F1 2022 thread - see post 1 for rules

this was shared on Reddit after they visited the Honda factory. So the HRC on the nose and Honda on the cover.

Hill was champion in Suzuka in 1996 AFAIK! Suzuka used to be last race of season and many championships were decided there.

https://gpracingstats.com/circuits/suzuka/

Suzuka has hosted the following championship title deciders:

Drivers’ title

1. 1987:  Nelson Piquet (3rd title)
2. 1988:  Ayrton Senna (1st title)
3. 1989:  Alain Prost (3rd title)
4. 1990:  Ayrton Senna (2nd title)
5. 1991:  Ayrton Senna (3rd title)
6. 1996:  Damon Hill (1st title)
7. 1998:  Mika Hakkinen (1st title)
8. 1999:  Mika Hakkinen (2nd title)
9. 2000:  Michael Schumacher (3rd title)
10. 2003:  Michael Schumacher (6th title)
11. 2011:  Sebastian Vettel (2nd title)

Russell wasn't left out there by Mercedes to know when to switch Hamilton to slicks - he came on the team radio and said he was sticking with them. Did it help Hamilton? Absolutely, but going by the radio call, he wasn't left out by Mercedes. You also need to factor in where Russell was in 15th when he pitted for slicks and made it up to 11th before his puncture while trying to overtake Schumacher to make it into the points. Given he started from the pits, I would imagine finishing in the points would have been the primary goal which he nearly got.

Your point makes zero sense. How does it benefit Hamilton if Russell was left out if all the other teams could benefit from it too? That’s like playing cards and your opponents seeing what you have. And he asked to stay out, the time he was losing was not 10 seconds each lap, it was getting better and better, he was just the wrong side of the cut off time.

He would also have the tires up to temp, so he would have been much faster had it worked for him, along with the gamble on an SC to bring him back into it all.

Your conspiracy makes no sense at all.

sums it up

I would say that is what they are hoping for alright.

And De Vries for Alpha Taurie.

I got to announce the double whammy in here cause all you saps are asleep! Finally, living in Canada comes good!

Mick binned it in practice and missed a whole session, still managed to beat his teammate, That's a decent recovery.

What I don't understand is why Hulk is linked to all the seats. Been there done that, time for something new comes to mind

Yes Danial would be the safer and better driver to have in that seat. Hulk had his chances and binned them. He is a great reserve driver but that's it.

The Danniel Ricciardo experiment has been run too. He's out because nobody wants him. Lots of teams had vacancies and none of them have chosen to give him a seat. Time to let him go.

Alpine paying $10m to Alpha Tauri to get Gasly apparently

Bringing the "tractor on track" discussion over here because it's more of a general issue rather than Japanese GP specific. For me personally, the main problem is that, like with any motorway maintenance equipment in fairness, any vehicle that is authorised to enter the track should be lit up like a Christmas tree. It's the lack of lighting on the tractor that's the problem. For instance if there's a serious incident at Blanchimont near the end of the lap at Spa requiring a speedy extraction to save a driver, you could be waiting over 2 minutes for a car that had just gone through La Source to get around, past the incident and get back to the pits. Do you really just wait behind the barriers for that? Hi viz is crucial to motorway maintenance and should be better here.

You'd think that the Suzuka authorities would've learnt their lessons following the previous meeting of an F1 driver and one of their tractors