Yeah, I think the only problem was the mechanic put the gun on and that incorrectly and shared the drive dogs off of it before enough torque was applied to the net to turn it.

Time to make the nuts out of titanium, or reduce the number of dogs..

Exactly what I was thinking.

Didn't look like much of an autopsy either


Im assuming he just cut a slit in the nut and the pressure was gone. Or at least that's what it looked like

I'm starting to think Haas is not doing Mick Shumacher any favors by having him drive their car, and the same for Russell. They could be ruined if they don't soon get better cars, especially Russell in the Williams. IMO

Senna drove a Toleman and then a Lotus in his F1 formative years. He did OK.
Russell and Li'l Shuey are both in beginners cars, and both of them have top-dog, big money teams making sure that their F1 lives are going to be a lot easier than someone like a Mazepin.
Russel because he's a top talent, Schuey, well because he's Schuey.

Where would you have Russell go? Merc wants him where Botta currently sits - I think they (Merc) are using Ocon's name to keep him (Russell) from getting too comfy with the idea that he's heir apparent to the best team on the grid.

I think Russell will be OK (psychologically). He doesn't seem as urgent (desperate?) as the reporters when asked about a poor showing. Not that he doesn't care; he's just got a calm, mature demeanor. I think he knows that everyone else knows he's got a crap car, and if put into something good (like the Mercedes), he can compete for wins straight away. So he's just biding his time.

But if his contract is up at the end of this year (or next), Mercedes junior or not, would another team swoop him up? Would Red Bull take him in place of Perez?

Miami F1 race.....

https://www.yahoo.com/news/disruptive-formula-one-race-forced-215925521.html

Some aren't happy.

It seems that Betty is a bit of an idiot.

What will Lewis do?

Well that was an " interesting " qually session .

Who's the chick that follows Ham around, and why?

We have no idea who's really fast-fast. And as I figured, Mercedes was sandbagging yesterday.

She's apparently his handler.

the short blond is his personal fitness trainer SmileWavy

Ummm ......... Wow !!!

Too bad him.

Standing start. Perez needs to be careful

Wow, what a race!!!! All good.

Ham really screwed the pooch on the restart! Great finish by Seb.

Just saw the headlines ... go figure, the 1st race I had taped and planned to watch later. Sure sounds like a wild finish!

Gasly and Charles were really going at it. I thought they were going to crash.

I don't think Gasly is a crasher, seems like a good kid with lots of talent. There were a lot of guys in that race who had a s**t load of bad luck.

Congrats to really the top 10 drivers . Some good battles and I really expected more running into the wall incidents . Take out the two blown tires and it was a well run race . I think Bottas is done at MB .

That is the happiest podium I have seen in a while. Great results.

Amazing to see Hamilton screw up on his own and get zero points. I figured the restart was just to let Hamilton win. He fix that. A rare mistake on his part.

Max just had rotten luck, Lewis did it to himself.

It is being reported after the race a 6 cm cut was found on Lewis Hamilton's left rear tire . So something was going on with left rear tires . Chassis setup ? Something with the course ? Will be interesting what is determined .

This is the most entertaining F1 season in a long time.

A shame for the blowouts. Stroll was running on hard tires and would have been in points had it not been for his blowout. I wonder why they had chosen the softest 3 compounds of the range for this race when it has some of if not the highest speeds.

The two guys that crashed out with tire problems had teammates that finished 1-2....
Coincidence???? ;)

It doesn't make me want to go out an buy a set of Pirellis.

Yeah Pirelli can "sell" this however they like but that looked bad for the brand.
I think it's time (even for me) to acknowledge Lance Stroll is a decent driver, he had a shot at a podium as well. Apparently HAM left the "brake magic" button on (as evidenced by his smoking hot brakes on the restart), good to see he's human. Very happy for the top 3, Gasly deserves a top team ride but as a redbull guy he's got nowhere to go. Nice restart for Alonso too !

I was at the USGP in Indy back in 2005 with the tire protest when half the field didn't race because Michelin wouldn't guarantee they tire to withstand the loads after several bad crashes in the FPs. Baku yesterday was very similar. I imagine the team's are going to have some serious discussion with Pirelli.

Finally some bad luck for Hammy that was actually driver error. Reminds me of the season a couple of years after he got to Mercedes when the rules forbade the engineers from setting the bite point on the clutch for the starts and he was having such horrible starts that mysteriously the rule was changed.

The race ran so long that it was 37 minutes into a rerun of Sports Center. So before the last drop of champagne hit the podium floor ESPN thanked us for watching. I really wish another platform would buy the broadcast rights

Could have been track debris that ended the life of the two LR tires...... or a conspiracy. Which of the two attracts more eyes? Wait for the autopsies.

S

When I want to check out how things are at F1
 

This is the site I use...…. " F1 New Snow " No wait it's "F1 News Now" Sorry, got that a bit wrong.

"physio" doesn't do her justice. Just an awesome human being in person.
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I use the following,

https://www.planetf1.com/
https://www.grandprix.com/
https://www.motorsport.com/

Ya think? He's not doing his job, hit and miss for VB and he's driving the best car, he won't be in it next year IMO.

Best car, I don’t think so, it’s like he gets LH’s hand-me-downs. Although I do think he has lost competitive edge; years of taking team rules to be the rodeo clown will do that to you…

Pretty cool video about what is required for race tracks to host an F1 race. Sorry but no embed option.

https://wtf1.com/post/what-does-it-take-for-a-circuit-to-be-f1-ready/

The Haas boys from last year reunited this weekend...sorta. Mag driving for AMSP, Romain with Dale.

They were both at Detroit last week, only Kevin was winning the IMSA race.

Sir Lewis
 

in knights armourhttp://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1623950323.jpg

Compfy looking slippers (I'm sure the dog is embarrassed)

Dang you beat me to it.

Saw this atrocity on social media this morning. Reminds me of "Beverly Hills Cop" when Eddie Murphy laughs at the guys dressed like Michael Jackson walking down the street.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1623950781.jpg

Nice video. I had no idea what the scope of her duties are.

Do you happen to know how she acquired that role? Thanks.