oh yeah, should be quite the season. My 4 year old loves Ferrari so he’s pumped for tomorrow. I was happy to see Valterri put up a good lap in his post Mercedes’ era

 

No, I was in a bilge all day doing wiring, installations, and cleaning.

 

I didn’t say anything about it because I didn’t want to spoil any info. I’m glad to see a mix up of cars. I wished McLaren would have performed better. HAAS with Magnussen, and Botas looked good in the Alpha.

 

Avid 45 year F1 fan here. Also long time Ferrari fan. Did watch qualifying yesterday and what breath of fresh air that was. Last season was one of the best I've watched even tho I don't agree with the outcome. I hope this season proves as competitive.


Very surprised with Mercedes and McLaren performances, especially McLaren.

Oh, and Daniel is losing time for excuses. He's getting his butt handed to him on a platter by Norris.

 

Been an on and off F1 watcher. Actually went to the Detroit Grand Prix twice while working for Cars & Concepts. Nothin going on this morning so I'll try to remember to watch. I missed Sebring yesterday.

 

Sebring was entertaining. One of Wayne Taylors guys inexplicably went through the penalty box area at the end of pit lane not through the RFID scanner at pit out. Got them a drive through penalty and probably cost them the win. Then NBC sent one of their guys over to get Taylor's thoughts on the matter - I thought Taylor was was going to jack the reporter....

 

How are you guys watching F1 these days? It is not broadcast on any of the big three? Do you need to subscribe to F1? I used to watch only F1 and then some how migrated to Indy and Nascsar. Caught a few F1 races in Longbeach back in the day but in recent years I rarely find myself with time in the middle of the day to watch anything on TV especially after I bought the 506! Something is wrong here, I should be spending time on the boat doing nothing not doing a second career Carpe Diem

 

ESPN has the US contract so it’s always on there, streamable on their app too. F1 TV is another option, and I think you can stream it with Sky Sports with some provider logins.

 

great race!

 

I am not in the F1 Club. The cars are awesome.

I am a huge racing fan. As I have said in other threads I have been to over 150 IndyCar and NASCAR, F1 races. When Formula One first came to Indianapolis I bought 10 season tickets. We went until after the 2005 race.

Saturday before the race I was out of town photographing a wedding. I drove into town the morning of the race. The race started I watched the cars drive around and then on the second lap there were only six cars. I called up a friend of mine and asked him what the hell was going on. He told me about the tires.

People were pissed. While I was walking around I talked with fans and apologized that they had come from afar to watch this crap.
https://www.cnn.com/2012/11/07/sport/motorsport/motorsport-us-grand-prix-barrichello/index.html


I also remember three years earlier when the leader(Schumacher)slowed down on the last lap and the other guy won.

“But in his effort to right a wrong today, Schumacher engineered a fraudulent finish”’

He did this because of the race in Australia. Where by team orders one driver pulled over to let the other one win.

That is not racing. It is a scripted movie. It is not what I pay money to see.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...o-wins-grand-prix-with-schumachers-assist/59af8338-5208-4685-9d3b-890741417355/

 

I am not in the F1 Club. The cars are awesome.

I am a huge racing fan. As I have said in other threads I have been to over 150 IndyCar and NASCAR, F1 races. When Formula One first came to Indianapolis I bought 10 season tickets. We went until after the 2005 race.

Saturday before the race I was out of town photographing a wedding. I drove into town the morning of the race. The race started I watched the cars drive around and then on the second lap there were only six cars. I called up a friend of mine and asked him what the hell was going on. He told me about the tires.

People were pissed. While I was walking around I talked with fans and apologized that they had come from afar to watch this crap.
https://www.cnn.com/2012/11/07/sport/motorsport/motorsport-us-grand-prix-barrichello/index.html


I also remember three years earlier when the leader(Schumacher)slowed down on the last lap and the other guy won.

“But in his effort to right a wrong today, Schumacher engineered a fraudulent finish”’

He did this because of the race in Australia. Where by team orders one driver pulled over to let the other one win.

That is not racing. It is a scripted movie. It is not what I pay money to see.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...o-wins-grand-prix-with-schumachers-assist/59af8338-5208-4685-9d3b-890741417355/

This crap happens in all forms of motorsport - I think it was Clint Boyer in Nascar that did an intentional spin to bring out a yellow after some 'coded' conversations between him and his crew chief. The yellow aided his team mate.

As for the Indy F1 Michelien, by their own admission, discovered they did not have tires that could stand up to Indianapolis corner loads and since no one really looks forward to dying, the guys on Michelins did not race, the guys on Bridgestones did.

 

I cut the cord on cable several years ago and now subscribe to F1 TV (https://f1tv.formula1.com/). It's has great content and you watch when and where you want. It costs about $70 for an annual subscription. Just to add live TV to hulu is $70 a month!

All sports have their controversies and certainly F1 hasn't been immune. The Indy race was a joke, the rain shortened 'race' of last year was ridiculous, and the drama on the last race of last year that decided a championship wasn't its finest hour either.

