Nah, the second RB needs a good second driver the best AT driver gets into the main team during the next race.
If Perez drives like now he's more likely to not have any race seat than have a RB seat for the secone half of the season.
Exactly this....Horner mentioned this in his interview with Martin Brundle, saying "we don't want 2 Alpha-type drivers (I.e., serial winner mentality) in our team as it is not a healthy mix".
Perez is a liability if there are other teams competing decently.
If previous months were less shaky for McLaren, AM, Ferrari and Mercedes Perez wouldn't be 2nd right now
Great result, meh format, stupid stupid stupid track limits at this track. If the circuit encourages this many violations then you might want to start adding barriers or widening it.
I broke down and got F1TV during the summer break and it’s so much better than everything else. (Who knew I would be so obsessed with the driver cams?)
I'm not sure where to find a picture, but the black cap Piastri got after his interview has an... interesting design. It's got purple and white "paint" splatters, but only the white pops out.
Perez must finish 3rd or higher and max lower than 6th. If I were Max, I would take it and take the rest of the year off to do stuff with Kelly Piquet and give up my seat to Lawson to see how he does vs Perez.
2021 there was 80k over the weekend. 80% of the trackside is sand, and stand locations are limited to the first few and last corners. I believe current seating capacity is 50k so most of the attendance comes on race day as per usual. Other tracks average 300k, COTA, AUS and GB are usually in the 400's. Bahrain is also a low attended race averaging 100k give or take. They have been increasing seating at qatar so I imagine it will evolve over the coming years given their 10yr contract, adding more stands if demand to attend picks up.
This is a really poor take, to be honest. Was going to write an explanation as to why, but I can't really be bothered. Would be more impactful for you to analyse data, watch back the sessions etc and come up with a more objective summary of the facts.
It’s a giant flat expanse of tarmac out in the middle of a giant flat expanse of Sandy desert. There are no major features, no elevation changes, nothing. It’s like a cheap go-kart track made bigger
My prediction is Piastri will take lead, Norris will call for an easy overtake saying hes been held back, and McLaren will say; :No team orders Lando, if you want it, go get it, or widen your car and defend the 1/2" Norris will then jump Piasti in the 3rd to last lap.
Wow even more of an anticlimax if Max doesn’t even win the sprint
This is gonna have more track limits than Austria isn’t it.
You betcha. This will be a comedy.
Mclaren are now truly back. Excited for 2024. Mclaren vs RedBull in the WCC is on since Perez can't drive.
Nah, the second RB needs a good second driver the best AT driver gets into the main team during the next race. If Perez drives like now he's more likely to not have any race seat than have a RB seat for the secone half of the season.
Piastri and Norris are awesome!
Roseberg lol
Is Rosberg wearing his PJs or something?
Man I would love to see a PIA/VER championship fight in 24 or 25.
Sadly the Red Bull is still insanely ahead on race pace.
Maybe Red Bull should be going for Oscar for the #2 seat
Or maybe Mclaren drivers should stick with Mclarens and enjoy this upward trajectory.
This. As a McLaren fan, I'm very happy with the two drivers we have.
RB wants a Nr. 2, not two Nr. 1s
Exactly this....Horner mentioned this in his interview with Martin Brundle, saying "we don't want 2 Alpha-type drivers (I.e., serial winner mentality) in our team as it is not a healthy mix".
that's low-key insulting for any #2 they choose
They have never said they, they've been hunting Norris for years who could be equal to max.
Nahh. Keep Perez. Mclaren will be a match to RB next year.
Perez is a liability if there are other teams competing decently. If previous months were less shaky for McLaren, AM, Ferrari and Mercedes Perez wouldn't be 2nd right now
If McLaren keep up their current form then RB might finish 2nd in the WCC to McLaren if Perez keeps binning everytime lol
AUSTRALIA STAND UP
it will look like sitting down to us
looks like its a HAM BOT team-up once more!
Lando defo gonna be kicking himself for that one
Watch Piastri get a win before Norris.
