New regulations new season....
Can redbull keep up the pace
Two back-to-back races coming up. Singapore this weekend and Suzuka the following weekend.
Love the look of the Singapore race.
Great city to visit I'd say
The return to Suzuka will be great. I really love that track.
It is a lovely city but very expensive and very materalistic too. Its also a very humid climate.
Was there in 2010.
As for the races I think Singapore has got boring. It was a nice gimmick at the beginning but tgat has worked off.
I am looking forward to Suzuka more.
Ya suzuka a better race but Singapore is spectacular as an event.
I'm looking forward to races not in the afternoon. Singapore is 1pm, Japan is super early. Then we get a couple of evening races which is great.
McLaren have a new livery for the next 2 races. I don't hate it...
And in completely unsurprising news, Zhou Guanyu confirmed for 2023 with Sauber
It's disgusting.
I quite like it!
me to
That Mclaren livery is much nicer than the one they have been using
It's the 2017 car with sponsors.
Jaysus that's an ugly yoke all the same...
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Ugh, they are pushing this like Jehovah’s witnesses at your door at this stage.
Yeah I hate it when they change things to make the weekend more interesting and entertaining...
I'm all for sprint races, the more racing over a weekend the better
Exactly.
https://www.topgear.com/car-news/formula-one/mclaren-will-run-special-cyberpunk-livery-singapore-and-japan?fbclid=IwAR1Ziell_SJkTio1XMfBifEHBQWj3T8OBLeW21MfcZWBl_jzYlaH53-RaIA
I think the colour scheme of pink and papaya doesn't marry well. But if it goes like stink, I don't care how it looks 😂
They need to do something for them to add excitement, special tires? Reverse grids? Otherwise it’s just a short race, that’s all.
Yeah those are potential ideas. Sprint races are also good ideas and have proven to add to the weekend. What's wrong with that?
What's wrong with that is that it messes up the whole weekend and it's the wrong way around if they want to do it. It's stupid the the Qualifying yes that's fight the actual Qualifying with a capital Q is just for a stupid sprint race and that is then supposed to decide the actual grid for Sunday. Terrible idea.
As I said before the Sprint race should be decided from where cars finished the weekend before and then the Sprint race could be on Friday for anyone who gives a dam about it and the actual Qualifying for the race on Sunday could be on Saturdays like a normal weekend.
I wonder if whoever came up with the livery for the 2017 Maclaren thought
I hear them Irish trains were fast let's copy there livery lol.
Nah. You're trying to overcomplicated it so then you can say it's stupid because it's too complicated.
If it wasn't interesting or entertaining then that would be the main criticism. Resorting to criticising the flow of the weekend or the format of sprint races is evidence that there's fcuk all to actually dislike about it apart from the fact that it's a change. And change is always bad for the majority of f1 fans.
Give it a few years until they’ve become normalised and the same people would fight tooth and nail against removing sprint races.
I misread that as "Jeddah's Witnesses" for a sec. 🤣
How have they proven to add to the weekend?
No I trying to make it make more sense. Its not complicated if you won the last race you start first if your last you start last simple as and if you did not finish the last race then you start after the last driver that finished that race and if its more than one car it goes by points and if neither of them drivers have points then it goes by whoever finished ahead of the other driver or drivers the most.
Not complicated at all :)
Don’t have much interest in the sprints. There’s less strategy which is half the excitement in a proper race. Not much is on the line in terms of points and there’s a very limited amount of cars in contention for them so it doesn’t promote much in the way of risk taking. It basically becomes a reshuffle of the grid which quali or gird penalties may have thrown it out. Hopefully there’s a couple of good ones out of the 6.
