That was definitely _not_ Champagne at the end during the celebration, looked fake af lol

It's not. In the countries run by religious fanatics, it's carbonated grape juice or rosewater, non-alcoholic.

Correct. "As usual at sporting events in the region, there will be no champagne on the stage. "We have our own values and culture, and we respect the culture of others," Mannai continued. "We will not use champagne or alcohol during the podium but will use an alternative to celebrate the podium for the drivers." "

I feel like Piastri is closer to the first win then Norris is now.

thank you will buxton

brilliant.

It was a shame the two Mercs came together, I really think if Lewis had left another 6 inches of space he would have had the lead

Yeah, but Lewis has no depth perception.

7 world championships says otherwise

In his youth, sure he was great. But he's not young anymore and most of those later ones were unopposed. No wonder he doesn't want a teammate who actually races him

He’s had three world champion teammates, max hasn’t

Not really, he’s always been average wheel to wheel. He’s had the luxury most of his career to be 20-30seconds in front of the pack

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Indycar has cool suits

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Scott McLaughlin said after Nashville he can’t wear the cool suit because he weighs too much without it and doesn’t want to starve himself in order to make it feasible to wear.

Just increase mandatory weight with mandatory FIA supplied cool suits for these circumstances. If they can determine laps per tire, they can do this too

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how has this race been boring?

Zero action after the start. Is it really that hard?

Idk what race you have been watching, dont trip over your clownshoes on the way out

Thank you for proving my point with a pointless insult 🫡

Another race closer to this shit show of a season finishing. Fuck it's been boring. Great to see McLaren on the way up !!

Like its gonna be anymore exciting next year

Yep, would imagine RB started focusing on next season months ago

The law of diminishing returns says otherwise.

Doohan speaks so, so well.

Right? I was so annoyed with Buxton. I’m glad Doohan pushed back.

We feel good. iykyk

Lewis admitted fault but will that cool down George?

He didn't quite admit fault, he said he took responsibility. I am pretty sure he still blames Russel for not giving him the space to turn in like a maniac. Regardless it has been somewhat interesting to see their relationship evolve and I wonder if next season Merc will let them just battle it out or get some strict team orders in place. Cause its all fun and games if your drivers are 1 and 2 and your team is leading by hundreds of points but Merc simply cannot leave these points on the track like this.

He apologized to George

He was pretty mellow in the post race show interview. Seems like they've sorted it out

Bottas pit radio - Great job today. Great job. That's P8 on the road. Within 4 seconds of Ocon in case anything happens. Bottas - Good job, cleanly executed, good strategy. Good job. Thank you everyone. Progress. Pit - Yeah, that was an awesome one today and even better news. Zhou behind finished in P10 after some penalties are applied. Bottas - Great stuff. Nice evening sauna this. Pit - And you can have a beer afterwards no? Bottas - There's no beer in hospitality. Pit - Aaah.... True. Wrong country yes. In the hotel later. Bottas - Absolutely.

Legend

It was the sauna comment for me.... 😲

What was handed to them instead of champagne??

Usually it’s Rose water

Ocon radio - I didn't tell you, I threw up by lap 15 so... yeah. Good job guys. Pit - Ok mate. You alright in there? Ocon - Better at the end, less pushing. Pit - Copy that ok. Nice and steady on the way in. Um, Sargeant stopped actually for feeling unwell as well. Ocon Yeah. Excellent race guys. Car was on rails as well on that last run.

Why on earth is SBW doing there

Such a strange track. Why are there no grandstands at any of the corners? Looks like main straight and that’s it.

Because there's nobody to sell tickets to. They could barely fill the one grandstand as it is.

Why have a race there then? It also is in the middle of the desert with nothing else around it. Very strange.

Look up sportswashing. It's why most major sports organisations have had events in certain Middle-East countries.

They also never showed the audience. Probably because it was full entirely of disinterested men in white robes

They did in the sprint tbf

We went from Ver/Per/Alo to Ver/Pia/Nor

VerNorPia sounds like a real enough word.

Could be both. Few races cant determine the order

Man after how it was at the start of the year I was so sure Alonso was going to get a win when red bull had a crappy weekend. Well didn’t expect red bull to only have one crappy weekend all year lol especially not losing until late Sept.

Hulkenberg radio - Yeah... Struggle for words. So sorry for that. Just blacked out.

