F1-2022 Round 5: Miami

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It's a street track, if that's what you mean. But the modern street tracks have been better than the old ones. Azerbaijan and Saudi Arabia have made decent races.

I was there years ago and I think I remember thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or evening so the race might be early enough to avoid it. You guys are right it would probably mean a red flag rather than interesting racing.

While it's great to see a bit of positivity coming back to F1 and that the sport is finally finding its feet again after the lost decade caused by the 2014 hybrid formula, the constant praise and over the top commentary I'm seeing around the Miami GP, what a great city it is, what a great track it is, what a great event it is, all the footage of F1 drivers hanging out with random American celebs, all the talk of how F1 is taking over the US, it's all getting a bit tiresome.

Lets hope the race actually lives up to the hype. Personally I'd love to see them go back to Indy, it's such a shame Michelin singlehandedly destroyed F1's reputation there by failing to produce tyres that were fit for purpose.

Ah, that's just part of the game. It's like when a singer tells the crowd that Ireland is their favourite gig and how wonderful Ireland is and how Irish crowds are THE BEST!

You know they say it the next night in England and again in Germany and so on. But it feels good.

Can you think of any GP where they don't lube up the hosts before the race?

It kind of reminds me of sochi. There's one part that goes under the highway, I did see that the original plan was to have the cars racing over one of the bridges there but couldn't get the planning for it. Doesn't seem like it will be that exciting of a race but hopefully it isn't full of crashes and red flags. I think they should stick to tracks already built

Yeah. And then they went on about how wonderful it is to be in Saudi etc. It's just the marketing material. It shouldn't be taken as a serious prediction about the quality of the race.

were listed above but just for clarity, here are the exact Irish times the green light for practice, qualifying and the Grand Prix Formation lap will be.

Friday

FP1, Green light goes on at 19:30

FP2, Green light goes on at 22:30

Saturday

FP3, Green light goes on at 18:00

Q1, Green light goes on at 21:00

Sunday,

Race, Formation lap begins at 20:30

Because of the late start times Channel 4 are getting rightly screwed over. They are holding off showing qualifying highlights until Sunday morning at 8:30am. Race highlights is at 12:30am Monday morning which is the earliest they are allowed to show them. Sky Showcase channel will show qualifying live and highlights also at 1230 am Monday.

So far I can only see Ferrari are suppose to bring something , New floor for Ocon ( Which Alonso already has) and Mercedes are using Fp1 & 2 as a test on some updates.

The rest of the Media/reporting seems to be on the fake marina , who Lewis and Brady got on playing Golf , and how Silverstone got the Marina first .

List from Autosport below , Crash.net is no better . The Race.com is also pretty poor . I assume I will have to wait for the cars to start rolling before anymore real info comes out .

I have got real grumpy HA

What do existing fans want?

Backwards. Pity.

It's the future of road transport. Hydrogen may be the future of heavy goods vehicles, the jury is still out, but electric vehicles are absolutely the future of personal transportation. Hybrid is a complete dead end in all cases and is just something being used to drag out fossil fuel dependence. Maybe synthetic low emission fuels have a future, which is something F1 and some car manufacturers are looking at, but that's a long way from being proven.

Racing however is not road transport. Electric is still problematic in terms of balancing weight against range at high speeds but it will get there eventually. The new FE cars look to be a big step up but still a long way off something like F1. In the meantime the most suitable technology for racing is what should be used for racing, and that is not the current low capacity low rpm engines that can only push in short bursts before needing to recover energy and that have to drag around heavy batteries and energy recovery systems that contribute to the need for conservative tyre management. The actual fuel used by the cars is a miniscule fraction of the fuel used to transport them around the world so if they could triple their fuel consumption without making a dent in the sport's carbon footprint.

Road relevance is all smoke and mirrors and marketing as nothing in F1 is truly road relevant, and nor should it be. It's like forcing footballers to start playing in dress shoes instead of studs to be more street relevant and to get marketing exposure for shoe manufacturers at the cost of the standard of the competition, then to spend hundreds of millions of dollars optimising those dress shoes to work on a pitch so they no longer have anything in common with actual shoes available on the high street, while still being less useful than basic studded boots.

This could get messy

Gen 3 Formula E will be interesting.

Poor baby LewLew

Have a feeling Merc might get a podium this weekend at the expense of some DNF's.

That Gainnbridge wall on exit is going to see a few drivers this weekend.

Ha. If Hamilton wears an earring, does that make it a Prince Albert?

Haha

Are you implying he's a d*ckhead??