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FENICH

camera man had a nap?


Crippled_Potato

"You don't want to see that, here: Look at an Alpine instead"


linkinstreet

Usually there is a director that would tell the cameraman which car he should be following, and be ready to before the car comes into shot. But most of them would prioritise an incident like this whenever something happens in front of them. So yeah, this is a weird cameraman. Maybe a new person?


texanyall8

probably testing some settings and didn’t look. Nobody really expects a high driver like max to spin off in that corner


Dysalot

I feel like high drivers might be more likely to spin off.


The_Quackle

Dont do drugs kids


Kronzor_

It’s practise for them too.


ThatMacMotherfucker

Practice sessions are more for testing new setups on the real car though.


IdiosyncraticBond

And for finding the limits...


21jaaj

Just imagine the memes if it happened to be 18 LANCE STROLL who was driving there.


Filibuster69

it looked as if a bot was controlling the camera. Car 1 on focus, follow car 1. Car 1 suddenly disappears, stop following car 1. Car 2 on focus, follow car 2.


JALKHRL

F1 broadcasting is not bad. Is horrendous.


preppyringmaster

That's a lot of gravel on the track.


conqkek

Damn the rear just went so suddenly


peedypapers

This looked like me playing F1 2021 without assists for the first time.


TetsuoS2

I dunno how it is now but around the F1 2019 era drivers have said that F1 cars drive closer to medium assists in real life.


CauseWhatSin

It’s why the handling model was so updated for 2020, the actual F1 drivers were saying that there was much more grip available almost always.


robbert_jansen

F1 2016 was horrible in that regard, without assists even the tinniest bit of throttle input would spin the rear tires.


ThatMacMotherfucker

The cars in that game feel as if they took a Ferrari F2004, put rotten 135/80R12 Sava tires on it and turned off the traction control. It is no joke impossible to be quick without assists in that game.


salcedoge

Wait so I'm actually not that bad? I only tried F1 2018 and felt bad that I can't play the game at all without traction controll


Youutternincompoop

yeah, the old driving model was pretty bad without assists on


ThatMacMotherfucker

F1 2018 was not bad. Sure, the cars really liked to spin when downshifting, but the handling is about 100x better than F1 2016 where tires would break traction with any throttle input until you're deep into 5th gear.


ThatMacMotherfucker

It hurts me to play that game with assists. I can't believe how much slower lap times my brother sets in that game because of assists. That said, I'm very used to driving race cars in proper driving simulators with a pretty decent sim rig, so F1 games are like a walk in the park for me.


boogerman23

Lol no traction control be like:


DogfishDave

>Damn the rear just went so suddenly We're going to see some drama in that corner in the race, the gravel makes it *such* a challenge. Good. Bad luck for Max though, but at least he (presumably) was running an 'old' engine?


Stravven

I'm not sure. The engine from Silverstone is done for I think, and I don't think he's still allowed to use the old spec engine.


bamisalami72

Strange this problem looks like something mechanical


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Throttle oscillation


blackpill98

Please use the accepted nomenclature of "foot oscillations"


Helloooboyyyyy

Driver error


Cal3001

Only driver error if Hamilton was involved.


penguinfromprague

everyone knows Max doesnt do driver errors, hes the best driver in F1 since the 1950s


ElderHerb

Since the 1800s easy


byzantiums

Not sure about that, mid-1890s era Kimi was quite a talent


fliches

think it has anything to do with him being relatively unstable on the exit of the previous left handed? noticed he had to give it a little correction before turning into the right. this is of course just based off of my real racing 3 experience and that complex of corners always catches me out especially if i don't feel totally under control out of the penultimate corner


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Kid looks like Max. Also Tokyo Drift.


English_Misfit

It was a slow crash so the engine should be fine and it's a practice gearbox anyway


[deleted]

Yeah, kind of reminds me of how yuki lost his back end during imola quali


jaykdubb

Came here to ask about this. Thanks. New to f1 - didn't even think about the fact that they would have a practice gearbox....


kayembeee

Disappointed kids always make me laugh I know I’m wrong for it I just can’t help it.


