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[astrochex]

Originally Posted by rfuerst911sc

I read an article today that Red Bull has stated Yuki will NOT be running Max's setup . They basically said they will make every legal change to the chassis setup to make it more neutral . I wonder if that will take away speed ? Or maybe if more neutral it can be driven faster ? The pressure on Yuki is huge , I hope he can hit most/all targets for the weekend .

Why wouldn’t they have done this with Lawson?

[URY914]

I hope Yuki can reach the pedals.

[Reg]

Originally Posted by Deschodt

Someone jokingly said "put Verstapen in an RB Visa cash" for a couple races, see what he can do there ?" - wouldn't that be effing amazing to witness though ? If Yuki and Isaac can qualify where they did, maybe Max could actually be faster in that car ? ;-) This is going to be the most interesting race of the season so far.

^^^^^^^^ this ^^^^^^^^. …. But it could put a few jobs in jeopardy.

[Captain Ahab Jr]

[WSH]

A lot of this could be solved by, you know, .....testing !
The idea of putting a new driver in a top level car without actual testing is just crazy

Yes, I know the "rationale" of why there is no testing these days but there should be an out for new driver test; if nothing else, allow the "new" driver X number of test days at the end of the season in that years car. Otherwise we will continue to have the silliness we have now where quality young drivers are dumped in the fire, hoping it works out. Sometimes (Kimi A) it does, other times (Liam) it doesn't. Meanwhile careers are destroyed instead of developed, IMO

[917_Langheck]

LewHam "tested" for several days 2- and 4-year old Ferraris before he stepped into the new car. RB said they didn't do that with Liam. The question is why not?

[Rtrorkt]

https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/articles/c62x5dnvlzdo Be “as close to Max as possible”. What do you suppose that means?

[3rd_gear_Ted]

Toyota Gazoo Racing is taking over the HAAS F1 team. They are getting serious again.

[herr_oberst]

Originally Posted by 3rd_gear_Ted

Toyota Gazoo Racing is taking over the HAAS F1 team. They are getting serious again.

Today I'm skeptical. If that's still happening tomorrow (April 2) I'll believe it.

[Deschodt]

Originally Posted by herr_oberst

Today I'm skeptical. If that's still happening tomorrow (April 2) I'll believe it.

Same, that being said - it's 90% sure that Hyundai is getting out of WRC, that would leave the juggernaut Toyota with no competition, so WRC might die, and it may make sense for Toyota to get more involved in F1 by reallocating that budget... F1 is doing well (RIP WRC most likely) - not an april fool.

[Captain Ahab Jr]

Originally Posted by Deschodt

Same, that being said - it's 90% sure that Hyundai is getting out of WRC, that would leave the juggernaut Toyota with no competition, so WRC might die, and it may make sense for Toyota to get more involved in F1 by reallocating that budget... F1 is doing well (RIP WRC most likely) - not an april fool.

All seems very possible, would be a crying shame if WRC was to only have privateer teams

Toyota in F1 again would make it very interesting

3x European, 2x Japanese and 2x American automotive PU manufacturers, now that's a world championship

[Deschodt]

yeah, good for F1.. Now off topic on WRC, as a fan of rallying having grown up seeing the monte, corsica, and other local rallyes live, it's a crying shame but I also lost interest in the way it was televised and frankly watching a body-built Yaris or Hyundai I20 was never all that fun to me. oOt aspirational cars like a 037, a delta, an quattro, a 205T16... Maybe that gets reborn with 911s, M3s, Alpine A110s, fun RWD cars, long slides, and better TV...

[Deschodt]

Well FP1 answered that.. Yuki is not bad at all...
And we may see Colapinto soon based on Doohan's exit of FP2. Ugh.

[matthewb0051]

Saw this on Instagram yesterday. Pretty dang funny, take off on The Hangover:

[Tervuren]

Love it.

If only Honda hadn't overridden the racing engineers and specced disaster a few years later.

Originally Posted by Captain Ahab Jr

[rfuerst911sc]

Has anyone seen or heard what happened to Doohan ? The commentators thought the car bottomed out . His line into the corner looked okay . Then I heard he maybe made a mistake with DRS . Something about manual override ? If he really only has a 5 race contract it's not looking good for longevity .

[rfuerst911sc]

Looks like driver error , he didn't manually close the DRS . Oops

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/alpine-reveal-misjudgement-that-led-to-heavy-doohan-crash-in-suzuka-fp2-as.63vMw7p5wcrDXQwtXm11kW

[Deschodt]

Breaking: Briatore fires Doohan and puts Colapinto in car at Bahrein... (kidding, but let's see how this plays out). I like Jack from his time commentating with the F1TV team, glad he got a shot, but that's a major F-up if true, Flav is ruthless and won't like the cost of writing off a car...

[Noah930]

DRS:

Shouldn't there be an automatic closing feature? As a failsafe to prevent exactly this scenario. Even Jim Hall figured that out with his Chaparrals.

Take your foot off the throttle, DRS closes. No need or ability to manually override it.

And shouldn't there be some GPS-enabled detection of the end of the DRS zone on the straight, to prevent any manual override use of DRS outside of the DRS zone?

[Deschodt]

Originally Posted by Noah930

DRS:

Shouldn't there be an automatic closing feature? As a failsafe to prevent exactly this scenario. Even Jim Hall figured that out with his Chaparrals.

Take your foot off the throttle, DRS closes. No need or ability to manually override it.

And shouldn't there be some GPS-enabled detection of the end of the DRS zone on the straight, to prevent any manual override use of DRS outside of the DRS zone?

I think it closes automagically if you tap the brakes, but this first part of the turn is still full beans - at least not on the brakes yet, guess he did not brake and..forgot? Supposedly the previous lap he went thru OK because he did tap the brake pedal.. I agree with you though, the thing should maybe be on a timer, or only on WHILE you push a button, not press button on and off. Hell, I think DRS should be gone altogether.
Crazy fast accident, lucky to be unhurt with modern safety measures..big decel, I am shocked he can see straight ! He may be OK now but would not be surprised to see a replacement driver for the race.