Soldato
Love it, refreshing bright colour.
F1 Season 2024 - Pre-Season Thread
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And I was talking about the bland red/black/white colour scheme of the HAAS. That definitely will brighten the grid up.i actually like thisit stands out against the usual blacks, easier to quickly spot the different teams, can't stand all the dark on dark colours they all merge into the same car to me
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I hope Mercedes actually bother with paint this year.
Could put some red on it; get Lewis used to the colour a year early
Soldato
Has any team tried using coloured carbon fibre yet?
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I very much like how Sky are calling it Sauber rather than Stake.
Sprint weekend format has been changed. Now sprint quali and free practice on a Friday, sprint race on Saturday followed by main race quali then main race on Sunday.
Formula 1 bosses announce changes to format of sprint weekends for 2024 season
Qualifying for sprint races will now take place on Friday and Saturday will host the sprint, followed by qualifying for the grand prix.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Soldato
That makes more sense
Any details on what happens in terms of being able to qualify for the main race if you smash your car to bits in the sprint? I'd guess allowed to start from pits?
Whilst it makes competitive sense to not have main race qualifying happening on the Friday afternoon, I wonder if this will see a bit more caution employed in the sprint - you stand to lose quite a bit if you screw up your sprint with an accident now as qualifying immediately follows, whereas last year you still had overnight to rebuild and take your qualified place on the grid on the Sunday if you binned it in the sprint.
Can't find the detail on that. You're right though, the Sprint could really mess up your race if you can't make qualifying.
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Usually when they can't quali they are allowed to start from the pits, I can't see why there would be different rules. I imagine most of the time they will be able to repair the car anyway; most crashes aren't Mick-specials.
I suspect that'll be the case.
It'll presumably only be a few hours though between finishing the sprint race and starting qualifying - I know they're good but there's only so much rebuilding you can get done in a few hours from late morning to early afternoon
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It'll presumably only be a few hours though between finishing the sprint race and starting qualifying - I know they're good but there's only so much rebuilding you can get done in a few hours from late morning to early afternoon
Usually when there are crashes in FP1 they get it fixed for FP2; usually when there is a crash in FP3 they get it fixed for Quali. Hell, we've seen them fix crashes on the way to the grid before the race starts, and damage during red flags. Most of the time you're looking at damage to body damage, broken suspension, or wrecked rear wings - all of those can be patched up pretty quickly. Even stuff like changing a diff or a gear box can be done inside an hour.
I guess I'm just expecting racing crashes to more frequently end up with more significant damage than free practice crashes typically would, though I don't know if stats would actually back that up.
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Yeah, I think you're probably right about that - and I expect we will see at least one driver miss quali due to a crash in the sprints - I just don't think it's going to be that major a deal.
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not seen this being brought up yet but Stake look like they could be in trouble in Switzerland and the Gambling Commission
translated site: https://www-srf-ch.translate.goog/n...=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp need to switch to luxenborgish for the translation to work it seems
original site: https://www.srf.ch/news/internation...hauptsponsor-verfahren-gegen-sauber-eroeffnet
translated site: https://www-srf-ch.translate.goog/n...=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp need to switch to luxenborgish for the translation to work it seems
original site: https://www.srf.ch/news/internation...hauptsponsor-verfahren-gegen-sauber-eroeffnet
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Everton LOL.
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Alpine launch soon.
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