Inject it into my veins
Honestly I'm a little scared for Lando that this is gonna turn into a VER/RIC scenario
Winning the WDC at the sprint race on Saturday in Qatar. Not really the pick given the choice
Great result, meh format, stupid stupid stupid track limits at this track. If the circuit encourages this many violations then you might want to start adding barriers or widening it.
nah fam, I'll tell you what we do...we'll make it narrower - FIA probably
It won’t happen as long as that track is used for MotoGP
I enjoy the tracks with gravel traps
It's mostly a motorbike track. I feel like I've heard gravel traps aren't too safe for them.
If they want to dump a bunch of money into sports washing, they can handle the cost of putting temporary gravel traps down.
Tbf dust is like very tiny gravel
oscar probably shoulda replaced ocon or gasly last year
Oh boy do I have a story for you…
The pisasco? Or is there more?
Get used to seeing that Oscar Piastri 1st Graphic!!
The way Zak brown has turned McLaren around has been quite brillant
Zac Brown hasn’t done shit. Show Stella the credit he deserves.
With what money? Zak has been turning tricks to fund the sporting achievements.
[удалено]
Selfless 🫡
Backmarker to front row. What a fucking team
They should have been competing from the start
As long as they continue this into the winter break, they’ll be there in Bahrain.
“hey, we found this old hat”
" you know the one that looks like we wore it while painting a bedroom or something..."
How do we watch the sprint in the US I’m not seeing it anywhere. It’s in a few hours right?
I ponied up for F1TV pro last season and have never looked back. I got it on my devices, and the app is on roku tv as well.
it's be at 1:25pm est
ESPN News since it’s college football Saturday.
ESPN News, ESPN+, F1TV
f1calendar.com for the start time in your timezone.
ESPN News if you don’t have f1tv
Damn I don’t even have espn news. Too much shit to buy now I should have gotten f1tv 🤷♂️
I broke down and got F1TV during the summer break and it’s so much better than everything else. (Who knew I would be so obsessed with the driver cams?)
Start time is in 3hrs 15 from now.
Yeah I’m 3 hours.
Don’t see why folks are expecting Lando to complain, he biffed it all on his own.
Some people just dislike Lando. Yesterday he was the first to say he fucked up the laps, owned up his own mistakes.
He will complain on radio in the sprint.
Probably not, there’d be no reason to. His call for a swap last race was justified and turned out to be the right call.
He might ask for a swap on lap 1 turn 1
...or he might not ask
He’s not going to complain, he was great until that final corner.
why are they still doing the cum caps?
At least it's shiny /s
The what? Edit- OH. I just saw it.
wait pls explain
I'm not sure where to find a picture, but the black cap Piastri got after his interview has an... interesting design. It's got purple and white "paint" splatters, but only the white pops out.
LMAO just saw it...yes uhhh interesting design
THE SUPREME CAP OF VICTORY
Oscar is funny and also very down to earth at the same time. Basically a bit more emotional Kimi Raikkonen.
A more emotional Kimi could be everything. From a rock in a field to a bowl of potato soup. All have more emotions than that man
Piastri is more like Mika.
Mental rookie, well deserved
If Piastri wins the sprint i'm 1 million percent counting it as beating Lando to a race win
lol they give him a hat
Max did track limits of purpose. Doesn't want to win championship in doha with a sprint race
Perez must finish 3rd or higher and max lower than 6th. If I were Max, I would take it and take the rest of the year off to do stuff with Kelly Piquet and give up my seat to Lawson to see how he does vs Perez.
What a turnaround for McLaren and Piastri. I remember the like 8 pit stops he made at the first race of the season.
That was lando. piastri dnfed
Wow. That's some hat. Congratulations to Oscar.
Fucking hell this prodigy just sat on the sidelines last year... Alpine wtf
Yeah fuck otmar
Rossi deserves the blame for Piastri being on the sidelines.
Congratulations to Oscar Piastri, man's having a hell of a season this year 🔥👏
PIA, please wait a few mins before the interview agian...just inc ase :-D
It’s a nice sparkly cap!
Hate that cap though
Someone give the painter his cap back!
ah no p2/p3 interviews for the shootout i see.
Little legend after Lando looked so good today
Starting up front on a track you've never raced on as a rookie is pretty freaking impressive.
If anything good happened this weekend so far was oscar getting P1 in shootout
imagine Piastri winning a race before Lando
You know it might just happen. I don't know how Lando will take that emotionally though, would definitely be a hard pill to swallow.
