Obsessing over the Aston Martin USA GP design (from Instagram, Original Link)
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Rally crosses over to everything imo. Hopefully he does well.
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Hulk and Alonso showing some of that old man speed out there. This should be a close weekend; lots of cars in contention and some outliers like those two.
The Red Bull looks reaaaaal tough to handle. It’s pretty fast but it’s really on knife-edge. You can see that in how Max and Yuki went through the esses in sector 1. Max gets a big snap but is able to hold it, Yuki has the same exact big snap and saves it but just barely and ends up off the road.
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Nobody should be allowed to stop at the end of the pit lane unless the light is red.
line at the F1 hub was long, went pretty quick however.
Don’t quite understand the Snoopy collab?
Went to the LN pop up but they were closed, didn’t have much. Do want to try his Yuzu Melon flavour though.
What a fun Sprint! Oscar botched T1, he should’ve been more aware that he couldn’t make such an aggressive cut back in that situation. I put that on him.
Max is a beast, fun to see George have an aggressive dive. Stoked for Sainz, his pace was about as good as Russell the whole stint and he was able to keep Lewis at bay too.
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Brutal day for Oscar. Is this mental crumbling with pressure?
Magic by Max! Give him a car within 10% of the best car and he will find 11%. It’s a pleasure to watch him in his prime.
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The guy who mentored me in the sport always told me the fastest guys in the high downforce series he raced (significantly over 2:1 downforce to weight ratio) preferred a setup that was very knife edge, very hard to control, and very “front-end positive.”
I won a LOT of races by learning how to drive vehicles like that. Imo, it is extremely difficult because it requires being able to change the car’s attitude on entry at high speed using the brakes.
Very few drivers are comfortable with this. The chassis will usually “snap” when it lets go with a setup like this. Max, despite being a dirty driver imo, is a phenomenal talent in being able to handle cars like this.
It makes a lot of sense when you think about fighter pilots. The reason computers had to be brought in was due to the planes having smaller and smaller aspect ratios. Makes them more manueverable, but a short wheelbase Miata at 200mph will be inherently very unstable.
”Can’t beat a cowboy who knows how to ride a crazy horse” at the end of the day is how I think about it.
Great description @Ghost1 . How do you change the attitude with the brakes in a car like that? Does braking gently make the car rotate faster because you’re shifting weight forward? I’m guessing you have to brake just a bit on entry to get it to rotate, but let off smoothly as soon as it starts to rotate too quickly?
I feel like the switch back from Oscar was a good move, but unfortunately Hulk was there. It is not like he had much of the choice, considering how Lando sent it. Oscar needs to up his aggression, because Lando is going all-in
It depends on the corner and the vehicle setup for the track. Generally speaking I do like to come in very fast to corners and then use a combination of braking in a straight line and trail braking to get initial rotation. But it does depend on the corner. Obviously, this is a technique for corners that require slowing down and a decent change of yaw angle.
An example of this is Turn 1 at Willow Springs International Raceway. I was driving a sports car with a two time Le Mans champion years ago and I was running about 0.700 second faster than him. This driver made a point to come up to me after testing and asked me, “Are you rotating the car on the brakes into turn one?” To which I replied yes. He was very shocked and did not really say anything back to me.
Apparently this was one of the things I was doing that allowed me to go faster than him, and he was not able to do it due to not being comfortable with the car letting go quickly at the limit.
Some food for thought. Study aviation and aspect ratios if you want to learn more about this stuff. It is a great topic!
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Best realistically possible result this weekend for an interesting championship fight. I’m thrilled. I didn’t think Lando would get that second overtake on Charles. Gritty drives from both of them under pressure.
Lando is my pick for WDC. I’ll be rooting for Max, but that gap is still huge and one misfortune like a stuck wheel nut or guessing wrong on rain tires will end his hopes.
If Max wins this WDC and never wins another one, would you have him on par with Lewis and Schumacher legacy wise?
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I agree, though the race was boring, the implications from Max winning, Oscar having an off weekend, and Lando tightening the gap to Oscar makes the battle a bit more interesting. I love Max when he’s up against it; just driving at a very high level right now and making McLaren nervous. He is getting bigger in their mirrors and could take this to the last race if he keeps this up.
I think Oscar will ultimately hold onto it, but there are some cracks starting to show the past few races.
Max is already an all-time great. Senna only has three titles and he’s considered one of the greatest if not THE greatest.
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Senna has three, but I take your point. Titles aren’t everything, and I know many people have Senna and Clark above guys like Schumacher and Hamilton and Fangio. For me, Max is still a tick below Schumacher and Hamilton just because I am impressed by the longevity and adaptability those two showed by winning under many different regulations with different teams and remaining competitive in old age.
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Max is a two-category World Champion. He raced at GT3 and won at nords during a F1 world title potential season. He is also a top-level sim racer. His motorsport legacy is assured already, many times over.
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“Cybersecurity researchers Gal Nagli, Ian Carroll, and Sam Curry have disclosed a severe vulnerability in a critical Driver Categorisation portal (“driverscategorisation.fia[.]com”) managed by the International Automobile Federation (FIA) that could make it possible to access the sensitive data associated with every Formula 1 (F1) driver, including passport, driver’s license, and personal information”
How would one best prank Kimi via identity theft?
I can’t wait to see how RB will fare with all their new parts. Go Max!
%@%@#%#@%#@%@ FIA
What fricken boneheads with the VSC at the end of the race. Ruined it completely for second.
Well done Norris though, as well as Bearman.
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Yeah that was completely stupid. The whole field passed Carlos once already and he was behind a barrier… let them race by him once more.
But Ollie effing Bearman! 
What a chaotic race. Without that last VSC I think Max would’ve gotten Charles.
Strange strategy offsets today. Huge gaps.
I don’t know why Alpine bothers showing up. They were 30 sec behind Carlos who had multiple penalties… horrendous car.
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