Formula 1...

[IceCreamMan]

High noon….( well here anyway)

[MrJacques]

Schedule for the year (may change) with local times:

Sunday, 20 March 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix Bahrain International Circuit 17:00
Sunday, 27 March 2022 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix Jeddah Corniche Circuit 19:00
Sunday, 10 April 2022 Australian Grand Prix Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit-Albert Park 07:00
Sunday, 24 April 2022 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari 15:00 
Sunday, 08 May 2022 Miami Grand Prix Miami International Autodrome 21:30
Sunday, 22 May 2022 Spanish Grand Prix Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya 15:00
Sunday, 29 May 2022 Monaco Grand Prix Circuit de Monaco 15:00
Sunday, 12 June 2022 Azerbaijan Grand Prix Baku City Circuit 13:00
Sunday, 19 June 2022 Canadian Grand Prix Circuit Gilles Villeneuve 20:00
Sunday, 03 July 2022 British Grand Prix Silverstone Circuit 16:00
Sunday, 10 July 2022 Austrian Grand Prix Red Bull Ring 15:00
Sunday, 24 July 2022 French Grand Prix Circuit Paul Ricard 15:00
Sunday, 31 July 2022 Hungarian Grand Prix Hungaroring 15:00
Sunday, 28 August 2022 Belgian Grand Prix Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps 15:00
Sunday, 04 September 2022 Dutch Grand Prix Circuit Zandvoort 15:00
Sunday, 11 September 2022 Italian Grand Prix Autodromo Nazionale Monza 15:00
Sunday, 02 October 2022 Singapore Grand Prix Marina Bay Street Circuit 14:00
Sunday, 09 October 2022 Japanese Grand Prix Suzuka International Racing Course 07:00
Sunday, 23 October 2022 United States Grand Prix Circuit of the Americas 21:00
Sunday, 30 October 2022 Mexico City Grand Prix Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez 22:00
Sunday, 13 November 2022 Brazilian Grand Prix Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace (Interlagos) 20:00
Sunday, 20 November 2022 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Yas Marina Circuit 15:00

Edited March 18, 2022 by MrJacques

[BaGearA]

Yikes Redbull en Ferrari looking very strong , Merc behind but not by much 

[IceCreamMan]

Mick and Dan got problems. 
‘Ferrari’ cars ahead of “Merc” cars. Interesting. 
 

 

[justinafrika]

Coulthard:  “The Mercedes seemed to be off the pace."

Verstappen:  “Very. Very!"

 

[JCA12]

Awesome quali by Bottas and KMag.

Bottas very close to Hamilton's quali time.

[JCA12]

8 minutes ago, justinafrika said:

Coulthard:  “The Mercedes seemed to be off the pace."

Verstappen:  “Very. Very!"

 

 

Netflix will be making notes...

[Frosty]

On 3/17/2022 at 8:26 AM, MrJacques said:

For those of you who miss the chrome McLarens of previous years, your wish has been granted a there is now another chrome McLaren....

McLaren Racing - McLaren Racing announces major multi-year partnership with Google

 

For me, this is what I mentally think of when someone mentions McLaren

[IceCreamMan]

Sweet movie on Netflix called Moseley. Some nice history and footage of kyalami too

[JCA12]

Well that didn't go to plan for Redbull and Alpha Tauri. 

Congrats to Ferrari. They have a very sorted race car.

 

[mecheng89]

22 hours ago, JCA12 said:

Well that didn't go to plan for Redbull and Alpha Tauri. 

Congrats to Ferrari. They have a very sorted race car.

 

Sainz and Le Clerq raced what seems to be a flawless race. Well done to them. The best team won. 

[Vetplant]

I'm a little bit disappointed in the failure of the RB's, but that is largely offset by the good looking Red machines bossing the entire weekend.

Reliability is the number one thing that can scupper all your efforts. Finishing 4th is a solid compromise instead of your car failing 2 laps from the finish and not scoring any points at all. LH will be relatively content with a head-start on Max for the season fight.

Fingers crossed RB can find the cause of the problem so we can have a 3-manufacturer fight for the title this season.

[RoddieJ]

Seems secrets out, but the denial continues...

With Red Bull describing the issue as a "fuel pick-up problem", which could be seen as clever wording - after all, no fuel to pick up can cause a "fuel pick-up problem" - RacingNews365.comasked the team to address the rumours about their fuel loads.

Whatever the case, I for one wouldn’t be surprised...

So, on to Jeddah we go!

[MrJacques]

1 hour ago, RoddieJ said:

Seems secrets out, but the denial continues...

With Red Bull describing the issue as a "fuel pick-up problem", which could be seen as clever wording - after all, no fuel to pick up can cause a "fuel pick-up problem" - RacingNews365.comasked the team to address the rumours about their fuel loads.

Whatever the case, I for one wouldn’t be surprised...

So, on to Jeddah we go!

The title is a bit clickbait-y because it's still speculation, but Scarbs also knows his stuff and it's likely that the new E-10 fuel is at least partly to blame. Scarb's theory of a vapour lock causing pickup issues could be accurate.

Apparently RB also didn't really do low fuel runs with testing / practice.

Edited March 22, 2022 by MrJacques

[justinafrika]

Nice to see Alfa Romeo doing unexpectedly well with even the rookie Zhou placing well.  Am a bit of an AR fanboy having had a few quick ones.  Zhou tenth in his debut race, what’s (edit: who’s) the highest placing rookie in his debut F1 event (edit: and where did they place)?

Edited March 24, 2022 by justinafrika

[IceCreamMan]

21 minutes ago, justinafrika said:

Nice to see Alfa Romeo doing unexpectedly well with even the rookie Zhou placing well.  Am a bit of an AR fanboy having had a few quick ones.  Zhou tenth in his debut race, what’s (edit: who’s) the highest placing rookie in his debut F1 event?

in my “era” from 80s I would say Villeneve or Hamilton. Both scored well. Magnussen did too iirc.