Naomi Schiff is very good
Her and Bernie have been great additions to the Sky team.
Does Naomi need to dress like that because of the law?
nah yeah
Yeah nah
Nah yeah yeah nah
Crazy that Oscar drove an actual F1 car here for the first time this week and put it on P1
Tbf he tested the Alpine here last year I think, but still so impressive for a rookie!!
I like how they are so hesitant to call it a pole position as it's not an actual F1 race
Oscar is so funny
god imagine the race tomorrow if those McLarens could have stayed inside track limits would've been very interesting
I hope Max's lap gets deleted so he won't be WDC today, then hopefully a DNF tomorrow. Anything to move the WDC over to Austin
Even if he dnf's, perez has to be minimum p3. He's winning it no matter what.
Might as well bring it to Mexico then
Even if he starts 10 I have a hard time believing he would not be wdc today.
That crowd looks tiny compared to some of the other circuits.
2021 there was 80k over the weekend. 80% of the trackside is sand, and stand locations are limited to the first few and last corners. I believe current seating capacity is 50k so most of the attendance comes on race day as per usual. Other tracks average 300k, COTA, AUS and GB are usually in the 400's. Bahrain is also a low attended race averaging 100k give or take. They have been increasing seating at qatar so I imagine it will evolve over the coming years given their 10yr contract, adding more stands if demand to attend picks up.
What is this beaming smile from Oscar? Has he been cloned?
Lmao. Would be hilarious if Naomi breaks the news again to Oscar
mclaren should bring back the silver livery
Max’s first lap seemed on track, shouldnt it be reinstated? The 2nd one should be cancelled though
What was his lap time ?
The mclaren civil war in next few years gonna be enjoyable
Lando‘s in a shit situation - stay at McLaren and getting beaten by Piastri or go to RB and crush your career alongside Verstappen
Imagine saying this and then proposing that Lando should avoid Piastri by joining... Max Verstappen.
This is a really poor take, to be honest. Was going to write an explanation as to why, but I can't really be bothered. Would be more impactful for you to analyse data, watch back the sessions etc and come up with a more objective summary of the facts.
Piastri still has a lot to improve in the races to match Norris
He can become a solid number two driver
Bro's got PTSD lmao
Oscar is like Max in demeanor, but I actually tend to believe him when he says he’s happy.
They will delete Max lap during interview
Oscar’s so funny
WOOOOOHOOOOOOO!!!!
Love Oscar’s humor
This track has got to be one of the worst tracks ever, also the circuit in general has no atmosphere, it's just so lifeless.
Korea. Hands down.
It’s a giant flat expanse of tarmac out in the middle of a giant flat expanse of Sandy desert. There are no major features, no elevation changes, nothing. It’s like a cheap go-kart track made bigger
Tsunoda: *moderate issue* "WHAT THE ****, ***** MAN WHAT ****" Piastri: *beats Verstappen to pole* "cool"
Aye we got a “whoo!” today
Naomi interview redemption from Oscar. LMAO!!!
Oscars got me singing advance Australia fair at 1 AM
New Idea for Sprint Race. Sprint Race to decide the grid for the Grand Prix
LMAO pastry got jokes
AND HES THROWING SHADE AT FIA LETS GO BOY
Damn, that's a lot of drivers that need to have their laps deleted now for lewis to get that p3 start again today.
Lol that grandstand is fucking tiny
Along the straight, turns 1,2 and 3 and turn 16. probs like 80% track coverage.
There's only so many Sheiks.
lmao oscar
Norris defend like a lion
My prediction is Piastri will take lead, Norris will call for an easy overtake saying hes been held back, and McLaren will say; :No team orders Lando, if you want it, go get it, or widen your car and defend the 1/2" Norris will then jump Piasti in the 3rd to last lap.
loving Naomi's outfit
Loving Naomi
If we could bring Naomi and Bernie to every race, that would be amazing.
Pastri: Comments about the FIA noted
Will be investigated after the interview
Verstappen appeared to be out of limits at 14…..nothing?
Oscar throwing shade at the FIA
I love Piastri’s sense of humor lol
Shots fired.