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Ferrari on pole for Baku

I really like Carlos Sainz overall, but 0.8 behind his team mate ? give it up man, you are #2.

Charles is my man.

Even if he has race pace, it will be impossible to defend against the Red Bull magic drs. I hate drs. A lot.

Really I'm not a fan of having F1 Sprint Races, just seems like a needless, exoensive distraction for the drivers and teams :rolleyes:

Wasn't anything like a Sprint, seemed half a race at best :confused:

What gimick will F1@Netfix.con come up with next, divide Sunday race into quarters or 7 innings :D

I am totally confused. I saw one practice, then an old school conventional F1 qualifying. Then ESPN decided to show men fighting, I think it was basketball or hockey, but sure not the F1 second Qualifying that I really don't understand??? Then we got to watch a sprint race, and some points awarded, but the winner starts in P3 for tomorrows race. WTF, were the rules guys on toking on some really good weed and laughing and saying left make qualifying a total guessing game.

I still have no idea how they selected the starting positions for the actual race. I guess tomorrow I will see how it goes.

I sure hope the druggies in charge of this are all fired, and we go back to the standard three practices, conventional qualifying, and a normal race. And maybe someday ESPN will stop showing corn hole games, and a bunch of talking heads talking about how they watched other grown men playing a kids game with a ball, and how that made them feel.

Max is a baby.

Pretty boring race but happy for the winner .

I wonder what Ocon thought when he pulled into pit lane and saw a wall of reporters blocking his entry . Very fortunate no one was hurt . I am sure that debacle is under review .

Slightly off the current topic,

Have an offer. I am a marshal at Miami F1 and for that they provide one general admission ticket. I have offered it to my friends in the SW and on the West Coast but no takers.

So I thought I would see if a pelican would like to use it. I am not quite sure how I will get it. Assume at checkin on Wednesday. Hotel is the Westin Ft Lauderdale. Figure I could leave it with the front desk. If someone wants the ticket, please pm me. I will take the requests in order I receive them.

^Thats very generous! Congrats on getting a marshal gig.

Todays race was yawner. Fred made it somewhat interesting by closing on LeClerc. No red flags though, so thats a positive.

One of the tracks that is only interesting is there is a yellow or red flag, and then it comes down to the luck of track position when the flag it thrown.

It was funny to see the rear wheel of Max's car at the finish, and see the scratches and abrasions from brushing the wall. And many other drivers clipped or bounced off of the wall. I just can't imaging pushing so hard that I slide withing milometers of the wall. No need to enforce tack limits with a white line when the wall does that.

I saw that coming a lap away. You really have to wonder when they have dozens of people monitoring everything that that could happen. Of course, sitting in front of the tv, we only have one thing to think about.

Ho hum, Indy race was the winner this weekend

I got a chuckle from the Aston Martin radio calls.
Stroll to his engineer when he was running a half second behind Alonso. "Tell Fernando I will not attack. "
Alonso 's response, "He can have a go, if he wants."
Later, when Lance was falling back,"Tell Lance to try my balance settings."
Sort of like running with your big brother.

Best
Les

Will try this one more time.

I have a general admission ticket for Miami F1 that I receive as part of being a marshal. If a pelican wants it, please reply. See my entry above

Friend of mine got himself 2 VIP tix for Vegas - $8000 each ! Is F1 jumping the shark right now ?
I hear that The hotels figured out ways to block the view for whoever is not paying thru the nose... Makes the above offer for a miami ticket all the more generous !

Best car thing this w/e was... Luftgekuhlt !

Since the first race in Austin, the local hotel rates go up 400% or more over normal. The Miami and Las Vegas F1 races will be just more of the same, rape the attendees for every penny possible.

My interest is on the decline, unfortunately. Been a fan since at least the 80s, and watched religiously since the early 90s.

This past weekend (Saturday) I was working on one of our fleet of Land Rovers when a cousin called asking if I wanted to go to the coast and fly fish Sunday. Yes sir, I got skunked but still had a great time. I didn't even miss not seeing the race. I watched a replay late Sunday evening. Ho hum.

The Miami and Lost Wages races aren't helping my waning interest.

That's a super generous offer. Thanks for thinking of your Pelican brethren.

These FPs are not proving the track to be any better than it was last year. One line makes for a boring Sunday…


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