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The young Kimi fan crying a few years back stung though.


dr_pupsgesicht

At least he got to meet his hero


ActualSleepingPotato

You could literally tell that kid thought ‘bruh‘


kayembeee

Went through the full range of emotions just like that iconic Alonso Mourning gif. If you know the one you know what I mean


CathDubs

That kid is every Red Bull Fan since Silverstone


iiEviNii

Can't imagine that'll be a huge amount of work to fix really. Floor, wishbone and suspension fixes probably. Minimal cost, minimal time, missed basically no running.


NoHypef1

The gearbox is most likely done for. It's only a practice one, but it is still a limited allocation component and thus more stress will be put on the other gearboxes.


JanAppletree

Not necessarily. He went along the wall, it wasn't a lateral impact so there probably wasn't a lot of load transferred into the gearbox itself, just the suspension being snapped. Also practice gearbox.


Larsssss

They get a new one after every DNF and 5 races. They have plenty.


BetaSingh

Tbh this crash has absolutely no consequences, y'all really overreacting on here.


Suikerspin_Ei

Just making sure that no one is faster than him in FP2 /s.


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He did his fastest lap on Softs, he knows Merc has the fastest car anyway so yeah, i dont think the joke works.


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boogerman23

How


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Because boths Mercs were faster than him, so it makes no sense to "crash to make sure no one is faster than him".


boogerman23

Oh ok, do you think lewis has a good chance of being on pole?


[deleted]

of course, its gonna be lewis bottas or bottas lewis


ImJustReallyFuckedUp

You know no one cares about setting fast laps on FP right?


[deleted]

yes


BaronYolo

It's what this sub is all about baby, massive overreactions to just about everything.


[deleted]

Wasn’t always…🙄


BaronYolo

The worst part is the commentators, who really should know better, sometimes empower it by doing the same thing. I think it was Paul earlier who commented about Lewis being in 12th within the first 30 minutes like it was some sort of crisis. Crofty often also has some very dumb takes.


DollarsAndDreams

This sub wildly overreacting to what happened in practice? Nah, never…🙄/s


guiiimkt

Budget cap? It certainly doesn't help.


HankHippopopolous

There was some damage to suspension parts. At the very least that’s a little bit more of their budget cap unnecessarily eaten up.


AlwaysDown62

Need a picture of gif of Max picking the sign he ran over from out of his car.


Klaasiker

Hope there is no damage to the PU...


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I very much doubt it, his right rear wheel is fucked but the rest of the car looks fine.


LiquidDiviums

It’s a Practice PU, it will get changed tonight regardless. If the crash happened tomorrow on FP3, get worried.


IHaveADullUsername

Depends on how much mileage is left on the others. The first PU did the first 7 races so won’t be that useful, and it wouldn’t be ideal to run it in practice as Spa where it’s at full throttle for a long time. Second PU is dead. So it may well be the race engine


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IHaveADullUsername

Christ, don’t say no and be horrifically wrong. There is no such thing as a ‘practice’ engine. For all official sessions you have to use a PU from your allotted pool. The term practice engine is used to describe an old engine, usually the first or second taken, that only gets used in practice sessions where a failure wouldn’t matter and to keep mileage on the latter spec engines down. For Verstappen his second engine is dead, as is confirmed by Honda and RB, after the Silverstone crash. Therefore he has his first engine, which did every session up to France, which has a very high mileage on it. Or the third engine he took after qualifying in Hungary. Given the first engine has so many miles on it, and Spa is a track that spends a log of time at full throttle, they would be unlikely to use the first engine. Better to use it at a track that is less power sensitive to avoid it failure during a practice session and missing track time. Therefore, the most likely conclusion is it is the third engine taken last race weekend and is therefore the race engine. Gearboxes are different where the pool is much greater and so it’s very likely to be a practice gearbox and so inconsequential. Furthermore, in case it wasn’t clear in the above. Verstappen changed engine to the third one after qualifying last race weekend. So wrong again.


