New regulations new season....
Can redbull keep up the pace
Yeah he works for Canal+ in France or Canada or whatever. Its 25 years since he won with a Renault powered car so he's driving last year's Alpine. Its all a bit tangential but it's just for TV.
Well they should use English pronunciation as the French one makes it sound worse.
Being serious.
Is Eddie going ? 😉
Cringeworthy tbh.
Still remember when they were "finished" months ago.
Be interesting to see how he gets on with it. Be funny if he pounded out a bunch of competitive looking laps times. 🙂
Ferrari ......
Is thr outfit yellow or white?
Leclercs hair looks very light, nearly blond, in that picture.
But you did say this just afterwards... "If he does end up at McLaren he better perform because no team is going to want to touch him when they can't trust him to honour his contract or to act professionally"
Why would a team not trust him to honour a contract or act professionally given all the actual facts about Alpines ridiculous behaviour? Seems totally illogical to me...
It'd be especially funny since he couldn't do it when he was still racing.
Safety cars are becoming more common nowadays. Almost every retirement on track causes a safety car. You see back in olden days, the marshals were tending to cars while full racing went ahead. Sometimes they just left the cars on the trackside.
Not begrudging the health and safety for the marshals, but I wonder if they should disallow pitstops during safety cars to prevent them from interfering in the race. Or negate the time offset by holding the car for an additional 5 seconds (or whatever the difference is between normal pitstop and safety car pitstop) as if it were a time penalty in the pitstop.
To be honest, I don't think so.
Yes, safety cars have become a more frequent occurrence (as overall safety has improved), but the safety car has been a part of motor racing for as long as I have been watching. It's just part of the rules of the game.
Waiting for a safety car is still a gamble - it's a risk/reward situation. It will pay off sometimes, but not always.
I'm hearing lots of talk this week about the 'fairness' of safety cars. There's absolutely nothing unfair about the safety car being deployed, as long as it is being done purely on the grounds of safety.
Perhaps it's the UK bias to our media sources, but these issues seem to raise their heads whenever things don't go Lewis' way. I don't recall any such conversations about fairness regarding the red flag situation in Imola last year. Nor was there any conspiracy theories regarding the fact that said red flag was caused by Russell and Bottas.....!
I like the safety car as-is, just for the element of strategy it adds to a race. Removing a benefit to a driver who gets a cheap stop will just lead to more predictable races, with the fastest team having to essentially risk less.
Hamilton was unlucky yesterday with the SC, and due to how strangely that sequence played out, made the final stint less interesting than it could have been(but by no means boring!). More often than not, the SC throwing a cat amongst the pigeons can liven up a dull race.
This is such a tired argument that gets brought out by people whenever their team / driver of choice makes a bad decision during a safety car and therefore they want the entire rules of the sport to be changed in response. Crofty was at his idiotic best in the commentary booth calling for this at the weekend.
If you ban pitstops during a safety car then that would be far more unfair.
An example: Latifi is in P1 and Stroll is in P2, with Latifi 5 seconds ahead. Stroll dives into the pits on lap 21. All other cars have now pit too, but Latifi, having managed his tyres extremely well, knows he can stretch out for three more laps until lap 24 without risking an undercut. However, on lap 22 Alonso spins and beaches himself on the gravel causing a safety car to be brought out. Latifi is now not allowed to pit. When the race restarts on lap 25, he is now on old worn tyres with Stroll immediately behind him. He has no choice to pit, leaving Stroll to win unchallenged while Latifi loses not just first place, but comes out in 20th due to the pack being compressed during the safety car.
They used to close the pitlane during the safety car about 15 years ago and it was well recognised that it was hideously unfair, but the reason for it was that we didn't have the accurate sector-by-sector VSC timings and cars would race to the pitlane at full speed to build a gap which was dangerous. As soon as it was possible to ensure they stuck to a delta time on their way to the pitlane, the silly rule to close it was removed and things have worked much better ever since.
So instead of calling for rule changes, lets just accept that the safety car rules have been the same and worked perfectly well for many years and hundreds of races now and calls to change them only ever happen when certain teams or drivers make bad calls and their cheerleaders in the media start sulking about it. The teams all know that safety cars can happen, and maximising their strategic calls to make the best of any given situation is one of the key skills they need to bring to the sport. An element of luck, and the need to think on your feet to react to that luck, is a key part of pretty much any sport for that matter.
Wasn't there a yellow Ferrari 156 F1 car? It might be a tribute to that.
Edit
Apparently it was the 1961 Belgium GP
I'm not suggesting a change because it benefited max or disadvantaged Hamilton. My issue is that it robbed us of a genuine fight for the lead which had been created by a mismatch in strategy. That's the kind of thing we want to see, isn't it?
But that was very specific to this race. If we stopped allowing pitstops for SCs then track position would be king and more races would be processional.
Apologies - I wasn't trying to paint you into a corner as a fan of either driver. It was more of a follow-on observation.
Yes, I would have rathered that the SC didn't happen, and I still think Max would have won (albeit with a 2-3 finish for Mercedes). My whole point is that I don't think we need any changes in relation pit stops and SCs. It's just the way the cookie crumbles sometimes.
I wouldn't mind a ban on pit stops during the VSC due to the often short nature of them but not in the case of the full safety car.
In this case it may have detracted from the excitement, but in the vast majority of cases the SC spices up the racing. Sometimes, with a particularly **** race, the only reason to keep watching is the hope that a SC mixes things up.
Lol.....
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Looks good to be fair. You'll be enjoying the colour scheme @Jordan 199
You'd miss Jordan Grand Prix all the same...
Yes, especially when they had the Hornets on their livery from 1998 to 2000.
I have a big flag with the hornet design on it. I must put it up again.
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The original gold livery (1996?) was poor, but the switch to yellow was lovely.
In Dundrum 2 weeks ago
Why was that on display?
I know the car park can get pretty full, but come on. I'd say it got clamped pretty rapidly.
Yeah, they had a supercar display in the car park, a few movie cars outside and the Jordan in the shopping centre
Is Perez contracted to Red Bull for 2023? I'm reading more and more of who will get the second seat but surely Perez has earned his seat for 2023 based on 2022 performance?
