F1 2023
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yeah hope that tyre didn't hit anyone the other side of that stand.
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This should be good.
spitfire
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Max Verstappen wins wet Monaco F1 GP to stretch world championship lead
Verstappen leads Sergio Pérez by 39 points in the driver standings after his win in Monaco where Fernando Alonso finished second
"After what had been a gripping qualifying on Saturday, a fearsome, thrilling, sudden-death shootout that was impossible to ignore, the race for a large part of the afternoon had every indication of delivering the usual line-astern anticlimax on the streets of the principality. F1’s long‑acclaimed jewel in the crown once more revealed to be a dusty, flawed, shabby piece of paste, changing hands in the back room of a pub. "
He's not wrong but I still like it.
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1%er
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Mercedes give update on upgrade schedule after Monaco GP
Mercedes technical director James Allison has said that the team have plenty more upgrades in the pipeline as they continue to search for the performance they need to reel in Red Bull. The W14 has not closed the gap to the team from Milton Keynes as much as the Silver Arrows would have wanted, prompting them to head into a different direction in terms of car design. Indeed, in Monaco the most noticeable change was around the sidepods, with a more conventional set-up coming in to replace the 'zero-pod' concept that they had initially persisted with, though a lot more work has gone on aside from that immediately obvious tweak.Mercedes have more to come in the races ahead, though, as they try and get themselves back in the fight at the front of the field, and Allison has revealed as much via Mercedes' post-Monaco debrief: "We certainly will settle back and look at what the Monaco upgrade package has brought us at a more normal track, but we will also push on in parallel with a whole bunch of more things. There will be a little bit we are bringing to Barcelona and many more things in the races that follow. We can't afford just to do everything sequentially, although there is a sort of academic purity to that, it's just too slow a way of going ahead. The upgrades will keep coming, we hopefully have a decent package to build upon with what we put on the track in Monaco, and then we just step forward from here up to the summer break and beyond."
As we now work our way into the European stretch of the campaign, we are going to see a host of upgrades on each of the ten teams' cars as they go in pursuit of that all-important extra tenths of a second per lap. Red Bull are the team they are all trying to catch, though, and that will be the case this weekend at the Spanish GP. It's an ideal weekend for Mercedes to get a handle on how their changed car is performing, meawhile, with the track layout far more typical than in Monte-Carlo, and so it should be interesting to see what data they can accrue about the car and, from that, just how far off they remain from current dominant force Red Bull.
1%er
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New African venue in line for a Grand Prix
Formula 1 has been in discussions recently about returning to Africa, and now it has emerged that Zanzibar is a surprise candidate to host a race. According to Italian publication Sportface.it, there will be an investment totalling around 500million Euros from the Zanzibar Investment Promotion Authority, with the aim of staging a race on a custom-built track. There is hope the race brings extra tourism to the island which sits just to the east of mainland Tanzania in the Indian Ocean.It is even getting approval from members of the Tanzanian government as excitement for the potential race builds. “We are delighted and honored to have the blessing of His Excellency the President of Zanzibar and Chairman of the Revolutionary Council to introduce motorsport to Zanzibar," said Toufiq Salim Turky, deputy spokesperson for the project. "It will be the game-changer not for the race itself, but because it will bring Africa and Zanzibar onto the world stage of tourism and services."
F1 keen on expanding to Africa
Currently, Africa is the only continent on the planet which does not hold an F1 race and the news that Zanzibar is keen to host one could be music to the ears of the powers that be. The track in Zanizibar would take between four and six years to be built and could be up to 7km in length, making it one of the longest circuits on the calendar. Alongside the track itself, there are plans for a go kart track and water park as well as hotels and a natural park.
All this comes at the same time as South Africa's bid to host an F1 race once again with a return to the Kyalami venue mooted. There hasn't been a race there since 1993 when Alain Porst won in his title-winning farewell season. A race there is a popular prospect with Lewis Hamilton among the current backers for a race in Africa, though Zanzibar could ultimately provide some competition.
[These are the "new venues" reported over the last couple of years according to my post-it note, where I record when I hear about a new venue in the press
Tunisia, USA (Miami, New York, Milwaukee, New Jersey, Las Vegas, Daytona, California, Laguna Seca, Sonoma Raceway), Portugal Macau, Norway, Denmark, UK central London, Stratford and Cadrdiff (Silverstone), Korea, Turkey, Soth Africa, Argentina, Netherlands (Zandvoort, Assen)Saudi Arabia, Rio, Moroco, Angola, St Petersburg, Jerez, Panama, Colombia, Madrid, Zanzibar. If I have missed any please let me know ]
1%er
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Rivals ‘dismayed’ at Red Bull floor complexity
Rival Formula 1 teams are “dismayed” as much as they are excited about the details of dominant Red Bull’s newly-revealed car floor. At Monaco, the underbody of Mercedes’ 2023 car was also revealed to scores of photographers when a crane lifted it up. “Red Bull will certainly have been more annoyed than us because they have more to reveal than we do,” said Mercedes’ Toto Wolff. “If you want to copy our floor, I say ‘go for it!'”Indeed, the behind-the-scenes buzz is that Red Bull’s rivals are fascinated with the complexity and intricacy of the floor but also the blackened colouring of the plank – indicating the extent to which the car touches the ground. “There must be one or more clever aerodynamic and mechanical tricks going on,” Auto Motor und Sport correspondent Andreas Haupt said. Dr Helmut Marko is confident Red Bull’s rivals do not understand those secrets. “The floor is very important,” he said, “but if you don’t have an understanding of the other parts, copying is extremely difficult.”
Williams’ performance boss Dave Robson agrees. “I took a quick look at the floor of the Red Bull,” he admits. “It’s so complex and curved that you can hardly draw any conclusions with two-dimensional photos, because it also depends on how the light falls.” F1 correspondent Haupt, however, thinks Red Bull’s rivals will actually be more concerned than confused. “We hear that the competitors are somewhat dismayed at how much further along and how much more complicated the underbody of the Red Bull is,” he said.
[I think a number of teams missed a trick when Ground Effects was reintroduced into F1 at the last rule change. The lower the presure underneath the car the more its sucked down towards the ground (or pushed down is the term they use in F1) iirc it was Colin Chapman and his team at Lotus that first came up with the idea in the late 70's and it was quickly banned by F1, guess why? Porpoising was one of the main reasons. Clearly Adrian Newey went back and looked at how teams of the 70's dealt with porpoising and appears to have got it right]
Limejuice
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Nico Bloody Rosberg is infecting FP3 on Sky.
Happily, I have taken delivery of my brand new mute-button pressing device.
Haha! Prattle away, Rosberg!
Happily, I have taken delivery of my brand new mute-button pressing device.
Haha! Prattle away, Rosberg!
