F1 Season 2024 - Pre-Season Thread

[Emlyn_Dewar]

It's not like the old days where I was always checking F1 news in the off-season, and looking forward to car launches.
Can't believe it's either Stake, or Kick. Truly awful names.

 

[bayo000]

Aston's turn

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[Hawk Tuah]

It's not like the old days where I was always checking F1 news in the off-season, and looking forward to car launches.
Can't believe it's either Stake, or Kick. Truly awful names.

Same here. I think we all know the cars are all going to look practically identical. I'm not holding my breath for a livery.

 

[cuke2u]

Same here. I think we all know the cars are all going to look practically identical. I'm not holding my breath for a livery.

Quite, also used to look forwards to the car launches as well but now it's all just for the corporate sponsors. But it has been like that for years now.
Still there's always the tests to look towards...

 

[Hawk Tuah]

The Red Bull one might be worth a watch. 'Awkward'.

 

[Mr Jack]

Aston's turn

For a moment I thought they'd used green tinted carbon fibre, but then it turned out it was just the lighting

Looks okay, not as nice as previous liveries with less carbon, but better than most of the cars we've seen.

 

[Hawk Tuah]

For a moment I thought they'd used green tinted carbon fibre, but then it turned out it was just the lighting

Looks okay, not as nice as previous liveries with less carbon, but better than most of the cars we've seen.

I wonder if there's something in the rules / safety guidelines that prevents it's use.

Ferarri carbon fibre is always a work of art (at least at the start of the season) - I wonder if they'll be first. Red carbon weave would be amazing.

McLaren did a lovely job of it on Lando's one off 765LT. https://www.thespeedjournal.com/mclaren-formula-1-star-lando-norris-mso-mclaren-765lt-spider/

 

[cainer]

First race of the season is 2 weeks on Saturday, my how time flies

 

[chrismscotland]

Had forgotten we're only 9 days away from F1 "testing" (getting some footage for the marketing videos; that still won't prove anything)

 

[KiNgPiN83]

Looking forward to Ferrari winning testing. (And then RB winning every race of the season...) Lol

 

[Dup]

I feel like having a flutter on a relative outsider winning a race this season. Pre testing is the time to do it for the best odds, I assume. Anyone make similar bad decisions? (Can you tell I'm not a gambler?!).

 

[koolpc]

Alonso for world champ this year. If only!

 

[KiNgPiN83]

I feel like having a flutter on a relative outsider winning a race this season. Pre testing is the time to do it for the best odds, I assume. Anyone make similar bad decisions? (Can you tell I'm not a gambler?!).

Maybe Lando winning his first race?

 

[KiNgPiN83]

Alonso for world champ this year. If only!

His management must be working overtime with Toto right now. Doesn't Ineos have a stake in Mercedes F1? Probably throwing in his love of cycling too. Haha!

 

[Feek]

Maybe Lando winning his first race?

Already done that, the odds are far too short.

 

[Feek]

Ferrari today. I wonder if it'll be red

 

[GravyMonster]

I feel like having a flutter on a relative outsider winning a race this season. Pre testing is the time to do it for the best odds, I assume. Anyone make similar bad decisions? (Can you tell I'm not a gambler?!).

I had a fiver last year on Alonso winning a race at 40/1

 

[Feek]

I had a fiver last year on Alonso winning a race at 40/1

So did I.
The odds are much shorter this year. I figured a fiver on Valtteri Bottas this year at 50/1 is worth a quiet punt.

 

[bennyx_o]

Red bull going through a shake down today at Silverstone. Strange to do it a few days before launch

https://twitter.com/x/status/1757334704636805419

https://twitter.com/x/status/1757330048003047433

 

[SKILL]

Surely the Alonso to Merc stuff is just nonsense? Does it even make sense, he'll be 43 at the start of the season turning 44 mid-season, and being a 2-time world champion I assume he doesn't come cheap...

Given you've got Albon, Mick Schumacher, even Ocon as options you'd take any of them over an OAP Alonso?