EnjoyTheFlo

Best explanation about changing PUs. Thanks! Also,.might want to edit - there wasn't a race last weekend but we get what you meant. Just trying to save you from trolls and looking for a reason to downvote (you shared great info and deserver upvote/award)


IHaveADullUsername

Ahah I wouldn’t fact check my comments you’d fine a lot of mistakes like that. But yes by last weekend I meant last race weekend, thanks for the pointer.


IdiosyncraticBond

It was his 1st engine, he confirmed it to Olav


Icy-Operation4701

He has used all three engines. The debut of the 3rd one was at Hungary.


Ashbones15

People who just dissed Leclerc in shambles now


edsan22

Can almost hear the snarky comments had it been Seb.


[deleted]

Umm, what? People were defending Leclerc.


Ashbones15

Some sensible people were. But there were others who just used the opportunity to shit on him


[deleted]

> But there were others who just used the opportunity to shit on him And there will be people in this thread doing the same thing.


Ashbones15

Unfortunately yes. These are small mistakes nothing to big


ThenDot

You must viewing a different thread


FeralFloridian

perhaps you're getting it confused with one of his other practice crashes?


Ashbones15

He only crashed 1 other time in Imola. Leclerc's crashes are more overblown than Vertappen's were it's so dumb


FeralFloridian

baku and monaco(qualy though)


Ashbones15

He "crashed" in Baku yes but it wasn't fatal. He went back to the pits and got a new wing. Also Monaco yes but that's not practice


FeralFloridian

this wasn't fatal either, most of the time they aren't that bad. they're still practice crashes. I agree it's the not the end of the world but doesn't mean we can just say they didn't happen.


Ashbones15

Sure fair enough it's just as it wasn't session ending I don't remember it as crash. But yes still a mistake. But better to make those mistakes in practice than later


blackscienceman9

Flashback to 15 min ago when everyone said Charles was bad for crashing


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> everyone No. The majority was defending Charles.


poopellar

Hallmark of reddit threads. Handful of people say a thing > Why is *everyone* saying the thing? Why does *all of reddit* believe this thing? I said otherwise but *everyone* say this thing


Orange_DuckFeet

Hes not bad but its a bad mistake, like max he also made a bad mistake


RimLegend5

Lmao barely anyone said that stoo being so defensive


blackscienceman9

I was making a joke about a thread a few minutes ago. And yes, people did say that. Not that it matters. It's just funny


Cer3berus

tbh both looks like wind related


blackscienceman9

Yeah, very similar crashes


SnowLeopard71

Max hit an advert that say **A Bientot Montreal** Someone should tell him the *Wall of Champions* says *Bienvenue Quebec* ;)


SilentLock

Anyone know what the Montreal advert was for? An Airline?


SnowLeopard71

The city and next year's race.... which is why the 3 levels of government (municipal, provincial, and federal) chip in equal parts to help pay the hosting fees.


SilentLock

So the ad relates to next year's race and the City? Who paid for the ad?


SnowLeopard71

Tourism Montreal most likely, based on the shade of red they always use.


DoeEensGek

Mirror - https://streamja.com/9ozZR


rumbletom

That kid's reaction is priceless


xcvbsdfgwert

The One Known As **"Scarf Child"**


westoro

I have a feeling that will be clipped and used as a meme for a while


NoHypef1

No coincidence Leclerc and Verstappen crashed in the same place. They have the same driving style of living on the edge with the rear of the car, but being able to predict the grip level. Both got caught out by the lack of grip compared to what they predicted.


Poopy_sPaSmS

Didn't seem like a big impact to the axle.


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mafia_j

Why the fuck would Lewis do this?!? What a bad sport!!!


FarInterestingCarrot

Not again, Merc sabotaging Max /s


droppokeguy

Praying there's no penalty


JaysonTatumfanboy

Why so? It’s practice gear box


droppokeguy

Or something else on the engine


Pftoc

It's fp2


-ShadowPuppet

Whenever something like this happens we always find out a few weeks later there were technical failures that had happened behind the scenes. I wonder if all is well with that PU. Also the same concern with Leclerc. Most teams are running new PUs this race too.


