Anton Chigurh

All the young drivers are pretty great, really (except Mazepin). Jury is still out on Mick, but he’s doing okay so far. The grid is super talented right now nearly from top to bottom (only a few exceptions). We will see some more quick guys in the coming years as well (I rate Piastri really high in F2). I actually think Stroll has really shown he belongs here as well. Mazepin, to me, is kinda who we all thought Stroll would be.

Looks like teams were trying double warmup laps for the soft tires. We will probably see that in Q.

Firstly, there are 5 compounds to choose from. They call them C1 to C5, hardest to softest. Pirelli decides which 3 to bring to a race weekend depending on the circuit characteristics (abrasive or smooth) and the location temperature/climate. Typically they bring 3 consecutive compounds in order (like this week they have C1, 2, and 3), but sometimes they skip one and may do something like C1, C2, and C4. Regardless, these are always marked with corresponding colors, red is softest tire for the weekend, yellow is medium, white is hardest. They also being intermediate and full wet tires (compounds of these are always the same and do not change) just in case. Teams get 13 sets of tires for a weekend. Pirelli will specify two sets that must be saved for the race (typically one set each of the two harder compounds), and one set of the softest compound is saved for qualifying. For the other 10, the teams used to be able to choose what they wanted, but last year and this year Pirelli has made that decision for easier logistics during pandemic times. So, for example, each car may have something like 8 soft, 3 medium, and 2 hard sets for practice, qualifying, and race. Teams then give back two (used) sets to Pirelli after FP1, 2 after FP2, and 2 after FP3. Pirelli will study these used tires to see how they wore to help gather data for the future. That leaves 7 sets left for Q and the race (including the three mandatory sets as described above). So, taking the two mandatory race sets away, teams will typically want to save another new set of tires for the race as well, leaving 4 sets for Q. For the top teams, that usually means using 1 in Q1, 1 in Q2, and 2 in Q3. However, if you make it to Q3, you actually get one more set of soft tires to use (a 14th set). Sometimes teams will make a run on used tires in some of the Q sessions as well, or, if they didn’t get a clean run in, may have to use another one of their new soft sets which means they may no longer have that extra new set for the race (but can still use used tires for it). So in the end, the teams usually end up with 3 new sets (and 4 used sets) for the race, but they will always have 2 at minimum. For cars that made it to Q3, they are required to start on the tires that their Q2 time was set with. This is why you see some teams try to use a harder medium compound to make it into Q3 with, since starting the race on a harder tire opens up more strategy options. Everyone else behind the top 10 on the grid can choose whichever tire of the sets they have left to start the race on. Sorry that was long, but I think I got most of it. There’s some other rules that come in to play when it’s wet, like being able to trade some of your dry sets for intermediate or wet sets, but I don’t remember them exactly.

This is correct. And Roku isn’t really innocent here. YTTV wants to be able to have voice search that works just in their app only (instead of all of Roku), and they want a new codec to be used that works better, but it would require Roku to use more expensive chipsets to decode it. Both are at fault, but it’s all about dumb shit.

A) I don’t think RB would let AT go. B) I’m not sure that Andretti wants to spend that much (do they even have that much to spend?). Buying a team costs quite a bit to start with, and even at a $145m cap budget, that’s the cost of like 10-15 full season Indycars.

Double.

Hey, I know that spot. Did you go to the hot springs? Good stuff.

The SQ is a farce. It will remove tire parity, as well as essentially put the cars in their natural order for the main event, even if they qualify further down the grid originally.

Watching this stream right now. https://mickfleetwoodandfriends.com/#info

Merc doing one of their tests for the 18” wheels next year. I don’t mind them, but I wish they were not going to have the goofy aero covers.

Hell yeah!

Nope, you pretty much got it. The stewards’ ruling said as much (though it was still a racing incident of course).

Not sure why they didn’t put a new set on at the first stop. Conditions were fine for slicks but seems like everyone else used a new set. Then when he came in for the stop after going off, he got a new set of mediums and a new nose. On the restart I believe he was on those same mediums to the end.

Lol, Davide Valsecchi. He is very.....passionate. Right before he went on, you could hear Brundle go “I hope he has his rev limiter on”....lol. He’s a former driver. Actually won GP2 back in the day. I believe he calls the races for Sky Italy.

Also, sounded like Max broke a diff or axle when going over the curbs earlier.

Yep. Mazespin also spun, and later crashed, too.

China (April 11) was canceled, so Imola (April 18) was added and split the difference between China’s date and the already canceled Vietnam race slot (April 25), then the Vietnam slot was then given to Portimão (May 2nd), one week later than the original date. There are like 3 back-to-back to-backs later in the year though. The second half of the schedule after the summer break is loaded. I bet we still lose a few races, however. Canada probably isn’t likely to happen.

Well this is an old thread resurrection! Can’t remember if I posted this one.

Check the date.

Is it new camera day yet?!?!

They made him seem pretty intimidating to work for in DTS. I don’t know how much of that is real, but yeah.

Bracketing! One may be good enough, or you can make a composite image with them. LR and PS have great native tools for this.

Ahem.

Hamilton was also faster in S3.