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  On 11/26/2021 at 6:01 PM, Prepuce of Doom said:

Sorry if already posted - I'm a few races behind and have been generally successful at avoiding spoilers, so while I haven't opened this thread in weeks, I thought this was too much fun not to share... 

Sound on. 

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That. Is. Awesome.

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Sir Frank says another lap, you go another lap. Loved when he said “overtake them.”

His team won nine constructors titles, seven drivers titles on his watch. Legend.

Requiescat in pace.

 

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  On 11/30/2021 at 2:13 AM, Chewbacca said:
  On 11/29/2021 at 7:44 PM, FirstTimeCaller said:
I thought the Lando and Daniel bits were the funniest there. All of the voices seemed dead-on.
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Kimi was great, too.

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Yeah, second thought that might be the best. With it being second, I wasn't sure that it wasn't Kimi versus the same guy doing the Will Buxton bit.

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So any word on Jeddah about what we can expect for racing? I'm not jazzed about the whole Saudi Arabia hosting, but will admit that the track all lit up looks very cool. Also heard it's full throttle 80% of the lap. Will cars be going with Monza setups?

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  On 11/30/2021 at 7:51 PM, FirstTimeCaller said:

So any word on Jeddah about what we can expect for racing? I'm not jazzed about the whole Saudi Arabia hosting, but will admit that the track all lit up looks very cool. Also heard it's full throttle 80% of the lap. Will cars be going with Monza setups?

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Good question. I think they will probably opt for a lower downforce set up because turn 13 and 27 are going to be pretty slow but everything else is fast

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  On 11/30/2021 at 7:51 PM, FirstTimeCaller said:

So any word on Jeddah about what we can expect for racing? I'm not jazzed about the whole Saudi Arabia hosting, but will admit that the track all lit up looks very cool. Also heard it's full throttle 80% of the lap. Will cars be going with Monza setups?

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I think it's gonna be interesting & you may see teams going with different solutions in terms of how much downforce they apply. It's a very fast track, but there are long sections of one medium/fast turn after the next, so a relatively higher downforce setup in some cars could help them fend off the cars that are faster on the straights.

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  On 12/2/2021 at 9:08 PM, XYZ said:

What is that?

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Saw a headline that Alpine was going with a Castrol livery. 

Also, Yahoo is a sponsor? Seems... strange.

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Ham with the rainbow helmet and Seb with rainbow customized chucks for the weekend.

Seb hosted a women's kart event.


2nd longest track and 2nd fastest track, encased in walls. 27 marked corners. Expecting chaos.

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From Reddit: What is the threat of a Houthi missile attack on the Saudi Arabia Grand Prix: An analysis

this specific comment is from one of the authors

http://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/r78axn/what_is_the_threat_of_a_houthi_missile_attack_on/hmxlgej/

long, so spoilering it

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I have to rephrase my TLDR, because I kind of contradicted myself. The likelihood of the militants being able and ready to launch an attack against Jeddah during the GP is high, but having the capability does not automatically translate into deciding to execute the strike.

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Haven't seen anything but speculation about being "operational" in nature. Not sure how this will affect Formula 1, but for a brand new track it would have been nice to have some rubbering in from other competitions. 

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Just watched an onboard lap. Man those walls seem close. And I'm not sure where there would be much passing at this point. 

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Yeah, I feel it's gonna be not if we get a safety car but how many.

Someone will get out on the marbles and with the walls being so close, game over. That said, it doesn't look as terrible as I was expecting.

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FWIW (and I know it's not much), but Lewis led Max by 0.367s at Brazil in FP1.

We had Alonso on the podium; is it too much to ask the F1 gods for a Kimi podium in the next two races?

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  On 12/3/2021 at 4:31 PM, Dutch said:

We had Alonso on the podium; is it too much to ask the F1 gods for a Kimi podium in the next two races?

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I think this is the only hope for Kimi happening...
 

 

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  On 12/3/2021 at 4:24 PM, faps said:

Yeah, I feel it's gonna be not if we get a safety car but how many.

Someone will get out on the marbles and with the walls being so close, game over. That said, it doesn't look as terrible as I was expecting.

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Yeah, in addition the odds of someone binning it in Q3 seem pretty high.  

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  On 12/3/2021 at 4:31 PM, Dutch said:

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FWIW (and I know it's not much), but Lewis led Max by 0.367s at Brazil in FP1.

We had Alonso on the podium; is it too much to ask the F1 gods for a Kimi podium in the next two races?

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it's hilarious the difference between #1 and #17 (~1.73 seconds) is the same as the difference between #19 and Mazepin (~1.64 seconds)

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  On 12/3/2021 at 4:40 PM, NoName said:

it's hilarious the difference between #1 and #17 (~1.73 seconds) is the same as the difference between #19 and Mazepin (~1.64 seconds)

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I legit want to know what time a complete amateur would do on some of these tracks. The person gets to sim just like they do, but then hop in for a practice session. I'd guess 1:50 for this if they didn't put it in the wall? I just think the average person would flip out about the Gs they pull on these turns.

 

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  On 12/3/2021 at 4:43 PM, FirstTimeCaller said:

I legit want to know what time a complete amateur would do on some of these tracks. The person gets to sim just like they do, but then hop in for a practice session. I'd guess 1:50 for this if they didn't put it in the wall? I just think the average person would flip out about the Gs they pull on these turns.

 

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For what it's worth: 

If you threw a true "layman" or someone that hasn't spent a lot of time on track in different vehicles, into an F1 car and asked them to put in a competitive time, or even a time that was respectable like your guess of 1:50, I don't think they could do it without crashing or overheating the engine. Of course it would depend on the track layout, track conditions, tires, etc. Tom Cruise is probably more like your Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Patrick Dempsey type of "amateur" in that he's got the capacity and instinct to become a professional driver if he wanted to do that. 

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Makes me think of Richard Hammond driving the old, awesome 2005 Renault F1 car. He couldn't even drive it fast enough to keep the tires and brakes hot.

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Exactly. Once you lose the tires, it's like driving on ice and you can't drive fast. Once you can't drive fast, the engine and the brakes get hot. If you try to drive fast while the tires are gone and the brakes are hot, you're in the wall. More likely, the engineer in your ear yells at you to stop the car and turn off the engine before you kill yourself. 

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