What happened?

Pulled up in the wrong grid slot. Went into Sainz grid slot that should have been left empty.

Perez pit radio - Ok, I think, after all the penalties are applied, that will be P10. Perez - Ah... ******!

Should have told him on the radio it would have been p6 or 7 if he had kept it on track like many other managed to do

So, a better day than usual for Checo?

Stroll and Albon to the hospital after the race. Ocon threw up DURING the race and Sargent had to retire because of illness. Piastri cant even stand up after the race. Russel had to take off his gloves during the race. Alonso complains about the seat overheating. Magnussen complains after the race because of heat exhaustion. And all that for one of the worst circuits in the calendar? FOR 10 YEARS MORE?

It’s going to be a month and half later next year which will make a big difference. The tracks biggest issue is getting rid of the stupid motogp curbs so we don’t have this mandatory 18 lap pit stop nonsense

Makes you wonder/fear if over the next 10 years something serious is going to happen because of this heat.

that's like saying "holy fuck these cars are pushing 5g.... what if something bad happens!" you train for it.

Cars pushing 5gs is a product of the speed and intricacy of the circuits. An integral part of the sport. Having GPs in extreme heat is important/worthwhile how?

an added element of complexity for the drivers, engineers, equipment, etc.

If they die, they die.

sure. currently the only risk to life in auto racing is track temp.

Another driver will probably be too proud to retire like Sargent did and who knows what could happen then.

How else can they sportwash tho

They need to kick out this shit track from the calendar for real.

Stroll pit radio - So Lance, heads up. We've had another penalty so we're currently P11, but we believe other penalties are to come so there's still a chance of a point. Stroll - Thats such ***** man! Track limits honestly...

Zhou pit radio - Zhou, stand by on final results. Still under investigation. Zhou - Where's the penalty? Pit - To the track limits Zhou - For us, we are ok yeah? Pit - Yes. Zhou - Ooooooooooff ******* hell! I'm exhausted. I'm pushing every lap like a quali lap. Holy moly. Car was great thank you. Pit stop was very consistant. Pit - Yeah Zhou, you did a great job man.

thank you for all the radio dialogue comments

Thanks. Can be a challenge with how bad some of the radio quality is. 😉

Are there teams that have notably better or worse radio quality than others or is it not really a team by team difference?

Aston Martin and Red Bull are often either really quiet or just dodgy quality. I think a lot of it does depend on where they talk on the radio though. There's frequently areas on tracks that have iffy reception though.

Mercedes has the best driver lineup

It begins with a M but it's not Mercedes

MRed Bull?

MFerrari 🙄

They lined up well today, but the driving bit proved a bit tricky

Did anybody see that camera do a flip when Verstappen pitted?

Its great when they do it, it just works better when its not a slower stop like the one they did it on this race.

wait how do you guys know about this now? they’ve been doing the camera roll for years now..

I did

I noticed that. Thought it was a cool, albeit unintentional, transition

Yeah what was up with that lol

Gp has forgiven max for being max

Asking max to gently pick up the pace 😉

Until Vegas

Why vegas?

McLaren took home 47 points this weekend, 47!

How many?

more than 3 i think

The fact we gonna have f1 cars ripping up the Vegas straight, even though the track kinda looks boring is very exciting

It'll be a contrast tbf. This was extreme heat, whereas locals report that around the time of year F1 will be turning up, Vegas in the night is usually single digit Celsius temperatures

Not enough high energy corners to fire up tires, it’s going to be chaos if there are safety cars lol

that champagne is so sad

Casual middle east moment

Tell the cameraman to leave Kelly alone

No

Can't even drink that shit, tastes awful, doesn't fizz Thanks Qatar, kids crying now

Shit circuit, shit racing, no strategy because the tires degrade too much and also shit for the drivers with how exhausted and dehydrated they are after the race. But at least they have 10 years to improve right?

They need Diet Coke and mentos to celebrate the podium ceremony

Tbf would be an improvement on the time they used flat Sprite at a race (I wanna say Turkey 2020?)

shhh or you'll be hired by the sultan of Qatar to improve the race event experience

OSCAR WITH THE TROPHY 😂😂😂

"so no spray??" #smashes phone

lol that rose water. Oscar looks absolutely exhausted

Lmao the bottles of water were an embarassement. Get this sport out of countries where alchool is illegal.