That said, @MrHappy , you're throwing NASCAR out there as purity of sport?? Please. Fake yellows to bunch everyone up. Purposely pushing competitors into the wall to take them out, fabricated driver drama, etc. It's like the WWE of auto racing.

Indy cars on road courses are great to watch. Even though been to Indy 7 times and many TMS races here locally I just can't get excited about oval racing.

 

I cut the cord on cable several years ago and now subscribe to F1 TV (https://f1tv.formula1.com/). It's has great content and you watch when and where you want. It costs about $70 for an annual subscription. Just to add live TV to hulu is $70 a month!

All sports have their controversies and certainly F1 hasn't been immune. The Indy race was a joke, the rain shortened 'race' of last year was ridiculous, and the drama on the last race of last year that decided a championship wasn't its finest hour either.

That said, @MrHappy , you're throwing NASCAR out there as purity of sport?? Please. Fake yellows to bunch everyone up. Purposely pushing competitors into the wall to take them out, fabricated driver drama, etc. It's like the WWE of auto racing.

Indy cars on road courses are great to watch. Even though been to Indy 7 times and many TMS races here locally I just can't get excited about oval racing.

I said that I had been to over 150 races. I quit going to NASCAR about 15 years ago. I used to tape them and watch every race. I haven’t watched a race in probably eight years.

 

Great race. Cant wait to find out what happened to the Red Bulls.
Wollf said he's Taking a chainsaw' to the Mercs.
If Mercedes and Red Bull figure out what is wrong with their cars, and Ferrari keeps cranking along, this could be a great year.
And Kevin Magnussen takes 5th in a car he had never driven a little over a week ago?! - Go Haas!

 

Wow , what a race - just finished it. 3 Red Bull/ Hondas detonated. I hope they figure it out. Good for Ferrari, I hope they have a banner year. Haas turned out which was great. Merc looks solid and ready to build up. Still bummed out about McLaren. Hope they figure it out.

 

The Max/Leclerc battle right after the first round of pitstops was epic. Shows the new cars do indeed to much better following than before.

 

@OllieC maybe add "(Spoiler Alert)" to your title and then we can all come back and check in as the season progresses.

 

I love it, let’s keep this going.

I’m loosely coupled to the Aston team by way of corporate sponsorship so I root for them. Hoping Seb comes back healthy and they can figure out that power unit and whatever else ails them. that car looked really slow

 

I hope that I'm not highjacking this thread, but I have a question.....

The Admiral and I will be on a Med Cruise this May and our boat will spend two nights in Monaco which corresponds to the Saturday and Sunday of the Grand Prix. We've been to Daytona 500 once and we appreciate racing via NASCAR. This would be our first F1 race. Since it is stupid expensive there, would you take this once in a lifetime type experience and just go for it? I've checked with some concierge services out of London, and depending from where you watch the race, including food and drinks, it can run almost $4,000 per couple. Maybe I'm answering my own question!

I'm looking forward to your responses.

Jaybeaux

 

If it were me, yes. You may be able to find a general admission ticket which could be less. Although we just bought COTA tickets and they completely sold out in a day. General and seats that is, there may be some club passes left.

 

@copb8tx We are sailing on Silver Seas line.

 

We did a Silver Seas cruise. I'll never do any other cruise company after that. We were on the Silver Muse. Less than 600 passengers. A butler. Outstanding cruise company

 

Susan is a big Max fan. We’ll watch it tonight on the DVR when I get home.

 

I am an old Alfa Romeo romantic so was very happy to see the two Alfas end up with points. It will be fun to see how they do this season. Maybe I'll get inspired to get my 69 Duetto Spyder back together. Not holding my breath on that.

 

Is anyone watching Moto GP?
I finally got to watch the race but whoooooly crap did Marc Marquez take a ride in warm up.
Spoiler alert, he waked away with only a concussion.

 

holy shit. glad he's ok

 

So, who do we like in Saudi?!

 

Sure looks like Ferrari or Red Bull...

 

We have a company wide F1 fantasy league (the winner gets a pair of tickets to a race). I had Max last week and considered dropping him but if they get the issues worked out I can't see him not competing this week

 

I was happy to see Haas finally finish in the top 10!!

 

Especially since I can wear my high-dollar shirt and cap again!

 

“
Saudi Arabian Grand Prix: F1 drivers agree to race despite security concerns after missile attack”

https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/60885031

 

2 hour qualifying. Yikes! (Not posting much trying not to ruin it for others) Massive red flag tho.

 

Big day today. Checo is on pole and NASCAR is at COTA in Austin.

 

Big Max fan here. What a great race, except for Checko. Max vs Charles is gonna be a lot of fun this season. These new cars are what we needed. Hopefully they can sort out the porpoising.

 

Another great finish, strategy is going to evolve quickly with these new cars. Bummer to wait two weeks for the Australian but cool that the teams get some extra time to pour over the data and sort some stuff out