 2000s mentioned above, and very early in their history when they bought the winning Alfa car, and a few years at the top with Lauda. But generally, they haven't been a winning team, or even a top team, despite having the resources.

Lads/lassies bit help please

can anyone recommend good ear defender, myself and my son going to silverstone this year, our first Grand Prix

Both drivers were given equal opportunities as always. Perez was able to pull out a lead but burnt out his tyres and was over a second per lap slower than Verstappen who reeled him in and overtook him easily. The fact the team asked them not to get caught up fighting and risk a situation like Ricciardo in the process of the inevitability of the comfortably fastest guy getting past really doesn’t mean anything, though people will use it to justify their pre-existing biases.

If they wanted to favour Max they wouldn’t have given Perez first preference on strategy in Monaco when Max would have won the race if they’d prioritised him. If they wanted to favour Max they wouldn’t have allowed Perez to try and pull out a lead in Baku, though of course that backfired as he burnt out his tyres in the process. If they wanted to favour Max they wouldn’t have let Perez to push hard trying to catch him after the pitstop, setting the fastest lap in the process.

Of course ultimately Verstappen was just far too quick for Perez and beat him by over 20 seconds, and some people are seeing ghosts and making up excuses when the reality is quite simple, Sergio is just not as quick as his teammate over a race distance.