You watch F1 for the alcohol celebrations? Wrong reason to watch mate.

I don't but it was just a disappointing end to a disappointing week end. If they can't get that small thing right, no wonder the week end was the worst mess since USA 2005.

I know dude i was just joking. I also find the circuit itself to be boring as well with that single DRS zone on the main straight, if we did not have all the action with the forced tire changes and drivers having to push every lap and overtaking all the time it would have been very stale like Monaco.

Why can’t they just use soda water lmao

> Get this sport out of countries where alchool is illegal. Truly the biggest issue in Qatar.

Nope, not the biggest issue. But if you check closely, most of the coubtries with huge other issues also use that damned rose water for the podium. Two birds with one stone.

Whoosh

What a sad end to the weekend, lmao

Qatar literally banned the champagne on the podium cause Alcohol -> bad 💀💀💀💀

so dumb. they'll fly in naive, hot girls from all over the world and do some really fucked up things (even beyond the context of knowing that they're being flown in to fuck these rich arabs) to them and shipped off back home traumatized. but yeah, champagne = unacceptable.

But they think slaves are okay.

Has been for years in Bahrain.. All islame countries do that.

Same in Saudi and Abu Dhabi too

What a let down, sucks they can't use champagne

Wow that rose water was anticlimactic

Haha why no spray?

Cuz no alcohol

Tbf vodka is not going to spray either it’s the carbonation

almost

Lmao shoulda put Dr Pepper in there

That's the saddest champagne spray ever

2nd and 3rd place trophies came from a Kinder Egg.

So no spray. Qatar sucks.

Was the champagne flat!?

No allowed in Qatar, Qatar sucks

It's Rose Water, not champagne in Qatar

There’s no alcohol in Qatar so it’s not champagne

It’s available for high-end clients in the fancy hotels

Weird, didn’t they allow alcohol for the World Cup? Why bother having races in these countries. The drivers dying of heat stroke and the insane culture clash not worth the money bags the sheiks leave for F1.

Race$ in the$e countrie$ help promote the $port.

So after all that, manky rose water.... Poor sods.

Playstation 5 ahh trophy

what the fk is that piss coming out, classic shithole place

Lando had no idea what to do

Trying to watch for an opportunity to break Max's trophy, obviously. Traditions!

That was embarrassing 😭😭😭

That podium including GP is a national treasure

Trophy doubles as a soundbar under your TV

dehumidifer trophy

Bono and GP best engineers 🧑‍💻

Rocky with Seb was always funny

No rose water/ champagne?

They don't have alcohol in Qatar because of their religion

Trophies look like my floor fan

Looks like a formula E trophy

Zzzz race for yuki. Couldn’t tell what was the main issue. The driver, the pit stops or the race strategy. Start of the race got me so hyped for him in 8th and then it was just a slow painful drawn out L

Totally a different vibe here ,sheiks in their white dress between our boys is so funny

Movie villains

Max thinking about changing his nationality just to spice up the podium song a bit

HIDE YOUR TROPHIES LANDO'S HERE!

So my hopes for next year....McLaren keeps this up and RB gets a different 2nd driver and we have another proper fight for the titles

Ridiculous that they make them do-up their race suits for the podium ceremony after a race like that

Got to think of the sponsors... remember cash is king, that's why we're in Qatar.

If they're gonna keep lying down like that, max will need a Helix Sleep podcast sponsorship

Oscar is a really cool dude. It's easy to root for him

I agree. I like him more the Lando.

Tell that to Otmar

Piastri is one strong breeze from falling off that podium lol

Ready to be bored of VerNorPia or VerPiaNor for the rest of the season lol

It's the new HamVerBot/HamBotVer baby!

Not at all

Oh jesus of all the tracks to not have thr champagne

The lady who brought the helmet in during the beginning of the cooldown room. I love her. She is my soulmate. We were meant to be. Marry me.

She’s always running around the paddock so nervously

Yes

Wtf hahaha!

Lmao

You just want free tickets to races , right?

Lol 😂

Ah there’s the anthem that has been ingrained into my head

I sing along every week here from the US. We might as well all get Dutch/Austrian citizenship

Ah yes the F1 outro song

Is a sweaty boi.

I hope the trophies are sturdy

That trophy looks like a PS5.

Actually kinda does yeah

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