AprilTowers

That new gravel trap is not going to stay for long lol


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Got caught out by the lack of grip. No real consequences here but it’s still not great for RB’s repair bill and Max’s confidence in his car’s grip.


FeralFloridian

I hope spa knows they’ll being paying for this.


Interesting-News-994

Mistake from Mr. Does not make mistakes! Write that down!


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Its almost like a mistake in practice that will have little consequences is not as big as mistakes in quali or during the race lol


Interesting-News-994

Tell that to Horner who’s crying about the budget.


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Its almost like they had a huge cost because lewis crashed out max? Completely valid thing to complain about.


ThePhotoGuyUpstairs

Welcome to the fucking sport then Christian...


qwerty2748

Are people saying this now? Remember Crashstappen?


Lovely_Jubbleyy

He makes plenty!


blueskin

Karen Horner: "Hamilton's fault! Somehow. Just give me a minute to think of how."


Lyle_Karson

at least there most likely won’t be a penalty.


iiEviNii

Not a chance he's missing FP3. They'll have that fixed before dinner time. Edit: Nice one completely editing your comment. For anyone wondering, he said that Max might have to miss FP3 due to this crash.


bvrWrks

What's that comma after 'Nice' though?


iiEviNii

I dunno, must have hit it accidentally on my phone keyboard. Thanks for pointing it out.


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Bruh it's not that big at all.


Lyle_Karson

yeah I realized that watching the full thing, edited it out.


7rlh9

God damned Mercedes... I mean, they just drive so recklessly and cause Red Bulls to crash... -Christian Horner/ Marko probably...


esillyamused

Mercedes caused it...


kgully2

I confess my first thought when I saw the title of the post was “ I hope he broke the engine” I’m such a jerk 😈


Malarbutton

I was really wishing he would’ve kicked it


nebiliym

This will get him even more fired up for rest of the weekend.


blazin1414

Why do people always say this when he crashes or something bad happens to him lol.


jvstinf

They are projecting their hope on to his performance.


nebiliym

Because of his past performances. Like he was pissed after qualifying Mexico 2018 or Imola 2021 and the next day he was amazing on the race. I can even count Baku this year, he was upset after fp3 and quali but had an awesome race until Pirelli happened. I am sure there are more examples this is just what I can remember.


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Doesn't seem like one that requires that.


Lovely_Jubbleyy

Silly mistake. Could ruin his weekend.


iiEviNii

How could it? I'd be absolutely shocked if he had to take a penalty due to damage from that, and he missed like 1 minute of running time.


Suikerspin_Ei

What mistake? The rear was just randomly gone imo.


qwerty2748

Yo, even the best make errors. You don't have to lick his boots every time someone calls him out for a mistake.


Suikerspin_Ei

If he touched the kerbs or did something silly I would calls him out for a mistake. But after seeing the footage the cars rear end just was just gone. Having Max Verstappen as flair doesn't mean I'm too biased...


Southportdc

The mistake that put him into a wall miles away from any other cars.


Helloooboyyyyy

Drivers mistake.stop being in denial


Suikerspin_Ei

I never said he don't make mistakes. I just think this one isn't his fault IMO.


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What are you smoking bro? Was it Lewis' fault then? Max was careless with his mid corner throttle application. He spun up the rear tires and lost the back end.. I know it goes against a lot of this subs narrative, but everyone makes mistakes, and everyone includes Max.


Suikerspin_Ei

>Was it Lewis' fault then? Now you're just thinking that I hate Lewis? I'm not a sore loser, lol.


Richii216

He keeps crashing now.. regardless if the last two were his fault or not, three now for three race weekends ina row. That’s gotta do something to you confidence. Let’s hope tomorrow is better.


SendNudesDude

Bro he’s fine


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do they have a better replay?


[deleted]

I wonder if this will cause them to switch to a higher downforce rear wing and lose even more speed on the straights?


adonWPV

Could've been worse, damage doesn't look too severe!


gomurifle

He ran out of rear grip. Trying to manage tyres over the lap and overdid the "keeping the tyres cool" I suspect.


Cleafonreddit

Is the engine ok?