The fe race had lots of action and should be interesting to see how the championship pans out.

On a somewhat more humorous noye, the race was delayed due to german anti oil protestors... Who didn't realise they were protesting electric car racing :rofl:

Reply 1584

Rakas21

Alpine are claiming that their Baku upgrades will be 0.6s faster. That would have put them third in Australia.

Reply 1585

mnot

Universities Forum Helper

They are running 2 qualifying sessions.
1 for the real race on Friday and one on Saturday pre Sprint (I assume this has implications for Saturdays points but I haven’t checked what they are yet).

Reply 1586

Admit-One

Universities Forum Helper

New sprint weekend format in a nutshell:

Reply 1587

Rakas21

I think that's an improvement and it makes Saturday a little more important however I'm still opposed to the sprint races personally.

Reply 1588

quasa

Franz Tost is leaving Alpha Tauri at the end of the season and getting replaced by laurent Mekies from Ferrari

Reply 1589

mnot

Universities Forum Helper

I am not sure on this sprint format tbh, I would do something like mandate 1 pit stop in the race to give more strategic element.

If after turn 1 your like p12+ you might as well save the mileage on your PU.

(edited 3 years ago)

Reply 1590

Andrew97

Entertainment Forum Helper, Debate & Current Affairs Helper

Original post

by Rakas21

Alpine are claiming that their Baku upgrades will be 0.6s faster. That would have put them third in Australia.

All teams claim big gains tbh.

Reply 1591

Andrew97

Entertainment Forum Helper, Debate & Current Affairs Helper

Friday
Fp1 as usual
Then the normal qualifying

Saturday
Qualifying for the sprint, shoter format
Sprint

Sunday
Race

Original post

by mnot

They are running 2 qualifying sessions.
1 for the real race on Friday and one on Saturday pre Sprint (I assume this has implications for Saturdays points but I haven’t checked what they are yet).

Thr sat sessions sets the Saturday grid. So it’s a hybrid between the old system and what MotoGP do

Original post

by Admit-One

New sprint weekend format in a nutshell:

Yeah.

Not sure on the whole tyres thing. Seems odd. Feel they could have done something different with the Saturday session

Original post

by Rakas21

I think that's an improvement and it makes Saturday a little more important however I'm still opposed to the sprint races personally.

Yeah, gets rid of that poijt less fp2

Original post

by mnot

I like it gets rid of the “boring fp2” more unknowns into the race. I feel that they should have done somwrying different with the qualy session, make it one shot or something.

Think it’s 3-4 hours

Reply 1592

Andrew97

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Original post

by quasa

Franz Tost is leaving Alpha Tauri at the end of the season and getting replaced by laurent Mekies from Ferrari

Feels out the blue but makes sense with AT sale rumours

Reply 1593

Admit-One

Universities Forum Helper

Assuming the shootout takes about an hour, it’ll be around 4hrs until the sprint.

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@Andrew97 - I’m fairly indifferent to the sprints so far. Whilst I like having race action over two days, the previous format just felt like splitting out the initial phase of the GP. Maybe this tweak will make it work better.

Reply 1594

Rakas21

Original post

by Andrew97

Feels out the blue but makes sense with AT sale rumours

Why are Red Bull wanting rid of them.

Reply 1595

mnot

Universities Forum Helper

Original post

by Rakas21

Why are Red Bull wanting rid of them.

I don’t think AT doesn’t really add any market value to the RB brand, seemed more about the driver academy then anything else and there are probably less expensive ways to manage that.

It would also mean they’d have a ready made customer for their PU.

F1 teams are now at an all time value, and there are multiple potential buyers who will want to get in pre-2026 car development.

I suspect it’s just a business decision by the RB board now the management has changed.

Reply 1596

KirstinTMH

Going from 3 to 1 practise sessions feels wrong. If there is a car issue in the one session then the driver will have to effectively compromise the sprint qualifying and race to find the car set up, which is even worse for the less experienced drivers.

Reply 1597

Admit-One

Universities Forum Helper

I have a feeling it will benefit experienced drivers like Alonso who tend to be on it from the get-go.

Reply 1598

Addyjoe

TSR Group Staff

One on hand, sprint means more racing and that is a great thing.

On the other hand, there are already just under a million races on this year's F1 calendar...

Reply 1599

Rakas21

It doesn't even mean that much racing since the race is short they just replicate strategy. Ideally they need to be limited to super soft only in sprints.