F1 2023 thread

Yeah but... firing one driver in a season looks like the driver made a balls of it. Firing 2 drivers in a season looks like AT made a balls of it.

Its gas looking at some of the older threads in here from 2005 and 2006.

Was there no General discussion threads back then? I could not find any. Just one from 2005 about the disgrace F1 had made of itself at the 2005 American race and who should be sacked which never happened.

Also one from early 2006 about who will win the Championship that year and not one person had voted for Alonso that year which is crazy considering he had just won it in 2005.

Everyone thought it would be Schumacher or Kimi or Montoya.

It seems like a whole different World looking back at them. So different back then. I always felt so sorry for Kimi. He came so close in the Mclaren so many times except for the terrible reliability of it he should have been at least a 3 or 4 time WDC winner but at least he got one with Ferrari.

I wonder what he is doing these days?

It's a wonder he's not affiliated with any of these SIM teams I half know about.

Lando Norris has this Team Quadrant on the go who occasionally have their logo on his helmet and Lewis Hamilton has a long running association with Gran Turismo.

The next three weekends will be busy busy.

San Marino: 21st May.

Monaco: 28th May.

Spain: 4th June.

I am hoping for an Alonso win at Monaco.

Track staff have been evacuated from Imola, sounds like the situation there is pretty nuts!

The river beside the track is nearly up over its banks and there's a shedload more rain forecast, I saw a video of it on the F1 subreddit.

No race it is so it would certainly be better than the joke that was Spa 2021.

So I just seen something about Ayrton Senna that I did not know. It was before my time but I never knew he saved another drivers life. The man really is a legend.

no idea who that other driver is. Never heard of him. Must Wiki him.

What driver do you think woukd do this today racing or who was racing recently?

My 3 picks are Vettel, Alonso and Button.

Russell bust a gut to get to Zhou last year at Silverstone to make sure he was ok!

I think most drivers would. I remember Irvine jumping out to help Luciano Burti in Spa a few years ago, or Vettel stopping to check in on Norris at the same place a couple of years ago too. In reality though it's a very different era now in terms of safety - drivers are far less likely to be knocked out, cars are less liable to suddenly burst into flames and marshals are usually on hand much quicker and have better training so there's not really that much another driver would be able to do most of the time, they'd potentially just be getting in the way.

According to Reddit / Twitter that photo was actually taken at the track this morning.

Wonder how big an impact the race cancellation will have on Merc and their attempts to get back to being competitive. Imola was supposed to bring the first major upgrades, and be used to confirm their directions. Monaco is next up and while I don't doubt the same upgrades will be brought, I can't imagine hte data they would get at Monaco will be anywhere near as valuable as basically any other circuit. So will the effectively be two race weekends behind in their attempts now?

They were meant to be quickest in slow corners the last few races from what I remember. I think monaco would have been strong for them without the upgrades.

They'll try to reschedule it. Otherwise they'll probably have to give back the ticket money. Could cost the track a fortune.

It's not likely they'll be able to reschedule. Pity the Chinese gp break wasn't late in the season. Might have been able to fit it in then.